Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. Which of the following is NOT a valid project schedule presentation format:

1. Activity list
2. Activity attributes
3. Bar chart
4. Network diagram

Q3. You are the project manager for a new international project, and your project team includes people from four countries. Most of the team members have not worked on similar projects before, but the project has strong support from senior management. What is the BEST thing to do to ensure that cultural differences do not interfere with the project?

1. Spend a little more time creating the work breakdown structure and making sure it is complete
2. As the project manager, make sure you choose your words carefully whenever you communicate
3. Ask one person at each team meeting to describe something unique about their culture.
4. Carefully encode all the project manager’s communications.

Q4. What does a resource histogram show that a responsibility assignment matrix does not?

1. Time
2. Activities
3. Interrelationships
4. The person in charge of each activity

Q5. You are a project manager of a construction project that is financially challenged and behind schedule. A foreman fails to deliver a deliverable of the project on time as promised. You need to address the issue with the foreman. How should you approach the foreman?

1. You are the project manager responsible for the whole of the project. To ensure you have control, remain firm, and reprimand the foreman and the team to ensure they do not slow down.
2. You disregard the issue, acknowledging that what is done is done and develop a plan for moving forward.
3. You meet with the foreman inquiring about what happened and seek to understand and solve the problem.
4. You reprimand the foreman n private and ask that he keep you better informed in the future.

Q6. During what part of the project management process is MOST of a project’s budget expended?

1. Planning
2. Executing
3. Monitoring and Controlling
4. Closing

Q7. George is managing a telecommunication network deployment project. Most of the key project stakeholders are happy with the project so far. However, George has some potential concerns that might become issues in the near future. The next project status update meeting with the key stakeholders is the next day. What should George do?

1. Wait until the concerns become issues
2. Discuss these concerns with the key stakeholders
3. Do not report the concerns in the next meeting but try to mitigate these concerns
4. Briefly discuss these concerns in the next meeting but do not make them look significant

Q8. Work on a project is ongoing when the project manager overhears two workers arguing over what a set of instructions means. The project manager investigates and discovers that the instructions for the construction of the concrete footings currently being poured were poorly translated between the different languages in use on the project. Which of the following is the BEST thing for the project manager to do FIRST?

1. Get the instructions translated by a more experienced party.
2. Look for quality impacts o the poor translation of the instructions for the footings.
3. Bring the issue to the attention of the team, and ask them to look for other translation problems.
4. Inform the sponsor of the problem in the next project report.

Q9. All of the following relate to controlling the schedule EXCEPT:

1. Value analysis
2. Crashing
3. Float
4. Mandatory dependencies 66

Q10. Allocating ownership of a risk to a third party who is best able to capture the opportunity is an example of ________ the risk.

1. Sharing
2. Enhancing
3. Exploiting
4. Accepting