Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. 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.

Q3. Which of the following is not an example of parametric estimating?

1. Activity duration estimated based on the number of drawings multiplied by the number of labor hours per drawing.
2. Activity duration estimated based on the number of labor hours per meter for cable installation.
3. Activity duration estimated based on the square footage in construction.
4. Activity duration estimated based on the actual duration of a similar, previous project.

Q4. Which of the following payments on an international project is unacceptable?

1. Offering to pay the country officials for not awarding the project to a particular company
2. Payment for mail service
3. Payment for a “foreign workers application license” required in the country
4. Payment for police protection.

Q5. This project is chartered to determine new ways to extend the product life of one of the company’s medium-producing products. The project manager comes from the engineering department and the team comes from product management and marketing departments. The project scope statement and project planning are completed when a stakeholder notifies the team that there is a better way to complete one of the work packages. They even supply a technical review letter from their department proving that the new way to complete the work package will actually be faster than the old way. The project manager has had similar experiences with this department on other projects, and was expecting this to happen on this project. What is the FIRST thing the project manager should do?

1. Contact the department and complain again about their missing the deadline for submission of scope.
2. Look for how this schedule change will impact the cost to complete the work package and the quality of the product of the work package.
3. See if there is a way to change from a matrix environment to a functional organization so as to eliminate all the interference from other departments.
4. Ask the department if they have no other changes.

Q6. You have a firm fixed price (FP) contract with a clause stating that all changes to the contract statement of work must be written. One of your team members verbally instructed the seller to ad a change that resulted in a 100 percent work package return. In this situation, what conflict management strategy should you use (as the project manager) with the team member?

1. Punishment
2. Problem solving
3. Negotiating
4. Withdrawal.

Q7. Three items from the issue log have been assigned to a team member. However, no action has been taken by the agreed-upon due date. After three calls to the team member, the work is finally completed. Which of the following is the BEST preventive action to take NOW?

1. Remove the team member from the team if possible
2. Meet with the team member to uncover the reasons why there were problems
3. Make sure the action item list is distributed to all the right parties
4. Make sure items assigned in the action item list are accepted by the team members they are assigned to.

Q8. Using the chart, the person completing activity G tells you that a few unidentified risks have occurred and the duration of the activity will now be 10 months. What is the effect on the project?

1. The critical path changes
2. There are two critical paths
3. There is no effect on the critical path
4. There is less chance of completing the project on time.

Q9. A project manager gathered data to perform earned value calculations on his project. He used the results to report to management that the project is under budget and on schedule. After reporting this information, he discovered that the base figures he used in the calculations were incorrect, as they came from an old copy o the project line which had not been updated. What should he do now?

1. He should contact management to make them aware of the error, give the correct information, and explain how he made the mistake
2. He should contact management and tell them to expect some changes in the next reporting period, and that things are starting to look gloomy
3. He should use the correct figures to calculate the information when it is time for the next report and ignore the fact the he reported incorrect information.
4. He should tell management that the data he received from team members was incorrect and thus the report was not accurate.

Q10. Your company is concerned about improving its project performance. Internal measures have been created and have helped to identify areas needing improvement. Additional measures of performance are still needed. Which of the following would be the BEST thing to do?

1. Calculate the benefit to cost of purchasing a new piece of equipment.
2. Determine the project scope and measures to ensure the scope is met
3. Perform a root cause analysis on the quality problems that have occurred on the project
4. Read a project management magazine each month, and look at the results of other companies’ projects to help determine quality measures for future projects.