Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

A retail company identifies that it is losing sales because customers are not promptly informed about promotions and sales points. The company needs to react quickly. A project charter is created along with requests to develop a mobile application for the customer. The marketing department has a long list of features to add to the application, but there are no specifications.

Considering the objective to deploy customer value, which project life cycle approach should be chosen?

A project manager notices that the response action for an identified issue is insufficient for solving the problem What should the project manager do next?

A. Include the issue in the risk register and update the team

B. Document the continuing issue and failed solution

C. Inform the stakeholders about the failure and update the issue log

D. Meet with the project team to find another solution

During the planning for a long project, the project manager recognized that several members of the team are new to their roles. How should the project manager incorporate this into planning?

A. Increase the overall project duration to account for the inexperienced team memberson the project.

B. Ensure planning has accounted for replacing team members in new project roles whodo not deliver on project goals.

C. Assess the training requirements and ensure time for professional developmenttraining by senior members.

D. Revisit the project resource allocation to remove the inexperienced team membersassigned to the project.

The sponsor approaches the project manager with new features they want added to the project. The project is 95% complete, but the sponsor insists that continued support for the project relies on the addition of the new features.

What should the project manager do?

A. Assess the impact of the features and refer it to the change control board (CCB).

B. Implement the new features after assessing the impact.

C. Reject the new features since it amounts to gold plating.

D. Add the new features to avoid losing the sponsor's support for the project.

A project selection committee is shortlisting projects for the coming year. Which selection criteria should the project manager recommend?

A. Projects with the least duration

B. Projects that maximize the business value

C. Projects with maximum revenue generation

D. Projects with the least associated risks

A project sponsor has requested a trend analysis of all risks that the project has monitored over the past 12 months. What should the agile project manager do?

A. Share the annual report with the sponsor.

B. Organize a stakeholder meeting to brainstorm on general project risks.

C. Extract this from the project risk register tracking tool and issues log.

D. Refer the sponsor to the contract document.

During the setup of an agile project, the product owner expressed clear interest in having features released during product development over having the product completed in one year. What should the project manager do?

A. Promote a productive environment where everybody can work without interruptionsfrom the rest of the team members.

B. Create a reward system recognizing group contributions to get people motivated andimprove performance.

C. Facilitate sprint planning sessions with a focus on defining the minimum viable product(MVP).

D. Design a set of metrics including velocity, which is a good measure of value delivered.

A project manager is managing a hybrid project. There is software in place to access the repository of project artifacts However a few stakeholders are reporting that they are unable to find the latest project schedule

What should the project manager do?

A. Advise the project management office (PMO) that there is a resource gap for sharing project artifacts effectively

B. Escalate the issue to the steering committee and ask them to deal with the stakeholders' lack of training

C. Make sure all stakeholders have access to the system and know where to find project artifacts

D. Send the project schedule via email to the stakeholders who need that information

A hybrid project manager has taken over a large-scale software development project m a highly regulated environment. During a handover session the outgoing project manager explains that they devised their own status reports which is different from the project management office's (PMO's) status report style. The project stakeholders are extremely particular about the information they receive in updates and do not believe the PMO's status reports have sufficient enough information

How should the new project manager proceed*?

A. Continue using the outgoing project manager's status reports as well as their approach for schedule reporting

B. Explain to the PMO that the hybrid project team needs to keep an agile approach for reporting and will not be complying with the organizational standard

C. Change the status reports according to the template supplied by the PMO and proceed with scheduled reporting

D. Meet with the project stakeholders to explain the need to comply with the PMO standards and update the status report format accordingly

A protect manager is struggling to obtain participation from key stakeholders who do not usually attend project meetings What should the project manager do1?

A. Distribute the communications management plan

B. Reschedule meetings lo align with the stakeholders' availability

C. Escalate the issue to senior management

D. Set clear meeting expectations by sharing agendas in advance

A large company is transitioning its projects to an agile approach After the transition executive management requests the information that was previously available in old reports and dashboards Many of the old reports and dashboards are no longer relevant after the shift to agile practices.

What should the project manager do in this situation?

A. Explain to the management team that reporting and management dashboards are not effective agile practices

B. Ask the management team to review the endorsed agile concepts to prove that the old information s not relevant

C. Help the management team understand how the change to an agile approach impacts the relevance of certain reports and key performance indicators (KPls)

D. Remind the management team that an agile approach empowers teams to be self- directed and therefore there is no need for reporting

A company is moving to a hybrid approach and conducted capacity activities for all of the project managers. During these capacity-building activities, the focus was on agile approaches and team facilitation skills. When starting the implementation phase, the project managers faced issues motivating the newly hired agile staff.

Why are the project managers having issues motivating the agile staff?

A. The capacity building activities missed the servant leadership concept transfer.

B. Transitional periods normally cause this type of problem.

C. The agile staff is not used to being led by a project manager.

D. Project managers are expected to become coaches in agile teams.