Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The project manager is working to clearly describe the level of involvement expected from everyone involved in the project in order to prevent rework, conflict, and coordination problems. Which of the following BEST describes the project manager’s efforts?

1. Develop Project Management Plan and Plan Quality Management
2. Problem solving, control, and discovering gold plating
3. Validate Scope and Control Quality
4. Control Risks, Develop Project Team, and lessons learned

Q3. The main focus of life cycle costing is to:

1. Estimate installation costs.
2. Estimate the cost of operations and maintenance.
3. Consider installation costs when planning the project costs.
4. Consider operations and maintenance in the making project decisions.

Q4. What is a common result of poor project planning?

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

Q5. Which of these items are important to address when determining each person's role in the project team?

1. Role, authority, responsibility, and competency
2. Role, responsibility, and competency
3. Role and responsibility
4. Role, authority, and competency

Q6. While sequencing activities for a project, the project management team applied certain discretionary dependencies. This was based on their knowledge of best practices within the project application area. What is the potential risk involved in using such dependencies?

1. They can create fixed float values and create external dependencies.
2. They can create arbitrary float values and limit later scheduling options.
3. They can create arbitrary float values and create external dependencies.
4. They can create arbitrary float values and create mandatory dependencies.

Q7. The engineering resource group, a matrix organization of which a project manager’s project team is a part, has a policy of no salary bonuses for project work. The project manager’s current project has an aggressive timeline and a difficult technical obstacle to overcome. A new product offering is dependent on this project’s success in the current timeline. The project manager has heard grumbling from his team members about the fact that they cannot be rewarded for their effort. What is the FIRST thing the project manager should do?

1. The project manager should determine whether other team members from another department can help with the project.
2. The project manager should talk to management to determine other rewards that can be given.
3. The project manager should negotiate a less aggressive schedule from the client.
4. The project manager should talk with the team about the importance of getting this done on time and explain the company policy.

Q8. An increase in quality can result in increased productivity, increased cost effectiveness, and:

1. Decreased cost risk
2. Decreased morale
3. Lower customer satisfaction
4. Increased risk.

Q9. Clear criteria for rewards and a planned system for their use promotes and reinforces desired behaviors in the project. Creating a recognition plan with established times for rewards ensures that recognition takes place and is not forgotten. This is usually part of the:

1. Project Dashboard
2. Resource Management Plan
3. Company HR plan
4. Communications Management Plan

Q10. You are developing a quality management plan for your project. During the planning process, one of your team members tells you that, in the past, the organization has completed a similar project. You start to review the old project and find that some of its quality metrics can be used in your project as well. This technique is known as:

1. Reviewing organization process assets
2. Benchmarking
3. Process analysis
4. Prototyping