Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

As a member of an organizational change management team, a project manager must pass on any changes to the project team The project manager needs to avoid any misunderstandings or resistance to help ensure that the project team will support any organizational change

What should the project manager do?

A. Conduct meetings with resistant members to facilitate smooth project implementation

B. Meet with the team on a regular basis to ensure they are aware of changes.

C. Influence the team to communicate any changes

D. Check with the team members on their willingness to change

A company was awarded a project in a dangerous location that poses several high-level risks for employees Help is needed to tram the employees on major safety and health factors The project is ongoing and uses a hybrid approach The project will be conducted in multiple sites, with several development iterations running in parallel

How should the project manager handle this situation?

A. Allocate and use part of the project's contingency reserves for training purposes.

B. Negotiate a contract and form a partnership with a local authority for medical and security support services.

C. Perform a retrospective and update the risk register and resource management plan regarding the necessary budget for training

D. Hire only local resources who are aware of the terntory's hazards, providing employment to the local community

After the second iteration of a component development project, the project team conducts a retrospective It shows that in the initial phase the project has failed to comply with a product functionality. The planning for this product has a predominantly predictive approach.

Which technique will help the project manager to accelerate the deliverable?

A. Impact mapping

B. Rolling wave planning

C. Collective code ownership

D. Scrum of Scrums

The marketing team is transitioning to using hybrid approaches for their projects. The marketing director is not knowledgeable about hybrid methodologies and the project manager needs the director’s support as the marketing director is a key stakeholder.

What should the project manager do to obtain the support?

A. Ask the marketing director to participate in daily meetings

B. Mentor the marketing director on hybrid approaches

C. Ask the marketing team members to coach the director

D. Tram the marketing team and keep the director informed

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 works with a global virtual team. The team is facing difficulty in communicating with each other and often misses important messages. This difficulty leads to missed deadlines.

What should the project manager do to enhance project team effectiveness?

A. Implement team colocation to improve communication.

B. Identify the root cause of communication issues

C. Initiate daily communication of project progress

D. Schedule a communications control board meeting

A project manager is assigned to a global project where, during the planning process, team members from different regions are not agreeing to collaborate with each other What should the project manager do?

A. Review lessons learned from previous projects that used the same team

B. Review the organizational culture, structure, and governance

C. Coordinate a meeting to understand the situation and resolve any conflicts.

D. Coordinate a meeting with regional managers to ask for support

After a meeting with the customer, the project manager receives special recognition because the project is always on schedule Later that day, the project manager attends a regular project team meeting to follow up on the status of the deliverables.

What should the project manager do in the project team meeting?

A. Share the customer feedback with the project team

B. Follow the meeting agenda and make a list of the next deliverables

C. Document this feedback in the meeting minutes

D. Start planning how to improve the dates of next deliverables

A junior staff member was recently assigned to the team. The new team member tells the project manager that they are confused because they are not familiar with what is expected of them on the project

What should the project manager do to assist the new team member?

A. Advise the new team member to enroll in project management training.

B. Instruct the new team member to review the responsible, accountable consult, and inform (RACI) matrix before asking for help

C. Advise the new team member to review the project charter and stakeholder engagement plan.

D. Review the resource management plan and provide mentoring to the new team member if necessary

A hospital is running a project for one of their internal critical systems to manage billing patient data and record management along with consultation reports and input from physicians The project manager now needs to categorize the identified risks

Drag each risk type on the left to its correct example on the right

Stakeholders in some industries prefer to deal with programmers and system analysts directly, bypassing project managers. This complicates managing resources on projects

How should a project manager solve this issue?

A. Propose implementing a new project management information system (PMIS).

B. Request a meeting with senior management to escalate the situation

C. Promote adoption of the communications management plan with the project team.

D. Host a team-building event to develop team cohesion and improve communication

An external project manager is managing the construction of new corporate offices for a large company The project management plan states that it is necessary to contract a highly trained external resource to revise and validate an important project component The client has rejected hiring the external resource because of the high cost even though it is within the project budget.

What should the project manager do to resolve this issue?

A. Hire the resource in order to achieve the project objectives.

B. Ask the client for a meeting and explain that the task will not be performed

C. Evaluate the consequences and meet with the client to explain the possible scenarios.

D. Try to accomplish the task internally by leveling resources from other projects