Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. The State of New York has contracted with your company to provide a claims payment system for Medicaid benefits. In the contract, a clause states that the State of New York can review your work processes and deliverables. This is an example of:

1. Performance Report
2. Record Management System
3. Deliverables Checklist
4. Inspections and Audits

Q3. Your project has a medium amount of risk and is not very well defined. The sponsor hands you a project charter and asks you to confirm that the project can be completed within the project cost budget. What is the BEST method to handle this?

1. Build an estimate in the form of a range of possible results.
2. Ask the team members to help estimate the cost based on the project charter.
3. Based on the information you have, calculate a parametric estimate.
4. Provide an analogous estimate based on past history.

Q4. Work on a project is ongoing when the project manager overhears two workers arguing over what a set of instructions means. The project manager investigates and discovers that the instructions for the construction of the concrete footings currently being poured were poorly translated between the different languages in use on the project. Which of the following is the BEST thing for the project manager to do FIRST?

1. Get the instructions translated by a more experienced party.
2. Look for quality impacts o the poor translation of the instructions for the footings.
3. Bring the issue to the attention of the team, and ask them to look for other translation problems.
4. Inform the sponsor of the problem in the next project report.

Q5. A new project manager asks you what the 50/50 rule is used for. You would reply?

1. Crashing
2. Quality
3. Performance reporting
4. Cost estimating

Q6. Which of the following are ALWAYS inputs to the risk management process EXCEPT:

1. Historical information.
2. Lessons learned.
3. Work breakdown structure.
4. Project status reports.

Q7. The project manager of a highly visible project is new to project management. He has carefully followed the steps to create a project management plan. During a status meeting, two of the team members argue over what needs to happen next. Whose responsibility is it to correct the problem?

1. The team
2. The project manager
3. The functional manager
4. the individual team members who disagree

Q8. A planning technique used to provide products, services, and results that truly reflect customer requirements, by translating those customer requirements into the appropriate technical requirements for each phase of project product development, is:

1. Six Sigma
2. PDCA
3. Voice of the Customer
4. ISO

Q9. Which of the following is not a tool and technique of the Plan Resource Management process?

1. Organizational theory
2. Meetings
3. Hierarchical charts
4. Rewards and recognition

Q10. You are in a process which helps you evaluate the effectiveness of the risk process throughout the project. Which of the following documents will not be updated here?

1. Assumption log
2. Issue log
3. Risk report
4. Change log