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Top 10 Project Planning Engineer Interview Questions and Answers | Part-2



Question-11: Have you heard about the Kick of Meeting?

Answer: Yes, I have handled a number of Kick of Meetings on different projects & companies.  the kick-off meeting is normally the first meeting of all major Stakeholders including the Project Manager with his team and Owner’s representatives. Here, we discuss high-level overall plans, things like how we are going to execute and once things get clearer as project go forward then we do rolling wave planning.

These meetings can be conducted at the new phase starts during the execution of the project also.

You can read more about the  Project Kick-Off Meeting

Question-12: What certification & qualification you have?

Answer: I am a Project Management Professional- PMP certified from Project Management Institute – PMI. I am a Graduate Engineer & perusing Master in Project Management.

Question-13: Do you know about CPI?

Answer: Yes, it’s a Cost Performance Indicator and it evaluates the performance in the sense if the project is under-budget, over-budgeted or on track. The formula is for CPI is the ratio of earned value – EV over actual costs – AC that is CPI =EV/AC

Question-14: What do you know about SPI?

Answer: It is the Schedule Performance Indicator and indicates the performance of project work is completed to the baseline schedule. It is calculated by dividing the earned value by the planned value that is SPI = EV/PV

Question-15: What you know about Triple Constraints?

Answer: Cost, Time and Scope with quality as the fundamental theme.


Question-16: What are undesirable in any plan?

Answer: Constraints, SF (Start to Finish) relationship, Log lags or leads, Negative Float, etc.

Question-17: How to avoid Negative Float in a Baseline Schedule?

Answer: Negative float indicates that the activity is already delayed. Normally, a constraint is the culprit of it. Remove all the constraints or use proper logic -relationships to deal with it.  Also, check dangling or out of sequence activities.

During updating a schedule, a negative float for some activities is very common. You cannot avoid unless is going as planned.

Question-18: If you are reported 5 SPI, what it means? – Real Question was Asked to me!

Answer: They planner has made a blunder during calculations.

Question-19: What is an S Curve?

Answer: Graphical representation of ‘anything’ like Manhours, Cost, etc. plotted against time.

Question-20: What do you know about Reflection Schedule?

Answer: Reflection function is always underestimated but it is a really great feature in Primavera P6 Professional.  A Reflection program is just a copy of the program to have a look at different scenarios after making desirable changes. Once satisfied just merge in the native program.

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