Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You have been given a project to build a park for a local community. Currently you are developing approaches to involve project stakeholders based on their needs, expectations, interests, and potential impact on the project. Which of the following is not an output of this process?

1. Communication management plan
2. Risk register
3. Stakeholder register
4. None of the above

Q3. Product verification is different than scope verification in that product verification:

1. Occurs during the executing process group
2. Verifies that the correct products have been used
3. Obtains customer sign-off
4. Makes sure all work is completed satisfactorily.

Q4. You are working on a project with all the team members located in geographically different areas, and all communication is by email and chat. It is sometimes hard to infer the true meaning of these messages because you cannot see facial expressions or hear tones of voice. This is an example of:

1. Encoding
2. Medium
3. Decoding
4. Noise

Q5. Skills such as empathy, influence, creativity, and group encouragement are valuable assets when managing the project team. These skills are often referred to as ______________.

1. Effort-based management
2. Feedback-based skills
3. Ad hoc skills
4. Soft skills

Q6. You are working in a large organization and managing a project to construct a road. To help you in your project, your PMO is providing you with their support and require you to comply with them. What kind of PMO is this?

1. Supportive
2. Controlling
3. Directive
4. Helping

Q7. You have signed a contract to have a customer care support system built for your company. In this contract, you have mentioned that you will pay all costs incurred plus a monetary benefit if you are happy with the work and the contractor fulfills some conditions set in the contract. What type of contract is this?

1. Cost plus incentive fee
2. Cost plus award fee
3. Time & material
4. Fixed price incentive fee

Q8. Payment for any decision made or encouraged by a foreign official with respect to whether a company will be awarded business is BEST described as:

1. A common practice
2. A sunk cost
3. A bribe
4. A progress fee

Q9. You were recently appointed as a project manager in an organization. You are well recognized in the organization because of your connection with management, and team members obey you because of this relationship. What kind of power do you possess here?

1. Relational power
2. Punishment power
3. Expert power
4. Reward power

Q10. You are project manager on an information technology project on which you and the sponsor have already approved the scope. An information specialist on your team, after having lunch with a low ranking customer representative working with him on a software project, learns that a simple alteration in the display would be a great addition to the project. The information specialist installs the change with no negative effect on the project schedule and at no additional cost. What action should be taken?

1. The information specialist should be recognized for exceeding customer expectations without affecting project cost or schedule.
2. The project manager should add an activity to he project management plan with no associated time.
3. The information specialist should be told that his behavior was unacceptable, as it may have negatively affected the overall project.
4. The project manager should create a change control form, and have the customer approve the change since the change has already been made.