PMP Practice Questions

During the course of a project, the team develops negative group behaviors and becomes unmotivated and unproductive. What should the project manager do to improve the project team ' s performance?

Team members are having a discussion with the project manager In the last retrospective meeting, the team realized that the obsolete equipment could affect the next iteration of the project The team recommends buying new equipment because it is critical to the success of the final deliverable

What should the project manager do next?

A project manager is assigned to a project within a program. The high-level requirements of the project are known, but the priorities of some of the requirements are uncertain as they are interdependent on some other pipeline projects within the program.

How should the project manager prepare for the next steps of the project?

A company ' s project management office (PMO) is incorporating more adaptive technologies and has hired a new project manager with hybrid project management experience The team is slow in adopting the new methodology and has not been updating project artifacts in a timely manner.

Which action should the project manager take to improve the team ' s performance?

A company has decided to implement a new archiving system A data breach occurred during the implementation of the project

What should the project manager do first?

A member of the board of directors is the sponsor of a project that is important to the organization This stakeholder has many other priorities and is not currently engaged in the project activities

How should the stakeholder be engaged in the project?

The city has decided to build a new tram station The project will include various approaches The construction and infrastructure work will be accomplished using a predictive life cycle while software will be developed using an iterative life cycle Some neighbors are resisting the project have been asking the mayor to stop the project, and are threatening legal action

What two actions should the project manager take ' ? (Choose two)

A project in the execution phase is behind schedule and is missing some materials The contractor submits an offer to supply the missing materials and reimburse the cost since the internal procurement process will cause more delay The project manager does not agree with the costs submitted by the contractor for the missing materials

What should the project manager do next?

Which three of the following scenarios are impediments to which a scrum master should pay attention? (Choose three)

A team has different ideas on how to address a feature of a product under construction and; although the sprint began two days ago, they have still not reached a consensus. What should the project manager do?

During the implementation stage of a project. a newly appointed team leader approaches the project manager to verify the team ' s tasks and schedule. The work did not go as planned due to the team leader ' s lack of management experience. This could cause delays for the project.

What should the project manager do?

A project team with members from many different countries is struggling to cooperate The project manager accepted these difficulties during the storming phase of team development, but the team has not moved to the next phase The project is beginning to fall behind schedule

What can the project manager do to move the team to the norming phase?

During the retrospective ceremony, the agile team is talking about the product owner’s expectations not being met What should the project manager have done at the beginning of the project?

During the review of a project ' s list of deliverables, one of the stakeholders expressed concern that one of the requirements will not be addressed. What should the project manager do?

During a documentation audit of an international company it was identified that the last version of the project schedule was from one month ago even though the project manager knew it was recently updated How should the project manager have handled documentation for the project?

A project team has recently completed the initial sprint for developing an automated payroll system for a company The project manager has scheduled a sprint planning meeting with the product owner and team members to discuss which features should be worked on next

Which two pieces of information does the project manager need in order to make this meeting productive and effective? (Choose two)

Project A is critical for the company and must be completed within nine months. The project charter has been signed but the project scope statement has not been prepared Management asks the project manager to move forward with the project without an approved project scope statement

What should the project manager do next?

In the beginning of project execution, the project manager finds out that a key resource will be unavailable for two weeks which could cause a delay to the schedule What should the project manager do first?

A project manager for a large multiyear industrial project has a project with diversified stakeholders from various geographical areas. Recently, the project manager encountered an issue with stakeholder engagement

Which two tools should the project manager use to determine the underlying reason for why engagement is not having the planned effect? (Choose two)

During initiation of a new product improvement project, a project manager finds historical data showing that a similar project resulted in customers complaining of an even worse user experience compared to the previous product version

How can the project manager prevent this outcome in the new project?

At the end of a project with multiple suppliers, the project manager is reviewing the closing process and finds that an unexpected financial balance is remaining What will help the project manager understand why this has occurred?

A project just kicked off and management’s expectation is to ensure that the deliverable of the first iteration helps the marketing team present the product prototype to potential customers. What should the project manager do?

During the implementation phase of a project, a new regulation affects the project, and a critical status meeting discussing the scope changes is required. The project manager discovers that a key stakeholder cannot attend the scheduled meeting

What should the project manager do?

According to a new product development process, the marketing department will begin adding business and user requirements directly into agile project documents. Drag the product information on the left to the correct documents on the right

A product company is transforming the way it develops and releases products in the market Executives believe that this is a high-risk initiative, and this initiative must be successful

What should the project manager do in this scenario?

A project manager is in rapid development mode on a joint application development module The company wants delivery to occur in two weeks The module needs to be integrated with other modules on a similar timeline, but release management has a three-week backlog

What should the project manager do?

