Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The authorized time phased budget which you use to monitor and control the cost of the project is known as:

1. Funding limit reconciliation
2. EAC
3. Cost baseline
4. Schedule baseline

Q3. A team member assigned to the project needs two days of training to satisfactorily complete certain activities. No one else with the necessary skills is available to the project team. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Add two days to the schedule and inform management of the delay
2. Ask management for additional personnel because you cannot afford the extra schedule time.
3. Offer a bonus to the team member if he/she gets the training on his/her own time.
4. Include training in the project management plan.

Q4. A project manager receives a deliverable from one of the team members to provide to the customer. While looking at the deliverable, the project manager notes that the document is smaller than what he expected and does not contain what he thought it should. The project manager should FIRST:

1. Discuss it with the team member
2. Contact the team member’s manager to get that person additional training
3. Audit the development process
4. Complete scope validation

Q5. A technical team can begin to edit a large document 15 days after it begins writing it. What kind of dependency would this represent?

1. Start-to-start with a 15-day lead
2. Finish-to-finish with a 15-day lead
3. Start-to-start with a 15-day lag
4. Finish-to-start with a 15-day lag

Q6. Which of the following statements about team-building activities is incorrect?

1. It can be a five-minute agenda item in a status review meeting.
2. It can be a professionally facilitated experience designed to improve interpersonal relationships.
3. The objective of team-building activities is to help team members work individually and effectively.
4. Informal communication and activities help in building trust and establishing good working relationships.

Q7. An issue has arisen which forces you to schedule a meeting with your stakeholders. A project team member tells you that one of your influential stakeholders may not come to the meeting because of a personal issue. You choose not to take any action because you think that you will manage without the presence of this stakeholder. What kind of risk response strategy are you using here?

1. Accept
2. Avoid
3. Neglect
4. Mitigate

Q8. The project manager’s role during the executing process group of the project can BEST be described as:

1. A Director
2. An Integrator
3. A Coordinator
4. A Leader

Q9. What is another name for the waiting time between two activities?

1. Free float
2. Total float
3. Lag
4. CPM

Q10. You are a project manager creating the final project report. Which information would you NOT include in this report?

1. Scope objectives
2. Lessons learned from previous similar projects
3. Risk summaries
4. Cost objectives