Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. There are four people on the project team and the project manager adds three more. How many channels of communication are there now?

1. 14
2. 16
3. 21
4. 12

Q3. Your company took over the management of a project from another company that went out of business. To minimize disruptions related to the transition, your company hired a number of the employees from the other company. One of these employees has delivered a 300-page document a week ahead of schedule. However, while walking past his desk, you notice that his computer is displaying a document with the logo of his former employer. You suspect that some of his work may have been based on documentation that is the property of the other company. What do you do?

1. Report this to your project stakeholders immediately.
2. Determine if any materials belonging to the other company have been copied.
3. The copyright material is owned by the client, for whom you are working so this is not a copyright issue.
4. Do nothing. Because the company is now out of business, no one now owns the copyright on that material.

Q4. Martin is the project manager of a project that is in an early phase. He needs to estimate costs but finds that he has a limited amount of detailed information about the project. Which of the following estimation techniques is least suited to his requirements?

1. Top-down Estimating
2. Bottom-up Estimating
3. Analogous Estimating
4. Budgetary Estimating

Q5. Lag means:

1. The amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the project finish date
2. The amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of its successor.
3. Waiting time
4. The product of a forward and backward pass

Q6. As part of the procurement process, the procuring organization elected to have an estimate of costs prepared by an outside professional estimator. The estimator came up with an estimate of $500,000. However, the cost estimates prepared by prospective sellers were in the range of $200,000. How can this be best interpreted?

1. The procurement statement of work was deficient and ambiguous.
2. The professional estimator has inflated the estimate of costs.
3. The prospective sellers do not have the required skills to do the project.
4. Prospective sellers are trying to underbid and win the project.

Q7. The results of another project have just been posted. Substantial rework will be required in order to meet the project requirements. Because the cost is too high, effective immediately, the project management office will be requiring all projects to do statistical sampling. What is the project management office concentrating its efforts on improving?

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

Q8. During which risk management process is a determination to transfer a risk made?

1. Identify Risks
2. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
3. Plan Risk Responses
4. Control Risks

Q9. The main focus of life cycle costing is to:

1. Estimate installation costs.
2. Estimate the cost of operations and maintenance.
3. Consider installation costs when planning the project costs.
4. Consider operations and maintenance in the making project decisions.

Q10. Due to corporate restructuring, the project sponsor, a major stakeholder, and the CEO have level the company. The project manager’s project is past the halfway point and the remaining members of the management team have been lukewarm toward the project. The new CEO does not place a high value on project management methodology, and the project team is nervous about its future. Under these circumstances, what is the project manager’s primary responsibility?

1. Try to determine if the tea should continue to work on the project.
2. Ensure that a conflict of interest does not compromise the legitimate interests of the customer.
3. Interact with others in a professional manner while completing the project.
4. Provide accurate and truthful representations in all project reports.