PMP Practice Questions
Project Management Professional (PMBOK 7th Version)
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A project manager has just received communication from an operational functional manager to complete an additional scope item for a project that was formally closed a few weeks ago. The scope looks relatively small and simple to handle as part of the daily operations activity.
How should the project manager deal with this request?
A large multi-national company works on a project in an emerging-economy country. All business matters are conducted in local currency. During the course of the project,
the budget becomes the primary concern due to currency instability in the country.
What should the project manager do next?
A project team is completing a design, while another team in a different country is performing implementation. How should the project manager communicate the design to the implementation team?
An agile team is in the early phases of the development cycle for a project; however, they have already begun to deliver functionality to the customer. The team has identified risks to the project and are working on developing the mitigation strategy.
What should the project manager do next?
While monitoring a project at a work site, the project manager notices that the site team’s work breaks have increased by a few minutes every week. How should the project
manager approach this?
An agile project manager notices that one of the team members is developing extensive knowledge in a specific matter. Other team members are
likely to require this knowledge in the future.
What should the agile project manager do?
A project manager prepared a project benefits management plan. Which of the following should be included in this document?
There is frequent conflict between two project team members working on a project. This has caused a negative impact on the project.
How should the project manager handle this situation?
A project manager is working on an ongoing construction project. The designer notifies the project manager about materials that were not included in the budget due to a technical mistake.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?
A software delivery project is in the execution phase. The project team has identified a need for an additional server as the software requires more data storage space than planned for. Without the additional server, the project delivery cannot continue.
What should the project manager do?
During a discovery phase, a project manager coordinated a brainstorming event to determine the best strategy to meet the product release date. After the project overview,
the subject matter expert (SME) remained quiet during the call.
What should the project manager do next?
Due to an anticipated expansion, a company procured new technology. The project team responsible for using this technology does not have experience with it.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager has just taken over a project that is in the requirements gathering phase. A stakeholder indicates that they have not received any progress updates even
though reports have been sent on a weekly basis.
What should the project manager do to ensure all stakeholders are receiving proper information about the project?
Drag the items on left side to the matching term within the correct project approach on the right side.
During daily team standup meetings, team members constantly ask about which tasks they should focus on first. How should the project
manager ensure the team is fully productive?
An organization that is running several simultaneous projects suddenly experiences a surge of resignations, leading to a lack of talent. Consequently, some of the projects have been missing key milestones. What should the project manager do to recover from the delays?
A project manager is leading a complex project with stakeholders from different countries, cultures, and languages. What can the project manager do to manage this diverse group of stakeholders?
A project to develop a new service is initiated by a telecommunications operator. The project management plan was developed, approved, and shared with respective stakeholders. What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is working on a multinational project with stakeholders from different regions. What should the project manager do first to ensure there is effective stakeholder collaboration?
A project manager is leading a hybrid project. A project team member has not been delivering on time; as a result, the project is about to be delayed. What should the project manager do?
An agile team of specialized engineers has completed some tasks later than planned and with a lower quality than expected. The situation is limiting the value the team is creating for the business. What should the project manager do next?
During the planning phase of a project, there is one activity for which duration and cost cannot be estimated. A project team member recalls that this activity was performed previously in another project in the company.
What should the project manager do so the project can move forward?
A project manager is instructed by the project sponsor to draft the project charter. The project sponsor asks the project manager to involve a particular stakeholder in order to provide necessary resources. However, the stakeholder is refusing to get involved because the stakeholder believes there is no benefit in using the project deliverable.
What should the project manager do to resolve this?
A project manager has been informed by a vendor that a shipment of supplies needed for the project will be delayed by 6 weeks.
What should the project manager do first?
One of the main deliverables of a project is delayed due to a problem with a key provider.
What should the project manager do?
A project team has deployed an email marketing campaign across different countries. In one country, the end users have been opting out of the campaign because they think the email is spam. What should the project manager do first?
A project manager has just started a new project for an organization that dislikes budget and schedule deviations. The project stakeholders are very engaged and want to ensure there is clear visibility of the project’s risks and progress. How should the project manager handle stakeholder expectations?
A project is in its first of six iterations. The project team realizes that a key deliverable is dependent on the acquisition of a new device. The vendor is new to the organization and does not have a long history in the market. What should the project manager do first?
