PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 361:

  During project execution, a conflict occurs between the project manager and one of the team members at every project team meeting. The ongoing conflict is preventing tasks and deliverables from being completed. The project manager contemplates changing their leadership style.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Review the set of responsibilities with the team member
  B. Avoid the team member to prevent further conflicts
  C. Escalate the situation to the project sponsor
  D. Review the personnel skill documents
  A. Review the set of responsibilities with the team member

• Question 362:

  A client has requested that a product be implemented in 4 months and is ready to increase their budget to do this quickly. The project manager cannot comply with the request with the current resources or even additional resources. The project manager estimates that 8 to 12 months are needed for the product to go live.

  What should the project manager do to address this situation?

  A. Motivate the team to work more efficiently and approve overtime in order to meet the client's goal in 4 months.
  B. Seek additional resources from the subcontractors and other sources to parallelize the necessary work.
  C. Discuss with the client alternative approaches to deliver the minimal viable product (MVP) in 4 months and the rest later.
  D. Call a meeting with the client so they will understand that 4 months is not enough time to deliver the product.
  C. Discuss with the client alternative approaches to deliver the minimal viable product (MVP) in 4 months and the rest later.

• Question 363:

  A CEO of a general contracting company urgently asks the project manager to sign up two project team members to participate in a specific training course. Halfway through the training, both team members complain that the training is too difficult, above their experience level, and that the material does not align with their tasks.

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

  A. Communicated with the two team members that the purpose of the training is to provide material that might be useful to them in the future.
  B. Sent an immediate request to the human resources (HR) department to replace the current team members with higher skilled candidates.
  C. Observed and assessed the competencies and skills of the team members and analyzed the training material beforehand.
  D. Planned a training to follow the specific course to bring the two team members to the required experience level.
  C. Observed and assessed the competencies and skills of the team members and analyzed the training material beforehand.

• Question 364:

  DRAG DROP

  A new project manager for an agile project is reviewing, with an established team, some of the roles to avoid confusion on what to expect.

  Drag the description on the left to the role on the right.

  Select and Place:

  

  

• Question 365:

  The change control board (CCB) rejects a change request submitted by a subject matter expert (SME). The SME refuses to accept this rejection and does not want to continue the project without the change. What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

  A. Requested that the sponsor approved the change request first.
  B. Assessed the change's overall impact to the project before submission
  C. Ensured that the change request was aligned with the project scope
  D. Submitted the change request directly to the CCB
  B. Assessed the change's overall impact to the project before submission

• Question 366:

  A scrum master noticed that one of the team members is afraid to ask questions, does not like to collaborate with other team members, and avoids taking responsibility for their actions. What is the likely reason that would cause a team member to behave that way?

  A. Lack of technical skills
  B. Fear of conflict
  C. Lack of experience
  D. Company culture
  B. Fear of conflict

• Question 367:

  During project execution, the project manager notices that the work performance reports have deteriorated drastically in less than two weeks. The project team in country A is complaining about delays resulting from holidays occurring in country B that have impacted their project team.

  How should the project manager handle this situation?

  A. Implement crashing to compress the schedule and improve the schedule performance index (SRI).
  B. Implement fast-tracking to compress the schedule and improve the SPI
  C. Perform conflict management using the project's resource management plan.
  D. Review the risk management plan to evaluate the probability and impact of these delays
  D. Review the risk management plan to evaluate the probability and impact of these delays

• Question 368:

  A project sponsor is transitioning their division to an agile environment and has emphasized that project team members and stakeholders should collaborate to achieve deliverables. On a few occasions, progress has been interrupted by one stakeholder who is unfamiliar with agile approaches.

  What should the project manager do first?

  A. Report the behavior to the project sponsor and find a replacement.
  B. Note the stakeholder's attitude as a risk and continue development according to the plan to deliver value.
  C. Consider using a predictive project management framework and report the results to the project sponsor.
  D. Address the stakeholder's behavior directly and provide feedback.
  D. Address the stakeholder's behavior directly and provide feedback.

• Question 369:

  A product owner is invited to a sprint review meeting. At the end of the review, the product owner says that the increment is ready to be delivered to the customer. What conclusion should the project manager come to with regard to the product owner's statement?

  A. The product owner does not have visibility into what the team has done in the product increment.
  B. The product owner trusts the team and is marking the product as complete.
  C. The product owner has evaluated the product against the definition of done (DoD).
  D. The product owner will release the product to customers without showing them a demo.
  C. The product owner has evaluated the product against the definition of done (DoD).

• Question 370:

  A key project team member had an accident and will be in the hospital for at least two months. The backlog items the team member was working on have been delayed since the team member was the only person who knew how to complete them.

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

  A. Identified this risk and defined a risk response plan
  B. Assigned the backlog items to at least two of the team members
  C. Developed a knowledge transfer plan
  D. Reserved a contingency budget for external consultants
  C. Developed a knowledge transfer plan