1. Which organization structure is a combination of all structures?

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Tight Matrix
Strong Matrix
Composite
Functional

2. John is managing a project. The project is about three-fourths done. Then, the site
engineer reports that due to inherent complexities in a certain task, the deliverables would
be delayed. This would involve additional analysis and then implementation. He requests
that this new work, which was not envisioned earlier, be added to the scope and the time
required be added to the schedule. You and the site engineer have analyzed the impact of
this change to cost and have written up a change request and requested approval from the
change control board. Just today, you have received approval from the change control
board. What should be the immediate course of action?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Start work immediately

Ascertain the impact of this change to scope, schedule, and cost before making any
change
Perform Quality Assurance
Make sure that the scope and schedule baselines are updated to reflect the approved
change before implementing the change

3. You are in charge of managing a software development project that is related to

simulations for driving racing cars. In one of your team meetings, it is revealed that a lot of
issues have been reported in the air tunnel modelling module. On deeper analysis, it is
found that many of the issues could have been prevented had a simple code review
checklist been used. You prepare a code review checklist and ensure the code is reviewed
per the checklist. This is a good example of:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Corrective Action
Preventive Action
Defect Repair
Quality Control

4. You have replaced an earlier project manager in a project. The earlier project manager
has left the organization and you are now responsible for the project. On reviewing the
project management plan, you are disturbed because a number of procurement contracts
have been signed off and they all turn out to be Cost plus fixed fee contracts. Why are you
worried?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

All the risk is now with the seller

Contracts should always be Time and Material
Seller has no motivation to control cost and cost could spiral
Contracts should always be Fixed Price

5. You are managing a software development project for a banking product. In one of the
team meetings, a debate arises if defects found during Quality control need to undergo
change control. Some team members are convinced that all defects should undergo change
control, while others are convinced that defects need not undergo change control. Which of
the following statements is untrue?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Defects to deliverables need to undergo change control

Defects to deliverables need not undergo change control
Corrective actions need to undergo change control
Preventive actions need to undergo change control

6. You are responsible for managing a project that deals with laying out a freeway
connecting two major port cities. Progress on the project has been smooth, and you and
your team are very confident on completing the project well within the stipulated timelines.
On reviewing, you see that the project has also run below the budget, resulting in savings.
You decide to add an extra feature of reflector strips on the road every mile. You do a quick
calculation and are satisfied that neither budget nor schedule will slip. You feel that by
adding these extra features, you could also be guaranteed some future projects. This is an
example of:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Scope Creep
Gold Plating
Integrated Change Control
Fast Tracking

7. You are in charge of a project that deals with laying out a lavish 18-hole golf course.
You have a number of contractors working on the project and you know that
communication is key to success of the project. You have identified 10 stakeholders with
whom you need to communicate. Due to some internal and external organizational changes
at the client's end, three new stakeholders have been added with whom you need to
communicate. You also had to reduce one of the contractors with whom you were
communicating. How many communication channels do you have now?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

45
 78
91
66

8. You are in charge of a project, and to ensure things go well, you have had monthly
meetings with the stakeholders. The project is running on schedule and budget. You are in
your fourth month of execution, but the stakeholder indicates dissatisfaction with the
deliverables. Making changes in the deliverables would mean a delay in the schedule.
Which process could have prevented this situation?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Scope Planning
Scope Control
Schedule Control
Risk Monitoring and Control

9. The project that you were in charge of has been successfully completed. The last of the
deliverables have been formally accepted by the client. You had several contractors with
whom contracts were prepared. With the project done, you decide to communicate the
completion details and closure of contracts. Which is the best form of communication?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Formal written
Formal verbal
Informal verbal
Informal written

10. Your company has bagged a number of government contracts dealing with setting up
infrastructure. This includes setting up roads and bridges. This is a very big and prestigious
project, so your company wants to ensure everything is planned well in advance. You are
the project manager of this project. Considering its importance, you and your team come up
with a list of risks. One of the subject matter experts indicates that during the months of
July and August, the construction work of the bridge across the river would need to stop on
account of past history of flooding of the river. You agree with the expert and plan the
schedule accordingly. What strategy did you just apply?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Accept
Exploit
Mitigate
Transfer
11. You are in the process of defining activities and have broken down the WBS into
individual activities. You now tag each activity with a unique code. So, you have defined
a(n) __________ for each activity.
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Schedule Network Diagram

Activity List
Milestone List
Activity Identifier

12. You are managing a project that has teams located in different parts of the world. While
the advantage of colocation is beneficial, the team structure or locations cannot be changed.
Being an experienced manager, you realize that lack of a proper communication channel
can quickly lead to chaos. What would your choice of communication be?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Formal and Verbal

Formal and Written
Informal and Written
Informal and Verbal

13. You are developing strategies to effectively engage stakeholders throughout the project
life cycle. What process you are working on?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Plan Stakeholder Engagement

Identify Stakeholders
Manage Stakeholder Engagement
Control Stakeholder Engagement

14. You head the engineering department in your company. Lately, you have observed that
certain deliveries of a specific team member are missing the schedule. You decide to
discuss it with the team member. Initially, the team member is reluctant to discuss but
finally opens up and indicates that the cause of the delays is often different instructions
coming in from you as well as the project manager. She indicates that at such times she is
confused about whose instructions to follow, thereby causing delays. What kind of an
organizational structure is this most likely to be?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Functional
Projectized
Weak Matrix
Balanced Matrix
15. The release criteria include:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

The timing of the release of team members

The method in which you will release them
Both of the above are true
None of the above

16. As a project manager, you have successfully delivered all project deliverables within
stipulated timelines. Your senior management wants you to calculate the Cost of Quality.
As a project Manager, what costs would you NOT consider while making this calculation?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Cost of Hiring
Prevention costs
Appraisal costs
External and Internal Failure costs
17. Which of the following is part of the Manage Quality process?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Benchmarking
Cost of Quality
Design of experiments
Quality audits

18. You are the project manager for a project. You are updating the WBS during Define
Activities. This process is often called ________.
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Refinement
Update
Analysis
Supporting detail

19. The Project Quality Management process must __________.

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Address the quality of the product

Improve project management
Ensure that the project satisfies customer requirements
All of the above
20. You are a project manager in a company, and your project is currently in the execution
phase. The customer has requested you to perform additional work. This work will affect
the budget but not the schedule of the project. What should you do next?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Add the additional requirements to the project plan

Ignore the request
Explain the change procedure and ask to submit a request for change
Discuss with the project team about the change

21. You are managing a project and you have decided to outsource a part of the project to a
vendor. You have offered a bonus to the vendor if the work is completed in two months.
This is an example of:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Project incentive
Project goal
Fixed price contract
None of the above

22. You and your team have just created a schedule network diagram. You have come up
with the estimates, defined the durations, and identified the Critical Path. You now decide
to do a Backward Pass through the Schedule Network Diagram. What would you be
calculating?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

The Early Start and Early Finish for each activity

The Late Start and Late Finish for each activity
The duration of paths other than the critical path
The duration of the critical path

23. Of the following types of contracts, which has the highest risk for the seller?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Cost plus fixed fee - CPFF

Time and Material - T and M
Firm Fixed Price Contract - FFP
Cost plus Incentive fee CPIF

24. What is the best use of a Work Authorization System?

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

It manages the timing and sequence of activities that need to be performed.

