Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

A company's CEO has just returned from a conference on the use of artificial intelligence (Al) and would like the project manager to implement this technology in the organization What should the project manager do first?

A. Start developing a business case.

B. Start a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT).

C. Engage stakeholders and allocate resources

D. Gather requirements from stakeholders

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 is working on a software development project. A team member complains that since the project tasks are very simple, there is no reason to perform quality control The project manager understands that removing the quality management plan from the project will also help to save money, which is important to the customer What should the project manager do?

A. Register starting the project without a quality management plan as a risk, and allocate the budget savings to the management reserve

B. Develop the quality management plan, as quality is as equally important as cost and schedule management.

C. Get confirmation from management that the team member has enough experience to build software without quality control

D. Ask the customer to order an external quality audit after accepting the project deliverable, and decrease the budget of the project

An operations manager continuously raises concerns about a project's benefits to the company While some concerns are valid most of the time these concerns have caused delays in project meetings

How should the project manager handle this'?

A. Discuss the meeting delays with the director of operations and ask for support with the concerns.

B. Review the operations manager's concerns and ensure these concerns are addressed

C. Escalate the concerns to the project sponsor and discuss options to address them

D. Include the operations manager's concerns in the risk register and assign actions to mitigate the risks.

An organization has recently decided to switch from a predictive to an agile delivery approach. The one ongoing project will still be led by a project manager. The agile teams for that project have not produced any documentation.

What should the project manager of the ongoing project do?

A. Submit new user stories to the product owner in order to put documentation in the product backlog.

B. Introduce a document management tool to support the agile teams in preparing the documentation.

C. Check with the agile teams to see if the project manager's understanding of the Agile Manifesto is correct.

D. Add an additional team member to take up the role of scribe for the required documentation.

A large organization decided to adopt an agile methodology based on the trends seen in the industry. The organization invested a large amount of money in adopting it, but after a few months, the implementation failed.

What should the project manager have done differently to avoid the implementation failure?

A. Conducted agile training for all employees ranging from the project teams through mid-level to upper-level management.

B. Conducted a postmortem and captured the learning in organizational process assets (OPAs) for future use.

C. Assessed the organization's culture, performed a suitability analysis, and determined the future state.

D. Hired a third-party agile delivery team to do the implementation.

An agile project team discovers that they are unable to implement a feature completely in the first iteration The team believes it may not be able to complete the tasks in the second iteration. The feature is a critical component that the customer has prioritized.

What should the team do?

A. Go back to the customer and explain that they cannot implement the feature completely in one iteration.

B. Reduce the scope of the feature to fit into one iteration and deliver it to the customer

C. Ask the customer to simplify the feature so that it can be implemented in one iteration

D. Split the feature into smaller subfeatures. implement them, and then deliver them incrementally in multiple iterations

At a meeting to receive approval for the project management plan, a project manager realizes that there is so much detail in the presentation that many of the stakeholders are not actively engaged in the process. The stakeholders are agreeing to the scope, goals, and timelines without giving them substantial thought.

How should the project manager proceed?

A. Stop the meeting and reschedule for another time with a more concise presentation.

B. Set up information review sessions before reconvening another approval session.

C. Get approval and promise to email more information to the stakeholders to clarify the technical details.

D. Obtain approval as fast as possible and close the meeting.

A project manager Is transitioning from a predictive We cycle project to a new agile project How should the project manager manage and control the scope for the new project?

A. Create a scope baseline and put the rest as backlog activities.

B. Estimate the work the team can complete and define story sizes to keep the project under control.

C. Develop a plan to complete more work In less time.

D. Spend a short amount of time defining the scope and building prototypes to refine the requirements.

A highly skilled team resource received a job offer and is leaving the project soon What should the project manager do to maintain project performance while a new team member is being onboarded?

A. Log a risk in the risk register and work with the new team member to mitigate it

B. Motivate the new team member to perform.

C. Share project documents with the new team member.

D. Offer cross-training and mentoring to the new team member

A team has been working together for several months and has successfully delivered work. A new team member has joined the team but is having difficulty contributing.

What should the project manager do to help the new team member integrate effectively?

A. Give the new team member time to contribute until they ask for help and support.

B. Assign the new team member tasks so that the team member knows on what to focus.

C. Approach the team member to identify any issues and then plan a resolution accordingly.

D. Review the project with the team member to ensure the project scope is understood

A project manager is transferred to another country to perform a project within their organization. What should the project manager do first to ensure collaboration within the team for a successful delivery?

A. Determine a leadership style that is suitable for that location.

B. Check if resources from headquarters can also be assigned to the project.

C. Mentor the team members to perform project management.

D. Assign a local resource to manage communication with the team.