Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. Establishing control accounts for the work packages and a unique identifier from a code of accounts finalizes the WBS. This provides a structure for hierarchical summation of:

1. Schedule and requirements information
2. Cost and requirements information
3. Cost and resource information
4. Scope, budget and schedule information

Q3. You have overheard two functional managers arguing about the impacts that your project will have on their departments. What is your best response?

1. Do nothing
2. Analyze and report to each manager the impact your project will have on their departments in terms of time and resources required and the relative enterprise priority of your project
3. Inform the managers that the project sponsors already considered this impact when they decided to implement the project
4. Put in advance requests for resources from each department

Q4. Calculation of late finish dates and late start dates for the uncompleted portion of the project is called ____________.

1. Schedule compression
2. An arrow diagram
3. A backward pass
4. A forward pass

Q5. 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.

Q6. Andy is currently working for ABC Contractors as a quality control manager for a railway track construction project. National Railways awarded this cost-plus construction contract to ABC Contractors a few months ago. As a contractual requirement, ABC Contractors has to submit each completed deliverable for client acceptance. Reviewing project data, Andy found that the current submission rejection rate is 22 percent. He conducts a root cause analysis and submits his findings along with construction process improvement recommendations to the project director. In this scenario, Andy’s report is an example of:

1. Work performance data
2. Raw observations
3. Work performance information
4. Work control report

Q7. There are two activities on your schedule: 1) Install server in lab, and 2) Move server into the data center. However, the second task cannot start until the server has run in the lab for five days without failure. This is an example of what?

1. Fast Track
2. Lead
3. Crashing
4. Lag

Q8. In your project, two important stakeholders are having some issues. To keep this issue from escalating further you intervene and resolve the issue. After the issue is resolved you asked your team member to record the issue so in the future a lesson can be learned from it. Where will you note the issues between stakeholders?

1. Risk register
2. Issue log
3. Stakeholder register
4. Change log

Q9. Chris is managing a construction project. The project team is currently developing the “as built” construction drawings to be supplied to the client as required by the contract. Which of the following phases is Chris’ project most likely in?

1. Initiating
2. Planning
3. Closing
4. Executing

Q10. A small project with a limited budget is trying to curtail costs. Which of the following processes may be eliminated in such a project?

1. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
2. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
3. Identify Risks
4. Plan Risk Management