Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A company is making an effort to improve its project performance and create historical records of past projects. What is the BEST way to accomplish this?

1. Create project management plans
2. Create lessons learned
3. Create network diagrams
4. Create status reports 2

Q3. A project manager analyzed a US $200,000 project that involves 30 team members and has three customers. Why is there a need for an analysis of secondary risks on this project?

1. It provides a vehicle for efficient stakeholder involvement.
2. It provides a way to effectively decrease the amount of contracting on the project.
3. It helps create a prioritized list of risks.
4. It helps determine which new risks have been created as a result of the risk response strategies chosen.

Q4. You have a project with four activities as follows. Activity 1 can start immediately and has an estimated duration of 1. Activity 2 can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of four. Activity 3 can start after activity 2 is completed and has an estimated duration of five. Activity 4 has an estimated duration of 8. It can start after activity 1 is completed. Both activity 3 and 4 must be completed before the project is complete. What is the critical path of the project?

1. Start, 1, 2, 3, End
2. Start 1, 4, 3, End
3. Start 1, 4, End
4. Start 1, 2, 3, 4, End 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 76

Q5. A project manager is assigned to a new, high priority project. There are only five available resources because other resources are already committed to projects. The time available to complete the project is less than half the time needed, and the project manager cannot convince management to change the end date. The project manager should:

1. Coordinate with team members the overtime necessary to complete the work
2. Provide the team with opportunities to produce acceptable quality on the work that can be accomplished
3. Look for any scope that can be cut from the project.
4. Use more experienced resources to complete the work faster.

Q6. You are in the define scope process and defining the detailed scope of the product and the project. This process helps you define the description of product, service or result and define boundaries and tells you about requirement inclusion and exclusion. Which of the following is not an outcome once the process ends?

1. Acceptance criteria
2. Project exclusions
3. Risk register update
4. Stakeholder register update

Q7. Which of the following allows a project management team to communicate all approved and rejected changes to the stakeholders consistently?

1. Configuration management system
2. Verification management system
3. Configuration status accounting
4. Change management board

Q8. A project manager knows that she can delay the start of certain activities within the project schedule to coincide with the mitigation of a known risk. She knows exactly the work and duration needed, should the risk event occur. She is confident that the finish date will not be impacted by the time delay. Which of the following aspects of schedule development has the project manager used in this situation?

1. She has relied on her certainty that, for risk planning purposes, assumptions are considered to be true, real or certain.
2. GERT probability factors provide her with certainty that there will be activities in the current schedule that will not be performed at all.
3. Her float calculations have revealed those activities that allow sufficient time for the inserted activities.
4. The project manager’s risk management plan was to build in buffer time to all the project activities during schedule development in order to cover any risk event occurrence

Q9. John, a project manager for Code Crashers, Inc., has a project with a group of inexperienced programmers that will develop a software package that creates Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for a chemical company. This situation strongly resembles a project his colleague, Peter, worked on in 2006. If John needs to come up with a rough order of magnitude estimate, what tool or technique should he use?

1. Parametric Estimating
2. Bottom Up Estimating
3. Three-point estimate
4. Analogous Estimating

Q10. The code development phase of a software project is nearly complete when the first code review is conducted. During the review, it s discovered that the application is missing functionality required to complete a key business process. However, the product scope never specified this functionality. What should the project manager do?

1. Reject the functionality as out of the project’s scope.
2. Agree to include the functionality in the current release
3. Agree to include the functionality in the next release.
4. Assess the impact on the project of including the functionality, and inform the sponsor.