PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 511:

  A project manager is defining the sprint goals with the team. A team member who is responsible for acceptance testing starts criticizing the goals and cannot come to an agreement with the other team members. How should the project manager handle this situation?

  A. Request to meet with the team member and ask that any issues be escalated separately.
  B. Reprimand the team member and provide immediate coaching on goal alignment.
  C. Proceed with defining the goals with the team members given the majority approval from the team.
  D. Approach the team member with empathy and obtain agreement through collaboration.
  A. Request to meet with the team member and ask that any issues be escalated separately.

• Question 512:

  A project team is transitioning to agile delivery. The team uses a Kanban board to track progress. In the daily meetings, the team members have been reporting good progress. However, the cards on the board are not progressing toward "done."

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Ask each team member to include the completion date on their cards.
  B. Remind the team that self-organized teams are accountable for project progress.
  C. Cancel the daily meetings and organize weekly project team meetings.
  D. Ask the development lead to indicate low performers after the daily meeting.
  B. Remind the team that self-organized teams are accountable for project progress.

• Question 513:

  A project manager is working with several junior engineers on a project. The project manager noticed that when the junior engineers are asked questions, they defer to more senior team members on the team for answers. Having worked with the junior engineers on another project, the project manager knows they are capable of making these minor decisions correctly. This uncertainty from the junior engineers is now slowing progress.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Update the risk register to reflect the possible impact of the project's slower progress.
  B. Pair senior engineers to shadow the junior engineers and correct them throughout.
  C. Remove the junior engineers from any decision-making activity until further trained.
  D. Ensure the junior engineers make decisions within a certain responsibility level and commit to it.
  B. Pair senior engineers to shadow the junior engineers and correct them throughout.

• Question 514:

  Halfway through a project, the project sponsor is replaced by another peer who was not previously engaged in the project. The new project sponsor has rejected most of the project artifacts, and the team did not get the latest increment approved on the current iteration. Stakeholders are not feeling confident about the project outcome.

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

  A. Performed a stakeholder analysis when the sponsor joined the project
  B. Held a governance meeting to review the project increment
  C. Conducted a product iteration review with the new project sponsor
  D. Escalated the issue to ensure the increment would be approved
  A. Performed a stakeholder analysis when the sponsor joined the project

• Question 515:

  At the daily project meeting, team members are complaining about receiving emails from their functional managers to support other nonproject-related tasks. This is having a negative impact on the team's productivity. What should the project manager do next?

  A. Ask the product owner to speak with the functional managers to ensure future requirements come through the product owner.
  B. Log this as a risk in the risk register and continue to monitor the issue at subsequent meetings.
  C. Address this concern with the functional managers to ensure there will be no further delays.
  D. Schedule a meeting with all of the functional managers to resolve the resource conflicts.
  C. Address this concern with the functional managers to ensure there will be no further delays.

• Question 516:

  A project that has to be delivered by the targeted date has been delayed due to an unforeseen risk occurrence. How should the project manager compress the project to ensure the completion date is not affected?

  A. Add more project resources
  B. Fast-track the project
  C. Reduce the project scope
  D. Increase the project cost
  B. Fast-track the project

• Question 517:

  A new offshore call center project is vital for a company's branch offices. The project is at the end of the planning phase when the project manager is informed by the sponsor that the project will be delayed due to reprioritization. What should the project manager do?

  A. Create a messaging group chat with the branch office stakeholders to inform them about the project delay.
  B. Schedule a video conference to inform the branch office stakeholders about the project delay.
  C. Send an official project memo to inform the branch office stakeholders about the project delay.
  D. Include the project delay in the monthly progress report for the branch office stakeholders.
  B. Schedule a video conference to inform the branch office stakeholders about the project delay.

• Question 518:

  During the development of a product, the project manager observes conflicts between project stakeholders, resulting in deliverable and output approval delays. On which area should the project manager focus?

  A. Revisiting the project management plan to ensure deliverables are on time
  B. Increasing the frequency of project update meetings to keep stakeholders informed
  C. Revisiting the stakeholder engagement plan, focusing on specific overlooked stakeholders
  D. Reviewing the business case and identifying gaps within scope
  C. Revisiting the stakeholder engagement plan, focusing on specific overlooked stakeholders

• Question 519:

  DRAG DROP

  A project manager is leading a project in a heavily regulated industry. Match the considerations on the left with the correct compliance plan categories on the right.

  Select and Place:

  

  

• Question 520:

  A company has transitioned and is now delivering projects using a hybrid approach instead of a predictive approach. The distributed project team's knowledge of agile is varied. The project manager feels the new methodology will impact the timely delivery of the project.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Ask to execute the project with a predictive approach since there is a budget and schedule risk
  B. agile tools and techniques used m the defined hybrid methodology for consistent application by all team members
  C. Use the predictive approach tor team members who are not knowledgeable m agile project delivery practices
  D. Use crashing to reduce the critical path to ensure enough buffer to include the impact of the agile methodology update
  B. agile tools and techniques used m the defined hybrid methodology for consistent application by all team members