Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. What percentage o the total distribution is 3 sigma from the mean equal to?

1. 68.26 percent
2. 99.99 percent
3. 95.46 percent
4. 99.73 percent

Q3. You have made John responsible for painting a certain portion of the building you are constructing. John completes the painting and submits his bills to you. You review his invoices, pay him and close the contract. What process is this?

1. Close project
2. Conduct procurement
3. Close procurement
4. Control procurement

Q4. A project manager must stress the importance of collecting and documenting lessons learned through the project lifecycle. One good way to collect this information is during weekly status meetings. Usually, weekly status meetings, if not managed properly, end up in firefighting since most of the time, attention goes to the burning issues. How can you ensure that the lessons-learned gathering does not get missed in such a situation?

1. Add a lessons-learned agenda item.
2. Record the minutes of the meeting.
3. Do not discuss burning issues in weekly status meetings.
4. Replace status update meetings with one-on-one meetings with the team members.

Q5. Based on historical data, the amount of overtime associated with the design effort of a project is estimated at 100 hours with 0.4 probability, 200 hours with 0.4 probability, and 300 hours with 0.2 probability. What is the expected monetary value of the amount of overtime?

1. 100 hours
2. 160 hours
3. 180 hours
4. 260 hours.

Q6. A quality management plan is created during which of the following?

1. Project executing
2. Plan Quality
3. Manage Quality
4. Perform Quality Control

Q7. A rough order of magnitude estimate is made during which project management process group?

1. Planning
2. Closing
3. Executing
4. Initiating

Q8. 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

Q9. A project change management plan should be created during which process group?

1. Initiating
2. Planning
3. Executing
4. Closing

Q10. The project manager has worked closely with the team to come up with contingency plans. Which of the following BEST describes contingency plans?

1. Planned responses to risk events
2. Planned risk control procedures
3. Planned workarounds
4. Planned responses based on probability analysis.