Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have assembled a group of subject matter experts (SMEs) to define risk probability and impact levels. You and your team are still in what process group?

1. Risk
2. Monitor and Controlling
3. Quantitative Analysis
4. Planning

Q3. Your organization is having a difficult time managing all of is projects. You have been asked to help senior management get a better understanding of the problems. What do you do FIRST?

1. Meet with individual project managers to get a better sense of what is happening
2. Send a formal memo to all project managers requesting their project management plans
3. Meet with senior managers to help them develop a new tracking system for managing projects
4. Review the project charters and bar charts for all projects.

Q4. You have a project with a budget of 100,000 USD. The duration of the project is 20 months, and the work is evenly distributed throughout the duration. After 10 months, you review the project’s progress and you find that 55% of the work is completed and 65,000 USD has been spent. Based on the above information, you come to the conclusion that:

1. The project is behind schedule
2. The project is ahead of schedule
3. The project is under budget
4. Not enough information

Q5. At a critical milestone in development project, it is determined that implementation is two months behind schedule. The project manager is concerned that the root cause is lack of conformance to requirements in the design of the new billing system. More extensive measurements are taken to see if this is, in fact, the problem. Such measurements are:

1. Not needed. The schedule should be compressed
2. An example of Control Quality
3. Not going to show why the schedule is delayed
4. Part of integrated change control.

Q6. A new project manager has been hired in your company, and you have been asked to mentor her. Because she is well trained, she is planning her project in great detail. Her first project for the company is relatively low priority, and you feel that the project manager is planning too many project control meetings. Which of the following would be the BEST thing to tell her?

1. Strike a balance between the extent of the control system and the risk of unfavorable project outcomes.
2. Make sure you identify more than 40 risks, and then have more than one meeting a month
3. A good project management plan should be about90 percent complete before starting work
4. Make sure you include milestones to help plan the project charter.

Q7. You are in the process of creating, collecting, distributing, storing, retrieving, and the ultimate disposition of project information in accordance with the communications management plan. What is the output of this process?

1. Project management plan update
2. Communication management plan
3. Change requests
4. Work performance information

Q8. Which of these is not a component of the scope baseline that is contained in the project management plan?

1. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
2. Requirements documentation
3. WBS Dictionary
4. Project Scope Statement

Q9. Who is primarily responsible for the dissemination of the approved project charter and for ensuring that all key stakeholders have a common understanding of the project’s key deliverables and milestones?

1. Project sponsor
2. Project team
3. Project manager
4. Project client

Q10. As project manager, you are unable to allocate as much time to interact with your stakeholders as you would like. Which of the following stakeholders will you make it a priority to get to know?

1. The stakeholder who is an expert on the product of the project, but is not interested in implementing it in his department.
2. The manager of the department that will use the product of the project. She is known to be resistant to change.
3. The project sponsor, with whom you have successfully worked on many projects.
4. The department employee who is unfamiliar with the product of the project, but open to the positive impacts he believes the product will have on his work environment.