Practice Free PMP Exam Online Questions
A project manager analyzes the cumulative flow chart and identifies a bottleneck in the testing activities from a self-organizing team. After discussing it with the team, a gap related to testing skills is identified.
What should the project manager do to address the issue?
- A . Onboard a new project team member who has testing skills.
- B . Provide training to the entire team so they all will be able to perform tests.
- C . Support the team to identify an approach to resolve the problem.
- D . Ask the development team to slow down so the testers can catch up.
A project is on its fourth iteration out of six. During iteration planning, a team member informs the project manager that their computer is not working.
What should the project manager do next?
- A . Suggest that the team member contact the IT department.
- B . Facilitate a priority resolution of the issue with the IT department.
- C . Update the issue log and escalate the problem to the product owner.
- D . Ask the other team members to step in and do the work.
A subject matter expert (SME) external to the project team provides a suggestion that will save the project delivery time. This SME has available time to support the project, but was not planned to be involved in the current agile iteration.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Bring the SME on board immediately and discuss the implications later.
- B . Ask the existing team members to collaborate with the SME and complete the activity.
- C . Ask the SME to complete all of the necessary changes, which will save time.
- D . Direct the team member to ignore the SME’s changes as they were not planned.
A project team member identified a procurement risk and sent an email to the project sponsor highlighting the risk.
The sponsor forwarded the email to the project manager asking for further details. After speaking with the sponsor, the project manager decided to take preventive action.
Which document should the project manager review with their team?
- A . Risk management plan
- B . Quality management plan
- C . Communications management plan
- D . Procurement management plan
A team is delivering features to a customer at every iteration. After completing each iteration, the customer is invited for a review. However, the customer is frequently not available and the review is often delayed, which results in increased rework for the team.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Ask the customer to review the deliverables in each iteration based on their availability.
- B . Request the customer to clarify all requirements at the start of each iteration.
- C . Plan ahead and define the best way to review the deliverables with the customer.
- D . Include the customer in daily project activities to gain the required guidance.
During a project meeting, the project manager expressed the importance of delivering reports on time. These individual reports will be consolidated into a single report. One of the team member’s reports was not delivered on time and therefore the report could not be integrated with the other reports. This demonstrates a lack of teamwork and impacts project success.
What should the project manager do to resolve this issue?
- A . Assign the task to someone else on the team.
- B . Discuss it with the team member in confidence.
- C . Discuss this matter during the project meeting.
- D . Include this item in the risk register.
A customer is concerned about the time required to complete a project and is asking the project team to reduce the number of iterations required to complete the product.
Which approach should the project manager take?
- A . Ask the team to raise blockers or impediments in daily meetings.
- B . Prioritize deliverables based on business value and define frequent releases.
- C . Ask the team to challenge the project estimations for a faster delivery.
- D . Prioritize the tasks with high risks to reduce the number of iterations required.
Several components of an expensive manufacturing project have been returned by the customer. The customer is complaining that the quality of the components is poor and is concerned that, as a result, their products will be returned due to quality issues. The project manager is certain that quality has been maintained.
How should the project manager communicate with the customer to help assure them that the project has produced quality products?
- A . Show the customer the tolerance and control limits.
- B . Show the customer sample results from the current batch.
- C . Show the customer a sample history of quality.
- D . Show the customer the quality control measurements.
A new project needs to be submitted for urgent funding approval. The project, which will use a new technology, is vital to the organization. The entire Scrum team has worked together for over 3 years on multiple projects and delivered the previous project under the approved budget.
Which estimation technique should the project manager implement in this context?
- A . Budget estimate
- B . Definitive estimate
- C . Story points
- D . Order of magnitude
A project manager has just received communication from an operational functional manager to complete an additional scope item for a project that was formally closed a few weeks ago. The scope looks relatively small and simple to handle as part of the daily operations activity.
How should the project manager deal with this request?
- A . Submit a change request and allocate the budget and resources needed for execution.
- B . Confirm that the budget and resources are available to execute the work request.
- C . Check the alternative resources available in the organization for the request.
- D . Evaluate the nature of the request and plan communication accordingly.