Test Bank 1
1-) A manager and the head of engineering discuss a change to a major work package. After
the meeting, the manager contacts you and tells you to complete the paperwork to make the
change. This is an example of:
A-) Management attention to scope management.
B-) Management planning
C-) A project expediter position.
D-) A change control system. - ANS1- Answer is C. In this situation, project manager acts as the
secretary of the project and does the paper work. So, this is an example of project expediter
position where project manager does not have any authority and power. Project manager does
only paper work.
2-) During a team meeting, a team member asks about the measurements that will be used on
the project to judge performance. The team member feels that some of the measures related to
activities assigned him are not valid measurements. The project is BEST considered in what
part of the project management process?
A-) Initiating
B-) Executing
C-) Monitoring & Controlling
D-) Closing - ANS2- Answer is B. Executing. Questions states that team member feels some of
the measures on his activities are not valid. Therefore, he must be working during the executing
phase of the project where project deliverables are produced and project members
3-) Your company just won a major new project. It will begin in three months and is valued at 2m
USD. You are the project manager for an existing project. What is the FIRST thing you should
do once you hear of the new project?
A-) Ask management how the new project will use resources
B-) Resource level your project
C-) Crash your project
D-) Ask management how the new project will affect your project - ANS3- Answer is D. Ask
management how the new project will affect your project. Since this is another project that your
company is going to execute, you need to be sure whether it will impact your project.
4-) You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. It would be BEST
in this situation to rely on _____ during planning in order to improve your chance of success.
A-) Your intuition and training
B-) Stakeholder analysis
C-) Historical information
D-) Configuration management - ANS4- Answer is C. Historical information. First thing to
explore before starting a new project is the historical information about similar projects in the
organizational process assets library of the organization.
, 5-) During project executing, a team member comes to the project manager because he is not
sure of what work he needs to accomplish on the project. Which of the following documents
contain detailed descriptions of work packages?
A-) WBS Dictionary
B-) Activity List
C-) Project scope statement
D-) Scope management plan - ANS5- Answer is A. WBS Dictionary. Work packages in a Work
Breakdown Structure contain only nouns or a couple of words regarding a work or deliverable.
Detailed information on what needs to be done, responsible, prerequisites, successors, due
date etc. are included in the Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary.
6-) During a meeting with some of the project stakeholders, the project manager is asked to add
work to the project scope. The project manager had access to correspondence about the project
before the project charter was signed and remembers that the project sponsor specifically
denied funding for the scope mentioned by these stakeholders. The BEST thing for the project
manager to do is to:
A-) Let the sponsor know of the stakeholders' request
B-) Evaluate the impact of adding the scope.
C-) Tell the stakeholders the scope cannot be added.
D-) Add the work if there is time available in the project schedule - ANS6- Answer is C. Tell the
stakeholders the scope cannot be added. After the scope of a project is finalized and scope
baseline is determined, it can be changed only with the approved changed requests. If there is
not an approved change request, existing scope baseline must be valid and project team must
work on to deliver that scope only. In the scenario, scope is defined already but some
stakeholders ask to add new work to the scope. This cannot be done unless there is an
approved change request. Therefore, stakeholders must be informed that this new work cannot
be added.
7-) Your project management plan results in a project schedule that is too long If the project
network diagram cannot change but you have extra personnel resources, what is the BEST
thing to do?
A-) Fast track the project.
B-) Level the resources.
C-) Crash the project.
D-) Monte Carlo analysis. - ANS7- The answer is C, crash the project. Because, in first
sentence, it is mentioned that schedule is too long, therefore the aim is making a shorter
schedule. And in the second sentence it is mentioned that you have extra personnel resources.
If you have resources, you can put more resources in an activity to complete it in a shorter time.
And this is actually a description of crashing an activity or crashing the project. If you look to the
other options, fast tracking was performing activities in parallel instead of series, therefore it is
irrelevant. Leveling the resources was for fixing the over-allocation of resources and distributing
the tasks to all your resources uniformly. And Monte Carlo analysis was another estimating tool
which is irrelevant choice as well. Therefore, here the best answer is C.
