PMP Exam Questions

The customer's project manager changes during the final stage of a project. How can the project manager avoid a project closure delay?

In an industrial plant, the owner has decided to add more capacity to the plant by installing a new machine and updating the software used in production. This capacity enlargement...

During the review of a project's list of deliverables, one of the stakeholders expressed concern that one of the requirements will not be addressed. What should the project manager...

During project execution, a conflict occurs between the project manager and one of the team members at every project team meeting. The ongoing conflict is preventing tasks and deli...

A newly formed team has become accustomed to agile practices. The project lead has noticed that while they are performing according to expectations, there is boredom with daily tea...

A company starts implementing Scrum. About halfway through the first sprint, communication issues develop. Some project team members are not in sync with other team members. What i...

During the course of a project, the project manager's immediate director is communicating directly with the client to approve changes without the project manager's knowledge. This...

A project sponsor commonly asks the project manager to skip project retrospectives due to time constraints. However, the project manager persists in running this critical ceremony...

A client is structured as a matrix organization for an agile project. The project manager is working on-site with key stakeholders from different parts of the organization. How sho...

A project manager is leading an in-house company project in its very early stages. This current project is similar to another project that ended a year ago. What should the project...

A product owner presented the backlog to the team, and the team raised concerns over implementing some of the features due to various impediments. What should the project manager s...

A company was awarded a project in a dangerous location that poses several high-level risks for employees. Help is needed to tram the employees on major safety and health factors....

A vendor informed the project manager that a critical resource will be on a long leave of absence. The project team reviewed the pending vendor deliverables and identified an alter...

A project manager just started managing agile projects. The project manager realizes that due to the lack of a clear definition of project objectives and definition of done (DoD),...

A member of the board of directors is the sponsor of a project that is important to the organization. This stakeholder has many other priorities and is not currently engaged in the...

A marketing team is planning for a multiyear initiative that will include a lot of cross-functional stakeholders. The project manager has been assigned and is now in the project pl...

A key project stakeholder showed interest in the beginning of a complex agile project, but has become less involved as the sprint has progressed due to additional responsibilities....

As a member of an organizational change management team, a project manager must pass on any changes to the project team. The project manager needs to avoid any misunderstandings or...

A project manager is working on a software development project. A team member complains that since the project tasks are very simple, there is no reason to perform quality control....

A marketing team is developing ideas in order to revamp an existing product. The marketing executive reaches out to the project manager to make sure that necessary measures are in...

During the closing process, the project manager learns that one deliverable is not meeting customer expectations. How should the project manager proceed?

A product company is transforming the way it develops and releases products in the market. Executives believe that this is a high-risk initiative, and this initiative must be succe...

Two weeks after the approval of the project management plan for a global project, the project manager noticed that it was approved based on a different level of understanding by in...

The rollout of a new finance system is in the execution phase. A number of issues have surfaced in the last month that are slowing the project down. A new project sponsor has recen...

A project manager is acting as a scrum master in a hybrid project and is dealing with a conflict between team members. What strategy should be used to handle this conflict?

A new agile team is forming and the project manager notices that the team is struggling in many areas. The team is experiencing both the inability to meet iteration commitments and...

The resource management plan is already done, and the team is located in different countries around the world. Team members are in multiple time zones, and they use different langu...

During the design phase, a project manager realizes that the project will benefit from using adaptive tools. The effectiveness of this approach has been proven in past projects ins...

A project manager is leading a project which shows a trend to exceed the cost baseline. What should the project manager do first to manage the budget?

Two functional managers disagree on key features of one deliverable during the planning of a project. The project manager discovers that each manager included requirements that con...

A project manager is approaching the end of a project, and several tasks are now practically complete and ready for handover to the client. How should the project manager proceed?

During a documentation audit of an international company, it was identified that the last version of the project schedule was from one month ago even though the project manager kne...

A new regulation has been approved that will impact the deliverables in the fourth phase of the project. The delivery is following an iterative approach and is currently completing...

The tables show the requirements for an agile project with the anticipated return on investment (ROI) and identified project risks, along with the analysis details. \ What should b...

One of the main inputs required for a deliverable is missing due to a miscommunication between the vendor and project manager. Because of the missed deliverable, the critical path...

During the design phase of a project, the project manager notices that the schedule performance index (SPI) is 1,8 and the cost performance index (CPI) is 0,1. In a weekly meeting...

A new project manager is planning an information security project for a company that resides in different countries. What is the first step the project manager should take to gathe...

A company's project management office (PMO) has been trying to implement an adaptive approach in the project management framework and a project manager has been asked to use adapti...

To estimate the costs of a new project that is similar to a project that was implemented last year, the project manager meets with a group of experts from the previous project. The...

The project manager is having difficulty obtaining approval of the project requirements because there is disagreement among the project stakeholders. This issue is putting the proj...

A project manager has been assigned to a project and receives the project charter from the project management office (PMO). The document is very clear about customer requests. Duri...

An agile project manager would like to convert the requirements document into epics, capabilities, features and stories. In how many iterations should the project manager estimate...

An agile project is running its fifth iteration out of eight. After the last iteration planning the team was informed that there is a new competitor in the market, and it is necess...

During the development of a product, the project manager observes conflicts between project stakeholders, resulting in deliverable and output approval delays. On which area should...

During the execution of a project within an operations function, the project manager encounters scope changes and a delay in the delivery of critical tasks. How should the project...

The project velocity has recently slipped, and a decision was made to skip testing to increase the momentum and bong the project back on track. What will the project manager need t...

During project execution, the project manager notices that the work performance reports have deteriorated drastically in less than two weeks. The project team in country A is compl...

During daily calls team members share task progress. One team member does not usually communicate many details and has critical tasks to be completed. All team members are located...

A project manager is implementing a new software system. Some department staff members are questioning the necessity of the change and feel the new system will impede their current...

One of a project manager's team members is continuously improving. This team member has been a role model and mentor to others in the organization. How should the project manager a...