PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1501:

  An agile project team is working on a large project involving multiple cross-functional teams in different geographical locations. Some team members are unclear about their next tasks.

  Which strategy should the project lead implement to help the team?

  A. Review the prioritized backlog with the project team.
  B. Review the action items with the respective project team members.
  C. Review the project objectives at the next team meeting.
  D. Review the work scope with the functional managers and their teams.
  A. Review the prioritized backlog with the project team.

• Question 1502:

  Two teams are engaged on a global project which uses a follow-the-sun approach in order to speed up delivery. After the first release, many issues were identified on the product, which could easily have been avoided with better communication.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Improve the videoconferencing system to provide better availability and quality in order to increase communication.
  B. Have team ambassadors from each location travel to the other in order to facilitate communication and minimize issues.
  C. Facilitate a meeting with both teams so that they can agree on the issues and propose solutions that work for both teams.
  D. Move working windows so that team members can have increased overlap for the handover of status and issues to their counterparts.
  C. Facilitate a meeting with both teams so that they can agree on the issues and propose solutions that work for both teams.

• Question 1503:

  A project has recently kicked off. The project manager observes that there are different expectations among the project team members. These growing misunderstandings are affecting team productivity. Which document should the project manager use as a guide to resolve the issue?

  A. Project charter
  B. Stakeholder register
  C. Team charter
  D. Project organization charts
  C. Team charter

• Question 1504:

  After the merger of two large companies, a project manager is assigned to a project. The company hires a consultant to ensure best practices are being used in information security. During an iteration, the consultant requests changes to a software component, claiming that it is not meeting market requirements.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Continue the iteration and add the requested changes.
  B. Continue the iteration and review the change with the customer.
  C. Cancel the iteration and meet with the product owner.
  D. Cancel the iteration and add the requested changes.
  B. Continue the iteration and review the change with the customer.

• Question 1505:

  DRAG DROP

  A few months into a project, several scheduling issues have emerged. Match the schedule problems on the left to the specific tools on the right that, if implemented during schedule development, could have prevented these issues.

  Select and Place:

  

  

• Question 1506:

  A project is on its fifth iteration out of six. One member of the team has left the company unexpectedly. What should the project manager do next?

  A. Detail the reason for the project delay in the status report.
  B. Invite the stakeholders to discuss a mitigation plan.
  C. Take on some of the necessary work to minimize the impact.
  D. Register an issue and escalate it to the project sponsor.
  B. Invite the stakeholders to discuss a mitigation plan.

• Question 1507:

  A project sponsor has requested that the project manager reprioritize the team's tasks to include a feature that is not part of the minimum viable product (MVP) for the project. Although the project sponsor is very keen on the feature, adding it has the potential to cause team burnout and/or delay the release.

  How should the project manager address this situation?

  A. Ensure the feature has been included in the product backlog, explain to the sponsor the consequences of the request, and ask the team to include the feature's tasks in the next iteration.
  B. Ensure the feature is included in the iteration backlog, ask the team to work on the current tasks first, and include the new tasks after those tasks are completed.
  C. Ensure the feature has been included in the product backlog, then hold a meeting with the team and sponsor to determine how to deliver the feature within the current iteration.
  D. Ensure the feature's tasks are included in the iteration backlog, explain to the sponsor the consequences of the request, and ask the team to deliver the feature in the current iteration.
  A. Ensure the feature has been included in the product backlog, explain to the sponsor the consequences of the request, and ask the team to include the feature's tasks in the next iteration.

• Question 1508:

  A project manager is managing a project for a government owned company using an iterative approach. The first useful release to production consisted of three iterations. Each iteration was successfully checked by the client's representatives in the test environment. However, when the team started deploying to the production environment, the security team declined it.

  What should the project manager have done to prevent this?

  A. Implemented the authorization in the first iteration.
  B. Reviewed the compliance requirements with stakeholders.
  C. Deployed to production after the first iteration.
  D. Planned smaller iterations to review the results more often.
  B. Reviewed the compliance requirements with stakeholders.

• Question 1509:

  An organization is transitioning to agile delivery, and a new team has been assembled. A project is not going well because the variation of the team velocity is very high and every sprint delivers less than committed. A new project lead with a strong technical background has been assigned to the project.

  What should the project lead do?

  A. Ask that estimations be provided only by senior developers.
  B. Allocate more time for estimation in the sprint planning.
  C. Review and update the estimations in the daily standup.
  D. Recommend a different estimation method in the retrospective.
  D. Recommend a different estimation method in the retrospective.

• Question 1510:

  A project manager created a contingency plan associated with a risk. The risk was realized, but the client insists on using a new workaround instead. The requested workaround will introduce delays and require additional budget. What should the project manager do?

  A. Request to use the management reserve to keep the schedule
  B. Mitigate risks associated with the workaround to avoid project delays
  C. Proceed with the approved risk response plan.
  D. Discuss the options with the client as part of the change control process
  D. Discuss the options with the client as part of the change control process