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Example Project Management Certification Test Questions

These practice questions show what to expect in all eight project management certification exams. Review the choices and answers before you take your exam.

Question 1

Project scope is:

  1. The work that must be done in order to deliver a product with the specified features and functions.
  2. The features and functions that are to be included in a product or service.
  3. A narrative description of work to be performed under contract.
  4. Choice-1 and Choice-2
Show the Correct Answer

Choice-1 / The work that must be done in order to deliver a product with the specified features and functions.

Question 2

A project kick off meeting is usually conducted to:

  1. Setup project team and announce the PM assignment
  2. To draft project charter
  3. Build up team spirit
  4. Define project scope and develop WBS
Show the Correct Answer

Choice-1 / Setup project team and announce the PM assignment

Question 3

Your project is in the final test stage, the user acceptance test. It meets all the product specs and is under planned costs. In term of schedule, this project is ahead. Your customer meet you and requested that he will not accept the product unless you make several changes. What you should do is:

  1. Get the list of the changes and estimate all of them. If the total cost is still within the baseline, you just do it
  2. Estimate the costs and send this to your customer requesting contract modification
  3. Ask the customer to file a Change request
  4. Sit with the customer to review the product specs and tell him/her that you have completed the project
Show the Correct Answer

Choice-3 / Ask the customer to file a Change request

Question 4

Projects are initiated in response of:

  1. Stakeholder's pressure
  2. Business needs
  3. Technological obsolescence
  4. All of the above
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Choice-4 / All of the above

Question 5

A tool which links the project roles and responsibilities to the project scope definition is called:

  1. Scope Definition Matrix
  2. Responsibility Assignment Matrix
  3. Roles Assignment Matrix
  4. Project Scope and Roles Matrix
Show the Correct Answer

Choice-2 / Responsibility Assignment Matrix

Question 6

Who is responsible for risk identification, risk quantification, risk response development, risk Monitor and Control?

  1. Project Communications Management
  2. Project Human Resources Management
  3. Project Procurement Management
  4. Project Risk Management
Show the Correct Answer

Choice-4 / Project Risk Management

Question 7

In which of the following project management process groups are the most time and money typically spent?

  1. Initiating
  2. Planning
  3. Executing
  4. Controlling
Show the Correct Answer

Choice-3 / Executing

Question 8

A project manager has been working on a project for six months with the same team yet the team still shows a lack of support for the project. The best thing for the project manager to do would be to?

  1. Re-evaluate the effectiveness of the reward system the project manager has put in place
  2. Talk to each team member's boss
  3. Re-plan the project
  4. Tell the team that the project manager needs their support
Show the Correct Answer

Choice-1 / Re-evaluate the effectiveness of the reward system the project manager has put in place

Question 9

Before reporting a perceived violation of an established rule or policy the project manager should:

  1. Determine the risks associated with the violation
  2. Ensure there is a reasonably clear and factual basis for reporting the violation
  3. Ignore the violation until it actually affects the project results
  4. Convene a committee to review the violation and determine the appropriate response
Show the Correct Answer

Choice-2 / Ensure there is a reasonably clear and factual basis for reporting the violation

Question 10

Which of the following BEST describes the program manager's role as an integrator?

  1. Helps project managers become familiar with the program
  2. Track all the projects under one program and help the project managers whenever required
  3. Put all the pieces of a project into a program
  4. Get all team members together into a cohesive whole
Show the Correct Answer

Choice-2 / Track all the projects under one program and help the project managers whenever required

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