Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You are aware that cost and schedule risks are prevalent in your project. You want to compare the planned project performance with its actual performance during the Monitor Risks process. What should you perform to provide this information?

1. Reserve analysis
2. Risk audit
3. Risk reassessment
4. Technical Performance Analysis

Q3. You are in the middle of executing a major modification to an existing product when you learn that the resources promised at the beginning of the project are not available. The BEST thing to do is to:

1. Show how the resources were originally promised to your project.
2. Replan the project withour the resources.
3. Explain the impact if the promised resources are not made available.
4. Crash the project.

Q4. A team member wants to make a technical change o her activity that will add time to the activity estimate. What is the FIRST thing the project manager should do?

1. See if there is any time available from another activity
2. See if there is enough reserve to handle the change
3. Send a change request to the change control board
4. Determine if the activity is on the critical path.

Q5. While planning the project, you discover that an expert resource might be available to work on you project. However, the resource manager will not commit to the resource being on your team at the present time. The BEST thing to do would be to estimate the activity:

1. As if the expert resources were available.
2. As though you had an average resource doing the activity.
3. As if you had an inexperienced resource
4. Using the Delphi technique.

Q6. Identify stakeholders is a process where you identify stakeholders for your project. Which of the following statements is not true regarding this process?

1. This process happens throughout the project
2. This process happens in the planning phase
3. This process happens in the executing phase
4. This process is started only when the project charter is signed

Q7. There are numerous ways to share information among project stakeholders. Which of the following is the most efficient communication method?

1. Push communication
2. Interactive communication
3. Pull communication
4. Manual communication

Q8. During project executing, a large number of changes are made to the project. The project manager should:

1. Wait until all changes are known and print out a new schedule
2. Make sure the project charter is still valid
3. Change the schedule baseline
4. Talk to management before any changes are made

Q9. Under which circumstances is it BEST to use a network diagram rather than a bar chart?

1. To report to the sponsor
2. To show interdependence between activities
3. To track progress or to report to the team
4. To create a work breakdown structure

Q10. As a project manager, you are concerned with both prevention and inspection of errors in a work product. The difference between prevention and inspection is:

1. Inspection is work the Quality Control (QC) team does; the Quality Assurance (QA) team does Prevention.
2. Inspection refers to keeping errors out of the process; prevention refers to keeping errors out of the customer’s hands.
3. Prevention refers to keeping errors out of the process; inspection refers to keeping errors out of the customer’s hands.
4. Inspection and prevention refer to the same activity depending on what stage of the project the activity is done.