It manages who performs the activity.
 It identifies the resources needed to complete activities.
It is used for comparing actual work against the baselines.

25. You are in charge of a software project that is almost 40% complete. The project
stakeholders want a performance report to date. You had planned to use Earned Value
Management methodology. You come up with the following numbers: EV = 100, AC =
300, PV = 150, and BAC = 600. Your team has faced numerous issues till now. However,
you choose to ignore the current work performance and decide to go with what was
originally planned. Based on this information, what would be the EAC for the project?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

800
200
600
1800

26. Your team has delivered phase one of a project to the client. Based on client feedback
and issues found by the client, you decide to do some introspection to identify root causes
so that the subsequent deliverables do not face the same issues. What techniques would you
choose to apply?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Perform Quality Audits

Review Activity Network Diagrams
Look up Process decision program charts
Perform Process Analysis

27. Over lunch, you meet a colleague who is managing a large turnover project for setting
up a chemical plant. Your colleague is worried because the client is being unreasonable and
asking for changes that will have a severe impact on the scope, schedule, and cost. The
client is also not ready to absorb the additional impact on schedule and cost. She seeks your
advice. What should she do?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Refuse to budge and not make any changes

Request her executive management to initiate legal action against the client
Make the changes and absorb the impact on cost, schedule, and scope
Set up a meeting with the client to better understand the changes being asked for

28. You are managing a project to set up a brand new play area for the community. You
and your team have been working as per the plan, and things are moving smoothly.
Suddenly, one of the stakeholders indicates that the play area must also include a sand pit.
This was not originally planned for, so you analyze the impact on the cost, schedule, and
scope. You then submit the change request to the Change control board for their
approval .You immediately receive approval. What should your next step be?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Start the work done immediately

Update the impacted baselines - scope, cost, and schedule
Update the work performance reports and share them with stakeholders
Set up a meeting with the change control board

29. As a project manager, you are expected to calculate the cost of Poor Quality. The
project work is in progress. What costs would you consider?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Cost of Hiring
Prevention costs
Appraisal costs
External and Internal Failure costs

30. You are in charge of building a bridge across a river. All the initial groundwork and
structural designs have been completed, and the work is in progress. You know that the
next two months will be particularly critical, involving activities such as Arc welding of
stiffener plates. You know your company employs welders who specialize in this kind of
work. However, you are apprehensive about their availability for the next two months.
What should you refer to first to find out if these welders are available for the next two
months?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Milestone List
Pareto Chart
Histograms
Resource Calendars

31. You and a group of managers conduct a weekly meeting for sharing information and
project management best practices. Joe, who is a colleague of yours, explains the need for
correctly identifying all the project stakeholders. He explains that in his current project, he
has made use of Stakeholders Engagement Assessment Matrix. Many of the other
colleagues are not quite aware of the need and usage of this matrix. Which of the following
best describes this tool?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER
 Lists all the stakeholders along with their current engagement and desired engagement
Lists all the stakeholders
Lists only those stakeholders who are Resistant
Lists only those stakeholders who are Supportive

32. Your company policy allows you to gift customers within a certain limit. You have
unintentionally given a gift to the customer that is beyond the limit mentioned in your
company policy. What should you do?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Forget it and don't tell anyone

Contact your company's senior management and ask for assistance
Ask your customer to return the gift
Ask your customer to give you a gift which has the same cost

33. Earned Value Analysis is used to measure performance based on a few parameters.
Identify them.
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Scope and Cost

Scope and Schedule
Scope, Cost, and Schedule
Cost and Schedule

34. When handling a team with diverse cultures, the project manager should focus on:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Recording the minutes of meeting

Face-to-Face meetings
Increasing the reporting frequency
Empowering the team to make their own decisions

35. What is the purpose of a fishbone diagram?

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Illustrates how various factors might be linked to potential problems or effects

Determines if a process is in control
Shows trends in a process over time
Shows the pattern of relationship between two variables

36. Which of the following best describes Vroom's Expectancy theory?

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER
 Employees will put in efforts dependent on expectancy, valence, and instrumentality.
Employee motivation is not achievable
Hygiene factors will ensure that job dissatisfaction does not occur; however, it does not
ensure job satisfaction.
People have needs starting with Physiological Needs and ending with self-actualization.

37. Who among the following gave the framework for Continuous improvement?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Peter Drucker
Joseph Juran
Philip Crosby
Edward Deming

38. You are managing a project which involves building software for the aeronautical
domain. The nature of the work is complex and needs a lot of research. During Quality
assurance, both the development team and testing team suggest that the quality assurance
process be changed to include White Box testing and not just rely on Black Box testing.
The teams want to make this shift in approach as they believe this would lead to better
quality of deliverables. What is the best course of action?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

As the changes will help improve quality, execute white box testing
Create a change request
Refuse to adopt this change as this would mean a change in the agreed process
Analyze the impact of the change on scope, schedule, and cost, and then write up a
Change Request

39. The Scope Baseline consists of _____.

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Approved Project Scope Statement, WBS, WBS Dictionary

Preliminary Project Scope Statement, Approved Project Scope Statement, WBS, WBS
Dictionary
Scope Management Plan, WBS, WBS Dictionary
Scope Management Plan, Approved Project Scope Statement, WBS Dictionary

40. As the project manager, you've decided to outsource a part of the project to a vendor.
The vendor has discovered some issues that impact the cost and schedule of the work. How
does the vendor update the agreement?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

A new contract needs to be signed by your company and the vendor

A contract addendum needs to be signed by your company and the vendor
 An SOW needs to be signed by you and the vendor
None of the above

41. As a manager on a project, you have to ensure that the project delivers within the
scheduled timelines with minimal rework and customer delight. For some time now, the
project work is proceeding smoothly with a CPI and SPI a perfect 1. One of your team
members approaches you and indicates the possible need for a long vacation on personal
grounds two months from now. You look up the schedule and find that this team member is
scheduled to execute activities that are on the critical path, and the team member's absence
in two months' time would cause a delay in schedule. You decide to take some action and
reschedule task allocation to ensure that this team member is not planned to work on any of
the critical path activities. What did you just do?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Mitigate the risk

Avoid the risk
Transfer the risk
Exploit the risk

42. You are in the process of executing a project that deals with laying out electrical cables
connecting two cities. You have been reporting progress on a monthly basis. This month,
due to unplanned vacations, many of the staff have not turned up at work. This has caused a
delay in the schedule. You decide to check if the schedule variance is within the allowable
threshold. What document should you refer to?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Project Management Plan

