Project Management Objective Questions

22. According to the PMBOK guide, which of the following statements is right in terms of using reserve analysis to determine a project budget? A. Reserve analysis always plans contingency reserves for unexpected project scope and project costs, which are part of your project budget. B. Reserves should not be included in the project budget. C. If you only have limited resources, you may completely ignore reserve analysis when you try to determine your project budget. D. Planning contingency reserves for a project is not practical. E. Contingency reserves have never been a concern when planning a project budget.

A. Reserve analysis always plans contingency reserves for unexpected project scope and project costs, which are part of your project budget.

38. CV = $70,000; AC = 90,000; Budget = $200,000. What percent of the project is complete? a. 80% b. 53% c. 45% d. 35%

a. 80%

8. Why does the creation of processes for developing teams, establishing priorities, and distributing work and tasks require different sets of skills? a. Because resources on the project management team may view it as permanent b. Because resources on the project management team may view it as temporary c. Because resources on the project team are not aware of the technical aspects of the initiative d. Because members of the project management team are not aware of the knowledge and skills of the other people working on the project e. Because project management teams do not look after the operational aspects of the project and are concerned only with the strategy

a. Because resources on the project management team may view it as permanent

34. Jack is in charge of a project team. Due to an unexpected project change, some issues with the project have come up. Two key team members, Samantha and Felix, are arguing their solutions to the project problems. They cannot convince each other, and their conflict is creating a negative impact on the project's progress. As a PMP, which of the following would be the best advice for Jack to manage this conflict? a. Confront the problem early, and invite both Samantha and Felix to private meetings. b. Force Felix to give up and to support Samantha. c. Suggest that Samantha concede to Felix. d. Let Felix and Samantha exercise their concerns through conflict resolution. e. Delay this issue for now until it becomes a significant conflict

a. Confront the problem early, and invite both Samantha and Felix to private meetings.

3. What is the first step in project planning? a. Establish the objectives and scope. b. Determine the budget. c. Select the team organizational model. d. Determine project constraints. e. Inspect the deliverables

a. Establish the objectives and scope.

40. As a project manager, Neel has a team member, Kate, who has not been performing well. Due to many repeated mistakes, she has significantly delayed the whole project progress. Neel tried to offer relevant trainings for Kate to improve her performance, and he was not able to see any progress in two months. However, Kate is a single mom with three kids, and she needs this job to support her family. Based on what you know about conflict management, in this situation, how should Neel proceed? a. Neel should fire Kate and look for a more qualified team member. b. Neel should help Kate find another job in the firm. c. Neel should assign Kate more challenging tasks. d. Neel should let Kate stay on the job and pick up her slack. e. Neel should reduce Kate's salary to reflect her performance.

a. Neel should fire Kate and look for a more qualified team member.

36. Which of the following is a personal characteristic that reflects the truthfulness of an individual that can be checked against observable facts? a. Objective credibility b. Attribution of benevolence c. Non-manipulative trust d. High cost of lying e. Acknowledgment of munificence

a. Objective credibility

25. Which of the following is typically a written document that defines what work will be accomplished by the end of the project? a. Scope of work (SOW) b. Project logic diagram c. Milestone schedule d. Ballpark estimate e. Work breakdown structure

a. Scope of work (SOW)

23. Complete the following statement. As the project progresses into the execution phase: a. risks need to be checked off on activities that have been performed. b. the total risk on the project typically increases. c. risks are identified with each major group of activities. d. a risk response plan can be used to identify increasing levels of detailed risk analysis. e. the risk breakdown structure needs to be examined to be sure all the risk events have been avoided

a. risks need to be checked off on activities that have been performed.

30. Which one of the following is the last step of project closings? a. The client has accepted the product. b. Archives are complete. c. The client appreciates your product. d. Lessons learned are documented. e. Temporary staff is released.

b. Archives are complete.

