Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have just been assigned as the project manager for a project that is in the middle of the executing process group, and you are determining how you will control the project. The BEST way to control the project is to:

1. Use a combination of communication methods.
2. Hold status meetings because they have worked best for you in the past.
3. Refer to the bar chart weekly.
4. Meet with management regularly.

Q3. The project management team performed activities such as measuring, examining, and verifying to determine whether work and deliverables met requirements and product acceptance criteria. Which of the following choices refers to a different set of activities than the ones just mentioned?

1. Walkthroughs
2. Prevention
3. Inspection
4. Reviews

Q4. The primary customer of a project has requested an application change during user testing. As project manager, how should you BEST address this issue?

1. Develop a risk mitigation plan.
2. Create a formal change request.
3. Inform the project sponsor of changes to scope, cost and schedule.
4. Ensure the scope change compies with all relevant contractual provisions.

Q5. A company is making an effort to improve its project performance and create historical records of past projects. What is the BEST way to accomplish this?

1. Create project management plans
2. Create lessons learned
3. Create network diagrams
4. Create status reports 2

Q6. As the project manager, you are considering tools and techniques to help control changes to the project schedule. Which of the following would be acceptable options?

1. An online system that routes change requests to the appropriate levels for authorization
2. A paper form that requires a project stakeholder to submit the request in duplicate to the project manager for approval
3. A system that allows rapid approval of all submitted changes
4. An online system that routes changes manually to each required approver followed by impact analysis

Q7. A responsibility assignment matrix shows all of the following EXCEPT:

1. Time.
2. Resources
3. Names.
4. Work packages

Q8. Julia is managing a software development project. Recently, an unexpected event delayed the project by 15 days. Julia has called a team meeting to identify measures to take to bring the project back on schedule. A measure that is taken to bring future results back in line with the project plan is best described as?

1. Change request
2. Preventive action
3. Corrective action
4. Defect repair

Q9. You are managing an oil-drilling project. With oil at $143 per barrel, this could be a highly lucrative project. However, there is a chance that the price of oil will drop below $105 per barrel, which would eliminate the profit in the project. This is an example of:

1. Requirement
2. Assumption
3. Risk
4. Constraint

Q10. Which of the following tools and techniques is useful to process work performance data to identify sources of project defects during the Control Quality process?

1. Data analysis
2. Salience model
3. Schedule model
4. Communication model