Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. In order to complete work on your projects, you have been provided confidential information from all of your clients. A university contacts you to help it in its research. Such assistance would require you to provide the university with some of the client data from your files. What should you do?

1. Release the information, but remove all references to the client’s names
2. Provide high-level information only
3. Contact your clients and seek permission to disclose the information
4. Disclose the information

Q3. Two efficiency indicators that reflect the cost and schedule performance of a project are:

1. Cost Projection Index (CPI) and Schedule Projection Index (SPI)
2. Cost Performance Index (CPI) and Schedule Performance Index (SPI)
3. Actual Cost (AC) and Planned Value (PV)
4. Cost Pricing Index (CPI) and Schedule Performance Index (SPI)

Q4. The project manager had to request a change in the approved project budget because the WBS did not contain some work that needed to be done. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do as a result of this situation?

1. Redo the WBS and look for more missing scope.
2. Ask for a time extension
3. Redo the change control system
4. Recalculate the project scope variance

Q5. Which of the following is part of the integration management process?

1. Monitor and Control Project Work
2. Plan Resource Management
3. Manage Quality
4. Report Performance 2

Q6. A schedule performance index (SPI) of 0.76 means:

1. You are over budget
2. You are ahead of schedule
3. You are only progressing at 76 percent of the rate originally planned
4. You are only progressing at 24 percent of the rate originally planned

Q7. A project has had some problems, but now seems under control. In the last few months almost all the reserve has been used up and most of the negative impacts of events that had been predicted have occurred. There are only four activities left and two of them are on critical plan. Management now inform the project manager that it would be in the performing organization’s best interest to finish the project two weeks earlier than scheduled in order to receive an additional profit. In response, the project manager send out a request for proposal for some work that the team was going to do, in the hopes that another company might be able to do the work faster. The project manager can BEST be said to be attempting to work with:

1. Reserve.
2. Opportunities.
3. Scope verification.
4. Threats.

Q8. What does a Cost Performance Index (CPI) of more than 1.0 indicate?

1. The project is over budget.
2. The project is right on budget.
3. The project is under budget.
4. The project is ahead of schedule.

Q9. Which of these is not a legitimate model used to analyze stakeholders?

1. Influence/impact grid
2. Power/influence grid
3. Sufficiency model
4. Salience model

Q10. The client asks you for some minor changes to the project and you discuss this matter with your team members. One of your team members told you that he thinks that it will not affect any other project objective. What will you do now?

1. Review the request according to integrated change control process
2. Since the team member thinks it will not affect any project objective, implement it
3. Ignore it
4. None of the above