Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of these is a valid negative risk response?

1. Exploit
2. Mitigate
3. Enhance
4. Share

Q3. After one year of construction, an office building is scheduled for completion on 30 January. The landscaping work needs to start 15 days prior to the building’s completion. Which of the following relationships most likely represents the relationship of the start of landscaping work to the completion of the office building?

1. Finish-to-start with a 15-day lead
2. Start-to-finish with a 15-day lead
3. Finish-to-start with a 15-day lag
4. Start-to-finish with a 15-day lag

Q4. Your project has successfully completed; the deliverable is handed over to the client, and you are in the close phase or project process. Which of the following activities will you not perform in the close phase or project process?

1. Update lessons learned
2. Release the resources
3. Acceptance of deliverables
4. All of the above

Q5. A trend report was given to the project manager, who reacted to the report by investigating what activity or activities had not been done, but should have been done, to date. What did the report show?

1. Actual cost was below planned and schedule progress was less than planned
2. The cost performance index (CPI) was 0.8 and the schedule performance index (SPI) was 1.2.
3. The budget at completion (BAC) was higher than planned
4. The schedule performance index (SPI) was 1.3 and the estimate at completion (EAC) was greater than planned.

Q6. You have just completed the design phase for a client’s project and are about to enter the implementation phase. All of the following need to be done EXCEPT:

1. Lessons learned
2. Updating records
3. Formal acceptance
4. Completion of the product of the project.

Q7. During a meeting with some of the project stakeholders, the project manager is asked to add work to the project scope. The project manager had access to correspondence about the project before the project charter was signed and remembers that the project sponsor specifically denied funding for the scope mentioned by these stakeholders. The BEST thing for the project manager to do is to:

1. Let the sponsor know of the stakeholders’ request
2. Evaluate the impact of adding the scope
3. Tell the stakeholders the scope cannot be added
4. Add the work if there is time available in the project schedule

Q8. 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

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 not a tool and technique of the Plan Resource Management process?

1. Organizational theory
2. Meetings
3. Hierarchical charts
4. Rewards and recognition