43. Which of the following project baselines provides the basis for measurement of the expected cash flow against requirements over time and is often displayed as an S curve? a. Schedule baseline b. Cost performance baseline c. Scope baseline d. Plan baseline e. Initiation baseline

b. Cost performance baseline

32. Roberto is in charge of a new project to help Company A upgrade its old HR system to a cutting-edge, crossplatform system with the most recent mobile technologies. After his project team assessed the available system documentations, the team found the existing documentations too large and complicated to implement the system updates. Roberto advised his team to decompose the major project deliverables into more executable components. In this project process, Robert advised his team to do which of the following? a. Document requirements b. Create WBS c. Define project scope d. Verify project scope e. Plan project milestones

b. Create WBS

14. After Marta obtained her PMP certificate, her boss assigned her to be in charge of a long-term project, which a recently resigned project manager, Todd, had been working on for three years. When Marta looks at historical information that Todd achieved for this project,which of the following is deemed most critical for Marta to manage her project team? a. Project contract b. Detailed activity lists and WBS dictionary c. Legal documents d. Project lessons e. Learn who are the project investors

b. Detailed activity lists and WBS dictionary

24. Which of the following statements about achieving a common understanding of the project purpose is true? a. A common understanding means building a consensus and disagreement regarding a project's purpose is often fatal to project execution. b. Developing a common understanding involves defining project success, determining potential barriers to success, establishing milestones, and identifying decision-makers. c. The methods and processes employed to develop a common understanding depend on the duration of the project. d. Irrespective of the complexity of the project, developing a common understanding usually involves informal discussions that last a few hours. e. When developing a common understanding of the purpose of a project, participants are often instructed to refrain from expressing skepticism.

b. Developing a common understanding involves defining project success, determining potential barriers to success, establishing milestones, and identifying decision-makers.

33. Complete the following statement. In a weak matrix environment, the project manager, Eric, has to constantly make an effort to influence his project team and stakeholders to ensure project success. This is because: a. Eric has a lot of authority. b. Eric has no or little authority. c. Eric is controlled by his functional managers. d. there are no functional managers. e. Eric has flexibility on authority.

b. Eric has no or little authority.

7. Due to the rapid expansion of your company, your boss decides to establish a project management office (PMO) within the company and asks you to take the lead. According to the PMBOK guide, to be the ideal PMO you can do which of the following? a. Speed up a specific ongoing project. b. Find opportunities for collaborative project management. c. Reassign the resources that have been assigned to ongoing projects. d. Reduce the assigned resources to existing projects. e. Reduce the number of project managers in the company.

b. Find opportunities for collaborative project management.

26. What is considered to be the most useful skill for a project manager who works in a matrix environment in order to achieve project goals? a. Leadership skill b. Influencing c. Conflict management skill d. Time management e. Planning skill

b. Influencing

9. According to Bruce Tuckman's five stages of team development, project team members compete for control at which stage? a. Forming b. Storming c. Norming d. Performing e. Adjourning

b. Storming

31. As a project manager of Project Cool at the company, Samira is responsible for monitoring and controlling two project management processes: process A and process B. She recently noticed a high priority risk X has been imposed on her project process A in Project Cool. While she tried to control the risk X, she also noticed that a new potential risk Y will be added to process B. Which of the following best explains this situation? a. If risk Y happens, then it is all Samira's fault, because she did not do a good job of carefully monitoring the risks for Project Cool. b. This is common in practice. Risk Y is a secondary risk caused by Risk X. c. The potential risk might happen, but Samira can ignore risk Y, as risk X takes higher priority. d. Samira is not experienced enough for handling risk management, so her boss will probably fire her. e. Risk Y is called a low priority risk, which is not considered to be a real concern, so Samira should not worry about risk Y.

b. This is common in practice. Risk Y is a secondary risk caused by Risk X.

