Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. Which motivational theorist said that people cannot ascend to the next level until the levels below are fulfilled?

1. Maslow
2. Deming
3. McGregor
4. Herzberg

Q3. You work at a software company that authors Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for chemical companies. Prior to releasing the MSDS to the company, you have created a list of items for review to ensure they appear in the document. These items include chemical name, CAS#, protection required, what to do in an emergency, etc. This list is an example of what type of tool?

1. Checklist
2. Process Improvement Plan
3. Quality Management Plan
4. Quality Metrics

Q4. Your boss has asked you for a cost baseline for the project, but it is early in the project management process and there is very little project information. In this circumstance, what is the BEST way to estimate this project?

1. Extrapolate from historical data
2. Ask the team for estimates of each activity
3. Provide a rough order of magnitude estimate
4. Calculate an estimate using the schedule model

Q5. A project manager wants to make sure his plans for meeting the training needs of resources, and plans for releasing resources are complete. All of the following are inputs to this activity EXCEPT:

1. Enterprise environmental factors
2. Historical information
3. Project organizational charts
4. Activity resource requirement.

Q6. Which of the following is an output from the Direct and Manage Project Work process?

1. Budgeted costs
2. Project charter
3. Work performance data
4. Execution plan

Q7. Sandra is managing an ERP system deployment project. Due to the complexity of the project and the number of project stakeholders involved, she decides to use a multi-criteria decision analysis for reviewing all change requests. What should be her first step in establishing this?

1. Develop a decision matrix
2. Develop a decision tree
3. Develop a fishbone diagram
4. Develop a control chart

Q8. The MOST common source of conflict on projects is:

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

Q9. The project statement of work is a narrative description of products, services, or results to be delivered by a project. The procurement statement of work includes:

1. Project scope statement
2. WBS dictionary
3. WBS
4. None of the above

Q10. Projects with adaptive life cycles use product backlogs to define a project’s scope. The product backlog is a set of:

1. Voice of the customer
2. User stories
3. Client lullabies
4. Non-functional requirements