Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The project charter for a project was approved for planning, and you have just been assigned as project manager. Realizing that project planning is an ongoing effort throughout the project, which processes are you MOST likely to combine?

1. Create WBS and Define Activities
2. Estimate Activity Durations and Develop Schedule
3. Plan Resource Management and Estimate Costs
4. Estimate Costs and Determine Budget

Q3. In an activity-on-node diagram, the nodes represent:

1. Work packages
2. Activities
3. Dependencies
4. Discretionaries 40

Q4. You have a contract to build a manufacturing plant in Kuala Lumpur. However, you are not familiar with the building codes in Kuala Lumpur or Malaysia, so you are reviewing all their building codes prior to “turning a shovelful of earth.” This is an example of:

1. Project initiation
2. Quality assurance
3. Quality planning
4. Quality control

Q5. Determining the physical resources, quantities of each, and when they would be used is the process of:

1. Resource selection
2. Estimate Activity Resources
3. Resource leveling
4. Define Activities

Q6. There are a number of risks that have been identified in your project. The team has decided not to change the project plan to deal with the risks, but they have established a contingency reserve of money in the event something triggers these risks. This is an example of what type of risk mitigation technique?

1. Contingent Response Strategy
2. Active acceptance
3. Passive acceptance
4. Avoidance

Q7. When planning risk responses, the strategy of changing the project management plan to eliminate the risk is known as:

1. Avoidance
2. Transference
3. Mitigation
4. Acceptance

Q8. During the conceptual phase of a pipeline project, the project engineer estimates the following. The cost of the materials is most likely US $100,000, optimistically US $90,000, and pessimistically US $120,000. The cost for labor is most likely US $ 80,000, optimistically US $70,000, and pessimistically US $100,000. The cost for equipment is most likely US $60,000, optimistically US $50,000, and pessimistically US $70,000. The cost for construction management fees is most likely US $30,000, optimistically US $20,000, and pessimistically US $40,000. What is the probability of the project coming in under US $270,000?

1. Zero
2. Less than 50 percent
3. Exactly 50 percent
4. Over 50 percent

Q9. Miranda is an experienced project manager. As part of the Collect Requirements phase, she decides to use a group creativity technique. This technique is intended to enhance brainstorming with a voting process and can be used to rank the most useful ideas for further brainstorming or prioritization. Which of the following will she likely use?

1. Normal group technique
2. Minimal group technique
3. Unanimous group technique
4. Nominal group technique

Q10. You are just starting on a project as project manager. The project sponsor asks you for weekly status updates by email and monthly project status meetings to review the project’s progress. These requirements are documented in the:

1. Scope statement
2. Communications management plan
3. Project charter
4. Organizational plan