PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 2321:

  A project needs to purchase a specific piece of equipment, as stated in the project documents and approved by the project sponsor. The procurement division is questioning the need to buy the specific brand of equipment and has suggested buying a cheaper alternative instead.

  What should the project manager have done earlier in the project to ensure the purchase of the specific equipment?

  A. Communicated the project charter to the procurement division
  B. Included a procurement division member on the project team
  C. Reminded the project sponsor about the procurement division's reputation
  D. Communicated the project management plan to the procurement division
  A. Communicated the project charter to the procurement division

• Question 2322:

  A concerned project team member complains to the project manager that another team member is being disruptive and argumentative during team meetings. The project manager received some information that the team member recently

  overcame a difficult personal situation.

  What should the project manager do to address the concem?

  A. Provide team-building activities so that the team can learn how to overcome disruptive behavior
  B. Inform the disruptive team member's functional manager that the disruptive behavior should be stopped immediately
  C. Request a meeting with the disruptive team member and help to resolve the issue
  D. Encourage self-governance and ask the concerned team member to speak to the disruptive team member directly
  C. Request a meeting with the disruptive team member and help to resolve the issue

• Question 2323:

  A new team member has joined a project team. During the first sprint, the new team member approached the project manager and requested to implement a new way of testing. The team has been resistant to the proposed change. What should the project manager do?

  A. Ask the new team member to focus only on development and not do the testing.
  B. Coach the new team member to conduct the testing the way it has always been done for this project.
  C. Schedule a meeting with the new team member to learn about the new method of testing.
  D. Request that the new team member do the testing the way it has always been done for this project.
  C. Schedule a meeting with the new team member to learn about the new method of testing.

• Question 2324:

  During the course of a project, the project manager's immediate director is communicating directly with the client to approve changes without the project manager's knowledge. This is causing confusion in the project team where the scope is changing in the background, but only being mentioned in project meetings.

  How should the project manager handle this?

  A. Communicate directly with the director and inform them of the communications management plan
  B. Communicate directly with the client stating that any scope changes must go through the project manager
  C. Review the stakeholder engagement plan and put in place any existing actions accordingly
  D. Discuss the issues with the project team and let them know that the project manager will handle scope changes
  C. Review the stakeholder engagement plan and put in place any existing actions accordingly

• Question 2325:

  A project manager holds meetings every Monday to review the team members' progress. The project sponsor is insisting on daily updates to ensure improved delivery on products developed by all of the teams, including this one. Some learn members indicate they are on a very light time line and would attend me Monday meeting, but not the daily update meetings.

  What should the project manager do to ensure all team members participate in daily meetings?

  A. Analyse the team members' influence levels and schedule a training on the importance of daily standups and the time-bound feature of the meetings.
  B. Require all team members to attend the daily review meetings as they ate requested by the project sponsor.
  C. Inform the functional manager and replace (earn members who cannot join the daily progress meetings.
  D. Review the influence of each team member, call the team members with the highest influence to a meeting, and convince them to join the daily standups.
  C. Inform the functional manager and replace (earn members who cannot join the daily progress meetings.

• Question 2326:

  A project manager has been assigned to a hybrid project that must receive approval from a government regulator. During the daily standups, one member reported an impediment that requires collaboration from an expert who is assigned to another project.

  What should the project manager do first in this situation?

  A. Review the project's key performance indicators (KPIs) to determine the impact of this assignment.
  B. Check the expert's availability within the organization on an as-needed basis.
  C. Develop the team member's capacities through mentoring and training.
  D. Ask the project sponsor to assign a new resource with the necessary expertise to the team.
  B. Check the expert's availability within the organization on an as-needed basis.

• Question 2327:

  A product owner has returned from a meeting with a few key stakeholders, who expressed interest in learning more about the project progress. The product owner is seeking the project manager's recommendation on how to approach this request.

  What should the project manager do to help the product owner?

  A. Provide an overview of the completed functionalities and release plan, and capture expectations for future stakeholder involvement.
  B. Invite the product owner to future demonstrations where they can provide feedback.
  C. Provide access to the latest user acceptance test (UAT) environment so they can see the solution.
  D. Remind the product owner of stakeholder accountability, and ask the product owner to determine the appropriate next steps.
  A. Provide an overview of the completed functionalities and release plan, and capture expectations for future stakeholder involvement.

• Question 2328:

  A project defined to be executed in four months is divided into eight iterations. During its first retrospective, the team realizes that only one member has experience doing a key project requirement. What should the project manager do?

  A. Invite the team member to share experience in the next retrospective.
  B. Ask the sponsor to add team members with the required experience.
  C. Plan knowledge-sharing sessions within the team.
  D. Ask the sponsor for a training course for the team.
  C. Plan knowledge-sharing sessions within the team.

• Question 2329:

  A company has decided to initiate a project to eliminate a sales channel that has been unprofitable for the past 3 years. Some members of the project team are pessimistic about the project. What should the project manager do in this situation?

  A. Engage the functional managers to describe the project's impact to the team members directly.
  B. Provide team members with specific and clear instructions on the project objectives and tasks.
  C. Communicate the project's impact and plans to engage the project team throughout the project.
  D. Escalate the team's concerns and ask the project sponsor to change the team's composition.
  C. Communicate the project's impact and plans to engage the project team throughout the project.

• Question 2330:

  During the execution phase of a project, a new department has been created in the company. The manager of this department has requested to be involved in the regular project communications and reporting cycles.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Ask the project team members to include the manager in all of their communications regarding this project.
  B. Inform the manager that only stakeholders identified in the communications management plan should be involved.
  C. Perform a stakeholder analysis and update the communications management plan to reflect the new situation.
  D. Suggest the manager contact the steering committee and project management office (PMO) to be included.
  C. Perform a stakeholder analysis and update the communications management plan to reflect the new situation.