Quiz 1

1. Set the factor standard (PMI)

2. The advent of project management has been most profound in (Information Technology OR Electronic World)

3. Change visitor logon screen on website to include a username with at least 6 characters. This is considered
(Ongoing operations)

4. Which of the following is not characteristic of project?

A. An established objective
D. Only for internal use

5. Which one is not a project?

A. Develop new software program
B. Design a space station
C. Prepare the site for Olympic players
D. Production of automobile tires

6. Which bring together a set of tools and techniques used to describe, organize and monitor the work of project
activities? (Project Management)

7. A project is considered successful when

A. The product of project has been manufactured
B. The project sponsor announces the completion of the project
C. The product of the project is turned over to operations area
D. The project meets or exceeds the expectation of the stakeholders.

8. From among the following, which is the best example of project?

A. Processing insurance claims
B. Producing automobiles
C. Writing a term paper
D. Completing a college degree

9. Which stage is major portion of physical and mental project work performed?
A. Conceptualizing
B. Defining
C. Planning
D. Executing
E. Delivering

10. Five project management process in correct order.

Initiating----Planning----Executing----Monitoring----Controlling----Closing

11. Which of the following characteristics is not typical of project manager?

A. Managing a temporary activity
B. Possesses in-depth technical knowledge
C. Managing a non-repetitive acting
D. Manages independently of the formal organization
12. Project management ideally suited for business environment requiring all of the following except:
A. Accountability
B. Flexibility
C. Innovation
D. Speed
E. Repeatability

13. During which project management process are risk and stakeholder’s ability to influence project outcomes the
highest at the beginning of the process?
A. Planning
B. Executing
C. Initiating
D. Monitoring and controlling
E. Closing

14. You are project manager working on gathering requirements and establishing estimates for the project. What
process group are you in?
A. Planning
B. Executing
C. Initiating
D. Monitoring and controlling
E. Closing

15. All of the following must be performed during project initiating, EXCEPT
A. Identify and document business needs
B. Create a project scope statement
C. Divide large project into phases
D. Accumulate historical information
E. Evaluate historical information

16. Your company manufactures small kitchen appliances. It is introducing a new product line of appliances in
designer colors with distinctive features for kitchen in small spares. The new products will be offered indefinitely
starting with the New Year catalog release. Which of the following is true?
A. This is a project because this new product line has never been manufactured and sold by this company before
B. This is an ongoing operation because the company is in the business of manufacturing kitchen appliances,
introducing designer colors and features is simply a new twist on existing process.

17. Corporate downsizing has increased the trend toward…

A. Reducing the number of projects a company initiates
B. Outsourcing significant segments of project work
C. Using dedicated project teams
D. Shorter project lead times
E. Longer project lead times

18. The importance of project management has increased due to…

A. The movement of manufacturing operations out of the US and Europe
B. Time to market
C. The movement toward flatter and leaner organizations
D. Both A and B are true
 E. A, B and C are true

19. A series of coordinated, related multiple projects that continue over extended time intended to achieve a goal is
known as
A. Strategy
B. Program
C. Campaign
D. Crusade
E. Venture

20. In which of the following stages is it determining what the project will entail, when it will be scheduled, whom it
will benefit and what the budget will be?
A. Conceptualizing
B. Defining
C. Planning
D. Executing
E. Delivering

Quiz 2
1. Organizational culture is best explained as organizational (culture).

2. A project team operates with full time project manager as a separate unit from the rest of the organization is
structured as a (projectized) organization.

3. Elizabeth is considering how to structure a project team that will not directly disrupt ongoing operation. The
project needs to be done quickly and a higher level of motivation will be needed in order to do that. For this
situation, the best functional organization is (project organization).

4. (Matrix) organization is a hybrid organizational form in which a horizontal project management structure is
overlaid on the normal functional hierarchy.

