Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You are managing the project when you discover an estimated completion date will occur after the desired date. What should you do FIRST?

1. Add resources to the project.
2. Evaluate the possibility of doing more activities in parallel.
3. Negotiate for more time
4. Explain to the customer that the project cannot be done on schedule.

Q3. During project executing, you find that the customer has requested a change to the scope of work even though it was previously not approved. There are no objections to the cost of the change. What should you do FIRST?

1. Follow the change control process
2. Discuss the change with the customer
3. Meet with the team and plan alternatives
4. Evaluate and document the risks that might result from this change

Q4. You are building a mile-long bridge on a T&M contract. During the excavation activity, you learned some telephone cables are crossing the alignment where you have to construct the bridge. You need to relocate these telephone cables, but there is no provision of such an activity in the contract. Further, the relocation of the cables is a costly task, and you need to do a lot of government paperwork, as well. You requested an amendment in the contract, but the buyer rejected it. Despite many efforts, you both could not resolve this issue. What should you do next?

1. Terminate the contract following the termination procedures mentioned in the contract.
2. File a judicial petition in accordance with the state’s law.
3. Seek arbitration following the ADR procedures in the contract.
4. Relocate the cables at your own expense since the contract does not cover this activity.

Q5. Christine is managing a healthcare software development project. At a PMI conference, she met George who is the project manager at a competitor organization. George is a PMP and has successfully delivered many successful healthcare related software development projects. If George shares his stakeholder management experience with Christine, will that be considered Expert Judgment?

1. No! George is a project manager at a competitor organization.
2. Yes! George is an expert in managing such projects.
3. Yes! All participants at a PMI conference are experts.
4. No! This would be an example of expert opinion and not expert judgment.

Q6. To create a quality product, the project management team invested in training the project team members and purchasing high-end equipment. Such costs are:

1. Failure costs
2. Costs of Nonconformance
3. Appraisal costs
4. Prevention costs

Q7. All of the following are tools of Plan Quality EXCEPT:

1. A scatter diagram
2. Benchmarking
3. Cost-benefit analysis
4. Cost of quality

Q8. The MOST common source of conflict on projects is:

1. Personality
2. Cost
3. Priorities
4. Schedules

Q9. During a project update meeting, one of the key stakeholders expressed his displeasure over the project management approach. One percent of the produced deliverables had minor defects which required a rework. This stakeholder has been a resisting stakeholder so far. What must the project manager do to bring the future project performance in line with the approved quality requirements?

1. Investigate the root cause and identify the required defect repair.
2. Investigate the root cause and identify the required preventive action.
3. Investigate the root cause and identify the required corrective action.
4. Ignore the complaint from the resisting stakeholder.

Q10. If the probability of one event occurring does not affect the probability of another event occurring, the events are:

1. False events
2. Mutually exclusive
3. Statistically independent
4. Just in-time.