PMP Practice Questions

A project team is implementing a new solution that will be distributed worldwide. Due to a new issue that has a global impact, several government agencies are implementing new regulations that will affect the solution. The project manager must assess and prioritize the impact of these changes on the project scope/backlog.

Which analytical tool can be used by the project manager to define this scenario?

A key stakeholder has recently started in a company and has been assigned to a hybrid project. Although very experienced in their domain, the stakeholder has only been exposed to predictive project approaches.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager is leading a new project that is in the initiation phase, The project will build a new type of software technology service that has never existed at the organization before and will reenginger the business process for several operations teams. The project manager needs to determine the project management approach to be used, and there are many team

members and stakeholders who have contradictory opinions.

What should the project manager do?

A bank has decided to initiate a project to transition from serving small businesses and entrepreneurs to mid- and large-scale businesses The country's economy is struggling, and some stakeholders cannot agree on this transformation need

What should the project manager do'?

A project manager works in a startup company and is in charge of a key project that has critical and time-sensitive delivery objectives. One of the project team members missed completing an assigned deliverable on time, despite repeated assurances from the team member that it would be completed on time

What should the project manager do next?

A project engineer in country A is complaining about the sample received from the supplier in country B because the sample is not the correct length. During a telephone conference, the supplier checked the drawings and insisted that the measurement was accurate.

What should the project manager do next?

A project management office (PMO) has been trying to implement an adaptive approach for the project management framework. The project manager has been asked to use adaptive tools in the next project. Awareness of adaptive tools is very low in the company, and many stakeholders are concerned about moving to a hybrid approach.

What should the project manager do?

A project is approaching its project closure phase, and the project manager receives

an email from a key stakeholder who complains that the project documentation and artifacts have not been updated. The project manager assigns a project specialist to support the project management office's (PMO) effort to update the project documentation and artifacts.

Which three actions should the project manager ask the project specialist to take? (Choose

three)

A sales team working on an IT deployment project approached the project manager on several occasions and complained about nonpayment of their overtime pay. The project manager realized that other team members are receiving their overtime pay

What should the project manager do next?

A project manager is assigned to a time-bound internal project on quality improvement During project execution the project manager observes that a specific team member is being isolated by other team members

Which three actions should the project manager take? (Choose three)

A project team identified a low-cost software product available for purchase that would drastically reduce the scope of development. The development manager has confirmed that this tool would fulfill the business need.

What should the project manager do?

A new project manager has been assigned to a project that is in its second phase The product created in the first phase was transferred to operations During a meeting, the project sponsor complained that some of the reports contain conflicting data on the product value

What should the new project manager do next?

A project manager is managing a project that is going to deliver a new risk platform. This platform will enable data-driven and new risk market models to ensure compliance with new regulations. The regulatory requirements for the models are released continuously and are not fully fixed yet. The project manager is reviewing the risk register and added a few new

Hems

Match the risks on the left lo the correct category on the right.

A project manager has just completed a fixed-price project and the stakeholder is unhappy with the result What should the project manager do?

A final iteration is underway and a project team is about to complete development Planning tot the product release is about to start. One stakeholder raised a concern about the product not being compatible with a new technology that has been adopted in the market

How should the project manager address this issue?

A procurement team lead has been reported as getting into conflicts with other project team members on a weekly basis, The project manager engages with the team lead and discovers that other team members do not believe the team lead is right for this position.

What should the project manager do to resolve these recurring conflicts between the team lead and the other team members?

A team is having a hard time completing work due to unclear requirements. They have not been able to complete an iteration successfully in several months.

In order to help the team, what should the project leader do?

A project manager is leading a project with a predictive approach for a governmental body with strictly defined requirements. In the middle of the project, the sponsor requires a significant new feature to be included. This feature was not in the original plan, nor was it part of the planning process,

What should the project manager do?

A project is scheduled to end in 2 weeks. The team is expected to continue working long hours and is showing signs of weariness and fatigue What should the project manager do to encourage the team?

A company is implementing a project with team members who are located in different countries and lime zones Performance assessments show that team performance is low because the team doesn't have a common understanding about task distribution

What should the project manager do?

As a result of updated external regulations a project manager has been asked to upgrade the operation system tor a call center The project manager is beginning to meet with and segment the stakeholders involved

How should the project manager categorize the call center staff? Click on the correct section of the power/interest grid.

A senior developer working on a large artificial intelligence (Al) project has worked hard and shown excellent results. The project manager is very happy with the developer's contribution and thinks that the developer deserves a reward.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager for a digital transformation project has already received the business needs for the project. When gathering requirements, the project manager discovers that not all of the requirements can be delivered with the available resources, but that some of the requirements will be

enough to add business value.

With the project on a fixed budget, what should the project manager do next?

