Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. An increase in quality can result in increased productivity, increased cost effectiveness, and:

1. Decreased cost risk
2. Decreased morale
3. Lower customer satisfaction
4. Increased risk.

Q3. When is it BEST to perform the Close Project or Phase process?

1. At the beginning of the project with verification throughout the project.
2. At the end of project planning
3. During project closure
4. At the end of each project phase

Q4. Which of these precedence relationships is most commonly used in the Precedence Diagramming Method?

1. Finish-to-Start
2. Start-to-Finish
3. Start-to-Start
4. Finish-to-Finish

Q5. Which of the following is the correct logical sequence of the five process groups?

1. Planning, Monitoring and Controlling, Initiating, Executing, Closing
2. Planning, Initiating, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, Closing
3. Initiating, Monitoring and Controlling, Planning, Executing, Closing
4. Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, Closing

Q6. You are the project manager for a seller. A parking lot fencing project was bid at US $11 per foot. The parking lot has four equal sides of 125 feet and requires installing a six-foot diameter culvert on one side. Fencing should take 100 feet per day, and the culvert installation will cost US $500 and take one day to complete. The culvert must be installed before work can begin on hat side of the fence. After three days of work, one side is complete, another side has 75 feet installed, and the culvert is completely installed. At this point, the client tells you that the culvert needs to be increased to a sevenfoot diameter. You determine that this will cost US $1,000, and require two additional days. What should you do FIRST?

1. Call a team meeting and determine if schedule and cost alternatives can maintain the current cost and schedule requirements.
2. Review the procurement statement of work for mention of the diameter of the culvert.
3. Ask for a change order to cover the change
4. Renegotiate the contract 32

Q7. Management wants to look at how a project is doing, as compared to past projects. To make a valid judgment, management should compare his project to:

1. Benchmarks
2. Flowcharts
3. Bar charts
4. Trend charts

Q8. You just completed a cost estimate on the project, and you’re assuming there is a 15 percent chance you will exceed this estimate. You are:

1. Below the mean
2. Above the mean
3. Above the median
4. Below the median.

Q9. You are carrying out a project for an external customer. Most of the project’s scope of work is outsourced and distributed among many subcontractors. What would be the role of the Direct and Manage Project Work process in this scenario?

1. Inspect and verify the adequacy of the seller’s product
2. Authorize the seller’s work at the appropriate time
3. Assure that the changes are properly approved and communicated
4. The Direct and Manage Project Work process will become redundant in this case

Q10. A project manager is using weighted average duration estimates to perform schedule network analysis. Which type of mathematical analysis is being used?

1. Critical path method
2. PERT
3. Monte Carlo
4. Resource leveling