Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

A project manager identifies an issue between two team members that is affecting the development of one of the deliverables during the second iteration of a project. How should the project manager address this issue to avoid any impact to the project?

A. Contact the functional managers to request substitutes for the conflicting team members.

B. Send a warning to both team members indicating that if the issue continues, both will be removed from the project.

C. Schedule a meeting with both team members to understand the issue and facilitate a solution that satisfies both parties.

D. Escalate both team members to their respective functional managers and let them take the appropriate actions

In a functional organization, a product analyst is assigned to a short-duration application development effort The analyst expresses concerns about the task and asks the project manager to provide the support of a peer with expertise in this domain

What should the project manager do?

A. Make sure the analyst has regular pairing meetings with the other team member throughout task execution

B. Ask the analyst to use skills to develop the tool, then move development to another team member

C. Enroll the analyst in a capacity-building program and keep this analyst assigned to the task

D. Recognize the analyst's concerns and reassign the task to another team member

Since the beginning of a project, the product owner keeps asking during ceremonies about the budget spent for each product iteration The product owner seems much more interested in the cost rather than the product itself.

What should the project manager have done earlier to change the product owner's behavior''

A. Worked on a fixed-price contract to switch the product owner's attention to value instead of money

B. Worked on a communications management plan with reports of budget spent in each iteration versus planned to avoid these discussions during ceremonies

C. Worked on different approaches of estimating to give confidence of the cost spent in each product increment.

D. Worked with the product owner to clarify their role in an agile project and the scope of the agile ceremonies

A company is developing a new product. During project planning, a stakeholder from the legal department does not attend any of the project meetings and is not interested in the product design.

How should the project manager deal with this situation?

A. Escalate the issue to the project sponsor and seek assistance.

B. Engage the project stakeholder and ensure all requirements are captured.

C. Review the stakeholder engagement plan and communication strategy.

D. Review the product requirements and update the stakeholder register.

As part of a temporary assignment, a project manager is leading a business project During a daily status meeting, it is discovered that the project manager's former department has not completed a task This is delaying the current iteration.

What should the project manager do?

A. Create an entry in the impediment board and assign it.

B. Invite the project team to a swarming session to define a solution

C. Leverage the network of the former department and ask for help

D. Escalate the issue to the product owner to define the next steps

In a project using a hybrid approach, the performance of the team was consistently excellent during the predictive stages. When the iterations began, however, the team members started to show signs of low commitment, conflicts, and confusion, resulting in low morale.

What should the project manager do to handle this situation?

A. Give team members more authority to make decisions.

B. Perform team-building activities and enhance collaboration.

C. Identify the team members who are impacting low morale.

D. Coach the team members on agile processes and knowledge.

A new team member is hired and the training is taking longer than expected. This impacts the overall project performance.

What immediate action should the project manager take to improve the situation?

A. Communicate this issue to the human resources department.

B. Provide additional training to the new hire.

C. Increase team cohesiveness by sharing information and experiences openly.

D. Update the issue log and define the mitigation strategy.

Having managed a similar project while working with previous stakeholders, a project team decided to use the same report format they used in the earlier project. However, stakeholders new to the project are not fully comprehending the status of the project based on the reports that are being circulated.

How should the project manager address this concern moving forward?

A. Add the issue to the issue log and determine the corrective action.

B. Create a fishbone diagram to determine the root cause for the misunderstanding.

C. Employ Monitor Communications techniques, which may eventually trigger changes to the communications management plan.

D. Share the communications management plan and remind all stakeholders of the agreed- upon reporting templates.

A project manager is working with a team that is new to agile. One of the more influential stakeholders struggles with the nature of agile. The project manager knows that this stakeholder is needed as an advocate and wants to do everything possible to make the stakeholder comfortable with the project.

What should the project manager include in the status report to illustrate the project's performance?

A. Results of the MoSCoW assessment

B. Cost-benefit analysis

C. Return on investment (ROI) analysis

D. Earned value analysis (EVA)

An equipment vendor will implement a new production line for a client company. The year- long project will include 2- to 4-month long iterations; however, the client's project manager has no agile experience.

How should the project manager ensure that the client is effectively represented in the daily meetings?

A. Recommend agile training programs that best suit the client project manager's schedule.

B. Realign the project to a predictive approach to ensure optimal collaboration between the teams.

C. Propose a session tor essential agile Knowledge transfer for the client team to align with the daily meeting goals

D. Provide the client project manager with agile best practice documents and web resources.

A company has transitioned and is now delivering projects using a hybrid approach instead of a predictive approach. The distributed project team's knowledge of agile is varied. The project manager feels the new methodology will impact the timely delivery of the project.

What should the project manager do?

A. Ask to execute the project with a predictive approach since there is a budget and schedule risk

B. agile tools and techniques used m the defined hybrid methodology for consistent application by all team members

C. Use the predictive approach tor team members who are not knowledgeable m agile project delivery practices

D. Use crashing to reduce the critical path to ensure enough buffer to include the impact of the agile methodology update

A project team that is very experienced in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems implementation is currently planning the delivery of a new ERP project. There is a requirement to reuse the client's security subsystem developed by a third party. The client states that integration with the security subsystem must be done by the client's team. The project manager does not want to have such an external dependency.

What should the project manager do first?

A. Plan the implementation of this integration in the first iteration to help reduce risks.

B. Record the issue in the issue log and closely manage this dependency.

C. Inform the client that the project team will take care of the integration.

D. Document the client's responsibility for the integration with the security subsystem.