Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. If you want to reduce the number of quality inspections and reduce the cost of quality control for your project, which technique should you use?

1. Run Chart
2. Defect Repair Review
3. Statistical Sampling
4. Pareto Chart

Q3. Your drug manufacturing project requires the synthesis of many pharmaceutical chemicals to produce an active ingredient for a drug. You are managing a contractor to supply all these chemicals. Recent quality testing of the drugs raised concerns over the quality of the chemicals supplied by the contractor. Which of the following must be your first action to ensure that the contractor is meeting all contractual obligations?

1. Escalate this issue to the sponsor and submit all drug testing reports
2. Reject all poor quality drugs and penalize the contractor
3. Convene a meeting with stakeholders and communicate the findings
4. Carry out audits and inspections to verify compliance in the seller's deliverables

Q4. Which of the following estimating techniques will cost less but is also typically less accurate?

1. Parametric Estimating
2. Analogous Estimating
3. Resource Cost-based Estimating
4. Bottom-up Estimating

Q5. You are managing a two-year project involving staff from several departments. The project is on schedule and within budget. A key team member leaves for a four-week vacation without completing a highly technical and specialized activity assigned to him (activity A). The project team cannot begin activity B or active E (a critical path activity) until activity A is completed. Activity A has three days float and is not on the critical path. A team member, a vendor, and a non-team member work overtime to complete activity A within its float time. You need to reimburse the nonteam member’s department and pay the vendor at an overtime rate. What action should you take?

1. Send a complaint letter to the key team member’s boss, and ask him to fund the extra cost expended.
2. Re-evaluate your communications management plan
3. Thank the others for filing in, but tell them not to waste time on noncritical path activities
4. Pay the cost out of your project reserves 5

Q6. A project manager had a complex problem o solve and made a decision about what needed to be done. A few months later, the problem resurfaced. What did the project manager MOST likely not do?

1. Proper risk analysis
2. Confirm that the decision solved the problem
3. Have the project sponsor validate the decision
4. Use an Ishikawa diagram.

Q7. Lag means:

1. The amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the project finish date
2. The amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of its successor.
3. Waiting time
4. The product of a forward and backward pass

Q8. You are finalizing the monthly project status report due now to your manager when you discover that several project team members are not reporting actual hours spent on project activities. This results in skewed project statistics. What is the MOST appropriate action to be taken?

1. Discuss the impacts of these actions with team members.
2. Report the team members’ actions t their functional managers.
3. Continue reporting information as presented to you.
4. Provider accurate and truthful representations in all project reports.

Q9. A large, complex construction project in a foreign country requires coordination to move the required equipment through crowded city streets. To ensure the equipment is transported successfully, your contact in that country informs you that you will have to pay the local police a fee for coordinating traffic. What should you do?

1. Do not pay the fee because it is a bribe
2. Eliminate the work
3. Pay the fee
4. Do not pay the fee if it is not part of the project estimate

Q10. Which of the following is not a tool or technique of the Control Procurements process?

1. Expert judgment
2. Advertising
3. Claims administration
4. Inspection