Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You are beginning a new project that has been attempted, but unsuccessfully, several times in the past few years. Previous projects were cancelled because e of “politics” (differing views and direction by key stakeholders on the project). This is an example of:

1. Stakeholder analysis.
2. Scope management.
3. Historical information.
4. Risk identification

Q3. Activity A has ES-5, EF-10 and Activity B has ES-7, and the duration is 4 days. What kind of relationship exists between these two activities?

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

Q4. Your employee is three days late with a report. She walks into a meeting where the report is to be discussed and hands you a copy five minutes before the topic is to be discussed. You noticed some serous errors in the report. How could this have been prevented?

1. Require periodic updates from the employee.
2. Coach and mentor the employee.
3. Make sure the employee was competent to do the work.
4. Cancel the meeting earlier because you did not have a chance to review the reports.

Q5. Fill in the blank. _______________ indicates that planning and documentation are iterative or ongoing activities.

1. Progressive management
2. Iterative elaboration
3. Waterfall development
4. Progressive elaboration

Q6. You are assigned as the project manager in the middle of a project. The project is within the baselines, but the customer is not happy with the performance of the project. What is the FIRST thing you should do?

1. Discuss it with the project team.
2. Recalculate the baselines.
3. Renegotiate the contract.
4. Meet with the customer.

Q7. Over lunch with another project manager, you discuss ways to identify risks on your project. The next day, the other project manager sends you risk identification software created by her company with a copyright date of 1998. What should you do?

1. Find out if using an old format would be acceptable
2. Obtain approval from your legal department
3. Share some of your templates with her to improve competencies
4. Send the software back

Q8. 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.

Q9. You are analyzing a particular task with your team members to determine if the task should be done by your team, or if it should be contracted out to a contractor. Which process is this?

1. Conduct procurement
2. Plan cost management
3. Plan human resource
4. Plan procurement

Q10. A seller submits an invoice that is outside the funding limit reconciliation completed during project planning. What is the LEAST likely cause?

1. An activity has taken longer to complete than planned.
2. The critical path was fast tracked during project planning
3. Equipment was received earlier than planned
4. There was a cost increase to the successor activity of a critical path activity.