Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

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 large company has agreed on a business case for an environmental project. The project will cause some major changes in their operations, such as reduction in paper use, which will obviously affect all of the users.

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

A. Evaluate the impact to the users and create a plan to address it.

B. Inform users about the new changes and ask for their collaboration.

C. Ask all managers to collaborate implementing this change to users.

D. Start implementing the change so that users will eventually get used to it.

While developing a new product, a key stakeholder expresses concern about insufficient information on product feature requirements. The product team disagrees and mentions that detailed requirements have been provided.

What should the project manager do to handle this situation?

A. Organize a discussion with the product team to clarify the missing information.

B. Redirect the stakeholder to discuss this request with the functional manager.

C. Record the new requirements and ask the product team to develop them.

D. Conduct new risk and scope analyses, identifying the missing information.

A project team member complained to the project manager that they are not sure f on the latest requirements document because it was emailed to them about one week ago. They mentioned that, in the past they worked on a document tor more than 20 hours only to find out later that another team member had already updated that same document but did not send them the latest revisions.

What should the project manager do to avoid this situation in the future?

A. Encourage better team communication by positioning team members closer together.

B. Implement a project management information system (PMIS)

C. Update the communications management plan to ensure correct delivery of the latest version

D. Restrict team members from sending the requirements documents via email

A project manager notices that the team lacks a subject matter expert (SME) in a specific area. This expertise will be required for many future projects.

What should the project manager do?

A. Seek help from the project sponsor to get an SME from another team in the organization.

B. Provide an opportunity to one of the existing team members to become an SME.

C. Hire a contractor from outside of the organization to continue with the project.

D. Ask team members to document the issue and address it in the next project meeting.

A project manager is working on the budget for a long-term project. The project manager creates a work breakdown structure (WBS) and estimates the cost for each work package based on past projects.

What else does the project manager need to do before determining the budget baseline?

A. Look at a previous project to ensure the budget totals match.

B. Require all stakeholders to review and approve the estimates.

C. Revise the project timeline and scope based on the WBS.

D. Add contingency into the budget for inflation and other changes.

A project manager is leading a new agile project. The requirements for the first sprint have been defined and the work is about to start.

What should the project manager do next?

A. Assign the tasks to the resources based on their expertise.

B. Ensure that the priority of each task is clear to the team.

C. Ask the team to self-organize and manage the work assigned.

D. Tell the team which task to focus on at the next daily standup.

A team is assembled for a new project that will be using a predictive approach through requirements gathering and an agile approach for development and testing Not everyone on the team has experience working in agile. The schedule has started slipping due to the unclear structure of the agile development approach.

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

A. Established daily standup meetings to track and report on team progress and escalated delays to stakeholders as they occurred

B. Set up weekly status meetings to review team progress, prepared weekly status reports to track progress and regularly escalated delays

C. Met with the team, allowed team members to make decisions about what to do and established performance goals

D. Conducted routine meetings and identified team members who are under performing

In the past, the project manager and the project team performed well using predictive methodology. However, the organization recently decided to adopt agile approaches, and the project sponsor wants to use an agile approach in an upcoming project.

Before initiating the project, what should the project manager do?

A. Prepare a risk report that captures the probability and impact of risks, and then shareit with the project sponsor.

B. Share the organization's decision with the team and make plans to adopt an agileapproach in the upcoming project.

C. Make a request to human resources for new team members who have agileexperience.

D. Ask the project sponsor to change the approach back to predictive as that is theteam’s strength.

A project manager has recently been assigned to an agile project and discovers that a contractor for the project does not have any experience with agile. What should the project manager do?

A. Ask the project sponsor to replace the contractor since they do not have agile experience

B. Issue a formal notice to the contractor to obtain an agile certification

C. Consult the project team to understand the extent of the training needs for the contractor

D. Instruct the contractor to receive agile training since the project has already started

In the middle of an iteration a team member suggests a new method of doing things The method provides no value to the end customer, however it may help the team to work more efficiently The change may require several days of work to implement

How should the project manager respond to the suggestion?

A. The change should be considered and immediately added to the product backlog.

B. The change should be considered and presented to the project sponsor for approval

C. The change should be considered because it will help the team work more efficiently

D. The change should not be considered because it adds no value to the end customer

A product owner has an idea for a new product but is struggling to define the features because they are not certain of the perceived business value for each feature.

What should the project manager have the delivery team do to address this issue?

A. Assess the product roadmap to see if there is another product that is more suitable for the build.

B. Develop a minimum viable product (MVP) for assessment from a select customer group.

C. Commission a business analyst to research similar competitor products.

D. Complete a work breakdown structure (WBS) to assess the cost of each feature