Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. Two team members are having a big disagreement about how to accomplish an activity. The project is low risk and is taking place in a strong matrix environment with 34 team members. To resolve this dispute, the project manager should:

1. Make the decision
2. Send the team members to their managers for advice on resolving the dispute
3. Ask for a benchmark analysis
4. Have the team member’s compromise.

Q3. Who issues the project charter?

1. Sponsor
2. Project manager
3. Project team
4. Stakeholders

Q4. Which of the following is the BEST method to make reward systems MOST effective?

1. Pay a large salary increase to the best workers
2. Give the team a choice of rewards
3. Make the link between performance and reward clear
4. Present notification of rewards within the company.

Q5. Your manager is presenting a status report of all projects being run in his division. He reports that all projects are showing a positive CV. However, you know that your status reports for the last several weeks have been reporting a negative CV. What do you do?

1. Do nothing.
2. Offer to review all your manager's combined status reports before he presents them.
3. Notify the appropriate management immediately.
4. Ask your manager if that information was simply a typographical error.

Q6. Your project no longer ties into the company’s objectives. What would be the BEST thing to do?

1. Decrease the cost
2. Extend the schedule
3. Change the CPI
4. Change the target opportunity cost

Q7. Three items from the issue log have been assigned to a team member. However, no action has been taken by the agreed-upon due date. After three calls to the team member, the work is finally completed. Which of the following is the BEST preventive action to take NOW?

1. Remove the team member from the team if possible
2. Meet with the team member to uncover the reasons why there were problems
3. Make sure the action item list is distributed to all the right parties
4. Make sure items assigned in the action item list are accepted by the team members they are assigned to.

Q8. Near the end of your last project, additional requirements were demanded by a group of stakeholders when they learned they would be affected by your project. This became a problem because you had not included the time or cost in the project management plan for these requirements. What is the BEST thing you can do to prevent such a problem on future projects?

1. Review the WBS dictionary more thoroughly, looking for incomplete descriptions.
2. Review the project charter more thoroughly, examining the business case for “holes.”
3. Do a more thorough job of procurement planning.
4. Pay more attention to stakeholder management.

Q9. Gordon is currently developing his project‘s stakeholder engagement strategy. All enterprise environmental factors should be considered during this process. Which of the following enterprise environmental factors should receive particular attention during this process?

1. Project templates
2. Lessons learned from past similar projects
3. Commercial databases
4. The organization‘s culture and political climate

Q10. The level of detail of performance reports is described in the:

1. Project charter.
2. Communications management plan.
3. Monthly requests for information by management.
4. Project’s monthly needs.