PMP Practice Questions
Project Management Professional (PMBOK 7th Version)
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A new team member joins an agile team. In a previous role, this team member was a subject matter expert (SME). This team member often directs the team on how to solve problems based on previous experience.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager for a technologically complex engagement reviews the key project indicators with the main stakeholders on a regular basis. During one of the meetings,
the project sponsor explains that they are using the project manager ' s risk register as a way to communicate about the project at the executive level.
How should the project manager ensure that project risks are reported accurately in the risk register?
In a marine construction project, the project manager is informed by the marine authority that the work permit will not be issued until certain environmental reinforcement work has been completed. After reviewing the project management plan, the reinforcement work is not included in the project scope.
What should the project manager do?
A customer complains that the user stories released so far contain too much jargon and do not reflect the expectations of the product. What should the project manager do
next?
A project is designed to provide local community members with health facilities that will support improved sanitation practices. What should the project manager do to
ensure the community members are up to date on project progress?
A company wants to be a pioneer in its industry and has announced the launch date of a new innovative product. After the first sprint planning, the
team realizes that it is not possible to deliver all the features in the required time.
What should the project manager do to ensure success?
A key team member has recently gone through some personal issues that has affected their performance. The project manager noticed that the
team member ' s emotional situation has affected the rest of the team ' s performance.
How should the project manager handle this situation?
A technology project is delivering new functionality on a new platform. Several team resources are starting to train their teams, but they are asking questions about the training that the project will provide.
What should the project manager ' s first action be?
A project manager is assigned to a project team midway through execution. Several dependencies are impacting the project, and the project manager feels the team is not adequately informed of the impacting changes.
What should the project manager do first?
An agile project manager has started working in a company that builds shopping centers. The project manager wants to implement some agile
practices, which are relevant to the project.
What should the project manager do in order to gain buy-in from the different stakeholders?
A few new team members working on a public housing project are unfamiliar with the system. They do not understand how to evaluate residents applying for a subsidy to build a house, including the rules and criteria for applicant approval.
What should the project manager do?
An agile project team is working on an infrastructure product to be delivered incrementally over several iterations. Midway through the third iteration, the whole company is
informed that the operating systems supported by the infrastructure will be terminated in the upcoming quarter. Several thousand machines will be impacted by this change.
What should the project manager do first?
In an agile project, the project owner has repeatedly called for ad hoc meetings with team members. What should the project manager do?
A project team is in the planning stage and has prepared a list of activities and completed sequencing the activities. During a review, the team noted that there is a
dependency missing between:
+ Test the product
+ Release to customer
According to the quality management plan, the product must be tested before being released.
How should the project manager enter this dependency?
A project manager is assigned to a project that is in the execution phase that has different types of stakeholders. Some of the stakeholders are very interested in the project, whereas other do not show the same level of interest.
What should the project manager do to assure the project finishes correctly?
A company ' s project management office (PMO) has started to implement iterative tools. The project manager is starting a new project and has
identified an opportunity to use the new tools. There is disagreement among stakeholders about the use of the adaptive tool.
What should the project manager do first?
After assigning tasks to a project team, a project manager discovers that some team members are uncomfortable. Same team members are having 4 difficult time understanding their assigned tasks, whereas other team members are challenging the schedule based on that allocation to the project.
Which phase of the Tuckman ladder of team formation is occurring?
A project team is executing a large regulatory project comprised of a multitude of internal and external stakeholders. An initial impact analysis revealed several systems, including an enhancement to existing modules as well as new builds. After completion of the initial design workshop, the team conducted a brainstorming session to better understand the types of likely users.
Which technique will best serve this purpose?
A project manager is leading a complicated project that requires integrating several components from different suppliers. During execution, the project team indicates that some components are not being delivered to the site on time, affecting the project schedule.
What should the project manager do to address this concern?
An organization initiated a project in a complex program. The project lead notices that the team is demotivated because the current project framework implemented by the project management office (PMO) is not compatible with agile delivery
What should the project lead do?
In a project, one core team member tends to do all the work and ensures all tasks are completed. This core team member is soon leaving the project, which may make the project vulnerable.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager identifies a risk that has a high probability of occurring. How should the project manager manage this risk?
A project manager is working on an agile project. The organization decided to implement the Scrum framework. The project manager organized a workshop to explain the differences between traditional project artifacts and the Scrum approach. The most frequent question raised is what artifact will replace the project schedule.
What should be me project manager ' s response?
