Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You are just about to present your project’s status to your company’s executive team. Just as you are leaving your desk for the meeting, one of your resources hands you an updated report on the progress of a critical deliverable. As you are walking to the conference room, you review the report and notice there is an error in it. What do you do?

1. Do not report on that part of the project
2. Disclose that you have just discovered there is an error in some of the information you intended to present and only present the information that you know is true
3. Cancel the meeting
4. Present the information as-it-is and revise it in the meeting minutes, which will be sent after two days

Q3. PMBOK offers a number of tools and techniques for all the project management processes. These tools and techniques must be carefully applied in order to meet the objectives of any process. Which of the following is not a tool or technique of the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process?

1. Expert judgment
2. Meetings
3. Decision-making
4. Interpersonal skills

Q4. A project manager is taking over a project from another project manager during the planning process group. If the new project manager wants to see what the previous project manager planned for managing changes to the schedule, it would be BEST to look at the:

1. Communications management plan
2. Update management plan
3. Staffing management plan
4. Schedule management plan 71

Q5. Mark is in the middle of a software development project. So far, the project has incurred a total cost of $50,000. If it is determined the project is no longer required, what would we call the cost incurred to date?

1. Opportunity cost
2. Return on investment
3. Breakeven cost
4. Sunk cost

Q6. The requirements elicitation team has generated a large number of ideas during sessions to gather product and project requirements. Which of the following techniques is best suited to sorting these ideas into groups for review and analysis?

1. Control chart
2. Venn diagram
3. Affinity diagram
4. Brainstorming

Q7. Analogous Cost Estimating is which of the following?

1. Uses statistical relationship between historical data and other variables
2. Generally less accurate
3. Bottom-up estimating
4. Generally accurate

Q8. Caitlin’s project is behind schedule. She is planning to crash the project by allowing overtime to the project team. This approach can bring additional risks to the project. Which of the following is not a valid risk in this scenario:

1. The profit margin might decrease.
2. Risk of employee attrition might increase.
3. Risk of errors and/or rework might increase.
4. The project’s acceptance criteria might get updated.

Q9. The project status report is an example of which form of communication?

1. Formal written communication
2. Formal verbal communication
3. Informal written communication
4. Informal verbal communication

Q10. 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.