Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are managing a heavy equipment manufacturing project that involves many mechanical, electrical, and IT staff. Your team prepared a schedule network diagram using duration estimates with dependencies and constraints. Your team also calculated the critical path for the project using late and early values. Today, your project office has indicated to you that some of the resources you had planned for the project will be unavailable. To deal with this, you explore the possibility of modifying the schedule to account for limited resources. What is your best possible step in such a situation?

1. Recalculate critical path after applying the resource constraints
2. Perform Resource Leveling to account for limited resources
3. Use crashing or fast tracking to level resources across the project
4. Apply leads and lags to develop a viable schedule

Q3. Caitlin’s project is behind schedule. She is planning to crash the project by allowing overtime to the project team. This approach can bring additional risks to the project. Which of the following is not a valid risk in this scenario:

1. The profit margin might decrease.
2. Risk of employee attrition might increase.
3. Risk of errors and/or rework might increase.
4. The project’s acceptance criteria might get updated.

Q4. Which parts of the risk management process use the project scope statement as an input?

1. Plan Risk Management and Control Risks
2. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis and Plan Risk Management
3. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis and Plan Risk Responses
4. Plan Risk Responses and Control Risks.

Q5. Which of the following BEST describes the project manager’s role relating to changes?

1. Serve the customer and do what the customer wants.
2. Monitor and track changes to ensure they benefit the project.
3. Influence the factors that cause changes
4. Deny change requests whenever possible 9

Q6. A project manager is identifying the quality standards relevant to the project and determining how to meet them. This activity is a part of which quality process?

1. Quality management
2. Manage Quality
3. Plan Quality
4. Perform Quality Control.

Q7. Rearranging resources so that a constant number of resources is used each month is called:

1. Crashing
2. Floating
3. Leveling
4. Fast tracking

Q8. As project manager o a project, you just handled a risk event that impacted the project cost and schedule. Because the impact is 15 percent total project cost, what is the MOST appropriate action?

1. Control the cost
2. Inform the appropriate stakeholders
3. Act to bring the cost of the event within acceptable limits
4. Update the project budget.

Q9. The customer wants to make a change to the project scope. The BEST thing for the project manager to evaluate is the:

1. Effect of the change on scope management
2. Effect of the change on the project scope.
3. Effect of the change on the project schedule, cost, quality and risk.
4. Effect of the change on the project baselines.

Q10. Which of the following is the BEST way to describe the outputs of the Identify Risks process?

1. A list of risks
2. A list of triggers
3. A list of the risk response owners
4. An understanding of the project risks