Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. 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

Q3. Performance reports should address all the needs of:

1. Management.
2. Team members.
3. The project manager.
4. Stakeholders.

Q4. In order to provide one of your team members with a reward for excellent performance, you are going to allow him to acquire the new skill in which he is interested. Assuming that any activity shown in the chart would provide the team member with the benefit, which activity would you assign him to?

1. Activity D
2. Activity E
3. Activity F
4. Activity B

Q5. The role of the project manager relating to integration is MOST appropriately described as:

1. Ensuring that the stakeholders’ role is integrated with the rest of the team.
2. Ensuring that management’s role is integrated into the everyday workings of the project.
3. Ensuring that the various project elements are properly coordinated
4. Ensuring that team members work together.

Q6. A project manager was involved in preparation of the project charter for an external project. One of the inputs to the project charter was a statement of work (SOW). The SOW may have been received from the customer as part of any of the following except:

1. As part of a request for information
2. As part of the business case
3. As part of a request for proposal
4. As part of a contract

Q7. You have estimated the cost of your project by calculating the cost of each activity, adding them together to get the cost of a work package, and then you adding together the cost of all work packages. What kind of estimate are you using here?

1. Top down
2. Bottom up
3. Parametric
4. Ball park estimate

Q8. Which of the following BEST describes why quality is planned in and not inspected in?

1. It reduces quality and is less expensive.
2. It improves quality and is more expensive
3. It reduces quality and is more expensive
4. It improves quality and is less expensive

Q9. A control chart should always contain:

1. Upper and lower warning limits
2. The moving average
3. Upper and lower control limits
4. Upper and lower specification limits

Q10. The customer requests a change to the project that would increase the project risk. Which of the following should you do before all the others?

1. Include the expected monetary value of the risk in the new cost estimate
2. Talk to the customer about the impact of the change
3. Analyze the impacts of the change with the team
4. Change the risk management plan