Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

In an agile team, some of the team members are coming forward to ask for more autonomy on the project. What should the project manager do in this situation?

A. Encourage the team members to make decisions.

B. Discourage them as conflicts may be created.

C. Encourage the team lead to make decisions.

D. Discourage this request, as it is for the management team.

A project manager is working with an agile team to enhance a product. Due to a tight deadline, the team is trying to crash the schedule by engaging multiple resources to work on the project simultaneously. However, the technical environment is configured to allow only one resource to work on a feature at a time. The team plans to upgrade the technical environment but is unable to agree on a way forward.

What should the project manager do first?

A. Conduct a consensus-building session to decide how to approach the next set of work.

B. Escalate the issue to the product owner for resolution.

C. Add this conflict to the agenda for discussion at the next daily standup meeting.

D. Conduct a planning session to decide how to approach the next set of work.

An agile project manager has learn members from different continents on the project team. During the dairy scrum meetings the project manager notices that there are gaps in understanding about the project goals and objectives

What should the project manager do?

A. Schedule team-building activities to encourage collaboration among the team

B. Coach the team members to resolve the gaps in understanding

C. Conduct a kick-off meeting and communicate the goals and objectives of the project

D. Continue the meetings and communicate the goals and objectives to resolve the gaps

A contract has fust been awarded for an automation project that was supported by the local community. The project manager was warned by the elected officials that the project cannot proceed.

Why did this action occur?

A. Inadequate funds for the automation project

B. Inadequate engagement of the political stakeholders

C. Lack of competence to manage the automation project

D. Lack of a proper legal framework in place

During the early phases of a project, mitigation actions were not executed in a timely manner; therefore, the project schedule was impacted. Several project stakeholders are now frustrated with the delays.

What should the project manager have done to manage the issue?

A. Identified and reported the issue

B. Monitored and controlled the issue

C. Identified the appropriate response and had it implemented

D. Communicated any identified action to impacted stakeholders

A project manager realizes that the team members are new to the hybrid approach and do not value standup meetings. Team members often arrive late. Digress into solutioning. or skip the meetings altogether.

How should the project manager improve this situation with the project team?

A. Engage the project team In implementing and Improving key aspects of the standup meetings.

B. Ask the product owner to remove team members who do not comply with standup meeting rules.

C. Send a daily retrospective report to all team members instead of holding standup meetings.

D. Include a daily brainstorming session In the standup meetings to resolve pending Issues.

A project manager has recently joined a small company. The company's chief operating officer (COO) asked the team to skip some steps in the process in order to work more quickly. The project manager wants to ensure that these steps are not skipped in the future.

What should the project manager do?

A. Notify all team members that all steps in the process must be completed.

B. Escalate the issue to the other executive leadership members.

C. Schedule a review of the process steps with the team and the COO.

D. Redesign the process so the team can move more quickly.

An international client contacted a software development company to build out a software product, and an agile project manager was assigned. At one of the review meetings, the client complains that a feature mentioned at the initial debriefing was not implemented.

What should the project manager do?

A. Include the mentioned feature in the prioritized requirements list.

B. Assign a team member to immediately start working on that feature.

C. Review the original project documentation to confirm.

D. Treat it as a change request and assess the effect on the project's goals.

A team member is always late to work. The project manager is concerned that this may affect the motivation of other team members The project manager tells the new team member to align with the team's principles and arrive on time

What kind of conflict resolution did the project manager apply in this situation?

A. Smooth/accommodate

B. Compromise/reconcile

C. Collaborate/problem solve

D. Force/direct

An organization is producing a product using a hybrid approach with several phases. Some of the phases are planned to be executed in predictive and some in agile. During the agile phase, the project manager notices that the team members sometimes unknowingly work on the same task.

What should the project manager do?

A. Communicate the task assignments to the team members in a clear manner.

B. Verify that the product owner has made the task assignments clear.

C. Confirm that the agile coach has made the task assignments clear.

D. Verify that the team members have made the task assignments clear.

In a hybrid project, 100 new base stations are being added to a 4G mobile network every month. At the end of the first month, the team is behind the target and the operator is losing money. The stakeholders are requesting information on when the base stations can go live and begin to bill.

What should the project manager do to take the schedule back and accelerate the return on investment (ROI) of the project?

A. Change the project approach to predictive.

B. Increase reporting to the business.

C. Clarify the agile and predictive modules.

D. Reconsider necessary schedule reserves.

A project team is facing challenges understanding how to deliver a project's scope. A senior subject matter expert (SME) from the organization's global office is in town for 1 week.

What should the project manager do to benefit from the SME's presence?

A. Ask the SME to review the scope for alignment with the project charter.

B. Organize a mentoring session with the team and the SME.

C. Meet with the SME to discuss the current challenges the team is facing.

D. Review the project scope statement with the SME.