Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. RACI stands for______________, ________________, ___________, _______________.

1. Review, Analyze, Calculate, Implement
2. Responsible, Actual, Complete, Informative
3. Roles, Activities, Costs, Instructions
4. Responsible, Accountable, Consult, Inform

Q3. Which of the following is not an interpersonal skill that the project manager will use to manage stakeholders' expectations?

1. Active listening
2. Overcoming resistance to change
3. Punishment
4. Building trust

Q4. You have been appointed manager of a project to convert multiple electronic mail systems at a major financial institution to a single platform. Your company’s approach was not the client’s first choice, and your firm was able to be the lowest cost alternative by using funds provided to your company for a different purpose. After the project is underway, the client specifies a new approach that has never been used before. When the project is approaching the originally scheduled end date, it becomes clear that the technological approach will have to be significantly altered. Although the client has been apprized of development throughout the project through regular status reports, and the project management plan has been followed, the client demands that the project be continued without any increase in cost until all of the client’s requirements are met. Your firm feels hat it has no choice but to comply with the client’s demands, although this will result in a substantial loss on the project. What was the MOST important thing that should have been done to avoid this situation?

1. Better identification of risks and development of risk mitigation strategies
2. Clearer project scope statement
3. Enhanced communications management plan
4. Formal client acceptance of the project management plan.

Q5. A project manager believes that modifying the project scope may provide added value for the customer. What should the project manager do?

1. Change the scope baseline
2. Contact the customer to determine if the change adds value
3. Call a meeting of the change control board
4. Change the project’s objectives.

Q6. During the planning phase, you have created the WBS for the work that you are about to complete. However, because of a lack of information you are not able to create the WBS for the rest of the work, so you leave it until you get the correct and detailed information. This is an example of:

1. Progressive elaboration
2. Improper collecting requirement process
3. Rolling wave planning
4. Improper scope statement

Q7. A control chart shows that the last eight pipes produced were all less than average weight. You need to inform management that there is a problem because the situation violates the:

1. Rule of seven
2. Rule of eight
3. 50/50 rule
4. 3 sigma rule.

Q8. Andrew is a project management guru hired by a retail giant in your country. Andrew finds out there is a wide array of projects that need to be managed from a central PMO; from a number of small projects to large initiatives requiring long-term roadmaps to manage the development of these programs. What project management approach should be recommended for such projects?

1. A predictive approach, adaptive approach, or a hybrid of both, may need to be adopted.
2. A predictive approach may need to be adopted.
3. An adaptive approach may need to be adopted.
4. Setting up PMOs for such a wide range of projects is not recommended.

Q9. You are collecting requirements for your project. For a few requirements you are having difficulty reaching a consensus, so you decide to vote and select the choice which has the largest number of votes. What voting technique is this?

1. Minority
2. Unanimity
3. Majority
4. Plurality

Q10. Lee is the project manager of a project, and he is planning responses to a set of risks. As a direct result of implementing these risk responses, he anticipates certain other risks to arise. These are:

1. Secondary risks
2. Primary risks
3. Planned risks
4. Workaround