Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have been hired by ABC Inc. and appointed as a project manager for their new project. The project charter has been signed and currently you are busy with preparing a detailed description of your project and the product. The description is in detail, the final requirements are identified, the product boundaries are defined, and you have outlined what is included and what is excluded. Once you complete this process, which of the following documents will you not update next?

1. Issue log
2. Stakeholder register
3. Requirements documentations
4. Requirement traceability matrix

Q3. While planning the project, you discover that an expert resource might be available to work on you project. However, the resource manager will not commit to the resource being on your team at the present time. The BEST thing to do would be to estimate the activity:

1. As if the expert resources were available.
2. As though you had an average resource doing the activity.
3. As if you had an inexperienced resource
4. Using the Delphi technique.

Q4. You are in the middle of executing a major modification to an existing product when you learn that the resources promised at the beginning of the project are not available. The BEST thing to do is to:

1. Show how the resources were originally promised to your project.
2. Re-plan the project without the resources
3. Explain the impact if the promised resources are not made available
4. Crash the project

Q5. Your project team members have just started to work together and are now adjusting their work habits and behaviors to support each other. Which stage of the Tuckman ladder has your team just entered?

1. Norming
2. Performing
3. Forming
4. Storming

Q6. As the project manager, you are about to start the define scope process. You have the project charter and the organizational process assets list. Because there are no change requests in your project at this point, what must you have before you begin?

1. Product analysis
2. Requirements documentation
3. Updates to project documents
4. WBS

Q7. You have just joined the project management office after five years of working on projects. One of the things you want to introduce to your company is the need to create and utilize WBSs. Some of the project managers are angry that you are asking them to do “extra work.” Which of the following would be the BEST thing you could tell the project managers to convince them to use WBSs?

1. Tell them it will prevent work from slipping through the cracks.
2. Tell them that it is not needed.
3. Tell them it is required only if the project involves contracts.
4. Tell them it is the only way to identify risks.

Q8. The customer starts to have cash flow problems, because other projects are being completed early. The customer notifies the project manager that there will be limits on when funds will be available for the project. The project CPI is currently 1.02, and the estimate to complete is US $927,000. If the project manager performs funding limit reconciliation, there will also MOST likely be a change to the:

1. Resource assigned.
2. Number of change requests
3. Cost baseline
4. Project schedule 21

Q9. A company is making an effort to improve its project performance and create historical records of past projects. What is the BEST way to accomplish this?

1. Create project management plans
2. Create lessons learned
3. Create network diagrams
4. Create status reports 2

Q10. A problem occurs on an activity with free float and the project manager has extended its duration. What is MOST likely to be affected?

1. Project duration
2. Resource schedules
3. Project scope management plan
4. The latest start for the successor activity