Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A new project manager has been hired in your company, and you have been asked to mentor her. Because she is well trained, she is planning her project in great detail. Her first project for the company is relatively low priority, and you feel that the project manager is planning too many project control meetings. Which of the following would be the BEST thing to tell her?

1. Strike a balance between the extent of the control system and the risk of unfavorable project outcomes.
2. Make sure you identify more than 40 risks, and then have more than one meeting a month
3. A good project management plan should be about90 percent complete before starting work
4. Make sure you include milestones to help plan the project charter.

Q3. Due to an improper cost management plan, you are over budget and a new estimate is required to complete the project. Management asks you what the new estimate for the project will be. Which of the following formulas is not used to find this new estimate?

1. BAC / CPI
2. AC + (BAC – PV)
3. AC + (BAC – EV)
4. AC + (BAC – EV) / (CPI * SPI)

Q4. With high levels of uncertainty and unpredictability in a fast-paced and highly competitive global marketplace, where long-term scope is difficult to define, it is becoming even more important to have a __________ for effective adoption and tailoring of development practices to respond to the changing needs of the environment.

1. Rigid management approach
2. Predefined detailed scope
3. Contextual framework
4. Blackbox approach

Q5. Originally a project had four team members. Now the scope has expanded, and there are a total of six people on the project team. How many communication channels does the project have?

1. 6
2. 9
3. 12
4. 15

Q6. It is the middle of the project when the project manager is informed by her scheduler that the project control limits are secure. That same morning she receives a note from a team member about a problem he is having. The note says, “This activity is driving me crazy and the manager of the accounting department won’t help me until the activity’s float is in jeopardy.” In addition, the project manager has e-mails, a team member walks in to the project manager’s office to tell her that a corrective action was implemented by a team member from the project management office, but was not documented. What should the project manager do NEXT?

1. Add the implemented corrective action to the historical records, discuss the value documentation at the next team meeting, and smooth the team member with the accounting department problem.
2. Report the documentation violation to the project management office, evaluate the security of the control limits, and review the e-mailing rules in the communications management plan
3. Clarify the reasoning behind documentation being a problem, get the accounting department to assist the team member, and respond to the minor stakeholder
4. Find out who caused the problem with the accounting department, respond to the minor stakeholder before responding to the other emails, and review the process listed in the communications plan for reporting concerns with the team member having the documentation problem.

Q7. Based on the chart that shows activities on the critical path, which activity(s) would you crash to save exactly four weeks?

1. Activity F
2. Activities A and E
3. Activities C and E
4. Activities A and C

Q8. An experienced project manager was assigned a project of small scope. Which of the following could be true of the project?

1. Defining Activities, sequencing activities, estimating activity durations, and developing the schedule could be viewed as a single process.
2. Estimating activity durations may be skipped for the project.
3. Developing and Controlling the schedule could be viewed as a single process.
4. Defining Activities, estimating activity durations, developing the schedule, and controlling the schedule could be viewed as a single process.

Q9. Your project will go through many phases to produce a high-priced product that will be sold to the public. You are currently starting the design phase. The price will include the product and scheduled maintenance. The team includes representatives from the engineering department, who will help determine the design of the project, the marketing department, who will determine the shape of the container for the product of the project and the accounting department who will help make sure the cost of the project allow ample profit margin. The project charter has been completed and signed by sponsors from all these departments. The product scope was completed in an earlier project that was two months delayed due to arguing over the scope. The team is now functioning well and past team building efforts have produced an effective team for this new project. Which of the following is the BEST thing to include that has not been included in planning?

1. The team working on the project does not include anyone from senior management and will thus not have enough support to be completed quickly and effectively.
2. There needs to be a representative from the quality department to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it is undertaken.
3. The project is not taking into account how the project work will affect future phases and thus future phases may cost more.
4. Team building efforts should still be done in the future to ensure an effective team.

Q10. Your project team has identified a major project risk. After talking to the project management office, they determine that a reserve on the project is not necessary. What is the NEXT step?

1. List the time or cost overrun expected on the project in your project management plan.
2. Develop risk transference strategies.
3. Create a risk response plan that includes the risk.
4. Ignore he risk until it happens.