Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You are managing a project that requires an environmental permit to do work. The approval is in the final stages when a confidential, reliable report is brought to your notice. The report indicates there is a high risk of an environmental hazard due to the project. Your manager tells you it is better to keep quiet at this stage since losses from terminating the project might be very high. You must:

1. Send an email to your manager documenting the matter and disowning ownership of the project
2. Inform the necessary authorities of the hazard, even if it means cancelling the project
3. Wait for the project to start and see if the information in the report is true
4. Keep quiet about the matter since you will follow your manager's instructions

Q3. Based on the chart, what is the duration of a critical path?

1. 30
2. 23
3. 49
4. 46

Q4. A project manager asked various stakeholders to determine the probability and impact of a number of risks. He then analyzed assumptions. He is about to move to the next step of risk management. Based on this information, what has the project manager forgotten to do?

1. Evaluate tends in risk analysis.
2. Identify triggers.
3. Provide a standardized risk rating matrix.
4. Create a fallback plan.

Q5. Which of the following tools helps you to determine whether the subcontractor’s work is meeting the quality requirements?

1. Quality control
2. Quality audit
3. Inspection of deliverables
4. Delphi technique

Q6. All of the following are the responsibility of a project manager EXCEPT:

1. Maintain the confidentiality of customer confidential information
2. Determine the legality of company procedures.
3. Ensure that a conflict of interest does not compromise the legitimate interest of the customer
4. Provide accurate and truthful representations in cost estimates

Q7. You have been given a project to clean an area where hundreds of families are living and to develop residential flats for them. Since there so many stakeholders involved, how will you manage them?

1. Ignore low-power stakeholders
2. Pick the dominating stakeholders
3. Find a way to manage them all
4. Manage only high power and high-interest group stakeholders

Q8. You have recently been assigned to a research project. Although there is a limited number of key stakeholders, there is a big number of other stakeholders involved in this project, especially the ones who will be using the research’s outcome. You have some specific questions. Which of the following is the best way to quickly obtain responses from a big group of stakeholders?

1. Focus groups
2. Questionnaires
3. Interviews
4. Phone calls

Q9. Which of the following is not an example of parametric estimating?

1. Activity duration estimated based on the number of drawings multiplied by the number of labor hours per drawing.
2. Activity duration estimated based on the number of labor hours per meter for cable installation.
3. Activity duration estimated based on the square footage in construction.
4. Activity duration estimated based on the actual duration of a similar, previous project.

Q10. Your company is concerned about improving its project performance. Internal measures have been created and have helped to identify areas needing improvement. Additional measures of performance are still needed. Which of the following would be the BEST thing to do?

1. Calculate the benefit to cost of purchasing a new piece of equipment.
2. Determine the project scope and measures to ensure the scope is met
3. Perform a root cause analysis on the quality problems that have occurred on the project
4. Read a project management magazine each month, and look at the results of other companies’ projects to help determine quality measures for future projects.