Free PMP Practice Questions

Question 1

A new data privacy mandate requires an immediate project launch. You notice team members are working hard but arguing over whether the goal is basic compliance or a full system upgrade. As the project manager, what two actions should you take? Select all that apply.

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Facilitate a session to define the project vision and strategic objectives; Create a project charter with the sponsor to communicate the core mission

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Conduct a retrospective to identify process improvements

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Facilitate a session to define the project vision and strategic objectives

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Decompose the deliverables into a detailed work breakdown structure

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Create a project charter with the sponsor to communicate the core mission

Question 2

Halfway through a two-week sprint, the agile team reviews their progress during the daily standup. The burndown chart shows a completely flat line for the past four days. Out of forty committed story points, thirty-five points remain incomplete. What should the agile practitioner do next to address this situation?

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Facilitate a team discussion to identify and resolve the blockers preventing story completion

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Extend the sprint duration by five days to ensure the team can finish the committed story points

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Ask the product owner to immediately remove incomplete user stories from the sprint backlog

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Reassign the incomplete user stories to the most experienced developers to accelerate delivery

Question 3

A developer mentions that the testing server is still down at a technology startup. Later in the day, the project lead notices that the team is ignoring this active blocker and continuing to work on lower-priority tasks. What should the project lead do to address this situation?

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Intervene to ensure the team prioritizes resolving the active impediment

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Record the server failure in the project risk register for future tracking

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Document the server outage in the lessons learned register

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Ask the team to identify new blockers for the upcoming iteration

Question 4

During the last three iterations, the development team has consistently failed to meet their sprint goals. Upon reviewing the team task board, it becomes apparent that developers are heavily context-switching between multiple active items rather than completing them. Which two actions should be taken to address this issue? Select all that apply.

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Guide the team to establish work-in-progress limits on their task board; Facilitate a team review of the current pull system mechanics

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Extend the sprint duration to allow more time for task completion

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Guide the team to establish work-in-progress limits on their task board

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Facilitate a team review of the current pull system mechanics

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Reassign the delayed tasks to the most experienced developers

Question 5

A recent server migration triggered an application outage. A systems engineer deployed a security patch during the migration. The installed patch version does not match the documented project baseline. The project manager must address this deviation. What should the project manager do?

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Document the configuration variance and submit a change request for review

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Update the configuration management plan to restrict unauthorized patch deployments

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Instruct the systems engineer to revert the patch to the documented baseline version

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Update the project baseline to reflect the newly installed security patch version

Question 6

A recent design flaw triggered several new and unassessed risks on a major infrastructure project. The team needs to quickly prioritize these new threats for further action before deciding if complex quantitative analysis is necessary. Which risk management step is required?

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Apply the probability and impact matrix to rank the newly identified risks

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Perform a Monte Carlo simulation to determine the overall project cost impact

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Brainstorm with the project team to identify the root causes of the design issue

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Develop specific risk response strategies to mitigate the new threats

Question 7

Near the end of an iteration, an agile team finishes work on three user stories. The team needs to obtain formal acceptance of these deliverables to ensure they meet the agreed-upon scope. Which action should the team take to validate the increments?

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Demonstrate the working increments during the sprint review

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Establish the definition of done criteria for the project

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Analyze the approval delays during the sprint retrospective

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Review the unapproved stories during the next daily scrum

Question 8

Regulatory guidelines now mandate that the data engineering team must process and submit reports on a daily basis. Currently, the team batches the data weekly, which causes significant reporting delays and risks non-compliance. What should the project manager do next to resolve this issue?

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Guide the team to reduce their work batch sizes and map the reporting workflow to eliminate non-value-added wait times

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Escalate the audit failure to the compliance officer and request a formal waiver for the weekly batch process

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Assign additional developers to the data team so they can manually expedite the batches into daily deliverables

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Schedule a retrospective with the data team to review the audit findings and brainstorm new estimation techniques

Question 9

Recent team metrics show a significant drop in trust among team members. During a private conversation, a senior developer complains that recent hires are ignoring the established definition of done. Which two steps should be taken to address this? Select all that apply.

Accepted Answer

Review the recent onboarding materials and training schedules to determine what expectations were set; Meet privately with the new developers to understand their perspective on the current workflow

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Facilitate a team retrospective to revise the working agreements and update the definition of done

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Review the recent onboarding materials and training schedules to determine what expectations were set

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Schedule a mediated conflict resolution session between the senior developer and the new developers

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Meet privately with the new developers to understand their perspective on the current workflow

Question 10

A predictive construction project has experienced severe material price hikes, rendering the original baseline unrealistic. The sponsor needs an accurate forecast of future budget challenges, but past cost performance metrics are no longer relevant due to recent vendor replacements. What should the project manager do NEXT to anticipate these challenges?

