Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are managing a project with a large multinational staff. Susan, one of the engineers, was originally asked to deliver her part of the work on October 19. Due to a change in the critical path, her deliverable will be needed two days sooner. However, as the new deadline is still two weeks away and she is ahead of schedule, you are confident her delivery will be on time. During a staff meeting, you learn from John, her functional manager, that Susan celebrates a religious holiday on October 17. However, he also tells you that Susan is not particularly religious; if pushed a bit and offered some incentive, she may forego celebrating this holiday and come to work. What should you do?

1. Check whether one of her colleagues can share some of her workload this week
2. Increase her project incentive if she agrees to deliver her presentation on the 17th
3. Let the critical path remain the same
4. Ask her boss to ask her to skip the holiday

Q3. You have estimated the cost of your project by calculating the cost of each activity, adding them together to get the cost of a work package, and then you adding together the cost of all work packages. What kind of estimate are you using here?

1. Top down
2. Bottom up
3. Parametric
4. Ball park estimate

Q4. You need to shorten the duration of this project by five months. Included in your solution, based on the chart, would be to crash activity C. However, further analysis reveals that this activity has two days of float. What should you do?

1. Crash activities F and H
2. Crash activity D
3. Crash activities D and H
4. Crash activity
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Q5. The approximate resource costs necessary for completing project activities are compiled during which project management process?

1. Cost Reserve Analysis
2. Estimate Costs
3. Cost aggregation
4. Forecasting.

Q6. A scope change has been approved by the change control board. Which of the following MUST be impacted?

1. The early start date of the activities later in the network diagram
2. The cost of the project
3. The expected monetary value of project risks
4. The number of resources used on the project

Q7. You are busy with an important milestone, and after that, you have to deliver a deliverable to the client. Since the client is known for his difficult behavior, management is worried whether the client will accept the deliverable. Therefore, they tell you to check the product acceptance criteria again before calling the client. What document will you look at to get this information?

1. WBS
2. WBS dictionary
3. Project scope statement
4. RACI matrix

Q8. The project management processes communicate with each other through their inputs and outputs. Which of the following outputs of the Direct and Manage Project Work process is a prime input of the Monitor Stakeholder Engagement process?

1. Change requests
2. Work performance information
3. Work performance data
4. Expert judgment

Q9. You are reviewing a chart which looks like an S-Curve during the execution phase of your project. What kind of chart is this?

1. Cause and effect diagram
2. Pareto diagram
3. Cost baseline
4. Sensitivity diagram

Q10. Which of the following is NOT a valid project schedule presentation format:

1. Activity list
2. Activity attributes
3. Bar chart
4. Network diagram