Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The project manager controls the interfacing and overlapping areas of the organization’s procurement processes, along with the project schedule, with processes from this area:

1. Project Resource Management
2. Project Scope Management
3. Project Risk Management
4. Project Integration Management

Q3. A work breakdown structure is an input to all of the following processes EXCEPT:

1. Define Activities
2. Estimate Costs
3. Perform Quality Assurance
4. Plan Procurements

Q4. You have a team of engineers working on your project. Two of the engineers have frequent disagreements. You ask them to resolve their differences through a discussion. However, that does not yield any results. Subsequently, you intervene, and based on your analysis of the situation, you suggest some changes in the way they work with each other. This still does not yield results, and you find that the project schedule is beginning to suffer. What is your next course of action?

1. Take disciplinary action, if required, since the needs of the project are not being met.
2. Don't do anything. Differences of opinion among the team members are a healthy situation.
3. Speak to the two team members and ask them to resolve their conflict amicably.
4. Ensure that they work in different shifts so that they don't clash with each other.

Q5. The project is just starting out and consists of people from 14 different departments. The project charter was signed by one person and contains over 30 major requirements that must be met on the project. The sponsor has informed the project manager that the SPI must be kept between 0.95 and 1.1. A few minutes of investigation resulted in the identification of 34 stakeholders, and schedule objectives on the project are constrained. A project manager has just been hired. Which of the following types of project management power will BEST help the project manager gain the cooperation of others?

1. Formal
2. Referent
3. Penalty
4. Expert.

Q6. Which of the following methods of forecasting EAC and ETC is the most accurate?

1. ETC based on CPI
2. ETC based on BAC
3. ETC based on CPI and SPI
4. ETC based on new estimate

Q7. Which of the following is not a tool or technique of the Acquire Resources process?

1. Negotiation
2. Multi-criteria decision analysis
3. Pre-assignment
4. Conflict management

Q8. As the project manager of a project, you had estimated certain activity durations before acquiring all project team members. On acquisition, you find that their actual competency levels are much lower than what you anticipated. In such a case, you will:

1. Make no changes to the schedule
2. Ask the project team members to meet the original schedule by putting in overtime, if required
3. Make changes to activity duration and schedule incorporating the changed competency levels
4. Inform the customer that the project is behind schedule

Q9. The sponsor has informed you that the resources for your project will be cut. The sponsor wants to know how long the project will take if only nine resources each month are committed to your project. What is this activity called?

1. Crashing
2. Floating
3. Leveling
4. Fast tracking

Q10. As per the chart, the resource completing activity E is not performing very well. After much argument, the functional manager agrees to assign a different resource to activity E, but this will increase activity E’s duration to seven months. What is the effect of this change?

1. None, because activity E was not on the critical path
2. The project will be delayed because activity E is on the critical path
3. The project will be delayed because activity E has float of five
4. None, because activity E has float of four.