Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

The project manager of a large construction project discovers that the blueprints received from the client appear incomplete. What should the project manager do first?

A. Reschedule the project execution date.

B. Continue project execution using the current blueprints from the client.

C. Escalate this issue to the project sponsor

D. Consult with the client to determine if project execution should be continued.

During the execution of a financial project, a project manager met with the project team weekly to evaluate the project's progress. However, the sponsor requests that project performance be checked daily. The key team members disagree with this requirement and argue that they do not have enough time to go to daily meetings because they are at an executive level.

What should the project manager do first?

A. Negotiate with the key team members to send a daily report and let the sponsor know that the project cost will increase. ty

B. Recommend to the sponsor that performance of the project be reviewed once per week.

C. Review the communications management plan and submit a change request if required.

D. Evaluate the capacity of each team member to attend daily meetings in person or virtually and reduce the time of each meeting.

A project in aerospace design has run into a substantial technical issue, and the project team is uncertain on how to proceed. With whom should the project manager call a meeting to discuss the issue?

A. Project stakeholders and the team

B. External subject matter experts (SMEs) and the team

C. Project sponsor and the team

D. Project sponsor and the external SMEs

A new project manager is assigned to a project in the execution stage. A few key stakeholders inform the new project manager that the project has some serious issues.

What should the newly assigned project manager do first to understand the issues?

A. Escalate the issues to the project sponsor.

B. Review the issues log to ensure the issues are captured.

C. Check the risk management plan to ensure there is a strategy to address the issues.

D. Ask the key stakeholders to discuss the issues with the project team.

A project manager is appointed for the deployment of a new solution. The solution will be integrated into the environment by a third-party vendor. This vendor just announced a delay in delivering a key component, which will impact the project schedule.

What should the project manager do?

A. Ensure that relevant stakeholders and expectations are identified and assess the component delay.

B. Perform a detailed analysis of the release content for each component of the solution.

C. Propose a new design of the solution to replace the external component with an internal one.

D. Ask for expedited delivery of the component to mitigate the risk of schedule delays.

A project manager is leading a virtual team that is geographically dispersed. What should the project manager do to avoid uncertainty in the project due to different cultures?

A. Start the project and add any uncertainty that arises to the risk register.

B. Dissolve the virtual team and build a colocated team.

C. Gather relevant cultural data and engage members in discussions covering their work ethics.

D. Build a culturally neutral team that will not be affected by cultural differences.

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

According to the project contract the delivery date is approaching However one important material is still not on site The construction work will have to stop and wait for this special material, delaying the project.

What should the project manager do?

A. Record it in the risk register

B. Ask the client to help solve the problem

C. Start procuring this material from another supplier.

D. Engage the project team to look for alternatives to find a solution

A self-organizing team was delivering as committed. The team accepted a development task with new technology and the iterations started to have reduced velocity. What management decision is suited for this situation?

A. Provide opportunity for team members to learn and adjust to the technology.

B. Move team members who are not performing from the team.

C. Add new members to the team and increase the velocity

D. Re-assign the project to a team that has worked with this technology

A project manager has taken over an existing project According to the previous project manager, the project is on track and within budget However, stakeholders are unhappy with the recent progress report since the metrics show that the project is delayed and the cost is higher than expected.

What should the project manager do?

A. Schedule a meeting with the previous project manager

B. Submit a change request to the change control board (CCB)

C. Schedule training for project team members

D. Conduct an earned value analysis (EVA)

At the end of a project, the project manager is asked to submit project documentation for an internal audit in response to regulatory requirements. What should the project manager have done at the beginning of the project to ensure that project documentation would fulfill these requirements?

A. Conducted a document review

B. Confirmed documentation requirements with stakeholders

C. Updated the project templates

D. Implemented a new change control policy

The project manager has finished all the tasks of the project and immediately starts on a new project. A few months after beginning the new project, the accounting manager asks for confirmation of previous projects because the budget is still open with no further cash flows.

What should the project manager have done?

A. Conveyed task completion information to accounting

B. Closed the procurement process properly

C. Completed the transition process

D. Performed administrative closure of the project