Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

A project manager is assigned to develop a wire bending machine midway through the design phase. The project manager discovered that the team did not have any test cases or acceptance criteria tor the equipment. The project manager started communication with the team to move the project forward
What should the project manager do first at this pomp

A. Meet with the quality planning manager to identify the reason why the quality plan was not created yet

B. Meet with the hardware design engineers to identify the minimum performance required to establish a market for the machine

C. Meet with the sales and marketing teams to identify the requirements that were collected during the interview sessions with potential customers

D. Meet with the key stakeholders to identify the proper product concept for the development team

A concerned project team member complains to the project manager that another team member is being disruptive and argumentative during team meetings. The project manager received some information that the team member recently overcame a difficult personal situation. What should the project manager do to address the concem9

A. Provide team-building activities so that the team can learn how to overcome disruptive behavior

B. Inform the disruptive team member's functional manager that the disruptive behavior should be stopped immediately

C. Request a meeting with the disruptive team member and help to resolve the issue

D. Encourage self-governance and ask the concerned team member to speak to the disruptive team member directly

A new manufacturing line project is planned to be delivered in iterations tor the equipment installation phase. During one of the iterations the vendor communicates to the project manager that they will not be able to deliver some of the equipment at the agreed dates. What should the project manager do next?

A. Replan the remaining iterations according to the new installation dates

B. Update the product backlog m order to address the delays

C. Review the procurement agreements to address the situation

D. Find another vendor who can fulfill the delivery dates

A project manager must manage a virtual application control software team that is culturally and geographically diverse. The project manager wants to promote open collaboration in a Realtime manner. What should the project manager do?

A. Provide a software for instant messaging.

B. Document all information on the team wiki.

C. Promote the use of remote site syndication.

D. Facilitate regular conference calls.

In the past, the project manager and the project team performed well using predictive methodology. However, the organization recently decided to adopt agile approaches, and the project sponsor wants to use an agile approach in an upcoming project.

Before initiating the project, what should the project manager do?

A. Prepare a risk report that captures the probability and impact of risks, and then share it with the project sponsor.

B. Share the organization's decision with the team and make plans to adopt an agile approach in the upcoming project.

C. Make a request to human resources for new team members who have agile experience.

D. Ask the project sponsor to change the approach back to predictive as that is the team’s strength.

Toward the end of a protect the project manager did not receive approval from a key stakeholder because the necessary deliverables were not functioning as expected. What should the project manager do next?

A. Review the stakeholder engagement plan

B. Review the quality management plan

C. Review the requirements traceability matrix

D. Review the work breakdown structure (WBS)

A new project manager is managing a hybrid project. The project manager wants to be a servant leader to support the team by removing impediments but is not receiving feedback from the team about the issues and risks they are facing. What should the project manager do?

A. Implement daily standups where the team can share their impediments, risks, and issues.

B. Review the communications management plan and implement changes.

C. Schedule weekly risk review meetings with the team to review project risks and concerns.

D. Distribute a copy of the communications management plan to the scrum master.

After 1 year Into the life cycle of an ongoing residential project, an announcement was received from the municipality regarding a new regulation that will greatly impact the project's schedule and budget. What should the project manager do next?

A. Perform a qualitative risk analysis and update the risk register.

B. Submit a change request through the Integrated change control process.

C. Update the issue log and discuss It in the next steering committee meeting.

D. Estimate the associated costs and increase the project budget accordingly.

A year after implementing a policy change to improve diversity and inclusion within two teams, there is increasing conflict within the company What should have been done to prevent this conflict?

A. The organization should have introduced the concept of diversity broadly

B. The leadership team should have worked closely with the marketing team to get insight on diversity

C. Organization-wide diversity training should have been provided to the workforce

D. The critical departments in the organization should have been involved in this exercise

During project execution of a new IT solution, the testing of one feature was unsuccessful. The go-live milestone is now impacted due to this delay. Extensive analyses were performed, and there is no way to resolve the defects before the go-live date. What should the project manager do next?

A. Include additional mitigation actions against feature defects and update the risk management plan.

B. Assess the relevance of the feature and then analyze the submission of a change request to descope it.

C. Improve the control quality process by implementing additional testing to minimize the defects before the go-live milestone.

D. Determine if business value will be delivered without this feature. and try to fix the defects after the go-live milestone.

During a product demo with key stakeholders, the team identifies that one of the functionalities failed to perform as expected What should the project manager have the project team do first to address the issue?

A. Update the issue log and document the change

B. Review the product specification requirements.

C. Perform a root cause analysis

D. Submit a change request for corrective action.

A project manager is managing two agile teams and reviewing their metrics to find out which team is performing better. Which approach should be taken?

A. The team with the higher velocity is performing better and should be rewarded.

B. The issue should be addressed as part of a retrospective in the next iteration.

C. The velocity should not be compared as teams can size items differently.

D. The velocity of both teams should be compared at the end of every iteration.