Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are an electrical engineer with extensive experience in managing transmission projects but limited experience with electronic design projects. However, in a stretch assignment, you were recently transferred to another department in your company that focuses on electronic design. Furthermore, you were asked to lead a highly important project involving both transmission and electronic design. In preparation for a meeting with your manager to discuss this opportunity, you review the initial project design brief. Due to your limited background in electronic design, a number of items in this document seem unclear to you. When you arrive at your meeting, your manager asks if you will be leading the project. How do you respond?

1. Accept the project and tell your manager that your expertise in transmission makes you an ideal manager for this project.
2. Decline the project, citing your lack of experience in electronics design.
3. Accept the project, but do not discuss your qualifications or lack thereof.
4. State that you would like to lead the project, but you must disclose that your primary domain of expertise is transmission, and that you may need supplementary training in electronics design.

Q3. Your manager is presenting a status report of all projects being run in his division. He reports that all projects are showing a positive CV. However, you know that your status reports for the last several weeks have been reporting a negative CV. What do you do?

1. Do nothing.
2. Offer to review all your manager's combined status reports before he presents them.
3. Notify the appropriate management immediately.
4. Ask your manager if that information was simply a typographical error.

Q4. Which of the following is an example of rolling wave planning in a project following an adaptive life cycle?

1. Iterative scheduling with a just-in-time log
2. Predictive scheduling with no backlog
3. Inflexible scheduling without leads and lags
4. Iterative scheduling with a backlog

Q5. You have been assigned a very critical project. Although your team members are experts and efficient, your team performance is poor. What will you do to improve your team performance?

1. Train them
2. Warn them
3. Co-locate them
4. Punish them for poor performance

Q6. What is a GERT chart?

1. A bar chart showing project activities and their schedule
2. A chart showing the upper and lower control limits
3. A chart showing the causes of issues
4. A chart showing loops between activities

Q7. PMBOK recognizes five process groups typical of nearly all projects. Which of the following is not one of them?

1. Executing
2. Monitoring and Controlling
3. Planning
4. Pre-Inception

Q8. 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

Q9. A project manager has completed a detailed WBS and cost estimates for each work package. To create a cost baseline from this data, the project manager would:

1. Use the highest level of the WBS to estimate analogously
2. Sum up the work package and risk contingency reserve estimates
3. Roll up work package estimates into a project total and add management reserves.
4. Gain expert opinions of the project total costs.

Q10. Which of the following BEST describes the primary use of project management software?

1. Managing a project
2. Creating and controlling a schedule
3. Creating a complete project management plan
4. Creating a work breakdown structure