Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Your organization is having a difficult time managing all of is projects. You have been asked to help senior management get a better understanding of the problems. What do you do FIRST?

1. Meet with individual project managers to get a better sense of what is happening
2. Send a formal memo to all project managers requesting their project management plans
3. Meet with senior managers to help them develop a new tracking system for managing projects
4. Review the project charters and bar charts for all projects.

Q3. A new store development project requires the purchase of various equipment, machinery, and furniture. The department responsible for the development recently centralized its external purchasing process and standardized its new order system. In which document can these new procedures be found?

1. Project scope statement
2. WBS
3. Staffing management plan
4. Organizational policies

Q4. During the Define Activities process, a team member begins to discuss activities that the project manager has never heard discussed. What should the project manager do?

1. Make sure he has a good understanding of the activities and include the activities in the activity list.
2. Ask the team member to explain why such activity would be needed to complete the work package
3. Make sure the entire team agrees that the activities should be done
4. Evaluate the impact of the change.

Q5. Which of the following is included in a project charter?

1. A risk management strategy
2. Work package estimates
3. Detailed resource estimates
4. The business need for the project 6

Q6. The project has been challenging to manage. Everyone has been on edge due t pressure to complete the project on time. Unfortunately, the tension has grown to the point where team meetings have become shouting matches and little work is accomplished during the meetings. One team member asks to be excused from future meetings, as all the shouting upsets him. Meanwhile, the sponsor has asked to attend team meetings in order to better understand how the project is going and issues involved in completing the project, and the customer has started discussions about adding scope to the project. In this situation, it would be BEST for the project manager to:

1. Ask the sponsor if the information needed could be sent in a report rather than have him attend the meeting
2. Inform the team member who asked to be excused from the meeting of the value of communication in such meetings
3. Create new ground rules for the meetings and introduce them to the team
4. Hold a team building exercise that involves all the team members.

Q7. As part of tracking a project, a project manager is validating the completion of project scope. He or she would measure this against:

1. Requirements traceability matrix
2. The Project Management Plan
3. The Project Charter
4. The requirements management plan

Q8. Which of the following helps the project team to look at many sources from which project risks may arise in a risk identification exercise?

1. Work Breakdown Structure
2. Risk Breakdown Structure
3. Risk register
4. Issue log

Q9. Which of the following approaches deliberately spends less time trying to define and lock project scope early during the project and spends more time establishing the process for requirements gathering, scope definition and refinement?

1. Waterfall methods
2. Predictive methods
3. Agile methods
4. Kanban methods

Q10. Which of the following statements is correct:

1. Project lifecycles and product lifecycles are interdependent.
2. Project lifecycles are independent of product lifecycles.
3. A product lifecycle is the same as a project lifecycle.
4. The last lifecycle for a project is generally the product's retirement.