Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

A project manager is managing an internal project that was poorly defined. Recently, the project manager received several change requests raised by the organization's upper management.

What should the project manager do first?

A. Review the benefits of the proposed changes in relation to the business case.

B. Assess the time overrun, and start implementation to avoid additional delays.

C. Request a provisional budget increase to avoid any budget overruns.

D. Motivate the team to avoid the frustration of working on a prolonged project.

A project is being initiated, and almost every resource available on the project team is a recent university graduate. What should the project manager do to ensure their engagement with the project?

A. Provide clear direction on the work to be done and its alignment to the major objectives of the organization, using technology to communicate.

B. Establish a clear hierarchical environment and allow them to navigate through the project faster using social networks.

C. Foster proactive decision making and develop a hierarchy to approve decisions based on different levels of complexity.

D. Create an environment that encourages leadership, translates ambitions into growth opportunities, and rewards overtime workers.

A team is working on a project using a hybrid approach, and they are facing a lot of obstacles and blockers from some stakeholders. What should the project manager do to improve project performance?

A. Ask stakeholders to communicate with the project manager and not directly with the team

B. Empower the team members to remove obstacles and blockers

C. Address and remove obstacles and blockers for the team

D. Add blockers to the issue log and risk management plan

A company is moving its headquarters to another city. The project manager responsible for the assignment has been using a predictive approach during the transition. However, the information systems will be migrated using an agile approach. The project manager needs to decide which kind of control to sign with the vendor responsible for migrating the systems.

How should the project manager address this situation?

A. Negotiate payment after all project migration is completed

B. Sign a single agreement for the whole project

C. Use fixed-price increments as user stories are completed.

D. Confirm payment after each project retrospective

At the end of the last iteration, the customer rejects the deliverables since they did not meet the customer's expectations. What should the project manager have been done to prevent this situation?

A. Involved the customer more in the planning process for the project, and ensuredagreement on the proceedings.

B. Included all relevant criteria in the agreed upon definition of done (DoD), and crafted a shared product vision.

C. Provided the customer with the backlog and the specified user stories at the beginning of the iteration.

D. Developed the DoD in close cooperation with all stakeholders to ensure their expectations were included.

A project manager is assigned to a new project. The project management office (PMO) and the project manager agree that this is the right opportunity to include daily standup meetings. The project team has never used such tools, and a few members are challenging the decision.

What should the project manager do in this situation?

A. Engage an external vendor to perform the design phase under an iterative approach.

B. Request that new team members familiar with iterative approaches be assigned to this project.

C. Update the project schedule to consider a daily standup as part of the project design phase.

D. Define the ground rules, responsibilities, and conflict management strategies.

An agile team is making infrastructure changes to the human resources (HR) application system. Conflicting requirements are being submitted by various stakeholders.

What should the project manager do to help move the project forward?

A. Review documents provided by other teams, such as lessons learned and the risk matrix.

B. Attend the Scrum of Scrums to identify roadblocks and manage dependencies.

C. Study the technology to assist the team in decision-making if progress slows.

D. Encourage the stakeholders to collaborate by facilitating meetings and sharing knowledge.

At the closing phase of the project the project manager sends the completion reports to the client as a formal written document, indicating that the contract has been completed The client refuses to approve the document since the defect rate is 0.1%. The project manager insists that it is an acceptable rate as the standard defect rate of the industry is 0.15%.

What should have been done to avoid this situation?

A. The acceptance criteria should have been properly defined in the contract

B. The client requirements should have been clearly defined in the contract

C. The Manage Quality process should have been appropriately conducted

D. The project manager should have reviewed the standard industry defect rate

An agile project is running its fifth iteration out of 10. After the last retrospective, the team members realize that they had to work extra hours to deliver the committed work What should the project manager do?

A. Ask for additional team members to maintain the velocity

B. Implement a checkpoint in the iteration to verify if the team is on track

C. Conduct a focused retrospective to help the team to discover the root cause

D. Ask the team to have a lower commitment for the next iteration

A contractor delivering construction services to a company is using agile principles to manage the project tasks. Engineers are producing frequent design changes due to new legislation. There is a risk the contractor may lose money due to resources waiting on design changes or performing rework.

What should the project manager do to minimize the cost?

A. Put the project on hold until all definitions are ready in order to avoid rework.

B. Review the backlog with the product owner and prioritize the tasks that are least likely to be affected by a change in legislation.

C. Capture the engineers' feedback at the daily meeting and communicate it to the product owner.

D. Cancel the project release resources, then start again when all the definitions are ready.

Two team members were recently released from a project because the customer reduced the budget. However, the agile team is still receiving the same, if not more, work requirements as before.

How should the agile project leader resolve this situation?

A. Update the restriction log with the new team capacity.

B. Explain the new project requirements to the team.

C. Update the project budget with the released team members.

D. Explain the new team velocity to the customer

For an ongoing project, match the key performance indicators (KPIs) on the left to the correct categories on the right.