Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. What does a staffing management plan describe?

1. When and how resources will be added and taken off the team
2. How resources will be leveled
3. What resources will be used on the project
4. The responsible organization for each work package

Q3. Which of the following is a hierarchical representation of project risks?

1. Risk Register
2. Risk Mitigation
3. Risk Categories
4. Risk Breakdown Structure

Q4. 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

Q5. Martin is the project manager of a project that is in an early phase. He needs to estimate costs but finds that he has a limited amount of detailed information about the project. Which of the following estimation techniques is least suited to his requirements?

1. Top-down Estimating
2. Bottom-up Estimating
3. Analogous Estimating
4. Budgetary Estimating

Q6. The MOST common source of conflict on projects is:

1. Personality
2. Cost
3. Priorities
4. Schedules

Q7. Estimating the type and quantities of material, people, equipment, and supplies required to perform each activity is:

1. Estimate Activity Workload
2. Estimate Activity Input
3. Resource calendars
4. Estimate Activity Resources

Q8. A team of seven people adds two more people to the team. How many communication channels are there now?

1. 9
2. 36
3. 18
4. 81

Q9. Company ABC is evaluating three consulting companies to find a consultant to perform professional services. They request information on how the three consulting companies allocate fringe benefits to their clients. What type of cost is Company ABC asking about?

1. Variable
2. Fixed
3. Direct
4. Indirect.

Q10. In attempting to complete the project faster, the project manager looks at the cost associated with crashing each activity. The BEST approach to crashing would also include looking at the:

1. Risk impact of crashing each activity
2. Customer’s opinion of which activities to crash
3. Boss’s opinion of which activities to crash and in what order.
4. Project life cycle phase in which the activity is due to occur