Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have completed your project to construct a railway bridge. The project is in the closing phase and you are now archiving various documents such as the stakeholder register, risk register, project calendar, etc. All these documents are part of:

1. Project closure documents
2. Historical information
3. Project files
4. Enterprise environmental factors

Q3. The networking vendor has contacted the project manager to inform her that the recent earthquake will impact the delivery of critical components. The project team meets to determine the impact on the overall project and determines that staffing will not be affected, but that changes will need to be made in the areas of risk and cost management. It is too soon to tell if quality baselines will be affected by this schedule change. What is the project team involved in here?

1. Configuration management
2. Work authorization analysis
3. Status review meeting
4. Integrated change control

Q4. During the risk analysis process, you find that a specific risk has a remote chance of happening and if it occurs, it will have very little effect on the project objective. What will you do with this risk?

1. Analyze it further
2. Assign it a risk owner
3. Keep it in watch list
4. You will ignore it

Q5. 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.

Q6. Project information has been distributed according to the communications management plan. Some project deliverables have been changed in accordance with the project management plan. One stakeholder expressed surprise to the project manager upon hearing of a previously published change to a project deliverable. All stakeholders received the communication containing notification of the change. What should the project manager do?

1. Determine why the stakeholder did not receive the information and let him know when it was published.
2. Ask the functional manager why the stakeholder did not understand his responsibility.
3. Review the communications management plan and make revisions if necessary.
4. Address the situation in the next steering committee meeting so others do not miss published changes.

Q7. Lucy is managing a high-tech software development project. She has luckily acquired the organization’s best performing employees. However, the project team is not communicating effectively, causing delays. The project communications plan is in place, but it seems as if the employees are not following it. The communications plan lays out the communications requirements but does not explicitly assign responsibilities. What should Lucy do first? (Assume that all the following actions need to be taken at some stage.)

1. Persuade the team to follow the plan
2. Motivate the team to effectively communicate
3. Set and manage expectations
4. Resolve conflicts to prevent disruptive behavior

Q8. You have floated a firm fixed price contract for some work. Since the scope of the work is not clear, the risk is higher and contractors are hesitant to bid for your contract. You are very busy and don't have time to monitor the contractor’s bill. In this case, what kind of contract will you select?

1. CPIF
2. CPAF
3. T&M
4. FPIF

Q9. A project is considered out of control and the previous project manager has quit. You are assigned as the new project manager and have been asked to verify the quality level of the project and to recommend corrective action. What do you do FIRST?

1. Review the project management plan
2. Meet with the team
3. Draw a control chart
4. Create a risk mitigation plan.

Q10. Which part of the risk management process receives input from risk response owners?

1. Identify Risks
2. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
3. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
4. Plan Risk Responses.