Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Scope decomposition involves subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller pieces to:

1. Improve the accuracy of estimates, define a baseline for performance and assist with responsibility assignments.
2. Provide more activities to assign to resources
3. Provide the project duration, provide project control, and assign control charts.
4. Assist in stakeholder assignment to project activities.

Q3. Which of the following is an important input to the Validate Scope process?

1. Validated deliverables
2. Organizational process assets
3. Accepted deliverables
4. Change requests

Q4. A project is ending one of its phases. What should be done before moving on to the next phase?

1. Team meeting
2. Validate Scope
3. Management meeting
4. Scope management 05

Q5. You are managing a multi-million dollar project that is a joint venture between your company and another organization. You have repeatedly tried to get the contact and the project charter finalized between the two organizations, but there has been a great deal of arguing over language and details. The project’s scope has been expanding, cost has been increasing, and the schedule has regularly been lengthening. You learn very suddenly that the project has been cancelled because the other organization withdrew its share of the funding for the project. What is the MOST likely reason that this occurred?

1. Failure to understand the budgetary process
2. Inadequate scope management
3. Lack of sponsor commitment
4. Poorly done initial cost-benefit analysis

Q6. Anne is the project manager of a project. She has evaluated certain responses from prospective sellers and wants to select a contract model that will transfer risk to the seller. Which of the following should she select in order to achieve this?

1. Time and Material contract
2. Fixed price contract
3. Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee contract
4. Cost-Plus-Incentive-Fee contract

Q7. You are working with your customers on completing deliverables in your electronic parts manufacturing project. Since these parts will be exported to other countries, they will need more testing before your customers accept them. In this scenario, which of the following statements about the completed deliverables is correct?

1. Completed deliverables not accepted by customers must be forwarded to the close project or phase process.
2. Deliverables formally accepted by customers must be moved to organizational process assets.
3. Deliverables formally accepted by customers are forwarded to the validate scope process.
4. Completed deliverables not accepted by customers must require a change request for defect repair.

Q8. A project manager has a large team consisting of people from many functional areas of the company. The BEST method to get the team’s cooperation is to use _______ power.

1. Formal
2. Penalty
3. Reward
4. Referent.

Q9. What is a project management information system?

1. A computerized status tracking system
2. A manual status tracking system
3. A method to determine and archive how the project is doing
4. A method to gather, integrate and disseminate what or how the project is doing

Q10. Which of the following is a type of leadership style in which leaders are hands-off and allow group members to make the decisions:

1. Transactional
2. Servant leader
3. Transformational
4. Laissez-faire