PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1031:

  A project manager is managing an agile project for the first time. Early on, the project manager discovers the team is struggling to agree on the scope of a feature during a sprint. How should the project manager help the team resolve the issue?

  A. Direct the senior-most member to determine the scope on behalf of the team.
  B. Discuss this with the team and decide what the scope of the feature should be.
  C. Ask the team to log the story in the product backlog and move on to the next feature.
  D. Encourage the team to collaborate to resolve their understanding of the feature.
  D. Encourage the team to collaborate to resolve their understanding of the feature.

• Question 1032:

  A struggling company is executing a critical project. However, due to external environment changes, there is not enough funding to complete the project. What should the project manager do first?

  A. Reduce the scope of the project to match the available funds.
  B. Park the project until the external environment is favorable.
  C. Ask the project sponsor to look for additional funding.
  D. Assess the impact and evaluate alternatives to accommodate the change.
  D. Assess the impact and evaluate alternatives to accommodate the change.

• Question 1033:

  A project manager is assigned to develop a wire bending machine midway through the design phase. The project manager discovered that the team did not have any test cases or acceptance criteria for the equipment. The project manager started communicating with the team to move the project forward.

  What should the project manager do first at this point?

  A. Meet with the quality planning manager to identify the reason why the quality plan was not created yet
  B. Meet with the hardware design engineers to identify the minimum performance required to establish a market for the machine
  C. Meet with the sales and marketing teams to identify the requirements that were collected during the interview sessions with potential customers
  D. Meet with the key stakeholders to identify the proper product concept for the development team
  C. Meet with the sales and marketing teams to identify the requirements that were collected during the interview sessions with potential customers

• Question 1034:

  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. Create a change request with the scope of the new internal projects.
  C. Influence the client to initiate a new project.
  D. Create a work breakdown structure (WBS) of the new scope with the internal projects
  E. Manage the quality of the delivery
  A. Use the project's contingency budget
  D. Create a work breakdown structure (WBS) of the new scope with the internal projects
  E. Manage the quality of the delivery

• Question 1035:

  A project manager was just assigned to an ongoing project. According to the project's status, all the increments produced passed the acceptance criteria. During the last meeting with the project sponsor, the prototype is far from the sponsor's original expectations.

  What should the project manager do first?

  A. Cancel the ongoing project and start a new one.
  B. Invite the sponsor to the retrospective meeting so they can clarify expectations.
  C. Add additional sprints to modify the deliverables with the new information.
  D. Complete the project and start a new one for the updated scope.
  C. Add additional sprints to modify the deliverables with the new information.

• Question 1036:

  A project manager is working with team members and customers who are operating in multiple countries. The team is working on implementing a new technology that includes ambiguities, uncertainties, and unknowns, both in terms of technology and of the end-user expectations for this solution.

  What should the project manager do to keep the stakeholders engaged?

  A. Use email as a communication channel.
  B. Use feedback and decision-making tools.
  C. Use meetings as a communication channel.
  D. Use a shared collaboration platform.
  D. Use a shared collaboration platform.

• Question 1037:

  An experienced project manager is managing a multi-million dollar agile project. The project manager communicates the ground rules to the team, but after 12 iterations, the project manager starts noticing that some team members are not following the ground rules.

  What should the project manager do first to ensure team adherence to the ground rules?

  A. Schedule a meeting with the project team to reinforce the ground rules.
  B. Notify the project sponsor about this behavior and ask the sponsor to take disciplinary action
  C. Contact human resources to request a written warning letter be sent to team members not following the ground rules.
  D. Ask the functional manager to replace team members not following the ground rules
  A. Schedule a meeting with the project team to reinforce the ground rules.

• Question 1038:

  HOTSPOT

  A project manager receives an update that the development flow is not going well. Some team members cannot start their work because the delivery is late. Looking at the Kanban board and the work in progress (WIP) lines, the project manager observes a bottleneck.

  Click the title of the queue in the Kanban board below that requires additional resources to relieve the bottleneck.

  Hot Area:

  

  

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  Explanation/Reference:

• Question 1039:

  An organization that is running several simultaneous projects suddenly experiences a surge in resignations, leading to a talent shortage. Consequently, some of the projects have been missing key milestones.

  What should the project manager do to recover from the delays?

  A. Reduce the scope of the projects to meet the upcoming target dates.
  B. Crash the schedules of the delayed projects to meet the upcoming target dates.
  C. Fast-track the delayed projects so they can meet the upcoming target dates.
  D. Ask for project sponsor approval to revise the upcoming target dates.
  A. Reduce the scope of the projects to meet the upcoming target dates.

• Question 1040:

  A project manager has been running an agile project for 6 months and has been reporting that the project is on track every week. However, on the last week before releasing the final product, the team found a technical impediment that put the project delivery in jeopardy overnight.

  What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation?

  A. Considered historical data from previous projects with similar impediments to help identify the possible solutions.
  B. Sought and implemented alternative ways to track progress and impediments to identify potential threats.
  C. Provided technical training to the team in advance to ensure the team had high-level technical skills.
  D. Developed a risk response plan that would have provided options and strategies regarding project risk exposure.
  D. Developed a risk response plan that would have provided options and strategies regarding project risk exposure.