Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. If you had an experience with a particularly well or poorly performing vendor, what is the correct way to document this experience for future projects?

1. Call the vendor and talk to them about the experience
2. Tell all your friends about it
3. Create a seller performance evaluation
4. Vow to only work with that vendor from now on

Q3. The level of detail of performance reports is described in the:

1. Project charter.
2. Communications management plan.
3. Monthly requests for information by management.
4. Project’s monthly needs.

Q4. 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

Q5. You are estimating the cost for your project by using historical data and applying it to your project, such as the cost of painting per square foot. Which technique are you using here?

1. Bottom up
2. Top down
3. Analogous
4. Parametric

Q6. Analysis of the scope performance resulted in a change request to the scope baseline. Change requests can include all the following except:

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

Q7. The work breakdown structure (WBS) does all of the following except

1. Organizes and defines the entire scope of the project.
2. Divides the project into smaller, more manageable tasks.
3. Serves as a high-level planning tool for work planned but not yet approved.
4. Both A and B.

Q8. What type of method uses a weighting ranking system for quantifying qualitative data to minimize the effect of personal bias during the process of selecting a seller?

1. Independent estimates
2. Source Selection Criteria
3. Vendor audits
4. Sourcing workshops

Q9. During the control quality process, you are reviewing a chart which has some lines above and below the x-axis and a cyclic line between them. What is the purpose of this chart?

1. To gather quality control data
2. To find the dependency between the variables
3. To find the trend
4. To determine if the process is stable

Q10. A team member comes to you to tell you that there is a problem on her activity. It cannot be started on the day it is scheduled to start. A manager overhears this conversation and reports that the project will be late. Later the project manager completes his own report saying “the project is still scheduled to be completed on time.” Which of the following could be the reason the project manager made such a statement?

1. The activity has free float and can be rescheduled later in its early-start to late-finish window
2. The activity is on a near-critical path with less float than the length of the delay
3. The activity is on the critical path but is to be done after another activity that does have float.
4. The activity has a mandatory dependency, allowing the project manager to place it in the pro schedule at any location that he wants it be done.