Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. Fill in the blank. _______________ indicates that planning and documentation are iterative or ongoing activities.

1. Progressive management
2. Iterative elaboration
3. Waterfall development
4. Progressive elaboration

Q3. 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

Q4. Which of the following is not an input to the Direct and Manage Project Work process?

1. Approved Change Requests
2. Consultants
3. Project Management Plan
4. Project files from prior projects

Q5. Identification of new risks, reassessment of old risks, and closing of outdated risks are part of the Monitor Risks process. How often should project risk reassessment be scheduled?

1. It depends on how the project progresses relative to its objectives.
2. Reassessment is necessary at the 50 percent and 75 percent stages of project completion.
3. Reassessment is necessary at the 25 percent, 50 percent, and 75 percent stages of project completion.
4. Reassessment is necessary at the 20 percent, 40 percent, 60 percent and 80 percent stages of project completion.

Q6. A new store development project requires the purchase of various equipment, machinery, and furniture. The department responsible for the development recently centralized its external purchasing process and standardized its new order system. In which document can these new procedures be found?

1. Project scope statement
2. WBS
3. Staffing management plan
4. Organizational policies

Q7. The scope of work in a project could not be clearly defined. There was also a strong possibility that the scope would change during the course of the project. Which type of contract would suit this type of situation?

1. Fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract
2. Fixed-price contract
3. Cost-reimbursable contract
4. Fixed-price incentive contract

Q8. For the last three months, a customer has been from two to four days late with her approvals on deliverables. After analyzing the situation, the project manager decides withdrawal is the best conflict resolution technique to use. Which of the following reflects withdrawal?

1. Inform the customer that late approvals are not a problem, but ask him or her to try to get them in on time in the future.
2. Meet with the customer to determine a new due date for approvals.
3. Postpone a decision
4. Call the customer and demand that you receive the approvals today.

Q9. A single point of failure (SPOF) is the part of a system that, upon failure, stops the entire system from working or makes the system useless. Which of the following events can render a knowledge management system ineffective?

1. If project team is not motivated.
2. Project team is geographically distributed.
3. When project knowledge cannot be classified as explicit or tacit.
4. Knowledge is shared using a mixture of knowledge management tools and techniques.

Q10. While working on a deliverable which is 95% complete, two stakeholders come and enquire about it. They argue with you that this deliverable was not part of the project and it was not requested by any stakeholders, which you disagree with. Therefore, to prove your point, which document will you show them?

1. Requirements traceability matrix
2. WBS
3. Project scope statement
4. Product scope