Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have overheard two functional managers arguing about the impacts that your project will have on their departments. What is your best response?

1. Do nothing
2. Analyze and report to each manager the impact your project will have on their departments in terms of time and resources required and the relative enterprise priority of your project
3. Inform the managers that the project sponsors already considered this impact when they decided to implement the project
4. Put in advance requests for resources from each department

Q3. Jessica is managing an office refurbishment project. All the project stakeholders are identified and classified. The stakeholder engagement plan is also approved. Jessica is managing a project for the first time, and she is relying on the PMBOK guide as a reference to deliver an excellent project. Which of the following processes would provide guidance to Jessica regarding how to execute the approved stakeholder engagement plan?

1. Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
2. Manage Stakeholder Engagement
3. Identify Stakeholders
4. Plan Stakeholder Engagement

Q4. Which of the following BEST describes what co-location does for the project?

1. Saves cost
2. Reduces communication problems
3. Accelerates schedule
4. Improves opportunities

Q5. A project manager received executive orders to deliver the project two weeks earlier than scheduled, doing whatever it takes. He decided that the least costly means would be to add resources to critical path activities in order to shorten the time of those activities. In this case, the project manager has:

1. Fast tracked the critical path part of the project schedule
2. Decomposed the critical path WBS
3. Leveled resources
4. Crashed the critical path

Q6. A project manager has just been assigned to a new project and has been given the approved project charter. The FIRST thing the project manager must do is:

1. Create a project scope statement
2. Confirm that all the stakeholders have had input to the scope
3. Analyze project risk
4. Begin work on a project management plan

Q7. You are the project manager managing a project to design a print head for dot matrix printers. In order to determine ideal settings for print quality, the quality manager of the company suggests trying out various scenarios for printing by varying certain parameters on the print head. Identifying such variables which influence the product or process under development is called:

1. Benchmarking
2. Design of Experiments
3. Statistical Sampling
4. Brainstorming

Q8. Which of the following is not an example of parametric estimating?

1. Activity duration estimated based on the number of drawings multiplied by the number of labor hours per drawing.
2. Activity duration estimated based on the number of labor hours per meter for cable installation.
3. Activity duration estimated based on the square footage in construction.
4. Activity duration estimated based on the actual duration of a similar, previous project.

Q9. Andrew is managing a construction project. He is using his communication, interpersonal and management skills to keep the key project stakeholders engaged with the project. Which of the following activities is not related to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process?

1. Addressing and resolving issues
2. Developing the stakeholder engagement plan
3. Confirming the stakeholders' continued commitment
4. Negotiating and communicating with the stakeholders

Q10. Mary is currently drafting a stakeholder engagement plan for her new website development project. Her organization has strict communication guidelines. Mary wants to ensure that her stakeholder engagement strategy aligns with the organizational communications guidelines. Where can she find these guidelines?

1. Corporate knowledge base
2. Stakeholder register
3. Project contract
4. Lessons learned library