Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

A project is delayed. The project manager added extra resources to some activities and approved overtime for several team members.

What technique is the project manager applying?

A. Fast tracking

B. Resource leveling

C. Critical chain method

D. Schedule crashing

It is late at night on a weekend when a team member calls the project manager on the telephone. The team member Is crying about the pressures of an upcoming deadline.

What should the project manager do?

A. Ask the team member to send their concerns in writing.

B. Empathize with the team member and discuss next steps.

C. Review the organization's human resources (HR) policy.

D. Schedule a meeting with the team member for the next work day.

A project manager is reviewing the requirements of a large program. Which requirements should the project team prioritize to avoid getting fines?

A. Developing new product lines

B. Complying with new regulations

C. Establishing company processes

D. Certifying sustainable products

A project manager is leading a new project that is in the initiation phase, The project will build a new type of software technology service that has never existed at the organization before and will reenginger the business process for several operations teams. The project manager needs to determine the project management approach to be used, and there are many team members and stakeholders who have contradictory opinions.

What should the project manager do?

A. Meet with the stakeholders to determine the approach using the project goals and desired outcomes.

B. Leverage agile methods only as the project pertains to software implementation, which can be broken into increments.

C. Leverage hybrid methods as the project has a blend of work that needs to bring in both agile and predictive methods,

D. Determine what methods the team has been trained on and utilize those methods for the project.

A project manager was recently assigned to a new project that is about to start. The organization has already signed a fixed-cost contract with the customer detailing the scope and final delivery date, but the project manager has identified several internal constraints and conditions that will certainly prevent the project from being completed in the number of iterations initially planned.

What should the project manager do next?

A. Create an issue log template that will be used to identify and track impediments.

B. Create a contingency plan in case the project deviates from the initial plan.

C. Create a schedule management plan to ensure the project meets the delivery date.

D. Create an assumption log and map assumptions to impediments based on the impact tothe project value.

A complex project is m its execution phase. The project is set up to produce both predictive and incremental deliverables. The agile team is running late on their tasks There is a resource on the agile team who is responsible for producing progress reports for the project manager This resource has the required skills to help other team members with their workload

What should the project manager do to optimize the time of the resource who produces the progress reports?

A. Work more closely with the agile team to eliminate the need for progress reports

B. Record this in the issue log and find a resource to produce the reports

C. Produce the progress reports on their own

D. Engage a new resource to produce the progress reports

A supplier informs the project manager that producing the quantity of a key component for the project will require an additional month. The project manager has to meet an important milestone in a week.

What should the project manager do next?

A. Ask the vendor if the minimally sufficient materials can be produced in time to meet the deadline.

B. Perform market research to find out if there are other vendors that can produce similar kinds of materials.

C. Submit a change request to the change control board (CCB) asking to extend the deadline in order to reflect the late delivery.

D. Involve the legal department, as the vendor is breaching the contract by not delivering the full amount in time.

A project manager has considered a detailed and expensive training plan for a new technology for all team members. The training is needed several months into the execution phase of a project Surprisingly. many problems still appear that are related to the team members' lack of competence and the training costs are now negatively impacting the budget baseline

What should the project manager do next?

A. Select resources who are more experienced with the new technology

B. Perform a root-cause analysis to measure how the new training will address the issue

C. Include in the risk register a risk of unskilled resources for the new technology

D. Elaborate and socialize the team charter as per the resource management plan

An agile coach and technical writer for a globally distributed agile team are In a country with a 9-hour time zone difference from the agile team. The agile coach and project lead disagree on the timing for the daily standup. The project lead thinks the standup should be at 10:00 am local time, but the agile coach and technical writer feel that is an inconvenient time for them.

How does the project lead ensure adherence to agile practices?

A. Escalate to management that the agile process is not going to work and ask them to speak to the agile coach,

B. Have two separate daily standups, one for the agile coach and technical writer and one for the agile development team.

C. Have a discussion with the team on the approach and come to a decision on when the daily standups should be.

D. Inform the agile coach that the daily standup will be at 10:00 am local time and ensure all parties can attend.

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

A project team member is struggling to understand a specific requirement. How should a servant leader address this issue?

A. Assess and evaluate the team member's skills to ensure alignment to the particular requirement and solution

B. Reassign the requirement to another team member who may have ideas on how to meet the requirement

C. Assist by connecting the product owner with the team member to discuss what problem is to be solved

D. Deprioritize the requirement and assign a task tor it to be restated to provide the necessary clarity

A project is approaching its project closure phase, and the project manager receives an email from a key stakeholder who complains that the project documentation and artifacts have not been updated. The project manager assigns a project specialist to support the project management office's (PMO) effort to update the project documentation and artifacts.

Which three actions should the project manager ask the project specialist to take? (Choose three)

A. Create a quality assurance plan for the documentation.

B. Identify the components of the project documentation.

C. Archive only the initial and draft versions of the documents.

D. Ensure that the documents are in an easily retrievable form.

E. Collect the documents at the time of their creation.