Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Your company has just won a major new project. It will begin in three months and is valued at US $2,000,000. You are the project manager for an existing project. What is the FIRST thing you should do once you hear of the new project?

1. Ask management how the new project will use resources.
2. Resource level your project.
3. Crash your project.
4. Ask management how the new project will affect your project.

Q3. A team member comes to you (the project manager) privately and informs you that an employee of your customer is making unwelcome advances. The team member has repeatedly requested that this person stop, but the advances continue. What is the BEST course of action?

1. Privatively confront the customer employee and threaten legal action if the advances do not stop.
2. Suggest that the team member avoid contact with the customer employee.
3. Contact the employee’s manager to arrange a meeting to discuss the matter.
4. Facilitate a meeting with the team member, the customer employee, and yourself to allow the two to work it out amicably.

Q4. The cost contingency reserve should be:

1. Hidden to prevent management from disallowing the reserve.
2. Added to each activity to provide the customer with a shorter critical path.
3. Maintained by management to cover cost overruns.
4. Added to the base costs of the project to account for risks

Q5. The authorized time phased budget which you use to monitor and control the cost of the project is known as:

1. Funding limit reconciliation
2. EAC
3. Cost baseline
4. Schedule baseline

Q6. Mary is currently drafting a stakeholder engagement plan for her new website development project. Her organization has strict communication guidelines. Mary wants to ensure that her stakeholder engagement strategy aligns with the organizational communications guidelines. Where can she find these guidelines?

1. Corporate knowledge base
2. Stakeholder register
3. Project contract
4. Lessons learned library

Q7. Scope decomposition involves subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller pieces to:

1. Improve the accuracy of estimates, define a baseline for performance and assist with responsibility assignments.
2. Provide more activities to assign to resources
3. Provide the project duration, provide project control, and assign control charts.
4. Assist in stakeholder assignment to project activities.

Q8. A project involved team members situated in Arizona, Nebraska, New York, and Ireland. Which of the following activities becomes crucial in such a team environment?

1. Team-building
2. Status reporting
3. Conflict resolution
4. Communication planning

Q9. Which of the following is CORRECT?

1. The critical path helps prove how long the project will take
2. There can be only one critical path
3. The network diagram will change every time the end date changes
4. A project can never have negative float.

Q10. Which of these is not a component of the scope baseline that is contained in the project management plan?

1. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
2. Requirements documentation
3. WBS Dictionary
4. Project Scope Statement