Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Public recognition of superior performance creates positive reinforcement for the team members. When is the best time for a project manager to recognize team members' performance?

1. At the end of the project
2. During the lifecycle of the project
3. At the end of every phase of the project
4. As mandated by the HR department

Q3. Once a risk response is created, which of the following statements BEST describes the project manager’s role regarding risks while the project work is being completed?

1. Take actions when identified risks occur.
2. Look for unexpected impacts of implemented risk responses.
3. Implement planned work-arounds.
4. Make sure that risk responses are assigned to identify risks.

Q4. In the course of completing work on the project, the project manager needs to complete an activity that she has never done before. During this time, the project manager attends a professional association discussion where the presenter discusses how he completed a difficulty activity on his project that is similar to the project manager’s activity. He provides a handout describing his process. The project manager should:

1. Use the process to complete the activity
2. Ask the speaker for permission to use the information
3. Ignore the information
4. Ask her manager for guidance.

Q5. Which of the following represents the estimated value of the work actually accomplished?

1. Earned value (EV)
2. Planned value (PV)
3. Actual cost (AC)
4. Cost variance (CV)

Q6. You are performing an audit of one of your project manager’s projects and notice that she did not consider the network diagram as part of the Identify Risks process. As a result, the project manager will probably do which of the following?

1. Forget some activities in he risk evaluation
2. Forget activity precedence in her risk evaluation
3. Forget some path convergence issues in her risk evaluation
4. Forget some stakeholders in her risk evaluation.

Q7. What is the MAIN reason for controlling the project scope?

1. To enable scope creep
2. To prevent changes from affecting the project
3. To ensure timely closure of the project
4. Preventing scope creep

Q8. The project team is working on an important and complex project that requires a lot of coordination. Under these circumstances, the BEST strategy is to:

1. Have a war room
2. Hire a contractor
3. Hold more meetings to get the word out
4. Gain extra assistance from management

Q9. During a project update meeting, one of the key stakeholders expressed his displeasure over the project management approach. One percent of the produced deliverables had minor defects which required a rework. This stakeholder has been a resisting stakeholder so far. What must the project manager do to bring the future project performance in line with the approved quality requirements?

1. Investigate the root cause and identify the required defect repair.
2. Investigate the root cause and identify the required preventive action.
3. Investigate the root cause and identify the required corrective action.
4. Ignore the complaint from the resisting stakeholder.

Q10. You are sitting in a group discussion with 13 stakeholders and collecting ideas. Now you are in the final stage and are selecting the final idea. As there are many ideas, you decide to vote. After voting you see that a particular idea receives 7 votes, so you go with that option. What kind of decision making is this?

1. Unanimity
2. Majority
3. Plurality
4. Dictatorship