Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Your company wants to get ISO 9001 certified. Therefore, they call some experts from a lead consultancy to come and certify the company as ISO 9001. These experts come and review your documents and verify each and every detail. What process is this?

1. Manage quality
2. Quality control
3. Inspection
4. None of the above

Q3. As the project manager, you are about to start the define scope process. You have the project charter and the organizational process assets list. Because there are no change requests in your project at this point, what must you have before you begin?

1. Product analysis
2. Requirements documentation
3. Updates to project documents
4. WBS

Q4. Julia is managing a water treatment plant construction project. A new government has recently been sworn in. During the election campaign, the winning candidate made a number of commitments regarding environmental control reforms. Julia is not sure how the new government and its future policies might affect her project. This is an example of:

1. Variability risk
2. Mitigated risk
3. Ambiguity risk
4. Opportunity risk

Q5. Key project stakeholders can significantly influence a project in many ways. During which stage of the project do these stakeholders have the maximum ability to influence a project?

1. Planning
2. Initiating
3. Executing
4. Monitoring & Controlling

Q6. Maintaining good supplier relationships should be important to all project managers. A good buyer-seller relationship is a partnership that results in a win-win situation that nurtures both parties. Which of the following is both a short- and long-term benefit of treating a supplier with courtesy, honesty, and fairness?

1. There is no need to have formal contracts in place
2. Delivery of quality products and services at the best price
3. The buyer can delay the payments without jeopardizing the relationship
4. The supplier can charge a price higher than the market price

Q7. Which of these is not a data analysis technique used during quantitative risk analysis?

1. Tornado diagram
2. Decision tree
3. RACI chart
4. Influence diagrams

Q8. What is the BEST technique to ensure the project work is really complete?

1. Final performance reporting
2. Procurement audits
3. Archive records
4. Formal acceptance

Q9. The customer wants to expand the project scope after the project performance measurement baselines have been established. The customer will need to follow which procedures?

1. Scope control
2. Integrated change control
3. Integrated management
4. Document control

Q10. You have just joined a new organization as a project manager. You have heard a number of rumors about the procurement manager having possible underhanded dealings with suppliers. However, you have no proof these rumors are true. Your project requires a large number of dump trucks. Company policy mandates that all purchases go through the procurement department rather than the department employees. The value of the dump truck purchase is US$395,000, and the contract went to a supplier your company regularly uses. Shortly after taking delivery of the dump trucks, you learn the procurement manager is driving a new car. What should you do?

1. Ask the procurement manager about the purchase of her new car
2. Report this to the appropriate management
3. Talk to the supplier to find out if there was a bribe involved in the project
4. Do nothing