Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager has made a change to the project. What should she do NEXT?

1. Assign resources
2. Revise the project management plan and/or project documents
3. Evaluate impact
4. Request change control board involvement

Q3. You are meeting with your stakeholders to gather requirements for your project. You are well aware that requirements to be gathered include both product and project requirements. All the following tools can be used to gather, define, and analyze project requirements from stakeholders except:

1. Surveys
2. Focus Groups
3. Decomposition
4. Prototypes

Q4. In complex and high value projects, which of the following activities will typically be performed by a business analyst prior to the project initiation?

1. Define project scope and develop WBS
2. Finalize the project scope statement and the WBS dictionary
3. Establish the project’s scope baseline
4. Determine problems, identify business needs and viable solutions

Q5. A project is considered out of control and the previous project manager has quit. You are assigned as the new project manager and have been asked to verify the quality level of the project and to recommend corrective action. What do you do FIRST?

1. Review the project management plan
2. Meet with the team
3. Draw a control chart
4. Create a risk mitigation plan.

Q6. Early in the project, you are meeting with your team and would like to address all the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats the project is facing. What tool should be used?

1. SWOT Analysis
2. Interviewing
3. Delphi Technique
4. Brainstorming

Q7. A project team member has been having a big disagreement with another team member for over two months when the other team members become involved. The issues are complex, but you have specific experience in the area and know what needs to be done. The BEST choice would be to:

1. Make the decision yourself
2. Strive for fair resolution of the issue
3. Ask the other team members to stay out of the issue
4. Bring the team together and work out the issue to a win-win solution.

Q8. Tom is managing a software development project. The buyer of the product is an external entity. During the project’s execution, Tom finds that a new operations manager was hired in the customer organization. The new manager is now a key stakeholder. Which of the following documents is least likely to be updated because of the addition of this new stakeholder?

1. Stakeholder register
2. Risk register
3. Stakeholder engagement plan
4. Issue log

Q9. Which of the following statements correctly define the 100 percent rule for WBS?

1. The project is only considered complete once all requirements defined in the original scope statements have been completed.
2. The project is only considered complete once all requirements in the last approved scope baseline have been completed.
3. The final deliverables should fully conform to product requirements; nothing less, nothing more.
4. The total of the work at the work package level should roll up to the higher levels so that nothing is left out and no extra work is performed.

Q10. Which of the following BEST describes the relationship between standard deviation and risk?

1. Nothing
2. Standard deviation tells you if the estimate is correct
3. Standard deviation tells you how unsure the estimate is.
4. Standard deviation tells you if the estimate includes a pad.