Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. The customer requests a change to the project that would increase the project risk. Which of the following should you do before all the others?

1. Include the expected monetary value of the risk in the new cost estimate
2. Talk to the customer about the impact of the change
3. Analyze the impacts of the change with the team
4. Change the risk management plan

Q3. You have just been assigned as the project manager for a project that is in the middle of the executing process group, and you are determining how you will control the project. The BEST way to control the project is to:

1. Use a combination of communication methods.
2. Hold status meetings because they have worked best for you in the past.
3. Refer to the bar chart weekly.
4. Meet with management regularly.

Q4. During project executing, the project manager is spending a lot of time solving problems that arise. It would be BETTER for the project manager to transfer his efforts to:

1. Having the team solve the problems, thus freeing his time to hold more meetings
2. Executing the project management plan and making sure the quality management plan is viable.
3. Identifying additional risks and following the risk management process
4. Performing sensitivity analysis on past problems and transferring them to other projects.

Q5. What is the decomposition process used to develop?

1. Work breakdown structure
2. Earned value
3. Project management plan
4. Communications management plan

Q6. A project manager is trying to settle a dispute between two team members. One says the systems should be integrated before testing, and the other maintains each system should be tested before integration. The project involves over 30 people, and 2 systems need to be integrated. The sponsor is demanding that integration happens on time. What is the BEST statement the project manager can make to resolve the conflict?

1. Do it my way.
2. Let’s clam down and get the job done.
3. Let’s deal with this again next week after we all calm down.
4. Let’s do limited testing before integration and finish testing after integration.

Q7. Performance reporting is important during administrative closure, in order to:

1. Show progress made on activities.
2. Communicate the team’s success.
3. Gain approval to start the lesions learned.
4. Prove formal acceptance has been achieved.

Q8. There are numerous ways to share information among project stakeholders. Which of the following is the most efficient communication method?

1. Push communication
2. Interactive communication
3. Pull communication
4. Manual communication

Q9. You are in the middle of executing a major modification to an existing product when you learn that the resources promised at the beginning of the project are not available. The BEST thing to do is to:

1. Show how the resources were originally promised to your project.
2. Re-plan the project without the resources
3. Explain the impact if the promised resources are not made available
4. Crash the project

Q10. Which of the following tools give a visual representation of an organization’s data, described in business language that is independent of any specific technology?

1. Matrix diagrams
2. Mind maps
3. Flowcharts
4. Logical data model