Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You are currently in a process whose main benefit is to increase support and minimize resistance from stakeholders as the project evolves and environment changes. Which is not a tool and technique of this process?

1. Ground rules
2. Expert judgment
3. Document analysis
4. Meetings

Q3. A critical project rollout was delayed because one of the stakeholders did not receive necessary communication on time. On further analysis, the project manager discovered that the communication was sent to the wrong teams. This could have happened because:

1. Communication broke down between the project team and the stakeholder.
2. The project manager failed to manage stakeholder expectations.
3. The stakeholder communications requirements were not properly analyzed during the Plan Communications Management process.
4. The stakeholder did not proactively ask for updates.

Q4. You have identified a risk that will negatively affect your security project. You and your team have decided to use an older encryption technology because of the high risk associated with the new technology. What type of risk strategy are you using?

1. Mitigation
2. Exploitation
3. Avoidance
4. Transfer

Q5. During the executing process group of the project, you realize the subcontractors are working with incomplete and different project scope statements. As the project manager, what should you do FIRST?

1. Check the work completed against the correct project scope statement.
2. Review the scope with the stakeholders.
3. Document the inconsistencies to the sponsor, calculating the cost of non-conformance.
4. Stop work until the scope issue is resolved.

Q6. Which of the following roles in a project is most likely to be involved in negotiations on procurements during the Conduct Procurements phase?

1. Procurement administrator
2. Project coordinator
3. Project manager
4. Project sponsor

Q7. Rina and Gimo are the senior developers in a website development project. They have argued about the best web design product to use in developing the new website. As the project manager, you use a forcing approach to make a decision and reduce the conflict. What is the main characteristic of this approach?

1. Forcing to close the project
2. Highlighting areas of agreement rather than areas of disagreement
3. Asserting one‘s viewpoint at the expense of others
4. Withdrawing from the actual conflict

Q8. All of the following statements concerning procurement documents are incorrect EXCEPT:

1. Well-designed procurement documents can simplify comparison of responses.
2. Procurement documents must be rigorous with no flexibility to allow consideration of seller suggestions.
3. In general, procurement documents should not include selection criteria.
4. Well-designed procurement documents do not include a procurement statement of work.

Q9. There are four people on the project team and the project manager adds three more. How many channels of communication are there now?

1. 14
2. 16
3. 21
4. 12

Q10. Project managers need to be aware of Student Syndrome, also known as procrastination, which means that people start to apply themselves only at the last possible moment before the deadline. This concept is similar to Parkinson’s Law which states that:

1. Work only gets completed during the second half of the allocated time.
2. Work never gets completed on time even if sufficient time has been allocated.
3. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
4. Effort expands to fill the time available for the completion of a work package.