Project Management Quiz

If SV = -800 and PV = 7000, how much is EV?

• 6000

• 8000

• 6200

• 9000

Which of the following are the most commonly used performance measures for evaluating whether or not work is being accomplished as planned at any given point of time?

• PV & AC

• CV & SV

• SPI, EV & AC

• AC,EV & PV

If CPI is 1.03 and AC is $6,000, how much is EV?

• 200

• 7000

• 6180

• 7200

There are 20 stakeholders on a project. What is the total number of potential communication channels in this project?

• 10

• 45

• 190

• 100

You are managing a bridge construction project. Half of the project work has been completed. The total planned cost at this stage was $2.5 million. The actual physical work that has been completed at this stage is worth $2.4 million. You have already spent $5.0 million on the project. What is the Schedule Variance?

• $100,000

• -$100,000

• $2.6 million

• $2.5 million

A task has a pessimistic estimate of 30 days, most likely estimate of 16 days, and optimistic estimate of 10 days. How much is the activity duration based on the PERT technique?

• 30 days

• 20 Days

• 18 Days

• 10 Days

Your project is in an early stage and you need to estimate the overall duration. Based on your experience with similar past projects, you estimate a 6-month completion time. What is this type of estimation technique called?

• Three point estimating

• Bottom-up-estimating

• WAG

• Analogous

You are managing a bridge construction project. You have completed half of the project work. The total planned cost at this stage is $500. The actual physical work that has been completed at this stage is worth $400. You have already spent $1,000 on the project. What is the CPI?

• 0.5

• 4

• 0.4

• 1

The project management team is determining the activity dependencies to define the logical relationship between them. The project manager suggests that the team applies 10 days lag on a finish-to-start relationship. What does he actually mean?

• The successor activity can start ten days before the predecessor activity is completed.

• The successor activity cannot start until ten days after the predecessor activity is completed.

• The successor activity can only start ten days after the predecessor activity has started.

• The successor activity can only finish ten days after the predecessor activity has finished.

A project manager finds that there is some variance in the project. What should the project manager do first?

• Communicate the variance to the project team

• Cancel the project

• Continue working and ignore the variance

• Identify the root cause of the variance