Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Public recognition of superior performance creates positive reinforcement for the team members. When is the best time for a project manager to recognize team members' performance?

1. At the end of the project
2. During the lifecycle of the project
3. At the end of every phase of the project
4. As mandated by the HR department

Q3. Which of the following is neither an input nor an output of the Direct and Manage Project Work process?

1. Approved change requests
2. Change requests
3. Approved deliverables
4. Deliverables

Q4. When a project is executed under contract, the contractual provisions will generally be considered as _____________ for the project.

1. Constraints
2. Exclusions
3. Deliverables
4. Provisions

Q5. In order to complete work on your projects, you have been provided confidential information from all of your clients. A university contacts you to help it in its research. Such assistance would require you to provide the university with some of the client data from your files. What should you do?

1. Release the information, but remove all references to the client’s names
2. Provide high-level information only
3. Contact your clients and seek permission to disclose the information
4. Disclose the information

Q6. A control chart helps the project manager to:

1. Focus on the most critical issues to improve quality.
2. Focus on stimulating thinking.
3. Explore a desired future outcome.
4. Determine if a process is functioning within set limits.

Q7. You are building a dam for a state government. Your organization is considered a specialist in dam design and overall management of construction activities. However, your organization lacks resources to execute the earth-works involved. You have subcontracted all the project’s earth-works to a local subcontractor. The quality of the subcontractor’s work is acceptable, but the subcontractor is not conforming to your organization’s health and safety standards. You escalated this to the subcontractor’s project manager, but he turned down your request. The subcontractor’s project manager is of the view that the request is out of the contract’s scope and none of the contract provisions require him to conform to your organization’s standards. You are agitated since you believe health and safety standards are globally accepted, and the contract does not have to explicitly state them. Further, according to the state law, you cannot terminate the contract since the subcontractor has not vio

1. Go for judicial arbitration as stated in the contact’s ADR provisions
2. Terminate the contract immediately since you will not compromise health and safety standards
3. Withhold the subcontractor’s payments to force compliance
4. Negotiate a contact amendment with the subcontractor requiring compliance to the standards

Q8. Your assistant project manager does the monthly earned value management (EVM) analysis, but falls ill before completing it. She has provided you with the following information: cost performance index (CPI) = 1.10, actual cost (AC) = US $800 million, planned value (PV) = US $890 million. How is the project going?

1. The schedule is behind by 10 days.
2. Both the schedule and the budget are better than planned
3. There is enough money to support an offsite team outing
4. You have no real concerns about either schedule or budget.

Q9. During the conceptual phase of a pipeline project, the project engineer estimates the following. The cost of the materials is most likely US $100,000, optimistically US $90,000, and pessimistically US $120,000. The cost for labor is most likely US $ 80,000, optimistically US $70,000, and pessimistically US $100,000. The cost for equipment is most likely US $60,000, optimistically US $50,000, and pessimistically US $70,000. The cost for construction management fees is most likely US $30,000, optimistically US $20,000, and pessimistically US $40,000. What is the probability of the project coming in under US $270,000?

1. Zero
2. Less than 50 percent
3. Exactly 50 percent
4. Over 50 percent

Q10. You are a senior project manager working for RETAMART, a retail shopping network that sells various consumer products. As part of the expansion plan approved by the board of directors, you are assigned as a project manager for a new plant. Due to transportation problems, the project has experienced delays; the Schedule Performance Index (SPI) is at 0.6 and the Cost Performance Index (CPI) is at 0.7. However, you expect some improvements during the next few weeks, which may increase the SPI to 1.1 and the CPI to 0.9. Which of the following statements will be true if your anticipated changes materialize?

1. The project will be overspent and behind schedule.
2. The project will be on schedule and under budget.
3. The project will be overspent but ahead of schedule.
4. The project will be under budget but behind schedule.