Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following is not a tool or technique of the Acquire Resources process?

1. Negotiation
2. Multi-criteria decision analysis
3. Pre-assignment
4. Conflict management

Q3. James has been managing a hotel construction project on a busy street. He is in the process of estimating activity durations for building walls, and he calculates the most likely estimate as 15 days. If prefabricated material is used, it would take no more than 12 days to finish the work. The work may be delayed and could take up to 18 days if less experienced construction workers build the walls. What is the expected duration of building walls using the three-point estimate?

1. 12 days
2. 11 days
3. 16 days
4. 15 days

Q4. The project work has begun when the project manager notices how many times meetings and discussions are disrupted by power outages and the lack of a warm place to meet. She turns her attention to influencing the organization to improve the team’s working conditions. She is following the concepts of which motivational theorist?

1. Herzberg
2. McGregor
3. Theory Y
4. Maslow’s hierarchy

Q5. You are busy with an important milestone, and after that, you have to deliver a deliverable to the client. Since the client is known for his difficult behavior, management is worried whether the client will accept the deliverable. Therefore, they tell you to check the product acceptance criteria again before calling the client. What document will you look at to get this information?

1. WBS
2. WBS dictionary
3. Project scope statement
4. RACI matrix

Q6. Your company is undergoing a change in ownership and the new owners are looking at the total cost of a new product. Which of the following would BEST provide that information?

1. Estimate at completion
2. Life cycle cost
3. Earned value
4. Net present value

Q7. You have been given a project to clean an area where hundreds of families are living and to develop residential flats for them. Since there so many stakeholders involved, how will you manage them?

1. Ignore low-power stakeholders
2. Pick the dominating stakeholders
3. Find a way to manage them all
4. Manage only high power and high-interest group stakeholders

Q8. A functional manager meets with the project manager’s boss to discuss a change to the acceptance criteria for a major deliverable. After the meeting, the boss calls the project manager into his office and tells him to make the change. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Make the change as soon as possible.
2. Understand the change.
3. Supply the boss with a change form
4. Evaluate the impact of the change.

Q9. When are risk identification activities performed?

1. During the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process
2. During the Plan Risk Management process
3. During the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process
4. Ongoing throughout the project

Q10. You are a project manager for Groceries ’R’ Us, a supermarket chain, and are currently working on a project to build a new outlet. The planned values (PV) for the foundation and the frame were $150,000 and $500,000. After five months, you do a performance measurement analysis. You are currently not ahead of schedule. The actual costs for the foundation and frame were $175,000 and $650,000. At this point, 100 percent of the foundation is complete, and only 80 percent of the frame is complete. Which value represents the cost performance index (CPI) to two decimal places at this point in the project?

1. 0.84
2. 1.5
3. 0.67
4. 1.19