Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have been offered a position managing a project that will last 12 months. However, you know that in six months, you will be relocating to another state for family reasons. What should you do?

1. Turn down the position
2. Accept the position and provide four weeks’ notice before leaving the job
3. Accept the position and compress the schedule to complete the project in six months
4. Disclose your relocation plans to the hiring manager

Q3. You are managing a project in a just-in-time environment. This will require more attention, because the amount of inventory in such an environmental is generally:

1. 45 percent
2. 10 percent
3. 12 percent
4. 0 percent

Q4. A project manager has just completed subjectively evaluating risks on the project. Which of the following is the MOST important output of this process?

1. Decrease in the risk ranking for the project
2. A determination of which risks to process further and which to simply document
3. Probabilistic analysis of the project and identification of risk triggers
4. Probability of achieving cost objectives.

Q5. Checklists, fishbone diagrams, and Pareto charts are ALL examples of:

1. Tools used to define scope
2. Tools used in quality management
3. Tools used in team performance assessments
4. Parts of a project management plan.

Q6. You have just completed a solid waste management project in an underdeveloped country. The contractor you are working for has a strict policy of abiding by local laws and rules although the local resources working on the project have a much more lax approach to following laws and policies. Now at the end of the project, you are handing over the operational equipment to the local operators and disposing of the leftover inventory and other materials that were used during the project. More than 50 percent of the toxic materials used during the project remains in your inventory. There is no law that would prohibit you from disposing of either the type or quantity of remaining materials in the local sewage system. What should you do?

1. Give the material to local resources to dispose of by selling it to a recycling facility
2. Do not dispose of the materials improperly
3. Dispose of the material in the local sewage system; there is no law applicable here
4. Abandon the materials in the project facility you are handing over to the local operators

Q7. Which of the following is an example of rolling wave planning in a project following an adaptive life cycle?

1. Iterative scheduling with a just-in-time log
2. Predictive scheduling with no backlog
3. Inflexible scheduling without leads and lags
4. Iterative scheduling with a backlog

Q8. During the executing process group of the project, you realize the subcontractors are working with incomplete and different project scope statements. As the project manager, what should you do FIRST?

1. Check the work completed against the correct project scope statement.
2. Review the scope with the stakeholders.
3. Document the inconsistencies to the sponsor, calculating the cost of non-conformance.
4. Stop work until the scope issue is resolved.

Q9. A number of identified risks occurred early in a project. As a result, most of the project objectives ended up in jeopardy. The project manager decided to present a case to management that the project be closed down. This is an example of:

1. Risk Acceptance
2. Risk Mitigation
3. Risk Avoidance
4. Risk Transfer

Q10. A project manager scheduled a review at the end of a phase, with the objective of obtaining authorization to close the current project phase and initiate the next phase. Which of the following is an incorrect way of describing this review?

1. Phase gate
2. Phase planning
3. Kill point
4. Stage gate