Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have identified a risk that will negatively affect your security project. You and your team have decided to use an older encryption technology because of the high risk associated with the new technology. What type of risk strategy are you using?

1. Mitigation
2. Exploitation
3. Avoidance
4. Transfer

Q3. The requirements elicitation team has generated a large number of ideas during sessions to gather product and project requirements. Which of the following techniques is best suited to sorting these ideas into groups for review and analysis?

1. Control chart
2. Venn diagram
3. Affinity diagram
4. Brainstorming

Q4. You are in the final phase of a low-cost car manufacturing project. This project has successfully delivered a low-cost car that runs on batteries. However, to close this project and avoid auditing from government authorities, it must demonstrably comply with many administrative standards. Since your organization possesses experts who know closing procedures and standards, you want to use them to close this project. This effort is an instance of:

1. Using enterprise environmental factors in closing the project
2. Using expert judgment in closing the project
3. Using organizational process assets in closing the project
4. Poor project management practice

Q5. Which of the following is NOT a valid project schedule presentation format:

1. Activity list
2. Activity attributes
3. Bar chart
4. Network diagram

Q6. All of the following are outputs of the Create WBS process EXCEPT:

1. Scope baseline
2. Change requests
3. WBS dictionary
4. Updates to the requirements documentation

Q7. The sponsor has informed you that the resources for your project will be cut. The sponsor wants to know how long the project will take if only nine resources each month are committed to your project. What is this activity called?

1. Crashing
2. Floating
3. Leveling
4. Fast tracking

Q8. When do you perform stakeholder analysis?

1. When defining the project scope
2. When developing the project charter
3. When creating the project management plan
4. When putting changes through change control

Q9. Your project has a medium amount of risk and is not very well defined. The sponsor hands you a project charter and asks you to confirm that the project can be completed within the project cost budget. What is the BEST method to handle this?

1. Build an estimate in the form of a range of possible results.
2. Ask the team members to help estimate the cost based on the project charter.
3. Based on the information you have, calculate a parametric estimate.
4. Provide an analogous estimate based on past history.

Q10. Theory X postulates that people:

1. Are motivated by pay
2. Have expectations
3. Need to be watched every second
4. Can direct their own efforts.