Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You have advertised in several newspapers to inform interested contractors to apply for a bid for some of your procurement needs. Which process are you currently in?

1. Plan procurement management
2. Conduct procurement
3. Control procurement
4. None of the above

Q3. You recently took over a project as the project manager. This is your first project management assignment. The project sponsor is very supportive and is helping you out in successfully managing the project. Recently, some bad quality deliverables were received on the project, and the project sponsor suggested that you to periodically review the vendor’s progress to deliver project scope and quality, within cost and on schedule, as compared to the contract. Which of the following statements is true in this context?

1. The sponsor has asked you to carry out regular trend analysis.
2. The sponsor has asked you something that is not a good project management practice.
3. The sponsor has asked you to carry out regular procurement performance reviews.
4. The sponsor is giving you a bigger workload so that you can perform better on the next assignment.

Q4. Which of the following two project documents are sometimes perceived as containing a certain degree of redundancy?

1. Project scope statement and scope management plan
2. Project charter and project scope statement
3. Risk management plan and scope management plan
4. Scope statement and quality management plan

Q5. You are managing a project that involves work on a film shoot. The editing activity can happen only after the film is shot. The best description of the logical relationship between the editing and shooting of the film is:

1. Finish-to-Finish (FF)
2. Start-to-Start (SS)
3. Start-to-Finish (SF)
4. Finish-to-Start (FS)

Q6. You are in charge of a project developing a complex product that does not resemble anything your organization has done previously. You are using a resource to develop this product, which is in high demand elsewhere in your organization. The project’s timeframe is very aggressive. In order to meet the schedule, only a limited amount of testing is done. Once the testing is completed, the resource is released. The product works fine when being tested, but in production, it performs poorly. This results in a substantial amount of rework and extra costs to reacquire the resource on an overtime basis. Which of the following BEST describes why this project had problems?

1. Poor quality management
2. Poor reporting
3. Poor risk identification
4. Poor resource management

Q7. Your project is behind schedule and over budget, and the actual cost is on its way to being higher than the target cost. You and the client both are worried about the project’s progress and there is a high probability that the point of total assumption will be crossed. Which of the following assumptions is true about the point of total assumption?

1. Above PTA, you will bear the cost
2. Above PTA, the client will bear the cost
3. Above PTA, the cost will be equally shared
4. Above PTA, the cost will be shared by a set ratio

Q8. You have joined a new organization and are assigned a project. This is a new type of project but the organization has completed many similar projects in the past. You decide to review the lessons learned from past projects. You go to the archives and ask for the lessons learned from past projects. Lessons learned is a part of which of the following?

1. Organizational process assets
2. Enterprise environment factor
3. Project management plan
4. Project archive

Q9. You want to buy a cell phone and you have two options. The first phone is cheaper and offers less functionality, but it has a proven track record of good stability and reliability. The second phone is a feature rich, costly phone but it has some stability and reliability issues. Which of the following statements is correct about these phones?

1. The first cell phone is a low grade, high-quality phone
2. The second cell phone is a low grade, high-quality phone
3. The first cell phone is a high grade, low-quality phone
4. The second cell phone is a high grade, high-quality phone

Q10. The project is calculated to be completed four days after the desired completion date. You do not have access to additional resources. The project is low risk, the benefit cost ratio (BCR) is expected to be 1.6, and the dependencies are preferential. Under these circumstances, what would be the BEST thing to do?

1. Cut resources from an activity
2. Make more resources concurrent
3. Move resources from the preferential dependencies to the external dependencies.
4. Remove an activity from the project.