Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are working as a project manager for a wind-powered vehicle manufacturing project which is in its planning phase. You carefully gathered all your requirements from your key stakeholders and prepared a system requirements specification and project requirements specification. While presenting your specifications to the project team, an enthusiastic project team member started talking about the duration estimates for each activity. Which of the following statements indicates your response to your team member?

1. WBS creation and Schedule development must be done after estimating durations.
2. Schedule development and Costs estimation must be done before estimating durations.
3. Scope definition, WBS creation, Quality planning, and Communication planning must be done before estimating durations.
4. Scope definition, WBS creation, Activity definition, and Activity sequencing must be done before estimating durations.

Q3. You are working on a project to build a production line to produce round balls. During the inspection, you observe that some of these balls are not round. You analyze the problem and find that it can be prevented by making some changes to the procedures. Therefore, you make changes to the procedure to prevent this problem again. This is an example of:

1. Corrective action
2. Preventive action
3. Correction
4. Defect repair

Q4. You have just completed the initiating processes of a small project and are moving into the planning processes when a project stakeholder asks you for the project’s budget and cost baseline. What should you tell her?

1. The project budget can be found in the project charter, which has just bee completed
2. The project budget and baseline will not be finalized and accepted until the planning processes are completed
3. The project management plan will not contain the project budget and baseline; this is a small project
4. It is impossible to complete an estimate before the project management plan is created.

Q5. Apart from the difference in the overall governance approach used for the projects performed under the predictive and adaptive lifecycles, the project manager should also be familiar with:

1. The difference in the cost/benefit analysis techniques in both approaches.
2. The tools and techniques used in both approaches.
3. The difference in the quality standards in both approaches.
4. The risk management processes used in both approaches.

Q6. Which of the following documents the formal or informal assessments of the project team's effectiveness?

1. Team Performance Assessments
2. Project Performance Appraisals
3. Observations
4. Conversations

Q7. All of the following are parts of the Direct and Manage Project Work process EXCEPT:

1. Identifying changes
2. Using a work breakdown structure
3. Implementing corrective actions
4. Setting up a project control system 3

Q8. You are assigned as the project manager in the middle of the project. The project is within the baselines, but the customer is not happy with the performance of the project. What is the FIRST thing you should do?

1. Discuss it with the project team
2. Recalculate baselines
3. Renegotiate the contract
4. Meet with the customer

Q9. A document provides detailed deliverables, activities, and scheduling information about components. Other information includes the code of account identifier, assumptions and constraints, schedule milestones, resources required, and acceptance criteria. This document can possibly be:

1. WBS dictionary
2. Scope statement
3. WBS
4. Statement of work

Q10. You are a non-technical project manager. Two highly skilled and knowledgeable resources on your project are in conflict over the best technical solution to meet a project requirement. However, this is not affecting the project schedule. Who is initially responsible for the conflict resolution?

1. The project sponsor is initially responsible for the conflict resolution.
2. The project manager is initially responsible for the conflict resolution.
3. Both team members are initially responsible for the conflict resolution.
4. Either of the team members is responsible for the conflict resolution.