PMP Exam Questions

The project team is experiencing schedule delays due to issues arising with suppliers. Some of the tasks are on the critical path. What should the project manager do in this situat...

In a daily standup meeting, a project manager notices that a team member's reports include incomplete tasks with no impediments. A colleague informs the project manager that this t...

During sprint planning, the product owner wants to prioritize items with high business value. However, the project team is concerned about technical debt and infrastructure depende...

In a project, one team member has been asking for directions and what actions to take on many tasks. As a result, the team member has performed slowly in project delivery. What sho...

A project manager has noticed that a critical team member is consistently arguing with a client. This has started to have a negative effect on the meetings. How should the project...

A company plans to initiate a project involving a new technology. Approval for the project is required. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is performing the role of scrum master for a team of developers. There is a conflict among the developers, generated by differences in how a feature can be delive...

In the middle of a software development project, the lead design programmer accepted an offer from a competitor. The project manager needs to find a replacement to meet an upcoming...

A project manager notices a conflict in the team on both technical and interpersonal levels during the execution phase of a project. What should the project manager do?

In an agile project, the team decided to have a rotating group of facilitators for the daily scrum. Overall, most of the facilitators have grown and done well in this role; however...

A project manager discovers that the project team is spending a large amount of time delivering several reporting formats for the same project updates to multiple stakeholders. Wha...

A project manager has been transferred to another country to work on a key project. The project manager successfully completed the planning phase and has started the execution phas...

When trying to track project benefits, a project manager realizes that some key performance indicators (KPIs) are not yet defined. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is assigned to work on a complex and innovative project. The technology being used and developed is new and complicated, and most of the stakeholders are unfamili...

A project is in the start-up phase of the project life cycle. The project team consists of 20 people from five different countries. The project team is scheduled to have quarterly...

A key project stakeholder does not attend any of the project meetings and is providing false information that the project team is not delivering on time. What should the project ma...

A customer reviewed the plan for a project with high uncertainty. The customer expressed concerned about the work requiring so many iterations with a risk of not reaching the manda...

A project manager encounters a governance issue during the project execution phase. One of the team members complains about receiving assignments from multiple people and states th...

A project manager has been asked to participate in the procurement process for a software application that allows customers to buy online e-learning courses. The project manager wi...

A company is about to start a complex research project. Due to the level of uncertainty, the project manager recommends the use of a hybrid approach; however, the organization only...

During project implementation, one team finds out that a key project deliverable was not budgeted. What should the project manager do first?

During the final stage of the launch for a new design, team members are having a conflict about some features of the design. What should the project manager do?

An agile team is developing a new content management system. Some of the team members are struggling to deliver certain features since they have never worked on this type of soluti...

Key decision makers are meeting to define the objectives of a new database migration project. There are many disagreements about scope and time lines among the leaders of various c...

An agile team is required to address a technical, complex requirement that has no visual deliverable to show the customer. What guidance should the product manager provide to impro...

A project manager is leading an electrical project that spans five towns. The project manager is informed by the team that one of the towns is not allowing the team to work there e...

A government agency is developing a new connectivity policy. The assigned project manager is a famous economist with international recognition. The team is eager to work with the p...

A project is halfway through its execution phase. The quality specifications for the project deliverables are formally accepted. However, a key stakeholder is dissatisfied, stating...

A team is finishing the third release to present to the stakeholder as part of a demonstration. The company that subcontracts the developers has communicated that there is a cash f...

An organization is transitioning from a predictive to an agile approach. What should the project manager do to ensure that the agile approaches will bring about significant change?

A customer's technical lead discussed a new feature with the project manager. The project manager believes the new feature will boost performance significantly and adds it as a hig...

A project team is working on an agile software development project. The project manager is concerned that the virtual team may not be as effective as a colocated team at headquarte...

An organization is transitioning to an agile delivery approach. There is only one project that is being used as a pilot for the new approach. The project management office (PMO) ma...

An urgent meeting has been established with the project team to discuss the cause of some quality issues that are preventing delivery to the client. The product owner recommends a...

The project sponsor of a major initiative is consistently changing the prioritization of modular work packages. The team is used to three week sprints and is becoming increasingly...

A project manager has been assigned to an education project with the objective of training a workforce in application development. One of the deliverables is to provide internships...

A project is in the knowledge transfer phase, and a few subject matter experts (SMEs) went to the client site for knowledge transfer. The SMEs captured various process deviations w...

A project manager is assigned to a new marketing campaign. The sponsor gives the project manager an approved project management plan for review and explains the scope, business req...

A large multi-year project requires highly skilled staff for successful deployment. The management team and the project sponsor have analyzed the resource requirements and agreed t...

A project team with members from many different countries is struggling to cooperate. The project manager accepted these difficulties during the storming phase of team development,...

In a software development project, the product owner and development team agree on a sprint backlog. The highest priority in the backlog is to build a payment module. The team work...

From previous lessons learned working with a client, a project manager notes that the client's turn-around times on documents sent for approval were very slow and well outside of t...

During an ongoing project, a key resource asks the project manager about the project purpose and if it is aligned with the organization's strategy. What should the project manager...

After completion of a project with specific users in various countries, the project manager's supervisor asks if the project users are satisfied with the way the project was run. W...

A project manager joins a team that is providing a customized enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to a client. A potential design problem is identified by the development tea...

During the execution of a project, the finance team identified that they were not involved in building the business case for the project and will not approve the estimated return o...

After the project charter's approval, the project manager needs to work on detailed project requirements, constraints, and assumptions with stakeholders. However, not all of the st...

A project manager has been selected to deliver one of an organization's key flagship solutions. Critical success factors include agility, market adaptation, and a quick response to...

During the implementation of a project, the project team discovered a new opportunity. After an internal review, the project team agreed that the opportunity is outside of the proj...

During a project's third iteration, two of the existing team members were replaced. As the project entered the next iteration, the team velocity dropped and the performance started...