PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1841:

  A customer initiated a minor scope change and expects this to be completed without delays or additional costs. The project manager believes that they have adequate authorization to make the decision themselves but is not quite sure. What should the project manager do next?

  A. Use the project contingency and implement the change without charging the customer, since the customer's satisfaction is top priority.
  B. Exploit this change opportunity and calculate the cost, risk, and time, then add a reasonable margin and submit to the customer.
  C. Use the Perform Integrated Change Control process and submit this to the change control board (CCB) for approval.
  D. Keep the change pending and decide to take this up as part of final settlement at the end of the project.
  C. Use the Perform Integrated Change Control process and submit this to the change control board (CCB) for approval.

• Question 1842:

  An external project manager is managing the construction of new corporate offices for a large company. The project management plan states that it is necessary to contract a highly trained external resource to revise and validate an important project component. The client has rejected hiring the external resource because of the high cost even though it is within the project budget.

  What should the project manager do to resolve this issue?

  A. Hire the resource in order to achieve the project objectives.
  B. Ask the client for a meeting and explain that the task will not be performed
  C. Evaluate the consequences and meet with the client to explain the possible scenarios.
  D. Try to accomplish the task internally by leveling resources from other projects
  C. Evaluate the consequences and meet with the client to explain the possible scenarios.

• Question 1843:

  A team is not delivering the committed work. Cards are not moving on the kanban board, and the burndown chart shows that the sprint progress is slow. What should the agile project manager do?

  A. Consider the use of alternative performance metrics.
  B. Change the work in progress (WIP) limit to reflect the team's capacity.
  C. Discuss the performance with senior leadership.
  D. Meet with the project team members who are slow in delivering tasks.
  D. Meet with the project team members who are slow in delivering tasks.

• Question 1844:

  A multinational company is rolling out a new software platform within its subsidiaries. However, the distributed project team struggles to meet regularly. As a result, the project milestones are not being achieved. What should the project manager do first?

  A. Inform the project sponsor and request additional team members to crash the project schedule to meet the target
  B. Introduce an award system to promote member participation and establish some competition between the subteams
  C. Evaluate the effectiveness of the virtual teams and support them with the necessary technology and equipment D. Propose to roll out the new software in one subsidiary and then use the lessons learned to improve the project
  C. Evaluate the effectiveness of the virtual teams and support them with the necessary technology and equipment D. Propose to roll out the new software in one subsidiary and then use the lessons learned to improve the project

• Question 1845:

  A project manager is managing a complex research project with a high level of uncertainty. A request is made to implement a mechanism to measure the quality of the deliverables. Using a hybrid approach, what techniques can be used to achieve this goal?

  A. Daily Scrum and product owner quality assessments.
  B. Scrum master reviews and the quality Kanban method
  C. Paired work and the customer role method.
  D. Time-boxed iterations and standup review meetings
  D. Time-boxed iterations and standup review meetings

• Question 1846:

  A project is almost completed, and both the sponsor and the project management office (PMO) are happy with the project manager's performance reviews. The project manager is under budget and ahead of schedule. However, a team member asks to add a feature to the product that will make the product more impressive and acceptable to the end users.

  What should the project manager do first?

  A. Accept the feature.
  B. Determine if the feature is within the scope.
  C. Submit a change request! for the feature.
  D. Reject the feature.
  B. Determine if the feature is within the scope.

• Question 1847:

  An agile project is in its ninth of 10 iterations. The team is delivering the work as expected. In the planning session, the team identifies a dependency with another project in the organization. What should the scrum master do in order to accomplish the iteration goal?

  A. Ask the product owner to collaborate with the other team about the dependency.
  B. Recommend that the product owner change the priority of the dependency.
  C. Initiate collaboration with the other project team working on the dependency.
  D. Ask a team member to interact with the other team to complete the dependency.
  C. Initiate collaboration with the other project team working on the dependency.

• Question 1848:

  A project team member is struggling to deliver an assigned task. In a team meeting, the project manager determines that there are other members on the team who have more experience with similar tasks. What should the project manager do?

  A. Ask one of the more experienced team members to support the team member with the task.
  B. Reassign the task to one of the more experienced project team members for a faster completion of the assigned task.
  C. Ask the experienced team members to produce a manual on how to complete the task.
  D. Inform the project management office (PMO) of the issue and request a replacement for the less experienced team member.
  A. Ask one of the more experienced team members to support the team member with the task.

• Question 1849:

  A newly hired team member just joined the project team and reports directly to the project manager. In the first week, this new member tells the project manager that there is a task priority conflict with hard, dependent tasks on the critical path. What should the project manager do to handle the conflict?

  A. Guide the team member on how to resolve the conflict.
  B. Analyze the project schedule and look for alternatives.
  C. Perform crashing and/or fast tracking of the schedule.
  D. Meet the team member and try to plan a course of action together.
  D. Meet the team member and try to plan a course of action together.

• Question 1850:

  An operations manager continuously raises concerns about a project's benefits to the company. While some concerns are valid most of the time these concerns have caused delays in project meetings. How should the project manager handle this'?

  A. Discuss the meeting delays with the director of operations and ask for support with the concerns.
  B. Review the operations manager's concerns and ensure these concerns are addressed
  C. Escalate the concerns to the project sponsor and discuss options to address them
  D. Include the operations manager's concerns in the risk register and assign actions to mitigate the risks.
  B. Review the operations manager's concerns and ensure these concerns are addressed