Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Interpersonal skills are important for a project manager as they help him or her to manage stakeholders properly. Which of the following is not an interpersonal skill?

1. Communication style assessment
2. Political awareness
3. Work environment
4. Cultural awareness

Q3. Although it is highly recommended that lessons learned are captured and documented throughout the project lifecycle, lessons learned are finalized during project closure. At this stage, responses to high-level questions may be gathered and documented. Which of the following is not an appropriate question to ask at this stage?

1. What were the top significant project successes?
2. How relevant the historic lessons learned were to this project during execution?
3. What obstacles or unanticipated circumstances made it difficult to complete the project?
4. What should have been done differently in this project?

Q4. The risks identified for the project must be analyzed to be able to rely on them during the rest of the risk management process. It would be MOST important to complete which of the following?

1. Trigger data analysis
2. Data quality assessment
3. A risk rating matrix
4. Analysis of trends in qualitative risk analysis.

Q5. You are in the middle of executing a major modification to an existing product when you learn that the resources promised at the beginning of the project are not available. The BEST thing to do is to:

1. Show how the resources were originally promised to your project.
2. Re-plan the project without the resources
3. Explain the impact if the promised resources are not made available
4. Crash the project

Q6. Which chart allows a project manager to indicate the number of resources used each month?

1. Responsibility assignment matrix
2. Resource histogram
3. Project organizational chart
4. Pareto chart.

Q7. You have estimated the cost of your project by calculating the cost of each activity, adding them together to get the cost of a work package, and then you adding together the cost of all work packages. What kind of estimate are you using here?

1. Top down
2. Bottom up
3. Parametric
4. Ball park estimate

Q8. 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

Q9. A project has a payback period of nine months. What does this mean?

1. It will take the project nine months to start incurring costs
2. The project will be complete in nine months
3. The first nine months of the project will provide profit to the company
4. It will take the project nine months to cover the investment and start generating revenue

Q10. The new software installation project is in progress. The project manager is working with the quality assurance department to improve everyone’s confidence that the project will satisfy the quality standards. Which of the following MUST they have before they start this process?

1. Quality problems.
2. Quality improvement
3. Quality control measurements
4. Rework