Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. The process that links people and information is called:

1. Scope management.
2. Human resource management.
3. Communications management.
4. Time management.

Q3. For projects where a business analyst collaborates with the project managers in managing the project scope, which of the following task is most likely to be performed by the business analyst?

1. Acquire project resources
2. Monitor the change control process
3. Elicit, document, and manage stakeholder requirements
4. Control project costs

Q4. To create the status report, you have collected the data for value of completed work, actual duration, actual completed work, etc. These data are examples of:

1. Work performance data
2. Work performance information
3. Work performance measurement
4. Performance data

Q5. The product design your project team developed was extremely well received by the customer. There were two key contributors to this design. The customer calls you to tell you how pleased he is with the design. What do you tell him?

1. Ask to negotiate a bonus payment.
2. Thank the customer.
3. Thank him on behalf of the team and call out the contributions two of the team members made.
4. Tell the customer you worked very hard on the design, and you are happy he is pleased.

Q6. An organization’s value chain can be represented by a special type of flowchart called SIPOC. SIPOC stands for:

1. Superior service, inferior service, peak hour service, optimized service, and client service
2. Simple, intellectual, procedural, optimal coding
3. Sample, information, practice, organization, and control
4. Suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, and customers

Q7. While constructing a new drug manufacturing plan, you discover a leak in a pipe which has released chemicals into the ground. It was difficult to acquire the necessary government approval and community support for the plant, and management has told you to be particularly careful to not upset the community. You are uncertain of whether the chemicals could leak into the groundwater or cause any damage. What should you do?

1. Follow the instructions to avoid upsetting the community and do nothing
2. Start to write articles in the local paper about how poorly treated the local drinking water is.
3. Wherever possible, communicate all the great benefits of the plant to the community.
4. Inform local officials and ask for their help 0

Q8. You are project manager on an information technology project on which you and the sponsor have already approved the scope. An information specialist on your team, after having lunch with a low ranking customer representative working with him on a software project, learns that a simple alteration in the display would be a great addition to the project. The information specialist installs the change with no negative effect on the project schedule and at no additional cost. What action should be taken?

1. The information specialist should be recognized for exceeding customer expectations without affecting project cost or schedule.
2. The project manager should add an activity to he project management plan with no associated time.
3. The information specialist should be told that his behavior was unacceptable, as it may have negatively affected the overall project.
4. The project manager should create a change control form, and have the customer approve the change since the change has already been made.

Q9. You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. You have been asked to plan a new project. It would be BEST in this situation to rely on ______ during planning to improve your chance of success.

1. Your intuition and training
2. Stakeholder analysis
3. Historical information
4. Configuration management

Q10. The acceptable range of variation of a process is the ________ on a control chart.

1. Mean
2. Specification limit
3. Rule of seven
4. Upper and lower control limit.