Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. During the Plan Risk Management process, assigning ___________ will help you and the project team identify all important risks and work more effectively during the identification process.

1. Risk factors
2. Blame
3. Risk mitigation plans
4. Risk categories

Q3. You have a US $100,000,000 project that has 34 team members in four different countries. At the completion of project planning, you have identified six risks, 225 work packages, 13 stakeholders and seven phases to the project life cycle. What part of this project management plan needs to be revisited?

1. The Identify Risks process
2. The staffing management plan
3. The network diagram
4. The communications management plan

Q4. What term defines the work needed to deliver a product, service, or result?

1. Product scope
2. Scope creep
3. Scope verification
4. Project scope

Q5. To control the schedule, a project manager is reanalyzing the project to predict project duration. This is done by analyzing the sequence of activities with the least amount of flexibility. What technique is being used?

1. Leads and lags
2. Work Breakdown Structure
3. Flowchart
4. Critical Path Method

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. When should a schedule baseline be created and used?

1. At the beginning of the project and used to compare schedule performance on status reports
2. At the end of the project and then used to measure team performance
3. At the end of the project and included in the archive
4. At the beginning of the project and used during the project to measure performance

Q8. Your boss tells you that one of your resources is needed on another project. All the activities in the chart are occurring at the same time. Assuming that all the resources listed have the necessary skills to work on the other project, who would you pick to move to the other project?

1. The resource working on Activity D
2. The resource working on Activity C
3. The resource working on Activity H
4. The resource working on Activity B

Q9. You are a certified PMP, and the PMI has contacted you as part of an investigation it is conducting into allegations of improper conduct by your manager, who is also a PMP. A complaint has been filed stating your manager has received bribes related to a large procurement contract on another project. PMI has asked whether you could provide information regarding this situation. What should you do?

1. Confront your manager
2. Send PMI project documentation and emails related to the allegations to assist with their investigation
3. Notify the appropriate management immediately
4. Do nothing, citing a conflict of interest

Q10. Your team has built an exotic sports car for a wealthy client. The project team verified every deliverable against the quality requirements, and the client accepted. Now the project manager is arranging for the car delivery. This is part of which process group?

1. Closing
2. Monitoring and Controlling
3. Planning
4. Execution