Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The on-demand scheduling approach used in agile environments is based on the theory-of-constraints and pull-based scheduling concepts from lean manufacturing to limit a team’s work in progress. This is also called:

1. 5S
2. Kanban
3. Andon
4. Gemba

Q3. 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

Q4. As you examine a list of job candidates for your project, you find that your cousin is one of the three shortlisted candidates. You know that she was desperately looking for a job. After reviewing the three resumes, you will send them to the electronics engineer for a technical interview. From your review of these resumes, you see that all three shortlisted candidates have similar qualifications and experiences. What should you do?

1. To avoid conflict of interest, ignore your cousin’s resume but forward the other two resumes.
2. Forward all three resumes.
3. Call your cousin and conduct an informal interview yourself before forwarding the resumes.
4. Consult your boss before forwarding the resumes for interview.

Q5. A project manager has received activity duration estimates from his team. Which of the following does he need in order to complete the Develop Schedule process?

1. Change requests
2. Schedule change control
3. Recommend corrective actions
4. Reserves

Q6. In projects with adaptive life cycles, many of the project management processes are repeated in each iteration of the project except:

1. Develop Project Charter
2. Collect Requirements
3. Define Scope
4. Create WBS

Q7. You have the project management responsibility of a virtual team comprising team members from the same company who live in widespread geographic areas, employees who work from home offices and employees with mobility impairments. Virtual teams are formed as a result of which of the following processes?

1. Acquire Resources
2. Plan Resource Management
3. Estimate Activity Resources
4. Develop Schedule

Q8. You want to let your team know that the weekly project status is now officially due by 4:00 pm on Thursdays. Which type of communication would you use?

1. Formal written communication.
2. Formal verbal communication.
3. Informal written communication.
4. Informal verbal communication

Q9. The Conduct Procurements process receives bids or proposals and applies criteria to select one or more sellers who are both qualified and acceptable as a seller. Which of the following techniques is not a valid technique for this process?

1. Make-or-buy analysis
2. Proposal Evaluation Techniques
3. Advertising
4. Bidder Conference

Q10. Which of the following is an agile prototyping technique showing sequence or navigation through a series of images or illustrations:

1. Nominal group technique
2. Mind mapping
3. Decision trees
4. Storyboarding