A project manager for an iterative project noticed that retrospective items indicate that the team is not fully conversant with the principles of iterative development. The team meets to analyze the gaps in the training that recently concluded with a third-party trainer.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager has been assigned to a hybrid project. The project manager needs to ensure all team members are collaborating and are aware of the project ' s ongoing changes.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is managing a new development program to automate some technical functions. During project kickoff, the project manager
expresses the need for a technical architect to support the project for a moderate amount of time. The project sponsor informs the project
manager about an existing technical architect who possesses valuable knowledge but is already assigned at the portfolio level.
What engagement model should the project manager use for the technical architect role to ensure project success?
An agile project is completing its second sprint and products are being finished. However, two groups with different levels of expertise disagree on the backlog priority.
What should the project manager do first to resolve this dispute?
A project manager has been assigned to a new digital product line, which the company hopes will boost their revenue. The product is complex and requires customer feedback to continually refine the product. The project is being handled by a cross-functional agile team.
What should the project manager do to ensure value is delivered quickly?
A project manager is leading a multiyear project that involves internal and external stakeholders. As the project manager begins to gather requirements, additional business stakeholders express interest in being involved.
Which three actions should the project manager take to ensure proper stakeholder involvement? (Choose three)
Halfway through a project, the project sponsor is replaced by another peer who was not previously engaged in the project. The new project sponsor has rejected most of the project artifacts, and the team did not get the latest increment approved on the current iteration. Stakeholders are not feeling confident about the project outcome.
What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation?
While following up on a deliverable, a team member expresses concern to the project manager about working with another team member. This team member states that the other team member, who is a functional manager, is often defensive and aggressive during meetings.
How should the project manager handle this situation?
A team is using an agile approach to maintain the project backlog. A new project obstacle was identified as a blocker and added to the backlog list. The team is facing challenges to remove this obstacle
What should the project manager do next?
A project team is performing extremely well when it comes to delivering the value-added features to the customer in each sprint. However, they are missing the
documentation portion and the project manager must find a way to make sure the documentation is kept current.
Which action should the project manager take?
A CEO of a general contracting company urgently asks the project manager to sign up two project team members to participate in a specific training course. Halfway
through the training, both team members complain that the training is too difficult, above their experience level, and that the material does not align with their tasks.
What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation?
During a retrospective, one of the team members reports that a functional manager wants to be involved in task allocation. What should the project manager do?
A project manager working on a software development project asked the software development about the status of a task. The developer responded that the task was delivered 1 week ago and mentioned that the delivery was reported via a specific project management software.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager has been assigned to a software development project that will undergo several iterations until the customer is satisfied. Match the tool or technique on the left that the project manager should utilize to ensure tasks are efficiently managed to the correct task on the right.
A project manager had to schedule additional planning sessions to add requirements from an international stakeholder. The stakeholder expressed concern about the product not meeting the client ' s needs.
Which factor should the project manager have considered when developing the product?
A project manager meets with the development team to estimate the time required to complete a software application. The software developers are new to the company, and they have never developed a similar application.
Which estimation technique should the project manager recommend?
A company plans to initiate a project involving a new technology. Approval for the project is required. What should the project manager do?
After a project status meeting, the project manager realizes that the project is under budget, quality checks are positive, and the schedule variance is negative. How should the project manager qualify the project status?
A junior project manager was recently hired to lead a complex project scheduled to kick off in 2 weeks. The junior project manager was introduced to another project
manager for mentoring.
Which two benefits will the junior project manager realize by being assigned to a mentor? (Choose two)
A scrum master is receiving conflicting status updates for the same task. How should an accurate status be obtained from the team?
A project manager /s planning a project and identifies that legislation requirements for specific project tasks will be changing. This will occur half way through the project execution
phase and will affect a few key workers’ licenses, which will become noncompliant.
What should the project manager do?
A project team has installed software for the client, passed the knowledge to operations, sent the final report, and celebrated. Then 1 week later,
the client sendsa list of requirements that have not been met. The client is requesting to fix the issues quickly and within the initial budget.
What should the project manager have done to prevent this from happening?
A team needs to implement a mandatory compliance regulation in a product, which is required for its release. While nearing the product release, when completeness was
being verified, it was found that the compliance part was not implemented in the project.
What should the project manager do next?
A company is working on a project to develop an integration of their existing systems. There are known issues in production.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager has completed an assessment of the project team ' s performance. Some team members have performed poorly on their assigned tasks.
What should the project manager do?
A project is comprised of team members who are not engaged and committed to project success. What should the project manager do to address this situation?
As part of its growth strategy, management is providing all of its ongoing projects with junior employees and is requesting experienced team members to mentor them. The experienced employees argue that the mentoring program will not add value to their projects and will limit their ability to deliver.
How should the project manager handle this situation?