In an industrial plant, the owner has decided to add more capacity to the plant by installing a new machine and updating the software used in production. This capacity enlargement will occur while the plant is still functioning and producing The software update will be accomplished using an agile approach in order to minimize risk The machine procurement, installation, and integration will be accomplished using predictive approaches

What types of communications will the project manager have to design into the schedule management plan to ensure the project will be on schedule ' ’

A project manager is assigned to a project that is in development As the project manager reviews the projects progress, they find a few tasks that are behind schedule After investigating the project manager discovers that a few team members were pulled to work on other assignments, which impacted their ability to focus on the project manager’s project

Which two actions can the project manager take to bring the team back on track? (Choose two)

During the course of a project, the project manager wants to ensure that the work carried out and the product being created do not deviate from the prescribed business value.

What should the project manager pay special attention to in order to achieve this goal?

The customer ' s project manager changes during the final stage of a project How can the project manager avoid a project closure delay’

The project sponsor of a major initiative is consistently changing the prioritization of modular work packages The team is used to three week sprints and is becoming increasingly frustrated with the daily changes in scope >

What should the project manager do?

During the last sprint review the product owner stated that the product does not deliver any value The project manager believes that the product meets all the provided specifications

The team is confused by the product owner ' s statement

What should the project manager do when using a hybrid approach?

A project manager is managing a project which has a very complex and long execution period Although the project is mostly predictive, the team was able to break the design and execution into smaller packages using a hybrid framework The business wants to keep track of the value delivered by this framework application but there is no defined set of measurable items for the framework.

What should the project manager do first?

A vendor informed the project manager that a critical resource will be on a long leave of absence The project team reviewed the pending vendor deliverables and identified an alternative solution, but the solution will incur an additional cost The project is currently on schedule and slightly under budget

What should the project manager do next?

As part of the strategic plan, a company decides to implement a new software platform to manage a centralized document repository. Some requirements are clear and some need more detail.

What should the project manager do first to decide how to manage this project?

A project manager is approaching the end of a project, and several tasks are now practically complete and ready for handover to the client How should the project manager proceed?

A project manager has been using predictive methodology for more than 10 years and is switching to an agile project. The team members have not previously worked together. After two sprints of work, the team has not achieved any outcome and there is a lot of pressure to get work done

What kind of leadership style should the project manager use at this stage?

Important projects in the portfolio backlog need to be delivered Budget estimates are needed to prioritize the projects How should the project budgets be estimated ' ?

During the daily meetings with the team the project manager notices that a new team member is not making the expected progress on an assigned task What should the project manager do?

The team has reported the following impediments at the daily standup meeting Drag each impediment on the left to the action that the project manager needs to take on the right

During an ongoing project a key resource asks the project manager about the project purpose and if it is aligned with the organization ' s strategy What should the project manager share with the key resource?

A high-performing team member’s performance has been consistently increasing over the past year, leaving other peers behind The project manager has been reluctant to publicly recognize the team member’s contributions for fear of discouraging others The project manager is also concerned that the team member may leave if not rewarded for the contributions made.

What should the project manager do?

After the second iteration of a component development project, the project team conducts a retrospective It shows that in the initial phase the project has failed to comply with a product functionality. The planning for this product has a predominantly predictive approach.

Which technique will help the project manager to accelerate the deliverable?

One team member is not as active as the rest of the team during a brainstorming session The project manager has a separate conversation with the team member and learns that the team member is slightly hearing impaired The team member appreciates the project manager ' s concern The project manager then decides to change the time and room for the meeting to ensure everyone can participate

What interpersonal skill did the project manager use?

A food company is developing a new product using a predictive approach, and the product is currently in the testing phase Given the nature of the feedback of the tests, the project manager has decided to use an iterative approach At the end of one of the iterations, a new regulation related to the product is enacted.

What should the project manager do next?

How should the project manager develop the project management plan to ensure that the project continually delivers the expected benefits?

The project manager is having difficulty communicating with one of the team members The team member recently attended a training course and has been training other team members in a new agile technique However sometimes the team member is forceful in pushing ideas even if other team members are uncomfortable

What personality indicators should the project manager consider when determining what communication style to use with this team member?

The project manager started a new project and must ensure that the team members and stakeholders are adequately trained. After an interview with the team, the project manager discovers that all resources have experience in different agile methodologies

What should the project manager do?

An experienced project manager is managing a multi-million dollar agile project The project manager communicates the ground rules to the team but after 12 iterations, the project manager starts noticing that some team members are not following the ground rules.

What should the project manager do first to ensure team adherence to the ground rules?

A product owner presented the backlog to the team, and the team raised concerns over implementing some of the features due to various impediments What should the project manager suggest that the product owner do next?