Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Midway through the Collect Requirements process, a project manager finds there are many unresolved issues regarding product requirements. Which of the following is usually the best way to discover and resolve issues?

1. Interviewing
2. Use of a stakeholder register
3. Questionnaires
4. Workshops

Q3. The line in the middle of a control chart is called the:

1. Mean
2. Specification limit
3. Rule of seven
4. Upper and lower control limit.

Q4. A new project manager asks you what the 50/50 rule is used for. You would reply?

1. Crashing
2. Quality
3. Performance reporting
4. Cost estimating

Q5. In your project, two important stakeholders are having some issues. To keep this issue from escalating further you intervene and resolve the issue. After the issue is resolved you asked your team member to record the issue so in the future a lesson can be learned from it. Where will you note the issues between stakeholders?

1. Risk register
2. Issue log
3. Stakeholder register
4. Change log

Q6. As part of the quality control in your project, you are exploring a technique that shows the history and pattern of variation. This is a line graph that shows data points plotted in the order in which they occurred. You are most likely looking at a:

1. Control chart
2. Pareto diagram
3. Histogram
4. Cause-and-effect diagram

Q7. You have been assigned to manage the development of an organization’s new website. The site will be highly complex and interactive, and neither your project team nor the client has much experience with this type of website development. The timeline is extremely aggressive. Any delay will be costly for both your firm and the client. You have a project sponsor and have achieved agreement and sign-off on both the project charter and the project management plan. Client personnel have been kept fully informed of the project's progress through status reports and regular meetings. The project is on schedule and within budget, and a final perfunctory review has been scheduled. Suddenly you hear that the entire effort may be cancelled because the product being developed is totally unacceptable. What is the MOST likely cause of this situation?

1. A key stakeholder was not adequately involved in the project.
2. The project charter and project management plan were not thoroughly explained to or adequately reviewed by the client.
3. Communications arrangements were inadequate and did not provide the required information to interested parties.
4. The project sponsor failed to provide adequate support for the project.

Q8. During project executing, the forecasted remaining hours exceed planned remaining hours. Consequently, the project takes on a negative variance. Which analysis method is the project manager likely to use as a measurement tool to validate this information?

1. EV-PV
2. EV/AC
3. EV/PV
4. EV-AC 75

Q9. An output of Plan Procurements, the procurement documents are also an input to all of the following, EXCEPT:

1. Approved Change Requests
2. Administer Procurements
3. Manage Project Team
4. Conduct Procurements

Q10. You are a project manager for an automotive parts company. Your organization was hired to produce clutches for an exotic car company. This will involve the design and production of custom clutches. During the course of the project, as you review a quality control statistics chart that examines every clutch produced for the month, you notice several cases where the spring component of the clutch is expanding with too much force and is falling outside the upper control limit. Which type of Quality Control tool are you most likely using?

1. Control charts
2. Statistical Sampling
3. Cause-and-Effect diagram
4. Precedence Diagramming Method