15. Fill in the blank. There is _______ correlation between project complexity and project risk. a. an unknown b. a positive c. no d. a negative e. a general

b. a positive

17. Complete the following statement. As a project manager, Darrell is excited that he is assigned to be in charge of the most important project this year. After being chartered for the project, he analyzes the information in the project charter and the stakeholder register to: a. decide how to draft a scope statement. b. start to define and develop the stakeholder needs and requirements. c. prepare for the template to monitor project progress. d. estimate the entire project budget. e. learn how to get project budget approved by stakeholders.

b. start to define and develop the stakeholder needs and requirements

19. Fill in the blank. During the _________ of a project, the project manager focuses on developing the project infrastructure needed to execute the project and developing clarity around the project charter and scope. a. completion b. start-up c. execution d. evaluation e. selection

b. start-up

20. A project budget estimate that is developed with the least amount of knowledge is known as which of the following? a. Rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimate b. Scope of work estimate c. Conceptual estimate d. Line estimate e. Milestone schedule estimate

c. Conceptual estimate

4. While assessing your project processes, you have identified some uncontrolled process variations. Which of the following would be the appropriate chart you may use for this purpose? a. Pareto diagram b. PERT chart c. Control chart d. HR personnel chart e. Critical path

c. Control chart

21. What is the first step in developing a risk management plan? a. Analyze the risks. b. Estimate the likelihood of the risks occurring. c. Identify potential project risks. d. Develop a risk mitigation plan. e. Estimate the potential impact of risk on the project goals.

c. Identify potential project risks.

39. As a project manager, John was finally relieved because a major project led by him was just announced a success. According to the PMBOK, which of the following has likely happened in order to consider John's project a success? a. John's project has met all of the stakeholders' expectations. b. The phase completion of John's project has been approved. c. John's client has paid off the project. d. John's boss is happy. e. John and his team are promoted and get salary increases.

c. John's client has paid off the project.

16. As a new project manager, Karen was worried about a statement from her client: "your project deliverable is in low quality with low grade". According to PMBOK, how can you help Karen distinguish the differences between "quality" and "grade"? a. Quality and grade represent the same thing. b. Low quality can never be a problem, but low grade is. c. Low quality represents a true problem, but low grade might not be the case. d. Low quality with high grade is always desirable to your client. e. High quality always represents high grade.

c. Low quality represents a true problem, but low grade might not be the case.

35. Ahmed is actively initiating a project, so he plans to invite all relevant internal and external stakeholders including sponsors, customers, project teams, etc. for a kick-off meeting. To ensure all of them are covered in the stakeholder register, which document is the most helpful for Ahmed to look at? a. Project team activities b. Scope statement c. Project charter d. Work packages e. Project funding agents

c. Project charter

27. Marco is an investor, and Jon is a project team member. Both have intensive technical background for the project that you are managing. However, recently they have disagreed on the next step to take for the project. They both decide to defer to whoever has the authority to make this decision. Who has the authority to decide which direction should be taken for the project? a. Project manager b. Stakeholders c. The project team d. Investors e. The board of trustees of this company

c. The project team

10. The project management office (PMO) handles all of the following functions EXCEPT: a. maintaining the organization's project management policies and procedures. b. supervising the project managers. c. assigning project managers from other departments but not procuring contract project managers. d. monitoring project performance. e. providing functional support to projects like project scheduling and project cost analysis

c. assigning project managers from other departments but not procuring contract project managers.

42. Fill in the blank. The _____ is the difference between the additional money spent on prevention and the corresponding reduction in the cost of failure. a. cost-benefit analysis b. implicit cost c. cost of quality d. variable cost e. cost-utility analysis

c. cost of quality

44. The conceptual estimate is developed with the least amount of knowledge. When more information is known, the project team can develop a: a. work breakdown structure b. critical estimate c. rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimate d. scope of work e. ballpark estimate

c. rough order of magnitude (ROM)

