PMP Exam Questions

A company has an existing contract to maintain and enhance a client's customer database. The company's legal department informs the project manager that a new piece of legislature...

A company has decided to initiate a project to eliminate a sales channel that has been unprofitable for the past 3 years. Some members of the project team are pessimistic about the...

A geographically distributed project team working on an iterative project adopts a new mode of communication following changes in health protocols. The colocated team members are f...

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, includin...

A project with multiple teams recently transitioned from a predictive approach to agile as requested by the product owner. Midway through implementation, a team member noticed ther...

A company has been following a predictive approach and always waits for the preceding phase to be completed before evaluating the quality of their products. A new project manager w...

A human resources (HR) cost report was disclosed, by error, to all members of the project team. This situation generated a conflict between the team members about differences in th...

A project manager is managing a project in the execution phase, which was agreed upon with the sponsor. However, the sponsor is constantly micromanaging and requesting iterations t...

A project team is experiencing conflict between two team members. Team member A feels that team member B is always talking over team member A and does not listen to any advice. Tea...

A project manager is nearing completion of an automation project. One of the key stakeholders requests a meeting to discuss some new ideas that would make the project even more app...

During the release of an important product, a vice president for a different product line brought a valid concern to the project team, which had to be completed before the release....

A project manager is working on a time and materials (T&M) project using a hybrid approach. The milestones and outcomes are defined for the first 6 months with incremental releases...

In a fixed time and budget project, the customer wants the development of a core component to be based on agile practices, as the final scope of the requirement has not yet been fu...

A project stakeholder has left the company. The new stakeholder is a family member of one of the team members. This stakeholder does not attend meetings. The project manager finds...

A team member is openly criticized by others during a standup meeting for failing to complete yesterday's tasks. What should the agile coach do first to address the situation?

A project manager was recently assigned to a new project that is about to start. The organization has already signed a fixed-cost contract with the customer detailing the scope and...

As a project is reaching completion, the project sponsor tells the project manager to immediately close the project and to move on to another project. Which critical task should th...

A project manager is leading an integration project for a retail company. The project demands a lot of time from the stakeholders to make important business decisions. The project...

A recently concluded quality audit failed and came back with multiple action items. A newly appointed project manager is reviewing the project status with the team. New stakeholder...

A new agile project is starting. The project manager is asked to confirm the scope to address the concerns of one of the stakeholders. What should the project manager use to explai...

A project team member is struggling to deliver an assigned task. In a team meeting, the project manager determines that there are other members on the team who have more experience...

A company's leadership team has decided to invest in a new product using an agile approach. The commercial and product teams have started the planning activity for this new venture...

This graph describes the current performance of a project in relation to cost and schedule. What should the project manager do to bring the project back on track?

A project manager is leading an agile software development project with strict deadlines. The client complained that the last deployment did not meet the acceptance criteria. The d...

A project sponsor is concerned that the scope is not being met correctly and has questioned several team members about this individually. When the project sponsor approached the pr...

A project manager is part of a distributed team. The project team is using a product backlog, but due to an excessive workload, the backlog items are not very detailed. In the retr...

The sponsor approaches the project manager with new features they want added to the project. The project is 95% complete, but the sponsor insists that continued support for the pro...

A project manager has been moved to a new division and is in charge of an existing project in an unfamiliar domain. When attempting to gain an understanding of the risks for this a...

A new project manager has been assigned to an environmental project. After reviewing the project plan, the project manager notices that health and safety requirements have not been...

A new major project is starting that consists of two interconnected subprojects. One of the subprojects was assigned to a contractor who commits to submitting biweekly status repor...

In the middle of an iteration, the product owner tells the agile team that the government has updated legal requirements. This will result in some changes in the product definition...

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 re...

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 archite...

A project manager has recently joined a small company. The company's chief operating officer (COO) asked the team to skip some steps in the process in order to work more quickly. T...

A project manager is assigned to deliver a development project with subcontracted resources from a sister company. What should the project manager do to ensure a smooth inclusion o...

According to the project contract, the delivery date is approaching. However, one important material is still not on site. The construction work will have to stop and wait for this...

A project manager is reviewing the lessons learned for an historical project. The review identifies that the client's engineer was adamant that they review all changes, even those...

A project manager is assigned to a large construction project with more than 100 project team members. The project manager is having a hard time keeping the project on track and de...

While managing a project using a hybrid approach, the project manager realizes that there is a high level of rework due to quality issues. Because of that, each feature is taking l...

A project manager has been authorized to begin a project and realizes that an effective high- performing team is needed to finish the project successfully. What should the project...

A project manager has been assigned to a high-visibility project that has been identified as having medium complexity, based on previous similar projects. The project needs to be d...

An organization imports many of the materials for a product build. Due to global shipping delays, some of the essential materials have yet to arrive, resulting in the inability to...

During the first project meeting with a new project manager, a stakeholder complains about not receiving periodic reports. What should the project manager do first?

A project manager arranged a team-building activity to build and maintain teamwork, trust, and commitment due to internal team conflicts. Two months after completing the training,...

A project manager has been managing an agile project for 6 months. Over the last two iterations, the team velocity has decreased due to a new technology that was needed for the pro...

During the execution of a project to develop a prototype, the customer asks the project manager to stop the prototype line and purge a specific component based on recent reliabilit...

During the setup of an agile project, the product owner expressed clear interest in having features released during product development over having the product completed in one yea...

During a meeting to define project scope a stakeholder tells the project manager that the main requested feature in the contract is not applicable, and this is documented in the le...

A lead project manager for an agile project needs to prioritize requirements, define the scope of the initial product, and deliver the approved scope in a series of multiple versio...

A defect is identified during user acceptance testing that could significantly impact the system's performance. The project team has advised that this defect puts the delivery date...