PMP Exam Questions

At the start of a project, the sponsor declares that demonstrating benefits from the product will be extremely important. The project sponsor calls a meeting with the project manag...

A functional manager is concerned that the project's quality management techniques have advanced beyond the department's capabilities and wants the project team to review all quali...

A project manager is assigned to a dental equipment development project that is in the middle of its design phase. After reviewing the project prototype, it is identified that a co...

A customer discovered quality issues with the latest deliverables. However, the project team immediately resolved the issues. Now that the project is back on track, what should the...

A project manager uses a laissez-faire leadership style with a newly hired project team. The project manager quickly notices that team members are underperforming, the schedule is...

A project stakeholder has expressed concern that the established success criteria for the project are not being met. What should the project manager do next?

A project team member informs the project manager that a stakeholder is contacting the team member to request status updates. The team member is being distracted by these repeated...

A project selection committee is shortlisting projects for the coming year. Which selection criteria should the project manager recommend?

An agile project manager has started working in a company that builds shopping centers. The project manager wants to implement some agile practices, which are relevant to the proje...

A project manager is managing a project which is approaching the end of the execution phase. A high-level stakeholder informs the project manager that a very important requirement...

A supplier informs the project manager that producing the quantity of a key component for the project will require an additional month. The project manager has to meet an important...

Multiple agile teams are working on a product deliverable. During the last few iterations, one of the teams received several unplanned, nonproduction support requests from other te...

A project manager determines that a critical path activity is going to be delayed. The team proposes a fallback plan that could get the project back on track; however, the plan wou...

A project manager has taken over an existing project. According to the previous project manager, the project is on track and within budget. However, stakeholders are unhappy with t...

A project manager is leading a project that has been in execution for 1 year. An experienced team member is performing well, but often disagrees with the project manager and refuse...

A project manager is working on a large project in another country and realizes that only a few people from the project team are working on all of the releases. What should the pro...

During the executing phase, a project manager is reviewing the issue log and finds there are outstanding high-priority issues that are still open. Most of the open issues require e...

A project manager in one country is reporting to a lead project manager for a new software development project in another country. The lead project manager constantly requests upda...

A project manager and project team have brought a project back on track after mapping and removing impediments. During the current sprint, the team reported that an impediment that...

Within a project, senior management is requesting project information so they can analyze the data to make project decisions. What information should the project manager provide so...

A project manager finds an unexpected issue halfway through a customer's project. After analysis, the project team determines that the issue will affect the timeline unless more re...

At a meeting, the project manager for an agile project indicates that the sprint goals were not met. The product owner leaves the meeting early, and the team discusses how the meet...

In the planning phase of a software implementation project, two of the team members disagree on how to approach end-user training. The discussion has intensified and the team membe...

An agile team completes a deliverable that is to be certified by another expert team. The second team does not take the deliverable for many months. What should the servant leader...

A project manager has been assigned to a project that is consolidating regional operations into a global operation. The project sponsor explains that some efficiencies could be obt...

A product owner does not regularly attend demonstration ceremonies. As a result, the demonstration ceremonies are constantly rescheduled and the work is impacted in multiple ways....

An agile team has completed 9 out of 10 stories for the sprint. During the retrospective, a few team members pointed out that they finished all of their stories. However, one team...

A newly assigned project manager is reviewing the project management plan and realizes that the project is running behind schedule. What should the new project manager do to addres...

A key business stakeholder sent emails to the developers with complaints based on the last few sprints. The developers forwarded the emails to the project manager but have not yet...

A project manager is made aware that there are defects in the parts provided by a supplier, which are causing delays in the testing phase. The supplier claims that all parts have b...

A project manager is leading the development of a mobile banking application using a hybrid approach. The team has been holding daily standup meetings each workday morning. Due to...

A project manager finds that there are knowledge gaps in the project team relating to the core competencies required to deliver the desired results. What should the project manager...

A team is testing a product on multiple radio frequencies. The project manager is informed that a new government policy, expected in 2 weeks, will mandate companies to obtain appro...

A project manager is appointed to manage an infrastructure project that spans across several countries, including different time zones within a subregion. It is likely that most of...

A team is assembled for a new project that will be using a predictive approach through requirements gathering and an agile approach for development and testing. Not everyone on the...

A project team working on a hybrid project is struggling to achieve customer satisfaction. The team states that the customer keeps changing their priorities. Meanwhile, the custome...

A project manager is working on a project to build a manufacturing complex. The project will run in three different phases: engineering, procurement, and construction. The procurem...

An organization is transitioning to an agile approach. At the project's first sprint review, the product owner did not accept the result of the sprint and has some concerns. What s...

A project manager receives a serious complaint from a functional manager about a team member. What should the project manager do?

A project involves exporting 150 packages to the customer. However, only 30 packages have been cleared by the customer for shipment. The logistics manager provided details to the c...

A project team is working on a product that is planned for multiple iterations. They are delivering incremental value. When should the value be demonstrated?

Toward the end of a project, the project manager did not receive approval from a key stakeholder because the necessary deliverables were not functioning as expected. What should th...

A project manager identifies a risk that has a high probability of occurring. How should the project manager manage this risk?

Due to a company merger and acquisition process, the main stakeholder of a critical project has been changed. This new stakeholder complains that they were unaware of a delay on th...

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 duratio...

A team needs to follow defined cybersecurity compliance that is mandatory for a customer project. What should the project manager do to monitor compliance in the project?

One team member is complaining about an agreement made during the last meeting. That team member was present at the meeting and participated in the decisions registered in the meet...

Just as a team reaches a mutual consensus on a preferred design, a stakeholder submits a request to add new features that enhance the company's competitive advantage. What should t...

A project sponsor asks the project team to add an enhancement to the project. How should the project manager address this request?

A project manager is assigned to an organizational transformation project. The company typically defines individual performance plans at the beginning of the year, and functional m...