Project Management Question Bank
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Project Management- Q2. 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.

Project Management- Q3. Your project is currently scheduled to take 117 months. Based on the chart, you could crash the project by five months at a cost of US $20,000.

1. 55 months
2. 25 months
3. 112 months
4. 117 months 74

Project Management- Q4. Your company is concerned about improving its project performance. Internal measures have been created and have helped to identify areas needing improvement. Additional measures of performance are still needed. Which of the following would be the BEST thing to do?

1. Calculate the benefit to cost of purchasing a new piece of equipment.
2. Determine the project scope and measures to ensure the scope is met
3. Perform a root cause analysis on the quality problems that have occurred on the project
4. Read a project management magazine each month, and look at the results of other companies’ projects to help determine quality measures for future projects.

Project Management- Q5. Which of the following statements about team-building activities is incorrect?

1. It can be a five-minute agenda item in a status review meeting.
2. It can be a professionally facilitated experience designed to improve interpersonal relationships.
3. The objective of team-building activities is to help team members work individually and effectively.
4. Informal communication and activities help in building trust and establishing good working relationships.

Project Management- Q6. Dana works for a federal agency that manages mission critical projects. As a project manager, she is responsible for all communication needs in her data center project, which has started recently. This project involves many stakeholders, customers, external vendors, and team members. Since conflicts are inevitable in such a massive project, she has decided to provide her project team the details of the issue escalation process, including the names of the chain of command to refer issues to that cannot be resolved at a lower level. Where must Dana document the escalation process?

1. The project charter
2. The communications management plan
3. The issue log
4. The project scope document

Project Management- Q7. What should you do as a senior project manager if the PMP certification claimed by a recently recruited project manager does not appear in the PMI website?

1. Advise your new recruit to complete his certification
2. Report to the PMI
3. Report to the sponsor
4. Request more information from the new recruit

Project Management- Q8. Probabilistic analysis o the project and probability of achieving the project cost are completed during:

1. Identify Risks
2. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
3. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
4. Plan Risk Responses.

Project Management- Q9. You are about to take over a project from another project manager and find out the following information about the project. Activity Z has an early start (ES) of day 15 and a late start (LS) of day 20. Activity Z is a difficult activity. Cost performance index (CPI) is 1.1; schedule performance index (SPI) is 0.8. There are 11 stakeholders on the project. Based on this information, which of the following would you be the MOST concerned about?

1. Schedule
2. Float
3. Cost
4. The number of available resources.

Project Management- Q10. You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. You have been asked to plan a new project. It would be BEST in this situation to rely on ______ during planning to improve your chance of success.

1. Your intuition and training
2. Stakeholder analysis
3. Historical information
4. Configuration management