Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Based on the chart, a resource on your project from the consumer affairs department comes to you to tell you that he is taking a two-week leave from work due to a family emergency. He is assigned to activity F, which is currently in progress. This is a problem because activity F has:

1. One week of float
2. Two months of float
3. One month of float
4. No float

Q3. During the risk qualification process, you have identified many risks with a low impact or probability of happening. How will you deal with these risks?

1. Ignore them
2. Analyze them further
3. Keep on the watch list
4. Plan a risk response for them

Q4. Funding requirements for a project are usually in incremental amounts that are not continuous. These increments appear as a step function in the graph depicting Cash flow, Cost baseline and Funding. Any gap at the end of the project between the funds allocated and the cost baseline represents:

1. Management reserves
2. Contingency reserves
3. Cost variance
4. Charting error

Q5. RACI stands for______________, ________________, ___________, _______________.

1. Review, Analyze, Calculate, Implement
2. Responsible, Actual, Complete, Informative
3. Roles, Activities, Costs, Instructions
4. Responsible, Accountable, Consult, Inform

Q6. As you examine a list of job candidates for your project, you find that your cousin is one of the three shortlisted candidates. You know that she was desperately looking for a job. After reviewing the three resumes, you will send them to the electronics engineer for a technical interview. From your review of these resumes, you see that all three shortlisted candidates have similar qualifications and experiences. What should you do?

1. To avoid conflict of interest, ignore your cousin’s resume but forward the other two resumes.
2. Forward all three resumes.
3. Call your cousin and conduct an informal interview yourself before forwarding the resumes.
4. Consult your boss before forwarding the resumes for interview.

Q7. You work as an engineer for a large engineering firm. During this past week, you have corresponded with your department supervisor about the horizontal stabilizers required for the wings on a new aircraft you are designing. Which communication dimension does this represent?

1. Horizontal
2. Formal
3. External
4. Upward

Q8. The work breakdown structure (WBS) does all of the following except

1. Organizes and defines the entire scope of the project.
2. Divides the project into smaller, more manageable tasks.
3. Serves as a high-level planning tool for work planned but not yet approved.
4. Both A and B.

Q9. A project manager has some authority to manage the budget; however, he does not have any full-time employees under him. In what type of organization is he working?

1. Strong matrix
2. Weak matrix
3. Balanced matrix
4. Projectized

Q10. You are in the define scope process and defining the detailed scope of the product and the project. This process helps you define the description of product, service or result and define boundaries and tells you about requirement inclusion and exclusion. Which of the following is not an outcome once the process ends?

1. Acceptance criteria
2. Project exclusions
3. Risk register update
4. Stakeholder register update