Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

Development team members are located in three different time zones It is difficult to find a suitable time to hold the daily standup for all team members

What should the project manager do?

A. Encourage frequent small team meetings with two or three team members.

B. Give up the daily standup and replace it with a daily report

C. Let the team members decide themselves if they want to join the meeting.

D. Require all team members to join the daily standup regardless of the meeting time

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 project activities

How should the stakeholder be engaged in the project?

A. Keep the stakeholder informed and consult with them based on their needs

B. Involve the stakeholder in governance and decision making

C. Consult with the stakeholder and increase their level of interest

D. The stakeholder needs to be made aware of the project progress

The project team finds that the latest delivery from a vendor is missing a critical component, which will likely delay the project in split of corrective measures. What should the project manager do to communicate this message?

A. Ask the vendor to identify the stakeholders affected, create an action plan and determine an implementation date

B. Draft a warning letter to the vendor ask internal stakeholders to comment, and solicit stakeholder support to hold the vendor accountable

C. Identify the worst-case scenario, put it into the project risk register, share the register with all project stakeholders, and raise an alert.

D. Contact department managers who are identified as stakeholders, solicit concern, and provide updates to the situation

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 to compensate 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

An organization is embarking on the deployment of a new digital solution that will revolutionize purchasing services The project manager has created all the necessary plans and activities to ensure a successful integration and solution launch There is a risk of a partner’s system being unavailable which could impact the project negatively

What key activity is needed to ensure the project's success?

A. Communicate to the project stakeholders that full integration may not be possible and that the project will potentially be delayed as a result.

B. Eliminate the risk by mandating the partner to change the system settings to facilitate an easier integration with the new solution

C. Continuously monitor the risk of the partner system's unavailability, and put the proper resolution plans in place in case the risk materializes into an actual issue

D. Mitigate the risk by developing alternative plans to make the solution ready and available without full integration capabilities

A project manager is leading a meeting with key stakeholders, the project sponsor and the product owner to define the features that will be released after the next iteration. The purpose of the meeting is to review the product backlog prioritization, considering that during the past iteration some deliverables were not completed.

Which two items should be taken into account first to review and update the product backlog priorities during the meeting? (Choose two)

A. Complexity and the cost of development

B. Industry trends and the technical approach

C. Cost of delaying some features against business value

D. Reusing components from another product

E. Length of time each feature has been on the backlog

Drag the communication event on the left to the mam subject discussed during the event on the right.

A large corporation is transforming itself from a predictive to agile approach A project team with knowledge of agile practices is experiencing significant conflicts with the executives regarding the processes to be followed.

How should these conflicts be resolved?

A. Include the executives in team retrospectives

B. Train the executives on agile practices

C. Negotiate with the executives and agree on a process.

D. Request that the executives use agile practices

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 adaptive tools in their next project This is not the first time the request has been made and the previous project failed when adaptive tools were implemented

What should the project manager do?

A. Prepare a change request and seek approval from the steering committee regarding the new project framework

B. Conduct individual interviews with key stakeholders in order to understand all concerns, then prepare a communications management plan

C. Bring in a third party company to develop and implement a hybrid framework for this specific project.

D. Recommend to the PMO that it is not the right time to start implementing adaptive tools in projects

A team has been working on a project for several months,, but the completion date is unclear because the scope is changing frequently as new knowledge is gained. Some deliverables have already been completed, but when new stakeholders join the team, they complain that project outcomes are not meeting business goals.

How can the project manager prevent this situation from happening in the future?

A. Create a prioritized backlog and define iteration review sessions with stakeholders

B. Create a detailed work breakdown structure (WBS) and milestone schedule approved by all stakeholders

C. Schedule a daily meeting to review team performance and impediments

D. Schedule a kick-off meeting for every project phase to share the project management plan with all stakeholders

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 suggest that the product owner do next?

A. Ensure that the impediments are captured and prioritized based upon the highest valued features

B. Estimate the financial impact of the impediments and request additional funding

C. Begin to remove the impediments, starting with the easiest ones first, to foster team accomplishment

D. Capture the impediments and inform management that their assistance is neededin resolving the impediments

A project manager is appointed to simultaneously deploy a new solution to branches located in different countries Deployment teams in each country will integrate and deploy the solution The project manager discovers that the deployment teams each encounter similar issues However, each team addresses the issues separately

What should the project manager do to help ensure more collaboration between the teams?

A. Organize regular meetings with all of the deployment teams to share issues and solutions

B. Propose that some of the teams delay deployments in their countries

C. Ask the project sponsor to appoint new managers for the deployment teams

D. Ask each deployment team to provide a very detailed schedule and action plan