Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Henry is the project manager for a process improvement project. Henry is a recently hired Six Sigma expert. David is the process owner of the process Henry must optimize. During the project kick-start meeting with the project sponsor, David said he supports all continuous improvement efforts. However, David is unaware of the Six Sigma technique and feels threatened by the newly hired expert, and as a result, is blocking Henry’s ideas. What is David’s current engagement level with the project?

1. Unaware
2. Supportive
3. Resistant
4. Neutral

Q3. A project manager has just taken over the project from another project manager during the executing process group. The previous project manager created a project budget, determined communications requirements, and went on to complete work packages. What should the new project manager do NEXT?

1. Coordinate completion of work packages
2. Identify quality standards
3. Begin the Identify Risk process
4. Execute the project management plan.

Q4. During the control quality process, you are reviewing a chart which has some lines above and below the x-axis and a cyclic line between them. What is the purpose of this chart?

1. To gather quality control data
2. To find the dependency between the variables
3. To find the trend
4. To determine if the process is stable

Q5. The project team is working on an important and complex project that requires a lot of coordination. Under these circumstances, the BEST strategy is to:

1. Have a war room
2. Hire a contractor
3. Hold more meetings to get the word out
4. Gain extra assistance from management

Q6. A definitive estimate is:

1. A level of estimating that can be achieved without a team’s help.
2. Created during the initiating process group.
3. Within a range of -10 percent to +25 percent of actual.
4. The most expensive to create.

Q7. A project team member has just completed work on the microprocessor for the new human system performance monitor and is now finished with the project. The project manager should:

1. Evaluate the project’s resource requirements
2. Provide input to the team member’s performance appraisal
3. Re-evaluate the activity duration estimates.
4. Change the staffing management plan

Q8. Your project team has recently identified a risk in the software development project and decided not to change the project management plan to deal with the risk. The risk response strategy that your team used in this scenario is an example of:

1. Mitigate
2. Transfer
3. Avoid
4. Acceptance

Q9. You are project manager on an information technology project on which you and the sponsor have already approved the scope. An information specialist on your team, after having lunch with a low ranking customer representative working with him on a software project, learns that a simple alteration in the display would be a great addition to the project. The information specialist installs the change with no negative effect on the project schedule and at no additional cost. What action should be taken?

1. The information specialist should be recognized for exceeding customer expectations without affecting project cost or schedule.
2. The project manager should add an activity to he project management plan with no associated time.
3. The information specialist should be told that his behavior was unacceptable, as it may have negatively affected the overall project.
4. The project manager should create a change control form, and have the customer approve the change since the change has already been made.

Q10. You are working in a large organization and managing a project to construct a road. To help you in your project, your PMO is providing you with their support and require you to comply with them. What kind of PMO is this?

1. Supportive
2. Controlling
3. Directive
4. Helping