45. Petri is working for Nokia in Finland. He has completed 10 months of his 12-month project, budgeted at $800,000. His earned value analysis shows that variance at completion is $75,000. What is the estimate at completion value for this project? a. 725,000 b. -725,000 c. -$875,000 d. $875,000 e. $800,000

d. $875,000

2. As a project manager, Tyler is so happy that all expected project deliverable have been accomplished by his project team. What is the next step for his project to proceed in order to verify the project scope by his project client? a. Ask his client to pay for the completed project deliverables. b. Award all of his project team members for such a great accomplishment. c. Offer a party for his project team and client to celebrate the success of the project. d. Ask his client to conduct an inspection on all of the completedproject deliverables. e. Invite a few experts to judge the quality of all the completed project deliverables

d. Ask his client to conduct an inspection on all of the completedproject deliverables.

37. When a project manager starts to plan a new project budget, the cost of which project management process group is expected to be lowest? a. Initiating b. Executing c. Monitoring and controlling d. Closing e. Planning

d. Closing

12. Which of the following is the process of understanding the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to manage a task and then matching the team members with the right skills to do that work? a. Benchmarking b. Expediting c. Procurement d. Delegation e. Solicitation

d. Delegation

5. Once the project is approved and moves into the planning stage, what happens in the next phase of the project life cycle? a. Agreements for risk sharing need to be concluded. b. The total risk on the project typically reduces as activities are performed without loss. c. Risks must be weighed against the potential benefit of the project's success in order to decide if the project should be chosen. d. Risks are identified with each major group of activities. e. A risk response plan can be used to identify increasing levels of detailed risk analysis

d. Risks are identified with each major group of activities.

29. Which of the following is a quality management system that gives titles to specialists and requires a costbenefit analysis? a. Lean accounting b. Business process re-engineering c. Kaizen d. Six Sigma e. Total Quality Management

d. Six Sigma

28. As a project manager, while Kathy was trying to categorize all potential risks for her new construction project M based on levels of probability and impact on the project, she identified a potential risk, regarding a schedule conflict with another project to obtain critical equipment for a short time period. Overall, because this risk is probable and might impact her project M, Kathy wants to record this risk; however, she is confused about where she should document this type of risk. According to the PMBOK guide, where should Kathy document this risk? a. Watch list b. Risk management plan c. Project management plan d. WBS e. Scope management plan

d. WBS

11. Under which of the following conditions would teams be more effective than individuals? a. When speed is important b. When the activities involved in solving the problem are very detailed c. When the actual document needs to be written d. When innovation is required e. When a commitment to the solution is needed by small portions of the project tea

d. When innovation is require

41. According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), the scope statement should address all of the following issues EXCEPT: a. project constraints. b. project assumptions.s c. project exclusions. d. code of conduct for the team members working on the project. e. project deliverables

d. code of conduct for the team members working on the project. e. project deliverables

1. According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), project management is defined as "the application of knowledge, _____, _____, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements". a. skills, analysis b. tools, analysis c. analysis, theories d. skills, tools e. skills, theories

d. skills, tools

18. After Ling finished drafting a new project charter, she sent a copy of the charter to all key project parties including the project sponsor, senior management and key stakeholders, and scheduled a kick-off meeting with them. What will be the most important goal for Ling to complete the project charter? a. Make a professional looking project charter to impress the key project parties. b. Get confirmation from the key parties that they have read the charter. c. Invite the key parties for a nice lunch to establish a friendly relationship. d. Gather promises from the key project players. e. Obtain officially signed project charters from the key parties.

e. Obtain officially signed project charters from the key parties

13. Which of the following defines what tasks the project resources are expected to accomplish and, just as importantly, what is not part of the project team's responsibilities? a. Punch list b. Check sheet c. Project logic diagram d. Checklist e. Scope document

e. Scope document

6. Fill in the blank. Risk must be considered in the _____ phase and weighed against the potential benefit of the project's success in order to decide if the project should be chosen. a. completion b. closeout c. execution d. planning e. initiation

e. initiation