PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1061:

  A project manager is assigned to a major construction project. The project is critical to the city's population, and especially to the local government official who committed to delivering the project on time as an election promise. A new project sponsor has been assigned and wants to include aspects that the previous project sponsor did not support.

  What should the project manager do next?

  A. Meet with the new project sponsor to review the current project scope and the requested changes.
  B. Rebaseline the project as there is now a new project sponsor, which is presenting an opportunity to review and recalibrate the project objectives.
  C. Invite the project sponsor to a briefing with the project team to demonstrate progress and seek further support to meet project-committed deliverables.
  D. Inform the new project sponsor that the new aspects will not be included in this project.
  A. Meet with the new project sponsor to review the current project scope and the requested changes.

• Question 1062:

  Which schedule network analysis technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?

  A. Human resource planning
  B. Fast tracking
  C. Critical chain method
  D. Rolling wave planning
  C. Critical chain method

• Question 1063:

  A project manager is managing a project aimed at providing incremental deliveries to the market every three months. The team has been assigned, and the product backlog was created and prioritized by the product owner. After four iterations, the product owner escalates complaints to the CEO because the product does not meet the product owner's expectations.

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

  A. Implemented sprint reviews with the product owner and retrospectives with the team to minimize gaps
  B. Performed risk management analysis during daily scrums
  C. Reviewed the organizational process assets (OPAs) and lessons learned from similar projects
  D. Performed backlog grooming to ensure that acceptance criteria were being met
  A. Implemented sprint reviews with the product owner and retrospectives with the team to minimize gaps

• Question 1064:

  A project manager works with a global virtual team. The team is facing difficulty in communicating with each other and often misses important messages. This difficulty leads to missed deadlines. What should the project manager do to enhance project team effectiveness?

  A. Implement team colocation to improve communication.
  B. Identify the root cause of communication issues
  C. Initiate daily communication of project progress
  D. Schedule a communications control board meeting
  B. Identify the root cause of communication issues

• Question 1065:

  In a global project, the main definitions were developed in country A, and the delivery of the project will be completed in phases in countries B, C, and D. Country B discovers that one of the legal requirements was not addressed. What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

  A. Selected countries that had similar regulatory requirements.
  B. Asked procurement to assign resources located in each country.
  C. Managed risk mitigation strategies specific to each country.
  D. Identified the regulatory differences among the countries.
  D. Identified the regulatory differences among the countries.

• Question 1066:

  A project manager acquired information from the market that would reduce the business value being delivered by an ongoing protect Based on that information, the project manager believes the project should be stopped. How should the project manager handle the situation?

  A. Remove the items no longer applicable from the backlog and present the backlog to the project team
  B. Continue working on the defined scope and review the risk matrix
  C. Have a discussion with the project sponsor and cancel the project
  D. Have a discussion with the sponsor and recommend the project business value be reassessed
  D. Have a discussion with the sponsor and recommend the project business value be reassessed

• Question 1067:

  A healthcare company requires all new employees to attend mandatory computer-based training courses. Because some of the employees work with highly sensitive patient data, the training covers various aspects of data security. In spite of this training, data breaches continue to occur in one of the project teams.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Apply a root-cause analysis on the data breaches.
  B. Ensure that all team members complete the training.
  C. Redesign the training courseware to make it interesting.
  D. Retrain the team members responsible for the breaches.
  A. Apply a root-cause analysis on the data breaches.

• Question 1068:

  A project manager is managing a project which has a very complex and long execution period. Although the project is mostly predictive, the team was able to break the design and execution into smaller packages using a hybrid framework. The business wants to keep track of the value delivered by this framework application but there is no defined set of measurable items for the framework.

  What should the project manager do first?

  A. Work with the stakeholders to determine which measurable benefits can be tracked and assign an accountable person to monitor and report them
  B. Create a report based on the work breakdown structure (WBS) and update it on a regular basis.
  C. Use the same benefits tracking process from the last predictive project and add this to the monthly status report
  D. Research which templates of reports were used the most for this framework and incorporate them into the project
  A. Work with the stakeholders to determine which measurable benefits can be tracked and assign an accountable person to monitor and report them

• Question 1069:

  A new privacy law will go into effect at the beginning of the next calendar year. The project manager realizes the project needs to be compliant with the new law. What should the project manager do next?

  A. Inform the project steering committee of this constraint.
  B. Inform the project team and create a spike for the next Iteration.
  C. Inform the legal department that the project scope will be updated.
  D. Inform the product owner that the project will continue as planned.
  C. Inform the legal department that the project scope will be updated.

• Question 1070:

  An organization is transitioning to agile and a project has been chosen as a pilot. The assigned project manager only has experience using predictive approaches, but the project manager is now required to use agile approaches with the help of an agile coach. During the retrospective of the fifth sprint, the project team complains that many obstacles exist with the organization that are creating project delays and rework.

  What should the project manager do in this situation?

  A. Include impediment resolutions during daily standup meetings
  B. Perform a root cause analysis during the standup meetings
  C. Create a dedicated sprint to solve the obstacles with the team
  D. Promote collaboration to help remove the obstacles for the team
  D. Promote collaboration to help remove the obstacles for the team