Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have noticed that some of your team members are not attending meetings, a few are always late and are frequently disruptive. Therefore, to remove these issues you set guidelines and establish clear expectations regarding acceptable behavior by project team members. Who will be responsible for implementing these rules?

1. Project manager
2. Client
3. Management
4. All team members

Q3. A company is attempting to select the BEST project from a list of possible choices. If the information they have includes the following benefit cost ratios, which project should they pick?

1. 2.2
2. 1.3
3. 0.8
4. 1.6

Q4. James is managing a shopping mall construction project. During the project execution, he learns the project communications management plan is not effective and requires a major update. Which of the following processes will issue a change request for the required update?

1. Plan Communications Management
2. Manage Communications
3. Perform Integrated Change Control
4. Monitor Communications

Q5. If earned value (EV) is US $300,000, actual cost (AC) is US $350,000, and planned value (PV) is US $375,000, what does the schedule performance index (SPI) indicate?

1. You are only progressing at 86 percent of the rate originally planned.
2. You are progressing at 125 percent of the rate originally planned.
3. You are progressing at 116 percent of the rate originally planned.
4. You are only progressing at 80 percent of the rate originally planned.

Q6. A project manager is working on his first project with outside sellers. He is familiar with project change control systems but not contract change control systems. In explaining how a contract change control system differs from a project change control system, it is BEST to point out that a contract change control system:

1. Includes procedures
2. Includes trend analysis
3. Requires more sign-offs
4. Requires less documentation.

Q7. 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

Q8. You are over budget and it is impossible to complete the project with the given budget. Therefore, you raise the change request which management approves. After the change request is approved, you update the cost baseline and update other project documents. The document used to register any changes which occur during the project execution is known as:

1. Risk register
2. Issue log
3. Change log
4. RACI matrix

Q9. The project has been working through some difficult technical issues relating to how the work should be done. The most recent problem related to the way each test was to be completed. There have also been disagreements with two of the eight managers and the sponsor has had to intervene once. The testing work is done when the project manager discovers that one of the changes agreed to has not been adequately completed. What did the project manager NOT do?

1. Ask those doing the work describe the change, to make sure they understood it.
2. Get the sponsor to sign off on the change.
3. Make sure the functional manager closely supervised the testing.
4. Provider more training for those doing the testing.

Q10. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate thing to do during the executing process group?

1. Forecast when the next milestone will be completed.
2. Recommend updates to the project management plan.
3. Recalculate how long the project will take.
4. Determine if project controls need to be updated.