PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 581:

  A new project has been kicked off following a planning session. The project is under direct oversight of an executive in the organization. After a review meeting, the project manager overhears an executive request a dashboard from one of the team members to show the overall project status.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Update the stakeholder engagement assessment matrix
  B. Update the communications management plan to include informal requests
  C. Ask the team member to develop a dashboard to fulfill the request.
  D. Tell the team member to route the request through the project manager
  B. Update the communications management plan to include informal requests

• Question 582:

  A company is set to execute a project across different localities and countries. Right before execution, a press release from one of the impacted communities expresses disapproval of the project. What should the project manager do first?

  A. Engage all critical stakeholders and align project objectives with expectations from the community.
  B. Include the community statement as a new risk in the project's risk register.
  C. Approach the government to obtain their support and influence to engage the community.
  D. Update the stakeholder communications plan to ensure that the community is always informed.
  A. Engage all critical stakeholders and align project objectives with expectations from the community.

• Question 583:

  A project manager is working in a constantly changing business environment. In order to address this situation, the project manager has decided to use a collaborative leadership style. Which landscape describes the project environment?

  A. High accountability, little authority
  B. Good roadmaps, little accountability
  C. Available resources, bad roadmaps
  D. Enough authority, insufficient resources
  A. High accountability, little authority

• Question 584:

  A project manager is part of an organization that is assessing the use of agile delivery approaches. A new project management office (PMO) manager who had a bad experience with a Scrum approach recommended that the project board replace Scrum with a predictive approach.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Review the benefits realization plan to include the cost of the change.
  B. Define a project management plan for the new approach, as needed.
  C. Define a risk management plan for the new approach, as needed.
  D. Review the communications management plan to identify new stakeholders.
  A. Review the benefits realization plan to include the cost of the change.

• Question 585:

  An agile project manager has just been given a sizeable software development project to implement. Early in the initiation stage, the project sponsor requests an indication of time lines for delivery of the initial release. What tools should the agile project manager use to do these estimates?

  A. Product backlog, budget, resource management plan
  B. Budget, minimum viable product (MVP), retrospective notes
  C. Resource management plan, retrospective notes, backlog grooming
  D. Backlog grooming, product backlog, minimum viable product (MVP)
  A. Product backlog, budget, resource management plan

• Question 586:

  A project manager has recently joined a small company. The company's chief operating officer (COO) asked the team to skip some steps in the process in order to work more quickly. The project manager wants to ensure that these steps are not skipped in the future.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Notify all team members that all steps in the process must be completed.
  B. Escalate the issue to the other executive leadership members.
  C. Schedule a review of the process steps with the team and the COO.
  D. Redesign the process so the team can move more quickly.
  C. Schedule a review of the process steps with the team and the COO.

• Question 587:

  The project sponsor of a major initiative is consistently changing the prioritization of modular work packages. The team is used to three-week sprints and is becoming increasingly frustrated with the daily changes in scope. What should the project manager do?

  A. Move to a Kanban strategy so that work can be reallocated more easily
  B. Decrease the sprint cycle to the average repriontization request by calculating it in days
  C. Set up a meeting with the project team and ask for their opinion on what to do
  D. Set up a meeting with the sponsor to explain the importance of keeping a strict sprint cycle
  D. Set up a meeting with the sponsor to explain the importance of keeping a strict sprint cycle

• Question 588:

  During the project planning phase, a project manager is informed that they cannot start one activity before another department implements the required IT system. What should the project manager do?

  A. Fast track this dependency to avoid delaying the project.
  B. Perform Integrated Change Control.
  C. Include the dependency in the project schedule.
  D. Ask IT to prioritize the needed system to meet the schedule.
  C. Include the dependency in the project schedule.

• Question 589:

  A project is being executed. The project's life cycle is defined as predictive, however, a major deliverable will be handed over incrementally to the customer. The assigned resources are experienced and reliable and are willing to make decisions that the project manager used to make after each incremental delivery on other projects.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Schedule a steering committee meeting and obtain their approval on the request
  B. Support the decisions of the team and transfer the decision making responsibility to them.
  C. Inform the team that although this is a hybrid environment, the project manager must still be responsible for making decisions
  D. Consult the product owner about letting the resources make decisions
  B. Support the decisions of the team and transfer the decision making responsibility to them.

• Question 590:

  The execution stage of a construction project is beginning. There are many areas and phases to be built. The project team wants to review the relationships between the most important tasks to ensure that major items are executed properly during this stage.

  What project artifact should the project manager review with the team?

  A. Project milestone chart
  B. Project schedule management plan
  C. Project statement of work (SOW)
  D. Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) chart
  D. Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) chart