Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You have a contract to build a manufacturing plant in Kuala Lumpur. However, you are not familiar with the building codes in Kuala Lumpur or Malaysia, so you are reviewing all their building codes prior to “turning a shovelful of earth.” This is an example of:

1. Project initiation
2. Quality assurance
3. Quality planning
4. Quality control

Q3. Information in the stakeholder register should be:

1. Accessible only to the project manager.
2. Available to the project manager and PMO staff.
3. Available to all stakeholders and team members.
4. Shared with others at the discretion of the project manager.

Q4. You are in the executing process group of a major project with an estimated cost of US $22 million. Two team members are having a disagreement over the potential sellers of a project, and the project manager has offered to help. The project manager suggests a compromise, and the team members want to solve the problem. Who should decide on the BEST course of action?

1. Management
2. Team member
3. Project manager
4. Customer

Q5. You are the project manager managing a project to design a print head for dot matrix printers. In order to determine ideal settings for print quality, the quality manager of the company suggests trying out various scenarios for printing by varying certain parameters on the print head. Identifying such variables which influence the product or process under development is called:

1. Benchmarking
2. Design of Experiments
3. Statistical Sampling
4. Brainstorming

Q6. Large variations in the periodic expenditure of funds are undesirable for organizational operations. Therefore, the expenditure of funds is frequently reconciled with the disbursement of funds for the project. According to the PMBOK, this is known as:

1. Disbursement Reconciliation
2. Expenditure Reconciliation
3. Budget Reconciliation
4. Funding Limit Reconciliation

Q7. You have advertised in several newspapers to inform interested contractors to apply for a bid for some of your procurement needs. Which process are you currently in?

1. Plan procurement management
2. Conduct procurement
3. Control procurement
4. None of the above

Q8. In your project, you have two activities, D and E. These two activities have a common successor, Activity F. Activity D will be completed on the 10th and activity E will be completed on the 15th. Therefore, Activity D can be delayed by 5 days without affecting the early start of Activity F. This delay is known as:

1. Total float
2. Free float
3. Project buffers
4. Feeding buffer

Q9. You have been assigned as the project manager for a construction project that has had two previous project managers, when you discover that a deliverable will be late. Your analysis shows that the item can be purchased from another seller at a higher price without affecting the schedule. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Evaluate the impact of the decision
2. Discuss the impact with the customer and ask for a decision
3. Crash or fast track the project.
4. Change the project management plan to reflect the new due date.

Q10. A project manager has discovered that a team member has gold plated the work done in an activity. In order to discover this, the project manager must have been performing:

1. Time management
2. Scope management
3. Cost management
4. Human Resource management