Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. Nancy is engaged in the construction of three office buildings. Although the construction sites are in various places, she has managed each team efficiently to complete the work on time and within budget. Which of the following statements describes the effort Nancy is doing?

1. Construction of each building is an operational work because it is repetitive in nature.
2. The building construction is considered neither a project nor operational work.
3. Construction of all three buildings is considered one project.
4. Construction of each building is a project because each building is separate in nature.

Q3. If you are writing a proposal for additional funding, which communication style should you choose?

1. Formal and horizontal
2. Formal and upward
3. Informal and downward
4. Informal and horizontal

Q4. Which of the following actions decreases the risk of the project failing to meet its goals and objectives?

1. Discouraging changes to the initial project scope
2. Acquiring more than required resources
3. Active management of stakeholders
4. Fast-tacking the project schedule to finish the project before deadline

Q5. Your project is ahead of schedule but over budget. Therefore, you ask your team member to collect data and compare it with the cost baseline. Which of the following is not included in the cost baseline?

1. Contingency reserve
2. Activity cost estimation
3. Management reserve
4. Activity contingency reserve

Q6. While reviewing project procurement and accounting records for your project, you discover there is a pattern of unauthorized expenses by a specific resource. These expenses are not within the scope of the project and were somewhat camouflaged within a number of large and complicated expense reports. What do you do?

1. If the total expenses are less than 1 percent of the project budget, do nothing
2. Fire the resource
3. Notify the appropriate management immediately
4. Confront the resource

Q7. All technical work is completed on the project. Which of the following remains to be done?

1. Validate Scope
2. Plan Risk Responses
3. Create a staffing management plan
4. Complete lessons learned.

Q8. A project can be authorized by any of the following except:

1. The project manager
2. The PMO
3. The sponsor
4. The portfolio steering committee

Q9. An estimate at completion (EAC) is an output of which of the following?

1. Control Costs
2. Project performance review
3. Variance management
4. Performance measurement analysis

Q10. You have joined a new organization and are assigned a project. This is a new type of project but the organization has completed many similar projects in the past. You decide to review the lessons learned from past projects. You go to the archives and ask for the lessons learned from past projects. Lessons learned is a part of which of the following?

1. Organizational process assets
2. Enterprise environment factor
3. Project management plan
4. Project archive