Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. As the project manager of a project, you had estimated certain activity durations before acquiring all project team members. On acquisition, you find that their actual competency levels are much lower than what you anticipated. In such a case, you will:

1. Make no changes to the schedule
2. Ask the project team members to meet the original schedule by putting in overtime, if required
3. Make changes to activity duration and schedule incorporating the changed competency levels
4. Inform the customer that the project is behind schedule

Q3. During project executing, one of the electrical engineers informs the project manager that the life cycle cost of the new heating and air conditioning system is higher than the life cycle cost of another heating and air conditioning system. What should the project manager do?

1. Determine if there is room in the project budget for the additional cost.
2. Select the product with the lower life cycle cost.
3. Select the product with the best life cycle cost to earned value ratio.
4. Select the product with the lowest maintenance cost to life cycle cost ratio.

Q4. Which of the following processes includes asking team members about the time estimates for their activities and reaching agreement on the calendar date for each activity?

1. Sequence Activities
2. Develop Schedule
3. Define Scope
4. Develop Project Charter

Q5. Management wants to look at how a project is doing, as compared to past projects. To make a valid judgment, management should compare his project to:

1. Benchmarks
2. Flowcharts
3. Bar charts
4. Trend charts

Q6. You take over a project that is in a lot of trouble. There are apparently problems with the team dynamics, project scope, sponsor, and timeline. The project has a cost performance index (CPI) of 0.75 and schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.2. The FIRST action you should take is to:

1. Meet with the project sponsor
2. Review all the project deliverables
3. Meet with the team
4. Meet with each team member individually

Q7. You have been assigned a very critical project. Although your team members are experts and efficient, your team performance is poor. What will you do to improve your team performance?

1. Train them
2. Warn them
3. Co-locate them
4. Punish them for poor performance

Q8. Tim is the project manager for a shopping mall construction project which is in its fourth month of execution. According to the project contract, Tim can only issue project invoices when the project is 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% complete in terms of the approved project schedule. Recently the 25% milestone has been reached and Tim is ready to issue his first invoice. According to the contract, the project must be completed in 12 months. What is the project’s SPI?

1. 0.25
2. 0.75
3. 0.33
4. 1.33

Q9. You recently took over a project as the project manager. This is your first project management assignment. The project sponsor is very supportive and is helping you out in successfully managing the project. Recently, some bad quality deliverables were received on the project, and the project sponsor suggested that you to periodically review the vendor’s progress to deliver project scope and quality, within cost and on schedule, as compared to the contract. Which of the following statements is true in this context?

1. The sponsor has asked you to carry out regular trend analysis.
2. The sponsor has asked you something that is not a good project management practice.
3. The sponsor has asked you to carry out regular procurement performance reviews.
4. The sponsor is giving you a bigger workload so that you can perform better on the next assignment.

Q10. If you are creating a new WBS for your project, what should you do to save time during the creation process?

1. Delegate the WBS creation since it is not an important process.
2. Skip the WBS process.
3. Use a previous WBS from a similar project as a template.
4. Create a less detailed WBS.