Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

A company has made multiple staff and operational changes over the last several years, significantly improving the company culture. A project manager was recently assigned to report to a new project supervisor. The project manager notices the supervisor's style of leadership is about getting the job done in the shortest possible time regardless of operational and worker impacts. This is causing some complaints from workers.

How should the project manager handle this situation?

A. Discuss the company culture with the supervisor to clarify expectations.

B. Review the overall organizational culture of the company again.

C. Request that the new supervisor be assigned to another project.

D. Explain to the workers that they need to listen to the supervisor.

A team has been consistently delivering outcomes. However, based on their current performance, it was discovered that their velocity has decreased by 30%.

What should the project manager do to ensure the velocity is under control?

A. Ask the product owner to look at a minimum of four to eight iterations and replan the velocity for the next iteration based on the team's current performance.

B. Ask the scrum master to plug gaps in the team's performance by adding a team member to compensate for the velocity decrease.

C. Request that the team improve their cycle time to compensate for the velocity decrease.

D. Request the team to improve the lead time, cycle time, and response time individually and track closure.

A global company hired a project manager for a new implementation at all of its sites After reviewing the business case and project charter, the project manager notes that the project team has different locations and regions to consider.

What should the project manager do to address this situation?

A. Inform the steering committee of the situation and request additional resources.

B. Coordinate virtual and face-to-face meetings at each site to improve communication

C. Coordinate virtual meetings to assess the project team's communication needs

D. Inform the project sponsor of this situation and request cultural orientation training.

A project manager is working on a major construction project. Part of the agreed-upon plan was to use a cloud-based system with a server that runs on high-speed internet service since most of the team members work virtually. The company needs to reduce operating costs as much as possible and management insists that the project will now use a system running on a conventional dial-up service.

What should the project manager do next?

A. Evaluate the impact of this decision and communicate with management.

B. Agree with management and continue working the project management plan.

C. Meet with management about their decision and ask them to get another project manager.

D. Replace some of the team members that work virtually to help the company save money.

An organization uses a predictive approach but is open to using some agile practices. The project manager was asked to recommend an agile practice to provide business value throughout the project.

What should the project manager recommend?

A. Time-boxed iterations to allow the testing team to thoroughly test the product increments

B. Incremental delivery and frequent backlog refinement based on user feedback

C. Iterative development and collection of frequent feedback from project team members

D. Frequent retrospectives to ensure that lessons learned and improvement actions are implemented

A project manager was just assigned to a project as the leader of an experienced agile team. How should the project manager influence the team to accomplish the project objectives?

A. Express trust in the team's ability to fulfill the necessary deliverables.

B. Assert judgment over the team.

C. Use a plan-driven approach in order to demonstrate control over the project.

D. Increase the amount of subject matter experts (SMEs) to get better results.

A company is involved in a mining project. There are some external stakeholders with no knowledge of the mining industry.

How should the project manager communicate the organizational culture and project goal to these stakeholders?

A. Hire a company to advertise the project and company through a media outlet.

B. Prepare a report outlining the organizational structure and project parameters.

C. Take the stakeholders out informally and verbally brief them about the organization and project.

D. Ask a team member to directly address the information needs of the stakeholders.

An agile project has just started, and the backlog is being prioritized. The customer wants to prioritize business value over identified risks.

How should the customer’s request be managed?

A. Accept risks as they decrease over a period of time.

B. Create a risk value profile to track the relative importance of risks.

C. Log and track risks separately as only business value is important.

D. Assess risks together with business value during prioritization.

A project manager is meeting with the project sponsor regarding a new project. The project manager tells the sponsor that, as part of the communications management plan, a weekly email will be sent with the status of the project, so the sponsor can be informed of the progress. The sponsor indicates that the email is not necessary because they will ask for a status update whenever it is needed.

What should the project manager do next?

A. Advise the project sponsor to request a 15-minute meeting, whenever necessary, with prior notification.

B. Agree to the project sponsor's request, but continue to copy them on the weekly email so they can be informed of progress in case it is needed.

C. Tell the project sponsor that if they prefer to not receive the communication, there is no problem in removing them from the email distribution.

D. Ask the project sponsor what sort of information is needed and agree on a frequency for the communication.

A project manager Is transitioning from a predictive We cycle project to a new agile project How should the project manager manage and control the scope for the new project?

A. Create a scope baseline and put the rest as backlog activities.

B. Estimate the work the team can complete and define story sizes to keep the project under control.

C. Develop a plan to complete more work In less time.

D. Spend a short amount of time defining the scope and building prototypes to refine the requirements.

During the execution phase, the project manager discovered that the deliverables are not meeting the quality specifications requested by the main stakeholder. This has caused the schedule performance index (SPI) to deteriorate from 0.98 to 0.72 and the cost performance index (CPI) from 1.5 to 1.1.

What action should the project manager take to mitigate the issue of the deliverables being rejected during the next iteration?

A. Submit a change request to prioritize resolutions for the quality issue to minimize the impact on the rest of the deliverables.

B. Reinforce the definition of done (DoD) during sprint planning so that the team has a common understanding of expectations.

C. Assure that the product backlog is properly prioritized to avoid dependencies that cause rejection.

D. Create a dedicated sprint to complete all of the pending specifications from previous sprints.

A project manager has joined a company m an unfamiliar industry and has been given a strategically important project Being new, and not fully understanding the interdependences of the various departmental work items, the project manager is unsure of how to plan the project

How should the project manager proceed?

A. Consult the project sponsor and request their feedback

B. Consult the product owner and request a complete prioritization session

C. Consult a senior project manager within the organization and request their expert judgement

D. Consult a senior developer within the organization and request their input.