Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. While working on a project in another country, you are asked to make a “facilitating” payment so the country officials will issue a work order. What should you do?

1. Make the payment
2. Ask the person for proof the payment is required.
3. Seek legal advice on whether such a payment is a bribe
4. Do not pay and see what happens.

Q3. Analysis of project spending against project budget and calculation of the percentage complete of tasks currently underway are examples of:

1. Control Chart
2. PERT analysis
3. Performance reviews
4. Expert judgment

Q4. You have just been assigned as project manager for a large telecommunications project. This one-year project is about halfway done. The project team consists of five sellers and 20 of your company’s employees. You want to understand who is responsible for doing what on the project. Where would you find such information?

1. Responsibility assignment matrix
2. Resource histogram
3. Bar chart
4. Project organization chart.

Q5. A software system was accepted by the customer, but has found to give unexpected results. Which of the following BEST describes what the project manager should do FIRST?

1. Review the customer’s inspection process
2. Change the activity sequencing
3. Apologize to the customer
4. Review the Validate Scope process.

Q6. When checking the calendar of a team member to schedule a meeting, you see she has scheduled a meeting with a key stakeholder that you were not informed of. The BEST approach would be to:

1. Avoid mentioning it to the team member but continue to watch her activities.
2. Notify your boss about the problem
3. Address the concern with the team member’s boss
4. Address the concern with the team member

Q7. If the probability of one event occurring does not affect the probability of another event occurring, the events are:

1. False events
2. Mutually exclusive
3. Statistically independent
4. Just in-time.

Q8. A project team is having difficulty communication over long distances. There were 13 team members from two countries, and then 5 people from India were added. This is of concern to the project manager because:

1. Communications channels grow rapidly.
2. It will be harder to use reward power.
3. Communication blockers grow linearly.
4. Conflict can be increased with an increase in project priorities.

Q9. A person is writing a document identifying the business need for a project and is including a description of the product is created by the project. She includes a list of stakeholders and pre-assigned resources. What is the role of this person on the project?

1. The project manager for the project or a company functional manager
2. A member of the project management team working at the direction of the project manager
3. The sponsor or the project manager
4. A manager or executive in the organization who is higher in the corporate hierarchy than the project manager.

Q10. Project risks should be identified by:

1. Those invited to the risk identification process only
2. Key project stakeholders only
3. The project manager only
4. All project personnel