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Perform a bottom-up Estimate to Complete with the new vendors to establish a realistic forecast

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Calculate the To-Complete Performance Index to determine the efficiency required to meet the original budget

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Forecast the Estimate at Completion using the cumulative Cost Performance Index from the previous work

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Submit a change request to increase the cost baseline based on the current Variance at Completion

Question 11

Project correspondence logs reveal that the executive sponsor deletes weekly status reports unread. The sponsor frequently emails requesting high-level milestone summaries. The project team submits 20-page technical updates every Friday. The sponsor complains about a lack of project visibility. Based on these observations, what action should the project manager take?

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Modify the communications management plan to provide executive summary dashboards

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Update the stakeholder register to reclassify the sponsor as having low interest

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Direct the technical team to stop producing the weekly detailed technical updates

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Escalate the sponsor’s failure to read the weekly status reports to the steering committee

Question 12

A core-banking replacement draws staff from three vendors, but nothing on record states who may approve a change to the cost or schedule baseline. Approval requests now circulate for days while managers argue over whose sign-off counts. What should the project manager do FIRST?

Accepted Answer

Document a decision-authority matrix with approval thresholds and confirm it with the sponsor and vendor leads

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Give the three vendor leads equal joint approval over baseline changes so no single party can block one

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Escalate each stalled change to the sponsor and wait for the pattern to settle over time

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Send every baseline change to the enterprise PMO’s change board, regardless of its size

Question 13

An infrastructure program affects many community groups, regulatory bodies, and internal departments, and the team must decide whom to engage first. Some community groups have high urgency and legitimate claims but no formal authority, while some regulatory bodies have great power but no immediate urgency. The team wants a framework that maps these three variables to determine who needs attention first. Which tool should the project manager use?

Accepted Answer

Salience model

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Power/influence grid

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Stakeholder cube

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Directions of influence framework

Question 14

A critical vendor is consistently missing service level agreement targets. The project manager issued a formal warning, but performance only slightly improved. When the project manager attempted to enforce contractual penalties, the vendor threatened to abandon the project. What should the project manager do next to salvage this agreement?

Accepted Answer

Schedule a collaborative meeting to uncover mutual interests and adjust terms

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Terminate the contract for default and immediately source a replacement vendor

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Escalate the dispute to the legal department to mandate contract compliance

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Accept the degraded performance levels to ensure the vendor stays on the project

Question 15

A predictive project recently logged 450 defects across 12 categories. Management requires the identification of the vital few categories driving the majority of these failures. Which tool should the project manager select to present this data?

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Pareto chart

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Scatter diagram

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Cause and effect diagram

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Control chart

Question 16

An internal audit finds that the current hybrid software upgrade has no measurable success criteria on record. The sponsor once said the upgrade would raise processing speed by 23 percent, but that target appears only in informal meeting minutes. With a fixed budget for the fiscal year and the next phase-gate review approaching, what is the BEST course of action?

Accepted Answer

Document the intended business outcomes within a benefits management plan

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Update the project charter to formally incorporate the processing speed metric

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Develop a value stream map to visualize the anticipated performance improvements

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Revise the project scope statement to align with the strategic value framework

Question 17

A factory-floor sensor initiative combines safety-certified firmware that changes rarely and must pass third-party certification, an analytics layer whose requirements shift as operations learns what the data reveals, and a team new to iterative delivery that has only ever shipped waterfall projects. The plant director expects a demonstrable improvement within one quarter. Weighing certification needs, requirements volatility, team experience, and the delivery expectation, which recommendation is MOST appropriate?

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Deliver the firmware predictively with certification gates and build the analytics iteratively with a coach’s support

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Adopt full agile for both firmware and analytics and coach the team through their first iterations

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Keep the whole initiative predictive, since the team lacks iterative experience and certification needs heavy documentation

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Start both tracks predictively, then convert only the analytics layer to iterations after firmware certification

Question 18

A hybrid program is deploying an AI resume-screening tool that the vendor certifies as compliant with employment-discrimination law. During a demo, a team member notices the tool consistently ranks candidates from one university higher, and the organization remains legally accountable for its hiring decisions. As the project manager, what should be done FIRST?

Accepted Answer

Test the tool’s outputs for bias before relying on the vendor’s compliance claim

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Accept the vendor’s certification and proceed, since compliance is contractually the vendor’s responsibility

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Disable the university input field and redeploy the tool in the current release

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Escalate a potential discrimination concern to the human resources department for a decision

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