Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A functional manager wants to change an activity estimate. The project manager analyzes the change and determines that it will cause a delay in the entire project. Who should authorize the change?

1. Project team
2. Sponsor
3. Project manager
4. Change control board

Q3. A project involves arranging for the closing of the company office where the team works and relocating everyone to a new city. The BEST thing the project manager can do is:

1. Spend time carefully creating the work breakdown structure.
2. Have a strong quality control plan.
3. Decrease the fringe benefits
4. Carefully consider the reward system for the project.

Q4. Which of the following rules should apply to international dealings on your project?

1. You have your way, I have mine
2. Do not violate any basic fundamental human rights
3. Always apply the business practices of your own country.
4. Do whatever it takes to manage the project successfully.

Q5. When possible, the detailed project schedule _________ throughout the project to adjust for knowledge gained, increased understanding of the risk, and value-added activities.

1. Should stand firm
2. Should remain flexible
3. Must be avoided
4. Must be inflated

Q6. A project change management plan should be created during which process group?

1. Initiating
2. Planning
3. Executing
4. Closing

Q7. You are managing an electronic chip design project for a customer. There are a number of engineers and subject matter experts from the customer’s organization that have been assigned as resources to the project plus several additional design engineers that your company has supplied. All the engineers were involved in the development of a prototype chip, an extremely time-consuming and expensive process. Upon the completion of the prototype, you submit it for review to ensure there are no patent infringement issues with the design. However, the review determines there are several issues that could result in an intellectual property dispute with the patent owners should the prototype design be released commercially. Resources from your company developed the affected prototype elements, as well as from your customer’s organization. What should you do?

1. Ask the engineers to revise the design and resubmit it
2. Notify the project stakeholders immediately
3. Request permission to use the copyright material
4. Submit the prototype as is since the budget and schedule do not accommodate rework

Q8. Nancy’s project has a large number of key positive and negative stakeholders. To ensure the project’s success, it is essential to manage the influential negative stakeholders closely. Do the key positive stakeholders need to be managed, too?

1. No; more attention needs to be given to the key negative stakeholders.
2. The positive stakeholders need to be closely managed, as well, since stakeholders’ needs and expectations change over time.
3. Project stakeholders should not be classified as positive and negative stakeholders.
4. Yes; positive stakeholders should be more closely managed than the negative stakeholders.

Q9. What is the BEST method of estimating the time for an activity that has never been done by your company before?

1. Analogous estimating
2. Three-point estimating
3. Monte Carlo analysis
4. Parametric estimating 60

Q10. A software development project team has determined that the best way to mitigate the risk of not having the computational resources to complete all bug testing on schedule is to add three more servers to the test bed. However, the network may not have enough capacity to handle the extra load of those three servers and could fail. This type of risk is a _______________ risk.

1. Secondary
2. Simulation
3. Bottleneck
4. Hidden