Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following is the BEST project management tool to use to determine the longest time the project will take?

1. WBS
2. Network diagram
3. Bar chart
4. Project charter

Q3. Which of the following approaches encourages plan definition but also acknowledges that once work starts, the priorities may change and the plan needs to be updated to reflect this change?

1. Waterfall approach
2. Adaptive planning
3. Predictive life cycle
4. Upfront planning

Q4. You have just walked into your office when you receive an e-mail from the sponsor notifying you that the auditing team will soon be your office to start a risk audit of your project. The next e-mail you receive has been forwarded to you, and involves conflict between two team members. You are immediately bombarded with phone calls from both parties to the e-mail complaining about the other. Which conflict resolution technique would you immediately use with team member?

1. Forcing
2. Compromising
3. Avoiding
4. Confronting

Q5. Lucy is managing a website development project in an agile environment. She wants to create a burndown chart to present the project’s progress to the stakeholders. She adds a diagonal line representing the ideal burndown and a line for daily actual remaining work. She now needs to show the likely variance at the iteration completion. What should she do?

1. Add a forecast trend line to the ideal burndown line
2. Add a correlation line between the daily actual remaining work and the ideal burndown
3. Add a forecast trend line to the daily actual remaining work
4. Add a median line between the daily actual remaining work and the ideal burndown

Q6. Which of the following is accurate regarding the Estimate Activity Resources process?

1. It produces project resource calendars as the output.
2. It determines dependencies that may require a lead or lag to define the relationship.
3. This process is coordinated independent of the Estimate Cost process.
4. It involves determining what and how many resources to use.

Q7. You are running one week behind on a project due to a late delivery by a vendor. You are forced to compress your project schedule due to a government-mandated end date that constrains your project. After meeting with your team, the decision is to work several tasks in parallel that were scheduled to be run consecutively. This is an example of:

1. Risk Acceptance
2. Crashing
3. Resource Leveling
4. Fast Tracking

Q8. A project manager has just been assigned to a project that has been in progress for two months when a team member requests more time on an activity he is working on. The project manager discovers that the only impact to the project will be a delay on a noncritical path activity. The customer has emphasized the importance of completing the project on schedule. What should the project manager do NEXT?

1. Submit the information to the change control board, determine if this event might impact the team member’s future work, inform the team member of the board’s decision
2. Ask the team member why they need more time, begin integrated change control, adjust the project schedule as needed
3. Look for impacts to quality, cut unneeded scope from the project, ask for more resources
4. See if any stakeholders object to the change, calculate the exact impact on the project, look at removing this resource from the project

Q9. You publish some informative notes on the company’s web portal and ask stakeholders to review it. What kind of communication method is this?

1. Pull
2. Push
3. Interactive
4. None of the above

Q10. As a project manager, you are presented with the following information on the paycheck period for several possible projects. Which project is your BEST choice?

1. Project A with a payback period of 6 months
2. Project B with a payback period of 9 months
3. Project C with a payback period of 12 months
4. Project D with a payback period of 18 months