Practice Free PMP Exam Online Questions
A project manager manages a bridge construction project. The project manager has received a major change request from a regulatory stakeholder to add one branch of the bridge to the engineering design. The project manager prepared a change request, which was reviewed and accepted by the change control board (CCB).
What should the project manager do now?
- A . Notify the project team about the change request’s approval.
- B . Include the new branch of the bridge in the design.
- C . Communicate the decision to the stakeholder who requested the change.
- D . Evaluate the adjustments to the project management plan.
A project manager is working on an enterprise resource planning (ERP) initiative that contains stakeholders spanning numerous business lines. The project manager begins to identify, evaluate, and categorize the stakeholder relationships to the program.
What is the purpose of this process?
- A . Identify all stakeholders who can negatively affect the project.
- B . Incorporate the needs of all stakeholders into the communications management plan.
- C . Incorporate only primary stakeholders into the communications management plan.
- D . Identify all stakeholders who can positively affect the project.
A project manager has been assigned to an education project with the objective of training a workforce in application development. One of the deliverables is to provide internships to the best students in the customer’s active projects. However, the customer does not have enough projects in progress right now. The project manager decides to create several internal projects in order to ensure the internships.
Which three actions should the project manager take to fulfill this scenario without adding costs for the customer? (Choose three)
- A . Use the project’s contingency budget.
- B . Manage the quality of the delivery.
- C . Influence the client to initiate a new project.
- D . Create a change request with the scope of the new internal projects.
- E . Create a work breakdown structure (WBS) of the new scope with the internal projects.
A project team is working on an agile software development project. The project manager is concerned that the virtual team may not be as effective as a colocated team at headquarters.
Which two actions should the project manager leverage to ensure the team is meeting performance expectations? (Choose two)
- A . Hold daily virtual meetings to review progress.
- B . Implement time-keeping software for team members.
- C . Task functional managers to drive accountability.
- D . Utilize a web-based kanban board.
- E . Require a monthly individual status report.
A project manager decided to use a highly adaptive approach to manage a large-scale project. In this project, there are many iterative tasks that utilize highly specialized experts. The project manager would like to create practical plans with high levels of buy-in from the team members.
What should the project manager do next?
- A . Assign critical tasks to the most experienced team members.
- B . Review the budget with the team for the needed resources.
- C . Review lessons learned from similar projects with the team.
- D . Explain the higher-level objectives to be assigned to the team.
A project manager is working with the same project team as in the last two construction projects. The project manager managed this team on a micro level for the last two projects. However, now the project manager would like to use a different leadership style to allow the team to make their own decisions.
What kind of leadership style should the project manager utilize for the current project?
- A . Transformational
- B . Interactional
- C . Laissez-faire
- D . Charismatic
A project manager is preparing to start a new project in which the team members are distributed geographically across different countries. The project manager is using the communications management plan to engage the team members and find a communication method that suits everyone.
How should the project manager continually evaluate the effectiveness of the virtual team’s engagement?
- A . Collect feedback from the team to discuss alternatives to enhance the communication.
- B . Conduct individual meetings to create a trusting environment with team members.
- C . Establish periodic face-to-face meetings and address the communication topic.
- D . Hold meetings in accordance with the team members’ preferences and availability.
During daily team standup meetings, team members constantly ask about which tasks they should focus on first.
How should the project manager ensure the team is fully productive?
- A . Review the project backlog during the team’s standup meeting.
- B . Encourage project team members to prioritize the product backlog.
- C . Ensure team members are working according to the project plan.
- D . Work with the product owner to ensure the project backlog is prioritized.
A critical project milestone was missed because one of the team members did not complete their tasks on time. This resulted in a heated discussion during a demonstration for the end users.
What should the project manager do next?
- A . Discuss the issue with the team member in a one-on-one meeting.
- B . Ask the team member to justify the delay during a team meeting.
- C . Review the human resources (HR) policies for relevant corrective actions.
- D . Escalate the performance issue to the team member’s functional manager.
A project manager has been assigned to a project after the charter has been approved. While reviewing the charter with the team, the project manager finds that some major budget items, necessary for achieving the project outcome, have been missed.
What should the project manager do next?
- A . Reduce the quality and cost of other deliverables to allow additional budget for the items that were missed.
- B . Start the project and deal with these budget issues as they arise throughout the project life cycle.
- C . Add the missing budget items to the risk log and present them in the next project steering committee.
- D . Immediately discuss this with the project sponsor and request to revisit the budget to ensure its accuracy.