Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Your project team is located in different locations. Your schedule is delayed and you’re facing many issues. Which of the following is the best solution to this problem?

1. Give training to team members
2. Warn them to improve performance
3. Co-locate them
4. Review the project management plan

Q3. The stakeholder engagement plan is developed early during project planning phase. However, as the project moves into its execution phase, project stakeholders’ needs, interests and/or influence might change. If a significant change happens, what should the project manager do?

1. Refer the issue to the project sponsor
2. Hold all project communications until the issue has a resolution
3. Seek expert judgment from the project sponsor
4. Revisit the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process

Q4. You have been working on a very large software development project that has made use of more than 230 people. Finally, all the scope has been completed. It would be BEST to:

1. Throw a party for the team members
2. Make sure the project is integrated with the other projects.
3. Begin to focus on your other projects
4. Analyze project success or failure

Q5. The project manager has worked closely with the team to come up with contingency plans. Which of the following BEST describes contingency plans?

1. Planned responses to risk events
2. Planned risk control procedures
3. Planned workarounds
4. Planned responses based on probability analysis.

Q6. You are new to project management, but you have been managing a small project successfully. Now, management has given you another project to manage, something you are excited about. However, the new project is growing exponentially every day. You have also learned that a project manager you work with managed a similar project last year. What should you do?

1. Wait to see if the scope of the project continues to grow
2. Get the project assigned to the PM who managed the similar project
3. Obtain historical records and get guidance from the project manager
4. Speak to the other project manager to develop your project plans

Q7. The project has been going relatively well, although there have been some problems with resource availability and the project scope has changed more than was expected. The project is now completing one of its phases. Of all decisions the sponsor must consider during and end-of-phase review meeting, the MOST difficult is:

1. Authorizing scope change for the next phase
2. Authorizing budget increases for the next phase based on scope changes
3. Cancelling the project
4. Decreasing scope to maintain budget

Q8. Residual risks are risks that remain after risk response planning. Secondary risks are:

1. Planning risks that are no longer a factor during project executing
2. Discovered during risk identification
3. New risks created by the risk response strategies selected.
4. Lower priority risks not requiring mitigation efforts.

Q9. A project has faced major difficulties in the quality of its deliverables. Management now states that quality is the most important project constraint. If another problem with quality were to occur, what would be the BEST thing for the project manager to do?

1. Fix the problem as soon as possible.
2. Allow the schedule to slip by cutting cost.
3. Allow cost to increase by fixing the root cause of the problem.
4. Allow risk to increase by cutting cost.

Q10. Validate Scope is closely related to:

1. Perform Quality Control
2. Sequence Activities
3. Perform Quality Assurance
4. Time Management