Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. During the executing process group, a functional manager asks you to use a model C generator instead of model B on your project. The functional manager says that model C will solve the needs of the project and provide some benefits to the manufacturing department. You look at the cost associated with model C and discover that it is substantially higher than model B. If you are not sure you can justify the more expensive model, what is the BEST thing to do?

1. Review the specifications of each to validate the manager’s claim
2. Analyze the differences in using each model and present them to the sponsor.
3. Use model C and cut other activities to make up for the added cost.
4. Do a life cycle analysis and present the results to your boss.

Q3. Which of the following BEST describes comparing actual dates with planned dates?

1. Develop Schedule
2. Resource leveling
3. Variance analysis
4. Three-point estimating

Q4. Your project sponsor has asked you to present your project’s high-level risk register to him in the next project update meeting. To create your high-level risk register, which of the following processes must be performed?

1. Plan Risk Management
2. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
3. Identify Risks
4. Monitor Risks

Q5. A team member tells the project manager that her activity will be delayed four weeks. The project manager investigates and determines that the delay will affect the project’s completion date. Who should approve the change?

1. Change control board
2. Project manager
3. Team member
4. Sponsor

Q6. You are sitting in a group discussion with 13 stakeholders and collecting ideas. Now you are in the final stage and are selecting the final idea. As there are many ideas, you decide to vote. After voting you see that a particular idea receives 7 votes, so you go with that option. What kind of decision making is this?

1. Unanimity
2. Majority
3. Plurality
4. Dictatorship

Q7. Christine is managing a healthcare software development project. At a PMI conference, she met George, who is the project manager at a competing organization. George, a PMP, has managed many successful healthcare-related software development projects. If George shares his stakeholder management experience with Christine, will that be considered expert judgment?

1. No! George is a project manager at a competitor organization.
2. Yes! All participants at a PMI conference are experts.
3. Yes! George is an expert in managing such projects.
4. No! This would be an example of expert opinion and not expert judgment.

Q8. What is the MOST correct statement about conflict?

1. The primary source of conflict is personality
2. Conflict can be beneficial.
3. Conflict is best resolved by smoothing
4. The best way to prevent conflict in the procurement process is to make sure the project manager is not involved with negotiations.

Q9. Which of the following processes will determine the correctness of deliverables?

1. Plan Deliverables
2. Plan Quality Management
3. Control Quality
4. Manage Quality

Q10. You are finding it difficult to evaluate the exact cost impact of risks. You should evaluate on a (n):

1. Quantitative basis.
2. Numerical basis.
3. Qualitative basis.
4. Econometric basis.