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. 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

Q4. You are beginning a new project that has been attempted, but unsuccessfully, several times in the past few years. Previous projects were cancelled because e of “politics” (differing views and direction by key stakeholders on the project). This is an example of:

1. Stakeholder analysis.
2. Scope management.
3. Historical information.
4. Risk identification

Q5. A plan for establishing the criteria for developing and controlling the project schedule is BEST described as part of the:

1. Schedule management plan
2. Schedule model
3. Activity attributes
4. Schedule network analysis

Q6. Senior management is complaining that they are not able to easily determine the status of ongoing projects in the organization. Which of the following types of reports would help provide summary information to senior management?

1. Detailed cost estimates
2. Project management plans
3. Bar charts
4. Milestone reports

Q7. The resource optimization technique during the Control Schedule process allows a project manager to:

1. Schedule training sessions for the project team members to optimize their performance.
2. Schedule activities considering both the resource availability and the project time.
3. Provide monetary incentives to project team members to boost their performance.
4. Allow overtime so that team members get motivated to work during nonworking hours.

Q8. 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.

Q9. Your project is delayed because of some regulatory issues and the client has asked you to stop the work until he gets government clearance. The project team members are afraid that the project may be terminated early and you may need to enter into the close project process. In which of the following cases will you not perform the close project or close phase process?

1. When the project is terminated due to cost overrun
2. When the project is terminated due to schedule overrun
3. The client decided to terminate the project
4. None of the above

Q10. You are about to begin negotiations with people from another country. Which of the following should provide guidance on what business practices are allowed and not allowed?

1. The company code of conduct
2. The project charter
3. The scope management plan
4. The negotiation plan