Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. A project manager is assigned to a new project and is supplied with a preselected team. What is the FIRST thing the project manager should find out about the team?

1. Each team member wants to get out of the project.
2. What each team member wants to get out of the project.
3. Each team member’s project archives
4. Each team member’s role in the project management plan.

Q3. Based on the chart, while working on the project, you are told that you have to remove some resources to support a more important project for your customer. From which activity would it be BEST to remove resources?

1. Activity A
2. Activity B
3. Activity C
4. Activity D

Q4. Which of the following is a set of technical guidelines that may be applied during the design of a product for the optimization of a specific aspect of the design?

1. Scope creeping
2. Rolling-wave planning
3. Design for X
4. Scrum master

Q5. A project has experienced significant delays due to equipment problems, staff attrition, and slow client reviews. The project is 40 percent complete and has used 60 percent of the available calendar time. What is the FIRST thing you should do?

1. Rebaseline the schedule to reflect the new date
2. Analyze the critical path activities for potential to fast track or crash the schedule
3. Document the lack of progress and associated issues to management
4. Identify activities that required more time than planned 49

Q6. Which of the following and is the BEST method of completing “what if” scenarios to determine what combination of resources and interdependence will produce the best schedule?

1. Critical chain method
2. Monte Carlo
3. Parametric estimating
4. Resource leveling

Q7. Quality metrics used during the Control Quality process are defined during which process?

1. Plan Quality Management
2. Define Scope
3. Collect Requirements
4. Manage Quality

Q8. Which of the following is not a basic input required to develop an effective project stakeholder engagement plan?

1. Stakeholder register
2. Enterprise environmental factors
3. Organizational process assets
4. Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix

Q9. A particular stakeholder has a reputation for making many changes on projects. What is the BEST approach a project manager can take at the beginning of the project to manage this situation?

1. Say “No” to the stakeholder a few times to dissuade him from submitting more changes.
2. Get the stakeholder involved in the project as early as possible.
3. Talk to the stakeholder’s boss to find ways to direct the stakeholder’s activities to another project.
4. Ask that the stakeholder not be included in the stakeholder listing.

Q10. When planning risk responses, the strategy of changing the project management plan to eliminate the risk is known as:

1. Avoidance
2. Transference
3. Mitigation
4. Acceptance