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Business English Practice Quiz | Topic: Project management vocabulary 1
Choose the correct response to complete each of the following sentences:
1. During our last meeting, we developed a good _____________________.
a) acting plan b) action plan c) act plan
2. I have a problem with the _____________________ of some of these action items. I think that we
should rearrange the order a little.
a) sequel b) section c) sequence
3. ______________________ limit project options. If, for instance, you have "resource
______________________", you are limited in the resources you can use for a project.
a) constants b) constraints c) contracts
4. Will we be outsourcing this task? No, we're doing it _____________________.
a) in-house b) at-house c) in-home
5. How's the project going? It's going well, but we're a little _____________________.
a) behind schedule b) behind the schedule c) behind the times
6. A _____________________, or "______________________ time" refers to the time after one
project/activity is finished and before another one starts. This is often used in a negative way in
reference to time lost because of projects that are behind schedule.
a) lad b) lab c) lag
7. It's rare that a project goes exactly as ______________________. Things often take longer than
anticipated.
a) planned b) plan c) in the plan
8. How long is the estimated ______________________? = How long do you think the project will
last?
a) project duration b) project time c) project schedule
9. We hired a ______________________ to help us with this phase of the project.
a) consultation b) consultant c) consent
10. My boss enrolled our ______________________ in a training class next weekend.
a) project time b) project management c) project team
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Business English Practice Quiz | Topic: Project management vocabulary 1
ANSWERS:
1) b 2) c 3) b 4) a 5) a 6) c 7) a 8) a 9) b 10) c