PMI PMP Practice Exams
Last updated on Apr 09,2025- Exam Code: PMP
- Exam Name: Project Management Professional
- Certification Provider: PMI
- Latest update: Apr 09,2025
An agile team is brainstorming and prioritizing all of the risks according to severity.
What should the team do about the identified risks?
- A . Mitigate the risks that are applicable to the current and following iterations.
- B . Focus on the project deliverables rather than the documented risks.
- C . Agree that any issue can be handled when it becomes a problem.
- D . Acknowledge that the risks will be handled in the corresponding iteration.
A project team is conducting sprint planning. Based on the estimated effort, only 95% of the items included in the sprint may be delivered. The product owner asks the project manager for advice on how to prioritize the backlog items.
What should be used to prioritize the backlog items?
- A . Risk to delivery
- B . Technical complexity
- C . Business value
- D . Estimation accuracy
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 argue that an important natural reserve was impacted and prior consultation was not done by the project team.
What should the project manager verify first?
- A . Stakeholder engagement plan
- B . Risk management plan
- C . Business case
- D . Cost-benefit analysis
A project manager had to schedule additional planning sessions to add requirements from an international stakeholder. The stakeholder expressed concern about the product not meeting the client’s needs.
Which factor should the project manager have considered when developing the product?
- A . Stakeholder’s location
- B . Responsibility matrix
- C . Stakeholder’s needs
- D . Availability of resources
During a project’s execution phase, two team members are having conflicts with other team members within the team on technical and interpersonal levels.
Which two actions should the project manager take first to address this conflict? (Choose two)
- A . Ask human resources (HR) to intervene before it escalates and affects the team’s performance.
- B . Arrange individual meetings with the team members who cannot work together effectively.
- C . Address the conflict during team meetings for the entire team to participate and find solutions.
- D . Discuss the conflict early among the affected team members using a direct, collaborative approach.
- E . Plan to resolve the team members’ conflicts after the sprint and focus on achieving the goal.
A company is implementing a growth strategy by constructing a new production facility, which will soon move into the operation phase. Although a governance policy was already in place, the company must comply with new financial regulations that have been recently implemented. Compliance with the regulations will cause a major change in project scope.
How should the project manager respond to this requirement?
- A . Proceed with the existing company governance policy.
- B . Perform an analysis to assess the impact on the project.
- C . Directly comply with the financial regulations.
- D . Escalate the issue to upper management and let them decide.
A project manager analyzes the cumulative flow chart and identifies a bottleneck in the testing activities from a self-organizing team. After discussing it with the team, a gap related to testing skills is identified.
What should the project manager do to address the issue?
- A . Onboard a new project team member who has testing skills.
- B . Provide training to the entire team so they all will be able to perform tests.
- C . Support the team to identify an approach to resolve the problem.
- D . Ask the development team to slow down so the testers can catch up.
A project manager is using an agile approach. During the sprint planning meeting, the product owner flagged a backlog item as high business value and easy to implement. However, the other team members identified a high dependency between this item and another item that is flagged as low business value and high complexity.
What should the project manager do to support the backlog prioritization?
- A . Prioritize the item flagged as high business value and low complexity for this sprint.
- B . Support the team to move both items to the next sprint when the team will know more.
- C . Facilitate the discussion until the team reaches an agreement about the two items.
- D . Prioritize the item flagged as a dependency with low business value and high complexity.
A vendor project manager and team are implementing a software solution across the organization. A customer stakeholder who was not present during the sales process is demanding that the team implement requirements that are out of scope without adding additional cost to the project.
What should the project manager do next?
- A . Escalate the issue of the additional requirements to the executive leadership team.
- B . Refer the stakeholder to the delivery specifications in the statement of work (SOW).
- C . Implement all the requirements the customer has requested.
- D . Adjust the scope baseline and schedule baseline accordingly.
A project manager is assigned to a global project with dispersed team members. Previously, when working with remote teams, the project manager observed that team members do not tend to produce quality work.
What should the project manager do to ensure the project is completed on time with quality?
- A . Encourage the team to participate in a peer evaluation activity by the end of the project.
- B . Introduce the use of time sheets and ask team members to review and submit them regularly.
- C . Arrange regular team meetings for the team to update one another on the progress of their assigned tasks.
- D . Meet with the team together and in one-on-one meetings to set clear, shared targets.