Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You receive an email in French. Since you’re unable to read French, you bring in a translator to translate the message into English. What is the translator doing here?

1. Encoding
2. Acting as a medium
3. Removing noise
4. Decoding

Q3. Which of the following techniques focuses on identifying non-value-added activities in a project?

1. Pareto charting
2. Process analysis
3. Root cause analysis
4. Affinity diagrams

Q4. There have been numerous changes on your project. All approved changes are BEST reflected in the:

1. Performance measurement variance
2. Validate Scope process
3. Change control procedures
4. Project management plan

Q5. Two team members are having a big disagreement over the type of computer hardware to use on the project. Who should resolve this dispute?

1. Two members and their project manager
2. Project manager
3. Management
4. System supervisor

Q6. The Control Procurements process receives a very important input from the Direct and Manage Project Work process. Which one is it?

1. Approved change requests
2. Work performance data
3. Procurement documents
4. Agreements

Q7. You are reviewing an old project file where you find a document which contains the project description, important requirements, milestones, and project budget. What document is it?

1. Scope statement
2. Project charter
3. Scope baseline
4. Procurement document

Q8. A project team has been arguing for days about the correct way to complete a high-level design. This argument has caused the schedule performance index (SPI) to fall 0.89 and the cost performance index (CPI) to 0.8. If the project manager tells the team, “we will schedule this discussion for our team meeting next week,” the project manager is:

1. Using earned value
2. Compromising
3. Increasing costs even further
4. Withdrawing.

Q9. Rodney is in the process of preparing the project performance report for the team meeting. He is expecting many questions from his stakeholders on the budget and schedule. He calculates the following values: Budget at Completion (BAC) = $22,000, Earned Value (EV) = $13,000, Planned Value (PV) = $14,000, Actual cost (AC) = $15,000. What is the Estimate at Completion (EAC) for the project, if the work is performed at the budgeted rate?

1. $24,000
2. $36,000
3. $22,500
4. $37,000

Q10. Which of the following tools and techniques is useful to process work performance data to identify sources of project defects during the Control Quality process?

1. Data analysis
2. Salience model
3. Schedule model
4. Communication model