Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. In the process of reviewing the status of your team’s work assignments, you learn that the project has fallen behind schedule by one week. The project has high visibility within the organization and is completely datedriven. The project finish date is still two months out and you think you can recover the time over the next month or so. What is the BEST course of action for reporting the project status?

1. Report the project on schedule. This is not a significant slippage and there is still time to recover
2. Report the project on schedule. Most project management plans are not accurate to less than one or two weeks anyway
3. Report the project one week behind schedule and include recommended corrective actions
4. Report the project one week behind schedule and then issue a new report next week showing them the problem fixed

Q3. While planning the project, you discover that an expert resource might be available to work on you project. However, the resource manager will not commit to the resource being on your team at the present time. The BEST thing to do would be to estimate the activity:

1. As if the expert resources were available.
2. As though you had an average resource doing the activity.
3. As if you had an inexperienced resource
4. Using the Delphi technique.

Q4. You have been hired by ABC Inc. and appointed as a project manager for their new project. The project charter has been signed and currently you are busy with preparing a detailed description of your project and the product. The description is in detail, the final requirements are identified, the product boundaries are defined, and you have outlined what is included and what is excluded. Once you complete this process, which of the following documents will you not update next?

1. Issue log
2. Stakeholder register
3. Requirements documentations
4. Requirement traceability matrix

Q5. Co-location can help with:

1. Bringing customers together
2. Building a team
3. Decreasing project rental costs
4. Decreasing project time.

Q6. The Stakeholder Committee has a report that shows zero schedule variance. However, the first milestone in the project was missed, which will cause a delay in the project. Which of the following was not reported correctly?

1. Resource management plan
2. Risk analysis
3. Critical path status
4. Communications plan variance

Q7. The sponsor of a project created a document that included the business need and the cost-benefit analysis. What would this document be termed as?

1. The project statement of work
2. The business case
3. The project management plan
4. The contract

Q8. Benefit measurement and constrained optimization are examples of:

1. Benefit cost ratios
2. Variable costs
3. Types of depreciation
4. Project selection methods

Q9. A project manager has just been assigned to a project that has been in progress for two months when a team member requests more time on an activity he is working on. The project manager discovers that the only impact to the project will be a delay on a noncritical path activity. The customer has emphasized the importance of completing the project on schedule. What should the project manager do NEXT?

1. Submit the information to the change control board, determine if this event might impact the team member’s future work, inform the team member of the board’s decision
2. Ask the team member why they need more time, begin integrated change control, adjust the project schedule as needed
3. Look for impacts to quality, cut unneeded scope from the project, ask for more resources
4. See if any stakeholders object to the change, calculate the exact impact on the project, look at removing this resource from the project

Q10. Who of the following would be LEAST likely to be involved in the Define Activities process?

1. End user
2. Team
3. Experts
4. Project manager