Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You have a large, multi-year project. Because of the large scope and duration, you decide that you will plan near term work in detail, and for the rest, you will make a high-level plan. Once you move ahead you will plan, in detail, for that work. This is an example of:

1. Rolling wave planning
2. Ball park planning
3. Near wave planning
4. Just in Time

Q3. A particular stakeholder has a reputation for requesting many changes on projects. What is the BEST approach a project manager can take at the beginning of the project to manage this situation?

1. Say "No" to the stakeholder a few times to dissuade him from submitting more changes.
2. Get the stakeholder involved in the project as early as possible.
3. Talk to the stakeholder's boss to find ways of directing the stakeholder's activities to another project.
4. Ask that the stakeholder not be included in the stakeholder listing.

Q4. A project manager works in a company that has a matrix organizational structure. A server administrator is assigned to the project manager’s project team. The server administrator is not taking direction from the project manager and the delay in the server administrator’s activities is causing a negative variance to the schedule. The server administrator works for the director of server administration. Who is primarily responsible for solving this problem?

1. The project manager
2. The server administrator
3. The director of server administration
4. The sponsor

Q5. A project has the following risks: 20 percent probability of a 14 day delay in the receipt of customer requirements; 10 percent probability of a 21 day delay in the procurement process; 50 percent probability the integration will take 14 days longer. What is the expected monetary value of these events?

1. 11.9 days.
2. 35.8 days.
3. 49 days.
4. 7 days.

Q6. A project manager analyzed the project’s communication requirements and decided that 10 out of the 30 stakeholders in the project would only need voicemail updates of certain information. This type of communication is:

1. Push communication
2. Pull communication
3. Interactive communication
4. On-demand communication

Q7. Though you have tried to plan the project to accommodate all major contingencies, you are now asked for the fifth time to decrease the length of time the project will take to complete. The person completing activity C is no longer talking to you because of the added work she needed to do to accommodate previous decrease in time. She has already told you she cannot shorten her activity any more. The person doing activity D has been replaced by a new and less tested resource. The risk of crashing activity F is small. Based on this and the chart, what is the BEST thing to do?

1. Determine why there have been so many decreases to the project length
2. Invite the person doing activity C to lunch to talk about her problems
3. Evaluate the risk added to the project with the change of resources on activity D
4. Make changes to the project to decrease the time the project will take.

Q8. All of the following statements concerning procurement documents are incorrect EXCEPT:

1. Well-designed procurement documents can simplify comparison of responses.
2. Procurement documents must be rigorous with no flexibility to allow consideration of seller suggestions.
3. In general, procurement documents should not include selection criteria.
4. Well-designed procurement documents do not include a procurement statement of work.

Q9. Conflict management is a tool and technique of which of the following processes?

1. Control Procurements
2. Identify Stakeholders
3. Close Project or Phase
4. Manage Team

Q10. As project manager, you are unable to allocate as much time to interact with your stakeholders as you would like. Which of the following stakeholders will you make it a priority to get to know?

1. The stakeholder who is an expert on the product of the project, but is not interested in implementing it in his department.
2. The manager of the department that will use the product of the project. She is known to be resistant to change.
3. The project sponsor, with whom you have successfully worked on many projects.
4. The department employee who is unfamiliar with the product of the project, but open to the positive impacts he believes the product will have on his work environment.