Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following is TRUE of inspections?

1. They may not be conducted by the project team.
2. They test future desires of prospective customers.
3. They can only be conducted on the final product.
4. They prevent defective deliverables from reaching the customer.

Q3. Statistical sampling involves choosing part of a population for inspection. Appropriate sampling can often ___________the cost of quality control.

1. Neutralize
2. Reduce
3. Increase
4. Mitigate

Q4. The customer wants to expand the project scope after the project performance measurement baselines have been established. The customer will need to follow which procedures?

1. Scope control
2. Integrated change control
3. Integrated management
4. Document control

Q5. You are just about to present your project’s status to your company’s executive team. Just as you are leaving your desk for the meeting, one of your resources hands you an updated report on the progress of a critical deliverable. As you are walking to the conference room, you review the report and notice there is an error in it. What do you do?

1. Do not report on that part of the project
2. Disclose that you have just discovered there is an error in some of the information you intended to present and only present the information that you know is true
3. Cancel the meeting
4. Present the information as-it-is and revise it in the meeting minutes, which will be sent after two days

Q6. A project manager is trying to convince management to use more formal project management procedures and has decided to start improving the company’s project management by obtaining a project charter. Which of the following BEST describes why the project charter would help the project manager?

1. It describes the details of what needs to be done.
2. It lists the names of all team members.
3. It gives the project manager authority.
4. It describes the project’s history.

Q7. A SWOT analysis helps you identify opportunities which arise from organizational strengths threats dues to its weakness. According to this analysis, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses is a part of:

1. Internal factors
2. External factors
3. Discretionary factors
4. Mandatory factors

Q8. You are finalizing the monthly project status report due now to your manager when you discover that several project team members are not reporting actual hours spent on project activities. This results in skewed project statistics. What is the MOST appropriate action to be taken?

1. Discuss the impacts of these actions with team members.
2. Report the team members’ actions t their functional managers.
3. Continue reporting information as presented to you.
4. Provider accurate and truthful representations in all project reports.

Q9. The engineering resource group, a matrix organization of which a project manager’s project team is a part, has a policy of no salary bonuses for project work. The project manager’s current project has an aggressive timeline and a difficult technical obstacle to overcome. A new product offering is dependent on this project’s success in the current timeline. The project manager has heard grumbling from his team members about the fact that they cannot be rewarded for their effort. What is the FIRST thing the project manager should do?

1. The project manager should determine whether other team members from another department can help with the project.
2. The project manager should talk to management to determine other rewards that can be given.
3. The project manager should negotiate a less aggressive schedule from the client.
4. The project manager should talk with the team about the importance of getting this done on time and explain the company policy.

Q10. The project manager is working to clearly describe the level of involvement expected from everyone involved in the project in order to prevent rework, conflict, and coordination problems. Which of the following BEST describes the project manager’s efforts?

1. Develop Project Management Plan and Plan Quality Management
2. Problem solving, control, and discovering gold plating
3. Validate Scope and Control Quality
4. Control Risks, Develop Project Team, and lessons learned