Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following BEST describes the phrase, “influencing the factors that affect change”?

1. Telling people that changes are not allowed
2. Determining the sources of changes and fixing the root causes
3. Adding more activities to the work breakdown structure to accommodate risks
4. Calculating the impact of changes to date on the project

Q3. Though you have tried to plan the project to accommodate all major contingencies, you are now asked for the fifth time to decrease the length of time the project will take to complete. The person completing activity C is no longer talking to you because of the added work she needed to do to accommodate previous decrease in time. She has already told you she cannot shorten her activity any more. The person doing activity D has been replaced by a new and less tested resource. The risk of crashing activity F is small. Based on this and the chart, what is the BEST thing to do?

1. Determine why there have been so many decreases to the project length
2. Invite the person doing activity C to lunch to talk about her problems
3. Evaluate the risk added to the project with the change of resources on activity D
4. Make changes to the project to decrease the time the project will take.

Q4. The client needs a small modification in the project scope, and he discusses it with you. He has told you that this may not increase the cost and may actually save some money. What will your next step be?

1. Approve it
2. Reject it
3. Review it
4. Discuss it with the management

Q5. During the execution of a project, the project manager discovers the project’s stakeholder register is no longer accurate. What should the project manager do?

1. The project is in execution, the stakeholder register cannot be updated at this stage.
2. A change request should be issued.
3. The project is in execution, the Identify Stakeholders process cannot be carried out at this stage.
4. Review the stakeholder register and carry out the Identify Stakeholders process.

Q6. A software team tracing the root cause of an application failure can use this to help determine the cause(s) of the failure:

1. Ishikawa diagram
2. Rummler-Brache swim lane diagram
3. Threading analysis
4. Deming chart

Q7. All of the following are components of cost management EXCEPT:

1. Vendor bid analysis
2. Analogous estimating
3. Earned value management
4. Estimate Activity Resources

Q8. Sarah is about to start developing her project stakeholder engagement plan. She is currently gathering all the required inputs for this process. She has already created the stakeholder register and has gotten access to the organizational process assets and enterprise environmental factors. Which of the following inputs is also critical for the process?

1. Expert Judgment
2. Benchmarking
3. Root cause analysis
4. Project management plan

Q9. You are in the process of reviewing bids from various vendors for work on your project. One of the bidding vendors has a history of delivering on time and within budget, and you have personally worked with this company successfully on previous engagements. You receive a call from the manager submitting the bid inquiring about how the process is going. He asks to have lunch with you to discuss the bid. What is the BEST response?

1. Do not mention the other bidders but simply inform him that based on past experience, he has a good chance of winning the business.
2. Inform him that it would be inappropriate to discuss the matter at all and document the conversation.
3. Inform him that it would not be appropriate to discuss the matter over the phone during business hours, but that an informal lunch discussion would be more appropriate.
4. Politely avoid continuing the conversation and disregard the bid.

Q10. A project manager has some authority to manage the budget; however, he does not have any full-time employees under him. In what type of organization is he working?

1. Strong matrix
2. Weak matrix
3. Balanced matrix
4. Projectized