This test is scheduled to complete in 45 Minutes.

1. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a project ?

A. Constrained by limited resources

B. Planned, executed and controlled
C. Creates a unique product or service
D. Ongoing and Repetitive

2. In a kick off meeting for your project, you provided information to your team members about
the different process groups to be followed in the project. According to PMI which are the
project management process groups ?

A. Conceptualizing, Initiating, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling and closing

B. Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling and Closing
C. Initiating, Verifying, Executing Monitoring and Controlling and Closing
D. Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling and Administrative Closure

3. You are managing the release of new drug in the Market. Your role is that of a:

A. Functional Manger, because you have good functional knowledge of the pharmaceutical
industry
B. Project manager, because you are creating unique product within specific time schedules
C. Operations manager because you have to do several repetitive tasks
D. Program Manager, because you have to manage several projects to do your job effectively

4. You are working in the Project Management Office (PMO) of your organization, Your job
responsibility is to :

A. Manage the operational activities in the company

B. Manage human resources and risk management issues for individual projects
C. Provide support functions to project managers in the form of training, providing software
standardizing polices etc.
D. Provide subject matter expertise in the functional areas of the project

5. You are project manager in a company where you have maximum authority, To which
organizational structure does your company belong>
A. Functional
B. Weak matrix
C. Strong Matrix
D. Projectized

6. You have recently joined as a project manager in a company where they follow a projectized
organizational structure. All your team members work in same office where you have lot of
independence and authority. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of projectized
organizational structure ?

A. Loyalty to the project

B. Home for the team members after the project is completed.
C. Effective communication
D. Efficiency in project organization

7. As a project manager for a construction company, you are responsible to define scope, Define
activities, Develop schedule, and Determine budget. These responsibilities are performed as
part of :

A. Closing
B. Initiating
C. Planning
D. Monitoring and Closing

8. Almost all projects are planned and implemented in a social, economic or environmental
context, and have intended and unintended positive or negative impact. In this context, which
of the following statements about EEFs is NOT true ?

A. Neither promote not hold back the project management processes

B. May restrict the project management processes
C. May Promote the project management processes
D. May either promote or hold back the project management process

9. Project initiation consists of processes that facilitate the formal authorization to start a new
project or a project phase. In this context which of the following is not performed during project
initiation?

A. Create a project charter

B. Divide large or complex projects into phases
C. Involve customers and stakeholders
D. Create project scope statement
10. The project manager of a critical project in your company has to go on leave and you have to
take up his responsibility. In the project briefing, the outgoing project manager tells you that the
scope statement for the project has been documented, WBS has been created by subdividing
the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components and an activity list
has been prepared. What should you do NEXT ?

A. Create schedule network diagrams

B. Identity important project stakeholders
C. Create project management plan
D. Create project deliverables

11. In your project you are formalizing acceptance of the completed deliverables. This is done
during:

A. Performance Integrated change control

B. Validate scope
C. Control Scope
D. Closing Phase

12. You are project manager with NASA and are involved in designing satellite system. In this
context who among the following cannot initiate your new project ?

A. Government
B. Project team
C. Portfolio Organization of NASA
D. Company in England which wants a particulate type of satellite to be developed by NASA

13. You have created WBS for your project 432,61. Major project deliverables have been divided
into smaller more manageable components. What should you do next ?

A. Prepare a detailed project scope statement

B. Aggregate estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized
cost baseline
C. Develop project schedule
D. Identity and document specific actions that need to be performed to produce project
deliverables

14. In your project 122, you use product analysis to translate high level product descriptions into
tangible deliverables and requirements. Which of the following techniques is not used in
product analysis

A. Value engineering
B. Value analysis
 C. Product break down
D. Alternative Analysis

15. During the validate scope process, you formalize acceptance of the project deliverables and
keep the project focused on the business need for which it was undertaken. This should be
done:

A. At the beginning of the project

B. At the end of the project
C. When required by the project sponsor
D. After getting verified deliverables from the Control quality process