Schedule Management Plan
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Activity Definition
43. Which of the following activities is not performed as a part of Project Closure?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Ensuring all the deliverables meet contract requirements

Creating lessons learned and updating Organizational Process Assets
Final acceptance
Verifying scope

44. You have recently taken over a project that is using Agile methodology. Your team is in
the process of understanding the user requirements and trying to prioritize them. Which
technique will be most useful?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER
 Interviews
Kano Model
Delphi Technique
None of the above

45. You are in charge of building a shopping portal. You are fairly confident as you have a
team experienced in doing such work. As per the agreement, at the end of the first month,
you organize a demonstration of the software. You invite the sponsor and key stakeholders.
Later, the sponsor informs you that she is not very happy with the progress, indicating that
one of the clients who would be using this software is not satisfied as her needs are not
being met. Satisfying this client's needs would mean some radical changes with an impact
on both cost and schedule. What could be the root cause of this issue?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Deliverables were not as per requirement

The stakeholder is making unrealistic demands
The scope statement was ambiguous
All the stakeholders were not identified

46. Reviews held at the end of each sprint to help the team know what went well and where
continuous improvement can be done are called:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Sprint review
Backlog review
Retrospective
Product review
47. The ____ is the international organization that controls the standards for quality.
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

ISO
PMP
PMI
ISCII

48. Your company has won a large project's administering funds for one of the fund houses.
The project work has been going smoothly, and the customer has been praising the work
done so far. The client has planned a visit the next month to go over the plans for the next
phase of the project as well as to meet with the project team. Your senior management
realizes that this client could potentially need additional capabilities in the derivatives
segment. Your company has a strong exposure to this segment, having executed numerous
similar projects. Your senior manager also invites key managers from the derivatives
segment to showcase the organization's abilities in the derivatives vertical. What is this an
example of?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Mitigating the risk

Avoiding the risk
Transferring the risk
Exploiting the risk

49. Which factors can either support or limit the project management options, act as inputs
for planning processes, and have a negative or positive influence on a project outcome?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Enterprise Environmental Factors

Organizational Standards
Norms
PMIS

50. You are responsible for the complete makeover of a shopping mall, which involves civil
work and painting. After going through the details, you have come up with the cost
estimates. After approval, you have arrived at the cost baseline. Work is now in progress.
You and the senior management are happy with the work. Suddenly, you realize that ceiling
repair work was not factored in the estimates though it was very much a part of the scope.
You decide to make use of Contingency reserves, but your senior manager advises you to
make use of the Management reserve. What is the correct action?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Making use of both the Management Reserve and the Contingency Reserve
Making use of Management Reserve
Making use of Contingency Reserve
None of the above

51. You are in your third month of project execution, which is expected to continue for 14
months. Your sponsor has asked for a performance report. You decide to create an S curve.
Based on the S curve, you report your Actual Cost, which is more than the Earned Value.
Also, the Planned Value is greater than the Earned Value. What would be the interpretation
of this data?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

The project is over budget and behind schedule

The project is on schedule and on budget
The project is over budget but on schedule
 The project is on budget but behind schedule

52. You have been asked to provide cost estimates for a project involving complete
electrical installation in warehouses. As a project manager, you have had past experience in
similar projects in your previous organization. The organization you have joined also has
recently done a similar project. The executive management wants you to quickly come up
with an estimate. What estimation technique would you adopt?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Ask your previous organization for the estimates

Use Parametric Estimating technique
Use Bottom-up Estimating
Use Analogous Estimating

53. You are managing a project for constructing a shopping complex. However, you have
not made good progress due to the occurence of a flash flood. There have been a lot of
escalations from key stakeholders, and executive management is pressing you to get the
project on track. In a review meeting, your lead architect, sensing the urgency, suggests a
change that could significantly reduce the schedule. She is very confident that the suggested
change will work to get things on track. As a project manager, what is the best course of
action?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

The project is lagging, so implement the change request as it would reduce the schedule
Reject the idea of making the change as this will need an approval from change control
Create a change request and submit it to change control board
Identify the impact of the change on the scope and cost and then include this information
in the change request
54. You are in charge of constructing a high-rise residential building. After creating a
Network diagram, you have identified the Critical Path. Work has started, but due to
inclement weather, plinth work is delayed. This plinth work activity was on the critical
path. As a manager driving this project, would you be worried and why?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

No - It will not matter if the Plinth work is delayed

No - Activities on the critical path do not impact the schedule
Yes - Any delay of activities on the critical path would lead to a delay of the entire project
Yes - you will now have to relay this bad news to the client

55. You know that the success of your project will be determined by how well you manage
risks. You know that identifying risks upfront can help you be better prepared with risk
response strategies. You consult with other project managers in the company. One manager
suggests using SWOT to identify risks. What would you do next as a part of this technique?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Gather team members and experts to discuss and identify risks

Gather anonymous responses from experts and identify risks
Perform root cause analysis to identify problems, their cause, and potential responses
Identify the organization's strengths and weaknesses

56. You have been assigned to a project that deals with developing a software product for
the BFSI domain. You and your team are building the schedule network diagram. While
sequencing activities, one of the Architects in your team suggests that rather than
interacting with the database on every activity, you should introduce an activity that would
cache the data. The team member argues that this will improve performance and suggests
that the activity be introduced in the sequence prior to other activities that deal with
database interaction. What kind of a dependency is this?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

This is an example of Mandatory Dependency.

This is an example of External Dependency.
This is an example of Discretionary Dependency or Soft Logic.
This is an example of Hard Logic.

57. You and your team are in the process of creating WBS and WBS Dictionary. What
would be the best choice of attributes in a WBS Dictionary?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Work Package ID and Work Package Description

Work Package ID, Control Account ID, and Work Package Description
Work Package Description
Work Package ID, Control Account ID, Work Package Description, Acceptance Criteria,
Responsible Organization, Cost, Assumptions

58. Project manager's role is part time in _________ organization structure?

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Matrix
Composite
Functional
Projectized

59. S Curve depicts a relationship between:

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Resource Availability and time

Remaining budget and time
Actual Cost, Planned Value, and Earned Value
Cost and Quality

60. Which of the following statements is false regarding Risk Management?

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

All identified risks are maintained in the Risk Register.

Risk prioritization occurs in Qualitative Risk Analysis.
Risk prioritization occurs in Quantitative Risk Analysis.
Low-priority risks are maintained in a Watch List.

61. Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding Contracts?

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Contracts are legally binding in nature.

Contracts obligate the buyer to provide compensation and the seller to provide some
product or service in return.
By careful administration of terms and conditions, the buyer can transfer some of the risks
to the seller.
Contracts undergo an approval process like any other plan.

