PMP Exam Questions

A project manager is working on a multinational project that has more than 100 stakeholders. The project manager is concerned about the appropriate stakeholder participation and in...

A new engineer was assigned to a project. Although the engineer has adequate skills for the job, they always wait for authorization from the project manager before acting. What sho...

A senior project manager has included a junior project manager as part of the project team. During a coaching session, the junior project manager asks the senior project manager ho...

An agile team is working on a 2-week sprint to deliver business value. About 1 week after the sprint starts, the team members do not feel confident about the product increment they...

An agile team has completed five sprints. The final product is expected to be delivered in another three sprints. The project manager receives a call from the technical resource ma...

A project lead is working on an agile project to build the team's vision, including the decision- making process. It was decided that the team will vote on items, and if 90% of the...

A project manager is newly appointed to lead a project team that will be working remotely. The project manager decided to use a set of tools that worked well for previous projects....

In the daily check-in meeting, a team member informs the project team that the licenses for one of the components that will be used will expire in a couple of months. The licensing...

A project manager leads a development project for a mobile chatting application. One of the experienced developers constantly creates conflicts with the other team members. As a re...

A project manager is leading a strategic and competitive advantage project for a healthcare organization that is in its testing phase. The team has been working on this project for...

A project manager starts to receive emails from different stakeholders requesting information about the project status. What should the project manager do to avoid this in the futu...

A project manager is working as a servant leader for a pilot project to adopt agile practices. After three sprints, the team demos the product to the main stakeholders, but receive...

A project team has installed software for the client, passed the knowledge to operations, sent the final report, and celebrated. Then 1 week later, the client sends a list of requi...

A project that is using an incremental approach has colocated team members and is using a kanban board to visualize the work in progress (WIP). A key external stakeholder requests...

A high-performing team is involved in a project with a new domain. The team is unable to deliver as expected. What should the project manager do?

During a project meeting, the project manager expressed the importance of delivering reports on time. These individual reports will be consolidated into a single report. One of the...

A project is starting its second iteration out of six. During the daily meeting, a team member asks for help. In order to finish a deliverable, an approval from the design departme...

A project manager has been assigned to lead an IT project to store information on sold lottery tickets. During the project execution, a failure in the system caused 10 numbers to b...

A project manager is working on an agile project in a changing business environment. The project sponsor is worried about benefits realization and asks the project manager to pay a...

A project manager is working on a major construction project. Part of the agreed-upon plan was to use a cloud-based system with a server that runs on high- speed internet service s...

In a geographically distributed team, a developer continues to delay a coding activity. This activity is on the critical path. The project manager found out that the delay is due t...

A project scope statement has been approved, and the project manager and core team have been assigned to the project. Suddenly, the project manager takes a temporary leave of absen...

A project manager manages a bridge construction project. The project manager has received a major change request from a regulatory stakeholder to add one branch of the bridge to th...

A project is near completion but it is behind schedule. The contingency budget has already being used, although the remaining budget should be enough to complete the project. The o...

A vendor has manufactured a complex product. During a factory acceptance test, several deficiencies were identified. Product delivery is on the critical path, and any delay would i...

A project manager assigned to an education project needs to train a workforce in application development. The customer is responsible for providing the training center, and the dea...

Knowledge sharing has been a key priority for a complex technological project with a large number of team members. During the project execution phase, the project manager receives...

A project manager is assigned to a technical research project. The project team has already been assigned, and the main subject matter expert (SME) sends the project manager a list...

A client wants to create an innovative software for the travel industry using an agile approach. A project manager from the company was assigned to work on the details and estimate...

According to this burnup chart for the last 7-day sprint, what should the project lead address with the product owner and team?

After the merger of two large companies, a project manager is assigned to a project. The company hires a consultant to ensure best practices are being used in information security....

A project manager is managing the scope of the project and creating a work breakdown structure (WBS) with the team members. How should the project manager organize the WBS?

Two members of a new project team disagree on the best approach to solve a problem. The conflict has been going on for 1 week. The two members are tense around each other and are t...

A project to construct an electricity generation plant is on site near a nature reserve. An environmental activist group is questioning the need for the project. The customer has i...

A project manager is leading a project that is in the execution phase. Due to a company reorganization, some key project team members are likely to leave the project. What should t...

In the past year, a company paid US$60,000 to an external subcontractor for an ongoing project. The project manager has been asked to evaluate if the project can be delivered more...

A project is ready to deliver the first batch of the product when a quality control check rejects the product as unfit for delivery. The root cause analysis (RCA) shows that a comp...

A project manager has been assigned with initiating a large project to deliver complex equipment. Part of the project will be the result of a long research process, but once this i...

A project team strongly encourages the project manager to purchase an application that will significantly reduce work time. Without the application, the deadline might be missed. H...

A project manager is leading an engineering project. The project manager must obtain some certifications before mass production, which is scheduled in 3 months. The certification p...

In the middle of the execution phase for a big project, a new stakeholder who was unfamiliar with the project joined the board of directors and is influencing the decisions made in...

During an iteration review session, some product features are at risk of being canceled due to high operational costs when the product is launched into a production environment. Wh...

A project to build a new energy plant was just completed. However, a few days before operation of the plant, the local community protested and closed access to the plant. They argu...

An agile project started 6 months ago. Since the beginning of the project, there have been disagreements among team members regarding daily meetings since some of the team members...

A team has been working for some time on a project with incremental deliveries. The project manager noticed that one of the team members is less engaged in team meetings, yet deliv...

In a hybrid project, the customer has issued a contract that specifies the deliverables for each quarter. The customer wants to show their stakeholders a tangible outcome in the fi...

A project team is conducting sprint planning. At the end of the sprint, the product increment must be deployed on a customer's site. The product owner received an email from the ac...

A project development team is located in different areas around the world. Last week, a very important release was delayed because one of the developers did not respond on time to...

During a sprint, one of the team members found an issue. According to the team member and the product owner, the issue has a higher level of importance than the other features of t...

An external project manager is managing the construction of new corporate offices for a large company. The project management plan states that it is necessary to contract a highly...