Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. While testing the strength of concrete poured on your project, you discover that over 35 percent of the concrete does not meet your company’s quality standards. You feel certain the concrete will function as it is, and you don’t think the concrete needs to meet the quality level specified. What should you do?

1. Change the quality standards to meet the level achieved.
2. State in your reports that the concrete simply “meets our quality needs.”
3. Ensure that the remaining concrete meets the standard
4. Report the lesser quality level and try to find a solution.

Q3. Based on the chart, how is the project doing?

1. You are in the trouble because there are three activities with no float
2. You have a lot of flexibility because you have activities with float
3. You do not have enough information to make a decision
4. Everything is fine because you have an even number of activities with and without float.

Q4. Analogous Cost Estimating is which of the following?

1. Uses statistical relationship between historical data and other variables
2. Generally less accurate
3. Bottom-up estimating
4. Generally accurate

Q5. You are planning a storage device migration in a data center. During this phase of the project, who should control the project?

1. Project Manager
2. SMEs
3. Sponsor
4. Management

Q6. A project manager needs to determine if the manufacturing process planned for the new micro-satellites will meet quality standards. Each satellite takes about three days to manufacture and costs US $125,000. The satellites are so small that inspection would destroy them. Under these circumstances, what should the project manager do?

1. Outsource the inspection to another company with more expertise.
2. Evaluate the attributes of the population.
3. Inspect a sample of the satellites.
4. Decrease the cost of quality.

Q7. You are looking at the standard reports that the project management office has supplied, you see network diagrams and bar charts. In which of the following circumstances would you ALWAYS use a network diagram instead of a bar chart?

1. To track progress or to report to the team
2. To show logical relationships
3. In the Define Activities process
4. To report to senior management

Q8. A team member comes to you (the project manager) privately and informs you that an employee of your customer is making unwelcome advances. The team member has repeatedly requested that this person stop, but the advances continue. What is the BEST course of action?

1. Privatively confront the customer employee and threaten legal action if the advances do not stop.
2. Suggest that the team member avoid contact with the customer employee.
3. Contact the employee’s manager to arrange a meeting to discuss the matter.
4. Facilitate a meeting with the team member, the customer employee, and yourself to allow the two to work it out amicably.

Q9. After analyzing the status of your project, you determine that the earned value (EV) is lower than the planned value (PV). What should you expect as an outcome if this trend continues?

1. The actual cost will be lower than planned
2. The estimate at completion will be lower than planned
3. The project will finish behind schedule
4. The project will finish below the original cost estimate

Q10. 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