Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) dictionary supports the WBS and is a companion document to the WBS. Which of the following is not included in the WBS dictionary?

1. List of schedule milestones
2. Resource assigned
3. Agreement Information
4. Code of Account Identifier

Q3. The resource optimization technique during the Control Schedule process allows a project manager to:

1. Schedule training sessions for the project team members to optimize their performance.
2. Schedule activities considering both the resource availability and the project time.
3. Provide monetary incentives to project team members to boost their performance.
4. Allow overtime so that team members get motivated to work during nonworking hours.

Q4. Identify stakeholders is a process where you identify stakeholders for your project. Which of the following statements is not true regarding this process?

1. This process happens throughout the project
2. This process happens in the planning phase
3. This process happens in the executing phase
4. This process is started only when the project charter is signed

Q5. A project manager and his team are using an Ishikawa diagram, trying to determine how various factors might have contributed to project problems. The project manager is involved in which part of the quality management process?

1. Plan Quality
2. Utilize Quality tools
3. Manage Quality
4. Perform Quality Control

Q6. A project manager’s project has just been dropped to a lower priority on the list on his department’s prioritize projects. It would be BEST for the project manager to:

1. Let the customer know that the project schedule will need to slip.
2. Use some of the management reserve to accommodate the change.
3. Start cutting wok packages.
4. Gain more resources.

Q7. The formula for Cost Variance is:

1. CV=EV-AC
2. CV=AC-EV
3. CV=BAC-(AC-EV)
4. CV=SV-BC

Q8. Which of the following BEST describes what is included in a staffing management plan?

1. A plan regarding what details about the project should go to whom and when the details need to be sent.
2. How the team will implement the plans for ensuring the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken
3. When and how human resources will be brought into and taken off the project team
4. If independent estimates are needed, who will prepare them and when.

Q9. Mary is currently drafting a stakeholder engagement plan for her new website development project. Her organization has strict communication guidelines. Mary wants to ensure that her stakeholder engagement strategy aligns with the organizational communications guidelines. Where can she find these guidelines?

1. Corporate knowledge base
2. Stakeholder register
3. Project contract
4. Lessons learned library

Q10. Which of the following activities fall under the planning process group but not under project schedule management?

1. Estimating activity durations
2. Developing the Schedule Management Plan
3. Identification of various activities to produce the project deliverables
4. Developing a detailed description of the project and product being developed