5. From list below, which one is NOT a primary characteristic of organizational culture?
A. Control
B. Team emphasis
C. History
D. Conflict tolerance
E. Risk tolerance

6. The amount of authority a project manager possesses can be rated to which of the following?
A. The project manager’s communication skill
B. The organizational structure
C. The amount of authority the manager of the project manager possesses
D. The key stakeholder’s influence on the project

7. What is one of the advantages of a functional organization?

A. All employees report to one manager and have a clear chain of command
B. All employees report to two or more managers but project team members show loyalty to functional managers
C. The organization is focused on projects and project work
D. Teams are co-located
Quiz 3

1. While visiting the country where a new branch office is being built, you are told that you must pay a US $5,000
fee to the government permit officer to obtain the facility permit required by the law to start construction. The
construction company tells you this is standard practice and is required by the law. What should you do?
A. Pay the fee
B. Refuse to pay the fee
C. Have the construction company pay the fee
D. Have the customer pay the fee

2. Your company wants to assign a resource to your project and asks you to bill the resource to the customer. This
concerns you because you get a bonus for maximizing billings to the customer. What is the BEST thing to do?
A. Maximize customer billings in any ethical manner possible
B. Ask for the customer’s approval before adding the resource to the project scope
C. Ask for clarification of the intent of adding the resource
D. Remind the appropriate members of the billing organization that monetary compensation is not worth
compromising the integrity of the individual or the organization

3. A project manager has completed a detailed WBS and cost estimates for each work package. To create a cost
baseline from this data, the project manager would:
A. Use the highest level of the WBS to estimate analogously
B. Sum up the work package and risk contingency reserve estimates
C. Roll up work package estimates into a project total and add management reserves
D. Gain expert opinion of the project total cost

4. A project is over budget to dat. Which of the following is NOT a reason this could have occurred?
A. More work than planned was accomplished
B. There was a cost increase from the supplier
C. Work was delayed
D. Work was done inefficiently

5. You are having difficulty estimating the cost of a project. Which of the following BEST describes the most
probable cause of your difficulty?
A. Inadequate acope definition
B. Unavailability of desired resources
C. Lack of historical records from previous projects
D. Lack of company processes

6. Who of the following has primary responsibility for establishing design and test specifications?
A. Senior management
B. Procurement
C. Engineering
D. Quality control

7. Which of the following BEST describes why quality is planned in and inspected in?
A. It reduces quality and is less expensive
B. It improves quality and is more expensive
C. It reduces quality and is more expensive
D. It improves quality and is less expensive
 8. All of the following are tools to perform quality control EXCEPT
A. Cost of quality
B. Inspection
C. Control charts
D. Flowcharting

9. Your company is concerned about improving its project performance. Internal measures have been created and
have helped to identify areas needing improvement. Additional measures of performance are still needed. Which
of the following would be the BEST thing to do?
A. Calculate the benefit to cost of purchasing a new piece of equipment
B. Determine the project scope and measures to ensure the scope is met
C. Perform a root cause analysis on the quality problems that have occurred on the project
D. Read a project management magazine each month, and look at the results of other companies’ project to help
to determine quality measures for future projects.

10. Management wants to be sure that the project is following define quality standards. Which of the following
should they look at?
A. Risk management plan
B. WBS
C. Statement of work
D. Quality audit

Quiz 4

1. Which of the following rules should apply to international dealings on your project?
A. You have your way, I have mine
B. Do not violate any basic fundamental human rights
C. Always apply the business practices of your own country
D. Do whatever it takes to manage the project successfully

2. In creating a project management plan, how should a project manager use rewards?
A. Use the reward system currently in place throughout the company
B. Ignore rewards because the functional manager will take care of it
C. Create a specific reward system for the project
D. Ignore rewards because they are management’s responsibility

3. A new employee of the company is assigned to work on a project that is in the early planning processes. She has
to decide if she will accept the assignment to the project or whether she wants to be assigned to a different project.
However, the project manager is not at work and is not reachable. Where can the team member look to help her
determine what work she is given on the project?
A. Activity definition
B. Project management plan
C. Job description
D. Responsibility assignment matrix

