Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You are the project manager for GeoThermal Systems. Which of the following must be done FIRST before proceeding with a new project?

1. Create the Project Scope Statement
2. Stakeholder analysis
3. Product analysis
4. Obtain Project Charter approval

Q3. Your team has built an exotic sports car for a wealthy client. The project team verified every deliverable against the quality requirements, and the client accepted. Now the project manager is arranging for the car delivery. This is part of which process group?

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

Q4. As per the chart, the resource completing activity E is not performing very well. After much argument, the functional manager agrees to assign a different resource to activity E, but this will increase activity E’s duration to seven months. What is the effect of this change?

1. None, because activity E was not on the critical path
2. The project will be delayed because activity E is on the critical path
3. The project will be delayed because activity E has float of five
4. None, because activity E has float of four.

Q5. The complexity of the information flow in any project depends upon the complexity of the project itself. Information flows through various channels in complex projects. The project management team is responsible for gathering, compiling, analyzing, and reporting this information. Which of the following processes finally releases the project information to the project stakeholders?

1. Plan Communications Management
2. Monitor Communications
3. Manage Communications
4. Manage Stakeholder Engagement

Q6. Projects, portfolios, and programs are different entities in an organization. Which of the following choices states a correct relationship between them?

1. A portfolio consists of a collection of projects or programs that are grouped together to achieve strategic business objectives. The projects or programs need not be directly related.
2. A project is a collection of programs and portfolios that are grouped together to achieve the project objectives.
3. A program consists of a collection of projects or portfolios that are grouped together to achieve strategic business objectives.
4. A program is a collection of projects that are grouped together for convenience. It may include unrelated work if the work is under the same business division.

Q7. You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. You have been asked to plan a new project. It would be BEST in this situation to rely on ______ during planning to improve your chance of success.

1. Your intuition and training
2. Stakeholder analysis
3. Historical information
4. Configuration management

Q8. 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

Q9. A team member comes to you to tell you that there is a problem on her activity. It cannot be started on the day it is scheduled to start. A manager overhears this conversation and reports that the project will be late. Later the project manager completes his own report saying “the project is still scheduled to be completed on time.” Which of the following could be the reason the project manager made such a statement?

1. The activity has free float and can be rescheduled later in its early-start to late-finish window
2. The activity is on a near-critical path with less float than the length of the delay
3. The activity is on the critical path but is to be done after another activity that does have float.
4. The activity has a mandatory dependency, allowing the project manager to place it in the pro schedule at any location that he wants it be done.

Q10. You are a risk manager of a project and the project manager has given you the responsibility of developing the risk management plan. So, you start collecting the risks and then you categorize them based on their impact on the project objectives. Afterward, you analyze them and develop the risk response plan for positive risks and negative risks. After developing these response plans, what will your next step be?

1. Develop the risk response plan for neutral risks
2. Update the project management plan
3. Assign the risk action owner to each risk
4. Change the critical path to reflect the risk impact