62. You are in charge of a project for the electrical layout of a five-star hotel. You see this
as a very simple project as you and your team have a lot of experience executing similar
projects. As a result, your organization has a wealth of Organizational Process assets. You
have worked out the exact details of the work involved and have a very detailed WBS with
granular-level activities defined. You decide to employ the services of a contractor for
laying out of the cable trays. What kind of a contract would be the best choice?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Cost-reimbursable contract
Fixed-price contract
Time and Material contract
None of the above

63. Which hierarchical chart shows resources?

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

RBS
OBS
WBS
 Scope statement

64. Your company has won a project to build a school playground with specific toys and a
sandpit. The school has mandated that the project be completed before the start of the
school year. You review the plan and see that the estimated completion date is nearly a
month after the desired completion date. As resources are sparse, you do not have the
option to add additional resources. However, you see that the sand pit work can start in
parallel with the play kits being installed. Your analysis tells you that by performing these
activities in parallel, the project would meet its schedule. This is an example of:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Scope Creep
Resource Levelling
Crashing
Fast Tracking

65. You are in charge of a project to build a bridge across a river. You are halfway through
the project. However, due to changes in environmental laws, the project can no longer
proceed and would need to be terminated. Executive management has asked you to
document the level of work completed for the project. In which of the following processes
would this be done?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Project Closure
Contract closure
Project charter
Scope Verification

66. You have asked your team members to provide estimates of tasks. You see that a
specific team member has provided estimates on the higher side. You discuss this with the
team member. The team member admits that they did not have an idea of how long the task
would take, so they came up with an estimate and then doubled it to be safe. What is this
known as?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Lead
Lag
Free Float
Pad
67. You are in the process of making cost estimates for a project. However, detailed
requirements are not yet available. A similar project was executed by your company, and
you decide to use the past project's historical data to come up with your estimates. This is
called:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Analogous estimating
Parametric estimating
Bottom-up estimating
Three point estimating

68. You are the project manager for a large Project. You are currently busy with
approximating the number of work periods required to complete individual activities with
estimated resources. Which of the following inputs do you need for this?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Activity List
Resource requirements
Resource Breakdown structure
All of the above

69. You are starting a new project. You break up the work into discrete work packages. To
ensure that each work package has all the necessary details, you and your team decide to
write down detailed information for each work package, such as Statement of work, details
of the work package, and who will be responsible for the work package. Where would you
store this information?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Project Management Plan

WBS
WBS Dictionary
Approved Project Scope Statement

70. You are the project manager of a software project. You have just analyzed activity
sequences, durations, resource requirements, and schedule constraints and created project
schedule. To which process does the above tasks belong?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Define Activities
Sequence Activities
Develop Schedule
Control Schedule
71. You know that the success of your project will be determined by how well you manage
risks. You know that identifying risks upfront can help you be better prepared with risk
response strategies. So, you decide to identify risks by taking help of experts. You have
identified some experts, and rather than calling them to your office, you send them
questionnaires. You promise them complete anonymity so that they give unhindered
responses. What information gathering technique are you adopting?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Brainstorming
Root Cause Identification
SWOT analysis
Delphi Technique

72. Which of the following options best describes Achievement Theory of Motivation?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Employees given a reward are most likely to be motivated.

People cannot be trusted and must be governed and monitored regularly to ensure tasks
get done.
People are motivated by achievement, power, and affiliation.
Employees will put in an effort in direct proportion to the perceived review and reward.

73. The key benefits of __________ process is that it will maintain or increase the
efficiency and effectiveness of stakeholder engagement activities as the project evolves and
the environment changes.
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Plan Stakeholder Engagement

Identify Stakeholders
Manage Stakeholder Engagement
Monitor Stakeholder Engagement

74. You are managing a project for constructing a bridge over a river. All the risks have
been identified and the design phase is just completed. The team is in its second week of
construction. One of the subject matter experts reports that there is a possibility that the
monsoons will be heavier this year. She points out that the load-bearing plates earlier
designed may have to be redesigned considering the additional water pressure expected
because of additional rain water. What would be your best immediate course of action?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Schedule an emergency meeting with all stakeholders to discuss this risk

Mitigate risks by immediately redesigning the load-bearing plates
Write up a change request and submit it to the Change Control Board for approval
 Update the Risk register to add this risk along with its probability and impact

75. You are managing a project for a plantation on a large reserve land. You have created
the schedule network diagram and have identified two paths. Path 1 consists of two
activities of a duration of 2 and 5 weeks respectively. Path 2 consists of 3 activities with
durations of 1, 3, and 3 weeks respectively. Which of the two paths is the Critical Path?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Path 1
Path 2
Neither
Both Paths 1 and 2 are Critical Paths

76. In Agile, the role of a product owner is to

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Assist the project manager

Assist the team in defining & prioritizing user stories
Manage stakeholder changes
Assist in selecting the team

77. You are a manager in an organization that believes in the Theory X style of
management. Which of the following is an assumption of this theory?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Employees are inherently lazy, dislike work, and will avoid work if they can.
Employees are motivated and enjoy doing their work.
Employees want to do well at work.
Employees are trustworthy and are motivated by doing a good job.

78. You have recently joined an organization's project management office. After reviewing
the organizational assets, you realize that project managers have not routinely documented
lessons learned for their projects. There are a few projects that are about to start. You
decide to call a meeting of all the project managers and explain the need of Lessons
Learned. In order to get a buy-in from your managers, what would you focus on as the best
use of this document?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

It helps the team to plan tasks.

It helps in performance reporting.
It will help the manager to better control the project.
The historical information can be used for other projects.
79. Your project is in a critical phase. You notice that one of the team members comes in
late to office and leaves early. This is clearly impacting delivery. You decide to talk to the
team member to better understand their reasons. You find no specific reasons, so you
explain the necessity and criticality of the project, expecting the team member to improve.
However, next week, your lead engineer reports that the team member is still not spending
adequate time in the office. What would be the best choice of communication in this case?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Informal and verbal

Formal and written
Informal and written
Formal and verbal

80. Decomposition is best described as:

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Creating control accounts

Creating work packages
Breaking down deliverables into smaller work packages so that they can be better planned
Planning and scheduling of work packages

81. As a part of the Executive Management team, you have a number of project managers
reporting to you. The report from one of the project managers raises concerns about the
health of the project. The EV is $ 300000, PV is $ 550000, and AC is $ 200000. According
to your calculations, the project is behind schedule. However, the Project Manager
disagrees and feels that the project is ahead of schedule. What is the correct interpretation
of the data?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Both you and the project manager are incorrect

Both you and the project manager are correct as the interpretation is very subjective.
You are correct as the project is behind schedule.
The Project Manager is correct as the project is ahead of schedule.

