Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Julia is a longtime employee of your organization and is given to you for your new project. She was very good in her previous position but you notice that she is not performing well with the assignment you have given her. After further investigation, you learn that she is lacking skills to complete the job assigned to her. What will your next step be?

1. Terminate them
2. Monitor them
3. Develop a training program for them
4. Recruit some new member

Q3. Your project has a cost performance index (CPI) of 1.1, and a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.03. All the deliverables to date have been completed to the customer’s satisfaction. Getting formal acceptance of the project management plan was difficult because the schedule was compressed beyond reason. Actvity B has float of 2 weeks, activity C has float of zero, activity D has zero float and activity E is being done by a new employee and has a float of 3 weeks. The hardest part of the project is about to start and even the project management office has asked you to increase your management oversight and report more often on the status of the project. In preparing your report you find out that the team member completing activity D reports a one day delay, the team member completing activity D reports that the material needed t o complete the activity has not arrived. The team member for activity B tells you his activity will be delayed by two days because the customer has delayed formal acceptance during the Validate Scope process. Another team member reports that the earned value-related trend report is favorable. What would you do if you were the project manager?

1. Investigate why it was difficult to get formal acceptance of the project management plan and whether that problem added any risks to the project.
2. Hold a meeting to walk through the upcoming difficult activities with those doing the work.
3. Investigate the reason for the delayed material and the effect on the project
4. Reassign resources from noncritical path activities to critical path activities and meet with the customer about activity B.

Q4. You have decided to terminate a contract because you no longer need the work from the seller. What is the BEST way to communicate this to the seller?

1. Call the seller immediately.
2. Send the seller a notification by e-mail.
3. Send the seller a stop work order by overnight mail.
4. Hold an immediate meeting with the seller.

Q5. The project has been working through some difficult technical issues relating to how the work should be done. The most recent problem related to the way each test was to be completed. There have also been disagreements with two of the eight managers and the sponsor has had to intervene once. The testing work is done when the project manager discovers that one of the changes agreed to has not been adequately completed. What did the project manager NOT do?

1. Ask those doing the work describe the change, to make sure they understood it.
2. Get the sponsor to sign off on the change.
3. Make sure the functional manager closely supervised the testing.
4. Provider more training for those doing the testing.

Q6. Enterprise environmental factors are conditions under which you must work and you cannot control them. Which of the following is not an enterprise environmental factor?

1. Organization culture
2. Market condition
3. Corporate knowledge base
4. Project management information system

Q7. A project manager is working on her first project that uses people from outside her country. Which of the following would be the MOST important thing to expect to occur?

1. Added costs due to shoddy or incomplete work
2. Language or cultural differences that preclude effective team work
3. Increased resource planning and coordination activities
4. Team building activities become impractical, and the cost is prohibitive.

Q8. The project is mostly complete. The project has a schedule variance of 300 and a cost variance of -900. All but one of the quality control inspections have been completed and all have met the quality requirements. All items in the issue log have been resolved. Many of the resources have been released. The sponsor is about to call a meeting to obtain product verification when the customer notifies the project manager that they want to make a major change to the scope. The project manager should:

1. Meet with the project team to determine if this change can be made.
2. Ask the customer for a description of the change
3. Explain that the change cannot be made at this point in the process
4. Inform management

Q9. Your boss is worried about the project schedule. There is a critical deliverable due to the federal government in two weeks. If you miss the deliverable, you could lose the entire contract. To help reduce the boss’s stress you show him the earned value calculations you just completed. They show your cost performance index (CPI) is 1) is US $490 million. Should your boss be comfortable?

1. Yes, your SV is $10 million.
2. No, your CPI is too high
3. He needs more data
4. Yes, your SPI is 1.05.

Q10. A change control system should be created:

1. As needed on the project
2. By management
3. As a formal documented procedure
4. By the team 4