Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Q2. A ______ is a collection of projects or programs grouped together for strategic business needs.

1. Portfolio
2. Management System
3. Enterprise
4. Array

Q3. A project manager is using a Risk Diagramming technique that is a graphical representation of situations showing causal influences, time ordering of events, and other relationships among variables and outcomes. This would be:

1. A system flow chart
2. An Influence Diagram
3. A Pareto chart
4. Histogram

Q4. When are risk identification activities performed?

1. During the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process
2. During the Plan Risk Management process
3. During the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process
4. Ongoing throughout the project

Q5. You are sitting in a group discussion with 13 stakeholders and collecting ideas. Now you are in the final stage and are selecting the final idea. As there are many ideas, you decide to vote. After voting you see that a particular idea receives 7 votes, so you go with that option. What kind of decision making is this?

1. Unanimity
2. Majority
3. Plurality
4. Dictatorship

Q6. An activity-on-node (AON) network diagram shows the following activities on two critical paths; Start, D, E, J, L, End and Stat, D, E, G, I, L, End. Each activity is at least three days in duration, except for activity L, which is one day in duration. If you are directed to reduce the project by one day, which activities are MOST likely to change?

1. Activity L
2. Activity E or activity J
3. Activity G or activity I
4. Activity D or activity E

Q7. As the project manager, you are about to start the define scope process. You have the project charter and the organizational process assets list. Because there are no change requests in your project at this point, what must you have before you begin?

1. Product analysis
2. Requirements documentation
3. Updates to project documents
4. WBS

Q8. The termination clause and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanism for each procurement in a project is in the:

1. Scope Statement
2. Agreement
3. Resource Calendars
4. Source Selection Criteria

Q9. You have been working on a very large software development project that has made use of more than 230 people. Finally, all the scope has been completed. It would be BEST to:

1. Throw a party for the team members
2. Make sure the project is integrated with the other projects.
3. Begin to focus on your other projects
4. Analyze project success or failure

Q10. All of the following are the responsibility of a project manager EXCEPT:

1. Maintain the confidentiality of customer confidential information
2. Determine the legality of company procedures.
3. Ensure that a conflict of interest does not compromise the legitimate interest of the customer
4. Provide accurate and truthful representations in cost estimates