82. Identify the basic quality tools to facilitate, measure, and control quality.
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Cause and effect diagrams, Flowcharts, Check sheets, Pareto diagrams, Histograms,
Control Charts, Sequence Diagrams
Cause and effect diagrams, Flowcharts, Check sheets, Histograms, Control Charts, Scatter
Diagrams
 Activity diagrams, Flowcharts, Check sheets, Pareto diagrams, Histograms, Control
Charts, Sequence Diagrams
Cause and effect diagrams, Monte Carlo analysis, Check sheets, Pareto diagrams,
Histograms, Control Charts, Scatter Diagrams

83. You have scheduled regular weekly team meetings with project team members. Things
have been going according to plan, and there have been no variances till date with respect
to the work performance baselines. A site engineer reports that he had to perform a couple
of corrective actions, but they were not logged. As a Project Manager, what should you do?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Reprimand the team member for not documenting the corrective action
Reprimand the team member and ensure the corrective action is taken
Do nothing
Document the corrective actions performed in the historical records

84. You are negotiating with a contractor for additional staff of software developers and
testers. As a buyer, you don't quite have the exact statement of work ready. What kind of
contract is MOST appropriate for this kind of work?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Time and Materials - T and M

Cost plus fixed fee - CPFF
Firm Fixed Price Contract - FFP
Fixed Price Incentive Fee Contracts FPIF

85. A process with lack of consistency and predictability is called:

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

In control
Out of control
Bad quality
Quality noise

86. The _________ details the different tasks for members in the project.
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)

WBS
SOW
Scope statement

87. The goal of value analysis is to improve the overall:

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Share Value
Product Value
Business Value
Stakeholder value

88. _______is that which describes the deliverable, defined key attributes of the
deliverable, and allows for tracking, versioning, and control.
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Product management control

Process control
Configuration management system
Scope management system

89. Legal or Regulatory requirements are part of:

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Compliance requirements
Non-functional requirements
Technical Requirements
Support Requirements

90. Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding the Scope Management Plan?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Scope Management Plan is not a part of the Project Management Plan.

It provides guidance on how the Project Scope will be verified.
It provides guidance on how the scope will be defined, documented, monitored, and
controlled.
It provides guidance regarding the enterprise environmental factors and organizational
process assets that would play a part.

91. The style of leadership of supporting the team and addressing their needs is called:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Democratic
Supportive
Servant Leadership
Laissez-faire
92. Which of the following is a classification model that groups stakeholders on the basis of
their level of authority, their immediate needs, and how appropriate their involvement is in
terms of the project?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Power-interest Model
Power-Influence Model
Salience Model
Legal-Influence Model

93. You are just beginning a project and are in the process of forming a team. You want the
team to abide by certain norms, manage conflicts by themselves, decide their working
hours, etc. What is the document you will prepare?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Project Charter
Risk Register
WBS
Team Charter

94. Your company has been tasked with providing estimates for a road construction project.
You have data available related to costs per square feet. You now need to provide an
estimate of the cost of the project based on this data. What estimation technique is most
applicable in this scenario?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Top-down Estimating
Parametric Estimation
Bottom-up Estimating
Analogous Estimation

95. A data point in a control chart that requires investigation is called:

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

A special cause
A quality fault
A rule of seven
A rule of five

96. You have just begun a project. Some members have been given training on some skilled
tasks, but you are apprehensive that the knowledge and skills may not be sufficient. You
decide to put a few customer stakeholders together to enable them to interact with the team
and learn from one another. This is called:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Hands-on Training
Pairing and Mentoring
Shadow Training
None of the above

97. You have been assigned a project that is halfway through its execution. You have had to
take up this project due to non-availability of the current project manager. This is a
complex project involving multiple contractors and teams at various geographical locations.
You decide to look up the requirements of the types of reports and frequency of sending
them. Where would you find this information?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Project Management Plan

Scope Management Plan
Communication Management Plan
Stakeholder Analysis

98. You are managing a project, and to ensure things run smoothly, you have decided to
provide project information periodically to all the stakeholders. You have decided that you
would report against the baselines for scope, cost, and schedule. Which of the following
would be the best choice?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Performance reporting
Status reports
Forecasts
Risk Register

99. You have replaced a project manager on a project that is already in the execution phase.
The project is behind schedule, and you have been specifically brought in to ensure the
project meets its schedule. You decide to review the schedule network diagram created by
the earlier project manager and realize that the project is 3 weeks behind schedule. After
reviewing the activities and the network diagram, you decide to Crash the schedule. This
means you:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Decrease the scope of the project after discussing with the sponsors
Add additional resources to the activities on the Critical path
 Perform activities in parallel to decrease the schedule
Discuss with the sponsors and explain how it is not going to be possible to meet the
schedule

100. Which of the following best describes the assumptions made by Herzberg's Hygiene
theory?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Employees are basically lazy and need to be monitored.

Hygiene factors help avoid job dissatisfaction and lead to motivated employees.
Hygiene factors help avoid job dissatisfaction; their absence could create dissatisfaction,
but they will not lead to motivated employees.
Job content factors have no influence in keeping people happy on the job and motivated.

101. You are managing a software development project in the banking domain. Things have
been proceeding according to plan, but with the economic meltdown, the client has had to
abruptly shut down the project due to lack of funds to source it any longer. As a Project
manager, what is the next thing to do?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Free up project resources so that they can be utilized on other tasks

As there are very few tasks remaining, get those completed
Ensure all project closure procedures are followed and lessons learned are updated
Publish work performance reports for the project

102. Choose the right sequence for conducting a Retrospective meeting in Agile.
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Generate insights, Set the stage, Gather data, Make decisions, Close
Set the stage, Generate insights, Gather data, Make decisions, Close
Set the stage, Gather data, Generate insights, Make decisions, Close
None of the above

103. Your company policy allows accepting gifts from customers within a certain limit.
Your customer is giving you a gift that is beyond the limit of your company policy. You
have already given a gift that has similar value to the customer's representative . What
should you do?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Accept it and don't tell anyone

Contact your company's senior management and ask for assistance
Ask your customer about company policy
Refuse it
104. You are responsible for a project with high risks, particularly during the early phases.
Your sponsor has asked for performance reports on a monthly basis. At the end of the first
month, you report a CPI and SPI greater than 1. What would this mean?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

The project is behind schedule and over budget.

The project is ahead of schedule and under budget.
The project is ahead of schedule but over budget.
The project is behind schedule but under budget.

