Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The customer on a project tells the project manager he has run out of money to pay for the project. What should the project manager do FIRST?

1. Shift more of the work to later in the schedule to allow time for the customer to get the funds
2. Enter project closure
3. Stop work
4. Release part of the project team

Q3. Which of the following BEST describes formal acceptance of a project?

1. Substantial completion is reached
2. Customer sign-off of the product is documented
3. Final payment is made
4. Final deliverables are sent to the customer

Q4. Checklists, fishbone diagrams, and Pareto charts are ALL examples of:

1. Tools used to define scope
2. Tools used in quality management
3. Tools used in team performance assessments
4. Parts of a project management plan.

Q5. You are in the process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable parts so the project management team can get a structured vision of what has to be delivered. Which of the following is an output of this process?

1. Scope baseline
2. RBS
3. Network diagram
4. OBS

Q6. A project manager has completed risk response planning. She as planning to go on to risk monitoring and control when she found out from another project manager that she forgot to do something important in this step. Which of the following did she forget?

1. She has not created an overall risk ranking for the project
2. She has not analyzed secondary risks
3. She has not created workarounds
4. She has not created a prioritized list of quantified risks.

Q7. The main focus of life cycle costing is to:

1. Estimate installation costs.
2. Estimate the cost of operations and maintenance.
3. Consider installation costs when planning the project costs.
4. Consider operations and maintenance in the making project decisions.

Q8. Jim is managing a road network design project for a government agency. He is currently performing the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process for the project. Which of the following documents will provide the list of project stakeholders to Jim for this process?

1. Organizational process assets
2. Enterprise environmental factors
3. Stakeholder register
4. Project management plan

Q9. Which of the following is not a PMBOK Knowledge Area?

1. Procurement management
2. Integration management
3. Execution management
4. Communications management

Q10. You have been assigned to manage the development of an organization’s new website. The site will be highly complex and interactive, and neither your project team nor the client has much experience with this type of website development. The timeline is extremely aggressive. Any delay will be costly for both your firm and the client. You have a project sponsor and have achieved agreement and sign-off on both the project charter and the project management plan. Client personnel have been kept fully informed of the project's progress through status reports and regular meetings. The project is on schedule and within budget, and a final perfunctory review has been scheduled. Suddenly you hear that the entire effort may be cancelled because the product being developed is totally unacceptable. What is the MOST likely cause of this situation?

1. A key stakeholder was not adequately involved in the project.
2. The project charter and project management plan were not thoroughly explained to or adequately reviewed by the client.
3. Communications arrangements were inadequate and did not provide the required information to interested parties.
4. The project sponsor failed to provide adequate support for the project.