Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. When is Rolling Wave Planning useful in a project?

1. You should use Rolling Wave Planning to help you achieve the appropriate level of detail in each work package at the right time.
2. You should use Rolling Wave Planning to determine the correct sequencing for long-term items.
3. You should use Rolling Wave Planning to help you organize team members' activities within a large project group.
4. You should use Rolling Wave Planning to help you determine which activities are more important and to do them first.

Q3. Over lunch with another project manager, you discuss ways to identify risks on your project. The next day, the other project manager sends you risk identification software created by her company with a copyright date of 1998. What should you do?

1. Find out if using an old format would be acceptable
2. Obtain approval from your legal department
3. Share some of your templates with her to improve competencies
4. Send the software back

Q4. Your boss says that in order to your new product to market sooner, the project must be completed four months earlier. However, he does not want to shorten the schedule if the project cost will go up more than US $22,000. Provided with the chart, which critical path activity(s) would you crash?

1. Activity D
2. Activities A and F
3. Activities A and H
4. Activity C

Q5. Outputs of the Develop Project Team process are:

1. Roles and responsibilities, project organization charts, and staffing management plan
2. Project organization charts, project staff assignments, and roles and responsibilities.
3. Project manager plan updates, staffing management plan, and project organization charts.
4. Roles and responsibilities, staffing management plan, and resource availability

Q6. Which of the following helps the project team to look at many sources from which project risks may arise in a risk identification exercise?

1. Work Breakdown Structure
2. Risk Breakdown Structure
3. Risk register
4. Issue log

Q7. Which of the following techniques can help clarify the structure, requirements, and other terms of the purchases so that mutual agreement between a buyer and a seller can be reached prior to signing the contract?

1. Independent estimates
2. Advertising
3. Bidder conferences
4. Procurement negotiations

Q8. You are having difficulty estimating the cost of a project. Which of the following BEST describes the most probable cause of your difficulty?

1. Inadequate scope definition
2. Unavailability of desired resources
3. Lack of historical records from previous projects.
4. Lack of company processes.

Q9. You are assigned as the project manager in the middle of the project. The project is within the baselines, but the customer is not happy with the performance of the project. What is the FIRST thing you should do?

1. Discuss it with the project team
2. Recalculate baselines
3. Renegotiate the contract
4. Meet with the customer

Q10. As part of a new project you just started on as project manager, you are assembling your team and discovering that one of the critical pieces of work requires a specialist from one of the functional departments. However, you are aware the functional manager may be reluctant to assign that resource to your project since your project is not a high-profile one. Which of the following techniques will you need to apply?

1. Acquisition
2. Coercion
3. Politics
4. Negotiation