Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. Some of your team members do not come to meetings on time. A few other members keep themselves busy with other activities during meetings, and their behavior is not proper. Therefore, to improve the environment what step will you take?

1. Co-locate team members
2. Bring them into the war room
3. Warn them, and if they don’t listen, punish them
4. Implement ground rules

Q3. All of the following are examples of Perform Quality Control EXCEPT:

1. Inspection
2. Cost of quality
3. Pareto chart
4. Fishbone diagram

Q4. Which of the following is an incorrect classification of a feasibility study?

1. A feasibility study may be considered a stand-alone project.
2. A feasibility study may be considered pre-project work.
3. A feasibility study may be considered the first phase of a project.
4. A feasibility study may be considered a program.

Q5. You are reviewing a chart which looks like an S-Curve during the execution phase of your project. What kind of chart is this?

1. Cause and effect diagram
2. Pareto diagram
3. Cost baseline
4. Sensitivity diagram

Q6. A project team has been arguing for days about the correct way to complete a high-level design. This argument has caused the schedule performance index (SPI) to fall 0.89 and the cost performance index (CPI) to 0.8. If the project manager tells the team, “we will schedule this discussion for our team meeting next week,” the project manager is:

1. Using earned value
2. Compromising
3. Increasing costs even further
4. Withdrawing.

Q7. A project team is having difficulty communication over long distances. There were 13 team members from two countries, and then 5 people from India were added. This is of concern to the project manager because:

1. Communications channels grow rapidly.
2. It will be harder to use reward power.
3. Communication blockers grow linearly.
4. Conflict can be increased with an increase in project priorities.

Q8. The sponsor of the project you are managing asks you to compress the schedule. Which of the following is CORRECT?

1. Crashing always shortens the timeline but often increases risk.
2. Fast tracking often results in rework, and crashing often results in increased cost
3. Crashing is only a viable alternative if earned value analysis indicates that the project is ahead of schedule and under budget
4. Fast tracking will result in less parallel activities than crashing the project

Q9. A project manager would like to resolve conflicts by a give-and-take attitude rather than by a one-sided approach. Which of these approaches is he likely to use?

1. Forcing
2. Problem-solving
3. Directing
4. Withdrawing

Q10. Which of the following indicates the required cost performance in order to complete the project on budget?

1. TCPI
2. CPI
3. EAC
4. SPI