Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project is considered closed when the:

1. Client accepts the product
2. Lessons learned are completed
3. Archives are completed
4. Contract is finished

Q3. Which of the following is not an enterprise environmental factor influencing the Develop Project Management Plan process?

1. Project management body of knowledge
2. Governmental or industry standards
3. Project Management Plan template
4. Legal and regulatory requirements

Q4. During project executing, a project team member informs the project manager that based on her observations, the project cannot meet the quality standards set for it. The project manager meets with all parties concerned to analyze the situation. Which part of the quality management process is the pr manager involved in?

1. Manage Quality
2. Quality analysis
3. Perform Quality Control
4. Plan Quality

Q5. All the monitoring and controlling processes and many of the executing processes can produce change requests as an output. Change requests may require corrective actions and preventive actions. Which of the following are normally affected by corrective and preventive actions?

1. Defect repair
2. Regressive baselines
3. The project baselines
4. The performance against baselines

Q6. Using the chart, the resource for activity A is assigned to an additional, more important, project. As a result, the resource will not be able to devote as much time to your project. Activity A will now take 10 weeks. How does this affect the project?

1. There are three critical paths.
2. The project will be delayed
3. The project is riskier
4. Activity D will be delayed

Q7. Your project has a cost performance index (CPI) of 1.1, and a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.03. All the deliverables to date have been completed to the customer’s satisfaction. Getting formal acceptance of the project management plan was difficult because the schedule was compressed beyond reason. Actvity B has float of 2 weeks, activity C has float of zero, activity D has zero float and activity E is being done by a new employee and has a float of 3 weeks. The hardest part of the project is about to start and even the project management office has asked you to increase your management oversight and report more often on the status of the project. In preparing your report you find out that the team member completing activity D reports a one day delay, the team member completing activity D reports that the material needed t o complete the activity has not arrived. The team member for activity B tells you his activity will be delayed by two days because the customer has delayed formal acceptance during the Validate Scope process. Another team member reports that the earned value-related trend report is favorable. What would you do if you were the project manager?

1. Investigate why it was difficult to get formal acceptance of the project management plan and whether that problem added any risks to the project.
2. Hold a meeting to walk through the upcoming difficult activities with those doing the work.
3. Investigate the reason for the delayed material and the effect on the project
4. Reassign resources from noncritical path activities to critical path activities and meet with the customer about activity B.

Q8. You are managing a project for your company constructing an office complex in another country. The construction work on two of the buildings is complete, and those buildings are ready for move-in. However, the construction supervisor informs you that you must pay a fee to a local government agency to issue an occupancy permit for any new construction in that country. What should you do?

1. Pay the fee
2. Ask your legal department if this is legal
3. Notify project stakeholders that you have been asked to pay a bribe
4. Do not pay the fee

Q9. You are managing a large project with many contractors working on it. A stakeholder comes to you and informs you that he never received the status report from one of your contractors. What will your next step be?

1. Stop the payment and ask for clarification
2. Call the contractor
3. Review the communications management plan
4. Inform management

Q10. With a growing awareness of so-called unknowable-unknowns, the existence of emergent risk is becoming clear. These are risks that can only be recognized after they have occurred. Emergent risks can be tackled through developing:

1. Project resilience
2. Project charter
3. Project management plan
4. Project risk management plan