Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Sheila is a project manager who manages a global project. She has stakeholders located in various parts of the globe. Due to the nature of the project, she also has large volumes of information she needs to share with the recipients. What type of communication method should she prefer for this purpose?

1. Pull communication
2. Push communication
3. Request-based communication
4. Interactive communication

Q3. All of the following are tools of Perform Quality Control EXCEPT:

1. Cost of quality
2. Inspection
3. Control charts
4. Flowcharting

Q4. Your cost forecast shows that you will have a cost overrun at the end of the project. Which of the following should you do?

1. Eliminate risks in estimates and re-estimate.
2. Meet with the sponsor to find out what work can be done sooner.
3. Cut quality.
4. Decrease scope.

Q5. The project manager controls the interfacing and overlapping areas of the organization’s procurement processes, along with the project schedule, with processes from this area:

1. Project Resource Management
2. Project Scope Management
3. Project Risk Management
4. Project Integration Management

Q6. You are a project manager of a complex project which involves many procurement contracts with subcontractors. During the execution phase, a subcontractor comes to you and says that he has completed his part of the work. You reviewed the facts and provided the subcontractor with a formal written notice that the contract has ended. What process is this?

1. Validate scope
2. Verify scope
3. Close procurements
4. Control procurements

Q7. If a project has a 60 percent chance of a $100,000 profit and a 40 percent chance of a $100,000 loss, the expected monetary value of the project is:

1. $20,000 profit
2. $40,000 loss
3. $100,000 profit
4. $60,000 loss

Q8. The project manager’s role during the executing process group of the project can BEST be described as:

1. A Director
2. An Integrator
3. A Coordinator
4. A Leader

Q9. All of the following are parts of effective problem solving EXCEPT:

1. Waiting to make decisions
2. Reviewing the decision
3. Confirming that the decision solved the problem
4. Analyzing the problem.

Q10. During project executing, one of the electrical engineers informs the project manager that the life cycle cost of the new heating and air conditioning system is higher than the life cycle cost of another heating and air conditioning system. What should the project manager do?

1. Determine if there is room in the project budget for the additional cost.
2. Select the product with the lower life cycle cost.
3. Select the product with the best life cycle cost to earned value ratio.
4. Select the product with the lowest maintenance cost to life cycle cost ratio.