Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You are managing a construction project. Your company does not specialize in construction design so you outsourced the construction design to a third party. You are conducting regular procurement performance reviews and are dissatisfied. You want to carry out a detailed audit of the design supplier’s work processes to determine the root cause. Can you do that?

1. Yes, it is a good project management technique advocated by the PMBOK guide.
2. Yes, if there is a provision in the contract allowing work process audits.
3. No, you are only authorized to perform quality audits on the delivered products and not the supplier’s internal work processes.
4. No, a detailed procurement audit cannot be performed until you terminate the contract.

Q3. You are analyzing a particular task with your team members to determine if the task should be done by your team, or if it should be contracted out to a contractor. Which process is this?

1. Conduct procurement
2. Plan cost management
3. Plan human resource
4. Plan procurement

Q4. The costs on a project are typically classified as direct and indirect costs. The cost of electric utilities for the office is:

1. An indirect cost
2. Appraisal cost
3. A specific cost
4. A direct cost

Q5. Which of the following is the MOST likely outcome if you decide to crash the project?

1. Increased cost
2. Longer schedule
3. Doing more activities in parallel
4. Added schedule risk

Q6. A project has a schedule reserve of 28 days when the customer adds scope not previously planned for. The change has a 40 percent chance of delaying the project by an additional 14 days. What should be done?

1. Add more resources to the project.
2. Look for ways to cut 14 days of work from another activity.
3. Add 5.6 days to the schedule reserve.
4. Plan to add 14 days of overtime to the project.

Q7. During which of the following project processes do key stakeholders engage with the project for the first time?

1. Develop Project Charter
2. Identify Stakeholders
3. Collect Requirements
4. Plan Stakeholder Engagement

Q8. All of the following are inputs to the Plan Quality process EXCEPT:

1. Enterprise environmental factors
2. The project scope statement
3. The schedule baseline
4. Project work results

Q9. A seller is awarded a contract to build a pipeline. The contract terms and conditions require a work plan be issued for the buyer’s approval prior to commencing work, but the seller fails to provide one. Which of the following is the BEST thing for the buyer’s project manager to do?

1. File a letter of intent
2. Develop the work plan, and issue it to the seller to move things along
3. Issue a default letter
4. Issue a stop order to the seller until a work plan is prepared.

Q10. You identified a risk in your project that is difficult for you to manage, therefore, you give the responsibility to manage this risk to an outside source. What kind of risk response strategy is this?

1. Accept
2. Avoid
3. Transfer
4. Exploit