Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. To create the status report, you have collected the data for value of completed work, actual duration, actual completed work, etc. These data are examples of:

1. Work performance data
2. Work performance information
3. Work performance measurement
4. Performance data

Q3. The best practice to gather and document lessons learned is during weekly progress meetings. The agenda can have a lessons-learned brainstorming item at the end of these meetings. You can ask team members to put forward their recommendations, but it is always better to adopt a more structured way to gather lessons learned. Which of the following approaches will ensure you capture important lessons learned on your project?

1. Planning risk responses
2. Determining estimate to complete
3. Review of project variances
4. Signing off on the minutes of the meeting

Q4. An e-mail is forwarded to you highlighting conflict between two team members. Which conflict resolution technique would you use?

1. Forcing
2. Compromising
3. Avoiding
4. Confronting

Q5. You have been appointed as the manager of a new, large, and complex project. Because this project is business-critical and very visible, senior management has told you to analyze the project’s risks and prepare response strategies for them as soon as possible. The organization has risk management procedures that are seldom used or followed, and has had a history of handling risks badly. The project’s first milestone is in two weeks. In preparing the risk response plan, input from which of the following is generally LEAST important?

1. Key stakeholders
2. Project team members
3. Project sponsor
4. Individual responsible for risk management policies and templates.

Q6. Team members are arguing about the location of specification limits on a control chart. The discussion is becoming heated when the project manager walks in and says: “… It seems that the real problem here is that we do not have enough information about the customer’s specifications. Let’s …”. This is an example of:

1. Asserting the project manager’s authority.
2. Problem solving.
3. Compromising.
4. Withdrawal.

Q7. The technique most commonly used by project management software packages to construct a project schedule model is:

1. Precedence diagramming method (PDM)
2. Finish-to-Start (FS)
3. Activity-In-Node (AIN)
4. Node-On-Activity (NOA)

Q8. You are given a new project to manage and a brief project scope statement. The project sponsor tells you that there is no required completion date for the project. The BEST thing to do is to:

1. Ask for better definition of the project scope before accepting the project.
2. Accomplish the project as time allows
3. Plan the project as you would a normal project, but build in schedule flexibility
4. Make a list of activities that need to be done.

Q9. All of the following are part of a communications management plan EXCEPT:

1. Names of the stakeholders who can talk to the project manager.
2. Names of those receiving telephone call when the system crashes
3. Methods used to collect and store information
4. Names of the stakeholders and instructions on sending project status o them

Q10. A construction project requires that government environmental hearings be held prior to site preparation. What kind of dependency is this?

1. Optional dependency
2. Discretionary dependency
3. Soft logic
4. External dependency