4. You are in the executing process group of a major project with an estimated cost of US $22million. Two team
members are having a disagreement over the potential sellers of a project component, and the project manager has
 offered to help. The project manager suggests a compromise, and the team members want to solve the problem.
Who should decide the BEST course of action?
A. Management
B. Team members
C. Project manager
D. Customer

5. A project manager new to project management is taking on a new project. When is the BEST time to help build
the people working on the project into a team?
A. During project initiating
B. Before committing to a project cost estimate
C. Throughout the project
D. During project planning

Quiz 6

1. Originally, your project had five team members. Now the scope has expanded, and there are total of eight people
on the project team. How many communication channels have been added?
A. 9
B. 10
C. 18
D. 28

2. You are working on an 18-months project with a small, co-located team. The project sponsor and senior
management are in another city and have requested weekly updates. The customer requires monthly meetings.
Because the team members are busy with the project executing processes, they would like to reduce the frequency
of meetings. Which of the following BEST describes how status meetings should be managed on this project?
A. During project executing, you do not need to hold status meetings as long as you send the key stakeholders a
status report every week.
B. You should discuss the details of the previous month’s issues and the current status.
C. During project executing, it is only necessary for the project manager to meet with the customer once a month
to fulfill your contractual obligation.
D. The frequency and level of meetings as well as the format and type of information to be exchanged should be
defined in the project’s communications management plan during project planning.

3. The project manager must identify ________, determine their requirements, and then manage and influence those
requirements to ensure a successful project.
A. Functional managers
B. Stakeholders
C. Scope
D. End users

4. Near the end of your last project, additional requirements were demanded by a group of stakeholders when they
learned they would be affected by your project. This became a problem because you had not included the time or
cost in the project management plan for these requirements. What is the BEST thing you can do to prevent such a
problem on future projects?
A. Review the WBS dictionary more thoroughly, looking for incomplete descriptions.
B. Review the project charter more thoroughly, examining the business case for ‘holes’.
C. Do a more thorough job of procurement planning
 D. Pay more attention to stakeholder management.

5. Extensive use of ______ communication is MOST likely to aid in solving complex problems.
A. Verbal
B. Written
C. Formal
D. Nonverbal

6. A project manager is in a meeting with the customer when the customer starts to yell about the fact that a change
she requested will result in a delay to the project schedule. Interestingly, yelling is not a common practice in the
client’s culture. The project manager starts to explain why the change affected the schedule when the project
manager’s boss stops the meeting and carefully removes the project manager from the room. Which of the
following would BEST describe what is going on?
A. There was an inadequate change control system.
B. The project manager did not inform the boss before the meeting.
C. The project manager did not properly interpret the customer’s communication.
D. There was an inadequate agenda for the meeting.

7. How does MOST communication occur?

A. Nonverbally
B. Verbally
C. Paralingually
D. Referentially

8. You want to let your team know that the weekly project status report is now officially due by 4.00pm on Thursday.
Which type of communication would you use?
A. Formal written communication
B. Formal verbal communication
C. Informal written communication
D. Informal written communication
E. Informal verbal communication

9. A project manager has just been assigned a team that comes from many countries, including Brazil, Japan, the US,
and Britain. What is her BEST tool for success?
A. The responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)
B. The teleconference
C. Team communication with the WBS
D. Communication and well developed people skills

10. About midway through the project, the project manager learns that most members of the project team are not
reviewing the weekly project updates. What should the project manager do?
A. Create a signature log so team members can indicate when they have read the project updates
B. Revise the communications management plan appropriately to meet the informational needs of the
stakeholders.
C. Improve the layout of the weekly updates to encourage reading by team members.
D. Require the reading of the project updates in order to receive any rewards on the project.
Quiz 7

1. What is the expected monetary value of the decision displayed in the chart?
A. $ 4
B. $ 100
C. $ 20
D. $ 200

2. If a project has a 60% chance of a US $100,000 profit and a 40% chance of a US $100,000 loss, the expected
monetary value for the project is:
A. $100,000 profit
B. $60,000 loss
C. $200,000 profit
D. $40,000 loss

