Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Recently, a junior team member has challenged the project management approach since not all requirements identified during the Collect Requirements process were documented in the project scope statement. You are the project manager, what should you do first?

1. Remove the junior team member from the team as this is a disciplinary issue.
2. Analyze the objection and determine if the requirements were deliberately dropped during the Define Scope process.
3. Engage the project sponsor to resolve the issue.
4. Accept your mistake and include the missed requirements.

Q3. A good project manager knows the value of effective stakeholder management. What is the ultimate goal of effective stakeholder management?

1. Stakeholder engagement
2. Project success
3. Stakeholder satisfaction
4. Meeting project objectives

Q4. Analysis of project spending against project budget and calculation of the percentage complete of tasks currently underway are examples of:

1. Control Chart
2. PERT analysis
3. Performance reviews
4. Expert judgment

Q5. Performance reporting is important during administrative closure, in order to:

1. Show progress made on activities.
2. Communicate the team’s success.
3. Gain approval to start the lesions learned.
4. Prove formal acceptance has been achieved.

Q6. A project manager says to a team member, “If you cannot complete this activity according to the quality standards you set in place, I will remove you from the team that is going Venezuela for the milestone party with the customer.” What form of power is the project manager using?

1. Reward power
2. Formal power
3. Penalty power
4. Referent power

Q7. In which part of the cost management process is earned value (EV) used?

1. Performance measurement analysis and variance management
2. Forecasting and project performance reviews.
3. Creating the cost baseline and the cost control system
4. Reserve analysis and cost aggregation

Q8. Company A is developing a project similar to one it delivered nearly 12 months earlier. What is the MOST likely approach to defining project activities?

1. Review organizational process assets
2. Add similar, if not the same, skill sets to the project team
3. Gather the team for a brainstorming session
4. Hire a third party expert to avoid mistakes that were encountered during previous projects.

Q9. Due to the scarce nature of organizational resources, several trends have become popular in the past several years. Which of the following is NOT a resource management method:

1. Kaizen
2. Critical path method
3. Total productive maintenance
4. Theory of constraints

Q10. While applying the logical relationships to the project activities, a project manager must be careful not to:

1. Have closed loops relationships between activities
2. Have FF relationships for the critical activities
3. Have FS relationships for the non-critical activities
4. Select the relationship with the highest impact