Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager prepared a presentation that included data on the project’s use of resources, improvements in staff efficiency, and the cost savings. These activities are part of what process?

1. Manage Stakeholder Engagement
2. Monitor and Control Project Work
3. Control Schedule
4. Control Quality

Q3. You are about to begin negotiations with people from another country. Which of the following should provide guidance on what business practices are allowed and not allowed?

1. The company code of conduct
2. The project charter
3. The scope management plan
4. The negotiation plan

Q4. A functional manager wants to change an activity estimate. The project manager analyzes the change and determines that it will cause a delay in the entire project. Who should authorize the change?

1. Project team
2. Sponsor
3. Project manager
4. Change control board

Q5. Your project is very complex and due to a scope change, you need a few additional experts, which you did not think of earlier. You request that your company provide you with some experts for consultancy work. Although your company has provided you with those experts, they are located in a different geographical location. In this situation, how will you get their input?

1. Ask management to bring them to you
2. Recruit new members with same skills
3. Create a virtual team
4. None of the above

Q6. A project manager has been working on a project for six months with the same team, yet the team still shows a lack of support for the project. The BEST thing the project manager can do to obtain the team’s support for the project is to:

1. Re-evaluate the effectiveness of the reward system in place.
2. Talk to each team member’s boss with the team member present.
3. Find someone else to be project manager.
4. Tell the team members he needs their support, and ask the team members why they do not support the project.

Q7. Andrew is a project management guru hired by a retail giant in your country. Andrew finds out there is a wide array of projects that need to be managed from a central PMO; from a number of small projects to large initiatives requiring long-term roadmaps to manage the development of these programs. What project management approach should be recommended for such projects?

1. A predictive approach, adaptive approach, or a hybrid of both, may need to be adopted.
2. A predictive approach may need to be adopted.
3. An adaptive approach may need to be adopted.
4. Setting up PMOs for such a wide range of projects is not recommended.

Q8. Which of the following MUST be an agenda item at all team meetings?

1. Discussion of project risks
2. Status of current activities
3. Identification of new activities
4. Review of project problems.

Q9. During the project execution, some people stole your consumables. You did not identify this threat earlier, though you were able to manage the situation through a workaround. This risk did not have much of an impact on your cost baseline but the schedule was impacted. Management is aware of the issue and to get the complete picture they insist you provide them the performance report. Which of the following information will you provide to them?

1. Status of deliverables
2. Actual cost, actual duration, etc.
3. Milestones status
4. Memos

Q10. The list of identified risks is found in the risk register. However, the overall high-level project risks is first listed in the:

1. Scope statement
2. Requirement document
3. Project charter
4. Risk management plan