Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are given a new project to manage and a brief project scope statement. The project sponsor tells you that there is no required completion date for the project. The BEST thing to do is to:

1. Ask for better definition of the project scope before accepting the project.
2. Accomplish the project as time allows
3. Plan the project as you would a normal project, but build in schedule flexibility
4. Make a list of activities that need to be done.

Q3. While managing a project, you have included the product acceptance criteria in the Quality Management Plan. While reviewing your plan, a senior manager asks you to reconsider this. You then realize that what you did is incorrect. Where should you place the product acceptance criteria?

1. Project Charter
2. Change control process
3. Project Scope Statement
4. Scope Verification Plan

Q4. What type of method uses a weighting ranking system for quantifying qualitative data to minimize the effect of personal bias during the process of selecting a seller?

1. Independent estimates
2. Source Selection Criteria
3. Vendor audits
4. Sourcing workshops

Q5. Which of the following is not a Tuckman's team development stage?

1. Confronting
2. Forming
3. Norming
4. Adjourning

Q6. If the optimistic estimate is 1, the pessimistic is 9, and the mostly estimate is 8, what is the PERT estimate?

1. 9
2. 7
3. 8
4. 3

Q7. When a project is executed under contract, the contractual provisions will generally be considered as _____________ for the project.

1. Constraints
2. Exclusions
3. Deliverables
4. Provisions

Q8. Which of the following is NOT used in initiating a project?

1. Project statement of work.
2. The contract.
3. Enterprise environmental factors.
4. Earned value analysis.

Q9. A project manager is spending most of the project funding in the current phase of the project. The manager is also managing various resources in the project. What is the stakeholder influence on the project now compared to earlier phases?

1. Cannot be determined
2. More
3. Less
4. Same

Q10. You are working in a matrix organization and managing a project. You are having trouble working with one deliverable so you ask the functional manager to send you two team members who are experts in dealing with this type of work. She agrees and provides you with two of her best employees. They have joined your project and you have given them their roles and responsibilities. They are also made aware of who will be responsible or accountable for each deliverable. However, they are still not clear about their roles and responsibilities. So, to make it clear what document or chart will you show them?

1. RACI chart
2. OBS
3. RAM
4. RBS