Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Instead of celebrating the end of the project, the stakeholders are breathing a sigh of relief. None of them were confident the product would meet the end date. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons this project had difficulty?

1. Lack of payback period
2. Lack of milestones
3. Lack of a communications management plan
4. Lack of a staffing management plan

Q3. While conducting interviews for a project manager position, you notice that your classmate is one of the prospective candidates. What should you do immediately?

1. Encourage your classmate by offering some tips
2. Resign from the interview panel
3. Remove your classmate from the list
4. Inform the interview panel of the relationship

Q4. The project charter for a project was approved for planning, and you have just been assigned as project manager. Realizing that project planning is an ongoing effort throughout the project, which processes are you MOST likely to combine?

1. Create WBS and Define Activities
2. Estimate Activity Durations and Develop Schedule
3. Plan Resource Management and Estimate Costs
4. Estimate Costs and Determine Budget

Q5. All of the following are outputs of the Plan Quality process EXCEPT:

1. Quality management plan
2. Validated deliverables
3. Checklists
4. Metrics.

Q6. Formal written correspondence with the customer is required when:

1. Defects are detected.
2. The customer requests additional work not covered under contract.
3. The project has a schedule slippage that includes changes to the critical path.
4. The project has cost overruns.

Q7. A person who has been working as a project expeditor for the past three years has just been named as project manger for a construction project in a neighboring state. The construction crew has worked together for a number of years. One of the project manager’s responsibilities is to pursue all of the historical risk information available, but he does not have enough time to access all available resources. The project manager would be best served by relying LEAST on which of these sources?

1. Lessons learned databases 0
2. Project files
3. Published benchmarking reports
4. Project team knowledge

Q8. You have recently taken over a project as the project manager. The project is midway through execution, and most of the project work has been subcontracted. You have just found out that one of the subcontractors, who was responsible for all demolitions, has been paid 50 percent of the subcontracted value, but he has delivered only 25 percent of the required works. Upon investigation, you learned that all the payments are in line with the signed contract between the two parties and the subcontractor’s work is compliant with the contract specifications. You are annoyed because this does not give you enough control over the subcontracted works. Which of the following is not an appropriate thing to do at this stage?

1. Document the story as a lesson learned
2. Continue with the arrangement
3. Discuss your concerns with appropriate stakeholders so that this mistake is not repeated
4. Terminate the contract unless there is a violation of the contract

Q9. Your boss says that in order to your new product to market sooner, the project must be completed four months earlier. However, he does not want to shorten the schedule if the project cost will go up more than US $22,000. Provided with the chart, which critical path activity(s) would you crash?

1. Activity D
2. Activities A and F
3. Activities A and H
4. Activity C

Q10. You have always been asked by your management to cut your project estimate by 10 percent after you have given it to them. The scope of your new project is unclear and there are over 30 stakeholders. Management expects a 25 percent reduction in downtime as a result of the project. Which of the following is the BEST course of action in this situation?

1. Re-plan to achieve a 35 percent improvement in downtime
2. Reduce the estimates and note the changes in the risk response plan
3. Provide an accurate estimate of the actual costs and be able to support your estimate
4. Meet with the team to identify where you can find 10 percent savings.