Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The engineering resource group, a matrix organization of which a project manager’s project team is a part, has a policy of no salary bonuses for project work. The project manager’s current project has an aggressive timeline and a difficult technical obstacle to overcome. A new product offering is dependent on this project’s success in the current timeline. The project manager has heard grumbling from his team members about the fact that they cannot be rewarded for their effort. What is the FIRST thing the project manager should do?

1. The project manager should determine whether other team members from another department can help with the project.
2. The project manager should talk to management to determine other rewards that can be given.
3. The project manager should negotiate a less aggressive schedule from the client.
4. The project manager should talk with the team about the importance of getting this done on time and explain the company policy.

Q3. Which of the following is TRUE of inspections?

1. They may not be conducted by the project team.
2. They test future desires of prospective customers.
3. They can only be conducted on the final product.
4. They prevent defective deliverables from reaching the customer.

Q4. As a result of your analysis of the risks on the project, you have decided to remove a team member from the project team in order to decrease the overall project risk. What is this an example of?

1. Transference
2. Resource analysis
3. Avoidance
4. Acceptance

Q5. Lucy is managing a website development project in an agile environment. She wants to create a burndown chart to present the project’s progress to the stakeholders. She adds a diagonal line representing the ideal burndown and a line for daily actual remaining work. She now needs to show the likely variance at the iteration completion. What should she do?

1. Add a forecast trend line to the ideal burndown line
2. Add a correlation line between the daily actual remaining work and the ideal burndown
3. Add a forecast trend line to the daily actual remaining work
4. Add a median line between the daily actual remaining work and the ideal burndown

Q6. A project manager presented earned value analysis data in a tabular format in a performance report. Another way the project manager could have presented the earned value analysis data is with:

1. A linear graph
2. An S-curve
3. A logarithmic curve
4. An Epsilon graph

Q7. The primary customer of a project has requested an application change during user testing. As project manager, how should you BEST address this issue?

1. Develop a risk mitigation plan
2. Through a formal change request
3. Inform the project sponsor of changes to the scope cost and schedule
4. Ensure that scope change complies with all relevant contractual provisions

Q8. Nancy's project is in execution. Nancy is currently planning to execute the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process. She has gathered the project documents such as the issue log, the change log, the stakeholder register, the lessons learned register and the necessary organizational process assets. Which of the following is a key input to this process that is still missing from this list?

1. Expert Judgment
2. Communication Skills
3. Change requests
4. Project Management Plan

Q9. You are building a mansion that will have copper roofs. The duration of the project will be approximately three years. You have built into the contract that, as the price of copper increases, your price increases as a percentage of the cost of the copper. However, all other costs are fixed. This is an example of what type of contract?

1. Fixed Price with Economic Price Adjustment
2. Fixed Price Incentive Fee
3. Unit Price
4. Time and Materials

Q10. Risk response owners can potentially have conflict with risk auditors because risk auditors:

1. Report to the project manager
2. Investigate the effectiveness of the risk response owner
3. Measure the effectiveness of the risk thresholds.
4. Report to the stakeholders