Free PMP Practice Test Questions 2026

A company's CEO complains about the frequency of project communications. The CEO receives five project reports each week by email but does not have enough time to review them. In addition, the information that the CEO receives is not relevant in that it does not explain the project status,

What should the project manager do first?

A. Review the stakeholder engagement plan.

B. Review the communications management plan.

C. Send the CEO one executive summary per week instead of five reports per week.

D. Meet with the team and decide the type and frequency of the reports to send to the CEO.

A company has undertaken a large transformation project using agile practices. The project sponsor has asked the project manager to promote the new values identified in the intended transformation to the project team

What should the project manager do?

A. Add a user story during sprint planning that gives recognition to behaviors that are aligned with the new values

B. Send a standard email to the team prior to every daily standup containing the new values

C. Organize a team meeting focusing on the new values associated with the transformation

D. Give recognition to team members' behaviors that are aligned with the new values during the sprint retrospectives

A bank is considering building another branch in one of three neighboring cities. The project manager has been tasked with demonstrating the benefits of building a new branch, renting an existing building, or not expanding at all.

How should the project manager proceed?

A. Calculate the payback period (PBP) for building a new branch in each location versus renting an existing building.

B. Calculate the costs for each option in each location and compare the net present value (NPV) for each.

C. Perform a Kano analysis on building a new branch versus renting in each of the locations

D. Perform a gap analysis on renting in each of the locations.

A project manager is part of a team that is launching a series of features to comply with a new regulation. The team has only 6 weeks to release the features to the legacy applications. During the standup meeting, a software engineer indicated that the development of an important feature is on hold until the assigned designer completes a specific task. This delay is a serious road block to meeting the release date.

What should the project manager do?

A. Contact the design team manager and ask to reconsider the priority list based on the latest situation,

B. Meet with the designer to share the current status and develop a solution to complete the task.

C. Meet with the design team manager to inform them of the current status and request an additional designer.

D. Ask the software engineer to move forward without completing the important feature.

A project manager for a construction site realizes the importance of stakeholder relations, especially with the local community. The project manager and the project team strive to build effective relationships with these key stakeholders in order to prevent obstacles in the future.

What should the project manager do to customize the stakeholder engagement plan?

A. Analyze stakeholder diversity in the community.

B. Assess the need to collaborate with the community

C. Analyze the need to negotiate with the community.

D. Assess the information requirements of the community

A new project manager is assigned to an ongoing agile innovation project that started 2 weeks ago. After reviewing the project, the new project manager discovered that the previous project manager was planning to use a predictive approach. The previous project manager planned to present the first major deliverable to the client when the project was completely finished in 8 months.

What should the new project manager do?

A. Meet with the team to review the backlog and create small iterations that can deliver incremental value to the client,

B. Continue working with the predictive approach to deliver the value at the end of the project.

C. Use a hybrid approach in which agile practices are used but the value is provided to the client at the end of the project.

D. Submit a change request to the project board to adjust the delivery date to 2 months earlier than planned.

A project manager noticed that the functional manager is not cooperating with staff assignment schedules and is always finding excuses not to release the requested staff.

What should the project manager do first?

A. Ask the leadership team for help obtaining the needed staff.

B. Have a direct talk with the functional manager to understand the reasons behind their attitude.

C. Evaluate the impact caused by the delay of forming the team and confront the functional manager.

D. Check with human resources (HR) regarding the availability of staff.

A project manager has decided to stop activities that do not add value to a project that has a risk of running over budget. A functional manager disagrees with this decision, especially when the team is performing product testing for highly sensitive end users. The functional manager escalated the issue to the project sponsor so that the team can resume activities.

How should the project manager have handled the situation?

A. Collaborated with the functional manager to determine which critical activities could be accommodated by the budget

B. Engaged with the project sponsor to ensure support for the project manager's decision

C. Conducted a meeting with the functional manager to explain why the activities needed to be stopped

D. Convinced the functional manager to stop the activities that will run beyond the budget

A project manager needs the team to define the steps and identify the risks of migrating data to a new system.

What type of leadership should the project manager use to accomplish this?

A. Laissez-faire

B. Transformational

C. Dynamic

D. Servant

At the end of a third planning meeting, the client and a functional manager requested additional meetings to add more features to the product.

What should the project manager do to start building the product faster?

A. Allow the sponsor to determine how long the planning phase should last.

B. Allow the client ta determine how long the planning phase should last.

C. Ask the functional manager to work with the team to finalize planning and begin building the product.

D. Explain that more features can be planned in upcoming Iterations and begin building the product.

A protect team member is having difficulty delivering assigned tasks for a project that is at risk of being delayed The main issue is that the team member does not understand a new system that was recently implemented

What should the project manager do?

A. Ask the team member to learn the new system as on-the-job training

B. Issue a change request to extend the project schedule

C. Escalate the team members performance to the project sponsor

D. Assign an experienced resource to support the team member

A CEO has requested that the project manager provide a budget estimate for a long-term project that will be executed over the span of 4 years What should the project manager do?

A. Include enterprise environmental factors (EEFs)

B. Conduct a bottom-up estimate

C. Include projected inflation rates

D. Conduct an analogous estimate