A project manager gas been asked by the project manager office (PMO) to select the appropriate project management approach for three upcoming projects. Match the projects on the left with the approach that should be used on the right.

An agile team is conducting a sprint retrospective and wants to focus on the practices that allowed them to recover after a bad start Please click on the area of the burndown chart that the team should focus on.

A project manager for a large software delivery project is in the process of finalizing the project governance, The project manager would like to implement procedures that do not align with several policies required by the organization's project management office (PMO). The project manager

believes that the procedures outlined in the project governance will be necessary for this particular project due to the unique nature of the

technology.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager has recently joined an organization and notices that the engineering manager shouts at the project manager during project meetings Also the procurement manager will not return calls and the accountant always insists the project manager clears approved budget line items with them personally before expensing

Which three corrective actions should the project manager perform? (Choose three)

A major national company known for quality products has just selected a small subcontracting firm to assist with a project. The project manager from the subcontracting firm is meeting with the project team to ensure that the project is delivered according to the customer's standards

in order to ensure this, what should the project manager define and document?

A project team member is struggling to understand a specific requirement. How should a servant leader address this issue?

A protect is going through its iterative design stage One of the team members has been performing poorly. This is a critical project for the company and execution is about to start What should the project manager do?

A project manager is assigned to a project that has a tight schedule. Due to recent market changes the marketing team has identified that a few features that were initially in the scope are no longer required

What should the project manager do?

A quality Issue that requires a change to the quality standard Is encountered In a project Currently, there Is no budget available for the required changes. What should the project manager do?

A project is being delayed due to a large amount of rework caused by a quality problem that is impacting the critical path. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is working toward a deadline to prepare a client report. The project manager prepared a meeting agenda but not a single meeting has gone according to plan True, meetings always end in arguments and no action items come out of it. The project manager is very frustrated and seeks help from the project sponsor

What should the project manager have created to prevent this situation1?

A project manager Is working on a project using a hybrid approach. The project Is scheduled to be completed in three more sprints. One of the team members notifies the project manager that they are leaving the company which was approved by their functional manager

What should the project manager do first in this situation'?

One of the risks identified during project planning activities is related to a component from a preferred vendor. The component utilizes new technology, and there is a possibility of incompatibility with other parts of the system that are being developed.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager received the project charter for a new product. The project is expected to have two main deliveries: the hardware part that has detailed specifications already defined, including a sample machine, and the user interface software that has only a basic specification and a

requirement for a user experience design approach.

Which project management approach should the project manager use?

A client comes to the company asking to copy a project that was executed 2 years ago

in the same city, with the expectation that the new project will have the same cost and duration.

While finalizing the project management plan, the project manager realizes that the baseline

costs are much higher than the original project.

What could the project manager have done to avoid this?

Many issues have been encountered in a project due to the low competence of the team members. These issues might lead to poor project performance and potentially to project termination.

What should the project manager do?

A predictive project team come across a scenario where they need to use some agile tools and methods. However, they did not feel this was appropriate since their organizational project management processes did not mention this.

What should the project manager do in this scenario?

A project manager is consolidating information tor all the workstreams within a data center and IT service transition project To ensure the project delivers value quickly the project manager will assess a large number of consolidated project schedules

Which two actions should the project manager take with regard to schedule analysis? (Choose two)

A company is transitioning its projects from a predictive to an iterative approach. The protect team is complaining because they are unsure of what needs to be done due to all of the changes requested by the product owner for features already developed since the beginning of the project.

How should the project manager handle this situation?

An IT project manager has been referred to a new, highly rated vendor that provides quality assurance professional services, The project manager plans to engage the quality assurance vendor on a new project, but their rates do not fit into what was budgeted for the project.

What should the project manager do next?

An agile project team is tasked with a new project After multiple discussions with me customer it appears that there is a lack of clarity on the requirements which resulted in delays in the architecture and design phase

What should the team do next?

A technical lead has complained to the project manager about a team member's performance. The team member has repeatedly missed tasks that have put sprint commitments at, What should the project manager do?

A project manager is leading a project with several stakeholders in other functional areas of the company One of these stakeholders has just been promoted to lead another functional area, and remains a stakeholder for this project

What should the project manager have the project team update to ensure proper communications to stakeholders?

A project manager has just finished initiating a project. While planning the project manager notes that several essential team members do not have the required skills for key tasks later in the project.

What should the project manager do first?

A project manager is leading an in-house company project in its very early stages This current project is similar to another project that ended a year ago

What should the project manager do to analyze the involved stakeholders?

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 manager meets with external stakeholders to explain the objectives and outline expectations for a new project. A key stakeholder appears to support the project, with the condition that other unrelated projects will receive financial support Due to cultural sensitivities the project manager is reluctant to be direct with the key stakeholder on this matter The project cannot proceed without the support of this stakeholder.

What should the project manager do?