Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The project manager has a team scattered across four countries. The team members are experts in their fields and a few are certified project managers. To deal with the distance, the project manager creates ground rules with the team, and has virtual meetings to deal with the cultural differences. Which of the following additional activities would have the GREATEST impact on the project?

1. Plan Communications
2. Acquire Project Team
3. Define Scope
4. Sequence Activities

Q3. You have been working on a very large software development project that has made use of more than 230 people. Finally, all the scope has been completed. It would be BEST to:

1. Throw a party for the team members
2. Make sure the project is integrated with the other projects.
3. Begin to focus on your other projects
4. Analyze project success or failure

Q4. A project manager for a small construction company has a project hat was budgeted for US $130,000 over a six-week period. According to her schedule, the project should have cost US $60,000 to date. However, it has cost US 90,000 to date. The project is also behind schedule, because the original estimates were not accurate. Who has the PRIMARY responsibility to solve this problem?

1. Project manager
2. Senior management
3. Project sponsor
4. Manager of the project management office

Q5. You have joined a new organization and are assigned a project. This is a new type of project but the organization has completed many similar projects in the past. You decide to review the lessons learned from past projects. You go to the archives and ask for the lessons learned from past projects. Lessons learned is a part of which of the following?

1. Organizational process assets
2. Enterprise environment factor
3. Project management plan
4. Project archive

Q6. Which of the following activities occurs during the Plan Procurements process?

1. Make-or-buy decisions
2. Answering sellers’ questions about the bid documents
3. Advertising
4. Proposal evaluation.

Q7. Crashing helps you bring the project back on schedule if it is late. Which of the following statements is true about crashing?

1. Crashing should be done on the critical path
2. Crashing does not increase the cost
3. In crashing, you don’t start activities in parallel
4. All of the above

Q8. You have been given a big project to complete. This is an important project for your company, therefore management does not want any delay in completion. As soon as the project charter is signed, you start identifying and categorizing stakeholders using various data representation tools. Which of the following tools will you not use here?

1. Brain writing
2. Stakeholder cube
3. Direction of influence
4. Salience model

Q9. During risk planning, a team member comes to you and informs you about a risk. This risk was not important; therefore, you tell him to just note down the risk and you will manage this risk if it occurs. What risk response strategy you are using here?

1. Mitigate
2. Accept
3. Avoid
4. Exploit

Q10. You are asked to prepare a budget for completing a project that was started last year and then shelved for six months. All the following would be included in the budget EXCEPT?

1. Fixed costs
2. Sunk costs
3. Direct costs
4. Variable costs