Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

A project manager who is new to an organization observes that an approaching deadline is likely to be missed because there have been some delays on the project due to a lack of resources. What should the project manager do next?

A. Review the milestone list to determine which tasks can be fast-tracked

B. Review the risk management plan to identify the response strategy

C. Escalate the issue to the sponsor and debrief them about the situation

D. Organize a team meeting to discuss the next course of action

A project manager at a company is considering a high-performing junior member of the organization to be the new project manager for a current project. What should the project manager do to prepare for a recommendation to senior management?

A. Compile key highlights featuring the team member from the meeting minutes.

B. Ask the team member to write a short biography listing their qualifications

C. Gather project artifacts that demonstrate the team member's high performance

D. Calculate the health of the projects on which the team member has worked

While managing a project, the project manager has just noticed that the last several monthly invoices have been challenged by the client when they were clearly defined The actual invoice payments received have also been late and were outside of the contracted payment schedule Recent invoices have only been partially paid

What should the project manager do?

A. Add nonpayment to the issue log and keep tracking payments

B. Hold a meeting with the client to address the issue

C. Review past projects for payment-related lessons learned

D. Conduct a meeting with the project team to update the procurement management plan

A project is being executed The project's life cycle is defined as predictive however, a major deliverable will be handed over incrementally to the customer The assigned resources are experienced and reliable and are willing to make decisions that the project manager used to make after each incremental delivery on other projects

What should the project manager do?

A. Schedule a steering committee meeting and obtain their approval on the request

B. Support the decisions of the team and transfer the decision making responsibility to them.

C. Inform the team that although this is a hybrid environment, the project managermust still be responsible for making decisions

D. Consult the product owner about letting the resources make decisions

An organization is transitioning to agile and a project has been chosen as a pilot The assigned project manager only has experience using predictive approaches but the project manager is now required to use agile approaches with the help of an agile coach During the retrospective of the fifth sprint, the project team complains that many obstacles exist with the organization that are creating project delays and rework

What should the project manager do in this situation?

A. Include impediment resolutions during daily standup meetings

B. Perform a root cause analysis during the standup meetings

C. Create a dedicated sprint to solve the obstacles with the team

D. Promote collaboration to help remove the obstacles for the team

A key stakeholder for a construction project has been spending a lot of time at the site and interrupting the team's efforts What should the project manager do in this situation?

A. Work to understand the key stakeholder's concerns and provide feedback in regular project status reports

B. Arrange an ad hoc meeting to address the key stakeholder's concerns with team members

C. Reinforce with the key stakeholder that the project is performing on schedule\

D. Escalate the situation to the project sponsor because the key stakeholder's behavior is impacting progress

A project manager finished reviewing the project deliverables for the current iteration with the customer A new key stakeholder who just joined the customer's team, complains that the results do not provide the capabilities the business anticipated

What should the project manager do to address this issue?

A. Create a change request and update the scope management plan

B. Conduct stakeholder identification and a project objectives review session

C. Update the stakeholder list and fix the deliverables

D. Update the project management plan and lessons learned

The project team follows a hybrid framework for its delivery. During the execution of a project, the team learns of a new compliance requirement that has to be delivered before any other requirements

How should the project manager address this situation?

A. Ask the team to include the compliance requirement in the current sprint and deliver it.

B. Add the new compliance requirement to the backlog as the technical team does not have any capacity.

C. Include the compliance lead in the stakeholders list and wait for the next status meeting

D. Collaborate with the compliance team member to review and prioritize the requirement’s delivery

During the execution phase of a healthcare IT project, stakeholders made a change request regarding user requirements There is no remaining budget available to cover that change request.

What should the project manager do next?

A. Discuss approval of the change request in the next project meeting

B. Perform a risk assessment on the required change request.

C. Evaluate the change request against the project scope statement

D. Ask the sponsor for more funds to cover the change request

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 languages for communication The project manager needs to keep the team organized and avoid misunderstandings and miscommunication that may produce a negative impact to the project

What should the project manager do to reduce negative impacts to the project?

A. Modify the communications management plan to account for regional differences

B. Conduct cultural awareness seminars

C. Hold a virtual meeting to discuss the political environment.

D. Conduct a multigenerational management training session

During the last sprint review, the mam stakeholder complained that the product was missing many features they had been expecting The project team argued that every increment met the acceptance criteria and was approved by the mam stakeholder The cost performance index (CPI) of the project is 1 15 and the schedule performance index (SPI) is 1.43

What should the project manager do?

A. Ask the project team to perform the modifications since the project budget and schedule can support them.

B. Ask the stakeholder to submit a change request to increase the budget and time for the modifications requested

C. Explain to the stakeholder that since the acceptance criteria for every increment were met the project can be closed.

D. Analyze the reason for the gap in understanding with both sides and negotiate a solution

An integrated project involves the interaction of both hardware and software and the sponsor has approved the schedule management plan The project team evaluated the product's feasibility of functionality and accelerated testing What should the project manager do as a servant leader?

A. Support the team as necessary to find the minimum viable product (MVP).

B. Amend the project budget to include MVP testing

C. Submit a change request to the project sponsor for accelerated testing.

D. Develop the product as per the schedule to perform integration and testing