Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Another project has had a major defect, and the project manager has gotten the project team and the process engineers involved in analyzing how this might affect their project. Which of the following would BEST describe what the group is involved in?

1. Quality Analysis
2. Plan Quality
3. Manage Quality
4. Perform Quality Control.

Q3. At the beginning of the project, a project manager realized that the technical expertise of the team was limited, a risk to the project. Midway through the project, the project manager decided this was no longer a risk and considered it outdated. As part of which process would he do the risk reassessment?

1. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
2. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
3. Identify Risks
4. Monitor Risks

Q4. You are the project manager of a project. As part of the planning process, you use a planning technique to subdivide the project scope and deliverables into smaller, more manageable components. What is this technique called?

1. Unit task analysis
2. Decomposition
3. Rolling wave planning
4. Arrow Diagramming Method

Q5. You are managing four projects in your organization. Two projects are of a similar type, but the other two are entirely different. What is your role in the organization?

1. Portfolio manager
2. Program manager
3. Project manager
4. Program coordinator

Q6. Your department is currently working on four urgent projects when it is assigned a major new project. To staff the new project, one of the four urgent projects needs to be terminated. The benefit cost ratios (BCR) for the four projects are listed. Which would you select for termination?

1. 0.8
2. 1.1
3. 0.9
4. 1.9

Q7. Which of the following estimating techniques will cost less but is also typically less accurate?

1. Parametric Estimating
2. Analogous Estimating
3. Resource Cost-based Estimating
4. Bottom-up Estimating

Q8. The project manager notices that project activities being completed by one department are all taking slightly longer than planned. To date, none of the activities/work packages have been on the critical path, nor have they affected the critical chain planning that has occurred. The project manager is bothered by the problem, since four of the next five critical path activities are being completed by this department. After making three calls, the project manager is finally able to converse with the department manager to determine what is going on. The conversation is slow because both speak different native languages and they are trying to converse in French, a shared language. To make communication easier, the project manager frequently asks the department manager to repeat back what has been said. The department manager communicates that his staff is following a company policy that requires two of the project manager to believe that the policy may include excessive work. This is the fourth time the project manager has heard such a comment. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Create a better communications management plan that requires only one language to be the universal language on the project and have translators readily available on a moment’s notice
2. Contact someone else in the department who speaks the project manager’s native language better to confirm the department manager’s opinion
3. Find out if the upcoming activities should be re-estimated
4. Work on increasing the effectiveness of the performing organization by recommending continuous improvement of the policy in question.

Q9. Tracey is managing an ERP system implementation project. Which of the following tools can help her uncover a number of hidden process requirements during the Collect Requirements process?

1. Observation
2. Questionnaires
3. Surveys
4. Nominal group technique

Q10. During which stages of a project should the project manager be most active in managing project stakeholders’ needs and expectations?

1. Initiating and planning
2. Planning and executing
3. Executing and controlling
4. Controlling and closing