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. One of the performance requirements of a company website development project is that the home page should load in one second. Such performance requirements are usually part of:

1. Business needs
2. Business requirements
3. Project management requirements
4. Product requirements

Q4. During project executing, a project team member informs the project manager that based on her observations, the project cannot meet the quality standards set for it. The project manager meets with all parties concerned to analyze the situation. Which part of the quality management process is the pr manager involved in?

1. Manage Quality
2. Quality analysis
3. Perform Quality Control
4. Plan Quality

Q5. You recently took over a project as the project manager. This is your first project management assignment. The project sponsor is very supportive and is helping you out in successfully managing the project. Recently, some bad quality deliverables were received on the project, and the project sponsor suggested that you to periodically review the vendor’s progress to deliver project scope and quality, within cost and on schedule, as compared to the contract. Which of the following statements is true in this context?

1. The sponsor has asked you to carry out regular trend analysis.
2. The sponsor has asked you something that is not a good project management practice.
3. The sponsor has asked you to carry out regular procurement performance reviews.
4. The sponsor is giving you a bigger workload so that you can perform better on the next assignment.

Q6. Which of the following is not a true statement about control charts?

1. Control charts can be used to establish, as well as maintain process control.
2. Control charts are used to determine acceptance limits when no limits when no limits are stipulated by th eproduct specification; otherwise, one should use the limits dictated by the specification.
3. All data points outside the control chart limits are variations explained by assignable causes.
4. B and C.

Q7. If a project manager believes that a particular subcontract needs to be terminated, which of the following can provide guidance on the contract termination procedure?

1. The contract termination procedures in the organizational process assets
2. The termination clause of the specific subcontract
3. The change control procedures in the project management plan
4. The contract termination procedures in the project procurements management plan

Q8. The project manager is looking at the project’s resource needs and lessons learned from past projects. This information causes the project manager to be concerned about the ability to acquire enough resources from the project in six months. Which of the following would be the LEAST effective preventive action?

1. Make sure functional managers have a copy of the resource histogram
2. Show the sponsor the data, and explain the project manager’s concern
3. Determine metrics to use as an early warning sign that resources will not be available.
4. Ask functional managers for their opinions.

Q9. You are in the process of dividing work into smaller components so you can get a structured vision of what has to be delivered. What process is this?

1. Create WBS
2. Create RBS
3. Rolling wave planning
4. Progressive elaboration

Q10. When would a milestone chart e used instead of a bar chart?

1. Project planning
2. Reporting to team members
3. Reporting to management
4. Risk analysis