Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

In a construction project for a new building, the project manager decides to apply agile principles for the building foundation phase While evaluating the project schedule with the team, the project manager believes that the estimates are inaccurate. How should the project manager address this issue?

A. Create a product backlog

B. Perform sprint reviews with the team

C. Assess the previous project velocity

D. Reduce the story size by splitting stories

A new team member inquires about how much they need to learn about the organizational process assets (OPAs) residing on the company intranet. Another team member states they only need to know the basics. However, the project manager believes the team member should know everything regarding the OPAs.

What should the project manager do?

A. Create a training schedule for the new team member to follow over the next few weeks.

B. Escalate the inquiry to the team member's functional manager.

C. Clarify the relevance of reviewing the documentation on the intranet.

D. Ask a senior team member to help the new team member navigate through all the documentation.

A project manager is managing a megaproject. The project stakeholders are from different geographical areas and have diverse cultural and social backgrounds. The project manager wants to improve team productivity to realize more effective and efficient results.

Which action should the project manager take?

A. Empower team members to participate in decision-making and take ownership of actions.

B. Implement a flexible work schedule policy to eliminate the time zone problems among stakeholders.

C. Encourage team members to network so that they know each other's cultural backgrounds.

D. Provide a relaxed work schedule policy and encourage team members to work from home.

A project manager is managing the scope of the project and creating a work breakdown structure (WBS) with the team members. How should the project manager organize the WBS?

A. Cost oriented

B. Deliverable oriented

C. Customer oriented

D. Team oriented

A project manager is tasked with managing a customer relationship management (CRM) implementation project. The project charter is approved, and the project is now in the planning phase. The project manager meets with the stakeholders several times to gather the initial requirements. However, each time they meet, the stakeholders provide additional information that is different from what they provided earlier. The stakeholders are becoming frustrated, and the sponsor is now unresponsive.

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

A. Initiated requirements planning to analyze, document, and manage requirements

B. Applied requirements elicitation to involve engaging stakeholders consistently in the requirements process

C. Implemented the change request process to harness change to the stakeholders’ advantage

D. Used progressive elaboration to enhance the scope management plan with additional details

A project team's performance has declined for the last three iterations Some of the team members are disappointed, and raise their concerns during the retrospective meeting What should the project manager do?

A. Focus on remediation not merely on correcting symptoms

B. Compare the team's performance against other project teams

C. Identify potential failure points based on the iteration workload

D. Motivate the team to perform better

A project manager is working with an agile team. A key stakeholder who does not join the sprint planning session is very unhappy, as the delivery date for the final product has been pushed back three times. What should the project manager do?

A. Meet with the stakeholder to understand the concern and business impact, reprioritize as necessary, and invite them to join the sprint planning session.

B. Direct the product owner to drop other work in progress and work on this stakeholder’s requirement as the top-priority item.

C. Share the prioritized items that the team is working on with the stakeholder and invite them to join the sprint planning session.

D. Secure some additional funding to recruit more resources to the project team to enable faster delivery.

The project management office (PMO) assigns a project manager who specializes in hybrid approaches to a predictive project that is off track from both the cost and schedule perspectives. The project runs into further delays as the project manager is ramping up on the project. The stakeholders and ask senior management to replace the project manager.

How should the project manager approach this situation?

A. Meet with the stakeholders to understand their concerns and define an action plan to resolve issues.

B. Continue to work on the project until the stakeholders and management come to a decision.

C. Socialize with the stakeholders to better understand their needs and reset expectations.

D. Escalate the stakeholder issue to the management team and ask for help with resolving the conflict.

A project manager has noticed that the performance of a new team member has increased dramatically over the past few months The project manager has been measuring this team member's performance through the cost performance index (CPl) and schedule performance index (SPl) of work packages. The project manager has also assigned new. unrelated work packages to this team member The project manager wants to formally record the team member's success in the project documentation

What should the project manager do?

A. Attach a note to the project management plan about the team member

B. Hold a project team meeting about the team member's contribution and take minutes

C. Record the team member's contribution in the responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)

D. Send a communication to management recognizing the team member's contributions

A project manager scheduled a session to identify risks on the current project. Most of the stakeholders did not attend the meeting, although they previously confirmed their attendance.

How should the project manager proceed in order to complete the risk register?

A. Cancel the meeting and create the risk register using the project documents.

B. Continue the meeting and send the updated risk register to all stakeholders.

C. Run the meeting and follow up with each one of the absent stakeholders to get their input.

D. Escalate the issue of stakeholders not attending the meeting to the project sponsor.

A project manager and a stakeholder have different opinions on the budget estimates for a project that is being initiated based on a new consumer privacy law. What would be a reason for this difference in opinion?

A. The communications management plan was not used by all stakeholders.

B. Organizational assets were not available to back the rationale.

C. Relative estimation by the team resulted in two estimates.

D. The use of the Monte Carlo method can result in different estimations.

A senior management team member contacts an agile project lead and mentions that certain features the senior manager thought would be in the current release were not included. What should the agile project lead do?

A. Assure the senior manager that these features will be queued up in the next sprint.

B. Meet with the team to understand why the senior manager’s features were not included.

C. Invite the senior manager to the next planning meeting.

D. Send the product roadmap to the senior manager.