A project sponsor is transitioning their division to an agile environment and has emphasized that project team members and stakeholders should collaborate to achieve deliverables. On a few occasions, progress has been interrupted by one stakeholder who is unfamiliar with agile approaches. What should the project manager do first?
A project to develop an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for a university is ongoing. The system should improve business processes through digitalization and elimination of human errors, and also provide end users with simplified and easily accessible services. What should the project manager do to ensure achievement of the intended business value?
A project manager is working on a project. A few months after the project has launched, the project manager starts receiving complaints from the business unit managers about the lack of updated project information.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager takes over a project team and notices that the team members always wait for management to make decisions during team meetings. In previous work, the project manager discovered that a team is more committed to the deliverables when team members make decisions themselves. However, this team is not willing to be put on the spot.
What should the project manager do?
A new stakeholder is unaware of the existence of the project a few weeks before the final deliverable and project completion. What should the project manager do first?
A project manager is assigned to a large complex project with cross-functional dependencies. The project enters a new phase requiring new stakeholders to be added with conflicting priorities. How should the project manager ensure successful engagement with the stakeholders?
It is taking several additional iterations for a project team to complete planned backlog items. The project manager notices that some features are not meeting the iteration-level definition and must be placed back into the backlog. What should the project manager do?
A project manager is leading a project with a negative risk that has just become an issue. The risk was recorded and a response plan was set. However, a project team member proposes a response that differs from the response recorded in the risk management plan and believes it will be cheaper and equally effective. What should the project manager do?
A project manager is using a centralized management and leadership style for a project. The project design does not meet the expected outcomes at later stages of the project.
What is the most important action the project manager should have taken to prevent this?
A project manager is working on a project. A few months after the project has launched, the project manager starts receiving complaints from business unit managers about the lack of updated project information. What should the project manager do?
A project manager is struggling to provide timely updates to the project team because team members are spread across multiple time zones.
Which communication method should the project manager utilize in this situation?
An experienced project manager has recently joined a jeopardized project. The project is being impacted by multiple delays caused by a vendor’s late delivery of new servers. Due to budget restrictions, the project manager cannot add a new vendor, and the project must be completed within a maximum of 90 days as agreed.
What should the project manager do?
An increment was delivered to the customer at the end of a sprint. The customer complains that the product does not meet the expected quality and will require some rework. What should the project manager do next?
During the project planning phase, the customer explained the importance of delivering the project results proposed in the scope as soon as possible. What should the project manager do first to address this?
A new project manager has been hired at a company that has suffered many project failures. The project manager has been tasked with delivering a software product for the company’s biggest customer. The customer has not been able to articulate how a major piece of functionality should work. The project manager wants to deliver value immediately. How should the project manager approach the software development life cycle with this customer?
A project manager is leading a project with a negative risk that has just become an issue. The risk has been recorded, and a response plan has been set. However, a project team member proposes a response that differs from the response recorded in the risk management plan, which the team member believes will be cheaper and equally effective.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager has been tasked with developing a project schedule with fully detailed requirements. The project manager reaches out to subject matter experts (SMEs) for their initial thoughts on task duration. The project manager is concerned when these estimates appear to differ significantly. What should the project manager do to help with the estimate development?
The execution stage of a construction project is beginning. There are many areas and phases to be built. The project team wants to review the relationships between the most important tasks to ensure that major items are executed properly during this stage. What project artifact should the project manager review with the team?
A project manager has been assigned to a new agile project with rapidly changing knowledge areas. How should the project manager manage knowledge transfers on this project?
A self-organized project team is sharing facilitator responsibilities, with each person on the core team taking turns serving as facilitator to enable communication, collaboration, and engagement. One of the team members acting as facilitator missed an email from the project client regarding an important change. This oversight caused a project delay and significant rework.
Where does the accountability for this oversight reside?
Shipping problems are impacting the supply chain worldwide, and the project ' s primary vendor has indicated potential delays in supplying certain equipment that will be ordered later in the project. What should the project manager do with this information?
A project is being planned with two hardware deliverables and one software deliverable that will be used to monitor the operation of the two hardware deliverables. When preparing the consolidated project schedule, what should be the top priority for the project manager?
