Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following can prove to be effective in addressing variability risks?

1. Monte Carlo analysis
2. Root cause analysis
3. Mitigating opportunities
4. Accepting the risk

Q3. A project is in progress, and the project manager is working with the quality assurance department to improve stakeholders’ confidence that the project will satisfy the quality standards. Which of the following is an output of this process?

1. Quality problems
2. Quality metrics
3. Recommend corrective action
4. Quality audits.

Q4. You are reviewing the expense reports for one of your team members when you notice a payment he made in another country. You think the payment is a bribe. What is your FIRST course of action?

1. Seek legal advice.
2. Contact the payee in the other country and ask if the payment was a bribe.
3. Ignore the problem. It is in the past
4. File a permit authorizing the team to make such payments.

Q5. You are planning resources for your project and the team charter has been established. This charter provides a clear guideline of the acceptable behavior of team members. Which of the following is not included?

1. Communication guidelines
2. Decision making criteria
3. Conflict resolution process
4. Motivational processes

Q6. In the course of completing work on the project, the project manager needs to complete an activity that she has never done before. During this time, the project manager attends a professional association discussion where the presenter discusses how he completed a difficulty activity on his project that is similar to the project manager’s activity. He provides a handout describing his process. The project manager should:

1. Use the process to complete the activity
2. Ask the speaker for permission to use the information
3. Ignore the information
4. Ask her manager for guidance.

Q7. A project team includes five people when the project manager adds two more. How many additional channels of communication are there?

1. 7
2. 10
3. 21
4. 11

Q8. During a work breakdown structure meeting, you have decomposed the deliverables into work packages and created your WBS dictionary. However, you now want to decompose the work packages to assist you in estimating, executing, and controlling the project. These decomposed work packages are:

1. Work packages can't be decomposed into smaller units
2. Activities
3. Milestones
4. Control Accounts

Q9. In projects where there is a gap between the real business requirements and the stated business requirements, agile methods are extremely helpful. Agile methods provide a solution to this problem by:

1. Completing the project quickly so that gap is significantly reduced.
2. Replacing the project manager with a Scrum master in order to expedite the project.
3. Purposefully building and reviewing prototypes and release versions to refine requirements.
4. Eliminating the documentation altogether from the project management approach.

Q10. A project manager is performing an audit on a deliverable when she hears that the team member who did the work is complaining to everyone that he is being picked on by having his activity audited. You know this is not true. What lesson learned could you take to future projects?

1. Tell all the team members at the beginning of the project that their deliverables will be audited
2. Set an audit policy in the scope management plan
3. Audit less frequently
4. Use a walk-through instead of audits