Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. The line in the middle of a control chart is called the:

1. Mean
2. Specification limit
3. Rule of seven
4. Upper and lower control limit.

Q3. People associated with the organization in which you are working with have been complaining about the lack of information regarding upcoming changes and want to get information now. Some of them feel what they have heard about your project means they will lose their job or be forced to find a different position with the company. Luckily for you, the SPI is at 1.08 and the CPI is at .99, so you feel confident of success. What is the BEST way to deal with this situation?

1. Update the organizational process assets and reassess the risks of this type of situation occurring again.
2. Use face-to-face meetings to gather further information about the issues and use the issue log to tract the issues to completion.
3. Use smoothing to let the people know they are not in act going to lose their jobs, and fight for better feedback in the future.
4. Have the people submit a change request so their concerns may be addressed and have the change control board review the change for merit.

Q4. To create the status report, you have collected the data for value of completed work, actual duration, actual completed work, etc. These data are examples of:

1. Work performance data
2. Work performance information
3. Work performance measurement
4. Performance data

Q5. Theory X postulates that people:

1. Are motivated by pay
2. Have expectations
3. Need to be watched every second
4. Can direct their own efforts.

Q6. Which of the following interpersonal skills is of prime importance during the collection and analysis of stakeholders’ needs and expectations?

1. Trust building
2. Conflict resolution
3. Overcoming resistance
4. Active listening

Q7. A project to design and build a new aircraft is cancelled after the project has been underway for some time. What process is employed to document what work was done and to what extent it was completed?

1. Validate Scope
2. Control Scope
3. Control Quality
4. Close Project or Phase

Q8. During the Identify Risks process, a project manager identifies a risk that, no matter what the company does, a dire could occur in the building during the test. It would be BEST to _____ the risk.

1. Deflect.
2. Accept
3. Avoid
4. Change

Q9. During a presentation to management, you want to display the project schedule with only the key deliverables displayed. What is the correct tool for this purpose?

1. Project schedule network diagram
2. Critical path network
3. Milestone chart
4. Critical chain diagram

Q10. You are a project manager on a $7,000,000 software development project. While working with your project team to develop a network diagram, you notice a series of activities that can be worked in parallel but must finish in a specific sequence. What type of activity sequencing method is required for these activities?

1. Precedence diagramming method
2. Arrow diagramming method
3. Critical path method
4. Operational diagramming method