MCQ OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

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".

Select one:
a. skills, analysis
b. tools, analysis
c. analysis, theories
d. skills, tools
e. skills, theories

Answer : (D) skills, tools

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?

Select one:
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 completed project
deliverables.
e. Invite a few experts to judge the quality of all the completed project deliverables.

Answer : (d) Ask his client to conduct an inspection on all of the completed
project deliverables

3. What is the first step in project planning?

Select one:
a. Establish the objectives and scope.
b. Determine the budget.
c. Select the team organizational model.
d. Determine project constraints.
e. Inspect the deliverables.
Answer : (a) Establish the objectives and scope

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?

Select one:
a. Pareto diagram
b. PERT chart
c. Control chart
d. HR personnel chart
e. Critical path

Ans:- C. Control chart

5. Once the project is approved and moves into the planning stage, what
happens in the next phase of the project life cycle?

Select one:
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

Answer : - D. Risks are identified with each major group of activities.

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.

Select one:
a. completion
b. closeout
c. execution
d. planning
e. initiation

Answer is - (E) initiation

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?

Select one:
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.

Ans - B. Find opportunities for collaborative project management

8. Why does the creation of processes for developing teams, establishing

priorities, and distributing work and tasks require different sets of skills?

Select one:
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

Ans - b. Because resources on the project management team may view it as

temporary

Question 9. According to Bruce Tuckman's five stages of team development,

project team members compete for control at which stage?

Select one:
a. Forming
b. Storming
c. Norming
d. Performing
e. Adjourning

Answer- (b) Storming

10. The project management office (PMO) handles all of the following
functions EXCEPT:

Select one:
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

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

11. Under which of the following conditions would teams be more effective
than individuals?

Select one:
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

Ans - d. When innovation is required

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?

Select one:
a. Benchmarking
b. Expediting
c. Procurement
d. Delegation
e. Solicitation

Ans - d. Delegation

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?

Select one:
a. Punch list
b. Check sheet
c. Project logic diagram
d. Checklist
e. Scope document

Ans - e. Scope document

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?

Select one:
a. Project contract
b. Detailed activity lists and WBS dictionary
c. Legal documents
d. Project lessons
e. Learn who are the project investors

Ans - b. Detailed activity lists and WBS dictionary

15. Fill in the blank. There is _______ correlation between project complexity and
project risk. Select one:

a. an unknown
b. a positive
c. no
d. a negative
e. a general

Ans - b. a positive

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"?

Select one:
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.

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

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:

Select one:
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.

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

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?

Select one:
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.

Answer - e. Obtain officially signed project charters from the key parties.

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.

Select one:
a. completion
b. start-up
c. execution
d. evaluation
e. selection

Answer - b. start-up

20. A project budget estimate that is developed with the least amount of
knowledge is known as which of the following?

Select one:
a. Rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimate
b. Scope of work estimate
c. Conceptual estimate
d. Line estimate
e. Milestone schedule estimate

Answer - c. Conceptual estimate

21. What is the first step in developing a risk management plan?

Select one:
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.
Answer - c. Identify potential project risks

22. According to the PMBOK guide, which of the following statements is right
in terms of using reserve analysis to determine a project budget?

Select one:
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.

Answer - A. Reserve analysis always plans contingency reserves for unexpected

project scope and project costs, which are part of your project budget.

23. Complete the following statement. As the project progresses into the
execution phase:

Select one:
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.

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

24. Which of the following statements about achieving a common

understanding of the project purpose is true?

Select one:
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.

Answer - b. Developing a common understanding involves defining project

success, determining potential barriers to success, establishing milestones, and
identifying decision-makers.

25. Which of the following is typically a written document that defines what
work will be accomplished by the end of the project?

Select one:
a. Scope of work (SOW)
b. Project logic diagram
c. Milestone schedule
d. Ballpark estimate
e. Work breakdown structure

Answer - a. Scope of work (SOW)

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?

Select one:
a. Leadership skill
b. Influencing
c. Conflict management skill
d. Time management
e. Planning skill

Answer - b. Influencing

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?
Select one:
a. Project manager
b. Stakeholders
c. The project team
d. Investors
e. The board of trustees of this company

Answer - c. The project team

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?

Select one:
a. Watch list
b. Risk management plan
c. Project management plan
d. WBS
e. Scope management plan

Answer - d. WBS

29. Which of the following is a quality management system that gives titles to
specialists and requires a cost-benefit analysis?

Select one:
a. Lean accounting
b. Business process re-engineering
c. Kaizen
d. Six Sigma
e. Total Quality Management

Answer - d. Six Sigma

30. Which one of the following is the last step of project closings?
Select one:
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.

Answer - b. Archives are complete.

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?

Select one:
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.

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

X.

32. Roberto is in charge of a new project to help Company A upgrade its old HR
system to a cutting-edge, cross-platform 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?

Select one:
a. Document requirements
b. Create WBS
c. Define project scope
d. Verify project scope
e. Plan project milestones

Answer - b. Create WBS

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:

Select one:
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.

Answer - b. Eric has no or little authority.

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?

Select one:
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.

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

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?
Select one:
a. Project team activities
b. Scope statement
c. Project charter
d. Work packages
e. Project funding agents

Answer - c. Project charter

36. Which of the following is a personal characteristic that reflects the

truthfulness of an individual that can be checked against observable facts?

Select one:
a. Objective credibility
b. Attribution of benevolence
c. Non-manipulative trust
d. High cost of lying
e. Acknowledgment of munificence

Answer - a. Objective credibility

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?

Select one:
a. Initiating
b. Executing
c. Monitoring and controlling
d. Closing
e. Planning

Answer - d. Closing

38. CV = $70,000; AC = 90,000; Budget = $200,000. What percent of the project

is complete?

Select one: a. 80% b. 53% c. 45% d. 35% e. 75%

Answer - a. 80%
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?

Select one:
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.

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

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?

Select one:
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.

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

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