Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. You are working for an international construction company. Your project involves pulling together over 13 different subprojects. You are having difficulty in ensuring three subcontractors are doing their work correctly. As you review the project results you notice you have spent US $1,200,000 at the last reporting point. You know the schedule is not too bad, since your schedule performance index (SPI) is 1.1. Considering you feel you should have spent US $1,300,000 to this point, what is the cost performance index (CPI), and the schedule and cost variances?

1. 1.19, $130,000, and $$230,000
2. 1.1, ($230,000), and $130,000
3. 1.19, $230,000, and ($230,000)
4. 1.46, $130,000, and ($130,000)

Q3. A new project manager has just been assigned a project that is in progress. The project is two weeks behind schedule. The team members are about to be distributed to another project based on original time estimates provided by the functional manager. What is the FIRST step the project manager should take?

1. She should first revise the bar chart with new timelines
2. She should initially contact the sponsor and begin with a new team
3. She should first show sympathy with the current team and delay decision making for another week.
4. She should check the project management plan for contingencies concerning resources and talk to the functional manager.

Q4. Which of the following BEST describes the project manager’s role relating to changes?

1. Serve the customer and do what the customer wants.
2. Monitor and track changes to ensure they benefit the project.
3. Influence the factors that cause changes
4. Deny change requests whenever possible 9

Q5. You are in the process of creating, collecting, distributing, storing, retrieving, and the ultimate disposition of project information in accordance with the communications management plan. What is the output of this process?

1. Project management plan update
2. Communication management plan
3. Change requests
4. Work performance information

Q6. A project manager uses the precedence diagramming method (PDM) for constructing a project schedule network and creates a network diagram for the purpose. He decides to use the most common type of precedence relationship for all activities. Which of the following relationships would he use?

1. Start-to-finish (SF)
2. Finish-to-finish (FF)
3. Start-to-start (SS)
4. Finish-to-start (FS)

Q7. A project manager is unsure of how much cost reserve to add to the project. There is a 50 percent chance of a weather delay causing an impact of US $100,000 and a 30 percent chance of a delay in the testing center with a US $20,000 impact. How much should the cost reserve be?

1. Less than $50,000
2. More than $120,000
3. Less than $20,000
4. More than $56,000

Q8. Your project team has recently identified a risk in the software development project and decided not to change the project management plan to deal with the risk. The risk response strategy that your team used in this scenario is an example of:

1. Mitigate
2. Transfer
3. Avoid
4. Acceptance

Q9. You are managing a project that has a task to translate several pages of a document into Spanish. This is similar to a project done last year when a document was translated into German. You are not sure how long it will take to translate into Spanish, so you look at the project plan from the German translation and use that activity duration for your current project. What type of estimating is this an example of?

1. Hypothesis
2. Parametric Estimating
3. Analogous Estimating
4. What-if Scenario Analysis

Q10. Which parts of the risk management process use the project scope statement as an input?

1. Plan Risk Management and Control Risks
2. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis and Plan Risk Management
3. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis and Plan Risk Responses
4. Plan Risk Responses and Control Risks.