Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

A senior developer working on a large artificial intelligence (Al) project has worked hard and shown excellent results. The project manager is very happy with the developer's contribution and thinks that the developer deserves a reward.

What should the project manager do?

A. Create an opportunity (or the project team to recognize this developer

B. Send a recognition email to the team and copy management

C. Reward the developer according to their motivations and interests

D. Print a recognition certificate and present it to the developer during a meeting

A project requires the installation of a call center to support operations. It is estimated that the call center will need 100 people working on weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and weekends from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

What should the project manager do?

A. Implement the call center with internal staff to ensure the work is performed according to the company’s culture.

B. Work with 50% of the people internally and contract the other 50% to an outside company.

C. Delegate the analysis to the human resources (HR) department in order to organize the call center operations.

D. Conduct an alternative analysis to decide whether to hire people directly or contract with a company to do the job.

A project manager Is working on a project using a hybrid approach. The project Is scheduled to be completed in three more sprints. One of the team members notifies the project manager that they are leaving the company which was approved by their functional manager

What should the project manager do first in this situation'?

A. Ask the functional manager why a decision was made without consulting them

B. Use soft skills to influence the team member to slay until the project is completed

C. Ask the functional manager for an immediate replacement for the team member.

D. Review the risk management plan and mitigation plan to understand the impact of this issue

A protect is going through its iterative design stage One of the team members has been performing poorly. This is a critical project for the company and execution is about to start What should the project manager do?

A. Request action from the functional manager regarding the team members poor performance

B. Avoid selecting the team member to the next project that has an iterative design stage

C. Provide feedback and coach the team member during the iterative design stage

D. Escalate the issue to the human resources manager and request that the team member be replaced

A company has transitioned and is now delivering projects using a hybrid approach instead of a predictive approach. The distributed project team's knowledge of agile is varied.

The project manager feels this new methodology will impact the timely delivery of the project.

What should the project manager do?

A. Ask to execute the project with a predictive approach since there is a budget and schedule risk.

B. Use crashing to reduce the critical path to ensure enough buffer to include the impact of the agile methodology update.

C. Plan for training on agile tools and techniques used in the defined hybrid methodologyfor consistent application by all team members.

D. Use the predictive approach for team members who are not knowledgeable in agile project delivery practices.

A project manager at a plant with continuous operations needs to deliver a project urgently to meet a market opportunity. What should the project manager do to meet the time-to- market need?

A. Add resources to activities

B. Conduct serial activities on tasks

C. Increase the number of standup meetings

D. Perform tasks in parallel

A company is transitioning their projects to utilize hybrid project management approaches While putting together their project team, the project manager discovers the requirements from the customer are unclear and also realizes that the team members are lacking critical technical stalls needed for project success. However the customer will not accept any changes to the requirements

What should the project manager do to resolve this issue?

A. Submit a change request to adapt the objectives of the project to the current situation

B. Ask the scrum master to refine the user stones to improve the team members' understanding

C. Find and provide training to the project team members who do not have the required skills

D. Extend the duration of standup meetings to include skill transference from trained to untrained members

One phase of a project took much longer than initially anticipated The key stakeholders expressed their concern regarding a potential project delay. What should the project manager do?

A. Expedite the next phase to reduce slippage

B. Add more float to the overall project schedule

C. Request additional contingency from the sponsor.

D. Organize a root cause analysis (RCA) workshop.

A construction project to build a fish hatchery is in execution. The operations group notified the project manager about a concern that might turn into a potential issue; however, the concern could not be addressed.

In which project document should the project manager record the concern?

A. Request for information

B. Scope statement

C. Issue log

D. Risk register

A company is launching a new product and decides to transition from a predictive to an agile approach. During the third sprint the project manager notices that the team is not working as a cohesive unit

Which two rules are appropriate tor the project manager to instill in the team? (Choose two)

A. Strive toward continuous improvement

B. Work together daily as a team

C. Only share suggestions at the end of the sprint

D. Follow the sprint planning

E. Send communications to the entire team

A project manager working on a software development project asked the software development about the status of a task. The developer responded that the task was delivered 1 week ago and mentioned that the delivery was reported via a specific project management software.

What should the project manager do next?

A. Review the stakeholder engagement plan and communicate which technology is available to develop, transmit, and store project artifacts.

B. Engage the software developer, let them work with this project management software, and then conduct a train-the-trainer activity to ensure everyone can use it.

C. Research the project management software to understand how it works, and establish it as the acceptable software to hold the project artifacts.

D. Review the communications management plan and communicate which technology is to be used to develop, transmit, and store project artifacts,

A project manager /s planning a project and identifies that legislation requirements for specific project tasks will be changing. This will occur half way through the project execution phase and will affect a few key workers’ licenses, which will become noncompliant.

What should the project manager do?

A. Start scheduling the training for key workers now to ensure compliance.

B. Maintain the current key workers since the project has already started.

C. Update the project charter to ensure the new legislation is addressed,

D. Start a recruitment drive for new workers with the licenses required.