Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Your customer requested that the new railroad cars you are building for his company be constructed from heavy grade aluminium. After reviewing the requirements, two of your experts inform you that the customer would be better off with steel cars. You meet with the customer to discuss the issue, and he directs you to go ahead with the aluminium cars. What should you do?

1. Meet with the customer again to ensure that he understands the expert opinions about using steel instead of aluminium
2. Find a way to cut other costs, and upgrade the cars to steel.
3. Provide aluminium cars that meet the customer’s requirements.
4. Meet with your experts to find another proposal for the customer.

Q3. You are working in a matrix organization and managing a project. You are having trouble working with one deliverable so you ask the functional manager to send you two team members who are experts in dealing with this type of work. She agrees and provides you with two of her best employees. They have joined your project and you have given them their roles and responsibilities. They are also made aware of who will be responsible or accountable for each deliverable. However, they are still not clear about their roles and responsibilities. So, to make it clear what document or chart will you show them?

1. RACI chart
2. OBS
3. RAM
4. RBS

Q4. Which of the following is NOT possible outcome of risk acceptance?

1. The project will suffer no damages
2. The project will use the risk reserve
3. The project will recover cost from the insurance company
4. The project will experience a cost or schedule overrun.

Q5. You have made John responsible for painting a certain portion of the building you are constructing. John completes the painting and submits his bills to you. You review his invoices, pay him and close the contract. What process is this?

1. Close project
2. Conduct procurement
3. Close procurement
4. Control procurement

Q6. A project is 50 percent complete when a schedule constraint is identified. Which of the following should be done FIRST?

1. Revisit all activities that have not yet started
2. Use a simulation technique such as Monte Carlo analysis, to calculate a distribution of probable results of the total project.
3. Rebaseline the project management plan to determine impacts on schedule, cost, and scope.
4. Level resources on the remaining activities to determine resource variances.

Q7. Another project manager has a family emergency and must leave. He has asked you to fill in for him during a team meeting to discuss a minor problem with the project. He has already distributed a detailed agenda and provided with a copy. When you attend the meeting, several members of the team are making fun of the absent project manager’s ethnic heritage. Your company does not have a formal diversity policy covering such behavior. What should you do?

1. Because your company does not have a written diversity policy, there is nothing you can do.
2. Report the incident to the other project manager
3. Hold the meeting as if nothing happened
4. Begin the meeting with a discussion of diversity and professional behavior.

Q8. Lucy is managing a website development project in an agile environment. She wants to create a burndown chart to present the project’s progress to the stakeholders. She adds a diagonal line representing the ideal burndown and a line for daily actual remaining work. She now needs to show the likely variance at the iteration completion. What should she do?

1. Add a forecast trend line to the ideal burndown line
2. Add a correlation line between the daily actual remaining work and the ideal burndown
3. Add a forecast trend line to the daily actual remaining work
4. Add a median line between the daily actual remaining work and the ideal burndown

Q9. Julia is currently recruiting her project team. She has carried out various interviews and has shortlisted potential candidates. Now, according to the project communication management plan, she has to submit the shortlisted profiles to the project client (customer) for approval. Only then, can she formally hire the approved candidates for the project. The submission of the profiles to the client will go through which of the following processes?

1. Manage Stakeholder Engagement
2. Acquire Resources
3. Manage Communications
4. Plan Resource Management

Q10. Bill is managing a website development project. He has recently received feedback from one of the key project stakeholders. The feedback is positive overall, but it contains some recommendations. After analyzing the recommendations, Bill accepts them, gets them approved, and incorporates them into the project management plan. The recommendations were then implemented and the new ideas were found to be successful. What needs to be done with this feedback now?

1. Discard it since it is no longer required
2. Publish it on the corporate intranet
3. Add it to the organizational process assets
4. Send it back to the stakeholder