Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. What leadership style should you employ during the first 2 weeks of project planning?

1. Coaching
2. Directing
3. Supporting
4. Facilitating

Q3. The project manager has performed schedule network analysis, compressed the schedule and completed a Monte Carlo analysis. What schedule management activity should be done NEXT?

1. Update resource requirements
2. Recommend corrective actions
3. Estimate Activity Durations
4. Create a milestone list

Q4. In which part of the cost management process is earned value (EV) used?

1. Performance measurement analysis and variance management
2. Forecasting and project performance reviews.
3. Creating the cost baseline and the cost control system
4. Reserve analysis and cost aggregation

Q5. A government agency has awarded your company a massive software project. This project has an early completion incentive, and your company has a policy of paying a bonus to the project manager if such an incentive is awarded. However, this particular government agency has a reputation for being extremely difficult to work with; there is a great deal of bureaucracy within this agency, and stonewalling and hostility toward contractors are common. The project manager will need to have excellent political skills to lead this project successfully. You have been asked to lead the project because of your expertise with this type of project. However, you have never worked within such a highly charged and political environment. What should you do?

1. Decline the project citing lack of experience.
2. Accept the project but disclose your lack of experience in this type of environment.
3. Accept the project and request that a corporate liaison be assigned to your project.
4. Accept the project.

Q6. The project manager of a large construction project is responsible for ensuring that all changes to the building plans are approved and tracked before they are implemented. These activities form part of which process?

1. Validate Scope
2. Perform Configuration Management
3. Perform Integrated change control
4. Control Quality

Q7. You are working on a project with all the team members located in geographically different areas, and all communication is by email and chat. It is sometimes hard to infer the true meaning of these messages because you cannot see facial expressions or hear tones of voice. This is an example of:

1. Encoding
2. Medium
3. Decoding
4. Noise

Q8. Which of the following is not an interpersonal skill that the project manager will use to manage stakeholders' expectations?

1. Active listening
2. Overcoming resistance to change
3. Punishment
4. Building trust

Q9. The requirements of many stakeholders were not approved for inclusion in your project. Therefore, you had a difficult time receiving formal approval of the project management plan for this project. The stakeholders argued and held up the project while they held meeting after meeting about their requirements. The project was finally approved and work was begun six months ago. All of the following would be good preventive actions to implement EXCEPT:

1. Keep a file of what requirements were not included in the project.
2. Make sue the change control process is not used as a vehicle to add back the requirements into the project.
3. Maintain an issue log.
4. Hold meetings with the stakeholders to go over the work that will not be added to the project.

Q10. In your project, two important stakeholders are having some issues. To keep this issue from escalating further you intervene and resolve the issue. After the issue is resolved you asked your team member to record the issue so in the future a lesson can be learned from it. Where will you note the issues between stakeholders?

1. Risk register
2. Issue log
3. Stakeholder register
4. Change log