Project Management Quiz

A project manager needs the team to define the steps and identify the risks of migrating data to a new system. What type of leadership should the project manager use to accomplish this?

• Servant

• Directive

• Transformational

• Transactional

In a project, one core team member tends to do all the work and ensures all tasks are completed. This core team member is soon leaving the project, which may make the project vulnerable. What should the project manager do?

• Ask human resources (HR) to counsel the team member to balance the workload.

• Assess a mechanism for knowledge transfer among the team members.

• Ensure the activities of this team member are distributed across the project team.

• Motivate the team member to stay by providing them with incentives.

A project manager is leading a global team that they have worked with in the past and has a high level of trust with them. The team is located in different countries and time zones and will need decisions in a timely manner. In order to ensure that the project runs smoothly across the team, how should the project manager approach delegation?

• Delegate certain authorities and share information to allow fair decision-making.

• Delegate most authorities and control the authority by withholding important information.

• Delegate most authorities and share information to allow fair decision-making.

• Delegate certain authorities and control the authority by withholding important information.

A global program is being kicked off, and various distributed teams are involved in delivering the initiative. Besides planning and executing the scope for the initiative, team interactions must be considered. How should the project teams interact in their meetings?

• Videoconferencing

• Chat conversations

• Encrypted emails

• Phone conversations

A company has undertaken a large transformation project in preparation for the changing economy. During the planning of the transformation project, the key resource from human resources (HR) refuses to approve the proposed project plan. What should the project manager do to gain an understanding of the cause for the resource’s refusal?

• Communicate with their supervisor.

• Speak directly with the resource.

• Organize a team meeting.

• Speak with their colleague.

A project manager noticed that a team member has been struggling with some tasks, which may ultimately impact the completion date. Team morale is low because they will not get the expected bonus if they do not finish on time. What should the project manager do next?

• Update the project schedule and budget estimates.

• Ask the human resources (HR) department to replace the team member and add an additional resource.

• Ask the client to approve a delay in the project schedule.

• Acknowledge the team for their accomplishments, encourage them, and offer assistance to avoid future delays.

A project had scheduling delays, which necessitated the team to work overtime to meet critical milestones. This led to some misunderstandings among team members. The project sponsor has allocated a monetary award. How should the project manager utilize the award?

• Draft a points system to allocate a portion of the money for each resource.

• Arrange a luncheon for all team members and include team-building sessions.

• Meet with the team members and ask them how to spend the reward.

• Allocate the reward to the team leaders to spend on the team as they see fit.

During the early phase of a project, the requirements documentation was not approved. It was identified that the leader of a user party was not included in any of the requirements collection communications. Which of the documents was likely missed or outdated?

• Stakeholder Register

• Business Documentation

• Project Charter

• Risk Register

A client wants to create innovative software for the travel industry using an agile approach. A project manager from the company was assigned to work on the details and estimates as requested by the client. What should the project manager do before sending the information to the client?

• Analyze the tasks, provide estimates, include a prototype demo, and send it to the client directly.

• Sequence the tasks with estimates and add standard risk reserves to use for software development.

• Put the tasks with estimates in the backlog and clarify that the project will not need any reserves.

• Work with the team to understand their views and add the appropriate dependencies and risks.

A project manager is working on a project nearing completion using a hybrid approach. During the last daily standup, the team identified a risk of not delivering on time because team members have not initiated any of the tasks assigned to them. The project has a hard deadline to complete the agreed-on deliverables. What should the project manager do in this situation?

• Hire additional resources to increase capacity using the contingency budget.

• Empower the team to self-organize and make decisions to overcome the delay.

• Reassign the remaining tasks to the most experienced team members.

• Inform the sponsor about the degraded performance of the team members.