Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

During the implementation phase of a project, a new regulation affects the project, and a critical status meeting discussing the scope changes is required. The project manager discovers that a key stakeholder cannot attend the scheduled meeting

What should the project manager do?

A. Call for a change control board (CCB) meeting, and inform the stakeholder about the outcome

B. Update the communications management plan and implement the change

C. Meet with the project sponsor to discuss how to address the situation.

D. Meet with the stakeholder prior to the meeting to obtain their opinion

During a project planning meeting, the customer is not sure how to build a brand new product and is worried about extra costs and work.

The customer is asking the project manager for guidance.

What should the project manager do?

A. Wait to start the project execution phase until all requirements and acceptance criteria are clear.

B. Ask the customer to include all of the requirements in the project charter to officially start the project planning phase.

C. Schedule a brainstorming session and select the top ten most important requirements.

D. In the planning meeting, focus on releasing a minimum viable product (MVP) quickly and getting feedback from the end users.

During an iteration demo, a customer noticed an enhancement they would like to make to the product. What should the team do next?

A. Refine and estimate the enhancement so the size is known.

B. Add it to the product backlog to be completed in the future.

C. Start working on the enhancement for the customer immediately.

D. Ask the product owner to prioritize the item with the customer

During project execution, a key team member has to be moved to another critical project for the company. Currently, there is no other team member who can fill that role.

What should the project manager do first?

A. Communicate the problem to the sponsor to force the key member to be maintained on the project.

B. Initiate a change request and replace the key member as soon as possible.

C. Explain to the company the importance of maintaining the key member on the project according to the vision of the project.

D. Evaluate the impact of the key team member's removal from the project, look for alternatives, and submit a change request if required.

A specialized team member has just received news that they must leave the office for several weeks They have approximately two workdays until they will leave and then they will become unavailable through any communication channels. There is a key deadline approaching

What should the agile project manager do?

A. Ask the team member to complete as much as they can now.

B. Ask the team member to work with their peers to knowledge share

C. Ask the team member to identify their specialist tasks

D. Ask the team member to host a special team meeting.

During the initiation stage of a multimedia exhibition-design project the project manager is developing the project management plan What should the project manager do to complete this task?

A. Benchmark other similar exhibitions' deliverable lists and final outcomes

B. Initiate a survey to solicit end-customer opinions and prioritize exhibition contents

C. Clarify the high-level business requirements with the event organizer as a basis for forming the deliverables list.

D. Initiate an additional services agreement in case the key deliverables list was not clearly stated in the contract

Two key team members suggest different options to prevent time overruns and delays. There is a conflict between these two team members because of their divergent views.

What should the project manager do next?

A. Schedule a meeting between the team members to find a solution.

B. Refer the team members to the project charter to resolve the conflict.

C. Issue a new change request to evaluate this situation and communicate the result.

D. Document the facts explained by the team members in the issue log.

A project manager brings in a new team member from an agile environment to work in a predictive environment The project manager expects to leverage the new team member's agile experience with the existing team members.

What should the project manager do to integrate the new team member effectively?

A. Train the new team member in the predictive project management approach.

B. Acknowledge that hiring this new employee is a risk to the existing team

C. Set expectations with the new team member and explain what is needed

D. Meet with all team members and explain the new employee's position.

A project using a hybrid approach to migrate from a current system to a new and enhanced system is underway. The plan is to migrate the system in stages. However, the operations team is complaining that they are not ready to start supporting the new system.

How should the project manager effectively approach this situation?

A. Create a lessons learned register to include operations team training for future projects.

B. Include knowledge transfer sessions between the project and operations teams at every stage.

C. Change the project management plan to add a final stage for product handoff to the operations team.

D. Prepare detailed documentation to be shared with the operations team during project closure.

During a project status update by the project management office (PMO), the CEO is concerned that the status of all projects suddenly changed from green to red, without warning. Upper management is used to reading traditional reports related to progress and cost, and they want to continue viewing this information.

How should the PMO implement a better way to report the project's health?

A. Perform a root cause analysis (RCA) to find out why the status of projects is deteriorating so fast.

B. Explore reporting the earned value (EV) key performance indicators (KPls) using agile progress as an input.

C. Ask the project managers to report on their projects using a Kanban board format.

D. Request the program managers to be more accurate when presenting status reports.

The project manager of a hybrid project learns that a stakeholder has approached a team member directly to request a change This change will impact the project m a significant way The project manager should ten the stakeholder that the correct procedure tor new requirements is to provide a request directly to whom?

A. Product owner

B. Change control board (CCB)

C. Project sponsor

D. Project manager

A project manager finds that team members In an agile project are involved in several different projects due to budget constraints. What should the project manager do?

A. Request the project sponsor prioritize and if necessary, allocate additional budget so the team can work on a single project

B. Provide an incentive plan so the team members will work more unaccounted hours on multiple projects

C. Brainstorm with the team members on how they can deliver on multiple projects within the given budget

D. Instruct the team members to spread evenly across projects so mistakes will not occur within the current budget.