Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. What theory proposes that efforts will lead to effective performance and will be rewarded for accomplishments?

1. Conditional reinforcement
2. Maslow’s hierarchy
3. McGregor’s
4. Expectancy.

Q3. If you finish your project early, there is a chance that you may get another project, so you are trying very hard to get your project finished. You use fast tracking, crashing, overtime, etc. Which strategy is this?

1. Exploit
2. Enhance
3. Accept
4. Mitigate

Q4. A manager has responsibility for a project that has the support of a senior manager. From the beginning, you have disagreed with the manager as to how the project should proceed and what the deliverables should be. You and she have disagreed over many issues in the past. Your department has been tasked with providing some key work packages for the project. What should you do?

1. Provide the manager with what she needs
2. Inform your manager of your concerns to get her support
3. Sit down with the manager at the beginning of the project, attempt to describe why you object to the project, and discover a way to solve the problem
4. Ask to be removed from the project.

Q5. If you are managing changes to the project's cost baseline, which process are you using?

1. Negotiate Costs
2. Estimate Costs
3. Control Costs
4. Determine Budget

Q6. Sandra is managing a complex ERP design and implementation project. The project team has recently been hired. It is an enterprise-wide project affecting many stakeholders. It is very important for each team member to properly understand and follow the project communication requirements in order to keep the stakeholders engaged and informed. Which of the following tools and techniques can Sandra use to ensure that team members properly understand the project’s communications requirements?

1. Ground rules
2. Training
3. Co-location
4. Recognition and rewards

Q7. A large, one-year telecommunication project is about halfway done when you take the place of the previous project manager. The project involves three different sellers and a project team of 30 people. You would like to see the project’s communications requirements and what technology is being used to aid in project communications. Where will you find this information?

1. The project management plan
2. The information distribution plan
3. The bar chart
4. The communications management plan

Q8. Which of the following is needed to develop a project schedule?

1. Lessons learned
2. Network diagram
3. Completion of the Verify Scope process
4. Completion of the Control Schedule process

Q9. You are the project manager for Wicked Fast Cars Corp. You are working on a project for the Human Resources department that is scheduled to take one year. After three months into the project, you calculate the EV at $35,000 and the PV at $45,000. Which option below represents the value for the SV?

1. ($10,000)
2. 1.29
3. 0.78
4. $10,000

Q10. While the project is being completed, management requests a change. What is the FIRST thing the project manager should do?

1. Comply with the request if possible
2. Obtain an understanding of the scope of the change
3. Tell the customer that a change will be coming
4. Ask the team to accept the change