Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You have found you do not yet have an accurate estimate of the number and skill levels of resources needed for the scheduled activity Build Racks for Data Center. You need this estimate for presentation to your Human Resources department later in the week. You have decided to decompose the Build Racks for Data Center activity into smaller components such as take equipment out of box, review equipment for completeness, build frame, and install rails. Then you plan to estimate the resources for each smaller component and combine those estimates into an aggregate. This is an example of:

1. Aggregate Estimating
2. Alternative Analysis
3. Bottom-up Estimating
4. Rolling Wave Estimating

Q3. A cause and effect diagram and an Ishikawa diagram are both:

1. Flowcharts
2. Fishbone diagrams
3. Control charts
4. Pareto charts

Q4. The paint on the exotic cars that are manufactured in your plant is bubbling about a year after application. What would be the best tool for your team to use to find potential causes of the peeling paint?

1. Scatter diagram
2. Ishikawa Diagram
3. Control Chart
4. Inspection

Q5. You are sequencing activities to develop the schedule using a precedence diagram method. To do this you need to identify the type of dependency between the activities. Which of the following is not a type of dependency used in a precedence diagram method?

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

Q6. 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.

Q7. The WBS structure can be created in a number of forms except which of the following?

1. Using work packages as the second level of decomposition, with the project deliverables inserted at the third level
2. Using major deliverables as the second level of decomposition
3. Using phases of the project lifecycle as the second level of decomposition, with the product and project deliverables inserted at the third level
4. Using subcomponents, which may be developed by organizations outside the project team, such as contracted work

Q8. You have a US $100,000,000 project that has 34 team members in four different countries. At the completion of project planning, you have identified six risks, 225 work packages, 13 stakeholders and seven phases to the project life cycle. What part of this project management plan needs to be revisited?

1. The Identify Risks process
2. The staffing management plan
3. The network diagram
4. The communications management plan

Q9. There are four people on the project team and the project manager adds three more. How many channels of communication are there now?

1. 14
2. 16
3. 21
4. 12

Q10. Which of the following is not a project competing constraint?

1. Budget
2. Procurement
3. Risk
4. Resource