Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Rosanne is an experienced project manager working on a pharmaceutical project. This project involves two large vendors supplying chemical products with specific compositions for preparing drugs. While reviewing documents to see how a seller is performing, she notices the seller did not meet some of the contractual terms. Since it is a first-time violation, she would like to initiate a corrective action to bring the seller’s performance in line with the statement of work. Which of the following are not outputs of Rosanne’s effort?

1. Work performance data and approved change requests
2. Work performance information and change requests
3. Change requests and Organizational process assets update
4. Change requests and Project management plan updates

Q3. You are the project level manager with several project activities underway. In the executing process group, you begin to become concerned about the accuracy of progress reports from the projects. What would BEST support your opinion that there is a problem?

1. Quality audits
2. Risk quantification reports
3. Regression analysis
4. Monte Carlo analysis

Q4. The project manager of a large construction project is responsible for ensuring that all changes to the building plans are approved and tracked before they are implemented. These activities form part of which process?

1. Validate Scope
2. Perform Configuration Management
3. Perform Integrated change control
4. Control Quality

Q5. A project manager created a resource histogram. On the histogram, some bars extended beyond the maximum available hours. What does this usually signify?

1. This means that the resources on those bars are being underused.
2. This means that a resource optimization strategy needs to be applied.
3. This means the resources are producing outputs at a rate faster than the average rate.
4. This means that resources need to be reduced from the project.

Q6. In the course of completing work on the project, the project manager needs to complete an activity that she has never done before. During this time, the project manager attends a professional association discussion where the presenter discusses how he completed a difficulty activity on his project that is similar to the project manager’s activity. He provides a handout describing his process. The project manager should:

1. Use the process to complete the activity
2. Ask the speaker for permission to use the information
3. Ignore the information
4. Ask her manager for guidance.

Q7. A team member determines that the scope for her activity is no longer valid. She comes to you for advice on making the change. To which of the following documents should the project manager refer to make this change?

1. The project management information system
2. The scope management plan
3. The cost management plan
4. The work authorization system

Q8. A project is 50 percent complete when a schedule constraint is identified. Which of the following should be done FIRST?

1. Revisit all activities that have not yet started
2. Use a simulation technique such as Monte Carlo analysis, to calculate a distribution of probable results of the total project.
3. Rebaseline the project management plan to determine impacts on schedule, cost, and scope.
4. Level resources on the remaining activities to determine resource variances.

Q9. Which process group corresponds to the “do” part of the plan-do-check-act cycle?

1. Closing
2. Monitoring and Controlling
3. Planning
4. Executing

Q10. A project post-mortem is an activity, usually performed at the project’s conclusion, to determine and analyze a project’s outcome which also includes a lessons-learned gathering exercise. Project post-mortems help to mitigate future risks and are often a key component of, and ongoing precursor to, effective risk management. Which of the following is a terrible mistake when collecting lessons learned?

1. Documenting both the success stories and the failed attempts
2. Calculating project’s final statistics
3. Focusing purely on the negatives and analyzing failures
4. Conducting a comprehensive performance review