Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. If you are writing a proposal for additional funding, which communication style should you choose?

1. Formal and horizontal
2. Formal and upward
3. Informal and downward
4. Informal and horizontal

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. Using the chart, a new activity, (R) with the duration of 5 is added to this project. Activity R has a predecessor as activity A, and a successor as activity B. How long will the project now take?

1. 49
2. 48
3. 38
4. 52

Q5. You have signed a multi-year contract with a customer to complete a project for a fixed price. Since the duration of the contract is long, you have added a provision to adjust the price of the contract according to the market inflation. What kind of contract is this?

1. FPIF
2. FP-EPA
3. Time and material
4. CPIF

Q6. A project manager is working on a major new product development project when a risk occurs that does not have a risk response plan. What should the project manager do?

1. Hold a risk assessment and plan a workaround
2. Inform management and communicate the new risk to the team
3. Communicate the planned response to the stakeholders
4. Use some of the reserve to accommodate the risk.

Q7. Conflict resolution techniques that may be used on a project include confronting, smoothing, forcing, and:

1. Withdrawing
2. Directing
3. Organizing
4. Controlling.

Q8. You are responsible for IT maintenance in your organization. The head of the IT department comes to you with an internet security expert and tells you to disable auto login and force authentic login based on a new password. The password will be 15 characters long and consist of letters, numerals, and one special character, and this password must expire after every 30 days. This is an example of:

1. Operation
2. Project
3. Maintenance
4. None of the above

Q9. You are the project manager responsible for building a 100,000-squarefoot data center. One of the scheduled activities in your plan is to install the Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) units. However, before beginning the installation of the units, a raised floor must be installed for the units to bolt to. This is an example of what type of dependency?

1. External
2. Optional
3. Discretionary
4. Mandatory

Q10. In which of the following contract types does the buyer have the most cost risk?

1. Fixed price incentive fee (FPIF)
2. Time and material (T&M)
3. Cost plus award fee (CPAF)
4. Cost plus percentage of costs (CPPC)