Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

A junior project manager with experience in predictive projects has joined a company that uses hybrid approaches for project delivery. A senior project manager with experience in hybrid approaches is assigned to be a coach. Match the activity descriptions on the left to the correct tools on the right.

Team morale is at an all-time low after an incident involving one of the team members. Which two actions should the project manager take to resolve the situation? (Choose two)

A. Host a special meeting to talk about what happened.

B. Escalate the issue to human resources (HR).

C. Review the lessons learned document with the team.

D. Conduct a team-building workshop.

E. Discuss this incident in the project review meeting.

A project manager decided to incorporate the latest technological advancement with the client's devices at no additional cost to the project.

Upon completion and submission of the project deliverables, the client rejected the devices, despite having the latest features.

What should the project manager have done?

A. Incorporated the change within the scope of the project

B. Reviewed the quality inspections

C. Complied with the customer specifications

D. Documented the technical reviews with the new change

The portfolio management office wants to cut costs by suspending some ongoing projects that do not directly support the organizational strategy. The project manager has invested too many resources into one of the projects to be suspended, but the portfolio management office has not backed down on their plan.

What should the project manager do to continue the project?

A. Meet with the project team and revise the project goals.

B. Update the project charter to make it align with organizational strategy.

C. Demonstrate the project alignment to the organizational strategy.

D. Escalate the issue with the project sponsor to request support.

A new facility project is being developed using a hybrid approach. After the third iteration, the project manager sees a decline in the team's productivity.

What should the project manager do next?

A. Review the iteration duration with the team.

B. Discuss the issue in the next retrospective.

C. Encourage the team to improve their performance.

D. Reduce the iteration backlog.

Early in a project, a team member failed to effectively communicate the reason for their absence from three team meetings. How should the project manager handle this situation?

A. Reaffirm the required project obligations directly with the team member. oy

B. Ask the team member to explain the reason for the absences.

C. Assess the impact of the team member's absence on the task involved.

D. Send a formal letter to the team member stating that their absences are noted.

A labor union contract negotiation is delaying the completion of a project to build a new manufacturing plant. Because the labor contract was due for renewal this year, the project manager documented the negotiation process as a risk to the project. The project was about to start the first phase of equipment installation at the plant when the negotiation began.

How should the project manager address the situation?

A. Meet with the project team to determine options for risk mitigation.

B. Log the issue and follow the planned actions in the risk response plan.

C. Acquire contract resources and submit a change request for the cost impact.

D. Escalate the issue to the steering committee to ask for mitigation support.

A business stakeholder for a project is reluctant to accept an agile approach due to a previous bad experience, and is pushing for a predictive approach. What strategy should the project manager use to persuade the stakeholder to use an agile approach?

A. Propose a phased project approach with multiple small interactions and build trust with the stakeholder through frequent value delivery.

B. Document the request and escalate to upper management to consider a modification of the project charter.

C. Agree on a predictive approach, but apply agile concepts under the project management umbrella.

D. Ensure the stakeholder that an agile approach will deliver all of the expected results in a shorter period of time.

A project manager is managing a project which is approaching the end of the execution phase. A high-level stakeholder informs the project manager that a very important requirement was not included in the scope of the project, and that without that requirement the project will deliver no value.

What is the first thing the project manager should do"?

A. Include the requirement into the project and schedule it as soon as possible

B. Inform the project sponsor about the situation and request assistance

C. Evaluate the impact that the inclusion of this new requirement will have on project performance

D. Inform the stakeholder that it is impossible to add new requirements to an approved project scope

The operations director complains to the CEO about the outcome of a project's first sprint The operations department will not be able to support a new product due to poor performance indicators The project team facilitator asks for feedback from the project team and is informed that performance information is available in the application server log

How should this complaint be addressed?

A. Request that the issue be included in the next board of directors meeting to explain all of the needs

B. Add the complaint to the product backlog to be addressed in the next sprint

C. Ask the operations director to define the acceptance criteria to make clear the delivery is correct

D. Invite a member of the operations team to be part of the validation and sprint meetings

The vendor for a new IT data center project failed to follow the required cabling standards as stated in the requirements specification. The infrastructure manager and vendor were involved in an argument about the issue.

What should the project manager do to resolve and prevent additional arguments?

A. Monitor the interactions between the vendor and infrastructure manager going forward.

B. Host a meeting with the vendor and infrastructure manager to help resolve their disagreement.

C. Escalate the issue to the sponsor so appropriate action can be taken.

D. Instruct the vendor to correct the problem without additional arguments.

A project manager is using a hybrid approach for project delivery. The development team was sized, but is not yet fully resourced. The project manager is working on defining the project schedule.

What should the project manager do to address the issue of developer availability?

A. Organize a planning session with the development team and use their estimations to complete the schedule.

B. Ask the resource manager when the new contractor is available to start and change the delivery date for the project schedule.

C. Ask the sponsor to provide the desired completion date for project activities and complete the schedule.

D. Use expert judgment to estimate all of the tasks and complete the schedule in the allocated time.