Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

A large and complex program in an agile environment has experienced an increase in escalations from the client side. The rates and responsibilities are unclear, and the client does not have any direction regarding the escalation process.

What should be done to resolve this issue?

A. Invite the client and product owner to all planning, review, and retrospective meetings.

B. Accept the escalations and manage them so the working relationship with the client is not impacted.

C. Review and clarify roles, responsibilities, and the governance model at the next sprint review meeting.

D. Invite the product owner to attend all Scrum meetings and define the governance model and escalation path.

During the last iteration of a hybrid project, one of the key members of the team wants to leave the project. What should the project manager do to address this concern?

A. Keep activities as planned regardless of the resource change.

B. Update the burndown chart to reflect this resource's absence

C. Have a meeting with the resource to understand the issue

D. Request an additional resource to finish the project

A project manager has been assigned to manage multiple agile project teams. The project manager wants to empower the teams and make them self-organizing. What should the project manager do to create a positive environment?

A. Establish the team ground rules and share them with the team for strict adherence

B. Copy the ground rules established by another project and provide them to the teams

C. Extract the organization's policies and processes, customize them, and give them to the teams to adhere to.

D. Help the teams in establishing and adhering to their ground rules and revisit after regular intervals.

In a project steering committee meeting, a few stakeholders raise concerns that the project manager's report shows that the outcome of the project is already in the market while the project is still in development. The project manager explains that the project is being delivered in sprints and involves different releases. What should the project manager do to avoid a reoccurrence of this scenario?

A. Ensure the content of the project report is clearly understood and request any necessary feedback.

B. Invite critical stakeholders to the daily project review meetings to ensure their full engagement and involvement.

C. Send a detailed report to each steering committee member ahead of the meeting

D. Ensure that all product features are completed as per the communicated specifications before releasing to market.

An agile team has completed 9 out of 10 stones tor the sprint. During the retrospective a few team members pointed out that they finished a of their stories However one team member tailed to finish a story

What should the agile leader do1?

A. Emphasize to the team that each member is responsible for their story but the team is collectively responsible for finishing the sprint

B. Ask the team to address this at the next sprint planning instead of at the retrospective

C. Suggest that the team assign stones at the beginning of the sprint based on each person's strengths to maximize performance

D. Work with the product owner to remove the story from the sprint because the points cannot be splits

A project team member is struggling to deliver an assigned task. In a team meeting, the project manager determines that there are other members on the team who have more experience with similar tasks. What should the project manager do?

A. Ask one of the more experienced team members to support the team member with the task.

B. Reassign the task to one of the more experienced project team members for a faster completion of the assigned task

C. Ask the experienced team members to produce a manual on how to complete the task.

D. Inform the project management office (PMO) of the issue and request a replacement for the less experienced team member.

In an agile project that is about 45% complete, most team members are siloed and lack an understanding of each other's work. What would have most likely caused this communication breakdown?

A. The sprint review meetings were not held regularly.

B. The daily standup meetings were not consistently attended

C. The project manager failed to develop a communications management plan

D. The weekly project status reports were not published regularly

A project manager for a large software delivery project is in the process of finalizing the project governance, The project manager would like to implement procedures that do not align with several policies required by the organization's project management office (PMO).
The project manager believes that the procedures outlined in the project governance will be necessary for this particular project due to the unique nature of the technology.

What should the project manager do?

A. Engage stakeholders to modify policies outlined by the PMO.

B. Move forward with the project governance and inform the PMO.

C. Discuss the proposed changes with the PMO.

D. Disregard the initial procedures and follow the policies outlined by the PMO,

A project manager is assigned to work on a large global project. The resources for the project are dispersed among different organizations and countries. After the project kick-off meeting, the project manager learns that many virtual team members are unable to join the regular project update meetings. Their absence will impact the overall project schedule. What immediate corrective action should the project manager take?

A. Discuss the issue with the virtual team members and revise the communications management plan.

B. Escalate this issue to the virtual team members' supervisors.

C. Add this issue to the risk management plan and take action if it persists.

D. Discuss the issue with the project sponsors and add this as an issue in the issue log.

During project planning, a development team is assigned an agreed-upon work package to determine the appropriate pattern for integrating a new service with a legacy system. The lead developer has requested a meeting with the project manager and Is looking for direction as to which technology to select. How should the project manager help guide the lead developer?

A. Advise the lead developer and team to consult with the project architect and for their development team leader.

B. Reassign this work package to another area given the lead developer's concerns,

C. Direct the lead developer to conduct a weighted evaluation of all products and solutions.

D. Listen to the concerns and suggest that the lead developer and the team be empowered to recommend the best approach.

A project manager is newly assigned to the second phase of an ongoing project. During the implementation, a defect occurred and no one knows how to fix it, as the former engineering team has moved to another project. The customer warns that previously, this defect negatively affected the project schedule. What should the project manager do first?

A. Update the risk management plan.

B. Extend the timeline of the project

C. Check the organizational process assets (OPAs).

D. Acquire knowledgeable resources.

A project manager has been assigned to a high-visibility project that has been identified as having medium complexity, based on previous similar projects. The project needs to be delivered to the customer as a ready-to-use product . Based on this scenario, what should the project manager focus on throughout the project life cycle?

A. Resource management and lessons learned

B. Time management and stakeholder engagement

C. Cost management and risk management

D. Stakeholder engagement and lessons learned