16. You are taking over a project during the planning stage. You have managed to identity five tasks
to completed during the project. Please refer to the table given below. Calculate the Critical
Path duration of the project :

Task Preceding Activity Estimate in Months

Start - 0
1 Start 3
2 1 4
3 Start 2
5 3 5
4 Start 7
5 4 1
End 2 3
End 5 4

A. 12
B. 10
C. 11
D. 14

17. You have managed to identify the five main tasks in your project. You represent the dependency
and duration in the table given below What is float of Critical Path:

Task Preceding Activity Estimate in Months

Start - 0
1 Start 3
2 1 4
3 Start 2
5 3 5
4 Start 7
5 4 1
End 2 3
End 5 4
A. 10
B. 14
C. 11
D. 0

18. You are managing a project to develop and emergency brake to an upcoming new model of RV.
In your project you have to complete building a prototype before testing can begin. This is an
example of :

A. Mandatory Dependency
B. Discretionary Dependency
C. External Dependency
D. Preferred Logic

19. As a project manager during the develop schedule process, you are now deliberating on the type
of schedule presentations you are going to use. The difference between milestone chart and bar
chart is that unlike bar charts, milestone charts:

A. Show activity start and end dates

B. Show dependencies among tasks
C. Identity the schedule start or completion of major deliverables only and not all tasks
D. Show supporting details

20. You are project manager of a construction company. You know that the builders start painting
the walls 30 days after they start installing the dry wall. This waiting time can also be referred
as:

A. Lead Time
B. Project float
C. Constraint
D. Lag

21. If the critical path consists of these three tasks (A, B, C) what is the pert estimates of the total
duration of the project :

Optimistic Pessimistic Most Likely

Task A 5 9 7
Task B 8 14 10
Task C 4 7 5

A. 22.5 Months
B. 10.33 Months
 C. 32 Months
D. 5.17 Months

22. You are managing a complicated ERP implementation project. The following provides
information about on activity: deployment in your project:

Early Start : 25 Days

Late Start : 30 Days
Early Finish : 50 Days
Late Finish : 55 days

Based on this information you can deduce that :

A. The task is on the critical path

B. The project may get delayed
C. The project float is 5 days
D. The task is not on critical path

23. You are defining a distribution of possible activity durations for each schedule activity and
calculating a distribution of possible outcomes for the total project. This technique is known as :

A. Resource leveling
B. Monte Carlo Analysis
C. Critical chain Method
D. Critical Path Method

24. Assuming that the critical path of your project has duration of ten days, which of the following
cannot affect the project timelines.

A. If the project has one critical path and you are able to decrease the duration of critical path by
one day by using new tool.
B. If the project has one critical path and you are able to increase the duration of critical path by
one day due to delays.
C. If the project has two critical paths and you are able to decrease the duration of one critical path
by one day by using new tool.
D. If the project has two critical paths and you are able to increase the duration of one critical path
by one day due to delays.

25. You are in process of developing the project schedule to determine start and finish dates for
project activities. Which of the following tools would NOT be used for this purpose?

A. Critical Path method

 B. Schedule compression
C. Scheduling Tool
D. Schedule baseline

26. As a project manager, in approximating costs, you consider the possible cause of variation of the
cost estimates, including risks. For your project which is in initiating phase, your team has
suggested ROM (rough order of magnitude) estimate. This could be in range of :

A. -75% to +90%
B. -25% to +75%
C. -10% to +25%
D. -5% to +10%

27. In your project you have reasons to believe that current variances occurred because of
extraneous factors and you do not expect similar variances to occur in future. What should be
the estimate at completion (EAC) for your project. BAC = $300,000; AC= $100,000; EV=$150,000;
CPI =1.5

A. 250000
B. 220000
C. 280000
D. 200000

28. A company is considering three projects:

Project A has an NPV of $500,000

Project B has an NPV of $300,000
Project C has an NPV of $200,000

What is the opportunity cost if project A is selected ?

