Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You have accepted a position at a company where you will manage a group of projects in a coordinated way. This organization specifically hired you to start a project management office to help it develop a more structured approach to project management. What should you do FIRST?

1. Study the history of the organization
2. Get your job description changed to either project management or project management office work, but not both
3. Meet with key stakeholders to better understand the organization and projects.
4. Focus on communications with your boss and other senior managers

Q3. The Stakeholder Committee has a report that shows zero schedule variance. However, the first milestone in the project was missed, which will cause a delay in the project. Which of the following was not reported correctly?

1. Resource management plan
2. Risk analysis
3. Critical path status
4. Communications plan variance

Q4. Your employee is three days late with a report. She walks into a meeting where the report is to be discussed and hands you a copy five minutes before the topic is to be discussed. You noticed some serous errors in the report. How could this have been prevented?

1. Require periodic updates from the employee.
2. Coach and mentor the employee.
3. Make sure the employee was competent to do the work.
4. Cancel the meeting earlier because you did not have a chance to review the reports.

Q5. All of the following come after the Define Scope process EXCEPT:

1. Estimate Activity Durations
2. Develop Human Resource Plan
3. Estimate Costs
4. Collect Requirements

Q6. The company has just announced that there will be a layoff in the next month, and there’s a good chance it will include some of the people from your project team. The team is discussing the layoff to the exclusion of everything else. If you tell the team, “Let’s calm down and get back to work, maybe our performance in the next month will keep us from losing our jobs.” Which conflict resolution technique are you using?

1. Compromising
2. Forcing
3. Smoothing
4. Withdrawal.

Q7. Identifying ways to eliminate the causes of unsatisfactory performance would MOST likely lead to:

1. Quality audits
2. Work performance information
3. Recommend corrective actions
4. Updates to the performance measurement baseline.

Q8. During the completion of the project work, a project manager wants to ensure that the quality of the end product is acceptable. The BEST way to do this is by:

1. Checking quality against the standards set in the quality management plan
2. Identifying the quality standards you want the end product to meet
3. Performing cost-benefit analysis
4. Determining the cause of a problem using a fishbone diagram.

Q9. A scope change has been approved by the change control board. Which of the following MUST be impacted?

1. The early start date of the activities later in the network diagram
2. The cost of the project
3. The expected monetary value of project risks
4. The number of resources used on the project

Q10. Impact assessment is part of which risk management process?

1. Identify Risks
2. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
3. Plan Risk Responses
4. Control Risks.