Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You’ve been assigned to take over managing a project that should be half complete according to the schedule. After an extensive evaluation, you discover that the project is running far behind schedule, and that the project will probably take twice the time originally estimated by the previous project manager. However, the sponsor has been told that the project is on schedule. What is the BEST course of action?

1. Try to restructure the schedule to meet the project deadline
2. Report your assessment to the sponsor
3. Turn the project back to the previous project manager.
4. Move forward with the schedule as planned by the previous project manager and report at the first missed milestone.

Q3. Daniel is the project manager for a factory construction project. Daniel has recently joined this organization and is not fully aware of the organization’s culture and structure. In order to manage his project stakeholders, Daniel has to understand his project stakeholders better. Which of the following can provide Daniel some historical information regarding stakeholder management on previous projects?

1. Enterprise environmental factors
2. Project management plan
3. Project charter
4. Organizational process assets

Q4. Which of the following is NOT used in initiating a project?

1. Project statement of work.
2. The contract.
3. Enterprise environmental factors.
4. Earned value analysis.

Q5. 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.

Q6. You have completed your estimates for your project and have determined that it will take 10 months to complete. However, your project sponsor insists that it be completed in nine months. How do you handle this?

1. Increase the budget by 10 percent
2. Inform the sponsor you will have to explore the options before committing to that timeline
3. Reduce scope
4. Add resources

Q7. Lucy has to brief her key project stakeholders on the recent approved changes to the project scope. Which of the following project documents will provide essential input to Lucy for preparing her presentation?

1. Change request form
2. Change control procedures
3. Change log
4. Issue management procedures

Q8. In response to a risk, the project manager meets with the team and management to develop a strategy. After discussions, they decide that it would be best to make sure the risk definitely happens. This is an example of which risk response strategy?

1. Share
2. Exploit
3. Accept
4. Enhance.

Q9. A project was awarded based on a competitive proposal. Management made a commitment that a few key team members would work on the project. When such assignments happen, they are:

1. Bargaining agreements
2. Schedule constraints
3. Assignment risk
4. Pre-assignments

Q10. You are working on a project to build a production line to produce round balls. During the inspection, you observe that some of these balls are not round. You analyze the problem and find that it can be prevented by making some changes to the procedures. Therefore, you make changes to the procedure to prevent this problem again. This is an example of:

1. Corrective action
2. Preventive action
3. Correction
4. Defect repair