Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You just found out that a major subcontractor for our project consistently provides deliverables late. The subcontractor approaches you and asks you to continue accepting late deliverables in exchange for a decrease in project costs. This offer is an example of.

1. Confronting.
2. Compromise.
3. Smoothing.
4. Forcing.

Q3. Which of the following is not an enterprise environmental factor influencing the Develop Project Management Plan process?

1. Project management body of knowledge
2. Governmental or industry standards
3. Project Management Plan template
4. Legal and regulatory requirements

Q4. A project manager is trying to budget time for the various processes in the Project Schedule Management Knowledge Area. As project activities are performed, in which of these processes will the majority of effort occur?

1. Control Schedule
2. Estimate Activity Durations
3. Define Activities
4. Develop Schedule

Q5. Projects with adaptive life cycles use product backlogs to define a project’s scope. The product backlog is a set of:

1. Voice of the customer
2. User stories
3. Client lullabies
4. Non-functional requirements

Q6. A project manager is working with management to create the project estimate. During the initiating process group, what level of accuracy should the estimate have?

1. +/- 50 percent
2. -10 percent to +25 percent
3. -35 percent to +75 percent
4. -10 percent to +10 percent

Q7. You are assigned to a project that senior management has already decided to outsource. As a project manager, you need to work with the contracts department to select the vendor and then oversee the vendor through the project completion. Company policy requires that a project of this size go through a formal bid process. A vice president in your company tells you that his friend owns one of the companies that might bid on the project and that the company would be an excellent choice as a vendor. This vice president has a reputation for making or breaking careers. What is generally the BEST course of action?

1. Follow the bid process, and show the vice president why the favored vendor is or is not the best choice
2. Obtain written permission to bypass the formal bid process
3. Let the evaluation team know that management has a favorite vendor
4. Let the contracts department handle the situation

Q8. Based on the chart, while completing the project, a team member tells you that the team forgot something during planning. Activity F needs the results of activity E before it can begin. Taking this new dependency into account, what would be the effect on the project?

1. It would increase the critical path
2. Communication would be more complex
3. There would be no effect
4. It would delay activity F

Q9. What is a common result of poor project planning?

1. Wasted effort
2. Lost time
3. Increased cost
4. All of the above

Q10. Most project management software packages use a method of constructing a project schedule network diagram known as:

1. Waterfall Method
2. Precedence Diagramming Method
3. Agile Method
4. Just-in-time Method