PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1101:

  A project manager was assigned to lead a global project with a virtual team that is globally dispersed. The project manager has difficulties communicating with the team members and there seems to be frequent misunderstandings and conflicts.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Ask the team members to refamiliarize themselves with the communications management plan.
  B. Organize effective communication training for team members.
  C. Listen to team members actively and change the communication practices accordingly.
  D. Model servant leadership by adapting to team requirements.
  C. Listen to team members actively and change the communication practices accordingly.

• Question 1102:

  A project manager brings in a new team member from an agile environment to work in a predictive environment. The project manager expects to leverage the new team member's agile experience with the existing team members. What should the project manager do to integrate the new team member effectively?

  A. Train the new team member in the predictive project management approach.
  B. Acknowledge that hiring this new employee is a risk to the existing team
  C. Set expectations with the new team member and explain what is needed
  D. Meet with all team members and explain the new employee's position.
  D. Meet with all team members and explain the new employee's position.

• Question 1103:

  A hybrid project manager has taken over a large-scale software development project in a highly regulated environment. During a handover session, the outgoing project manager explains that they devised their own status reports, which differ from the project management office's (PMO's) status report style. The project stakeholders are extremely particular about the information they receive in updates and do not believe the PMO's status reports provide sufficient information.

  How should the new project manager proceed?

  A. Continue using the outgoing project manager's status reports as well as their approach for schedule reporting
  B. Explain to the PMO that the hybrid project team needs to keep an agile approach for reporting and will not be complying with the organizational standard
  C. Change the status reports according to the template supplied by the PMO and proceed with scheduled reporting
  D. Meet with the project stakeholders to explain the need to comply with the PMO standards and update the status report format accordingly
  B. Explain to the PMO that the hybrid project team needs to keep an agile approach for reporting and will not be complying with the organizational standard

• Question 1104:

  A team decides to adopt an agile approach for their new project. During a sprint, the project manager realizes that there is a need to show progress and optimize the collaboration among teams. Which tool should the project manager use?

  A. Retrospective meetings
  B. Daily meetings
  C. Kanban board
  D. Gantt chart
  C. Kanban board

• Question 1105:

  After gathering all the requirements for a project with dependencies on external stakeholders, the project team is finishing the second iteration. At this point, the project manager learns about a possible change in regulations that would prevent the product launch.

  What should the project manager do to realize benefits?

  A. Add an entry in the risk log
  B. Implement the changes
  C. Review target benefits.
  D. Improve the team's velocity
  B. Implement the changes

• Question 1106:

  A project is approaching its project closure phase, and the project manager receives an email from a key stakeholder who complains that the project documentation and artifacts have not been updated. The project manager assigns a project specialist to support the project management office's (PMO) effort to update the project documentation and artifacts.

  Which three actions should the project manager ask the project specialist to take? (Choose three)

  A. Create a quality assurance plan for the documentation.
  B. Identify the components of the project documentation.
  C. Archive only the initial and draft versions of the documents.
  D. Ensure that the documents are in an easily retrievable form.
  E. Collect the documents at the time of their creation.
  B. Identify the components of the project documentation.
  C. Archive only the initial and draft versions of the documents.
  D. Ensure that the documents are in an easily retrievable form.

• Question 1107:

  An agile project is running its second of six iterations. One new team member who does not have agile experience has just joined the team. In the daily meetings, the project manager observes that the team is having problems meeting their goals.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Provide feedback to the team and conduct a meeting to review the team rules.
  B. Provide feedback to the team and conduct a retrospective meeting to find a root cause.
  C. Provide feedback to the team and request agile training for the new member.
  D. Provide feedback to the team and coach the new team member in agile methodology.
  B. Provide feedback to the team and conduct a retrospective meeting to find a root cause.

• Question 1108:

  A project is on its second iteration out of eight. After some daily meetings, the project manager notices that one team member is always directing the meeting. The team is not comfortable with the situation and, as a result, the activities are blocked.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Conduct a session to help the team improve their interactions.
  B. Update the risk register and define a contingency plan.
  C. Moderate the daily meetings to help the team to feel more comfortable.
  D. Meet with the team member to show the impact of their behavior.
  D. Meet with the team member to show the impact of their behavior.

• Question 1109:

  A project using a hybrid approach to migrate from a current system to a new and enhanced system is underway. The plan is to migrate the system in stages. However, the operations team is complaining that they are not ready to start supporting the new system.

  How should the project manager effectively approach this situation?

  A. Create a lessons learned register to include operations team training for future projects.
  B. Include knowledge transfer sessions between the project and operations teams at every stage.
  C. Change the project management plan to add a final stage for product handoff to the operations team.
  D. Prepare detailed documentation to be shared with the operations team during project closure.
  B. Include knowledge transfer sessions between the project and operations teams at every stage.

• Question 1110:

  Two project team members are updating the schedule but cannot reach an agreement on when two milestones are due. Each team member believes they are correct based on the documents they have available. What should the project manager do first to finalize the schedule?

  A. Engage the two team members to investigate the reasons each believes that their documents are correct.
  B. Update the schedule so it is available for team members to continue the work and figure out the discrepancy later.
  C. Ask the two team members to meet to work the discrepancy out and let the project manager know the outcome.
  D. Ask the team members to send the documents and apply expert judgment to update the schedule.
  A. Engage the two team members to investigate the reasons each believes that their documents are correct.