Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. All of the following are parts of the Direct and Manage Project Work process EXCEPT:

1. Identifying changes
2. Using a work breakdown structure
3. Implementing corrective actions
4. Setting up a project control system 3

Q3. The sponsor has asked you to require that each piece of the project scope be planned, estimated, and scheduled. The sponsor also wants to authorize each piece of the project management plan after the documentation is assembled. What is the MOST appropriate response to these requests?

1. Politely advise the sponsor to forego the authorization of work.
2. Provide the sponsor with a schedule of when the components will be ready for authorization
3. Ask the sponsor to authorize each piece before it is completed
4. Tell the sponsor that the chance for authorization will come after the pieces of the project management plan are compiled

Q4. The project management team performed activities such as measuring, examining, and verifying to determine whether work and deliverables met requirements and product acceptance criteria. Which of the following choices refers to a different set of activities than the ones just mentioned?

1. Walkthroughs
2. Prevention
3. Inspection
4. Reviews

Q5. While reviewing project procurement and accounting records for your project, you discover there is a pattern of unauthorized expenses by a specific resource. These expenses are not within the scope of the project and were somewhat camouflaged within a number of large and complicated expense reports. What do you do?

1. If the total expenses are less than 1 percent of the project budget, do nothing
2. Fire the resource
3. Notify the appropriate management immediately
4. Confront the resource

Q6. Based on the chart, while completing the project, a team member tells you that the team forgot something during planning. Activity F needs the results of activity E before it can begin. Taking this new dependency into account, what would be the effect on the project?

1. It would increase the critical path
2. Communication would be more complex
3. There would be no effect
4. It would delay activity F

Q7. Gene is the project manager of a large highway expansion project. He has a number of stakeholders with competing priorities and agendas, and he often has to resolve conflicts among stakeholders. Which knowledge area manages communications with the project stakeholders?

1. Project Quality Management
2. Project Stakeholder Management
3. Project Communications Management
4. Project Resource Management

Q8. In the earned value management technique, the cost performance baseline is:

1. Cost Measurement Baseline (CMB)
2. Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)
3. Performance Base Value (PBV)
4. Actual Baseline (AB)

Q9. Nancy’s project is 80 percent complete. Which of the following project documents is least likely to be updated during the Monitor Stakeholder Engagement process performed at this stage?

1. Project charter
2. Risk register
3. Stakeholder register
4. Issue log

Q10. By policy, the project management office regularly evaluates project performance. This is done in order to ensure standards are being followed. This is an example of:

1. Plan Quality
2. Manage Quality
3. Control Quality
4. Quality Management