Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. All of the following are part of the Perform Quality Control process EXCEPT:

1. Pareto chart
2. Control charts
3. Inspection
4. Quality audits.

Q3. You are building a mansion that will have copper roofs. The duration of the project will be approximately three years. You have built into the contract that, as the price of copper increases, your price increases as a percentage of the cost of the copper. However, all other costs are fixed. This is an example of what type of contract?

1. Fixed Price with Economic Price Adjustment
2. Fixed Price Incentive Fee
3. Unit Price
4. Time and Materials

Q4. If a project manager wants to report on the actual project results vs. planned results, he should use a:

1. Trend report.
2. Forecasting report.
3. Status report.
4. Variance report.

Q5. Carole is managing a hotel refurbishment project. She has identified her project's key stakeholders. Carole now wants to expand this list of stakeholders and convert it to a comprehensive list of project stakeholders. What should Carole do?

1. Do not spend more time on identifying the non-key stakeholders
2. Seek expert judgment from the identified key stakeholders
3. Request that the project sponsor provide the details of the remaining stakeholders
4. Carry out a stakeholder analysis with the identified key stakeholders

Q6. Free float is the amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the:

1. Project
2. Completion date required by the customer
3. Early start of its successor
4. Project completion date

Q7. All of the following are common results of risk management EXCEPT:

1. Contract terms and conditions are created
2. The project management plan is changed
3. The communications management plan is changed
4. The project charter is changed.

Q8. You are the Project Manager and are responsible for the development of a mall. As with any construction project, there will be multiple iterations of blueprints and engineering drawings. Therefore, you have decided to create an online database that can be used to query the documents by name, type, date, etc. This is an example of what type of communication tool?

1. Project Management Information System
2. Lessons Learned
3. Project Records
4. Configuration Management System

Q9. A project manager has been working on a project for six months with the same team, yet the team still shows a lack of support for the project. The BEST thing the project manager can do to obtain the team’s support for the project is to:

1. Re-evaluate the effectiveness of the reward system in place.
2. Talk to each team member’s boss with the team member present.
3. Find someone else to be project manager.
4. Tell the team members he needs their support, and ask the team members why they do not support the project.

Q10. A project has experienced significant delays due to equipment problems, staff attrition, and slow client reviews. The project is 40 percent complete and has used 60 percent of the available calendar time. What is the FIRST thing you should do?

1. Rebaseline the schedule to reflect the new date
2. Analyze the critical path activities for potential to fast track or crash the schedule
3. Document the lack of progress and associated issues to management
4. Identify activities that required more time than planned 49