Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are the project manager for a new international project, and your project team includes people from four countries. Most of the team members have not worked on similar projects before, but the project has strong support from senior management. What is the BEST thing to do to ensure that cultural differences do not interfere with the project?

1. Spend a little more time creating the work breakdown structure and making sure it is complete
2. As the project manager, make sure you choose your words carefully whenever you communicate
3. Ask one person at each team meeting to describe something unique about their culture.
4. Carefully encode all the project manager’s communications.

Q3. Your organization gets a new project and wants you to assign the project manager for this project. As management is busy with other activities, they ask you to develop the project charter so the project can get started. To develop the project charter, which of the following is not needed?

1. Strategic plan
2. Business case
3. Agreements
4. Project plan

Q4. You realize that you have made an error in your monthly status meeting. Therefore, you send stakeholders the correct report by email. What kind of communication method are you using here?

1. Push
2. Pull
3. Interactive
4. None of the above

Q5. During the implementation of a contingency plan, a team member notices that the plan worked only marginally. There were three similar contingency plans developed for other risks that have not yet happened. He should recommend which of the following?

1. A workaround
2. A project change request
3. A new risk rating matrix
4. A risk responsibility chart review

Q6. While holding a risk reassessment meeting, the sponsor is looking at the latest list of top risks in the project report. A newly identified risk has undergone qualitative risk analysis and it was determined that it did not rank higher than already identified risks to continue through the risk process. Two fallback plans have been adjusted based on the severity of previous risk impacts. What has the project manager NOT done?

1. Provide the sponsor with the full list of noncritical risks
2. Perform quantitative risk analysis for the new risk
3. Look at the impact of the new risk to the project as a whole
4. Look for contingency risks from the fallback plan.

Q7. You are assigned as a project manager to lead a new quality improvement project. Management is asking for a project management plan. Which of the following should you create FIRST?

1. A process assurance plan
2. A quality management plan
3. A project management plan
4. A project scope statement

Q8. Vendor selection, vendor management, and documentation of lessons learned are tasks that fall under this process:

1. Procurement management
2. Deliverable management
3. Conduct Procurements
4. Scope management

Q9. A project manager is creating a risk response plan. However, every time a risk response is suggested another risk is identified that is caused by the response. Which of the following would be the BEST thing for the project manager to do?

1. Document the new risks and continue the Plan Risk Responses process.
2. Make sure the project work is better understood.
3. Get more people involved in the Identify Risks process since risks have been missed.
4. Spend more time making sure the risk responses are clearly defined.

Q10. You are the project manager of a project whose team has interacted with a number of stakeholders. You believe that in order to have an objective project performance appraisal, you would like to obtain feedback for the project team members from all the people they have worked with, including superiors, peers and subordinates. Project performance appraisals are performed during which of the following processes?

1. Close Project or Phase
2. Acquire Resources
3. Manage Team
4. Develop Team