Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

A project manager has been assigned to complete a worksite project that was started by a different project manager. The project is now in the execution stage. Upon careful review, the project manager realizes that the local community was not included in the stakeholder register, which has resulted in extreme opposition from the community.

How should the project manager handle this issue?

A. Disregard these stakeholders since the relevant documents have been secured to execute this project.

B. Update the stakeholder register and risk management plan.

C. Update the stakeholder register and revise the stakeholder engagement plan.

D. Explain to the community members why they were not included as stakeholders for the project.

A project manager has received a new request to integrate more features to a product. The team is fully allocated, and there is no budget to acquire new resources.

What strategy should the project manager implement to deal with this situation?

A. Ask the team.to accelerate the iterations and avoid interruptions.

B. Discuss the problem with the team and decide how to do the work together.

C. Verify team performance and ask for improvement during daily standup meetings.

D. Recommend that the project sponsor increases the budget to bring new resources.

A project manager is responsible for providing a budget estimate for a long-term project that will be executed over several years. Which essential task should the project manager implement at this phase?

A. Include key risks in the cost baseline.

B. Perform an analogous estimate.

C. Perform a bottom-up estimate.

D. Include projected inflation rates.

During a meeting to define project scope a stakeholder tells the project manager that the main requested feature in the contract is not applicable, and this is documented m the lessons learned. What should the project manager do?

A. Check with the team to learn what can be done, and consult an expert

B. Ask the sponsor to close the project and pay the contracted penalty.

C. Check that this information was documented correctly

D. Meet with the sponsor to ask for their support

A project manager has just been assigned to a project to build new software for a client. All the requirements have been gathered.

What should the project manager tell the team members to focus on?

A. Reducing cost for the customer

B. Delivering value to the customer

C. Working together as a team

D. Finishing the project on schedule

The team architect resigned from the company. The new architect points out a design flaw during a planning meeting that may potentially impact the final quality.

What should the project manager do first?

A. Review the scope management plan.

B. Update the design with changes.

C. Request an architecture review.

D. Update the quality management plan

A project team was established for a community impacted by oil and gas exploration activities. The team is required to interact with several external stakeholders. The local council authority has requested a meeting with the project team to discuss the impact of the project on the community. The project manager was not available at the time of the meeting, and the team was in disagreement regarding who should attend the meeting.

What should the project manager have done to prevent this conflict?

A. Provided copies of the stakeholder engagement plan to all team members.

B. Defined the roles and responsibilities of the team members.

C. Updated the communications management plan.

D. Established ground rules for the team

A team member has indicated their user story will not be finished until the end of the iteration as their functional manager has requested they assist in resolving a high-priority production issue. What should the project manager do?

A. Discuss with the product owner that the user story will not be completed this iteration.

B. Meet with the team member's functional manager to try to remove the impediment.

C. Tell the project team member not to work on the production issue and to inform their manager.

D. Escalate the issue to the project sponsor to resolve and adjust the project burndown chart.

A project manager for a large project's agile team is developing new workflows to meet changing business needs. As the second sprint is running, the product owner and agile team begin to receive more details that impact the scope change of running items. The agile team requests a change in the sprint goals and sprint backlog items.

What should the project manager do?

A. Create a parallel sprint to deliver the additional items.

B. Guide the agile team to add the new scope to the product backlog.

C. Pause the sprint to allow time to include the new items.

D. Moderate the expectations for sprint quality.

Close to the end of a project, a customer claims that some deliverables have not been met and starts initiating change requests. What should the project manager do next?

A. Refer to the requirements traceability matrix.

B. Revise the project scope baseline

C. Escalate the change request to the project sponsor.

D. Review the approved project charter.

A project manager is assigned to a technical research project. The project team has already been assigned, and the main subject matter expert (SME) sends the project manager a list of the technical skills required for the execution of this project.

What should the project manager do next?

A. Send the list to the project team and ask them to get training on the required skills.

B. Ask the functional manager to review the resource pool and recommend the right individuals to join the team.

C. Discuss the list with the project sponsor to confirm that the resources have the required skills.

D. Meet with the project team to understand their skills and identify potential gaps and training requirements.

A company is initiating a project to decommission inefficient sales channels. Several stakeholders argue that one channel that indicates a downturn in generating value is still more efficient than some of the channels that are planned to remain.

What should the project manager do?

A. Plan for incremental and iterative delivery based on feedback from the marketing and sales team.

B. Review and update the success criteria to ensure that the channel is not decommissioned.

C. Inform the stakeholders that the list of channels to be decommissioned was approved by the CEO.

D. Escalate the objection to the steering committee and human resources (HR) as a personal intimidation incident.