PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 2271:

  A project manager is acting as a servant leader and is struggling to make deadlines on a critical roadway construction project that is falling behind schedule due to a low-performing team. In order to get the project back on track, what should the project manager do first?

  A. Empower the team members to conduct their job activities and hold each person accountable to improve the schedule.
  B. Notify the project sponsor that the team is underperforming and request additional resources to compress the schedule.
  C. Contact each team member to inform them that further schedule slips will not be tolerated by the project sponsor.
  D. Begin holding daily meetings to assign each team member discrete tasks with specific due dates.
  A. Empower the team members to conduct their job activities and hold each person accountable to improve the schedule.

• Question 2272:

  During a project review meeting, several project team members expressed that they did not have an understanding of the benefits of certain features for the project. What should the project manager do next?

  A. Review the project scope statement
  B. Confirm ownership for ongoing value realization
  C. Escalate the issue to the project sponsor
  D. Appraise the stakeholders of value gain progress
  A. Review the project scope statement

• Question 2273:

  A project manager is closing a project and preparing to hand it over to the operations team. During handover, a delayed invoice was submitted with a higher-than-planned cost against the project work. Consequently, project handover was delayed and the project's reported completion costs were increased.

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

  A. Captured and reviewed all of the project work and related costs regularly.
  B. Notified all vendors about the invoicing and nonpayment deadlines.
  C. Reviewed the total committed cost against the cost invoiced at project closing.
  D. Involved the finance team and discussed the issue with the vendor.
  A. Captured and reviewed all of the project work and related costs regularly.

• Question 2274:

  Three months after creating a project schedule, the scope of a project changed significantly, resulting in a schedule rebaselining. One month after rebaselining, the project is two weeks behind schedule with a cost performance index (CPI) of 0.93.

  What should the project manager do to help get the project back on schedule?

  A. Crash the project with two additional contract resources for the newly identified tasks.
  B. Meet with the project stakeholders and inform them that the project is going to be delayed.
  C. Manage the schedule's critical path, as this was an approved scheduling change.
  D. Review the project schedule and find ways to fast-track the overall project schedule.
  D. Review the project schedule and find ways to fast-track the overall project schedule.

• Question 2275:

  A project manager who has been working on an ongoing volatile project is retiring. A new project manager is collaborating with the retiring project manager to ensure a smooth transition. What should the new project manager first discuss, review, and clarify during the transition meetings?

  A. Resource management plan
  B. Change management plan
  C. Lessons learned log
  D. Risk register
  D. Risk register

• Question 2276:

  A project manager is assigned to a yearlong project. Before the start of the design phase, a competitor announces that they will release a similar deliverable in 8 months, although with fewer features and functionality. Which two actions should the project manager take next? (Choose two.)

  A. Modify the project management plan with an incremental approach.
  B. Discuss and review this external risk with the project sponsor.
  C. Update the project artifacts to include this issue.
  D. Evaluate the impact of incremental deliverables.
  E. Reduce the scope items of the final deliverable.
  B. Discuss and review this external risk with the project sponsor.
  E. Reduce the scope items of the final deliverable.

• Question 2277:

  The project manager received a claim from the client because the outcome delivered is not working properly. The project manager investigated the cause and realized that this deliverable was outsourced to an external provider, and was not made aware.

  What primary tool would have helped the project manager identify this situation?

  A. Communications management plan
  B. Scope baseline
  C. Risk register
  D. Stakeholder register
  D. Stakeholder register

• Question 2278:

  Early on during a sprint in an agile project, the project team begins deliberating two different approaches to implement a feature. The project manager is concerned that the team is spending too much time discussing this feature, because the team needs to cover other features in the sprint as well.

  How should the project manager approach the situation?

  A. Intervene in the deliberation process and weigh in on which approach would be better to use.
  B. Deliberate with the team moving the item to the product backlog and taking up the next item in the list.
  C. Stop the deliberation process and ask the team to take a vote using the nominal group technique.
  D. Allow the team to continue deliberating until the team reaches a consensus on the desired approach.
  B. Deliberate with the team moving the item to the product backlog and taking up the next item in the list.

• Question 2279:

  A project manager has been assigned to lead an IT project to store information on sold lottery tickets. During the project execution, a failure in the system caused 10 numbers to be sold two times. This happened during the month of greatest demand because the prize was the highest of the year. The project team is concerned that one of those tickets could be the winner.

  What should the project manager do first?

  A. Reassure the sponsor by explaining the probability of this risk materializing is extremely low.
  B. Carry out tests to verify that the system does not fail again due to the high occurrence of events.
  C. Review the list of risks to verify that this issue was considered and execute the detailed action plan.
  D. Inform the sponsor about the issue and make a request for sufficient funds to be made available.
  C. Review the list of risks to verify that this issue was considered and execute the detailed action plan.

• Question 2280:

  An information technology project manager works at an insurance company and is assigned to an infrastructure upgrade project. During the execution phase, a stakeholder approaches the project manager and informs them that a deliverable is not meeting the quality requirements.

  What should the project manager do first?

  A. Acknowledge the stakeholder's concerns and work to correct the deliverable.
  B. Compare the stakeholder's assertion to the metrics in the quality report.
  C. Ask the project sponsor for additional funding for improved quality outcomes.
  D. Update the risk register with information on the noncompliant deliverable.
  B. Compare the stakeholder's assertion to the metrics in the quality report.