Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The code development phase of a software project is nearly complete when the first code review is conducted. During the review, it s discovered that the application is missing functionality required to complete a key business process. However, the product scope never specified this functionality. What should the project manager do?

1. Reject the functionality as out of the project’s scope.
2. Agree to include the functionality in the current release
3. Agree to include the functionality in the next release.
4. Assess the impact on the project of including the functionality, and inform the sponsor.

Q3. Senior management has imposed a project delivery date prior to acceptance of the project scope statement. To whom is the project manager MOST accountable?

1. Project sponsor
2. Project team
3. Customer
4. Senior management

Q4. During the Plan Risk Management process, assigning ___________ will help you and the project team identify all important risks and work more effectively during the identification process.

1. Risk factors
2. Blame
3. Risk mitigation plans
4. Risk categories

Q5. Stakeholders can be identified in which project management process groups?

1. Initiating, planning, executing, and monitoring and controlling
2. Initiating and planning
3. Planning and monitoring and controlling
4. Monitoring and controlling and closing

Q6. You take over a project that is in a lot of trouble. There are apparently problems with the team dynamics, project scope, sponsor, and timeline. The project has a cost performance index (CPI) of 0.75 and schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.2. The FIRST action you should take is to:

1. Meet with the project sponsor
2. Review all the project deliverables
3. Meet with the team
4. Meet with each team member individually

Q7. If project time and cost are not as important as the number of resources used each month, which of the following is the BEST thing to do?

1. Perform a Monte Carlo analysis
2. Fast track the project
3. Perform resource leveling
4. Analyze the life cycle costs

Q8. When checking the calendar of a team member to schedule a meeting, you see she has scheduled a meeting with a key stakeholder that you were not informed of. The BEST approach would be to:

1. Avoid mentioning it to the team member but continue to watch her activities.
2. Notify your boss about the problem
3. Address the concern with the team member’s boss
4. Address the concern with the team member

Q9. One key characteristic of adaptive lifecycles, such as the agile approach for product development, is that product features are developed using:

1. Sandwiched periods of effort
2. Squeezed periods of zero-error sprints
3. Reverse engineered products
4. Time-boxed periods of work

Q10. The project management processes communicate with each other through their inputs and outputs. Which of the following outputs of the Direct and Manage Project Work process is a prime input of the Monitor Stakeholder Engagement process?

1. Change requests
2. Work performance information
3. Work performance data
4. Expert judgment