Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

An organization is embarking on the deployment of a new digital solution that will revolutionize purchasing services The project manager has created all the necessary plans and activities to ensure a successful integration and solution launch There is a risk of a partner’s system being unavailable which could impact the project negatively What key activity is needed to ensure the project's success?

A. Communicate to the project stakeholders that full integration may not be possible and that the project will potentially be delayed as a result.

B. Eliminate the risk by mandating the partner to change the system settings to facilitate an easier integration with the new solution

C. Continuously monitor the risk of the partner system's unavailability, and put the proper resolution plans in place in case the risk materializes into an actual issue

D. Mitigate the risk by developing alternative plans to make the solution ready and available without full integration capabilities

At the end of planning a new project, the project manager needs to schedule the
kick-off meeting but is having difficulty finding a common time slot when all necessary
stakeholders can be available onsite. How should the project manager proceed to schedule the kick-off meeting?

A. Email all stakeholders with the objectives of the project and ask for feedback.

B. Wait for a date when all required attendees can be available onsite.

C. Run separate meetings to accommodate everyone's schedule.

D. Schedule a virtual meeting so onsite and remote stakeholders can attend at the same time.

A project manager is struggling to figure out the performance of the project teams in an agile environment for the same scope of work, team A has calculated 100 story points and team B has calculated 125 story points Which team is performing better?

A. Team A as they have calculated fewer story points than team B.

B. Team B as they have calculated more story points than team A

C. The team that completes the most stories selected from the sprint backlog

D. The team with the least amount of defects in their deliverables

A project manager was recently appointed to an agile project. The project will have a lot of visibility and impact for the company, so the project management office (PMO) manager wants to ensure that the project manager manages the risks correctly.

What should the project manager do?

A. Implement the agile risk manifesto to ensure the proper tracking, analysis, and remediation of the project risks.

B. Ask the product owner to act as a risk manager to assist with the remediation of risks.

C. Implement the role of an agile risk manager to take care of the risk management process.

D. Follow the risk management process while ensuring that risks are identified, analyzed, and managed during each iteration.

The customer's project manager changes during the final stage of a project How can the project manager avoid a project closure delay’

A. Update the stakeholder engagement plan

B. Review the latest project status report and update the stakeholders

C. Escalate the case to the customer's management team

D. Issue the project payment invoice to the customer in advance

Two functional managers disagree on key features of one deliverable during the planning of a project The project manager discovers that each manager included requirements that contradict each other The functional managers do not want to meet with each other to find a solution This situation has been escalated to the sponsor who requests a meeting with them What strategy should the project manager use to resolve this conflict in the meeting?

A. Explain to the managers that the contradicting requirements are being considered for implementation in the project

B. Explain to the managers that only one of the two requirements can be implemented, and submit a change request,

C. Ensure that both managers understand the requirements and search for a solution that best satisfies this deliverable

D. Request that the managers explain why each requirement must be implemented and decide by considering the cost and benefits

An agile project is starting its seventh out of eight iterations In a planning meeting, the team realizes that an unidentified risk became an issue and the contingency reserve has to be used.

What should the project manager do?

A. Ask the sponsor to approve inclusion of an additional iteration to the project

B. Ask the team to include the contingency plan in the iteration backlog

C. Help the team review the project approach to initiate the corrective actions

D. Ask the sponsor for money to implement the contingency plan.

A project manager accepts a delivery at the project site but the items are of a poor quality The project manager gets the local vendor to fix the items but more deliveries from this vendor are expected What should the project manager do going forward?

A. Allocate extra time to inspect deliveries for quality assurance upon arrival at the site

B. Review the contract requirements and ask for the applicable evidence for quality assurance

C. Have the vendor issue the quality documentation prior to the next delivery.

D. Call the vendor and have them verbally guarantee the quality of the next site delivery

During a project’s third iteration, two of the existing team members were replaced As the project entered the next iteration, the team velocity dropped and the performance started to slip. What should the project manager do?

A. Guide the team to revert back to the forming and storming stages

B. Escalate the issue to the project sponsor.

C. Convene a team building event to address key performance indicators (KPIs).

D. Discuss the decrease in productivity with human resources

A company has hired a vendor to deliver a scope of work and assigned a project manager to oversee the project. The vendor advised that they completed the scope successfully and is asking for approval.

What should the project manager do in response to this request?

A. Obtain approval from the project sponsor.

B. Update the project management plan and mark the milestone as completed.

C. Ask the vendor to validate the agreement for any deviations.

D. Set up a meeting with stakeholders to validate and confirm acceptance of the deliverables.

A Scrum team working in an aircraft manufacturing company has completed Its first iteration for a critical project. It is very Important for the project sponsor to complete the project on time and under budget A burndown chart indicates that the project is behind schedule

Which two actions should the project manager take to manage Impediments and improve the team's velocity? (Choose two)

A. Look for processes that cause bottlenecks and slow down the team's agility

B. Assign the items with high complexity lo senior developers

C. Empower the learn to make decisions to remove impediments

D. Work with the team to remove impediments as quickly as possible

E. Move the items with high complexity to the last iterations

An organization is introducing agile to its projects. During an informal discussion the project manager learned that team members who are currently working on different teams are discussing how they would like to be together on the same team What should the project manager do?

A. The project manager should not allow resources to choose teams because the project manager assigns the resources based upon project needs

B. The project manager should not allow resources to choose on which team they would like to work because they will always choose their favorite team

C. The project manager should allow the resources to periodically choose on which team they would like to work.

D. The project manager should indicate that the team members have already been assigned to a team through workforce optimization