Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. While the five process groups are usually completed in order, they often overlap with each other throughout the project. Which two process groups usually do not overlap during the course of the project?

1. Initiating and Closing
2. Initiating and Executing
3. Initiating and Monitoring and Control
4. Planning and Closing

Q3. All of the following are parts of the Plan Quality process EXCEPT:

1. Benchmarking
2. Cost-benefit analysis
3. Inspection
4. Design of experiments.

Q4. A project manager is appointed to head highly technical project in an area with which this person has limited familiarity. The project manager delegates the processes of Develop Schedule, Estimate Costs, Define Activities, and Estimate Activity Resources to various project team members, and basically serves as an occasional referee and coordinator of activities. The results of this approach are likely to be:

1. A team that is not highly productive, but that stays together because of the work environment created by the project manager.
2. A team that is characterized by poor performance, low morale, high level of conflict and high turnover
3. A team functioning throughout the project at a very high level, demonstrating creativity and commitment.
4. A team that initially experiences some amounts of confusion but that after a period of time becomes a cohesive and effective unit

Q5. A new employee of the company is assigned to work on a project that is in the early planning processes. She has to decide if she will accept the assignment to the project or whether she wants to be assigned to a different project. However, the project manager is not at work and is not reachable. Where can the team member look to help her determine what work she is given on the project?

1. Activity definitions
2. Project management plan
3. Job descriptions
4. Responsibility assignment matrix

Q6. Your drug manufacturing project requires the synthesis of many pharmaceutical chemicals to produce an active ingredient for a drug. You are managing a contractor to supply all these chemicals. Recent quality testing of the drugs raised concerns over the quality of the chemicals supplied by the contractor. Which of the following must be your first action to ensure that the contractor is meeting all contractual obligations?

1. Escalate this issue to the sponsor and submit all drug testing reports
2. Reject all poor quality drugs and penalize the contractor
3. Convene a meeting with stakeholders and communicate the findings
4. Carry out audits and inspections to verify compliance in the seller's deliverables

Q7. Which of the following statements is not accurate about the initial phase of a project?

1. The highest uncertainty is at this stage of the project.
2. The cost associated at the beginning of the project is highest.
3. Stakeholders have maximum influence during this phase.
4. Staffing levels are the lowest at this stage.

Q8. You have been appointed as the manager of a new, large, and complex project. Because this project is business-critical and very visible, senior management has told you to analyze the project’s risks and prepare response strategies for them as soon as possible. The organization has risk management procedures that are seldom used or followed, and has had a history of handling risks badly. The project’s first milestone is in two weeks. In preparing the risk response plan, input from which of the following is generally LEAST important?

1. Key stakeholders
2. Project team members
3. Project sponsor
4. Individual responsible for risk management policies and templates.

Q9. You have a signed project charter, and are in the process of creating a project scope statement. You have asked the team for input to ensure that the project scope statement is complete. However, the team is struggling with defining the scope. Which of the following BEST describes the problem?

1. A WBS was not completed before scope statement was begun.
2. The team is working on the project scope statement without the benefit of organizational process assets.
3. The team is in the Define Scope process and needs the project scope statement as an input
4. The project objectives were not identified before scope statement was begun.

Q10. Which of the following activities fall under the planning process group but not under project schedule management?

1. Estimating activity durations
2. Developing the Schedule Management Plan
3. Identification of various activities to produce the project deliverables
4. Developing a detailed description of the project and product being developed