Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You have a project with four activities as follows. Activity 1 can start immediately and has an estimated duration of 1. Activity 2 can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of four. Activity 3 can start after activity 2 is completed and has an estimated duration of five. Activity 4 has an estimated duration of 8. It can start after activity 1 is completed. Both activity 3 and 4 must be completed before the project is complete. What is the critical path of the project?

1. Start, 1, 2, 3, End
2. Start 1, 4, 3, End
3. Start 1, 4, End
4. Start 1, 2, 3, 4, End Activity Baseline Crash Time Cost Time Cost A 10 $4,000 8 $6,000 B 2 $6,000 2 $6,000 C 14 $22,000 12 $26,000 D 6 $9,000 5 $10,000 E 9 $14,000 7 $19,000 F 8 $18,000 4 $36,000 76

Q3. Which of the following is the BEST tool for showing the team the project schedule status during project executing?

1. Milestone chart.
2. Bart chart.
3. Work breakdown structure.
4. Network diagram

Q4. Ideally the relationship between a project manager and a business analyst should be:

1. Business analyst should directly report to the project manager
2. A collaborative partnership
3. Project manager should directly report to the business analyst
4. Business analyst must audit the project manager

Q5. A cost performance index of 0.89 means:

1. At this time, we expect the total project to cost 89 percent more than planned
2. When the project is completed, we will have spent 89 percent more than planned
3. The project is only progressing at 89 percent of that planned.
4. The project is only getting 89 cents out of every dollar invested.

Q6. Define Activities, Sequence Activities, and Estimate Durations all occur before:

1. Develop Project Charter
2. Create WBS
3. Develop Schedule
4. Project development

Q7. A company attorney, newly hired by the company, walks into the project manager’s office and tells her that he is ready to work with her on the procurement process. The project manager has little experience with procurement, so she is excited to have the assistance. With which of the following would it be BEST for the project manager to ask the attorney to help?

1. Claims administration, audit results, and updating organizational process assets.
2. Contract change control system, payments, and change requests.
3. Recommend corrective actions, performance reporting, and records management system.
4. Procurement documentation, project management plan updates, and procurement management plan updates.

Q8. You have a project with a cost of 10,000 USD, and the duration is 10 months. Five months have passed, 45% of the work is completed and you have spent 5,500 USD. The value of this 45% of the work is known as:

1. Planned value
2. Earned value
3. Actual cost
4. Schedule variance

Q9. Which of the following processes is not a part of the Project Scope Management?

1. Create WBS
2. Control Quality
3. Control Scope
4. Collect Requirements

Q10. You are working as a project manager for MALTEX, an IT organization having a projectized organization structure. You have recently started managing a project that involves stakeholders from within and outside your organization. The stakeholders external to your organization are highly critical since the project negatively affects their interests. You are making serious efforts to gather their expectations and influence levels early in the project to ensure their voice is heard and proper communication needs can be planned in the project’s future phases. The outcome of your effort can be documented in:

1. The stakeholder engagement plan
2. The project scope document
3. The risk register
4. The stakeholder communication plan