Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project is in progress, and the project manager is working with the quality assurance department to improve stakeholders’ confidence that the project will satisfy the quality standards. Which of the following is an output of this process?

1. Quality problems
2. Quality metrics
3. Recommend corrective action
4. Quality audits.

Q3. Based on the chart, if the duration of activity F changes to 8, what is the effect on the project?

1. There is no effect on the critical path
2. The duration of the critical path becomes 16
3. The critical path changes
4. Activity A is now on the critical path

Q4. The Verify Scope process is different than the Perform Quality Control process in that:

1. Perform Quality Control focuses on the quality of the project, while Verify Scope focuses on customer acceptance
2. Verify Scope is performed throughout the project and Perform Quality Control is done throughout the project.
3. Perform Quality Control is considered part of Plan Quality while Verify Scope is not.
4. Scope verification is provided to the project management team while quality control is provided to the project.

Q5. You are working as a project manager for a wind-powered vehicle manufacturing project which is in its planning phase. You carefully gathered all your requirements from your key stakeholders and prepared a system requirements specification and project requirements specification. While presenting your specifications to the project team, an enthusiastic project team member started talking about the duration estimates for each activity. Which of the following statements indicates your response to your team member?

1. WBS creation and Schedule development must be done after estimating durations.
2. Schedule development and Costs estimation must be done before estimating durations.
3. Scope definition, WBS creation, Quality planning, and Communication planning must be done before estimating durations.
4. Scope definition, WBS creation, Activity definition, and Activity sequencing must be done before estimating durations.

Q6. Jijo and Stefan are two employees of your organization. Jijo is working in an office and Stefan is on a site so their working conditions are different. During the project execution, both of them have some kind of conflict and come to you. You listen to them and solve the conflict. Which of the following is most likely to be a reason for a conflict in the working environment?

1. Ground rules
2. Personal work style
3. Salary
4. Working conditions

Q7. A new project manager has just been assigned a project that is in progress. The project is two weeks behind schedule. The team members are about to be distributed to another project based on original time estimates provided by the functional manager. What is the FIRST step the project manager should take?

1. She should first revise the bar chart with new timelines
2. She should initially contact the sponsor and begin with a new team
3. She should first show sympathy with the current team and delay decision making for another week.
4. She should check the project management plan for contingencies concerning resources and talk to the functional manager.

Q8. You have just returned from the weekly change control board meeting at which you presented the requested changes to the employee move project. You had five change requests approved and one request rejected. These are outputs of what process?

1. Control Quality
2. Control Scope
3. Monitor Risks
4. Perform Integrated Change Control

Q9. You are a project manager for your company. Part of the project requires producing 10,000 widgets, which your company will outsource. The company has agreed to pay all related costs and 5 percent of the estimated project costs. What type of contract has been negotiated?

1. Cost-Plus-Incentive-Fee contract
2. Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee contract
3. Time and Material contract
4. Fixed-price contract

Q10. Which of the following is Deming's method for continuous improvement?

1. Plan-Act-Check-Do
2. Plan-Do-Check-Act
3. Check-Plan-Do-Act
4. Plan-Check-Do-Act