3. During the Identify Risks process, a project manager identifies a risk that, no matter what the company does, a
fire could occur in the building during the testing. It would be BEST to ________ the risk.
A. Deflect
B. Accept
C. Avoid
D. Change

4. Your project team has identified dependencies on six related projects that are providing major deliverables to your
project. Some of these projects have a very similar scope and may overlap with your deliverables. In light of this,
which of the following processes should you be MOST concerned about?
A. Control scope
B. Verify scope
C. Plan risk responses
D. Plan communications

5. If a risk has a 20% chance of happening in a given month, and the project is expected to last five months, what is
the probability that this risk event will occur during the fourth month of the project?
A. Less than 1 %
B. 20%
C. 60%
D. 80%

6. You are a project manager for a US $3,000,000 product development project. Your project is well into the
executing process group and remains on time, on budget, and on specification. This morning, a project team
member alerts you to a newspaper article detailing unusually high defect rates in materials that your team has
been using to develop your product prototype. You had no reason to suspect quality issues in these materials
before now. What should you do FIRST in response to this concern?
A. Stop working on the prototype
B. Quantify the risk
C. Develop a risk mitigation plan
 D. Determine a workaround

7. What should be done with risks on the watch list?

A. Document them for historical use on other projects
B. Document them, and then revisit them during project monitoring and controlling
C. Document them, and set them, aside because they are already covered in your contingency plans
D. Document them, and give them to the customer

8. During the executing process group of the project, a team member identifies a new risk. What should occur in
light of this identification?
A. Include it in the risk triggers
B. Test its assumptions
C. Add it to the risk management plan
D. Assess this risk

9. If the team cannot identify a suitable response to an identified risk, which risk response strategy would they apply?
A. Avoidance
B. Mitigation
C. Acceptance
D. Transference

10. You have just been assigned as the project manager for a sizeable engineering project, and you want to quickly
review the project’s procedures for managing risk. What would be the MOST helpful in finding this information?
A. A risk identification plan
B. A risk management plan
C. Environment process assets
D. A risk impact matrix

Quiz 8

1. You are tracking your project using earned value management (EVM) and find you are behind schedule but under
budget. Your variances show schedule variance (SV)=-US $50 million, cost variance (CV)=US $100 million, and
your actual costs are US $500 million, what are the CPI, PV, and SPI?
A. 1.20, -$100 million, 0.92
B. 0.92, $550 million, 1.20
C. 0.92, $650 million, 1.08
D. 1.20, $650 million, 0.92

2. If earned value (EV) is US $300,000, actual cost (AC) is US $350,000, and planned value (PV) is US $375,000,
what does the schedule performance index (SPI) indicate?
A. You are only progressing at 86% of the rate originally planned.
B. You are progressing at 125% of the rate originally planned.
C. You are progressing at 116% of the rate originally planned.
D. You are only progressing at 80% of the rate originally planned.

3. You are working for an international construction company. Your project involves putting together over 13
different subprojects. You are having difficulties in ensuring three subcontractors are doing their work currently.
As you review the project results you notice you have spent US $1,200,000 at the last reporting point. You know
the schedule is not too bad, since your schedule performance index (SPI) is 1.1. Considering you feel you should
 have spent US $1,200,000 to this point, what are the cost performance index (CPI) and the schedule and cost
variances?
A. 1.19, $130,000, and $230,000
B. 1.1, $230,000, and $130,000
C. 1.19, $230,000, and $230,000
D. 1.1, $130,000, and $130,000

4. One common way to compute estimate at completion (EAC) is to take the budget at completion (BAC) and
_________.
A. Divide by SPI
B. Multiply by SPI
C. Multiply by CPI
D. Divide by CPI

5. A cost performance index (CPI) of 0.89 means:

A. At this time, we expect the total project to cost 89% more than planned.
B. When the project is completed, we will have spent 89% more than planned.
C. The project is only progressing at 89% of that planned.
D. The project is only getting 89% out of every dollar invested