Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. While applying the logical relationships to the project activities, a project manager must be careful not to:

1. Have closed loops relationships between activities
2. Have FF relationships for the critical activities
3. Have FS relationships for the non-critical activities
4. Select the relationship with the highest impact

Q3. When should a schedule baseline be created and used?

1. At the beginning of the project and used to compare schedule performance on status reports
2. At the end of the project and then used to measure team performance
3. At the end of the project and included in the archive
4. At the beginning of the project and used during the project to measure performance

Q4. The project was going well when all of a sudden there were changes to the project coming from multiple stakeholders. After all the changes were determined, the project manager spent time with all the stakeholders to find out why there were changes and to discover any more. The project work has quieted down when a team member casually mentions to the project manager that he added functionality to a product of the project. Do not worry he says, “I did not impact time, cost, or quality!”

1. Ask the team member how the need for functionality was determined
2. Hold a meeting to review the team member’s completed work
3. Look for other added functionality.
4. Ask the team member how he knows there is no time, cost, or quality impact.

Q5. A project manager is performing an audit on a deliverable when she hears that the team member who did the work is complaining to everyone that he is being picked on by having his activity audited. You know this is not true. What lesson learned could you take to future projects?

1. Tell all the team members at the beginning of the project that their deliverables will be audited
2. Set an audit policy in the scope management plan
3. Audit less frequently
4. Use a walk-through instead of audits

Q6. You have a team of 10 members. They started to work together and are learning to trust each other. In which stage are they working?

1. Forming
2. Storming
3. Performing
4. Norming

Q7. Which of the following payments on an international project is unacceptable?

1. Offering to pay the country officials for not awarding the project to a particular company
2. Payment for mail service
3. Payment for a “foreign workers application license” required in the country
4. Payment for police protection.

Q8. You are working for an international construction company. Your project involves pulling together over 13 different subprojects. You are having difficulty in ensuring three subcontractors are doing their work correctly. As you review the project results you notice you have spent US $1,200,000 at the last reporting point. You know the schedule is not too bad, since your schedule performance index (SPI) is 1.1. Considering you feel you should have spent US $1,300,000 to this point, what is the cost performance index (CPI), and the schedule and cost variances?

1. 1.19, $130,000, and $$230,000
2. 1.1, ($230,000), and $130,000
3. 1.19, $230,000, and ($230,000)
4. 1.46, $130,000, and ($130,000)

Q9. A seller is awarded a contract to build a pipeline. The contract terms and conditions require a work plan be issued for the buyer’s approval prior to commencing work, but the seller fails to provide one. Which of the following is the BEST thing for the buyer’s project manager to do?

1. File a letter of intent
2. Develop the work plan, and issue it to the seller to move things along
3. Issue a default letter
4. Issue a stop order to the seller until a work plan is prepared.

Q10. You are a project manager working on a project to create high-efficiency electric motors for a company introducing a new electric golf cart. Your company’s president is keenly interested in the project and requests a chart that shows the number of defects by type ordered by their frequency of occurrence. Which type of chart would BEST meet this request?

1. Histogram
2. Control chart
3. Statistical sampling
4. Scatter diagram