Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A new employee of the company is assigned to work on a project that is in the early planning processes. She has to decide if she will accept the assignment to the project or whether she wants to be assigned to a different project. However, the project manager is not at work and is not reachable. Where can the team member look to help her determine what work she is given on the project?

1. Activity definitions
2. Project management plan
3. Job descriptions
4. Responsibility assignment matrix

Q3. Originally a project has seven activities: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Activities A, B, and D can start anytime. Activity A takes three weeks, activity B takes five weeks, and activity D takes 11 weeks. Activities A and B must be completed before activity C can start. Activity C takes six weeks to complete. Activities B, C, and D must be completed before activity E can start, and activity E takes two weeks. Activity F can start as soon as activity C completes and has duration of four weeks. Activity G takes three weeks and cannot start until activity E is completed. Activities F and G must be completed for the project to be completed. However, during project executing, a dependency was discovered between activities E and F. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Tell management that the project will take longer than 18 weeks.
2. Redo schedule development
3. Call a team meeting and determine if crashing or fast tracking are possible solutions to meeting the original schedule
4. Call a meeting of stakeholders and communicate schedule risks.

Q4. The risks identified for the project must be analyzed to be able to rely on them during the rest of the risk management process. It would be MOST important to complete which of the following?

1. Trigger data analysis
2. Data quality assessment
3. A risk rating matrix
4. Analysis of trends in qualitative risk analysis.

Q5. The management theory that all people can direct their own effort is:

1. Theory Y
2. Herzberg’s theory
3. Maslow’s hierarchy
4. Theory X

Q6. A project manager is spending most of the project funding in the current phase of the project. The manager is also managing various resources in the project. What is the stakeholder influence on the project now compared to earlier phases?

1. Cannot be determined
2. More
3. Less
4. Same

Q7. People associated with the organization in which you are working with have been complaining about the lack of information regarding upcoming changes and want to get information now. Some of them feel what they have heard about your project means they will lose their job or be forced to find a different position with the company. Luckily for you, the SPI is at 1.08 and the CPI is at .99, so you feel confident of success. What is the BEST way to deal with this situation?

1. Update the organizational process assets and reassess the risks of this type of situation occurring again.
2. Use face-to-face meetings to gather further information about the issues and use the issue log to tract the issues to completion.
3. Use smoothing to let the people know they are not in act going to lose their jobs, and fight for better feedback in the future.
4. Have the people submit a change request so their concerns may be addressed and have the change control board review the change for merit.

Q8. In the procurement process, the seller may be viewed initially as a bidder, then as the selected source, and then as the contracted supplier. The seller will typically manage the work as a project. In such an instance, which of the following is not true?

1. The buyer becomes the customer and is then a key project stakeholder for the seller.
2. Terms and conditions of the contract become key inputs to many of the seller’s management processes (ex: major deliverables, key milestones, cost objectives).
3. There need not be a contractual relationship between the buyer and the seller.
4. The seller’s project management team is concerned with all the processes of project management and not just procurement management.

Q9. You manage an airport construction project. Since sophisticated technology and systems are involved, your project procurements require significant lead times. Your procurement specialist has recently proposed a new procurements management process that will significantly reduce these lead times and result in cost savings for the project. Besides implementing this new process, what else should you do?

1. Resell your current inventory at the purchase price
2. Shut down the project warehouse
3. Update the lessons-learned database
4. Do not include the over-processing costs

Q10. For projects where a business analyst collaborates with the project managers in managing the project scope, which of the following task is most likely to be performed by the business analyst?

1. Acquire project resources
2. Monitor the change control process
3. Elicit, document, and manage stakeholder requirements
4. Control project costs