Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A software system was accepted by the customer, but has found to give unexpected results. Which of the following BEST describes what the project manager should do FIRST?

1. Review the customer’s inspection process
2. Change the activity sequencing
3. Apologize to the customer
4. Review the Validate Scope process.

Q3. A project has a payback period of nine months. What does this mean?

1. It will take the project nine months to start incurring costs
2. The project will be complete in nine months
3. The first nine months of the project will provide profit to the company
4. It will take the project nine months to cover the investment and start generating revenue

Q4. Work Performance Information is not an output of which of the following processes?

1. Validate Scope
2. Manage Communications
3. Monitor Risks
4. Control Scope

Q5. A project manager on a multinational Web site implementation project is at a part and talks to friends who will be heavy users of this new Web site when the project is complete and the site is rolled out. They describe some annoying aspects of the current Web site. The project manager takes this feedback back to the sponsor, and encourages design and scope changes. Which of the following BEST describes what the project manager has done?

1. Verify scope.
2. Integrated change control
3. Scope planning
4. Stakeholder analysis

Q6. If the team cannot identify a suitable response to identified risk, which risk response strategy, would they apply?

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

Q7. The engineering department has uncovered a problem with the cost accounting system and has asked the systems department to analyze what is wrong and fix the problem. You are a project manager working with the cost accounting programs on another project. Management has issued a change request to the change control board to add the new work to your project. Your existing project has a cost performance index (CPI) of 1.2 and a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.3 so you have some room to ad work without delaying your existing project. After some analysis, you determine that the new work and existing work do not overlap and can be done concurrently. They also require different skill sets. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do?

1. Develop Project Charter
2. Re-estimate the project schedule with input from the engineering department
3. Verify the scope of the new work with the help of the stakeholders
4. Identify specific changes to the existing work.

Q8. If a project manager is concerned with gathering, integrating, and disseminating the outputs of all project management processes, she should concentrate on creating a better:

1. WBS
2. Communications management plan
3. Project management information system
4. Project scope management plan.

Q9. Because of the huge size of your project, you have divided it into several phases. After completing each phase, you hand it over to the client and then move on to the next phase. Which process ensures that the previous phase has met all of its requirements so you can move on to the next phase?

1. Close procurement
2. Validate scope
3. Control scope
4. Control quality

Q10. A new software development project is in progress and the project manager is working with the quality assurance department. They want to improve everyone’s confidence that the project will satisfy the quality standards. Which of the following MUST they have before they start this process?

1. Completed checklists
2. A quality control plan
3. Results of quality control measurements
4. Rework.