Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. The purpose of status meetings is to:

1. Exchanges information about the project.
2. Have team members report on what they are doing.
3. Issue work authorizations.
4. Confirm the accuracy of the costs submitted by the team.

Q3. Which of the following is least likely to be a project?

1. Regular updates of the company website
2. Responding to a contract solicitation
3. Running a campaign for a political office
4. An endeavor that lasts for 10 years

Q4. Senior management has imposed a project delivery date prior to acceptance of the project scope statement. To whom is the project manager MOST accountable?

1. Project sponsor
2. Project team
3. Customer
4. Senior management

Q5. Anthony is currently managing a bridge construction project. The project is in the execution phase. During the planning phase of the project, Anthony developed a comprehensive stakeholder engagement plan for the project. However, the frequency of plan review has not yet been defined. How often should Anthony review the stakeholder engagement plan?

1. On a monthly basis
2. The stakeholder engagement plan cannot be reviewed during the execution of the project.
3. On a weekly basis
4. On a regular basis; Anthony needs to decide the frequency.

Q6. In attempting to complete the project faster, the project manager looks at the cost associated with crashing each activity. The BEST approach to crashing would also include looking at the:

1. Risk impact of crashing each activity
2. Customer’s opinion of which activities to crash
3. Boss’s opinion of which activities to crash and in what order.
4. Project life cycle phase in which the activity is due to occur

Q7. You have just completed a solid waste management project in an underdeveloped country. The contractor you are working for has a strict policy of abiding by local laws and rules although the local resources working on the project have a much more lax approach to following laws and policies. Now at the end of the project, you are handing over the operational equipment to the local operators and disposing of the leftover inventory and other materials that were used during the project. More than 50 percent of the toxic materials used during the project remains in your inventory. There is no law that would prohibit you from disposing of either the type or quantity of remaining materials in the local sewage system. What should you do?

1. Give the material to local resources to dispose of by selling it to a recycling facility
2. Do not dispose of the materials improperly
3. Dispose of the material in the local sewage system; there is no law applicable here
4. Abandon the materials in the project facility you are handing over to the local operators

Q8. The project team is working on an important and complex project that requires a lot of coordination. Under these circumstances, the BEST strategy is to:

1. Have a war room
2. Hire a contractor
3. Hold more meetings to get the word out
4. Gain extra assistance from management

Q9. All of the following are parts of effective problem solving EXCEPT:

1. Waiting to make decisions
2. Reviewing the decision
3. Confirming that the decision solved the problem
4. Analyzing the problem.

Q10. Variance analysis refers to cost performance measurements used to determine the magnitude of variation in comparison to the original cost baseline. What is the trend on the percentage range of acceptable variances as the project progresses?

1. The percentage range of acceptable variances will tend to decrease as the project progresses.
2. The percentage range of acceptable variances will tend to increase as the project progresses.
3. The percentage range of acceptable variances will tend to decrease first and then increase as the project progresses beyond 50 percent completion.
4. The percentage range of acceptable variances remain the same as the project progresses.