A. 500,000
B. 200,000
C. 300,000
D. 0

29. You recently took over the management of construction project. The project is in executing
phase an the previous project manager has left the organization. You realize the project is
seriously behind schedule and over budget.. After taking the project team, and discussions with
project management team regarding the issues, you still have not been able to discern the
reason for the schedule variances.
 The team is working well and from what you can see should be on schedule and within budget.
As you being to review the progress that has been made so far and compare that to the
schedule you see that certain task have taken significantly longer and incurred most costs that
originally estimated. The site preparation work was estimates to take one month but actually
took two months and cost 30% more than anticipated. Pouring the foundation was scheduled to
take two weeks but actually tool three weeks and again cost more than planned. Paving the
parking area also took longer than expected. Your analysis also indicates that the period during
which these activities were being carried out had much more rain than normal.

Based on this information what would be MOST LIKELY reason for the variances in the project
schedule and budget ?

A. The scope was not well defined.

B. The project manager was not ensuring that scope verification was being done
C. Assumptions used in the planning processes were not valid.
D. Integrated change control was not being performed

30. Which cost estimating technique costs the least and saves the most time?

A. Parametric estimating
B. Bottom-up estimating
C. Analogous estimating
D. Three - point estimating

31. You are working on 12 month project to build website with 4000 pages for $100,000. You are
supposed to spend $250,000 every 3 months. After 6 months, you determine that only $400,000
of work is completed and cost incurred is $800,000. What is ETC ?

A. 2000000
B. 1500000
C. 1000000
D. 1200000

32. Your project sponsor has asked you for a status report of your project, you are required to
include the Estimate at completion (EAC)information in the report based on following data.
What would be EAC ?

Actual Cost = $350,000

BAC = $500,000
Earned value = $250,000
A. 516000
B. 155000
C. 700000
D. 850000

33. As a project sponsor you are expecting a return of $5,500 in 3 years. Assuming the current
interest rate if 20%. What is current value of your expected return ?

A. $3183
B. $4267
C. $3500
D. $5819

34. You are working for a semi-conductor company. There have been several instances in the past
week when a few circuits have not been giving accurate results. You have been assigned the task
of determining the probable cause for variations. Which tool would you use ?

A. Control charts
B. Ishikawa Diagrams
C. Pareto Diagrams
D. Inspection

35. The project team has added some functionalities to the product that are not required as part of
the project. However the customer is satisfied and very much happy with the product. From
quality perspective the action of the team is:

A. Justified because customer expectations are exceeded

B. Not acceptable, because it constitutes gold plating, which is not good practice
C. Desirable as this means repeat business form customer
D. Not ethical as customer indicated project deliverables is not produced

36. Your quality process did not meet the four sigma requirements desired by your customer. So,
some of your products were rejected and there is possibility that you would not receive repeat
business from the customer. From quality perspective , the costs associated with the rejected
products can be categorized as:

A. Cost of conformance
B. Customer retention costs
C. Failure costs
D. Performance Costs

37. According to 80/20 rule; 80 percent of the problems are because of 20 percent of the causes. To
identify the most probable defects and to evaluate nonconformities, you do rank ordering of the
defects using:

A. Statistical Sampling
B. Control Charts
C. Pareto Diagrams
D. Inspection

38. During plan quality process; you are going to DOE (Design of Experiments) to determine which
factors might influence specific variables., Which variable can be used in your analysis ?

A. Dollars
B. Pounds
C. Weight
D. Meters

39. You have successfully completed a project and customer is happy with the product. From a
project management perspective, when a service or product meets customer expectations, it
means that :

A. Cost of quality is low

B. Project is on budget
C. Cost of quality is high
D. Quality is achieved

40. In your pharmaceutical company quality is an important criterion to determine project success.
Which of the following is NOT example of cost of non-conformance ?

A. Training
B. Re-work
C. Loss of Reputation
D. Warranty