Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Most project management software packages use a method of constructing a project schedule network diagram known as:

1. Waterfall Method
2. Precedence Diagramming Method
3. Agile Method
4. Just-in-time Method

Q3. You have just completed a solid waste management project in an underdeveloped country. The contractor you are working for has a strict policy of abiding by local laws and rules although the local resources working on the project have a much more lax approach to following laws and policies. Now at the end of the project, you are handing over the operational equipment to the local operators and disposing of the leftover inventory and other materials that were used during the project. More than 50 percent of the toxic materials used during the project remains in your inventory. There is no law that would prohibit you from disposing of either the type or quantity of remaining materials in the local sewage system. What should you do?

1. Give the material to local resources to dispose of by selling it to a recycling facility
2. Do not dispose of the materials improperly
3. Dispose of the material in the local sewage system; there is no law applicable here
4. Abandon the materials in the project facility you are handing over to the local operators

Q4. 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

Q5. Quality metrics used during the Control Quality process are defined during which process?

1. Plan Quality Management
2. Define Scope
3. Collect Requirements
4. Manage Quality

Q6. Project reports are a method to:

1. Plan communications.
2. Distribute information.
3. Report performance.
4. Manage resources.

Q7. Many organizations consider contract administration to be an administrative function separate from the project organization. Who carries out the function of contract administration in such organizations?

1. The Project Manager
2. The Procurement Advisor
3. The Procurement Administrator
4. The Contract Advisor

Q8. Vendor selection, vendor management, and documentation of lessons learned are tasks that fall under this process:

1. Procurement management
2. Deliverable management
3. Conduct Procurements
4. Scope management

Q9. 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

Q10. Near the end of your last project, additional requirements were demanded by a group of stakeholders when they learned they would be affected by your project. This became a problem because you had not included the time or cost in the project management plan for these requirements. What is the BEST thing you can do to prevent such a problem on future projects?

1. Review the WBS dictionary more thoroughly, looking for incomplete descriptions.
2. Review the project charter more thoroughly, examining the business case for “holes.”
3. Do a more thorough job of procurement planning.
4. Pay more attention to stakeholder management.