Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Your project is very complex and due to a scope change, you need a few additional experts, which you did not think of earlier. You request that your company provide you with some experts for consultancy work. Although your company has provided you with those experts, they are located in a different geographical location. In this situation, how will you get their input?

1. Ask management to bring them to you
2. Recruit new members with same skills
3. Create a virtual team
4. None of the above

Q3. Which of the following processes includes asking team members about the time estimates for their activities and reaching agreement on the calendar date for each activity?

1. Sequence Activities
2. Develop Schedule
3. Define Scope
4. Develop Project Charter

Q4. Stakeholders can be identified in which project management process groups?

1. Initiating, planning, executing, and monitoring and controlling
2. Initiating and planning
3. Planning and monitoring and controlling
4. Monitoring and controlling and closing

Q5. You have a firm fixed price (FP) contract with a clause stating that all changes to the contract statement of work must be written. One of your team members verbally instructed the seller to ad a change that resulted in a 100 percent work package return. In this situation, what conflict management strategy should you use (as the project manager) with the team member?

1. Punishment
2. Problem solving
3. Negotiating
4. Withdrawal.

Q6. What percent of time do project managers spend communicating?

1. 90%
2. 20%
3. 70%
4. 25%

Q7. A control chart helps the project manager:

1. Focus on the most critical issues to improve quality
2. Focus on stimulating thinking
3. Explore a desired future outcome
4. Determine if a process is functioning within set limits.

Q8. A seller submits an invoice that is outside the funding limit reconciliation completed during project planning. What is the LEAST likely cause?

1. An activity has taken longer to complete than planned.
2. The critical path was fast tracked during project planning
3. Equipment was received earlier than planned
4. There was a cost increase to the successor activity of a critical path activity.

Q9. Midway through the Collect Requirements process, a project manager finds there are many unresolved issues regarding product requirements. Which of the following is usually the best way to discover and resolve issues?

1. Interviewing
2. Use of a stakeholder register
3. Questionnaires
4. Workshops

Q10. Based on the chart, what is the duration of a critical path?

1. 30
2. 23
3. 49
4. 46