Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are in the final phase of a low-cost car manufacturing project. This project has successfully delivered a low-cost car that runs on batteries. However, to close this project and avoid auditing from government authorities, it must demonstrably comply with many administrative standards. Since your organization possesses experts who know closing procedures and standards, you want to use them to close this project. This effort is an instance of:

1. Using enterprise environmental factors in closing the project
2. Using expert judgment in closing the project
3. Using organizational process assets in closing the project
4. Poor project management practice

Q3. While reading a magazine article, you discover that there is a tool of project management that other companies are using, but that your company has never heard of. What should you do?

1. Copy the article and pass it around your company
2. Talk to your colleagues and see if they know about it.
3. Arrange a meeting with your manager to discuss it
4. Summarize your opinion of the benefits of using this information in your company. Present your analysis to your manager

Q4. A project was estimated to cost $200,000 with a timeline of 10 months. Due to a shipment delay, the schedule was slightly delayed. However, this was made up by shipping the first batch of materials for the project by air. The net result was that there was some additional cost in the project. At the end of the second month, the Project Manager reviews the project and finds that the project is 20% complete and Actual Costs are $50,000. The Estimate to Complete (ETC) for the project would now be:

1. $160,000
2. $210,000
3. $250,000
4. $200,000

Q5. Which of the following is the correct sequence of the PMBOK processes that collects work performance data, converts it to work performance information, formats it into work performance reports, and distributes these reports?

1. Direct & Manage Project Work -> Monitor & Control Project Work -> Monitor Communications -> Manage Communications
2. Monitor Communications -> Direct & Manage Project Work -> Monitor & Control Project Work -> Manage Communications
3. Direct & Manage Project Work -> Monitor Communications -> Monitor & Control Project Work -> Manage Communications
4. Direct & Manage Project Work -> Monitor & Control Project Work -> Manage Communications -> Monitor Communications

Q6. The Make-or-Buy analysis is a technique used as part of the Plan Procurement Management process. It can determine whether the project team can produce a particular product or service, or if it should be purchased. The analysis to arrive at a decision should include:

1. Indirect costs only
2. Direct as well as Indirect costs
3. Direct costs only
4. Staffing costs only

Q7. You are over budget and it is impossible to complete the project with the given budget. Therefore, you raise the change request which management approves. After the change request is approved, you update the cost baseline and update other project documents. The document used to register any changes which occur during the project execution is known as:

1. Risk register
2. Issue log
3. Change log
4. RACI matrix

Q8. A project manager has received activity duration estimates from his team. Which of the following does he need in order to complete the Develop Schedule process?

1. Change requests
2. Schedule change control
3. Recommend corrective actions
4. Reserves

Q9. During the executing process group of the project, you realize the subcontractors are working with incomplete and different project scope statements. As the project manager, what should you do FIRST?

1. Check the work completed against the correct project scope statement.
2. Review the scope with the stakeholders.
3. Document the inconsistencies to the sponsor, calculating the cost of non-conformance.
4. Stop work until the scope issue is resolved.

Q10. Nancy has recently become the project manager for a project already in execution. Nancy has learned the previous project manager did a good job so far and religiously followed the PMBOK guiding principles. However, some of the project communications don’t make sense to her. Which of the project artifacts should Nancy refer to in order to determine reasons for distribution of some reports?

1. Stakeholder engagement plan and the scope management plan
2. Stakeholder engagement plan and the communications management plan
3. Scope management plan and the communications management plan
4. Scope management plan and the risk management plan