Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. The purpose of lessons learned is to bring together any insights gained during a project that can be usefully applied on future projects. When should a project manager ideally commence this activity?

1. At the start of project planning
2. At the start of project execution
3. During the project closure
4. From project kickoff meeting

Q3. The project manager has a team scattered across four countries. The team members are experts in their fields and a few are certified project managers. To deal with the distance, the project manager creates ground rules with the team, and has virtual meetings to deal with the cultural differences. Which of the following additional activities would have the GREATEST impact on the project?

1. Plan Communications
2. Acquire Project Team
3. Define Scope
4. Sequence Activities

Q4. During a key stakeholders’ update meeting, George’s project was challenged. The project is currently in the executing phase. One of the key stakeholders claimed the project no longer makes any business sense. What must George do next?

1. Update the issue log and request that the stakeholder provide more details
2. Request the project sponsor to intervene
3. Prematurely terminate the project
4. Redo the business case for the project

Q5. All of the following are tools of Perform Quality Control EXCEPT:

1. Cost of quality
2. Inspection
3. Control charts
4. Flowcharting

Q6. A project team has been arguing for days about the correct way to complete a high-level design. This argument has caused the schedule performance index (SPI) to fall 0.89 and the cost performance index (CPI) to 0.8. If the project manager tells the team, “we will schedule this discussion for our team meeting next week,” the project manager is:

1. Using earned value
2. Compromising
3. Increasing costs even further
4. Withdrawing.

Q7. A project manager needs to assess quality on the project. To do so, he wants to measure the height of each table produced. However, that would be too expensive. In this case, it would be BEST to use:

1. Benchmarking
2. A sample
3. A control chart
4. A Pareto chart.

Q8. Communications are often enhanced when the sender _______ the receiver.

1. Speaks up to
2. Uses more physical movements when talking to
3. Talks slowly to
4. Shows concern for the perspective of

Q9. The Verify Scope process is different than the Perform Quality Control process in that:

1. Perform Quality Control focuses on the quality of the project, while Verify Scope focuses on customer acceptance
2. Verify Scope is performed throughout the project and Perform Quality Control is done throughout the project.
3. Perform Quality Control is considered part of Plan Quality while Verify Scope is not.
4. Scope verification is provided to the project management team while quality control is provided to the project.

Q10. Which of the following BEST describes a risk response owner?

1. The person who identified the risk
2. The department or company that is the source of the risk and most knowledgeable on the risk
3. The department or company that will be most affected by the risk
4. The person who will be responsible for implementing the risk response strategy.