PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 411:

  A project manager is working on a software product that will be installed across all levels of the client's organization. The client's executive sponsor insists that only stakeholders at the highest level of the company will be involved in the planning phase.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Ask the client how the project will affect the client's organization and recommend that all impacted parties be involved.
  B. involve an executive-level stakeholder at the project manager's own company to speak with the client's executive sponsor.
  C. Perform an independent analysis to determine the stakeholders from the client's organization.
  D. Defer to the judgment of the client's executive sponsor since they will determine whether the project is a success.
  A. Ask the client how the project will affect the client's organization and recommend that all impacted parties be involved.

• Question 412:

  A new project manager is working on a time-sensitive social media strategy for a software development company that is building a communications management plan for the stakeholders. This is the first major project since the company shifted to working remotely on a full-time basis. After reviewing all previous company artifacts, the project manager finds a standard operating procedure (SOP) document outlining how all communication should take place.

  How should the project manager proceed?

  A. Adhere to the SOP for the project, make a note of required changes, and escalate to the change management board.
  B. Use the SOP as a base plan and make updates during the control and monitoring phase of the project.
  C. Ignore the SOP and write a separate communications management plan for this project.
  D. Assess the SOP for relevancy, make updates, and circulate to the stakeholders for comment during project planning.
  D. Assess the SOP for relevancy, make updates, and circulate to the stakeholders for comment during project planning.

• Question 413:

  A company is transitioning its projects from a predictive to an iterative approach. The project team is complaining because they are unsure of what needs to be done due to the product owner's changes to features that have already been developed since the beginning of the project.

  How should the project manager handle this situation?

  A. Ask the product owner to create a new entry in the risk management plan regarding likelihood and imped.
  B. Review the backlogs from similar projects and understand how change requests were implemented.
  C. Ask the product owner to follow the change request process to formalize new requirements.
  D. Make sure that the product and sprint backlogs have the required level of documentation and both are visible to the team.
  D. Make sure that the product and sprint backlogs have the required level of documentation and both are visible to the team.

• Question 414:

  A project manager and a stakeholder have different opinions on the budget estimates for a project that is being initiated based on a new consumer privacy law. What would be a reason for this difference in opinion?

  A. The communications management plan was not used by all stakeholders.
  B. Organizational assets were not available to back the rationale.
  C. Relative estimation by the team resulted in two estimates.
  D. The use of the Monte Carlo method can result in different estimations.
  B. Organizational assets were not available to back the rationale.

• Question 415:

  Generative artificial intelligence (AI) now helps produce documents on most projects across an organization and is yielding great benefits. Despite this change, a project manager notices that very few members of their current team know the AI tools available within the company. Consequently, they do not know how to use them effectively.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Identify more user-friendly generative AI applications in the industry and share with the team.
  B. Engage with some experienced personnel in the company and request they mentor the rest of the team.
  C. Document this issue as a lesson learned and hold a briefing at the end of the project.
  D. Invite the project sponsor to brief the team on the importance of generative AI and how to optimize the available applications.
  C. Document this issue as a lesson learned and hold a briefing at the end of the project.

• Question 416:

  HOTSPOT

  A project team is conducting a retrospective. The team wants to identify what had a positive impact on the velocity and keep doing it. Click on the area that the team should focus on to identify good practices.

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• Question 417:

  A project manager is leading a project that is on time and under budget. In the weekly meeting with the team, the project manager finds out that one of the tasks due next week does not have an assigned resource available for it. The resource is currently assigned to another project.

  What should the project manager do to manage the situation?

  A. Ask the procurement department to supply a different resource.
  B. Change the schedule according to the availability of the resource.
  C. Ask the sponsor to obtain the resource as originally planned.
  D. Contact the other project manager to request the resource.
  D. Contact the other project manager to request the resource.

• Question 418:

  A project manager has just started a new project for an organization that dislikes budget and schedule deviations. The project stakeholders are very engaged and want clear visibility into the project's risks and progress.

  How should the project manager handle stakeholder expectations?

  A. Discuss the risk response strategies with the stakeholders.
  B. Add buffers to the schedule to accommodate unforeseen changes.
  C. Ensure that the risk register includes all identified risks.
  D. Develop a communications management plan to share updates with stakeholders.
  D. Develop a communications management plan to share updates with stakeholders.

• Question 419:

  A project sponsor commonly asks the project manager to skip project retrospectives due to time constraints. However, the project manager persists in running this critical ceremony by reducing the time for preparation and for discussion. What are two issues that these actions by the project manager could cause? (Choose two.)

  A. A lot of discussions that yield no results or possibly too many results
  B. A lack of direction and motivation for the team in the workshop
  C. Lessons learned from other teams to not be considered
  D. Time management plan for the retrospective workshop to not be updated
  E. A focus on the negative and a disinterest in further improvements
  B. A lack of direction and motivation for the team in the workshop
  E. A focus on the negative and a disinterest in further improvements

• Question 420:

  A sponsor requires that the established quality standards for the project be met. As a result, the sponsor asks the project manager for stable measures to ensure that the quality is met. Which three actions should the project manager do? (Choose three.)

  A. Identify in the iteration planning the acceptance criteria that meet quality standards.
  B. Identify the acceptance criteria during the retrospective that meet the quality standards.
  C. Analyze the lessons learned to determine appropriate testing metrics in quality standards.
  D. Incorporate performance metrics on the verified deliverables according to quality standards.
  E. Perform a risk analysis to determine the impact of not complying with quality standards.
  A. Identify in the iteration planning the acceptance criteria that meet quality standards.
  C. Analyze the lessons learned to determine appropriate testing metrics in quality standards.
  D. Incorporate performance metrics on the verified deliverables according to quality standards.