105. You are the project manager of a software project. Your team member wants to make
technical changes to an activity, which will lead to additional time to complete the activity.
What should you do?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Check if the activity is on the critical path

Allow the team member to change the activity
Report this to senior management
Ignore change in activity
106. You have taken over a project from another project manager. The project is already in
its third month of execution. You need to determine if the project is ahead of or behind
schedule. What would be the best source of this information?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Work performance data

Earned value analysis
Project management software
Pareto chart

107. Which of the following is NOT a form of communication?

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Formal and Informal

Written and Verbal
Precise and Vague
Vertical and Horizontal

108. You are the project manager of a project, and one of the functional managers wants to
make a major scope change during the execution of the project. What should be your
action?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER
 Prepare an impact detail of the change for the functional manager
Refuse the change
Complain to the sponsor
Ignore the request

109. As you have a lot of expertise in project management, many of your company's co-
managers consult you for advice and inputs. One of your colleagues, who is relatively
inexperienced in managing projects, wants to compare the project work and measure the
deviations. Which document should she refer to? Choose the option that best answers the
question.
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Project Management Plan

Scope Management Plan
Schedule Management Plan
Performance Measurement Baseline

110. The project you're working on is proceeding smoothly with a CPI and SPI a perfect 1.
One of your team members tells you she might need some time off two months from now.
You look up the schedule and find that this team member happens to be scheduled to
execute activities that are on the critical path and her absence in two months' time would
cause a delay in schedule. You ask the team member to start regular knowledge transfers to
two trainees. Though the trainees are relatively inexperienced, they would together be able
to handle the tasks. What did you just do?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Mitigate the risk

Avoid the risk
Transfer the risk
Exploit the risk

111. You are a project manager in a Software Product Company. After a person is hired,
you come to know that many of this person's ideas were developed by a competitor
company. Which of the following is the best action in this case?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Accept the new ideas

Ignore the ideas because accepting them may violate the code of conduct
Ask the person to sign an NDA
Tell the person that they should not mention that the ideas came from another company
112. You are handling a project to develop a product for one of your clients.You have
decided on Agile methodology for development. You notice that the client is not very
involved in the project because they believe that once the order has been placed with you,
your team should deliver the product within the time and cost agreed on. What would be the
best approach in this scenario?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Take a sign-off at the beginning of the project

Engage product owner and conduct sprint reviews
Wait for the client to give you feedback
Make a decision based on similar projects

113. Which of the following is an ideal location for placing an Information Radiator?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

High traffic place

Inside project Manager's cabin
In the laptop of team members
None of the above

114. You are in the process of making a cost estimate for a large prestigious project. You
decide to use the Three Point Estimation technique with Triangular Distribution. Based on
your analysis, you are confident that the project will be completed with a total cost of
$108,000. You also estimate that a best-case estimate would be $90000, while a worst-case
scenario would result in the costs shooting up to $138000. What would the Three point
Cost estimate be?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

112000
110000
28000
None of the above

115. The project you're managing is around 50% complete. You are creating Earned Value
Methodology to report performance. Based on your calculations, you realize that the initial
plan is no longer valid. However, you still need to provide an EAC. What is the best course
of action?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Calculate EAC as EAC = BAC / CPI

Calculate EAC as EAC = AC + BAC - EV
Calculate EAC as EAC = AC + (BAC - EV/(CPI * SPI )
 Calculate EAC as EAC = AC + Bottom-up Estimate

116. As a manager on a project, you have identified and created the WBS and WBS
Dictionary. You also plan to ensure that each deliverable gets the approval of your
stakeholders and sponsors. Which process are you planning to perform?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Validate scope
Perform Quality Control
Control Scope
Define Scope

117. Minimum Business Increment (MBI) works best when:

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Customer agrees to the scope

Sprints have long duration
Business team supports the sprint
Incremental increase in value can be seen

118. In order to determine the details of the work to be performed in work packages, which
of the following can be used?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

WBS
WBS Dictionary
Control Account
Work Packages

119. You need to provide estimates for activities on the project. You and your team discuss
and conclude that as detailed information is not yet available, the best option would be to
use Parametric Estimates. Which of the following is used to create Parametric Estimates?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Critical Path Method

One-Time Estimate
Regression Analysis and Learning Curve
Monte Carlo Analysis

120. Which of the following best describes the role of a project sponsor?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER
 Manages the project
Manages the quality of deliverables
Provides funding for the project
Identifies key stakeholders

121. You are a project manager for a project. While reviewing the cost estimates for the
project, you notice that one of the cost estimates for an element in the WBS is 20% higher
than the previous project for very similar work. What should you do next?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Accept the estimate

Ask the person responsible about the difference
Ignore it
Reduce the estimate

122. You are the sponsor of a project that has just kicked off. This is an ambitious project to
build a top-of-the-line 18-hole golf course. Which of the following best describes your role
as a sponsor?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Manage changes to the project

Create the Work Performance Baselines
Publish Work Performance Reports
Publish the approved Project charter

123. As a project manager of a project, you have just completed the Schedule network
diagram. What should you do next in schedule management?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Estimate Activity Resources

Sequence Activities
Estimate Activity Durations
Develop Schedule

124. The key difference between Work performance data and Work performance report is:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

There are no differences

Work performance data provides the raw data, whereas the work performance reports
provide the status in the form of electronic dashboard.
Work performance report provides the raw data, whereas the work performance data
provides the status in the form of an electronic dashboard.
 Work performance data forms the planned objectives

125. The purpose of a contract is to distribute a reasonable amount of

____________between the buyer and seller.
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Risk
Responsibility
Reward
None

126. Why is verification and validation of the deliverables required?

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

To meet the business needs and project requirements

To satisfy the senior management requirements
To satisfy the sponsor requirements
To satisfy the customer requirements

127. If a person desires to excel in his or her tasks, as per Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs,
what type of need is the person exhibiting?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Love or Belonging
Physiological
Self-actualization
Safety

128. According to Theory Y style of management, which of the following is a correct

assumption?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Employees are inherently lazy and not motivated.

Employees need to be closely supervised, and comprehensive systems of controls must be
developed.
Employees are only interested in self-benefits and money.
Employees are trustworthy and are motivated by doing a good job.

129. Which of the following is not a Project Artifact?

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER
 Business Case
Assumptions
Minutes of Board Meeting
Constraints

130. You are the project manager of a marketing project and need to purchase some
equipment. The accounting department needs a unilateral contract from you. To which of
the following is the Accounting department referring?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Legal Binding Contract

Purchase Order
Statement of Work
WBS
131. You are out for lunch with a fellow project manager. She is in charge of a project that
deals with laying out electrical cables across two towns. As you listen to the plan of the
layout, you realize that the cabling would cover a neighborhood with a history of criminal
problems. You advise your fellow team manager that it would be prudent to insure the
copper cables through a theft insurance. You also advise her regarding which insurance
companies would give her the best insurance covers against theft. Which risk response
strategy did you just adopt?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Risk mitigation
Risk avoidance
Risk transfer
Risk acceptance

132. To Complete Performance Index is used to:

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Determine when the project would be complete

Determine the feasibility of the project
Identify the risks in the project
Determine the cost performance required to meet certain objectives

133. You are managing a project, and based on risk identification, you feel very confident
that the project will run smoothly. The next day, the lead architect indicates a risk that was
not envisioned. She indicates a 10% possibility of the risk occurring and the effort involved
in choosing an alternate path worth 2000 USD. The impact of alternate path
implementation is that a lot of testing efforts worth 4500 USD would get reduced and the
possibility being 30%, what would be the EMV?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

