Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. In complex and high value projects, which of the following activities will typically be performed by a business analyst prior to the project initiation?

1. Define project scope and develop WBS
2. Finalize the project scope statement and the WBS dictionary
3. Establish the project’s scope baseline
4. Determine problems, identify business needs and viable solutions

Q3. If you had an experience with a particularly well or poorly performing vendor, what is the correct way to document this experience for future projects?

1. Call the vendor and talk to them about the experience
2. Tell all your friends about it
3. Create a seller performance evaluation
4. Vow to only work with that vendor from now on

Q4. You are reviewing an old project file where you find a document which contains the project description, important requirements, milestones, and project budget. What document is it?

1. Scope statement
2. Project charter
3. Scope baseline
4. Procurement document

Q5. You are in the process of planning human resources and developing the roles and responsibilities for your team members. Which of the following will you not address during this process?

1. Role
2. Authority
3. Training
4. Competency

Q6. A team member notifies you that she has added extra functionality to the project. She tells you there was no impact on the cost or schedule. What should be done as a result of this change?

1. Implement change control processes to track the change
2. Understand what functionality was added
3. Instruct the team member to remove the extra functionality
4. Issue an approved change request

Q7. The current update to the schedule performance report shows no schedule variance. Based upon this report, you tell the client that the project is on time. However, your team members know that you just missed a major milestone and the project will not meet its startup date. This is an indication of poor:

1. Communications planning.
2. Scope planning.
3. Team trust.
4. Schedule planning.

Q8. The Project Charter defines the high level scope and objectives of a project. Which of the following is not a correct statement about inputs to the Project Charter?

1. Government or industry standards cannot be used as an input to develop a project charter.
2. The project's business case is an input to the Develop Project Charter process.
3. Organizational process assets are input to the Develop Project Charter process.
4. When projects are executed for external customers, a contract or an agreement is used as an input to the charter.

Q9. A project manager has completed identification of stakeholders and has started planning for a flow instruments installation project in a hospital. While developing the project management plan, a team member states that a stakeholder in the X-ray department is missing from the stakeholder list. Which of the following would be the best response from the project manager?

1. Authenticate the information from the team member
2. Include and involve the stakeholder immediately
3. It is too late to involve a stakeholder in the planning, so ignore the stakeholder
4. Wait until the execution phase to involve the new stakeholder

Q10. A trend report was given to the project manager, who reacted to the report by investigating what activity or activities had not been done, but should have been done, to date. What did the report show?

1. Actual cost was below planned and schedule progress was less than planned
2. The cost performance index (CPI) was 0.8 and the schedule performance index (SPI) was 1.2.
3. The budget at completion (BAC) was higher than planned
4. The schedule performance index (SPI) was 1.3 and the estimate at completion (EAC) was greater than planned.