PMP Exam Questions

A project manager is assigned to a new project. The project management office (PMO) and the project manager agree that this is the night opportunity to include daily standup meetin...

A bank is considering building another branch in one of three neighboring cities. The project manager has been tasked with demonstrating the benefits of building a new branch, rent...

A project manager receives information in preparation for reporting the project's monthly performance to the project steering committee: Actual progress = 2 units Planned progress...

A project manager who takes over halfway through a project determines that the cost performance index (CPI) is 0.65. A detailed audit identifies that the project cost was analogous...

A project manager manages multiple information technology (IT) projects in a matrix organization. The project manager schedules a meeting with one of the functional managers to coo...

A product owner is invited to a sprint review meeting. At the end of the review, the product owner says that the increment is ready to be delivered to the customer. What conclusion...

A project manager is reviewing the status of a large project with team members in different countries. Through the status review. the project manager notices that one team is consi...

During a project gate review meeting, it is identified that one of the project deliverables will require corrective actions to meet the project quality requirements. What should th...

A project team has identified a risk and wants to accept it as an opportunity to finish a project earlier than planned. The project manager realizes that the sponsor may not accept...

One of the team members is always late to the daily standup meeting. What should the project manager do?

A project team is facing challenges understanding how to deliver a project's scope. A senior subject matter expert (SME) from the organization's global office is in town for 1 week...

A client has requested that a product be implemented in 4 months and is ready to increase their budget to do this quickly. The project manager cannot comply with the request with t...

A project manager has recently been asked to take over an existing project. The project manager would like to determine how the project has been progressing by tracking features th...

An information technology (TT) team is responsible for the validation and release of a product developed by the agile development team. Due to other priorities for the IT learn, th...

A project team is executing a project to replace an existing system with a new one. A new project manager has been hired and observes that the team consist of professionals who hav...

During project execution, a client asks to add one more features to the product. After performing a change request analysis, the project manager realizes the necessary equipment wi...

A project for developing software for a retail company's procurement system is in the initiation phase. The project sponsor has expressed concern that the forecasted project implem...

During a project status update by the project management office (PMO), the CEO is concerned that the status of all projects suddenly changed from green lo red, without warning. Upp...

A project needs to acquire a large volume of electrical supplies on a weekly delivery cycle. There are many suppliers interested in partnering, so the project manager feels confide...

In a complex development project with many clients and team members, there have been delays in completing the required work. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is transitioning from a predictive life cycle project to a new agile project. How should the project manager manage and control the scope for the new project?

A key team member informs the project manager that they have been accepted to a master's degree program. The team member explains that the first semester of the master's program wi...

An agile project team received an assignment to develop an industrial system that interfaces with robots. The project team does not have any previous experience performing this typ...

A project manager is meeting with the project sponsor regarding a new project. The project manager tells the sponsor that, as part of the communications management plan, a weekly e...

A team lead for a project that is currently in execution with multiple delivery teams is issuing status updates. This communication was not discussed with the project manager, and...

The project team has been exposed to a large number of stakeholders who are going to be operating the system with different levels of engagement. For efficiency purposes, what shou...

A supplier, who was tasked with providing an important component for a project, is unable to deliver the materials due to a large-scale labor problem. What document should the proj...

A project manager is in charge of a software development project. A key stakeholder complains that they never received the functionality test status reports. The project manager pr...

A team is not delivering the committed work. Cards are not moving on the kanban board, and the burndown chart shows that the sprint progress is slow. What should the agile project...

A project manager is asked to negotiate between two team members who frequently have misunderstandings in order to reach an agreement that will advance the project. What should the...

A project manager is working on a project for a startup company. The company launched cloud- based agile project management and DevOps training modules via the learning platform to...

A key challenge that a project manager is facing is the lack of discipline by various team members and their inability to harness energy to achieve the project objectives. What sho...

A product is undergoing its last iterative increment, and the project team is ready to make the final deployment. The company's financial manager is asking the project team to comp...

A project manager has been assigned to a corporate project management office (PMO). They are responsible for leading the development and rollout of updated project management proce...

Organizational downsizing has resulted in the key subject matter expert (SME) resource leaving a multiyear project. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is working on a project that is required to deliver value on an incremental basis. Which action should the project manager take to enable successful project execu...

A bank wants to initiate a new service for its customers that will also increase revenue. This service must comply with strict cyber regulation guidelines. Halfway through the proj...

A bank has initiated a project to replace an existing core system with a new one. The system will be launched in several stages after the completion of each project deliverable tha...

A project sponsor wants to develop software that would have 30 features and would be used in 10 different countries. The team feels overwhelmed with the amount of work to be done....

An agile senior project team member suddenly resigns from the organization. Following this departure, the remaining team members are having difficulty accessing information and are...

A project manager has been assigned to a project that involves building 100 wells for a small community that is urgently in need or access to water. What should the project manager...

A project manager discovered that a component on the critical path is in danger of delay due to continuous disagreements between two developers. This personality-related issue can'...

In a weekly status meeting with the client, the project manager asks each team member to present how their deliverables are impacting the customer's final product requirements. Whi...

A construction company recently won the bid for a project to build a cable bridge. A project charter has been prepared and a project manager has been assigned. The project manager...

A project manager is working on a global project. One team member is from a different country and is unable to attend project meetings on a regular basis. Because of this, other te...

During a project status meeting with senior managers, the project manager gives an update about the status of a deliverable. Some of the senior managers claim not to know about the...

A project manager is assigned to an agile project that has an aggressive time line and a fixed budget. Currently, the majority of the items are in the backlog and only a few are in...

Team members of a new scrum team are skilled and excited about the project, despite never having worked together before. The project leader requested an offsite team building activ...

A project manager held a meeting and framed the project schedule. A critical stakeholder, who was not consulted at the time of the schedule discussion, complained that the publishe...

A project team consists of eight resources working on a complex project. The chief technical designer prefers to work alone and seldom talks in meetings, but produces good designs....