Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. As a project manager, you perform various project performance measurements to assess the magnitude of variation. You then attempt to determine the cause and decide whether corrective action is necessary. This is:

1. Scope Analysis
2. Variance Analysis
3. Performance Reporting
4. Configuration Management

Q3. You are reviewing a chart which looks like an S-Curve during the execution phase of your project. What kind of chart is this?

1. Cause and effect diagram
2. Pareto diagram
3. Cost baseline
4. Sensitivity diagram

Q4. Martin is the project manager of a project that is in an early phase. He needs to estimate costs but finds that he has a limited amount of detailed information about the project. Which of the following estimation techniques is least suited to his requirements?

1. Top-down Estimating
2. Bottom-up Estimating
3. Analogous Estimating
4. Budgetary Estimating

Q5. Which of the following is NOT a measure that determines if a business if a business practice used by another country is an unfair business practice?

1. It hurts the right to physical movement
2. It is a common practice in the other country
3. It does not supply a decent wage for the country and the type of work
4. It discriminates against women 3

Q6. You work at a software company that authors Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for chemical companies. Prior to releasing the MSDS to the company, you have created a list of items for review to ensure they appear in the document. These items include chemical name, CAS#, protection required, what to do in an emergency, etc. This list is an example of what type of tool?

1. Checklist
2. Process Improvement Plan
3. Quality Management Plan
4. Quality Metrics

Q7. When would a milestone chart e used instead of a bar chart?

1. Project planning
2. Reporting to team members
3. Reporting to management
4. Risk analysis

Q8. A project has several teams. Team C has repeatedly missed deadlines in the past. This has caused team D have to crash the critical path several times. As the team leader for team D, you should meet with the:

1. Manager of team D
2. Project manager alone
3. Project manager and management
4. Project manager and the leader of team C.

Q9. A project manager has to resolve two problems. Both problems can occur in a single trial. In this situation, what is the BEST action the project manager can take?

1. Develop a solution for each problem.
2. Develop a solution that solves both problems.
3. Use a statistically independent trial
4. No solution is needed; the two problems cancel each other out.

Q10. All of the following are always part of the Close Project or Phase process EXCEPT:

1. Completing the lessons learned
2. Performing closure of the outside contract
3. Updating the archives
4. Releasing the team.