PMP Exam Questions

One of the modules delivered by the project failed during user acceptance testing (UAT). The project manager realizes that the component that failed the functional tests was create...

A project manager must manage a virtual application control software team that is culturally and geographically diverse. The project manager wants to promote open collaboration in...

A new project team has formed, and the project manager notices that some of the team members do not feel comfortable being part of the project team. As a result, members of the tea...

A senior management team member contacts an agile project lead and mentions that certain features the senior manager thought would be in the current release were not included. What...

An agile team is working on a two-week sprint to deliver business value. About one week after the sprint starts, the product owner realizes that a regulatory compliance requirement...

A project manager is in a team meeting and the project team requires a decision to be made about a new suggested timeline due to an impact from a potential scope change. What shoul...

A pharmacy needs to launch a medication delivery service. An interdisciplinary team was created in order to have the service ready in one-month when it usually takes five months to...

A software company office will be shut down for repairs, and a project team will be required to work remotely. A few team members have never worked this way and are apprehensive of...

A project team has been formed, and the tasks have been assigned to each team member. All team members have agreed to follow a hybrid project approach. What should the project mana...

A project manager is launching an agile project with team members located in multiple countries. In order to connect the team and improve the overall productivity, what should the...

A project manager is managing a hybrid project. A stakeholder has directly contacted a team member and has requested a change. Due to the request, the team member was distracted fr...

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...

The project team is planning a schedule with limited information. The team is having issues identifying the detailed tasks and estimating task duration. Which three techniques shou...

During project execution, the project manager observes lower velocity and a high volume of tasks in the testing queue. The project is using a hybrid approach and there are only a f...

While creating the work breakdown structure (WBS) with the team, the project manager highlights that the customer requested a proof of concept and will only continue the project ba...

A project is nearing completion. The contingency time has been consumed. To ensure that the final deliverables are achieved on time and within budget, the project manager has asked...

During project completion, a project manager receives a request from the customer for a reduced cost of goods. The customer's request will affect the sales department's budget and...

A customer calls the project manager to express concern about a project team member who has been making changes within the live environment without approval. The team member mentio...

A project manager is leading a project when a major crisis suddenly causes an economic downturn, which may threaten the project outcome. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is preparing to start a new project in which the team members are distributed geographically across different countries. The project manager is using the communic...

A project manager had to schedule additional planning sessions to add requirements from an international stakeholder. The stakeholder expressed concern about the product not meetin...

A consultancy firm is finally selected and contracted for a project following an extensive and competitive procurement process. A few months into project execution, the client asks...

A project team is prioritizing the creation of project artifacts and enforcing it rigidly, while they face issues with delays in deliverables. How should the project manager respon...

A project manager was recently assigned to a banking IT project. The project team has been developing products using a predictive approach for more than 10 years, but management wa...

An agile project has a broad set of product features intended for different user profiles and usages. It is difficult to define common acceptance criteria that can apply to all the...

A member of a testing team in an agile project works well with the project team. However, in the previous two iterations, this team member's performance was poor, and the team had...

A company is set to execute a project across different localities and countries. Right before execution, a press release from one of the impacted communities expresses disapproval...

All activities for Project A are ahead of schedule, except for one activity that is on the critical path. The resource manager is requesting that the team members join Project B, w...

A new project manager is working on a time-sensitive social media strategy for a software development company that is building a communications management plan for the stakeholders...

A project team is reviewing the project business document for a phase-gate session and discovers that the benefits need to be validated by the project sponsor. Unfortunately, the p...

A project is being executed in multiple phases. Midway through, the customer wants to bring in a new tool to replace the existing software in the project as part of their improveme...

A company is building a minimum viable product (MVP). How can the project manager help to ensure the company builds a high-quality product?

A project manager is managing an iterative project that delivers value incrementally. Over time, the stakeholders have challenged that the team is delivering less value now than th...

After finalizing a complex project, the project manager notices that multiple risks became issues during the execution phase. Unfortunately, the project manager was not prepared to...

A project manager is about to kick off a new project with the team. Due to an unprecedented event, all team members are currently working remotely. How should the project manager e...

A project manager is assigned to an automotive product development project in the middle of the pilot phase. According to the test lab, a durability test was completed with good re...

A project sponsor asked the product owner to deliver the functionality that provides the highest return on investment (ROI) as soon as possible. Which artifact should the project l...

A project has progressed significantly and is getting close to completion. The project manager observed that team members are no longer focused and have started arriving to work la...

A project manager is leading a project to develop a new mobile application. During an informal conversation, a stakeholder asked the project manager to add new features to the curr...

A project manager is assigned to a strategic communication project that involves subject matter experts (SMEs), interns, and new recruits. The project manager discovers that the pr...

A project manager has been newly assigned to an existing project. The project manager noted that the input from a business unit, which is critical to the success of the project, wa...

During the fourth sprint, a project manager noticed that none of the customer representatives have participated in any of the sprints. The team told the project manager that they h...

A project is late due to a large number of scope changes. This was raised as a risk in the risk register during the initiation phase. The team is afraid that they will be blamed in...

A project is on its second iteration out of eight. After some daily meetings, the project manager notices that one team member is always directing the meeting. The team is not comf...

A company is looking to adopt a new software solution to align business processes across multiple business units using a technology that was never used in the organization. What sh...

A steering committee has asked the project manager to assist with the decision-making process between build versus buy delivery options. Which value metric should the project manag...

An organization is transitioning to an agile project delivery approach. Each project is structured as a Scrum team. A project is in the initiation phase. In one of the workshops, a...

A member of an agile team constantly borrows the password to enter the software development platform. This situation has created a problem, because a version of the code was modifi...

A project manager is assigned to an analysis project for a customer. The project manager needs to keep the performance of the team a step ahead of the estimated delivery schedules....

A project manager is working on a project implementing a new time management system that will be rolled out in the next three months throughout the whole organization. Some manager...