Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Your team is analyzing the project and comes up with the information in the chart. What activities are on the critical path?

1. Not enough information
2. Activities B, C, and I
3. Activities B, C, E, F, H
4. Activities D, G, I Activity Baseline Crash Time Cost Time Cost A 10 $4,000 8 $6,000 B 2 $6,000 2 $6,000 C 14 $22,000 12 $26,000 D 6 $9,000 5 $10,000 E 9 $14,000 7 $19,000 F 8 $18,000 4 $36,000 64

Q3. Sam’s project has successfully been initiated, and all the major roadblocks are removed. The senior stakeholders have now switched from a leading role to a supportive role. What is Sam’s next step once the first version of the project stakeholder register is developed?

1. Execute the stakeholder engagement strategy as laid out in the stakeholder register
2. Start the stakeholder identification process
3. Finalize the project management plan before developing the stakeholder engagement strategy
4. Start the development of the Stakeholder Engagement Plan

Q4. You have just taken over a project from another project manager about six months into a 12-month project. As you get to know the staff on the project, you become aware that five staff members are relatives of the previous project manager. What do you do?

1. Notify your project stakeholders there is a possibility that nepotism was behind some of the staffing decisions made on your project
2. Check recruitment records of all employees
3. Report the HR manager to PMI
4. Interview these five employees

Q5. What is the name of the process required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, and disposal of project information?

1. Quality management
2. Communications management
3. Procurement management
4. Scope management

Q6. You are analyzing a particular task with your team members to determine if the task should be done by your team, or if it should be contracted out to a contractor. Which process is this?

1. Conduct procurement
2. Plan cost management
3. Plan human resource
4. Plan procurement

Q7. During the first half of the project, five team members left for other projects without being replaced, two team members went on vacation without informing you, and other team members expressed uncertainty about the work they were to complete. In this situation, it is BEST if you create a _______ for the second half of the project?

1. Work breakdown structure
2. Resource histogram
3. Staffing management plan
4. Responsibility assigned matrix.

Q8. Which of the following is not a tool or technique of the Acquire Resources process?

1. Negotiation
2. Multi-criteria decision analysis
3. Pre-assignment
4. Conflict management

Q9. The Stakeholder Committee has a report that shows zero schedule variance. However, the first milestone in the project was missed, which will cause a delay in the project. Which of the following was not reported correctly?

1. Resource management plan
2. Risk analysis
3. Critical path status
4. Communications plan variance

Q10. You’ve been assigned to take over managing a project that should be half complete according to the schedule. After an extensive evaluation, you discover that the project is running far behind schedule, and that the project will probably take twice the time originally estimated by the previous project manager. However, the sponsor has been told that the project is on schedule. What is the BEST course of action?

1. Try to restructure the schedule to meet the project deadline
2. Report your assessment to the sponsor
3. Turn the project back to the previous project manager.
4. Move forward with the schedule as planned by the previous project manager and report at the first missed milestone.