Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

A project manager is managing a megaproject. The project stakeholders are from different geographical areas and have diverse cultural and social backgrounds. The project manager wants to improve team productivity to realize more effective and efficient results.

Which action should the project manager take?

A. Empower team members to participate in decision-making and take ownership of actions.

B. Implement a flexible work schedule policy to eliminate the time zone problems among stakeholders.

C. Encourage team members to network so that they know each other's cultural backgrounds.

D. Provide a relaxed work schedule policy and encourage team members to work from home.

On a project with multiple international locations, a trend for delays has been flagged. When looking into the issue, the project manager realized that some of the key activities were scheduled over the holiday periods in the overseas offices. What should the project manager do next?

A. Update the schedule to reflect the holidays and share the workload among offices to mitigate schedule slippage.

B. Hire additional personnel on a temporary basis to cover the extra workload during the holiday seasons.

C. Request that the offices in overseas locations work overtime to mitigate schedule slippages.

D. Update the schedule to reflect the holidays and notify the project sponsor of the delayed completion.

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.

A team has been consistently delivering outcomes. However, based on their current performance, it was discovered that their velocity has decreased by 30%.

What should the project manager do to ensure the velocity is under control?

A. Ask the product owner to look at a minimum of four to eight iterations and replan the velocity for the next iteration based on the team's current performance.

B. Ask the scrum master to plug gaps in the team's performance by adding a team member to compensate for the velocity decrease.

C. Request that the team improve their cycle time to compensate for the velocity decrease.

D. Request the team to improve the lead time, cycle time, and response time individually and track closure.

A new agile team is having trouble completing tasks. There are many disputes occurring in the team. What should the agile leader do in this situation?

A. Escalate the issue to the team's manager.

B. Remove some of the team members.

C. Review the roles and responsibilities document.

D. Develop working agreements with the team.

A project manager is leading a new agile project. The requirements for the first sprint have been defined and the work is about to start.

What should the project manager do next?

A. Assign the tasks to the resources based on their expertise.

B. Ensure that the priority of each task is clear to the team.

C. Ask the team to self-organize and manage the work assigned.

D. Tell the team which task to focus on at the next daily standup.

Close to the end of a project, a customer claims that some deliverables have not been met and starts initiating change requests. What should the project manager do next?

A. Refer to the requirements traceability matrix.

B. Revise the project scope baseline.

C. Escalate the change request to the project sponsor.

D. Review the approved project charter.

While preparing an earned value analysis (EVA) for the sponsor, the project manager provided this information in the latest project report:

Approved Work Package Cost Estimates: US$9,500
Contingency reserves: $500 %
Management reserves: 10% of contingency reserves
Percent complete of the project: 50%
Planned percent of the project: 40%
Actual costs of the project: US$4,500

What is accurate about the project status?

A. The actual work is 25% more than the planned work.

B. The project cost is 10% lower than planned.

C. The actual work is 25% less than the planned work.

D. The project cost is 10% higher than planned.

A project manager and a stakeholder have different opinions on the budget estimates for a project that is being initiated based on a new consumer privacy law. What would be a reason for this difference in opinion?

A. The communications management plan was not used by all stakeholders.

B. Organizational assets were not available to back the rationale.

C. Relative estimation by the team resulted in two estimates.

D. The use of the Monte Carlo method can result in different estimations.

A system migration project is in its closing stage. The project manager is being pressured to close the project The project manager communicated to all stakeholders; however, the last department to migrate indicated that they have not received the notification
What should the project manager do?

A. Report the issue during the next status meeting at the end of the week

B. Escalate the issue to the project sponsor and upper management

C. Close out the project and tell the manager to open a service desk ticket

D. Log the issue and assign it to the project team member(s).

A project manager finds out that the required project status reports have not been filled out by most team members. These status reports are urgently needed to compile a comprehensive status report for the project sponsor. What should the project manager do to address this situation?

A. Reprimand the team members who did not fill out the status reports.

B. Justify the team members' behavior to the project sponsor.

C. Quickly put together a report that will satisfy the project sponsor.

D. Discuss the issue with the team members at fault.

A project manager is leading an integration project for a retail company. The project demands a lot of time from the stakeholders to make important business decisions. The project is critical and must be completed on time and within budget. What should the project manager do to ensure that key stakeholders are available for this project?

A. Schedule meetings with all of the stakeholders to make business decisions when needed.

B. Share the project schedule, milestones, and meeting agendas with the stakeholders ahead of time.

C. Work with the available stakeholders to make business decisions and keep all unavailable stakeholders informed.

D. Add time reserve in the project schedule to allow extra time for the stakeholders to make decisions.