Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project team is having difficulty communication over long distances. There were 13 team members from two countries, and then 5 people from India were added. This is of concern to the project manager because:

1. Communications channels grow rapidly.
2. It will be harder to use reward power.
3. Communication blockers grow linearly.
4. Conflict can be increased with an increase in project priorities.

Q3. All of the following are examples of Perform Quality Control EXCEPT:

1. Inspection
2. Cost of quality
3. Pareto chart
4. Fishbone diagram

Q4. When is it MOST important that integration is performed?

1. During project planning
2. During project executing
3. At key interface points
4. At the end of each project management process

Q5. During a team meeting, the team adds a specific area of extra work to the project because they have determined if would benefit the customer. What is wrong in this situation?

1. The team is gold plating
2. These efforts shouldn’t be done in meetings
3. Nothing. This is how to meet or exceed customer expectations.
4. Nothing. The project manager is in control of the situation.

Q6. Conflict resolution techniques that may be used on a project include confronting, smoothing, forcing, and:

1. Withdrawing
2. Directing
3. Organizing
4. Controlling.

Q7. During the Develop Schedule process, which of the following would BEST provide the basis for the MOST likely activity duration estimate?

1. Labour productivity rates published by a professional association
2. A consultant’s estimate of the overall labour man-hours required.
3. The initial estimate used to budget the project
4. The schedule for a similar project at the same facility completed two years earlier.

Q8. During every project team meeting, the project manager asks each team member to describe the work he or she is doing, and the project manager assigns new activities to team members. The length of these meetings has increased because there are many different activities to assign. This could be happening for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

1. Lack of a WBS
2. Lack of a responsibility assignment matrix.
3. Lack of resource leveling
4. Lack of team involvement in project planning.

Q9. The formula for Cost Variance is:

1. CV=EV-AC
2. CV=AC-EV
3. CV=BAC-(AC-EV)
4. CV=SV-BC

Q10. What is a common result of poor project planning?

1. Wasted effort
2. Lost time
3. Increased cost
4. All of the above