Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You have a contract to build a manufacturing plant in Kuala Lumpur. However, you are not familiar with the building codes in Kuala Lumpur or Malaysia, so you are reviewing all their building codes prior to “turning a shovelful of earth.” This is an example of:

1. Project initiation
2. Quality assurance
3. Quality planning
4. Quality control

Q3. A project manager has completed identification of stakeholders and has started planning for a flow instruments installation project in a hospital. While developing the project management plan, a team member states that a stakeholder in the X-ray department is missing from the stakeholder list. Which of the following would be the best response from the project manager?

1. Authenticate the information from the team member
2. Include and involve the stakeholder immediately
3. It is too late to involve a stakeholder in the planning, so ignore the stakeholder
4. Wait until the execution phase to involve the new stakeholder

Q4. You are in the middle of a project when you discover that a software seller for your project is having major difficulty keeping employees due to a labor dispute. Many other projects in your company are also using the company’s services. What should you do?

1. Attempt to keep the required people on your project.
2. Tell the other project managers in your company about the labor problem
3. Contact the company and advise it that you will cancel its work on the project unless it settles its labor dispute.
4. Cease doing business with the company 3

Q5. Total float is the amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the:

1. Project
2. Completion date required by the customer
3. Early start of its successor
4. Project completion date 34

Q6. You have just received notice that the organization you have worked for as a project manager has gone bankrupt. All employees have 72 hours’ notice of termination. What is the best course of action for the two projects you are managing?

1. Follow company directives
2. Conduct a project closeout meeting
3. Leave the office today
4. Raise a claim for and on behalf of all the employees and contractors who were participating in the project

Q7. Which of the following is NOT a valid project schedule presentation format:

1. Activity list
2. Activity attributes
3. Bar chart
4. Network diagram

Q8. Which of the following best describes a control chart?

1. A bar chart showing project activities and their schedule
2. A chart showing the upper and lower control limits
3. A chart showing potential causes of issues
4. A chart showing loops between activities

Q9. In adaptive lifecycles, such as the agile approach for product development, requirements are documented as user stories that are then __________ just prior to construction.

1. Analyzed and curtailed
2. Benchmarked and standardized
3. Prioritized and refined
4. Examined and outsourced

Q10. What is a GERT chart?

1. A bar chart showing project activities and their schedule
2. A chart showing the upper and lower control limits
3. A chart showing the causes of issues
4. A chart showing loops between activities