Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. Co-location can help with:

1. Bringing customers together
2. Building a team
3. Decreasing project rental costs
4. Decreasing project time.

Q3. A large, one-year telecommunication project is about halfway done when you take the place of the previous project manager. The project involves three different sellers and a project team of 30 people. You would like to see the project’s communications requirements and what technology is being used to aid in project communications. Where will you find this information?

1. The project management plan
2. The information distribution plan
3. The bar chart
4. The communications management plan

Q4. Which of the following rules should apply to international dealings on your project?

1. You have your way, I have mine
2. Do not violate any basic fundamental human rights
3. Always apply the business practices of your own country.
4. Do whatever it takes to manage the project successfully.

Q5. Christine is managing a healthcare software development project. At a PMI conference, she met George who is the project manager at a competitor organization. George is a PMP and has successfully delivered many successful healthcare related software development projects. If George shares his stakeholder management experience with Christine, will that be considered Expert Judgment?

1. No! George is a project manager at a competitor organization.
2. Yes! George is an expert in managing such projects.
3. Yes! All participants at a PMI conference are experts.
4. No! This would be an example of expert opinion and not expert judgment.

Q6. A project manager is trying to manage a complex project at a 6 sigma level with 5 people. The project manager decides to use a trend report because it will help him:

1. Evaluate earned value.
2. Examine project results over time
3. Analyze the level of project complexity.
4. Determine the level of quality.

Q7. As an experienced PMP, you have found that running a WBS meeting is tricky because you need to find a balance between insufficient decomposition and excessive decomposition. When items are excessively decomposed, it leads to all the following except:

1. Breaking the 100 percent rule
2. Inefficient use of resources
3. Nonproductive management effort
4. Decreased efficiency when performing work

Q8. You are a project manager leading a cross-functional project team in a weak matrix environment. None of your project team members report to you functionally and you do not have the ability to directly reward their performance. The project is difficult, involving tight date constraints and challenging quality standards. Which of the following types of project management power will likely be the MOST effective in this circumstance?

1. Referent
2. Expert
3. Penalty
4. Formal

Q9. Why is the project change log a prime input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process?

1. So that the changes and their impact can be communicated to the appropriate stakeholders
2. So that the new identified changes can be appended to the log
3. So that stakeholders can review the log and prioritize the issues
4. So that the Integrated Change Control process is made redundant

Q10. A large project is underway when one of the team members reviews the project status report. He sees that the project is currently running late. As he looks at the report further, he notices that the delay will cause one of his activities to be scheduled during a time he will be out of the country and cannot work on the activity. This is of great concern because he is very committed to the project being successful and he does not want to be the cause of the project being further delayed. What is the BEST THING for him to do?

1. Contact the project manager immediately to provide the project manager with his schedule.
2. Include the information on his next report
3. Request that the issue be added to the project issue log
4. Recommend preventive action.