PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 2401:

  A global program is being kicked off, and various distributed teams are involved in delivering the initiative. Besides, planning and executing the scope for the initiative, team interactions must be considered. How should the project teams interact in their meetings?

  A. Phone conversations
  B. Encrypted emails
  C. Video conterencing
  D. Chat conversations
  C. Video conterencing

• Question 2402:

  A large, multinational organization is reevaluating its policy on project management approaches. Team members are complaining about having different processes for each project they are on. Currently, predictive, agile, and hybrid methodologies are being used. A project manager is now part of a team working on standard criteria for approach selection for new projects.

  What should the project manager recommend?

  A. Identify the most commonly used methodology currently and apply that to all future projects.
  B. Determine the types of projects, constraints, and resources to initiate standard tailoring.
  C. Incorporate both structure and flexibility through custom tailoring for all projects.
  D. Simplify the approaches to use either a single agile or a single predictive methodology.
  B. Determine the types of projects, constraints, and resources to initiate standard tailoring.

• Question 2403:

  A company has assigned a project manager to the initial task of determining the resources required for a new project. What should the project manager consult?

  A. Company's historical organizational project artifacts
  B. Company's project responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)
  C. Company's resource management plan
  D. Company's resource calendars
  C. Company's resource management plan

• Question 2404:

  The change control board (CCB) has approved a change request to add a new component to a product. The operations manager discovers the change after its approval and complains that the implementation of the change will cause significant disruption to the production line.

  What should the project manager do first?

  A. Escalate the issue to the project sponsor, as the decision to add the component brings many benefits even though it will be disruptive to the production line.
  B. Lead a root cause analysis workshop with the design team to identify the failures that led to the decision to add a component that was not compatible with the production line.
  C. Meet with the operations manager to explain the background for the change and understand the operation manager's concerns about the change.
  D. Formally acknowledge the operation manager's concerns and raise a new risk that the project may deliver late and over budget due to manufacturing difficulties.
  C. Meet with the operations manager to explain the background for the change and understand the operation manager's concerns about the change.

• Question 2405:

  A project manager is assigned to an organizational transformation project. The company typically defines individual performance plans at the beginning of the year, and functional managers conduct feedback reviews at the end of the year. The transformation project team members are concerned that the work they are doing for this project is not aligned with the work included in their individual performance plan for the year.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Meet with the functional managers to align the expected frequency and results reporting for the team members.
  B. Provide performance feedback to the learn members' functional managers at the end of the year.
  C. Assure team members that this project is a high priority for the company and they will be evaluated accordingly.
  D. Request to be made responsible for the performance plans of those on this project team.
  A. Meet with the functional managers to align the expected frequency and results reporting for the team members.

• Question 2406:

  A project is in the planning phase. The project manager notices that the available engineers do not have the required skills. Since outsourcing is not an option for this project, the project manager asks human resources (HR) to hire or assign engineers with the required skills. However, the company cannot afford this at the moment.

  What should the project manager do first?

  A. Introduce a mentoring program to facilitate knowledge sharing.
  B. Change the scope to include only the work that the team is qualified to do.
  C. Add extra time for training during the course of the project.
  D. Use the management reserve to obtain the needed resources.
  A. Introduce a mentoring program to facilitate knowledge sharing.

• Question 2407:

  During project execution, a key team member has to be moved to another critical project for the company. Currently, there is no other team member who can fill that role. What should the project manager do first?

  A. Communicate the problem to the sponsor to force the key member to be maintained on the project.
  B. Initiate a change request and replace the key member as soon as possible.
  C. Explain to the company the importance of maintaining the key member on the project according to the vision of the project.
  D. Evaluate the impact of the key team member's removal from the project, look for alternatives, and submit a change request if required.
  D. Evaluate the impact of the key team member's removal from the project, look for alternatives, and submit a change request if required.

• Question 2408:

  A project sponsor asks the project team to add an enhancement to the project. How should the project manager address this request?

  A. Check if the budget can cover the enhancement
  B. Accept the request because it came from the project sponsor
  C. Refuse the project sponsor's request because it is out of scope
  D. Validate the proposed change's impact on the project.
  D. Validate the proposed change's impact on the project.

• Question 2409:

  One phase of a project took much longer than initially anticipated. The key stakeholders expressed their concern regarding a potential project delay. What should the project manager do?

  A. Expedite the next phase to reduce slippage
  B. Add more float to the overall project schedule
  C. Request additional contingency from the sponsor.
  D. Organize a root cause analysis (RCA) workshop.
  D. Organize a root cause analysis (RCA) workshop.

• Question 2410:

  A company has appointed a supplier to deliver software and has assigned an internal project manager. The supplier states that no technical development or testing is required from the customer. The project manager would like to confirm this with all of the stakeholders.

  What should the internal project manager do first?

  A. Distribute the project plan to all of the interested parties.
  B. Host an alignment session with stakeholders to formalize the project requirements.
  C. Communicate to the supplier that customer testing is required.
  D. Develop a user acceptance testing plan to ensure the quality of the deliverables.
  B. Host an alignment session with stakeholders to formalize the project requirements.