10 Popular PMP Questions:

1. The Japanese developed a method of modern quality management that relies on continuous small improvements involving everyone from the top management to the lowest level worker in the organization. This is called:

a. Kan-ban b. Kaizen c. PDCA d. Deming cycle

2. The primary benefits of meeting quality requirements are:
a. Cost and delays are reduced, production improves, a cost to customers goes up, and profits go up
b. Cost and delays are reduced, production improves, market share increases and profits go up
c. Cost and delays are reduced, capital expenditures go down, market share increases and profits go up
d. Cost and delays are reduced, production improves, market share increases and profits are maintained

3. When the quality management discipline is implemented, the benefits to costs ratio should at least be:

a. Unable to be evaluated b. Less than one c. Of little importance d. Greater than one

4. The quality management plan provides input to __________________ and addresses quality control, quality assurance, and quality improvement.

a. The overall project plan b. The WBS c. The project scope d. External stakeholders

5. Project quality assurance:

a. Includes policing the conformance of the project team to specs
b. Provides the project team and stakeholders with standards, by which the project performance is measured
c. Is a managerial process that defines the organization, design, resources, and objectives of quality management
d. Provide confidence that the project will satisfy relevant quality standards

6. What are the major advantages of the functional type of organization?

a. Single point of contact for the customer
b. Stable organizational structure
c. Project orientation
d. Multifunctional teams are easy to form

7. The project manager’s leadership style should be matched to the corresponding developmental level of the project team and should move through successive steps in the following order:

a. Disciplinary, autocratic, participative
b. Projectized, matrix, functional
c. Team building, team development, responsibility assignment
d. Directing, coaching, supporting, delegating

8. A company has signed a contract for new work that is different from work that it has done before. The company’s strategic plan calls for much of this kind of work in the future. It is important that it be able to bring the correct shared resources together to work on different parts of the contract. The type of organization that this suggestion is a:

a. Functional organization b. Contractor organization c. Matrix organization d. Pure project organization

9. The manager of a large corporation wants to sign a contract to build a nuclear power plant in Botswana several thousand miles away from the home office. The project will take several years to build and test. What type of organization will be best for managing this project?

a. Functional organization b. Contractor organization c. Matrix organization d. Pure project organization

10. In matrix management organizations, if the organization maintains many of the characteristics of the functional organization and the project managers are considered more like project coordinators or expediters, it is called a:

a. Strong matrix b. Project team c. Weak matrix d. Project office