Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. What is a control chart?

1. A type of RACI chart
2. A chart that shows the root cause of a problem
3. A type of fishbone diagram
4. A chart that shows the stability of a process

Q3. Which of the following can prove to be effective in addressing variability risks?

1. Monte Carlo analysis
2. Root cause analysis
3. Mitigating opportunities
4. Accepting the risk

Q4. About midway through the project, the project manager learns that most members of the project team are not reviewing the weekly project updates. What should the project manager do?

1. Create a signature log so team members can indicate when they have read the project updates.
2. Revise the communications management plan appropriately to meet the informational needs of the stakeholders.
3. Improve the layout of the weekly project updates to encourage reading by team members.
4. Require the reading of the project updates in order to receive any rewards on the project.

Q5. During risk planning, you encounter a risk that you find difficult to manage; therefore, you make small changes to your project management plan to eliminate the risk. Which risk response strategy are you using here?

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

Q6. Erica is managing a kitchen tools manufacturing project, which is intended to produce modern cooking ovens. This project is hugely important for the company as well as for Erica‘s career. Although the project scope statement was well-defined and requirements were gathered from stakeholders in the planning phase, many design change requests have come in from customers during project execution. Which of the following tasks must Erica perform to avoid scope creep caused by uncontrollable changes?

1. Perform validate scope process and process all changes through the plan risk responses process
2. Perform integrated change control process and process all changes through the control quality process
3. Perform scope control and process all changes through the integrated change control process
4. Perform scope control and process all changes through the validate scope process

Q7. You are the project manager for a new international project, and your project team includes people from four countries. Most of the team members have not worked on similar projects before, but the project has strong support from senior management. What is the BEST thing to do to ensure that cultural differences do not interfere with the project?

1. Spend a little more time creating the work breakdown structure and making sure it is complete
2. As the project manager, make sure you choose your words carefully whenever you communicate
3. Ask one person at each team meeting to describe something unique about their culture.
4. Carefully encode all the project manager’s communications.

Q8. Janice, a project manager, wanted to obtain early feedback on the project requirements. However, she was concerned that the abstract representations of the requirements might not elicit useful feedback. Which of the following tools and techniques might help her overcome this hurdle?

1. Histograms
2. Prototypes
3. Ishikawa diagram
4. Control charts

Q9. The key objective of stakeholder management is:

1. Communication.
2. Coordination.
3. Satisfaction.
4. Relationships.

Q10. If you are writing a proposal for additional funding, which communication style should you choose?

1. Formal and horizontal
2. Formal and upward
3. Informal and downward
4. Informal and horizontal