-200
1350
1150
1550

134. An estimate is required for a new R&D project, and you have decided to create the
estimates using WBS, with an emphasis on accuracy of the estimates. Your project manager
tells you can take as much time as you need to provide the estimates. What would be the
best estimation approach in this case?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Parametric Estimation approach

Analogous Estimation approach
Top-down Approach
Bottom-up Approach

135. Which of the following could not be provided with Activity Attributes?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Details regarding predecessor and successor activities

Details regarding Leads and Lags
Details regarding who and where the activity will be performed
Details regarding root causes of issues

136. As a project manager, you understand the importance of identifying all relevant
stakeholders, their interest and influence, and their needs and expectations. You have been
assigned a large construction project. You decide to do a thorough stakeholder analysis, and
you identify Laura and Sean. Based on your interactions and analysis, you know that both
Sean and Laura do not wield significant authority or power. However, they differ in their
interest in the project. Laura has a lot of interest, while Sean is disinterested. You decide to
plot them in a Power/Interest grid to help manage them. Which of the following is the best
approach to handle these two stakeholders?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Both Sean and Laura should be kept informed.

Sean should be monitored, and Laura should be kept informed.
Both Sean and Laura should be monitored.
Sean should be kept informed, and Laura should be monitored.

137. Fist of five, Roman voting, Polling, and Dot voting are techniques used for:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Benchmarking
Prototyping
Consensus building
Budgeting
138. Which of the following is NOT part of a quality plan?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Benchmarking
Cost of Quality
Mind mapping
Quality audits
139. As a senior member in the executive management team, you have asked project
managers within your team to provide cost estimates for a huge project. You foresee the
cost estimate of the project to run into millions of dollars. Along with the cost estimate, you
are also expecting the Basis of Estimates. What would you expect to be included in the
documentation for Basis of Estimates?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Basis of estimate, assumptions, known constraints, range of estimate, confidence level

Cost at unit level and confidence level
WBS
None of the above

140. Your team has just bagged a big software development project. Considering the
complexity of the project, you decide to try and identify the possible risks. You get all
relevant stakeholders together and conduct discussions. Together, you come up with a
number of risks. However, based on your experience, you still feel that not all the risks
have been identified. You decide to set aside some budget for the risks that you have not
identified but are sure you will encounter. Where does this budget come from?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Cost Management Plan

Cost Baseline
Contingency Reserves
Management Reserve

141. You have been assigned to manage a project that deals with setting up a railway line
connecting two cities. The project is complex, with a lot of contracting involved. You and
experts in your organization are evaluating if the rail line alignment machinery should be
purchased outright or if it would be better to lease. The cost of leasing the equipment is
$1200 per day, while the cost of an outright purchase is $96000 and a daily cost of $200.
The laying out the railway lines is scheduled to be an activity duration of 150 days. Should
you purchase the machinery or lease it? Which option would be more economical?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Lease the machinery as it will be cheaper by 84000 USD

Purchase the machinery as its usage beyond the 80th day would be more cost-effective if
purchased rather than leased
Purchase the machinery as its usage beyond the 96th day would be more cost effective if
purchased rather than leased
Lease the machinery as it will be cheaper by 36000 USD.

142. An activity has an Early Start (ES) of 5 days and Late Start (LS) of 16 days. What is
the activity's float?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

11 days
21 days
5 days
16 days

143. Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding WBS?

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Provides a graphical picture of the hierarchy of the project

Identifies all the work that needs to be performed
Helps estimate costs and schedule
Helps identify dependencies

144. You are in charge of a project that is running behind schedule. Your lead architect
approaches you and indicates that you should introduce a change so that the project can
catch up on lost time. What is the first thing you should do?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

It's a great suggestion that can bring the project back on schedule, so go ahead and
implement change
Ascertain the impact of the change on your cost and scope, and then write a change
request and get a formal approval
Write a change request and get a formal approval before making any changes
Flatly refuse to make any changes

145. You were handling a complex project involving a lot of challenges, but with good
management and a motivated team, all deliverables have been completed successfully.
What should you do next as a project manager?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER
 Perform Quality Control
Update lessons learned
Verify scope
Disband the team

146. Your company has won a project that deals with building software to be used on
spaceships landing on the moon. You decide to build it in parts. You intend to frequently
roll out features and take feedback from the users. You will then prioritize the next release
based on feedback. What project approach are you taking?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Agile
Hybrid
Predictive
WaterFall

147. You have just created a schedule network diagram. You have come up with the
estimates, defined the durations, and subsequently identified the Critical Path. You now
decide to do a Forward Pass through the Schedule Network Diagram. What would you be
calculating?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

The Early Start and Early Finish for each activity

The latest start and latest finish for each activity
The duration of the other paths
The duration of the critical path

148. You are working on identifying risks in a project. You have done extensive
brainstorming and discussions with your team. You have also looked up the Organizational
process assets and have come up with an exhaustive list of risks. You feel fairly confident
now that you know all the risks. You decide to prioritize the risks and only focus on the
high-priority ones. A team member indicates that a large number of risks have very low
priority. She suggests you simply ignore them. You disagree and decide to maintain a list of
such low-priority risks. Where will you maintain these low-priority risks?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Risk Register
Risk Management Plan
Watch List
Issue Log
149. Which of following statements is false regarding the project scope statement?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

It describes the project's deliverables and the work required to create these deliverables.
Project scope statement is expanded from the preliminary Project Scope Statement.
It defines what is in scope and what is not in scope.
It defines the milestones.

150. A software development project has been awarded a vendor. Your company and the
vendor have agreed to build this project using the Waterfall Methodology. The vendor
informs you that the actual development can only start after the completion of design.
Which type of relationship best describes the dependency between design and actual
development?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Finish-to-Finish
Finish-to-Start
Start-to-Start
Start-to-Finish

151. Your friend Joe, who works as a project manager in a pharmaceutical company, meets
you over dinner. You see a drastic change in his temperament compared with when you last
met him. He seems dejected and complains that in his present organization as a project
manager, he has almost no authority and hardly any decision-making ability. Which kind of
organizational structure does your friend work in?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

A Product Organizational Structure

A Functional Organizational Structure
A Strong Matrix Organizational Structure
A Projectized Organizational Structure

152. You have taken up a complex project that involves solving a Technical problem for
users. In a meeting with stakeholders, you want to explain the approach in a simple and
understandable way to all stakeholders without using any Technical jargon. Which of the
following would be most helpful?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

XP Metaphor
Retrospective
Focus group
None of the above
153. Lessons Learned Register is best created:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

At the beginning of the project

Toward the end of the project
When the first lesson is learned
None of the above

154. You are managing a project related to building a skyscraper. However, as per
regulations, no work can be started till the government body has approved and provided
necessary clearance. What kind of dependency is this is an example of?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Mandatory Dependency
Hard Logic
Discretionary Dependency
External Dependency

