Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

At the end of a project with multiple suppliers, the project manager is reviewing the closing process and finds that an unexpected financial balance is remaining What will help the project manager understand why this has occurred?

A. Project audit

B. Lessons learned

C. Organizational process assets

D. Procurement audit

A group has been working together for one month. During daily meetings a team member continues to express issues in completing their tasks.

What should the project manager do?

A. Wait for the team to identify and solve the problem independently.

B. Move the team member to another task that is more skill appropriate

C. Have a confidential discussion with the team member to identify the root cause

D. Start a discussion with all team members to help resolve the issues

An agile team has been struggling to keep up with the planned pace, which is frequently resulting in sprint failures What should the project manager do to help avoid this situation in the future?

A. Switch to a Kanban approach, implementing features on a first-come, first-serve basis, fostering a sustainable pace

B. Review the velocity of the team over the last several sprnts and adjust the plan accordingly

C. Ask the project sponsor to approve overtime to compensate for the lack of performance while adjusting the plan

D. Replace junior team members with more experienced ones and negotiate the project scope to compensate for the budget gap

A project manager receives a voicemail from a business analyst on the project team The business analyst indicates that an internal stakeholder is upset that they were not included before the project began The stakeholder is asking for an addition to the requirements traceability matrix

What should the project manager do to improve the stakeholder relationship?

A. Consult the project scope document to make sure the addition is in scope.

B. Update the stakeholder engagement plan to ensure the stakeholder is included in the project stakeholder list

C. Initiate a project change request so the change control board (CCB) can decide if it is in scope.

D. Engage the stakeholder to solicit more information before responding to the request

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

A. Update the stakeholder engagement plan

B. Review the latest project status report and update the stakeholders

C. Escalate the case to the customer's management team

D. Issue the project payment invoice to the customer in advance

During a retrospective review, many project team members say they are not completing tasks during the iterations because of interruptions and requests for help from other teams As a team facilitator, what should the project manager do to avoid this?

A. Identify the problem's root causes and define the ground rules with all project team members to minimize interferences

B. Hire a coach to help all project teams to improve their abilities to solve problems ontheir own.

C. Reunite with the project team members affected and tell them not to reduce the team's capacity

D. Recommend to the project team members that they should improve their planningand make their stones smaller

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) their colleague's projects have had many difficulties Sponsors keep asking for more features and the projects have yet to be completed

What should the project manager do to avoid these issues?

A. Arrange meetings to ensure every necessary task to complete the project is included in the project management plan

B. Convince the project sponsor to incorporate quality experts so the product can be tested and accepted as completed.

C. Convince the product owner to approach the team and look for options to find a solution to the problem

D. Schedule meetings with key stakeholders to build the agile project charter and set clear expectations for the project

After reviewing the project management plan with key stakeholders, the project manager was told that an 18-month release plan was unacceptable and the product should launch in six months. Based on the new timeline, what should the project manager do?

A. Plan for overtime, apply crashing and fast tracking and share the risk of failure with project stakeholders.

B. Review the project backlog looking for high-priority items and come up with a minimum viable product (MVP) that fits the expected timeline

C. Seek approval with the sponsor to triple the project budget, hiring more people tocompensate for the compressed schedule

D. Go over the critical path with stakeholders, explaining why it is not possible to deliver all the scope in the expected timeline

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 project scope The project manager decided to update the risk register and escalate the opportunity to a higher level

What should the project manager do next with this opportunity?

A. Share this opportunity with another project

B. Establish a contingency reserve to support the opportunity

C. Further monitor the opportunity

D. No more action is required

In the beginning of project execution, the project manager finds out that a key resource will be unavailable for two weeks which could cause a delay to the schedule What should the project manager do first?

A. Assign the tasks to another resource, and ask the resource to work double shifts

B. Update the schedule to reflect the project's changes in duration

C. Ask human resources (HR) for a replacement, and update the nsk register

D. Update the resource management plan and resource allocation chart accordingly

A research and development team is finishing up a two year initiative The project manager is focused on the closing activities for the project.

Which activity should be considered as a priority?

A. Mark the product backlog completion status and update the communications management plan.

B. Ensure that knowledge transfer activities are executed as planned

C. Release the resources and plan for a project completion celebration.

D. Hold a steering committee meeting to inform them of the project completion

A project manager has been assigned to lead a project to deploy a new system. The stakeholders disagree on the project objectives and approach.

What should the project manager do?

A. Create a roles and responsibilities matrix based on the project charter and ask the sponsor to share it with all stakeholders to provide credible authority

B. Conduct scoping workshops with the project team to create a work breakdown structure (WBS), assign tasks to various entities share this with all stakeholders, and ask the team to complete their tasks as scheduled

C. Conduct a general meeting with all stakeholders and review and address a list of activities for each of them

D. Breakdown the situation to identify the root causes for the disagreement and then work with each stakeholder and participating entity on their exact roles and responsibilities