Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. The success of your new project requires several of your people to work in a foreign country for six months. The team informs you that in this country a payment is required to obtain visas. What should you do?

1. Cancel the project.
2. Make the payment
3. Do not pay and see what happens.
4. Do not send your people.

Q3. A manager has responsibility for a project that has the support of a senior manager. From the beginning, you have disagreed with the manager as to how the project should proceed and what the deliverables should be. You and she have disagreed over many issues in the past. Your department has been tasked with providing some key work packages for the project. What should you do?

1. Provide the manager with what she needs
2. Inform your manager of your concerns to get her support
3. Sit down with the manager at the beginning of the project, attempt to describe why you object to the project, and discover a way to solve the problem
4. Ask to be removed from the project.

Q4. The project manager has performed schedule network analysis, compressed the schedule and completed a Monte Carlo analysis. What schedule management activity should be done NEXT?

1. Update resource requirements
2. Recommend corrective actions
3. Estimate Activity Durations
4. Create a milestone list

Q5. Bill and Jake are two team members in a project. They do not get along well and are constantly involved in verbal conflicts. The project manager understands the characteristics of conflict and the conflict management process and tries to resolve the situation. Which of the following is not a correct statement?

1. Openness resolves conflict
2. Conflict is natural and forces a search for alternatives
3. Conflict is inevitable in a project environment.
4. The project manager is not responsible for conflict management.

Q6. Management wants to be sure that the project is following defined quality standards. Which of the following should they look at?

1. Risk management plan
2. WBS
3. Statement of work
4. Quality audit

Q7. 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

Q8. A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) dictionary supports the WBS and is a companion document to the WBS. Which of the following is not included in the WBS dictionary?

1. List of schedule milestones
2. Resource assigned
3. Agreement Information
4. Code of Account Identifier

Q9. You are a project manager working on a multimillion-dollar project. As the project has progressed, you have become friends with the general contractor. You are working on a US $100,000 change request. She has offered to let you use her boat on the lake this weekend while she is away. What should you do?

1. Accept the offer with thanks
2. Decline the offer
3. Decline the offer and report it to your supervisor
4. Ask your boss to approve your use of the boat

Q10. Your project is going full steam and to prepare a monthly report you collect some data and give it to John who is your team member. You ask him to provide you with work performance information. He analyzes the information, compiles the data, and gives you the requested information which includes the status of deliverables, the number of change requests, implementation status for change requests, and forecasted estimates to complete. Among this information, which does not represent the information you requested?

1. Number of change requests
2. Status of deliverables
3. Forecasted estimates to complete
4. Implementation status for change requests