Free Project Management MCQ Questions and Answers

Question 1

Money that has already been spent.

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Sunk Cost

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Actual Cost

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Indirect Cost

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Direct Cost

Question 2

Which of the following statements regarding Process Group is false?

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Process Groups are Project Phases

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Process Groups are not discreet, one time event

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Where large or complex projects may be separated into phases or sub-projects, all of the Process Group
 processes would normally be repeated

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Process Groups are linked by the results they produce

Question 3

The procedures that must be followed to ensure that the project is completed on time and on budget.

Accepted Answer

Project Cost Management

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Rate of Performance

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Management Reserves

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Planned Value

Question 4

Which of the following is not included in the three-sphere system management model?

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Information

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Technology

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Business

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Organization

Question 5

Integration Management is in charge of:

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Deals how to coordinate all the work and how to deal with changes

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Integrates project managers, sponsors and senior management

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Making sure that every body knows what he should know to accomplish the project

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Ensuring that you as project manager have every detail of the product which will be produced

Question 6

An estimate of the cost of the actual physical job accomplished.

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Earned Value

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Direct Costs

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Actual Cost

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Earned Value Management

Question 7

What phrase is used to describe a framework for the phases of information system development?

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Systems development life cycle

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Rapid application development

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Extreme programming

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Predictive life cycle

Question 8

A method of cost estimation that involves estimating individual work items and adding them together to arrive at a project total.

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Bottom-Up Estimates

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Analogous Estimates

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Parametric Estimate

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Definitive Estimate

Question 9

When an organization obtains goods and/or supplies from a third-party source in another country, what term is used?

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Offshoring

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Exporting

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Globalization

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Global sourcing

Question 10

The ratio of earned value to planned value, or _________________, can be used to calculate the anticipated time needed to finish a project.

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Schedule Performance Index (SPI)

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Schedule Variance (SV)

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Indirect Costs

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Life Cycle Costing