PMP Practice Questions

A project requires testing of the final product to be done at another department ' s

testing facility, which is known for having low availability. This situation could potentially

impact the project schedule.

What should the project manager do next?

A project manager is leading an electrical project that spans five towns. The project

manager is informed by the team that one of the towns is not allowing the team to work there even though the town was included in stakeholder engagements before the start of the project.

What should the project manager do?

A team is the first team m the company to use agile methods for a traditional project. The team ' s manager is concerned that the risks are not being managed. What should the team do to assess and manage risks regularly?

In a hybrid project, 100 new base stations are being added to a 4G mobile network

every month. At the end of the first month, the team is behind the target and the operator is

losing money. The stakeholders are requesting information on when the base stations can go

live and begin to bill.

What should the project manager do to take the schedule back and accelerate the return on

investment (ROI) of the project?

A project sponsor asks the project manager to explore a hybrid approach for a new

project. The product manager for this project has already prepared a detailed specification for the product.

What should the project manager do to proceed with the project management plan?

On a recently completed prefect a project manager noticed that some of the subcontractors approached the client directly with questions. These subcontractors had a previous direct reporting relationship with the client. The project manager is now in the initial stage of a new project with the same subcontractors and client.

How should the project manager set up communications?

A team Is experiencing difficulties and has decided to use a spike. Please click on the portion of the burndown chart that corresponds to the spike.

A project manager is assigned midway through a project. The team members are in

different locations across the country and they are unable to meet in-person often. During a status review meeting, one of the stakeholders highlighted that they were unaware of the status for the project deliverables.

What should the project manager do first?

A project manager primarily works on implementation projects Depending on the deliverable, the project manager is able to estimate the time line based on previous projects. The project manager now receives a project that is different from the previous implementation projects.

What should the project manager do next?

During a team meeting the project manager asks the team to complete a personality assessment to help everyone understand themselves and one another better. The project manager analyzes the results and realizes that more than one-half of team members are introverts

What should the project manager do?

In an agile product development environment, work is distributed to Cities A, B, and

C, which are geographically dispersed. The small teams work and collaborate to deliver the

sprints.

• City A ' s team focuses on the features of data capture.

• City B ' s team focuses on the user experience and development pieces.

• City C ' s team coordinates testing.

What should the project manager do to ensure a successful rollout of sprints?

A company made several changes recently, which resulted in a positive change in

the company culture. A project manager was just assigned to report to a new project

supervisor whose leadership style is about getting things done quickly regardless of employee

and operational impacts. Some employees are complaining about this.

What should the project manager do?

A globally distributed project team is running behind schedule due to the lack ol team commitment and low morale. In order to bring the schedule back on track, what should the project manager do first?

A project manager learns from a marketing analyst that a competitor just published a press release announcing a product launch using a specific innovation The project manager is concerned because the company is initiating a project involving the same innovation A key goal of the new project is that the product will be the first to market won the innovation

What should the project manager do next?

A project manager is managing two integrated projects in a program A key integration point is misaligned, which has resulted in delays. One of the team ' s integration leads is a subject matter expert (SME) m this integration area. The other team ' s integration lead is not a SME but is more senior and has worked on the project longer Both team leads are blaming each other

What should the project manager do first to resolve this situation?

The marketing team is moving from predictive to hybrid approaches for their projects. The marketing director is not familiar with hybrid approaches and does not support the new direction. What should the project manager do?

A government agency is developing a new connectivity policy. The assigned project

manager is a famous economist with international recognition. The team is eager to work with

the project manager, but feels intimidated. The project manager realizes that a junior

economist, whose tasks are behind schedule, is especially intimidated by the situation.

What should the project manager do first?

A project sponsor wants to develop software that would have 30 features and would be used in 10 different countries. The team feels overwhelmed with the amount of work to be done. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is leading a project that is in the execution phase. During a team

meeting, the project manager realizes that there are two team members who lack the

technical skills required for some of the upcoming tasks.

What should the servant leader project manager do next?

A project manager is leading the first agile project for the organization. During the

kick-off meeting, the project manager notices that the team does not have the same

understanding about agile approaches. The project manager is concerned about the impact of that confusion.

What should the project manager do to address this situation?

A new sales software development project is underway The customer is still finalizing the requirements for the system when a new CEO is introduced. The new CEO is expected to make changes to the organization, which most likely will impact development. However, the most important criterion for the project is that the software must provide correct sales results. No intermediate results are required.

Which project approach should the project manager take?

A project team has transitioned to full-time remote working. The project manager

started noticing that some team members have not been completing their assigned tasks by

the planned dates despite reminders during weekly team meetings. This has the potential for

delaying the project delivery.

How should the project manager resolve this situation?

During the last two iterations of a project, one of the team members had low performance. The project manager conducted two feedback sessions with the team member and escalated the issue to the resource manager and project sponsor, but there has been no improvement.

What should the project manager do next?

During the daily standup meeting that is assessing progress against the current sprint, a team member reports some delays due to a component

managed by an external vendor. How should the project manager address the team member ' s concern?

During execution of an agile project, a project manager realizes the budget is almost completely used, but the project is not close to being completed. What should the project manager do to address this concern?

A project manager ' s customer is new to agile approaches. When the customer found out that the project was going to use an agile approach, the customer became

concerned that the product quality will be sacrificed.

