Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A seller submits an invoice that is outside the funding limit reconciliation completed during project planning. What is the LEAST likely cause?

1. An activity has taken longer to complete than planned.
2. The critical path was fast tracked during project planning
3. Equipment was received earlier than planned
4. There was a cost increase to the successor activity of a critical path activity.

Q3. Two months into a design project, the customer requested a modification to the product. The change was made without notifying the project manager. During the final testing phase, results were different then what was planned for. This scenario is BEST thought of as an example of which of the following?

1. Poor scope control
2. Poor adherence to the communications management plan
3. Poor development of the quality management plan
4. Poor definition of the test plan

Q4. 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

Q5. A manufacturing project has a schedule performance index (SPI) of 0.89 and a cost performance index (CPI) of 0.91. Generally, what is the BEST explanation for why this occurred?

1. The scope was changed
2. A supplier went out of business, and a new one needed to be found
3. Additional equipment needed to be purchased
4. A critical path activity took longer and needed more labor hours to complete.

Q6. Effective project integration usually requires emphasis on:

1. The personal careers o the team members
2. Timely updates to the project management plan
3. Effective communications at key interface points
4. Product control

Q7. A new project manager asks you what the 50/50 rule is used for. You would reply?

1. Crashing
2. Quality
3. Performance reporting
4. Cost estimating

Q8. Variance Analysis is an important tool used in the Control Costs process. Which of the following statements regarding variances is correct?

1. The percentage range of acceptable variances will tend to increase as more work is accomplished.
2. The percentage range of acceptable variances will tend to decrease as more work is accomplished.
3. The percentage range of acceptable variances is high at the start of a project, tends to decrease in the middle of a project, and then tends to increase as the project nears completion.
4. The percentage range of acceptable variances is a constant all through the project.

Q9. Rick has just been assigned as the project manager of a project to develop a complex product. The project is in the Define Scope phase. Which of these tools and techniques will Rick not use in this phase?

1. Systems analysis
2. Process analysis
3. Product breakdown
4. Value engineering

Q10. The client has given you a project to build a research center for him. You have met with all stakeholders, noted down their requirements, and you are now deciding which requirements should be included in the project and which should not. What process is this?

1. Identify stakeholders
2. Collect requirements
3. Define scope
4. Define requirements