Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. Fast tracking the project usually:

1. Decreases project duration
2. Decreases project costs
3. Decreases the amount of management oversight needed
4. Decreases the number of resources used

Q3. When writing the roles and responsibilities for team members, you should document the role, authority, responsibility, and competency for each team member. Where must you document this information?

1. Resource management plan
2. RACI chart
3. Resource calendar
4. Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)

Q4. You are working on an information technology project as a project manager to develop a shopping website for your customers. Some key stakeholders in the project suggested scope changes to improve the website’s look and feel. Your team has analyzed the impact of these changes and presented the analysis to the Change Control Board (CCB) for approval. What should be your next step if the CCB accepts all proposed changes?

1. Implement the change request and update stakeholders
2. Review change control board decisions and inform stakeholders for their input
3. Conduct a team status meeting to update the progress on change requests
4. Revise cost estimates, schedule dates, resource requirements, and planning documents

Q5. Formal written correspondence with the customer is required when:

1. Defects are detected.
2. The customer requests additional work not covered under contract.
3. The project has a schedule slippage that includes changes to the critical path.
4. The project has cost overruns.

Q6. A stakeholder wants to make a change to the work breakdown structure that does NOT affect the time or cost of the project. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Tell the stakeholder that this change cannot be made without revising the project management plan.
2. Make the change.
3. Meet with management.
4. Look for other impacts on the project.

Q7. Which of the following BEST describes what is included in a staffing management plan?

1. A plan regarding what details about the project should go to whom and when the details need to be sent.
2. How the team will implement the plans for ensuring the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken
3. When and how human resources will be brought into and taken off the project team
4. If independent estimates are needed, who will prepare them and when.

Q8. Your new project to outsource work has been going badly. The project deliverables have changed three times, the functional managers keep removing people from the team, and the project schedule baseline has been adjusted four times in the first week. This is MOST likely due to the lack of:

1. A staffing management plan
2. A signed project charter
3. Clear direction from the sponsor
4. A scope management plan

Q9. The WBS, estimates for each work packages, and the network diagram are completed. Which of the following would be the NEXT thing for the project manager to do?

1. Sequence the activities
2. Verify that they have the correct scope
3. Create a preliminary schedule and get the team’s approval
4. Complete risk management

Q10. A team member is visiting the manufacturing plant of one of the suppliers. Which of the following is the MOST important thing to be done in any telephone calls the project manager might make to the team member?

1. Ask the team member to repeat back what the project manager says.
2. Review the list of contact information for all stakeholders.
3. Ask the team member to look for change requests.
4. Review the upcoming schedule.