Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager has assembled the project team, identified 56 risks on the project, determined what would trigger the risks, rated them on a risk rating matrix, tested their assumptions, and assessed the quality of the data used. The team is continuing to move through the risk management process. What has the project manager forgotten to do?

1. Simulation
2. Risk mitigation
3. Overall risk ranking for the project
4. Involvement of other stakeholders

Q3. A manager has responsibility for a project that has the support of a senior manager. From the beginning, you have disagreed with the manager as to how the project should proceed and what the deliverables should be. You and she have disagreed over many issues in the past. Your department has been tasked with providing some key work packages for the project. What should you do?

1. Provide the manager with what she needs
2. Inform your manager of your concerns to get her support
3. Sit down with the manager at the beginning of the project, attempt to describe why you object to the project, and discover a way to solve the problem
4. Ask to be removed from the project.

Q4. The term ________ indicates the degree to which a particular product or service meets requirements, while _____________ indicates a category or rank used to distinguish that item from other similar items.

1. Quality, grade
2. Grade, standard
3. Grade, quality
4. Quality, standard

Q5. Your project sponsor has asked you to present your project’s high-level risk register to him in the next project update meeting. To create your high-level risk register, which of the following processes must be performed?

1. Plan Risk Management
2. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
3. Identify Risks
4. Monitor Risks

Q6. Vendor selection, vendor management, and documentation of lessons learned are tasks that fall under this process:

1. Procurement management
2. Deliverable management
3. Conduct Procurements
4. Scope management

Q7. You are a project manager for Groceries ’R’ Us, a supermarket chain, and are currently working on a project to build a new outlet. The planned values (PV) for the foundation and the frame were $150,000 and $500,000. After five months, you do a performance measurement analysis. You are currently not ahead of schedule. The actual costs for the foundation and frame were $175,000 and $650,000. At this point, 100 percent of the foundation is complete, and only 80 percent of the frame is complete. Which value represents the cost performance index (CPI) to two decimal places at this point in the project?

1. 0.84
2. 1.5
3. 0.67
4. 1.19

Q8. While planning the schedule for your project, you frequently refer to the project calendar. The project calendar is:

1. A calendar containing the days on which various meetings are scheduled with the project team.
2. A calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked.
3. A calendar containing the list of days on which the project team members will be on leave or take an “off.”
4. A calendar that establishes the dates on which project deliverables go to the customer.

Q9. A work authorization system can be used to:

1. Manage who does each activity
2. Manage when and in what sequence work is done
3. Manage when each activity is done
4. Manage who does each activity and when it is done.

Q10. The scope baseline can BEST be said to include the:

1. WBS and project scope statement
2. Project scope management plan and project scope statement
3. Project scope management plan and WBS
4. WBS and project charter