Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following BEST describes the meaning of the 50/50 rule?

1. Grant 50 percent progress on an activity when it begins and 50 percent upon completion
2. 50 percent of the work is done by 50 percent of the people on the project
3. Identify 50 percent of risks before you start to develop responses.
4. The project is given credit for completing 50 percent of the work when it starts.

Q3. A project manager has discovered that a team member has gold plated the work done in an activity. In order to discover this, the project manager must have been performing:

1. Time management
2. Scope management
3. Cost management
4. Human Resource management

Q4. There are four people on the project team and the project manager adds three more. How many channels of communication are there now?

1. 14
2. 16
3. 21
4. 12

Q5. During which part of the risk management process would you complete a risk rating matrix?

1. Identify Risks
2. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
3. Control Risks
4. Plan Risk Responses

Q6. Project reports are a method to:

1. Plan communications.
2. Distribute information.
3. Report performance.
4. Manage resources.

Q7. A project manager is putting her project control system in place. After a few meetings with others, she realizes that there a few effective measures of progress that can be used on the project. If you were to advise her, what would be the BEST thing the project manager can plan to do the control the project?

1. Emphasize the creation of milestones.
2. Add more people to the project team to help control it.
3. Have meetings every week versus every month.
4. Break the project into phases.

Q8. 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.

Q9. You just found out that a major subcontractor for your project consistently delivers items late. You decide to postpone dealing with the issue until you have more time. What conflict resolution method are you using?

1. Ignoring
2. Compromise
3. Smoothing
4. Withdrawal.

Q10. You have just received an invoice from your supplier that contains some uncertified items. Payments to the supplier are processed through your corporate accounts payable system only after certification of satisfactory work by the project quality control specialist. What should you do?

1. Process the supplier’s invoice since this is your liability
2. Call the supplier and obtain more information
3. Ask the supplier to stop all deliveries until the matter has a resolution
4. Seek judicial arbitration