Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have a project in which you are responsible for building a condo complex in a resort town. The project is expected to take two years to complete. During your work breakdown structure meeting, you have decomposed many deliverables into work packages and schedule activities. However, there are some work packages that will occur a year from now, so you have elected not to decompose those deliverables and work packages at this time. This is an example of what tool or technique?

1. Scope Creep
2. Poor Planning
3. Rolling Wave Planning
4. Time-delayed Decomposition

Q3. A team member in your project is constantly providing incomplete deliverables and not performing well. What should you do first?

1. Discuss the issue with the team member in private
2. Discuss the issue with the team member in the presence of the project sponsor
3. Discuss the issue with the team member in the presence of other team members
4. Discuss the issue with the team member in the presence of the company's HR manager

Q4. You are sitting in a group discussion with 13 stakeholders and collecting ideas. Now you are in the final stage and are selecting the final idea. As there are many ideas, you decide to vote. After voting you see that a particular idea receives 7 votes, so you go with that option. What kind of decision making is this?

1. Unanimity
2. Majority
3. Plurality
4. Dictatorship

Q5. Information in the stakeholder register should be:

1. Accessible only to the project manager.
2. Available to the project manager and PMO staff.
3. Available to all stakeholders and team members.
4. Shared with others at the discretion of the project manager.

Q6. You have been appointed a project manager for a project which involves more than 3,000 stakeholders. After identifying your project stakeholders, you are in the process of determining the method to use for transferring information to your stakeholders. Which of the following factors will not affect your choice of technology?

1. Sensitivity of the information
2. Project environment
3. Ease of use
4. Number of stakeholders

Q7. According to your project network diagram, the critical path for the project is six weeks. One week into the project, the manager of the project management office informs you that the executive steering committee has moved the project’s finish date to two weeks sooner than your published finish date. Assuming you are on schedule, what is the project float?

1. Two weeks
2. Four weeks
3. Minus four weeks
4. Minus two weeks 50

Q8. A project manager has managed four projects for the company and is being considered to join the project management office team. The following is discovered during the evaluation of his performance. The project manager’s first project had an ending cost variance of -500, used two critical resources, needed to rework the project charter during project executing and was ranked 14th in priority within the company. The second project finished with a schedule variance of +100, was completed with a vastly compressed schedule and received a letter of recommendation from the sponsor, but the product of the project was not used. The third project had 23 percent more changes than expected, had an SPI of 0.90, and 25 open items in the issue log when the project was completed. Each of these projects had a cost budget of US $1,000 and 20 to 28 percent more changes than others of its size. The project management office decided not to add this project manager to the team. Which of the following BEST describes why this might have happened?

1. The project manager has only managed low-priority projects and he had to compress the schedule, showing that he does not have the skill to work in the project management office.
2. Issue logs should not be used on projects of this size, showing that the project manager does not have the knowledge to work in a project management office
3. The project manager did not effectively involve the stakeholders, showing that he does not have the knowledge to work in the project management office
4. The project manager had two critical resources on their team and still needed to rework the project charter, showing that he does not have the discipline to work in the project management office.

Q9. A particular stakeholder has a reputation for requesting many changes on projects. What is the BEST approach a project manager can take at the beginning of the project to manage this situation?

1. Say "No" to the stakeholder a few times to dissuade him from submitting more changes.
2. Get the stakeholder involved in the project as early as possible.
3. Talk to the stakeholder's boss to find ways of directing the stakeholder's activities to another project.
4. Ask that the stakeholder not be included in the stakeholder listing.

Q10. John has been assigned a task to build a facility where different types of bicycles can be produced. John builds this facility and hands it over to Andrew to run it. What is Andrew’s role?

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