Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You are carrying out a project for an external customer. Most of the project’s scope of work is outsourced and distributed among many subcontractors. What would be the role of the Direct and Manage Project Work process in this scenario?

1. Inspect and verify the adequacy of the seller’s product
2. Authorize the seller’s work at the appropriate time
3. Assure that the changes are properly approved and communicated
4. The Direct and Manage Project Work process will become redundant in this case

Q3. The halo effect refers to the tendency to:

1. Promote from within
2. Hire the best
3. Move people into project management because they are good in their technical fields
4. Move people into project management because they have had project management training.

Q4. Crashing is an effective schedule compression technique at times when a project is struggling behind schedule. However, increasing the number of resources to twice the original number of the resources does not always cut the time by half. This is due to:

1. Fast tracking the project
2. Risk mitigation due to crashing the project
3. The law of diminishing returns
4. Critical path analysis

Q5. A project manager has some authority to manage the budget; however, he does not have any full-time employees under him. In what type of organization is he working?

1. Strong matrix
2. Weak matrix
3. Balanced matrix
4. Projectized

Q6. You gave the responsibility of collecting requirements from project stakeholders to four of your team members. After starting the requirements collection process one of your team members left the job and the requirements could not be compiled properly. Initially, you did not notice this, however, during a product review, a few stakeholders told you that some of the features in the products were not requested by them. Therefore, to verify their comments you review the product requirements and identify the issue. This is an example of:

1. Scope creep
2. Scope slippage
3. Gold plating
4. Opportunity

Q7. A project manager has just been assigned a team that comes from many countries, including Brazil, Japan, the US, and Britain. What is her BEST tool for success?

1. The responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)
2. The teleconference
3. Team communication with the WBS
4. Communication and well-developed people skills

Q8. Due to corporate restructuring, the project sponsor, a major stakeholder, and the CEO have level the company. The project manager’s project is past the halfway point and the remaining members of the management team have been lukewarm toward the project. The new CEO does not place a high value on project management methodology, and the project team is nervous about its future. Under these circumstances, what is the project manager’s primary responsibility?

1. Try to determine if the tea should continue to work on the project.
2. Ensure that a conflict of interest does not compromise the legitimate interests of the customer.
3. Interact with others in a professional manner while completing the project.
4. Provide accurate and truthful representations in all project reports.

Q9. With a growing awareness of so-called unknowable-unknowns, the existence of emergent risk is becoming clear. These are risks that can only be recognized after they have occurred. Emergent risks can be tackled through developing:

1. Project resilience
2. Project charter
3. Project management plan
4. Project risk management plan

Q10. While working on a project in another country, you are asked to make a “facilitating” payment so the country officials will issue a work order. What should you do?

1. Make the payment
2. Ask the person for proof the payment is required.
3. Seek legal advice on whether such a payment is a bribe
4. Do not pay and see what happens.