PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1371:

  A project manager has established daily standup meetings with the team during the execution phase of the project. The project manager has been successful in removing 75% of the obstacles reported, but the timeline continues to deviate further each day with no signs of improvement.

  What should the project manager have done to avoid this issue?

  A. Prioritized blockers on the critical path.
  B. Distributed the daily standup meeting agenda beforehand.
  C. Followed the quality control measurements.
  D. Developed the team members' competences.
  A. Prioritized blockers on the critical path.

• Question 1372:

  An organization is adopting an agile mindset. On the first agile project, the project manager faced an issue because the team was unable to make decisions on time. What should the project manager do to address the problem?

  A. Define clear guidelines on how decisions should be made under the new organizational policy and reinforce them with the team on every occasion.
  B. Invite senior leadership to a team-building workshop and restate the importance of accountability and leadership under the new company direction.
  C. Assess the situation to understand how the organization's culture impacts the decisionmaking process, and coach the team toward a new model.
  D. Adopt an autocratic leadership style and dictate all decisions in order to speed up the team's velocity.
  C. Assess the situation to understand how the organization's culture impacts the decisionmaking process, and coach the team toward a new model.

• Question 1373:

  A vendor has manufactured a complex product. During a factory acceptance test, several deficiencies were identified. Product delivery is on the critical path, and any delay would impact project completion. What should the project manager do?

  A. Initiate regular conference calls with the vendor for status updates to keep this item in focus.
  B. Hold the shipment until the rework is completed at the vendor's facility to eliminate extra work on-site.
  C. Assess the schedule impact and evaluate the most feasible solution to keep the project on track.
  D. Ship the package as is, complete carryover work on-site, and back charge the vendor for the rework.
  C. Assess the schedule impact and evaluate the most feasible solution to keep the project on track.

• Question 1374:

  A project manager is working on an agile project that is within the scope of a recently announced corporate audit. The project manager was appointed to attend the first meeting with the auditors scheduled for the following week. What should the project manager do to prepare for the audit?

  A. Reserve story points for the next iteration if needed.
  B. Review the project information.
  C. Ask the development team to provide compliance information.
  D. Ask for a waiver during the audit.
  B. Review the project information.

• Question 1375:

  A vendor project manager and team are implementing a software solution across the organization. A customer stakeholder who was not present during the sales process is demanding that the team implement requirements that are out of scope without adding additional cost to the project.

  What should the project manager do next?

  A. Escalate the issue of the additional requirements to the executive leadership team.
  B. Refer the stakeholder to the delivery specifications in the statement of work (SOW).
  C. Implement all the requirements the customer has requested.
  D. Adjust the scope baseline and schedule baseline accordingly.
  B. Refer the stakeholder to the delivery specifications in the statement of work (SOW).

• Question 1376:

  A member of a testing team in an agile project works well with the project team. However, in the previous two iterations, this team member's performance was poor, and the team had difficulty meeting the iteration goals. How should the project manager handle this situation?

  A. Inform the human resource (HR) department about the issue.
  B. Allow the project team to discuss the problem with this team member.
  C. Discuss the issue with the team member's functional manager.
  D. Speak to the team member regarding the need to improve performance.
  D. Speak to the team member regarding the need to improve performance.

• Question 1377:

  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. Prioritize the product backlog looking for high business value and low effort, and adjust the project budget and staffing to account for those items.
  B. Balance the project team in order to accommodate the budget challenges, and provide training to mitigate the risk of low performance.
  C. 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.
  D. Reduce the project staff and adjust the scope and timelines accordingly in support of the budget reduction
  A. 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 1378:

  A project manager for a building construction project is planning to go on vacation midway through the project execution phase. What should the project manager do first to ensure the team is empowered and deadlines are met?

  A. Allow the team to make decisions to stay on schedule.
  B. Postpone the vacation to a different time.
  C. Ask the project sponsor to make any necessary decisions.
  D. Analyze the impacts and create a plan for team decision making
  D. Analyze the impacts and create a plan for team decision making

• Question 1379:

  A highly skilled team resource received a job offer and is leaving the project soon.

  What should the project manager do to maintain project performance while a new team member is being onboarded?

  A. Log a risk in the risk register and work with the new team member to mitigate it
  B. Motivate the new team member to perform.
  C. Share project documents with the new team member.
  D. Offer cross-training and mentoring to the new team member
  D. Offer cross-training and mentoring to the new team member

• Question 1380:

  A project manager is leading a meeting with key stakeholders, the project sponsor and the product owner to define the features that will be released after the next iteration. The purpose of the meeting is to review the product backlog prioritization, considering that during the past iteration some deliverables were not completed.

  Which two items should be taken into account first to review and update the product backlog priorities during the meeting? (Choose two)

  A. Complexity and the cost of development
  B. Industry trends and the technical approach
  C. Cost of delaying some features against business value
  D. Reusing components from another product
  E. Length of time each feature has been on the backlog
  A. Complexity and the cost of development
  C. Cost of delaying some features against business value