Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are working on a project which is under budget and ahead of schedule. The project is 85% complete, and the client comes and asks you to terminate the project because he fears a possible regulation can impact his project. You review the project parameters and find that you can complete the project before the proposed legislation comes into existence; moreover, you won’t need any extra funding. What will your next steps be?

1. Tell the client about your findings and ask him to reconsider his decision
2. Initiate the close project process
3. Immediately release your team members
4. Convince your management to discuss the issue with the client

Q3. You are working on a project with all the team members located in geographically different areas, and all communication is by email and chat. It is sometimes hard to infer the true meaning of these messages because you cannot see facial expressions or hear tones of voice. This is an example of:

1. Encoding
2. Medium
3. Decoding
4. Noise

Q4. Which of these is accurate regarding risk management?

1. Organizations are not likely to perceive risk as a threat to project success.
2. It has its origins in the uncertainty present in all projects.
3. The attitudes of individuals and organizations must not be a factor affecting risk management.
4. It is a passive activity in project management.

Q5. A project has just begun when one of the stakeholders asks the project manager about making a change to the format of the deliverable for activity Y. She wants to know how to go about submitting the change for review. The project manager should direct her to:

1. The change control board
2. The communications management plan.
3. The sponsor
4. The change control system

Q6. A project team is worried that the integration of the components of the project will result in uncovering flaws. Instead of continuing their work, they are constantly looking for flaws to try to prevent their system from being the only one found o have flaws during integration. Quality and technical experts were called in to advise and found little possibility of errors for this project. An agreement was reached by all parties on what will be done to prevent errors. It might be BEST for the project manager to:

1. Smooth the situation
2. Compromise the situation
3. Tell the team to create quality testing plans
4. Let management know of the concern.

Q7. You publish some informative notes on the company’s web portal and ask stakeholders to review it. What kind of communication method is this?

1. Pull
2. Push
3. Interactive
4. None of the above

Q8. An identified risk occurred during the execution phase and the risk owner implemented the risk response plan. The impact of the risk was higher than the planned impact and the risk response plan was not effective. So, you ask the risk owner to implement the fallback plan to contain the situation. To implement the fallback plan, which reserve is most likely to be utilized?

1. Contingency reserve
2. Management reserve
3. Cost reserve
4. None of the above

Q9. All of the following MUST be present to have a contract EXCEPT:

1. Procurement statement of work.
2. Acceptance.
3. Address of the seller
4. Buyer’s signatures.

Q10. Which of the following should be avoided while applying logical relationships to project activities:

1. Applying the SS relationship with a lead
2. Applying the SS relationship with a lag
3. Applying the SF relationship
4. Applying multiple relationships between the same activities