Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A watch list is an output of which risk management process?

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

Q3. On one of your company’s medical research projects, you object to how the research is being handled. However, you signed a confidentiality agreement with the company that prohibits you from talking about your research. It would be BEST to:

1. Quit and do not talk about what you know.
2. Quit and begin talking to the community.
3. Continue working and begin to talk about your objections to the research to newspapers in other cities.
4. Destroy the research.

Q4. A project has several teams. Team C has repeatedly missed deadlines in the past. This has caused team D have to crash the critical path several times. As the team leader for team D, you should meet with the:

1. Manager of team D
2. Project manager alone
3. Project manager and management
4. Project manager and the leader of team C.

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. Large organizations typically manage a wide range of projects; from small projects to large initiatives requiring long-term commitments. Which of the following factors can be used in scaling such projects:

1. Team size, geographical distribution, regulatory compliance, organizational complexity, technical complexity, and funds availability.
2. Team size, geographical distribution, regulatory compliance and organizational complexity.
3. Team size, geographical distribution and regulatory compliance.
4. Team size, geographical distribution, regulatory compliance, organizational complexity and technical complexity.

Q7. A control chart indicates the last 12 weights produced were outside the upper control limit. What should the project manager do?

1. Stop production
2. Work to better meet ISO 9000 standards
3. Look for the non-random causes for the variations
4. Plan to rework the 12 weights

Q8. As an experienced PMP, you have found that running a WBS meeting is tricky because you need to find a balance between insufficient decomposition and excessive decomposition. When items are excessively decomposed, it leads to all the following except:

1. Breaking the 100 percent rule
2. Inefficient use of resources
3. Nonproductive management effort
4. Decreased efficiency when performing work

Q9. A project manager discovers a defect in a deliverable due to the customer under contract today. The project manager knows the customer does not have the technical understanding to notice the defect. The deliverable meets the contract requirements, but it does not meet the project manager’s quality standard. What should the project manager do in this situation?

1. Issue the deliverable, and get formal acceptance from the customer.
2. Note the problem in the lessons learned so that future projects do not encounter the same problem.
3. Discuss the issue with the customer
4. Inform the customer that the deliverable will be late.

Q10. Erica is managing a kitchen tools manufacturing project, which is intended to produce modern cooking ovens. This project is hugely important for the company as well as for Erica‘s career. Although the project scope statement was well-defined and requirements were gathered from stakeholders in the planning phase, many design change requests have come in from customers during project execution. Which of the following tasks must Erica perform to avoid scope creep caused by uncontrollable changes?

1. Perform validate scope process and process all changes through the plan risk responses process
2. Perform integrated change control process and process all changes through the control quality process
3. Perform scope control and process all changes through the integrated change control process
4. Perform scope control and process all changes through the validate scope process