What should the project manager do?

A project is about to close and the project manager is p Set up a meeting to perform a root cause analy reparing a draft of the project closure report. The project sponsor has approached the project manager to stay on longer to ensure the benefits in the charter are tracked as completed However, some of the benefits will not be realized until 1year after project implementation.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager is establishing a project management office (PMO) for a

company-wide program to implement a software based on artificial intelligence (AI). As part of the PMO tasks, some stakeholders need help understanding how to deal with difficult situations.

Which activity should the project manager use to help train the stakeholders?

At the end of a project, one of the suppliers is facing financial difficulties and is

pushing the project manager to obtain financial, legal, and administrative approval in order to

communicate formal project closure and ensure the transfer of liability. What should the

project manager do next?

A regulatory branch of an environmental government agency has recently placed a ban on the manufacturing of a specified thickness of plastic packaging products. This ban will take effect in 12 months. The project manager for a startup firm working in alternative packaging has been monitoring the progress of this law for a while and. as part of the risk management, has identified new products that can support a growing customer base.

What should the project manager do next?

An international client contacted a software development company to build out a

software product, and an agile project manager was assigned. At one of the review meetings,

the client complains that a feature mentioned at the initial debriefing was not implemented.

What should the project manager do?

An agile leader is working on a complex project that is entering the final phase where solutions from different vendors are being integrated. This is the most critical delivery stage for the project

How should the agile leader ensure successful delivery?

A project manager submits several requests to purchase required hardware and

knows from previous experience that this kind of procurement usually results in disputes

between the company and its suppliers. How can the project manager mitigate this risk in the

request for proposal (RFP) with suppliers?

A project team is reviewing solved project issues from the last phase of a project. The lead risk analyst points out that the next phase of the project includes a critical element with some

reserves needed

What should the project manager do to successfully complete the next phase?

A new privacy law will go into effect at the beginning of the next calendar year. The project manager realizes the project needs to be compliant with the new law. What should the project manager do next?

A hybrid project manager has taken over a large-scale software development project m a highly regulated environment. During a handover session the outgoing project manager explains that they devised their own status reports which is different from the project management office ' s (PMO ' s) status report style. The project stakeholders are extremely particular about the information they receive in updates and do not believe the PMO ' s status reports have sufficient enough information

How should the new project manager proceed*?

A project has been running successfully for 2 months. At a regular project meeting,

the team raises several potential obstacles to future progress. The obstacles include vendor

delivery performance, technical performance of a subsystem, and conflict with another division of the organization.

What should the project manager do next?

A project manager is assigned to deliver an innovative solution that is part of a

brand new offering. The project manager reviews the request for proposal (RFP) and realizes that key terms are restricted to technical resource assignments. There is also a gap in addressing compliance.

How should the project manager bridge the gap and ensure the project delivers the expected

business value?

A few key stakeholders are concerned about how the prefect team is planning to develop some features tor a new product. They know that the requirements associated with these features are unstable but are also highly strategic for adding value to the product and the customer.

What should the project manager do?

A project team has been together for a long time and has been led by three different

project managers. Lately, the performance of one of the team members has been declining

and has affected the project delivery.

What should the current project manager do to ensure that team performance is improved and

sustained?

A project manager is working on a critical path activity and notices a delay in product delivery due to an anticipated event What should the project manager do first?

A project manager is assigned to an important company project. While reviewing the lessons learned from a similar, previous project, the project manager finds that the biggest challenges were related to learn motivation.

What should the project manager do to avoid these challenges?

A telecommunications company is doing a national network rollout involving continuously changing technical requirements. To address the situation the company has recently adopted a hybrid project life cycle. During a retrospective some team members complain that me majority of me stones are ready to test but have not advanced because they are waiting for the project manager ' s approval.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager is working on a project that has strict deadlines and budget restrictions. The project manager realizes that in order to win the bid the company submitted a significantly tower bid than their local competitors leaving a thin profit margin. The client is constantly submitting change requests and. unfortunately, these change requests are stretching both the schedule and the budget

What should the project manager do?

A project team that is very experienced in enterprise resource planning (ERP)

systems implementation is currently planning the delivery of a new ERP project. There is a

requirement to reuse the client ' s security subsystem developed by a third party. The client

states that integration with the security subsystem must be done by the client ' s team. The

project manager does not want to have such an external dependency.

What should the project manager do first?

A team is working on a hybrid project. Due to different interpretations of the project requirements, the deliverables are not aligned to the expectations. What steps should the project manager have taken to prevent this?

After difficult negotiations, a customer committed to pay the cost for changes to the

project scope. The team seems unhappy as the project completion time will take longer than

previously scheduled.

How should the project manager support the outcome of the new agreement?

A team lead has been highly engaged and involved in a project and is operating without a chain of command or authority levels What is the team lead dang1?

A project manager is leading an automation project. The project team is colocated

and includes people from both the technical and business units. The project manager

discovers that personal differences and work styles are affecting the project negatively.

How should the project manager address this?

In a software project using an agile approach, there have recently been work

overruns. After assessing the situation, the project manager concluded that the overruns are

occurring because of insufficiently refined product backlog items.

What should the project manager do to correct this issue?