Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Mary has just assigned Thomas as project manager of an upcoming railway construction project. She hands an approved project charter to Thomas. Once Thomas thoroughly reviews the project charter, what should he do next?

1. Review the charter once again since one thorough review is never enough
2. Kick-start the Develop Project Management Plan process
3. Add the project charter to the organizational lessons-learned archive
4. Distribute the charter to all key project stakeholders and ensure common understanding

Q3. During the Identify Risks process, a project manager identifies a risk that, no matter what the company does, a dire could occur in the building during the test. It would be BEST to _____ the risk.

1. Deflect.
2. Accept
3. Avoid
4. Change

Q4. 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

Q5. Project coordination is enhanced through progress reporting, variance reporting, and team meetings. These are all forms of:

1. Staffing management.
2. Risk management.
3. Time management.
4. Communications management.

Q6. You are planning resources for your project and the team charter has been established. This charter provides a clear guideline of the acceptable behavior of team members. Which of the following is not included?

1. Communication guidelines
2. Decision making criteria
3. Conflict resolution process
4. Motivational processes

Q7. Which of these is accurate regarding the Develop Schedule process?

1. Schedules are optimized such that all noncritical activities have a zero total float.
2. The critical path method is a schedule network analysis technique that is performed using the schedule model.
3. Schedule compression shortens the project schedule while changing the project scope.
4. Schedule network analysis is a technique carried out once the schedule is approved.

Q8. Which of the following is accurate regarding the Estimate Activity Resources process?

1. It produces project resource calendars as the output.
2. It determines dependencies that may require a lead or lag to define the relationship.
3. This process is coordinated independent of the Estimate Cost process.
4. It involves determining what and how many resources to use.

Q9. Sandra is managing a complex ERP design and implementation project. The project team has recently been hired. It is an enterprise-wide project affecting many stakeholders. It is very important for each team member to properly understand and follow the project communication requirements in order to keep the stakeholders engaged and informed. Which of the following tools and techniques can Sandra use to ensure that team members properly understand the project’s communications requirements?

1. Ground rules
2. Training
3. Co-location
4. Recognition and rewards

Q10. 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.