PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1441:

  A project manager is managing a large project. A stakeholder has just discovered a new risk that has not been identified in earlier stages. What should the project manager do?

  A. Communicate the risk to the steering committee and request a mitigation plan from senior management.
  B. Perform a risk analysis directly with the stakeholder who raised the risk and update the risk register.
  C. Confirm to the stakeholder that the risk register has been completed and validated by all stakeholders.
  D. Add the risk to the risk register and reevaluate the register with help from the project team and stakeholders.
  D. Add the risk to the risk register and reevaluate the register with help from the project team and stakeholders.

• Question 1442:

  A supplier informs the project manager that producing the quantity of a key component for the project will require an additional month. The project manager has to meet an important milestone in a week. What should the project manager do next?

  A. Ask the vendor if the minimally sufficient materials can be produced in time to meet the deadline.
  B. Perform market research to find out if there are other vendors that can produce similar kinds of materials.
  C. Submit a change request to the change control board (CCB) asking to extend the deadline in order to reflect the late delivery.
  D. Involve the legal department, as the vendor is breaching the contract by not delivering the full amount in time.
  A. Ask the vendor if the minimally sufficient materials can be produced in time to meet the deadline.

• Question 1443:

  An agile project for a database migration impacts nearly all business units of the corporation. Every effort has been made to complete the migration before the end-of-support date for the database platform. A new impediment now implies the need to continue use of the old platform for another year at a higher support price.

  What should the product owner do about this situation?

  A. Reprioritize the backlog based on value and cost of delay divided by duration.
  B. Reprioritize the backlog based on story size and competence availability.
  C. Remove low-value items from the backlog to compensate for the higher cost.
  D. Switch to a predictive approach to prevent any further delays to completion.
  A. Reprioritize the backlog based on value and cost of delay divided by duration.

• Question 1444:

  A project manager has been assigned to manage multiple agile project teams. The project manager wants to empower the teams and make them self-organizing. What should the project manager do to create a positive environment?

  A. Establish the team ground rules and share them with the team for strict adherence.
  B. Copy the ground rules established by another project and provide them to the teams.
  C. Extract the organization's policies and processes, customize them, and give them to the teams to adhere to.
  D. Help the teams in establishing and adhering to their ground rules and revisit after regular intervals.
  D. Help the teams in establishing and adhering to their ground rules and revisit after regular intervals.

• Question 1445:

  A project manager's customer is new to agile approaches. When the customer found out that the project was going to use an agile approach, the customer became concerned that the product quality will be sacrificed. What should the project manager do?

  A. Ensure that the customer and the delivery team agree on the definition of done (DoD) in the beginning of the project.
  B. Invite the customer to join the daily standup meetings to better understand the product design and progress.
  C. Ensure the team demonstrates product features to this customer regularly to collect feedback and improve as needed.
  D. Invite the customer to join the regular sprint planning sessions to better understand the project's progress.
  C. Ensure the team demonstrates product features to this customer regularly to collect feedback and improve as needed.

• Question 1446:

  A project manager is leading a project with a predictive approach for a governmental body with strictly defined requirements. In the middle of the project, the sponsor requires a significant new feature to be included. This feature was not in the original plan, nor was it part of the planning process.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Descope low-priority features that were not explicitly requested and add this feature as a high priority.
  B. Inform the senior manager that they will need a new project management plan for this feature.
  C. Complete the most current feature and release the resources for the new feature.
  D. Analyze the impact of this change and present the options to the senior manager.
  D. Analyze the impact of this change and present the options to the senior manager.

• Question 1447:

  A project manager found a repeated defect in a junior developer's code. The code is due in 2 days and a severe fine will be incurred if it is not fixed by then. The project manager wants to reassign the assignment to a more senior developer, but the junior developer is strongly opposed to the reassignment.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Assign the issue to a senior developer and schedule training for the junior developer after the due date.
  B. Assign the rework to the junior developer after consultation with the senior developer.
  C. Reassign the issue to the senior developer and assign the junior developer to assist in fixing the issue.
  D. Reassign the issue to the senior developer after explaining the situation to the junior developer.
  D. Reassign the issue to the senior developer after explaining the situation to the junior developer.

• Question 1448:

  A project team is executing a megaproject, and several contract requirements have been identified. In the planning phase, the project team agreed that a contract would be required 3 months prior to the project's finish date. During project execution, it was determined that the contract was required immediately.

  What should project manager do?

  A. Seek management's approval for executing the contract earlier than planned.
  B. Request the team to initiate a change request to execute the contract.
  C. Support the team's request and allow for early contract execution.
  D. Challenge the project team to identify the reasons for early contract execution.
  B. Request the team to initiate a change request to execute the contract.

• Question 1449:

  A customer complains that a software update project is failing to deliver value according to the original scope. What should the project manager do to resolve the problem?

  A. Ensure that the project issue log is up-to-date with the customer's issues related to the missed stories.
  B. Ensure that the project change log is up-to-date with the stories based on the missed requirements.
  C. Ensure that the project backlog has the features and stories prioritized correctly.
  D. Ensure that the project risk register is current and reflects the impacts posed by stories not delivered.
  C. Ensure that the project backlog has the features and stories prioritized correctly.

• Question 1450:

  A company is working on the prototype of a new contract document that includes visual elements. The product owner shared the project sponsor's feedback about the elements to be included, but the project team pushed back. However, when the project sponsor spoke with the team, they confirmed that all of the changes are possible.

  How should the project manager mitigate this situation?

  A. Execute a retrospective meeting to solve the misalignment.
  B. Review the actions listed in the risk management plan.
  C. Review and update the organizational process assets (OPAs).
  D. Submit a change request to replace the product owner.
  A. Execute a retrospective meeting to solve the misalignment.