Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. The WBS represents all product and project work. The total work at the lowest levels should roll up to the higher levels so that nothing is left out and no extra work is performed. This principle is also the:

1. 100 percent rule
2. 80/20 rule
3. Pareto's rule
4. Ground rule

Q3. One of the performance requirements of a company website development project is that the home page should load in one second. Such performance requirements are usually part of:

1. Business needs
2. Business requirements
3. Project management requirements
4. Product requirements

Q4. Which of the following would generally lead to the LEAST amount of quality improvement?

1. TQM
2. Quality planning
3. Implementing an ISO 9000 standard
4. Increasing inspection

Q5. Which of the following rules should apply to international dealings on your project?

1. You have your way, I have mine
2. Do not violate any basic fundamental human rights
3. Always apply the business practices of your own country.
4. Do whatever it takes to manage the project successfully.

Q6. The product manager for the product the project is developing notifies the project manager that she has decided the product should be able to be used by an additional market. The BEST thing for the project manager to do would be to:

1. Immediately notify the project sponsor that there is a project scope change.
2. Notify the project change control board that the project scope will have to change
3. Inform the product manager that the potential impacts to the project will be reviewed.
4. Do nothing, as this is an example of progressive elaboration.

Q7. Which of the following is a KEY way to improve activity cost estimates?

1. Use historical data.
2. Let management create the management reserve and the activity cost estimate.
3. Base activity estimates on the upper and lower control limits.
4. Let the project manager create the activity cost estimate.

Q8. A project manager analyzed the project’s communication requirements and decided that 10 out of the 30 stakeholders in the project would only need voicemail updates of certain information. This type of communication is:

1. Push communication
2. Pull communication
3. Interactive communication
4. On-demand communication

Q9. A project manager on a multinational Web site implementation project is at a part and talks to friends who will be heavy users of this new Web site when the project is complete and the site is rolled out. They describe some annoying aspects of the current Web site. The project manager takes this feedback back to the sponsor, and encourages design and scope changes. Which of the following BEST describes what the project manager has done?

1. Verify scope.
2. Integrated change control
3. Scope planning
4. Stakeholder analysis

Q10. If you want to reduce the number of quality inspections and reduce the cost of quality control for your project, which technique should you use?

1. Run Chart
2. Defect Repair Review
3. Statistical Sampling
4. Pareto Chart