Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. 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

Q3. The project has a critical deliverable that requires certain expertise to complete. The person who was going to complete the activity has left the company and there is no one who can complete the work within the company. For this reason, the project manager needs to acquire the services of a consultant as soon as possible. To do this, the project manager should:

1. Follow the requirements set up by the company for using outside services
2. Bypass the company procedures as they are not relevant to the situation
3. Expedite and go directly to his/her preferred consultant.
4. Ask his/her manager what to do.

Q4. Which of the following techniques focuses on identifying non-value-added activities in a project?

1. Pareto charting
2. Process analysis
3. Root cause analysis
4. Affinity diagrams

Q5. You are asked to prepare a budget for completing a project that was started last year and then shelved for six months. All the following would be included in the budget EXCEPT?

1. Fixed costs
2. Sunk costs
3. Direct costs
4. Variable costs

Q6. During a discussion with the quality department, Dave, a project manager, was told that as applied to projects, the terms “prevention” and “inspection” are synonymous. However, his understanding of the terms is different. What would you comment on this situation?

1. The project manager is correct. Prevention is about keeping errors out of the process; inspection is about keeping errors out of the customer’s hands.
2. The project manager is correct. Inspection is about keeping errors out of the process; prevention is about keeping errors out of the customer’s hands.
3. The project manager is wrong. Both inspection and prevention are about keeping errors out of the customer’s hands. They are used in different contexts.
4. The project manager is wrong. Both inspection and prevention are about keeping errors out of the process. They are used in different contexts.

Q7. Dave, a first-time project manager, was of the opinion that all training activities need to be planned. He discussed this with an experienced project manager who understood that some training was necessarily unplanned. Which of the following are good candidates for unplanned training?

1. Training by observation, conversation, and project management appraisals
2. Training by mentoring, on-the-job training, and online courses
3. Training by conversation, coaching, and classroom training
4. Training by mentoring, observation, and coaching

Q8. Which statement is TRUE of quality planning?

1. Quality planning should be performed regularly throughout the project
2. Quality planning is done to compile a risk response plan
3. Quality planning is done only during development of a project management plan
4. Quality planning is not considered during project executing.

Q9. While reviewing project procurement and accounting records for your project, you discover there is a pattern of unauthorized expenses by a specific resource. These expenses are not within the scope of the project and were somewhat camouflaged within a number of large and complicated expense reports. What do you do?

1. If the total expenses are less than 1 percent of the project budget, do nothing
2. Fire the resource
3. Notify the appropriate management immediately
4. Confront the resource

Q10. Who is ultimately responsible for quality management on the project?

1. The project engineer
2. The project manager
3. The quality manager
4. Team member