Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The sponsor of your facilities upgrade project has left the company to join another organization. Several weeks later, you are reviewing the business case for the project, and you find that there are several inconsistencies between what is stated in the business case and what is described in the project scope. Further research shows that the business case as a whole is based on inaccurate information. What do you do?

1. Notify your project stakeholders immediately
2. Add this to the risk log
3. Update the requirements
4. Call the sponsor for clarification

Q3. If a project team is subdividing project work packages into smaller, more manageable components, they are:

1. Creating WBS
2. Decomposing
3. Network diagramming
4. Activity sequencing

Q4. A management control point where scope, budget and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement is a:

1. Code of accounts
2. Control packages
3. Control account
4. Account Plan

Q5. An activity needs more time because an identified risk has occurred. The project manager determines that there is enough reserve to accommodate the change. Who needs to approve the change?

1. Management
2. Project manager
3. Team member
4. Functional manager

Q6. You are given a new project to manage and a brief project scope statement. The project sponsor tells you that there is no required completion date for the project. The BEST thing to do is to:

1. Ask for better definition of the project scope before accepting the project.
2. Accomplish the project as time allows
3. Plan the project as you would a normal project, but build in schedule flexibility
4. Make a list of activities that need to be done.

Q7. What might historical records from previous projects used as an input to the Define Activities process include?

1. Activities
2. Resources
3. Costs
4. Schedule

Q8. Statistical sampling involves choosing part of a population for inspection. Appropriate sampling can often ___________the cost of quality control.

1. Neutralize
2. Reduce
3. Increase
4. Mitigate

Q9. The project manager is looking at the project’s resource needs and lessons learned from past projects. This information causes the project manager to be concerned about the ability to acquire enough resources from the project in six months. Which of the following would be the LEAST effective preventive action?

1. Make sure functional managers have a copy of the resource histogram
2. Show the sponsor the data, and explain the project manager’s concern
3. Determine metrics to use as an early warning sign that resources will not be available.
4. Ask functional managers for their opinions.

Q10. During the Control Scope process, analysis of the scope performance resulted in a change request to the scope baseline. This change request will be processed for review and disposition in the:

1. Control Quality
2. Perform Integrated Change Control
3. Monitor and Control Project Work
4. Validate Scope