Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

A key team member shared confidential information about another team member with management, a practice that is against ethical standards. During a team meeting, some of the team members requested that the key team member be removed from the team.

What should the project manager do next?

A. Contact the human resource (HR) department for a solution.

B. Speak with the key team member to clarify the situation.

C. Conduct a meeting with the team to deliberate on a decision.

D. Suspend the team member until further notice.

A new team member on a self-organizing team is finding it difficult to deliver due to the new technology being used in the project. What should the project manager do in this situation?

A. Request the team member to move to another team.

B. Delegate other team members to complete this team member's tasks.

C. Mentor the team member and provide the necessary training.

D. Include this team member in an improvement program through a human resources request.

A company is planning a digitization project. Which action should the project manager take first when defining the project scope?

A. Assess the current state process to define the scope of the digitization.

B. Digitize the current state process exactly as defined.

C. Redefine the current state process to scope the supporting software.

D. Develop the software that will support the current state process.

A junior team member escalates an issue to the project manager about another member's interpersonal skills causing the team to be less effective.

What should the project manager do first?

A. Have the team members resolve the issue on their own.

B. Highlight the impact of their behavior and motivate the team member to make improvements.

C. Gather information and find the root cause of the problem.

D. Document the escalated issue and address it at the end of the project.

A project manager is managing a project aimed at providing incremental deliveries to the market every three months. The team has been assigned, and the product backlog was created and prioritized by the product owner. After four iterations, the product owner escalates complaints to the CEO because the product does not meet the product owner's expectations.

What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation from happening?

A. Implemented sprint reviews with the product owner and retrospectives with the team to minimize gaps

B. Performed risk management analysis during daily scrums

C. Reviewed the organizational process assets (OPAs) and lessons learned from similar projects

D. Performed backlog grooming to ensure that acceptance criteria were being met

A project manager is leading an agile project in an organization that has not executed this type of project before. In order to ensure the project is following the compliance requirements, what should the project manager do?

A. Follow the organization's process and deliverables for predictive projects, even ifthey compromise the agility and performance of the project.

B. Use the risk register to document all of the compliance vulnerabilities generated bythe project so that all decisions are well documented and approved by stakeholders.

C. Meet with the project management office (PMO)/compliance entity to work onprocess tailoring to ensure that the agile deliverables support the compliance requirements of the organization.

D. Coach upper management on agile practices, explaining that an agile project is concerned with value delivery, and negotiate a way out of the compliance requirements.

The project manager has recently received funding approval for a training program for the entire project team but has not yet defined the most effective training course. One team member submitted a request for specialized training that is required for the project. How should the project manager handle this request?

A. Send this change request to the change control board (CCB) for approval.

B. Approve the request for the specialized training.

C. Reject the request as it does not impact the project deliverables.

D. Validate if the training is within scope and budget.

A business analyst on the project meets the customer in the elevator and says that due to constant changes in requirements the development of the product will take more time than expected What should the project manager do?

A. Submit a change request to the change control board (CCB) in order to reflect the new requirements and longer timeline of the project

B. Refer to the resource management plan to find out if more business analysts may be assigned to process the requirements changes

C. Point out to the project team and the customer that all information concerning the timeline of the project should be communicated by the project manager.

D. Explain that distribution of important news can only be done using traceable communication methods

A highly skilled team resource received a job offer and is leaving the project soon What should the project manager do to maintain project performance while a new team member is being onboarded?

A. Log a risk in the risk register and work with the new team member to mitigate it

B. Motivate the new team member to perform.

C. Share project documents with the new team member.

D. Offer cross-training and mentoring to the new team member

A project manager is transferred to another country to perform a project within their organization. What should the project manager do first to ensure collaboration within the team for a successful delivery?

A. Determine a leadership style that is suitable for that location.

B. Check if resources from headquarters can also be assigned to the project.

C. Mentor the team members to perform project management.

D. Assign a local resource to manage communication with the team.

A project is successfully delivering its product outcomes, and the customer satisfaction rating is high. However, during an internal audit, it is discovered that certain essential process documents and approvals are missing, and the project is evaluated as being noncompliant.

What should the project manager do next?

A. Review the latest project management standards with the project management office (PMO) and make changes to the quality management plan.

B. Perform quality assurance to review the processes against the quality management plan and identify gaps.

C. Review and update the project document repository with the missing documents and approvals.

D. Change the quality management processes to align with the project objective.

An intern is replacing a critical resource midway through a sprint To help the intern get up to speed, the project manager assigns a senior engineer in the team as the intern's mentor Two months later, the project goes into critical status, delaying the release milestone by a month.

What should the project manager have done to avoid this scenario?

A. Convinced the critical resource to remain on the project.

B. Requested an experienced resource as a replacement

C. Allocated additional time for mentoring

D. Negotiated additional time to complete the project