Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You realize that you have made an error in your monthly status meeting. Therefore, you send stakeholders the correct report by email. What kind of communication method are you using here?

1. Push
2. Pull
3. Interactive
4. None of the above

Q3. What is the BEST tool/technique that provides expected cost of a procurement by a third party and helps identify significant variations from cost estimates prepared in-house?

1. Screening system
2. Bidder conferences
3. Independent estimates
4. Buyer-conducted performance review

Q4. A project team is worried that the integration of the components of the project will result in uncovering flaws. Instead of continuing their work, they are constantly looking for flaws to try to prevent their system from being the only one found o have flaws during integration. Quality and technical experts were called in to advise and found little possibility of errors for this project. An agreement was reached by all parties on what will be done to prevent errors. It might be BEST for the project manager to:

1. Smooth the situation
2. Compromise the situation
3. Tell the team to create quality testing plans
4. Let management know of the concern.

Q5. A project is over budget to date. Which of the following is NOT A REASON this could have occurred?

1. More work than planned was accomplished.
2. There was a cost increase from the supplier
3. Work was delayed.
4. Work was done inefficiently.

Q6. Which of the following is neither an input to nor an output of the Develop Project Charter process?

1. A project charter
2. Expert Judgment
3. A business case
4. Benefits management plan

Q7. 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.

Q8. You are constructing a school building and due to some unforeseen incidents, your project is delayed. To bring the project on schedule, you are thinking about running several activities in parallel which were earlier planned to run sequentially. So, you started reviewing activities such as excavation of foundation, building walls, carpentry work, electrical work, and plumbing work, etc. After the review, you decide to run the carpentry, electrical, and plumbing works together. Excavating the foundation for the construction of a wall is an example of which of the following?

1. Mandatory dependency
2. Discretionary dependency
3. External dependency
4. Internal dependency

Q9. All the monitoring and controlling processes and many of the executing processes can produce change requests as an output. Change requests may require corrective actions and preventive actions. Which of the following are normally affected by corrective and preventive actions?

1. Defect repair
2. Regressive baselines
3. The project baselines
4. The performance against baselines

Q10. All of the following statements concerning procurement documents are incorrect EXCEPT:

1. Well-designed procurement documents can simplify comparison of responses.
2. Procurement documents must be rigorous with no flexibility to allow consideration of seller suggestions.
3. In general, procurement documents should not include selection criteria.
4. Well-designed procurement documents do not include a procurement statement of work.