Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The paint on the exotic cars that are manufactured in your plant is bubbling about a year after application. What would be the best tool for your team to use to find potential causes of the peeling paint?

1. Scatter diagram
2. Ishikawa Diagram
3. Control Chart
4. Inspection

Q3. About midway through the project, the project manager learns that most members of the project team are not reviewing the weekly project updates. What should the project manager do?

1. Create a signature log so team members can indicate when they have read the project updates.
2. Revise the communications management plan appropriately to meet the informational needs of the stakeholders.
3. Improve the layout of the weekly project updates to encourage reading by team members.
4. Require the reading of the project updates in order to receive any rewards on the project.

Q4. While working on a project in another country, you are asked to make a “facilitating” payment so the country officials will issue a work order. What should you do?

1. Make the payment
2. Ask the person for proof the payment is required.
3. Seek legal advice on whether such a payment is a bribe
4. Do not pay and see what happens.

Q5. A project manager is finalizing a project that has had repeated problems with cost conformance. He is concerned about what management will say. Which of the following types of information would be BES for the project manager to use to evaluate performance?

1. The cost performance index (CPI)
2. A list of complaints from senior management
3. The last bar chart
4. The project budget 11

Q6. A manager has responsibility for a project that has the support of a senior manager. From the beginning, you have disagreed with the manager as to how the project should proceed and what the deliverables should be. You and she have disagreed over many issues in the past. Your department has been tasked with providing some key work packages for the project. What should you do?

1. Provide the manager with what she needs
2. Inform your manager of your concerns to get her support
3. Sit down with the manager at the beginning of the project, attempt to describe why you object to the project, and discover a way to solve the problem
4. Ask to be removed from the project.

Q7. A project team is meeting to determine what the selection criteria will be for the project procurement. What procurement process are they in?

1. Plan Procurement Management
2. Conduct Procurements
3. Control Procurements
4. Close Procurements

Q8. A project manager has just taken over the project from another project manager during the executing process group. The previous project manager created a project budget, determined communications requirements, and went on to complete work packages. What should the new project manager do NEXT?

1. Coordinate completion of work packages
2. Identify quality standards
3. Begin the Identify Risk process
4. Execute the project management plan.

Q9. All of the following are needed to create the WBS EXCEPT:

1. Organizational process assets
2. Quality measurements
3. Requirements documentations
4. Project scope statement 01

Q10. All of the following are results of adding to the risk register in the Plan Risk Responses process EXCEPT:

1. You are in control of the project as it progresses with few surprises
2. By managing the plan, you are able to avoid risks while mitigating the effects of others
3. The need for workarounds is minimized
4. The need for contingency reserves is minimized.