Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Project coordination is enhanced through progress reporting, variance reporting, and team meetings. These are all forms of:

1. Staffing management.
2. Risk management.
3. Time management.
4. Communications management.

Q3. What is the difference between management reserves and contingency reserves?

1. Contingency reserves address known knowns, whereas management reserves address known unknowns.
2. Contingency and management reserves both address known unknowns and could be considered the same.
3. Contingency reserves address known unknowns whereas management reserves address unknown unknowns.
4. Contingency reserves are managed by senior management whereas management reserves are managed by the project manager.

Q4. Your company is having problems delivering the finished product from the factory to the warehouses, which are located in different geographical areas. To smooth out the process, you have identified all critical stages for this procedure. What will be your next step?

1. You will use a Tornado diagram
2. You will use an Ishikawa diagram
3. You will use a Scatter diagram
4. You will use a Pareto analysis

Q5. The project management processes communicate with each other through their inputs and outputs. Which of the following outputs of the Direct and Manage Project Work process is a prime input of the Monitor Stakeholder Engagement process?

1. Change requests
2. Work performance information
3. Work performance data
4. Expert judgment

Q6. A project manager in a seller organization discovered that certain deliverables had been delivered to the buyer without undergoing proper testing. Recalling the deliverables will result in a cost overrun on the project. What should the project manager do in such a case?

1. Recall the deliverables even though there will be a cost overrun.
2. Terminate the project.
3. Approach management to obtain additional funding to handle the potential cost overrun.
4. Wait for the procuring organization to get back with their list of defects in the deliverables.

Q7. You are part of a team that has been told by your management that they require you to take and pass the PMP exam by the end of the year. After studying, you are the first of the group to take the actual exam. When you return to work to tell everyone you passed, you are bombarded with questions. Management tells you that since everyone else is so worried about the exam, they want you to write out all the questions you can remember from the exam and provide copies to the rest of the team. In this situation, you could do all of the following EXCEPT:

1. Do your best to provide only what you remember exactly
2. Offer to assist the others by motivating them
3. Explain that providing questions from the actual exam is specifically prohibited
4. Explain that you may have passed the exam, but you are not an expert. The team should follow the expert advice that they were given on how to study and pass the exam.

Q8. Which of the following is neither an input nor an output of the Direct and Manage Project Work process?

1. Approved change requests
2. Change requests
3. Approved deliverables
4. Deliverables

Q9. You have identified risks and now have asked your team members to analyze which risks have the largest potential impact on the project. Which of the following tools will help you find this impact?

1. Sensitivity analysis
2. Pareto analysis
3. Probability and impact analysis
4. Decision tree method

Q10. A project manager and her team worked together to develop a work breakdown structure. However, it seems project team members are doing work that is not included in the work breakdown structure. The purpose of a work breakdown structure is to:

1. Guide the cost estimate for a project, not how the work is done.
2. Provide senior management with a high level view of the project scope.
3. Include the work required to create the products of the project.
4. Include the total project scope or all of the work that must be done to complete the project.