PMP Online Practice Questions and Answers

The project is delayed due to the high amount of major changes requested by different stakeholders at different stages of the project. If the project continues on the same path, it will consume twice the time and budget planned. What two actions can the project manager take to be more cost effective? (Choose two)

A. Conduct a stakeholder analysis.

B. Reinforce team communication.

C. Update the project management plan with the new timeline

D. Adopt an incremental approach

E. Leverage work between team members

The project manager just started leading a project team from which the previous project manager resigned. After a quick evaluation of the project, it is apparent that team morale is low due to continuous disagreement about how to complete tasks. Tasks are taking longer than forecasted and the project is off schedule.

What should the project manager do?

A. Conduct a meeting with the project team to discuss and address the sources of disagreement

B. Inform the stakeholders that the project will be delayed due to previous team management

C. Crash the project timeline to ensure the project is back on schedule

D. Issue a change request to extend the project schedule based on identified delays

A project manager has noticed that the performance of a new team member has increased dramatically over the past few months. The project manager has been measuring this team member's performance through the cost performance index (CPl) and schedule performance index (SPl) of work packages. The project manager has also assigned new. unrelated work packages to this team member. The project manager wants to formally record the team member's success in the project documentation.

What should the project manager do?

A. Attach a note to the project management plan about the team member

B. Hold a project team meeting about the team member's contribution and take minutes

C. Record the team member's contribution in the responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)

D. Send a communication to management recognizing the team member's contributions

A project manager is assigned to a strategic communication project that involves subject matter experts (SMEs), interns, and new recruits. The project manager discovers that the project is not gaining much traction due to knowledge gaps from the interns. The budget for training is exhausted and the project needs to be delivered without delay.

Which two actions should the project manager take? (Choose two)

A. Identify the sources and specifics of the knowledge gap from the interns and new recruits.

B. Hire more SMEs and inform the human resources manager to lay off the nonperforming interns and new recruits.

C. Initiate a project change request for additional budget to train the interns and new recruits.

D. Ignore the issues with the project and try to deliver the project successfully without asking for training funds.

E. Put the interns and new recruits into groups and assign a SME as a mentor.

After a project team has been working on a project for several months the project is cancelled. The project sponsor is putting pressure on the project manager to perform closeout duties as fast as possible so that the project team can move on to other work. The project sponsor has instructed the team not to waste time archiving the project artifacts for the cancelled project.

How should the project manager handle this situation?

A. Comply with the project sponsor's request to not archive the project artifacts.

B. Consult with the project management office (PMO) for guidance on project artifacts.

C. Archive the project artifacts on the project manager's local computer for future reference.

D. Document the project sponsor's instructions as the archived project artifacts.

On a project with multiple international locations, a trend for delays has been flagged. When looking into the issue, the project manager realized that some of the key activities were scheduled over the holiday periods in the overseas offices. What should the project manager do next?

A. Update the schedule to reflect the holidays and share the workload among offices to mitigate schedule slippage.

B. Hire additional personnel on a temporary basis to cover the extra workload during the holiday seasons.

C. Request that the offices in overseas locations work overtime to mitigate schedule slippages.

D. Update the schedule to reflect the holidays and notify the project sponsor of the delayed completion.

A project manager submits several requests to purchase required hardware and knows from previous experience that this kind of procurement usually results in disputes between the company and its suppliers. How can the project manager mitigate this risk in the request for proposal (RFP) with suppliers?

A. Ask the legal team to review the RFP.

B. Ask the project team to submit the RFP.

C. Request approval of the RFP from the project sponsor.

D. Request approval of the RFP from management.

A project manager is assigned midway through a project. The team members are located in different parts of the country and are unable to meet in person often. During a status review meeting, one of the stakeholders highlighted that they were unaware of the status of the project deliverables. What should the project manager do first?

A. Request the project team include the stakeholder's details and make sure the project status reports are shared with the stakeholder.

B. Schedule a meeting with the stakeholder and include the stakeholder's needs in the project management plan.

C. Review the stakeholder management plan and update the stakeholder register for incorporation in the project management plan.

D. Review the communications management plan and verify whether the stakeholder's needs are captured in the project management plan.

A company has undertaken a large transformation project using agile practices. The project sponsor has asked the project manager to promote the new values identified in the intended transformation to the project team. What should the project manager do?

A. Add a user story during sprint planning that gives recognition to behaviors that are aligned with the new values

B. Send a standard email to the team prior to every daily standup containing the new values

C. Organize a team meeting focusing on the new values associated with the transformation

D. Give recognition to team members' behaviors that are aligned with the new values during the sprint retrospectives

A project has issues arising where the data integration team and the data migration team have areas that overlap. It is not clear who would be responsible for delivery on these areas. What should the project manager do next?

A. Review the project scope to align the project teams

B. Review the resource management plan to align the project teams

C. Review the project integration plan to align the project teams

D. Review the work breakdown structure (WBS) to align the project teams

A project manager is leading a cross-organizational project that is replacing a platform on which various solutions used by 15 business units were built. The project is part of a large program of work, and some of the resources are shared with other projects outside of the program initiated by the respective business units.

Which stakeholders should the project manager consult with first to manage interdependencies?

A. Project sponsors

B. Other project managers

C. Business unit managers

D. Program managers

At the start of a typical project life cycle, costs are:

A. low, peak as work is carried out, and drop as the project nears the end.

B. low, become steady as work is carried out, and increase as the project nears the end.

C. high, drop as work is carried out, and increase as the project nears the end.

D. high, become low as work is carried out, and drop as the project nears the end.

A project has met the agreed-upon product requirements and is closing. There is time remaining in the schedule and excess budget. The resources are not yet scheduled to move to other projects. Several product champions want to continue adding functionality to the product.

What should the project manager do?

A. Use the remaining time and resources to add additional scope to the project without spending the project budget.

B. Ensure product quality by spending the remaining resources and time on additional quality checks for the product.

C. Acknowledge the project closure criteria has been met and release the remaining budget and resources.

D. Obtain approval from the sponsor to add additional functionality to the project deliverables with the leftover budget.

While working on a proposal for a national-level solution, a new project manager finds that the proposal is asking for compliance from various organizations and policies. The project manager understands that while several compliances are in place, some of the specific regulatory needs for this project are not in place. Senior management advised the project manager to overlook these compliance problems, because they will be ready when that stage of the project is reached, and to continue building the proposal.

What should the project manager do first?

A. Verify the regulatory requirements and establish a strategy for compliance.

B. Document the interactions with senior management in the risk register.

C. Advise senior management that itis ethically unprofessional to continue.

D. Build the proposal with an alternative set of regulatory requirements.

A project manager is leading a program execution and has challenges, because a project team waits for every decision to be made by the project manager. The progress of the team is slow because the project manager is the bottleneck. Upon assessing the situation, the project manager realized that the team members can handle the work on their own.

What should the project manager do?

A. Raise a resource request to get complimentary training for the project manager and team members.

B. Escalate the situation to the resource manager to ensure the team makes their own decisions.

C. Gather feedback from all team members and define a process to handle the team requests.

D. Revise the roles and responsibilities and empower the team to make their own decisions.