Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The project management processes communicate with each other through their inputs and outputs. Which of the following outputs of the Direct and Manage Project Work process is a prime input of the Monitor Stakeholder Engagement process?

1. Change requests
2. Work performance information
3. Work performance data
4. Expert judgment

Q3. When the project manager completes the detailed project schedule, it would be MOST important to get it approved by the:

1. Project sponsor
2. Team
3. Functional managers
4. Customer 42

Q4. In which project management process group is the project manager likely to do more directing?

1. Initiating
2. Planning
3. Executing
4. Monitoring and controlling

Q5. A project manager is unsure of how much cost reserve to add to the project. There is a 50 percent chance of a weather delay causing an impact of US $100,000 and a 30 percent chance of a delay in the testing center with a US $20,000 impact. How much should the cost reserve be?

1. Less than $50,000
2. More than $120,000
3. Less than $20,000
4. More than $56,000

Q6. In general, Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis is:

1. Not often completed
2. Complete and 100 percent accurate
3. In-depth and thorough
4. focused on high-priority risks

Q7. You have finished the Plan Risk Responses process and are left with residual risks. What should you do with them?

1. Document them in the risk register and revisit them during project executing
2. Deal with them as they arise during project executing
3. Include them as part of the contingency plans
4. Perform a sensitivity analysis on them.

Q8. You have decided to apply Resource Leveling to a project because of a critically required resource being available only at certain times. Which of the following will likely be true?

1. Resource Leveling can often cause the original critical path to change.
2. Resource Leveling will over-allocate resources to schedule the project before the deadline.
3. Resource Leveling will require additional resources to complete the project.
4. Resource Leveling will never alter the original critical path.

Q9. Which motivational theory defines the hierarchy of needs?

1. Maslow
2. Deming
3. McGregor
4. Herzberg

Q10. During the executing process group, a functional manager asks you to use a model C generator instead of model B on your project. The functional manager says that model C will solve the needs of the project and provide some benefits to the manufacturing department. You look at the cost associated with model C and discover that it is substantially higher than model B. If you are not sure you can justify the more expensive model, what is the BEST thing to do?

1. Review the specifications of each to validate the manager’s claim
2. Analyze the differences in using each model and present them to the sponsor.
3. Use model C and cut other activities to make up for the added cost.
4. Do a life cycle analysis and present the results to your boss.