Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. A management control point where scope, budget and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement is a:

1. Code of accounts
2. Control packages
3. Control account
4. Account Plan

Q3. The financial systems project has a relatively high profile in the organization and has received great support from the sponsor. There are over 230 activities on the project, and a few have remained relatively large due to the nature of the work to be accomplished. One of these larger activities has an estimate to complete (ETC) that is longer than planned. If the project manager wants to look at non-value-added activities that might be causing the delay, the manager should:

1. Measure using quality metrics
2. Complete process analysis
3. Perform a quality audit
4. Use a Pareto chart

Q4. You are discussing strategies to be used to manage and engage stakeholders in your project. Which process are you in?

1. Plan stakeholder engagement
2. Develop stakeholder management strategy
3. Manage stakeholders engagement
4. Plan communication management

Q5. When writing the roles and responsibilities for team members, you should document the role, authority, responsibility, and competency for each team member. Where must you document this information?

1. Resource management plan
2. RACI chart
3. Resource calendar
4. Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)

Q6. A project manager is analyzing the relationship between the consumption of project funds and the work being accomplished for such expenditures. In which project management process would this be done?

1. Determine Budget
2. Estimate Costs
3. Control Costs
4. Manage Costs

Q7. 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

Q8. You have just completed a solid waste management project in an underdeveloped country. The contractor you are working for has a strict policy of abiding by local laws and rules although the local resources working on the project have a much more lax approach to following laws and policies. Now at the end of the project, you are handing over the operational equipment to the local operators and disposing of the leftover inventory and other materials that were used during the project. More than 50 percent of the toxic materials used during the project remains in your inventory. There is no law that would prohibit you from disposing of either the type or quantity of remaining materials in the local sewage system. What should you do?

1. Give the material to local resources to dispose of by selling it to a recycling facility
2. Do not dispose of the materials improperly
3. Dispose of the material in the local sewage system; there is no law applicable here
4. Abandon the materials in the project facility you are handing over to the local operators

Q9. Uncontrolled project scope changes are often referred to as ________ .

1. Scope creep
2. Scope verification
3. Value Added Scope
4. Scope control

Q10. A company attorney, newly hired by the company, walks into the project manager’s office and tells her that he is ready to work with her on the procurement process. The project manager has little experience with procurement, so she is excited to have the assistance. With which of the following would it be BEST for the project manager to ask the attorney to help?

1. Claims administration, audit results, and updating organizational process assets.
2. Contract change control system, payments, and change requests.
3. Recommend corrective actions, performance reporting, and records management system.
4. Procurement documentation, project management plan updates, and procurement management plan updates.