Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. An employee approaches you and asks to tell you something in confidence. He advises you that he has been performing illegal activities within the company for the last year. He is feeling guilty about it and is telling you in order to receive advice as to what he should do. What should you do?

1. Ask for full details.
2. Confirm that the activity is really illegal.
3. Inform your manager of the illegal activity.
4. Tell the employee to inform his boss.

Q3. Linear programming is an example of what type of project selection criteria?

1. Constrained optimization
2. Comparative approach
3. Benefit measurement
4. Impact analysis

Q4. A project manager is working with management to create the project estimate. During the initiating process group, what level of accuracy should the estimate have?

1. +/- 50 percent
2. -10 percent to +25 percent
3. -35 percent to +75 percent
4. -10 percent to +10 percent

Q5. Which of the following leadership traits is MOST importance for a project manager?

1. Communication
2. Team building
3. Technical expertise
4. Project control

Q6. A single point of failure (SPOF) is the part of a system that, upon failure, stops the entire system from working or makes the system useless. Which of the following events can render a knowledge management system ineffective?

1. If project team is not motivated.
2. Project team is geographically distributed.
3. When project knowledge cannot be classified as explicit or tacit.
4. Knowledge is shared using a mixture of knowledge management tools and techniques.

Q7. Which of the following represents information presented in its order of priority and helps focus on the MOST difficult issues?

1. A flowchart
2. A fishbone diagram
3. A control chart
4. A Pareto chart

Q8. Inputs to the Report Performance process include all of the following EXCEPT:

1. Completion forecasts.
2. Change requests.
3. Details of work performance.
4. Deliverable status

Q9. Your project team is having a dispute with a vendor about whether a specific task is within the project’s scope. The scope statement does not provide implementation-level details that could resolve this dispute. There is no WBS, however, because the project sponsor insisted that the project be started right away without pausing to create standard project planning documentation. Who is at fault?

1. The project manager
2. The project sponsor
3. The project stakeholders
4. The project vendor

Q10. A project manager is trying to coordinate all the activities on the project and has determined the following: Activity A can start immediately and has an estimated duration of 1 week. Activity B can start after activity A is completed and has an estimated duration of 4 weeks. Activity C can start after activity B is completed and has an estimated duration of 5 weeks. Activity D can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of 8 weeks. Both activities C and D must be completed before the end of the project. If there is an approved change to activity D and it now takes 10 weeks, what is the duration of the critical path?

1. 10 weeks
2. 11 weeks
3. 14 weeks
4. 8 weeks 70