155. What are the primary benefits of meeting Quality Requirements? (Choose all that
apply.)
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Less Rework, Higher productivity, Lower costs, Increased stakeholder satisfaction,

Increased profitability
Decreased productivity due to time spent on Quality Requirements
Increased costs due to rework
Decreased stakeholder satisfaction

156. Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding Fixed Price Contract?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

The buyer has the least risk in this type of contract if scope is clearly defined.
Buyer can make changes in scope with no impact on cost.
This contract should be your choice if you need work to begin right away.
All of the above

157. What are Control charts used for?

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

To determine if the process is in control

 To determine how various elements of a system are interrelated
To show trends in a process over time
To show the pattern of a relationship between two variables

158. You are managing a project that is responsible for setting up an alcohol distillery.
Your team is in its eighth month of execution. One of the vendors informs you that the
delivery of agitators is going to be delayed by a week. You look up the project management
plan and the schedule baselines and decide to set up all the reactors first. By moving tasks
around based on your analysis, you see that there would be no impact on any of the
performance measurement baselines. What should you do next?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Go ahead and execute the rescheduled tasks as there is no impact on any of the baselines
Write up a change request and submit it to change control for approval
Analyze the impact of the change on the triple constraints and then submit a change
request
Do nothing as this would cause changes to the baselines

159. Which of the following statements is true regarding Control Account?

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Used as a Tool and Technique in Activity Definition process

Used to estimate cost at a level lower than the work package
Used to control costs of the project
Used in Integrated Change Control

160. Given a project which reports a CPI less than 1, you have asked one of your managers
to generate the TCPI. Which formula should the project manager use in this case?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

( BAC - EV ) / ( BAC - AC )
( BAC - EV ) / ( EAC - AC )
EV / AC
EV / PV

161. Sprint planning, sprint review, daily stand up, and sprint retrospective are known as:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Project review methods

Agile Ceremonies
Stakeholder analysis
Team performance analysis
162. While planning for a project, you decide to keep a handle over project risks. You and
your team members have come up with the list of possible risks and would now like to
prioritize them based on their probability and impact. In which process would this activity
take place?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Risk Identification
Risk Register

163. Which hierarchical chart shows all the tasks in a list?

SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

RBS
OBS
WBS
Scope statement

164. Which of the following is NOT part of the Control Quality process?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Fishbone Diagram
Quality Audits
Checksheet
Histogram

165. You have a team of project managers reporting to you. Recently, a new manager who
is relatively inexperienced has joined your team. Considering his level of experience, you
assign him to a small project. As the project has low complexity and few stakeholders
involved, you envision that the project will have no surprises or hiccups. You have
identified the number of communication channels to be only 6. However, with increase in
scope of work, two additional stakeholders who need to be communicated with join the
team. You ask the manager to identify the number of communication channels now. The
correct answer is:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

6
10
8
15
166. You are managing a project that is in its first month of execution. In one of the
meetings, the key stakeholder asks for some changes to be made in the ongoing work. The
stakeholder is asking for the changes to be implemented immediately. You realize that the
changes being asked for will need the Project Management Plan and the Scope baseline to
be updated. As a Project manager, which is the best course of action?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Make the changes as they are being asked for by a key stakeholder
Analyze the impact of the changes on triple constraints
Generate a change request and submit it to Integrated change control
Refuse to make the changes as it is a deviation from approved Scope

167. Comparing target dates with the actual or forecast start and finish dates is called:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Variance Analysis
Earned Value
Progress Reporting
Crashing

168. You are in charge of a large software development project. Two core components were
scheduled to be completed by the end of October. You are now in August, and you realize
that the project is falling behind schedule. You do a quick review and decide that the
schedule can be met by adding additional staff to the activities on the critical path. This is
an example of:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Fast Tracking
Resource Levelling
Crashing
Scope Creep

169. You are in the process of determining how long it would take to complete your
project. What would be the best tool to use in this case?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

WBS
Activity List
Root Cause Analysis
Network Diagram
170. A project is over budget when:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

CPI > 1
SPI > 1
CPI and SPI > 1
CPI < 1

171. You and your team have worked hard and successfully delivered a project. The
customer is happy with the deliverables. You have written up the performance reviews of
each individual in the project team. As a Project Manager, you know that the team will be
disbanded and you may not get the same team members in your next project What kind of
Organization Structure does this represent?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Weak Matrix
Balanced Matrix
Projectized
Functional

172. The process of communicating and working with the stakeholders to meet their
expectations, address issues, and foster appropriate engagement in project activities
throughout the project lifecycle is called ____________.
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Plan Stakeholder Engagement

Identify Stakeholders
Manage Stakeholder Engagement
Monitor Stakeholder Engagement

173. A person is skilled in one deep area of specialization and has broad ability in the rest
of the skills required by the team. This is known as:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Facilitation skill
Technical Skill
T Shaped Skill
Universal Skill

174. You are managing a project that is scheduled to run for an entire year. Things were
looking good after the first two months. However, due to some mistakes made by the
construction crew at the end of the third month, you realize that the expected work to be
completed at this stage is not complete. As a result, the project is behind schedule and is
also over budget. However, there are stiff penalties in the contract if the project is not
complete within the stipulated timelines. As a result, your senior management has
committed to additional staff to the project if required. What would be the Estimate at
Completion for this project?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

EAC = BAC/CPI
EAC = AC + BAC - EV
EAC = AC + (BAC - EV/(CPI * SPI )
EAC = AC + Bottom-up Estimate

175. One of your project managers, Mary, reports that her project has hit a roadblock. You
are surprised, as you reviewed the project the previous week, and everything seemed to be
on track. She explains that a team member has identified a problem that was never
envisioned in the risk identification process. Based on the analysis, the impact would be on
the cost to rectify the issue. What would be the best course of action?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Add this risk with its impact and probability to the Risk register
Use the Management reserve to correct the issue
Use the Contingency reserve to correct the issue
Schedule a meeting with stakeholders and explain the problem

176. Of the following baselines, which is NOT a part of the Project Management Plan?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Scope Baseline
Quality Baseline
Cost Baseline
Schedule Baseline

177. ___________ is a visualization tool that enables improvements to the flow of work by
making bottlenecks and work quantities visible..
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Dashboard
Kanban Board
White board
None of the above
178. A project is reporting a negative Cost Variance. What does this mean?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

The project is under Budget.

The project is over Budget.
The project is running as per Budget.
None of the above
179. As a project manager of a large product, you and your team have shipped the
deliverables to your customer. However, the customer has reported a number of serious
issues in the quality of deliverables. As a result of this, the cost of quality of your project is
deemed high. In the above scenario, which of the following would have decreased the cost
of quality?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Less Rework
Higher productivity
Lower costs
Stakeholder satisfaction