1-) A manager and the head of engineering discuss a change to a major work package. After
the meeting, the manager contacts you and tells you to complete the paperwork to make the
change. This is an example of:
A-) Management attention to scope management.
B-) Management planning
C-) A project expediter position.
D-) A change control system. - ANS1- Answer is C. In this situation, project manager acts as the
secretary of the project and does the paper work. So, this is an example of project expediter
position where project manager does not have any authority and power. Project manager does
only paper work.
2-) During a team meeting, a team member asks about the measurements that will be used on
the project to judge performance. The team member feels that some of the measures related to
activities assigned him are not valid measurements. The project is BEST considered in what
part of the project management process?
A-) Initiating
B-) Executing
C-) Monitoring & Controlling
D-) Closing - ANS2- Answer is B. Executing. Questions states that team member feels some of
the measures on his activities are not valid. Therefore, he must be working during the executing
phase of the project where project deliverables are produced and project members
3-) Your company just won a major new project. It will begin in three months and is valued at 2m
USD. You are the project manager for an existing project. What is the FIRST thing you should
do once you hear of the new project?
A-) Ask management how the new project will use resources
B-) Resource level your project
C-) Crash your project
D-) Ask management how the new project will affect your project - ANS3- Answer is D. Ask
management how the new project will affect your project. Since this is another project that your
company is going to execute, you need to be sure whether it will impact your project.
4-) You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. It would be BEST
in this situation to rely on _____ during planning in order to improve your chance of success.
A-) Your intuition and training
B-) Stakeholder analysis
C-) Historical information
D-) Configuration management - ANS4- Answer is C. Historical information. First thing to
explore before starting a new project is the historical information about similar projects in the
organizational process assets library of the organization.
, 5-) During project executing, a team member comes to the project manager because he is not
sure of what work he needs to accomplish on the project. Which of the following documents
contain detailed descriptions of work packages?
A-) WBS Dictionary
B-) Activity List
C-) Project scope statement
D-) Scope management plan - ANS5- Answer is A. WBS Dictionary. Work packages in a Work
Breakdown Structure contain only nouns or a couple of words regarding a work or deliverable.
Detailed information on what needs to be done, responsible, prerequisites, successors, due
date etc. are included in the Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary.
6-) During a meeting with some of the project stakeholders, the project manager is asked to add
work to the project scope. The project manager had access to correspondence about the project
before the project charter was signed and remembers that the project sponsor specifically
denied funding for the scope mentioned by these stakeholders. The BEST thing for the project
manager to do is to:
A-) Let the sponsor know of the stakeholders' request
B-) Evaluate the impact of adding the scope.
C-) Tell the stakeholders the scope cannot be added.
D-) Add the work if there is time available in the project schedule - ANS6- Answer is C. Tell the
stakeholders the scope cannot be added. After the scope of a project is finalized and scope
baseline is determined, it can be changed only with the approved changed requests. If there is
not an approved change request, existing scope baseline must be valid and project team must
work on to deliver that scope only. In the scenario, scope is defined already but some
stakeholders ask to add new work to the scope. This cannot be done unless there is an
approved change request. Therefore, stakeholders must be informed that this new work cannot
be added.
7-) Your project management plan results in a project schedule that is too long If the project
network diagram cannot change but you have extra personnel resources, what is the BEST
thing to do?
A-) Fast track the project.
B-) Level the resources.
C-) Crash the project.
D-) Monte Carlo analysis. - ANS7- The answer is C, crash the project. Because, in first
sentence, it is mentioned that schedule is too long, therefore the aim is making a shorter
schedule. And in the second sentence it is mentioned that you have extra personnel resources.
If you have resources, you can put more resources in an activity to complete it in a shorter time.
And this is actually a description of crashing an activity or crashing the project. If you look to the
other options, fast tracking was performing activities in parallel instead of series, therefore it is
irrelevant. Leveling the resources was for fixing the over-allocation of resources and distributing
the tasks to all your resources uniformly. And Monte Carlo analysis was another estimating tool
which is irrelevant choice as well. Therefore, here the best answer is C.
