PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1051:

  The project manager of an agile project has been asked to reduce the budget by 30%. Since this is a small project team, the budget is primarily allocated to resources. What strategy should the project manager use in order to keep delivering value in a restricted environment?

  A. Reduce the project staff and adjust the scope and timelines accordingly in support of the budget reduction.
  B. Balance the project team in order to accommodate the budget challenges, and provide training to mitigate the risk of low performance
  C. Prioritize the product backlog looking for high business value and low effort, and adjust the project budget and staffing to account for those items.
  D. Restrict the project scope only to basic critical features and run the project with the current staffing level until all of the budget is consumed
  C. Prioritize the product backlog looking for high business value and low effort, and adjust the project budget and staffing to account for those items.

• Question 1052:

  A work package to configure new computer hardware is received, and a list of related project activities have also been identified. What should the project manager do?

  A. Define the project management plan.
  B. Estimate the resources needed for the activities.
  C. Consult subject matter experts (SMEs) to review the schedule.
  D. Estimate the cost of each activity.
  B. Estimate the resources needed for the activities.

• Question 1053:

  A project manager is managing a few innovation projects with a high level of uncertainty. The project manager is experiencing challenges with the large number of change requests issued due to the nature of the project. What should the project manager do?

  A. Add a fixed number of change requests allowed by the client on the project baseline.
  B. Request sponsor approval for all change requests to reduce the number of changes.
  C. Initiate the number of iterations to reduce the number of change requests.
  D. Reduce the number of approvers required to implement a change request.
  C. Initiate the number of iterations to reduce the number of change requests.

• Question 1054:

  A project team member is sick and will not be able to return to the project for a few weeks. During the daily meeting, the team shares their concerns as the sick team member was the only one skilled in the component they were developing. What should the project manager have done to prevent this?

  A. Requested robust documentation for the component's build.
  B. Outsourced development of the specific component to another team.
  C. Acquired more than one resource skilled in each component.
  D. Facilitated cross-functional knowledge transfer during the project.
  D. Facilitated cross-functional knowledge transfer during the project.

• Question 1055:

  A project manager starts to receive emails from different stakeholders requesting information about the project status. What should the project manager do to avoid this in the future?

  A. Designate a team member to respond to the emails from these stakeholders.
  B. Include the stakeholders' emails in all of the project status communications.
  C. Include the project stakeholders' needs while planning the project communications strategy.
  D. Schedule weekly project status meetings with all stakeholders including the customer and internal resources.
  C. Include the project stakeholders' needs while planning the project communications strategy.

• Question 1056:

  A project manager is executing a project on time and within budget. Before a stage-gate review, the project manager receives the regular business management report; however, this time, it indicates a negative impact on the project's success factors.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Continue with execution since the project has been successful up to this phase.
  B. Ask business development to revalidate the inputs at the next stage gate.
  C. Provide the necessary analysis to enable an examination of the business value.
  D. Request a delay to the stage gate until business development provides the next update.
  C. Provide the necessary analysis to enable an examination of the business value.

• Question 1057:

  As part of planning activities for a new project, the project manager must develop a budget that encompasses the full project scope. What should the project manager do to build the project budget?

  A. Reference the work breakdown structure (WBS) and project schedule to estimate costs associated with each WBS element.
  B. Schedule a working session with the project sponsor to review the project charter and estimate the cost per project phase.
  C. Review historical project files and lessons learned to identify a similar project and adapt the budget used in the historical project.
  D. Ask key project stakeholders to estimate the cost of delivering the project, then calculate an average that can be used for the budget.
  A. Reference the work breakdown structure (WBS) and project schedule to estimate costs associated with each WBS element.

• Question 1058:

  A project manager is leading a project to develop a new mobile application. During an informal conversation, a stakeholder asked the project manager to add new features to the current sprint. What should the project manager do?

  A. Request the stakeholder to wait until the following sprint planning.
  B. Discuss this demand during the following standup meeting.
  C. Accept the change request and negotiate the time line.
  D. Ask the product owner to discuss this request with the stakeholder.
  D. Ask the product owner to discuss this request with the stakeholder.

• Question 1059:

  During project execution, a project manager is leading the team to work on the project schedule. During a meeting, the team has difficulty understanding the complexity of a task and is unable to provide an estimate for the required resources. What should the project manager do first to resolve this issue?

  A. Register the issue as a risk in the risk register.
  B. Report to the sponsor that there is a new challenge in the project.
  C. Engage an external expert to provide the estimation.
  D. Refer to the organization's lessons learned from past projects.
  D. Refer to the organization's lessons learned from past projects.

• Question 1060:

  An agile team has been struggling to keep up with the planned pace, which is frequently resulting in sprint failures. What should the project manager do to help avoid this situation in the future?

  A. Switch to a Kanban approach, implementing features on a first-come, first-serve basis, fostering a sustainable pace
  B. Review the velocity of the team over the last several sprnts and adjust the plan accordingly
  C. Ask the project sponsor to approve overtime to compensate for the lack of performance while adjusting the plan
  D. Replace junior team members with more experienced ones and negotiate the project scope to compensate for the budget gap
  A. Switch to a Kanban approach, implementing features on a first-come, first-serve basis, fostering a sustainable pace