Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. Earned value measurement is an example of:

1. Performance reporting
2. Planning control
3. Ishikawa diagrams
4. Integrating the project components into a whole.

Q3. You are responsible for IT maintenance in your organization. The head of the IT department comes to you with an internet security expert and tells you to disable auto login and force authentic login based on a new password. The password will be 15 characters long and consist of letters, numerals, and one special character, and this password must expire after every 30 days. This is an example of:

1. Operation
2. Project
3. Maintenance
4. None of the above

Q4. The preparation of the scope baseline can BEST be described as involving:

1. The functional managers
2. The project team
3. All the stakeholders
4. The project expediter.

Q5. Which motivational theory says that working conditions, salary, and relationships at work do NOT improve motivation?

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

Q6. Three items from the issue log have been assigned to a team member. However, no action has been taken by the agreed-upon due date. After three calls to the team member, the work is finally completed. Which of the following is the BEST preventive action to take NOW?

1. Remove the team member from the team if possible
2. Meet with the team member to uncover the reasons why there were problems
3. Make sure the action item list is distributed to all the right parties
4. Make sure items assigned in the action item list are accepted by the team members they are assigned to.

Q7. On any project, the configuration control should be focused on the specification of:

1. Deliverables and processes
2. Scope and cost
3. Risk and resources
4. Schedule and quality

Q8. The technique of comparing actual or planned project practices to those of other projects to generate ideas for improvement and to provide a basis by which to measure performance is known as:

1. Workbench
2. Benchmarking
3. Quality control
4. Dependency

Q9. A project has gone out of control, and the project manager is trying to bring it back under control. There have been a number of changes to the project scope. Some of these changes resulted in further changes, causing project cost to spiral upward and causing the project to go out of schedule. This is known as:

1. Scope creep
2. Scope jump
3. Project creep
4. Scope control

Q10. In your project, two important stakeholders are having some issues. To keep this issue from escalating further you intervene and resolve the issue. After the issue is resolved you asked your team member to record the issue so in the future a lesson can be learned from it. Where will you note the issues between stakeholders?

1. Risk register
2. Issue log
3. Stakeholder register
4. Change log