Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager needs to determine the resources needed for the project. Select the primary process from the following options.

1. Estimate Activity Resources
2. Develop Schedule
3. Plan Resource Management.
4. Develop Human Resource Plan

Q3. You are making another international trip and have been invited to a holiday celebration; you discover that all of the subcontracted work for the project has been given to one of the team member’s brothers. What should you do?

1. Do nothing if the project is progressing on schedule.
2. Evaluate the cost of the subcontracted work.
3. Determine what the common practices are in that country.
4. Tell the team member that such actions are not allowed.

Q4. You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. You have been asked to plan a new project. It would be BEST in this situation to rely on ______ during planning to improve your chance of success.

1. Your intuition and training
2. Stakeholder analysis
3. Historical information
4. Configuration management

Q5. During the Define Activities process, the team discovers that they do not know enough to define the activities for 30 percent of the work packages. What would be the BEST course of action?

1. Redo the Define Scope process
2. Review the project charter with the sponsor and the team
3. Continue on to Sequence Activities process and define the activities at a later date.
4. Include this problem as a part of risk identification

Q6. The success of your new project requires several of your people to work in a foreign country for six months. The team informs you that in this country a payment is required to obtain visas. What should you do?

1. Cancel the project.
2. Make the payment
3. Do not pay and see what happens.
4. Do not send your people.

Q7. The project team has created a plan for how they will implement the quality policy. It addresses the organizational structure, responsibilities, procedures, and other information about plans for quality. If this changes during the project, WHICH of the following plans will also change?

1. Quality assurance.
2. Quality management
3. Project management
4. Quality control.

Q8. While planning the project, you discover that an expert resource might be available to work on you project. However, the resource manager will not commit to the resource being on your team at the present time. The BEST thing to do would be to estimate the activity:

1. As if the expert resources were available.
2. As though you had an average resource doing the activity.
3. As if you had an inexperienced resource
4. Using the Delphi technique.

Q9. As the Project Manager for Midway Carnival Rides, you are beginning the Define Scope process. Which of the following is a key input to this process?

1. Project Scope Statement
2. Expert Judgment
3. Project Charter
4. WBS

Q10. A project manager has just completed subjectively evaluating risks on the project. Which of the following is the MOST important output of this process?

1. Decrease in the risk ranking for the project
2. A determination of which risks to process further and which to simply document
3. Probabilistic analysis of the project and identification of risk triggers
4. Probability of achieving cost objectives.