Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. While testing the strength of concrete poured on your project, you discover that over 35 percent of the concrete does not meet your company’s quality standards. You feel certain the concrete will function as it is, and you don’t think the concrete needs to meet the quality level specified. What should you do?

1. Change the quality standards to meet the level achieved.
2. State in your reports that the concrete simply “meets our quality needs.”
3. Ensure that the remaining concrete meets the standard
4. Report the lesser quality level and try to find a solution.

Q3. You are in the process of defining policies, procedures, and guidance to help you manage the project costs. In which process you are working?

1. Determine budget
2. Develop schedule
3. Control costs
4. Plan cost management

Q4. You are in the process of planning human resources and developing the roles and responsibilities for your team members. Which of the following will you not address during this process?

1. Role
2. Authority
3. Training
4. Competency

Q5. The objective of a transformation project is to move an organization from one state to another state. The desired result of the change driven by the project is described as the:

1. Good state
2. Future state
3. Happy state
4. Transition state

Q6. A new project manager has asked you for advice on creating a work breakdown structure. After you explain the process to him, he asks you what software he should use to create the WBS, and what he should do with it when he is finished creating it. You might respond that it is not the picture that is the most valuable result of creating a WBS. It is:

1. A bar chart
2. Team buy-in
3. Activities
4. A list of risks 9

Q7. A project team has been arguing for days about the correct way to complete a high-level design. This argument has caused the schedule performance index (SPI) to fall 0.89 and the cost performance index (CPI) to 0.8. If the project manager tells the team, “we will schedule this discussion for our team meeting next week,” the project manager is:

1. Using earned value
2. Compromising
3. Increasing costs even further
4. Withdrawing.

Q8. During the completion of project work, the sponsor asks the project manager to report on how the project is going. In order to prepare the report, the project manager asks all the team members what percent complete their work is. There is one team member who has been hard to manage from the beginning. In response to being asked what percent complete he is, the team member asks, “Percent complete of what?”. Tired of such comments, the project manager reports to the team member’s boss that the team member is not cooperating. Which of the following is MOST likely the real problem?

1. The project manager did not get buy-in from the manager for the resources on the project.
2. The project manager did not create an adequate reward system for team members to improve their cooperation.
3. The project manager should have had a meeting with the team member’s boss the first time the team member caused trouble.
4. The project manager does not have the work packages.

Q9. You are managing two projects. The first project is to design a simulator for a client which he will use in his driving school. The second project is to install a security system on a client’s premises to ensure its security around the clock. What is your role here?

1. Project manager
2. Portfolio manager
3. Program manager
4. Project coordinator

Q10. Which of the following is the MOST likely outcome if you decide to crash the project?

1. Increased cost
2. Longer schedule
3. Doing more activities in parallel
4. Added schedule risk