Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are a project manager for a large electrical system implementation. One of your key people has started to miss deadlines and work quality is beginning to suffer as well. This person has participated in project planning, and in fine-tuning the earned value estimating, and developing the reward systems for the project. You are confident that this person is well aware of the work deadlines and required quality specifications. What action should you take?

1. Report problem to the personnel or human resource department for corrective action.
2. Reassign some work to other team members until performance starts to improve.
3. Discuss the issues with the employee at the next team meeting and try to determine the factors impacting performance.
4. Escalate the situation to the employee’s functional manager and ask for assistance.

Q3. A project manager is in the process of scope verification of a deliverable with the customer. What is the MOST important thing the project manager should ensure?

1. Accuracy
2. Timeliness
3. Acceptance
4. Completeness 7

Q4. An issue has arisen which forces you to schedule a meeting with your stakeholders. A project team member tells you that one of your influential stakeholders may not come to the meeting because of a personal issue. You choose not to take any action because you think that you will manage without the presence of this stakeholder. What kind of risk response strategy are you using here?

1. Accept
2. Avoid
3. Neglect
4. Mitigate

Q5. You are the project manager for a Fortune 100 IT company, and you are currently engaged in an important project. You want to choose the best contractor for a specialized task. What should you do to evaluate potential contractors?

1. Create a lessons-learned document
2. Conduct a performance review
3. Evaluate proposals
4. Perform a Make-or-Buy analysis

Q6. The project was going well until the director of marketing discovered that two of her staff members were working different versions of the sampling plan, a product of your project. Which of the following BEST describes what needs the attention of the project manager on this project?

1. Stakeholder management
2. Resource allocation
3. Staffing management plan
4. Configuration management

Q7. You have just received notice that the organization you have worked for as a project manager has gone bankrupt. All employees have 72 hours’ notice of termination. What is the best course of action for the two projects you are managing?

1. Follow company directives
2. Conduct a project closeout meeting
3. Leave the office today
4. Raise a claim for and on behalf of all the employees and contractors who were participating in the project

Q8. A program management office (PMO) chose you to write a purchase order because of your expertise in business writing. You learned the PMO has already selected a seller for a software product and would like to award the procurement contract to the selected seller as a purchase order, which you must prepare. In this scenario, the PMO is administering:

1. The monitor stakeholder engagement process
2. The control procurements process
3. The plan procurement management process
4. The conduct procurements process

Q9. All of the following come after the Define Scope process EXCEPT:

1. Estimate Activity Durations
2. Develop Human Resource Plan
3. Estimate Costs
4. Collect Requirements

Q10. You are in the middle of a major new facility construction project. The structural steel is in place and the heating conduits are going into place when a senior manager informs you that he is worried that the project will not meet the quality standards. What should you do in this situation?

1. Assure senior management that during the Plan Quality process it was determined that the project would meet the quality standards
2. Analogously estimate future results.
3. Form a quality assurance team
4. Check the results from the last quality management plan.