Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

One of the team members is consistently absent in team meetings, but always completes their assigned tasks on time. Other team members think this member should attend the meetings.

What should the project manager do?

A. Assign this member to facilitate the next meeting to ensure project team collaboration.

B. Allow each team member to submit their required tasks on time and reduce the number of scheduled meetings.

C. Review and update the project ground rules to make meeting attendance mandatory.

D. Understand the reason for the team member's absence and encourage them to attend future meetings.

A project manager is working on a project that has strict deadlines and budget restrictions. The project manager realizes that in order to win the bid the company submitted a significantly tower bid than their local competitors leaving a thin profit margin. The client is constantly submitting change requests and. unfortunately, these change requests are stretching both the schedule and the budget

What should the project manager do?

A. Instruct the team to accommodate the changes to the project

B. Review the project charter to identify the agreed scope

C. Negotiate the impact of these changes with the client

D. Escalate the issue to senior management

A key import supply has suffered a delay of 6 months. The delay affects a functionality that is needed to complete the project on time. The project manager learns from the project te«... that another team is working on a product that could work as a solution, but it is still a prototype

What should the project manager do to accelerate this solution?

A. Contact the other project team and ask them to organize a demo of the prototype

B. Perform iterative planning with the team to use the prototype

C. Check the burnup charts to see what progress has been made to integrate the solution

D. Prioritize the backlog with the customer to remove the feature

A project manager has noticed that a critical team member is consistently arguing with a client. This has started to have a negative effect on the meetings.

How should the project manager address this?

A. Explain the impact of the scenario to the project team member.

B. Remove the project team member from all future meetings.

C. Talk to the client privately to highlight the situation.

D. Recommend a performance improvement plan to the project team member.

A customer asks the project manager about opportunities to create business value. What should the project manager do first in order to provide the customer with an appropriate response?

A. Examine the business value throughout the project.

B. Ask the team to organize a spike to identify more value.

C. Meet with the product owner to review the backlog.

D. Meet with the sponsor to review the business case.

A junior project manager is excited to start working on their first project with a telecommunications company, A senior project manager has decided to educate the junior project manager on the challenges of project management and how to achieve success.

Which three artifacts should the senior project manager tell the junior project manager to utilize to ensure project success? (Choose three)

A. Organizational process assets (OPAs)

B. Lesson learned registers from past projects

C. Historical issue logs

D. Project scope statement

E. Project management plan

During a project kick-off meeting the project manager tells team members that they can attend a weekly progress meeting either from home or the office. Which intangible stakeholder engagement quality is the project manager embracing to manage relationships?

A. Asking and listening

B. Being collaborative

C. Managing expectations

D. Building trust

A project manager is leading an automation project. The project team is colocated and includes people from both the technical and business units. The project manager discovers that personal differences and work styles are affecting the project negatively.

How should the project manager address this?

A. Develop a schedule that ensures people with personal differences work separately.

B. Use an approach to the project that does not involve colocation.

C. Meet with the team and agree on expectations from team members.

D. Invite the functional managers of the different units to address their personal differences.

A customer interacts directly with a Scrum team and continually requests changes in priorities. This causes confusion among the team members and they complain to the project manager.

What should the project manager do?

A. Advise the customer to discuss changes with the product owner.

B. Document this issue in the sprint backlog for discussion at a team meeting.

C. Ask the customer to submit a change request to the project sponsor.

D. Encourage the team to clarify the requests with the customer.

A project manager is leading a hybrid project. The self-organizing teams are continually late in delivering their demos, resulting in low morale. The steering committee is familiar with the reporting and planning associated with a predictive approach and is concerned about the project because it is unclear if the expected value will be delivered.

What should the project manager do?

A. Emphasize to the teams the importance of reaching the agreed deadlines and value.

B. Request to coach the team to ensure motivated project team members are on board.

C. Update the project schedule with a buffer to reflect the expected delays being incurredby the team.

D. Suggest to the teams to limit the scope of work per iteration so they will start to delivermore reliably.

A member of the board of directors has asked the project manager for the estimated cost of the minimum viable product (MVP). The estimated cost is needed in order to get formal approval for this project

How should the project manager report this cost?

A. Estimate user story points and forecast a budget for that deliverable

B. Determine the control accounts and use a top bottom estimate

C. Consider the cost performance index (CPl) based on earned value (EV) divided by costs

D. Calculate the budget at completion (BAC) based on the completed and planned features

A project manager working on a large-scale network implementation is frustrated with the hardware supplier. Their deliveries have been consistently late and frequently do not have vital components. The project manager's company has decided to cancel the contract and move to a new supplier, but the only other option is an overseas company.

What should the project manager do first to proceed with this change?

A. Engage the services of an interpreter who understands the project domain.

B. Check social media to determine if there are any common connections that use the new supplier.

C. Request assistance from the procurement department on the next steps.

D. Become aware of any cultural characteristics of the new supplier that could impactnegotiation.