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PM MCQ Questions
PM MCQ Questions
of a project.
A. Project
B. Process
C. Project management
D. Project cycle
ANSWER: A
Resources refers to
A. Manpower
B. Machinery
C. Materials
D. All of the given options
ANSWER: D
ANSWER: C
If a Project Manager directs more than one project, he or she must make trade-offs between
A. Several projects
B. Several processes
C. Multiple operations
D. Multiple-schedules
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: A
The process that evaluates overall project performance to provide confidence is called:
A. quality assurance
B. quality planning
C. quality control
D. quality audit
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: C
Once a change has been requested, what is the next step in the change control process?
A. Evaluate the change.
B. Advise the sponsor.
C. Update the change log.
D. Update the project plan.
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: C
Which of the following parameters should be used to evaluate the cost of software development
project
A. hardware and software cost
B. training and travelling cost
C. cost of paying software engineers and managers
D. all of the given options
ANSWER: D
Which among the following is the prominent reason for considering of waterfall model as software
development life cycle method
A. oversimplistic flow of the phases
B. detailed requirement analysis
C. well planned resource allocation at every phase
D. considers feedback after every stage
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: D
ANSWER: A
Which of the following is generally not considered a stakeholder in software project management
A. end users
B. project team
C. sales team
D. customer
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: A
What percentage of the total distribution are 3 sigma from the mean equal to?
A. 68.26%
B. 99.99%
C. 95.46%
D. 99.73%
ANSWER D
A project manager is using weighted average duration estimates to perform schedule network
analysis. Which type of mathematical analysis is being used?
A. Critical path method
B. PERT
C. Monte Carlo
D. Resource leveling
ANSWER B
ANSWER D
With the exception of Gantt charts, the most common approach to project scheduling is the use of
network techniques such as ___________.
A. PERT and CPM
B. Dummy activities
C. crashing and slacking
D. Loopbacks and backgrounds
ANSWER A
In the AOA network, dotted-line arrows depict
A. Activities
B. Events
C. Logical dependencies
D. Dummy activities
ANSWER D
The project’s master schedule contains only major tasks and is oriented toward _________.
A. Monitoring detailed progress of work
B. Overall project management rather than precise control of detailed work
C. Overall project management, including precise control of detailed work
D. Detailed resource management
ANSWER B
Task F has duration of 12 days and an early start date of 30 days. Based on the given data,
determine the early finish date for task F
A. 12 days
B. 18 days
C. 30 days
D. 42 days
ANSWER D
ANSWER D
It is good practice to create a schedule for every _________ in the WBS that will cover the work
packages.
A. minor task level
B. PERT diagram
C. major task level
D. task
ANSWER C
ANSWER A
ANSWER C
If deterministic time estimates are used and if project ________ are firm, there is a high likelihood
that it will be necessary to crash the last few activities of most projects.
A. Deliverables
B. Cost objectives
C. Deadlines
D. Budgets
ANSWER C
Which phase of the project is likely to have the greatest amount of its funding spent?
A. Initiating
B. Executing
C. Planning
D. Closeout
ANSWER B
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: D
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: D
What is full form of SDLC?
A. System Design Life cycle
B. Software Design Life Cycle
C. System Development Life Cycle
D. Software Development Life Cycle
ANSWER: D
ANSWER: D
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: B
Which activity is carried out first?
A. verification
B. validation
C. both
D. none of the given options
ANSWER: A
Validation is focused on
A. Product
B. Process
C. Both product and process of given options
D. None of the given options
ANSWER: A
For which of the following activity one needs to execute the product?
A. verification
B. validation
C. both verification and validation
D. none of the given options
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: D
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: D
In PERT, if the pessimistic time were 14 weeks, the optimistic time were 8 weeks, and the most likely
time were 11 weeks,
A. the variance would be 1 week.
B. the variance would be 11 weeks.
C. the expected time would be 6 weeks.
D. the expected time would be 5.5 weeks.
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: D
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: D
____________ activities are ones that will delay the entire project if they are late or delayed.
A. Critical
B. Dummy
C. Predecessor
D. None of the given options
ANSWER: A
The probability distribution often used by PERT to describe activity times is the
A. normal distribution.
B. exponential distribution.
C. beta distribution.
D. uniform distribution.
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: C
An AON project network must have a unique starting activity (node) and a unique ending activity
(node).
A. True
B. False
C. Can't say
D. None of the given options
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: B
Successful project management does NOT include which of the following factors?
A. Responsiveness to clients
B. Control mechanisms
C. Interchangable staff
D. Competent team members
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: A
A clear hierarchy of objectives in the project definition would NOT normally contain:
A. The purpose
B. An End result
C. Control mechanisms
D. Success criteria
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: B
Which of the following should be taken into account when planning a project?
A. Political environment
B. Social environment
C. Operational environment
D. All of the given options
ANSWER: D
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: D
PERT analysis computes the variance of the total project completion time as
A. the sum of the variances of all activities in the project.
B. the variance of the final activity of the project.
C. the sum of the variances of all activities on the critical path.
D. the sum of the variances of all activities not on the critical path.
ANSWER: C
ANSWER:
Dummy activities
A. are found in both AOA and AON networks.
B. are used when two activities have identical starting and ending events.
C. have a duration equal to the shortest non-dummy activity in the network.
D. cannot be on the critical path.
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: C
An activity has an optimistic time of 15 days, a most likely time of 18 days, and a pessimistic time of
27 days. What is its expected time?
A. 18 days
B. 60 days
C. 20 days
D. 19 days
ANSWER: D
Activities A and B are both 6 days long and the only immediate predecessors to activity C. Activity A
has ES=8 and LS=8 and activity B has ES=7 and LS=10. What is the ES of activity C?
A. 16
B. 14
C. 15
D. 13
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: A
Activities A, B, and C are the immediate predecessors for Y activity. If the earliest finish times for the
three activities are 12, 15, and 10, then the earliest start time for Y will be
A. 10
B. 15
C. 12
D. Cannot be determined
ANSWER: B
Activities P, Q and R instantly follow activity M, and their current start times are 12, 19, and 10.
Therefore, the latest finish time for activity M is
A. 11
B. 10
C. 18
D. Cannot de determined
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: D
The immediate predecessors of any node in a project network drawn as a AON diagram :
A. is always only one node.
B. may be no nodes to many nodes.
C. may be one or more node(s).
D. may be two or more nodes.
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: D
ANSWER: A