Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

During a project planning phase, the project manager realizes that project performance win be measured based on budget deviation and revenue, but without consideration for the overall project schedule What should the project manager do?

A. Review and update the project schedule according to performance

B. Review the schedule baseline and consider adopting a schedule performance indicator

C. Develop a lime. cost, and scope tracking method exclusively for this project.

D. Adopt a formal change management process for the project

A procurement team lead has been reported as getting into conflicts with other project team members on a weekly basis, The project manager engages with the team lead and discovers that other team members do not believe the team lead is right for this position.

What should the project manager do to resolve these recurring conflicts between the team lead and the other team members?

A. Receive details of the conflicts from all involved, issue all a warning notice, and send all to leadership training.

B. Organize a meeting to discuss emotional intelligence with the team, and establish a rule of respect and special treatment for the team lead.

C. Issue the team lead a warning, and consider recommending the team lead for emotional intelligence training.

D. Find ways to reduce the tension, increase cooperation, and understand the emotions of all team members involved.

A quality Issue that requires a change to the quality standard Is encountered In a project Currently, there Is no budget available for the required changes. What should the project manager do?

A. Check the change management plan

B. Document the issue in the scope management plan.

C. Conduct a team brainstorming session to resolve the issue

D. Check the quality management plan

An established project team with a good track record has been working on a project for one year The project manager trusts the team and the work they produce. Which term describes the project manager's management approach?

A. Laissez-faire

B. Transactional

C. Transformational

D. Charismatic

One deliverable for a project is to translate and print materials for students every 2 weeks Printing services are available but without guaranteed time lines because other projects make a significantly higher profit and have a higher priority

What should the project manager do to mitigate the risk of not having the materials printed on time?

A. Meet with the manager to set a high priority for printing the materials

B. Create a change request to modify the print requirements

C. Include a risk response in the resource management plan

D. Purchase a high-volume printer specifically for this project.

A project manager is implementing an enterprise-wide software project The project has a great business impact and is fully supported by senior management However, the project manager is facing difficulties gelling the support of several key departments.

What should the project manager do?

A. Ask senior management to communicate with these departments.

B. Hire a project management consultant to help resolve the issue

C. Convince senior management to introduce rewards to resisting departments.

D. Understand the user concerns and revisit the stakeholder engagement plan

In an agile project, two key stakeholders disagree about a major new requirement. Recognizing that this could lead to potential issues, what should the project manager do next?

A. Facilitate a meeting with the stakeholders and product owner to clarify the new need,

B. Update the acceptance criteria documentation to clearly reflect what was approved.

C. Review the new requirement and update all the stakeholders accordingly.

D. Ask the two key stakeholders to agree on the requirement based on a Pareto analysis.

A company has rolled out the latest retail management system, and the project has been handed over to operations. The operations team finds that many of the day-to-day requirements are not covered in the system, and support for the project has limited hours, The project team has dissolved and the contract resources are no longer working on the project. As a result, the operations team has been facing numerous customer issues.

What should the project lead have done initially to avoid this situation?

A. Reviewed the project management plan

B. Created a detailed operations manual

C. Increased support hours for the hours of operation

D. Involved operations stakeholders during planning

An agile team is conducting a sprint retrospective and wants to focus on the practices that allowed them to recover after a bad start Please click on the area of the burndown chart that the team should focus on.

During project execution, a global project team was using a video conferencing tool to support the daily meetings. However, during these meetings, only a few team members were actively participating As a result lots of misunderstandings occurred

What should the project manager do to address this issue?

A. Book one-on-one meetings with the team members who are not speaking up during the daily meetings to get their updates

B. Check the ground rules of the meeting to review the initial agreement with the team members

C. Identify one team representative to speak up during the daily meeting and share the team updates

D. Use round-robin check-ins to facilitate the meeting so all participants have the opportunity to speak

The project management office (PMO) has recently adopted some agile practices. During an iteration a key stakeholder in the business is concerned with the benefits management plan in the project document repository and mentions that some benefits have not been updated.

What should the project manager do first?

A. Update the risk register in order to add the issue.

B. Review the issue log regarding the concern

C. Revise the benefits management plan

D. Assess the repository to check for inconsistencies.

During a kick-off meeting at the start of project execution, the vendor presents a migration plan to client stakeholders. The director of the business unit that owns the solution being migrated demands the ability to make the final go/no-go decision about whether the systems go live.

What should the project manager do?

A. Schedule a meeting with the director to provide proof of expertise so the clientstakeholders will trust the project team's decision.

B. Schedule a meeting with the project sponsor to determine if it is appropriate to acceptthe director's request to provide a decision.

C. Confirm with the director that the client stakeholders will be made accountable for thedecision in the responsibility assignment matrix (RAM).

D. Ask the client to initiate a change request to make the director accountable for thedecision.