Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. John has been assigned a task to build a facility where different types of bicycles can be produced. John builds this facility and hands it over to Andrew to run it. What is Andrew’s role?

1. Project manager
2. Program manager
3. Operation manager
4. Portfolio manager

Q3. The cost estimates for a project are in the range of +/- 5 %. What phase is the project likely to be in?

1. Closing phase
2. Preliminary phase
3. Initial phase
4. Intermediate phase

Q4. The MOST common source of conflict on projects is:

1. Personality
2. Cost
3. Priorities
4. Schedules

Q5. You have been assigned to manage the development of an organization’s new website. The site will be highly complex and interactive, and neither your project team nor the client has much experience with this type of website development. The timeline is extremely aggressive. Any delay will be costly for both your firm and the client. You have a project sponsor and have achieved agreement and sign-off on both the project charter and the project management plan. Client personnel have been kept fully informed of the project's progress through status reports and regular meetings. The project is on schedule and within budget, and a final perfunctory review has been scheduled. Suddenly you hear that the entire effort may be cancelled because the product being developed is totally unacceptable. What is the MOST likely cause of this situation?

1. A key stakeholder was not adequately involved in the project.
2. The project charter and project management plan were not thoroughly explained to or adequately reviewed by the client.
3. Communications arrangements were inadequate and did not provide the required information to interested parties.
4. The project sponsor failed to provide adequate support for the project.

Q6. You have decided to apply Resource Leveling to a project because of a critically required resource being available only at certain times. Which of the following will likely be true?

1. Resource Leveling can often cause the original critical path to change.
2. Resource Leveling will over-allocate resources to schedule the project before the deadline.
3. Resource Leveling will require additional resources to complete the project.
4. Resource Leveling will never alter the original critical path.

Q7. The outputs of the Define Activities process include all of the following EXCEPT:

1. All activities that will be performed on the project
2. A network diagram
3. Activity attributes
4. Milestone list

Q8. Your company is in competition to win a major project for the government of a country. Your contacts in that country inform you that you must make a large payment to the foreign minister to be considered for the project. What should you do?

1. Inform your company’s management, and ask for direction
2. Do not make the payment
3. Have the local contact make the payment
4. Make the payment

Q9. During project executing, a team member identifies a risk that is not in the risk register. What should you do?

1. Get further information on how the team member identified the risk, because you already performed a detailed analysis and did not identify the risk
2. Disregard the risk, because risks were identified during project planning
3. Inform the customer about the risk.
4. Analyze the risk.

Q10. During risk planning, you encounter a risk that you find difficult to manage; therefore, you make small changes to your project management plan to eliminate the risk. Which risk response strategy are you using here?

1. Avoid
2. Mitigate
3. Accept
4. Exploit