Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. Your customer requested that the new railroad cars you are building for his company be constructed from heavy grade aluminium. After reviewing the requirements, two of your experts inform you that the customer would be better off with steel cars. You meet with the customer to discuss the issue, and he directs you to go ahead with the aluminium cars. What should you do?

1. Meet with the customer again to ensure that he understands the expert opinions about using steel instead of aluminium
2. Find a way to cut other costs, and upgrade the cars to steel.
3. Provide aluminium cars that meet the customer’s requirements.
4. Meet with your experts to find another proposal for the customer.

Q3. Sandra is managing a software development project. The project has many stakeholders having a negative attitude toward the project. Sandra knows she can’t keep everybody happy but still can try her best to manage them. Which of the following can help Sandra manage these negative stakeholders better?

1. Ignore them
2. Send them project updates
3. Engage them in project decisions
4. Send inaccurate project reports

Q4. Which of the following is true about risks?

1. The risk register documents all the identified risks in detail.
2. Risk impact should be considered, but probability of occurrence is not important.
3. Risks always have negative impact and not positive.
4. Risk Response Plan is another name for Risk Management Plan.

Q5. An experienced project manager was assigned a project of small scope. Which of the following could be true of the project?

1. Defining Activities, sequencing activities, estimating activity durations, and developing the schedule could be viewed as a single process.
2. Estimating activity durations may be skipped for the project.
3. Developing and Controlling the schedule could be viewed as a single process.
4. Defining Activities, estimating activity durations, developing the schedule, and controlling the schedule could be viewed as a single process.

Q6. Julia is managing a water treatment plant construction project. A new government has recently been sworn in. During the election campaign, the winning candidate made a number of commitments regarding environmental control reforms. Julia is not sure how the new government and its future policies might affect her project. This is an example of:

1. Variability risk
2. Mitigated risk
3. Ambiguity risk
4. Opportunity risk

Q7. During the identification of risks on your project, you have determined that there is a very high probability of conflict among the team during project executing over one aspect of the final design of the project. Which of the following is an example of mitigating the impact of the risk to the project?

1. Obtain an insurance policy for the anticipated cost of the impact.
2. Outsource that part of the project to another company
3. Provide the team with training on conflict resolution techniques
4. Eliminate that part of the project.

Q8. A project manager approaches you to understand the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in better detail. You tell her that:

1. The WBS is a detailed project plan and includes the effort, resources, and dates on which the tasks for the project are complete.
2. The WBS is a task-oriented decomposition of work that identifies each task and the resource required to accomplish the task.
3. The WBS is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work the project team must accomplish to meet project objectives.
4. The WBS is a Gantt chart that contains details about the project deliverables the project team must do.

Q9. The role of each stakeholder is determined by:

1. The stakeholder and the sponsor
2. The project manager and the sponsor
3. The team and the project manager
4. The project manager and the stakeholder.

Q10. You are developing a quality management plan for your project. During the planning process, one of your team members tells you that, in the past, the organization has completed a similar project. You start to review the old project and find that some of its quality metrics can be used in your project as well. This technique is known as:

1. Reviewing organization process assets
2. Benchmarking
3. Process analysis
4. Prototyping