Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager has made a change to the project. What should she do NEXT?

1. Assign resources
2. Revise the project management plan and/or project documents
3. Evaluate impact
4. Request change control board involvement

Q3. The company has just announced that there will be a layoff in the next month, and there’s a good chance it will include some of the people from your project team. The team is discussing the layoff to the exclusion of everything else. If you tell the team, “Let’s calm down and get back to work, maybe our performance in the next month will keep us from losing our jobs.” Which conflict resolution technique are you using?

1. Compromising
2. Forcing
3. Smoothing
4. Withdrawal.

Q4. You have been given a task to find cost estimates for several projects, and your organization will submit its bid based on these estimates. The financial position of the organization is not very good; therefore, they tell you that they cannot invest more than 500,000 USD. They also give you a leeway of 10% on either side of it. This leeway is a part of:

1. Organizational process assets
2. Enterprise environmental factors
3. Threats
4. Opportunities

Q5. Julia is currently assessing her project stakeholders’ engagement levels. During this exercise, she finds she also needs to document an escalation process, which will come in handy in the future. Where does she need to document the project’s escalation process?

1. Communications management plan
2. Stakeholder engagement plan
3. Either the stakeholder engagement plan or the communications management plan
4. Both the stakeholder engagement plan and the communications management plan

Q6. An effective quality audit should be:

1. Structured and independent
2. Informal and independent
3. Informal and internal
4. Structured and internal

Q7. If you finish your project early, there is a chance that you may get another project, so you are trying very hard to get your project finished. You use fast tracking, crashing, overtime, etc. Which strategy is this?

1. Exploit
2. Enhance
3. Accept
4. Mitigate

Q8. Which of the following tools helps you to determine whether the subcontractor’s work is meeting the quality requirements?

1. Quality control
2. Quality audit
3. Inspection of deliverables
4. Delphi technique

Q9. All of the following are outputs of Plan Resource Management EXCEPT:

1. Roles and responsibilities.
2. Project organizational charts.
3. The number of resources needed.
4. The staffing management plan.

Q10. During project executing, the project manager is spending a lot of time solving problems that arise. It would be BETTER for the project manager to transfer his efforts to:

1. Having the team solve the problems, thus freeing his time to hold more meetings
2. Executing the project management plan and making sure the quality management plan is viable.
3. Identifying additional risks and following the risk management process
4. Performing sensitivity analysis on past problems and transferring them to other projects.