Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following is the LEAST effective way to influence the factors that create changes to the cost baseline?

1. Review the project scope with the functional manager responsible for the greatest number of requested changes.
2. Explain to those requesting changes the negative impact of change to the project.
3. Eliminate the scope causing the most changes
4. Notify all stakeholders that no more changes will be allowed.

Q3. You are the project manager responsible for building a 100,000-squarefoot data center. One of the scheduled activities in your plan is to install the Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) units. However, a raised floor must be installed in the data center before installation of the units can begin. This is an example of what type of precedence relationship?

1. Finish to Finish
2. Start to Finish
3. Start to Start
4. Finish to Start

Q4. Which of the following techniques focuses on identifying non-value-added activities in a project?

1. Pareto charting
2. Process analysis
3. Root cause analysis
4. Affinity diagrams

Q5. A list of risks for additional study is an output of:

1. Identify risks
2. Plan risk management
3. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
4. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis.

Q6. During which risk management process is a determination to transfer a risk made?

1. Identify Risks
2. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
3. Plan Risk Responses
4. Control Risks

Q7. You are the project manager on a project that has a total project float of negative 20. What should you do?

1. Use less experienced team members
2. Request an extension of the project due date
3. Acquire more resources for critical path activities
4. Fast track the project if overall project risk is already too high 38

Q8. Your company has signed up to build a high-tech machine in collaboration with ABC Corp in Japan. ABC Corp will provide the expert, technical know-how and any spare parts you may need. This is a very high-tech machine, the exact description of work is not yet clear, and you are building it for the first time. In this scenario what kind of contract will you select?

1. FPIF
2. CPAF
3. T&M
4. FFP

Q9. The project manager is expecting a deliverable to be submitted by e-mail from a team member today. AT the end of the day, the project manager contacts the team member to notify him that it has not been received. The team member apologizes and says that he was not able e-mail the deliverable, and it was sent through the mail instead. The team member goes on to explain that he notified the project manager that this would occur during a phone conversation they had while the or manager was traveling. “Wasn’t that the conversation we had when I told you I cold not hear you well due to poor cell phone coverage?” ask the project manager. “Yes,” replies the team member. What could have avoided this problem?

1. Paralingual communication
2. Adding to the issue log after the phone call
3. Better attention to determining communications requirements.
4. Feedback during the communication

Q10. James has been managing a hotel construction project on a busy street. He is in the process of estimating activity durations for building walls, and he calculates the most likely estimate as 15 days. If prefabricated material is used, it would take no more than 12 days to finish the work. The work may be delayed and could take up to 18 days if less experienced construction workers build the walls. What is the expected duration of building walls using the three-point estimate?

1. 12 days
2. 11 days
3. 16 days
4. 15 days