Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The customer wants to make a change to the project scope. The BEST thing for the project manager to evaluate is the:

1. Effect of the change on scope management
2. Effect of the change on the project scope.
3. Effect of the change on the project schedule, cost, quality and risk.
4. Effect of the change on the project baselines.

Q3. A change request that is issued to bring the performance of the project back in line with the project management plan is related to:

1. Corrective action
2. Defect repair
3. Proactive action
4. Preventive action

Q4. Which of the following rules should apply to international dealings on your project?

1. You have your way, I have mine
2. Do not violate any basic fundamental human rights
3. Always apply the business practices of your own country.
4. Do whatever it takes to manage the project successfully.

Q5. Which of the following is an output of the Collect Requirements process?

1. Requirements traceability matrix
2. Project scope statement
3. Work breakdown structure
4. Requested scope changes

Q6. A team member notifies the project manager that a quality requirement for the project cannot be met. What is the LEAST effective thing for the project manager to do?

1. Notify management
2. Hold a team meeting
3. Look for alternative ways to meet quality level.
4. Ask management to come up with options.

Q7. The project manager wishes to use the Delphi technique to obtain expert opinion on some difficult technical issues she’s facing. What should she be careful to do?

1. Make sure the experts consulted are recognized for their input.
2. Compare information and work toward a single opinion.
3. Consult the stakeholders.
4. Meet together with the experts to obtain consensus.

Q8. In complex and high value projects, which of the following activities will typically be performed by a business analyst prior to the project initiation?

1. Define project scope and develop WBS
2. Finalize the project scope statement and the WBS dictionary
3. Establish the project’s scope baseline
4. Determine problems, identify business needs and viable solutions

Q9. A project team has been arguing for days about the correct way to complete a high-level design. This argument has caused the schedule performance index (SPI) to fall 0.89 and the cost performance index (CPI) to 0.8. If the project manager tells the team, “we will schedule this discussion for our team meeting next week,” the project manager is:

1. Using earned value
2. Compromising
3. Increasing costs even further
4. Withdrawing.

Q10. You have been given a big project to complete. This is an important project for your company, therefore management does not want any delay in completion. As soon as the project charter is signed, you start identifying and categorizing stakeholders using various data representation tools. Which of the following tools will you not use here?

1. Brain writing
2. Stakeholder cube
3. Direction of influence
4. Salience model