Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have been given a task to find cost estimates for several projects, and your organization will submit its bid based on these estimates. The financial position of the organization is not very good; therefore, they tell you that they cannot invest more than 500,000 USD. They also give you a leeway of 10% on either side of it. This leeway is a part of:

1. Organizational process assets
2. Enterprise environmental factors
3. Threats
4. Opportunities

Q3. Mary has just assigned Thomas as project manager of an upcoming railway construction project. She hands an approved project charter to Thomas. Once Thomas thoroughly reviews the project charter, what should he do next?

1. Review the charter once again since one thorough review is never enough
2. Kick-start the Develop Project Management Plan process
3. Add the project charter to the organizational lessons-learned archive
4. Distribute the charter to all key project stakeholders and ensure common understanding

Q4. A project manager is appointed to head highly technical project in an area with which this person has limited familiarity. The project manager delegates the processes of Develop Schedule, Estimate Costs, Define Activities, and Estimate Activity Resources to various project team members, and basically serves as an occasional referee and coordinator of activities. The results of this approach are likely to be:

1. A team that is not highly productive, but that stays together because of the work environment created by the project manager.
2. A team that is characterized by poor performance, low morale, high level of conflict and high turnover
3. A team functioning throughout the project at a very high level, demonstrating creativity and commitment.
4. A team that initially experiences some amounts of confusion but that after a period of time becomes a cohesive and effective unit

Q5. Identifying and documenting the specific activities that must be performed to produce work packages is called:

1. Define Scope
2. Decomposition
3. Define Activities
4. Sequence activities

Q6. Two team members come to you with a dispute regarding their roles and responsibilities. To resolve the dispute, which document will you refer to?

1. Resource histogram
2. RAM matrix
3. Scatter diagram
4. Stakeholder register

Q7. Which of the following statements about project teams is incorrect?

1. The project management team is usually a team external to the project team.
2. The project management team is a subset of the project team.
3. For smaller projects, the entire team can share the project management responsibilities.
4. For smaller projects, the project manager can solely administer project management responsibilities.

Q8. Work Performance Information is not an output of which of the following processes?

1. Validate Scope
2. Manage Communications
3. Monitor Risks
4. Control Scope

Q9. Validate scope is the process which helps increase the chances that the client will accept the deliverable. Here, the client reviews the verified deliverable from the control quality process. Which of the following statements is true about validate scope process?

1. You complete this process with the client
2. You and your team members complete the process
3. It is performed by QA / QC personal
4. None of the above

Q10. What does a staffing management plan describe?

1. When and how resources will be added and taken off the team
2. How resources will be leveled
3. What resources will be used on the project
4. The responsible organization for each work package