Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. On-demand scheduling is one of the techniques used in agile environments. This type of scheduling ______ work from a backlog as resources become available.

1. Extrapolates
2. Predicts
3. Pulls
4. Pushes

Q3. Your employee is three days late with a report. She walks into a meeting where the report is to be discussed and hands you a copy five minutes before the topic is to be discussed. You noticed some serous errors in the report. How could this have been prevented?

1. Require periodic updates from the employee.
2. Coach and mentor the employee.
3. Make sure the employee was competent to do the work.
4. Cancel the meeting earlier because you did not have a chance to review the reports.

Q4. When should the Validate Scope process be done?

1. At the end of the project
2. At the beginning of the project
3. At the end of the each phase of the project
4. During the planning processes

Q5. A project manager takes over an existing project, only to find that there are no quality standards. What part of the quality process should the project manager be in?

1. Plan Quality
2. Manage Quality
3. Quality analysis
4. Perform Quality Control

Q6. Which of the following should you not use as an input into creating the WBS structure?

1. Bill of Material (BOM)
2. Project scope statement
3. Organizational process assets
4. Requirements documentation

Q7. Mandatory dependencies are those that are inherent in the nature of the work being done. They often involve physical limitations, such as on a construction project when it is impossible to erect the superstructure until the foundation is built. According to the PMBOK, a mandatory dependency is also:

1. Soft logic
2. Unilateral dependency
3. Fixed logic
4. Hard logic

Q8. Conflict resolution techniques that may be used on a project include confronting, smoothing, forcing, and:

1. Withdrawing
2. Directing
3. Organizing
4. Controlling.

Q9. Using the chart, what is the lowest cost of crashing this project to save four weeks?

1. $18,000
2. $6,000
3. $7,000
4. $9,000

Q10. You are halfway through a major network rollout. There are 300 locations in the United States, with another 20 in England. A software seller has just released a major software upgrade for some of the equipment being installed. The upgrade would provide the customer with functionality they requested that was not available at the time the project began. What is the BEST course of action under these circumstances?

1. Continue as planned, your customer has not requested a change
2. Inform the customer of the upgrade and the impacts to the project’s timeline and functionality if the upgrade is implemented
3. Implement the change and adjust the schedule as necessary because this supports the customer’s original request
4. Implement the change to the remaining sites and continue with the schedule.