PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 2361:

  A project manager works in a hierarchical organization. The project team members are used to being told what to do, and the performance reviews include the percentage of completion of the allocated tasks. After a conversation with the sponsor, the project manager realizes that they need to reassign a couple of tasks to meet the next milestone. This change can be perceived as poor performance by the current assignees.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Organize a team meeting and inform the team members that, as the person accountable for delivery, they decided to change the task allocation.
  B. Ask the more experienced team member privately to take the task and inform the other team members that work has been reassigned.
  C. Ask the less experienced team member privately to stop working on the task and inform another team member that the work has been reassigned.
  D. Organize a team meeting to inform team members about a change in direction and work with them to change the task allocation.
  D. Organize a team meeting to inform team members about a change in direction and work with them to change the task allocation.

• Question 2362:

  One team member Is complaining about an agreement made during the last meeting. That team member was present at the meeting and participated in the decisions registered in the meeting minutes. What should the project manager do next?

  A. Arrange an additional meeting with the team to communicate the agreement made during the last meeting.
  B. Schedule a new meeting to evaluate the agreement and negotiate a new one.
  C. Talk with the team member and explain that once the meeting ended, the agreement must be respected.
  D. Meet with the team member and search for the root cause of their behavior.
  D. Meet with the team member and search for the root cause of their behavior.

• Question 2363:

  A project team is preparing a report for the stakeholders. The team gathers and collates a large amount of data to be included in the status report. What should the project manager do next?

  A. Ensure the team follows standard operating procedures (SOP) for creating a stakeholder report.
  B. Instruct the team to make only a graphical representation of all the data for the report.
  C. Instruct the team to conduct a meeting with the stakeholders before finalizing the report.
  D. Instruct the team to analyze and interpret the data before including it in the report.
  D. Instruct the team to analyze and interpret the data before including it in the report.

• Question 2364:

  A compliance strategy was created during the planning phase of a project. During execution, the project manager left the organization and another project manager was assigned to the team. What should the project manager do first to ensure the project is compliant?

  A. Meet with the team to discuss compliance concerns.
  B. Review the organizational process assets (OPAs) for compliance topics.
  C. Review the compliance strategy and version history.
  D. Meet with the project sponsor to discuss their compliance concerns.
  C. Review the compliance strategy and version history.

• Question 2365:

  The project manager is experiencing delays with two critical tasks that are to be executed by two different teams. The project manager realizes that the functional managers of these two teams have an unsolved conflict and they are not communicating properly.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Arrange a meeting with the managers and try to reach an agreement.
  B. Communicate with the project sponsor regarding the need to resolve the conflict between the managers.
  C. Evaluate the impact of the delay on the project and look for alternatives to create a remediation plan
  D. Meet with both teams and their managers and try to figure out the root cause of the conflict
  D. Meet with both teams and their managers and try to figure out the root cause of the conflict

• Question 2366:

  A project team wants to change a delivery approach for a project. Team members explain the need for a review of the information-sharing approach to ensure efficient information exchange during the project. What should the project manager do?

  A. Ask the project sponsor to decide on the best communication strategy.
  B. Review the stakeholder engagement plan with the project team.
  C. Ask the project sponsor to approve funding for a collaboration tool.
  D. Review the communications management plan with the project team.
  D. Review the communications management plan with the project team.

• Question 2367:

  A key agile project team member takes a leave of absence in the middle of an iteration and will not return to work for a while. What should the project manager do next regarding the feature on which the team member was working?

  A. Assign the feature to another team member, and have them try to complete the feature by the end of this iteration
  B. Review team capacity and reassign the functionality to additional iterations as required
  C. Determine if the team member can work from home to complete the functionality.
  D. Review the work in progress with the product owner to determine the next step
  B. Review team capacity and reassign the functionality to additional iterations as required

• Question 2368:

  A project management plan needs to be updated due to recent product requirement changes, but the latest version of the document is missing.

  What should the project manager do to prevent this from happening again?

  A. Review the quality assurance (QA) processes.
  B. Improve the configuration management process.
  C. Ensure that the lessons learned register is up to date.
  D. Register an issue for the missing documents.
  B. Improve the configuration management process.

• Question 2369:

  A project is in the middle of the fifth iteration. Due to a sudden slump in the economy, the company recorded a drastic reduction in revenue. The strategic direction was to implement cost-reduction measures immediately. What should the project manager do next?

  A. Continue the current sprint without interruption and address priorities in the upcoming product backlog grooming sessions.
  B. Meet with the sponsor for guidance on the best path forward before executing sprints.
  C. Allow the project team to decide on the best path forward for the current sprint.
  D. Schedule a meeting with the product owner, discuss priorities and decide if anything from the backlog can be eliminated, based on current constraints.
  D. Schedule a meeting with the product owner, discuss priorities and decide if anything from the backlog can be eliminated, based on current constraints.

• Question 2370:

  A project manager manages multiple information technology (IT) projects in a matrix organization. The project manager schedules a meeting with one of the functional managers to coordinate testing support for two software development projects. Unfortunately, the functional manager is not able to attend the meeting and informs the project manager that there may not be any resources available to test the software.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Discuss the testing requirements with a test engineer and negotiate the best approach to test the newly developed software.
  B. Meet with the project team to collaboratively determine how the project manager can ensure the needed testing assistance is obtained.
  C. Request a meeting with the sponsor to change the scope to allow the development team to conduct testing.
  D. Meet with a procurement specialist to negotiate with a company that specializes in software testing to test the software.
  B. Meet with the project team to collaboratively determine how the project manager can ensure the needed testing assistance is obtained.