PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 731:

  A company's CEO complains about the frequency of project communications. The CEO receives five project reports each week by email but does not have enough time to review them. In addition, the information that the CEO receives is not relevant in that it does not explain the project status.

  What should the project manager do first?

  A. Review the stakeholder engagement plan.
  B. Review the communications management plan.
  C. Send the CEO one executive summary per week instead of five reports per week.
  D. Meet with the team and decide the type and frequency of the reports to send to the CEO.
  D. Meet with the team and decide the type and frequency of the reports to send to the CEO.

• Question 732:

  At the start of a project, the sponsor declares that demonstrating benefits from the product will be extremely important. The project sponsor calls a meeting with the project manager and the project leadership team to discuss the best approach, as the project has a high degree of uncertainty and many changes are expected.

  What should the project manager propose?

  A. Develop requirements and designs to support a faster product release.
  B. Emphasize the adoption of a predictive approach to minimize ambiguity.
  C. Recommend an agile approach so the project can be delivered iteratively.
  D. Outsource development of the product to a third party with more experience.
  C. Recommend an agile approach so the project can be delivered iteratively.

• Question 733:

  A new team member has joined an agile project, replacing a team member who recently left. The project team needs the new team member to speed up their ability to contribute effectively to the project. What should the project manager do to help in this situation?

  A. Assign the new team member the same tasks that were assigned to the previous team member who they replaced
  B. Schedule knowledge transfer sessions and assign less complex tasks to the new team member
  C. Send technical documentation to the new team member and schedule training for the next iteration.
  D. Have the new team member complete all of the company's mandatory training
  B. Schedule knowledge transfer sessions and assign less complex tasks to the new team member

• Question 734:

  A marketing team is planning for a multiyear initiative that will include a lot of cross-functional stakeholders. The project manager has been assigned and is now in the project planning phase. What item(s) should the project manager develop first?

  A. A product backlog and identification of the features to be delivered
  B. A business case and scope document
  C. A communications management plan that addresses the team's needs
  D. A risk management plan to incorporate known risks
  C. A communications management plan that addresses the team's needs

• Question 735:

  A project manager is working in a regulated industry. The minimum viable product (MVP) for the launch has been defined. The project manager learns that the regulatory body requires a prototype for inspection before the product can be launched; however, the prototype is not part of the MVP definition.

  What should the project manager do next?

  A. Speak with the product manager to prioritize the compliance-related activities high enough in the backlog to submit a prototype to the regulatory body.
  B. Identify the missing requirements, prioritize the missing compliance work directly into the backlog, and assign the work to the team.
  C. Reschedule the launch of the product until the team can produce a prototype for inspection as required by the compliance team.
  D. Create an MVP that contains the scope for the prototype and that will be prioritized with the compliance team.
  A. Speak with the product manager to prioritize the compliance-related activities high enough in the backlog to submit a prototype to the regulatory body.

• Question 736:

  A project manager arranged a team-building activity to build and maintain teamwork, trust, and commitment due to internal team conflicts. Two months after completing the training, another situation is causing new delays in the project. What should the project manager do to address this concern?

  A. Ask human resources (HR) to coordinate another activity.
  B. Reassess the team situation and provide a proper solution.
  C. Inform HR about the situation and ask for support.
  D. Meet with the team to explain that conflicts must be addressed and solved.
  B. Reassess the team situation and provide a proper solution.

• Question 737:

  A project manager is hired by a global company. The project manager is an agile specialist and is tasked with supporting the project team to reduce rework and dissatisfaction. How should the project manager address these objectives?

  A. Decrease the scope of the portfolio and send new solutions to the customer.
  B. Deliver a schedule with the portfolio timeline and delivery to the customer.
  C. Adopt an incremental cycle of delivering value to the customer.
  D. Prepare deliveries with more details to satisfy the customer.
  C. Adopt an incremental cycle of delivering value to the customer.

• Question 738:

  Project stakeholders have provided a team with requirements that will take at least one year to complete. The project sponsor advised that they need to see some return on investment (ROI) soon. What should the project manager do?

  A. Request additional funding from the project sponsor to accelerate delivery.
  B. Discuss reducing the requirements with the project sponsor in order to release the product earlier.
  C. Prioritize the work into incremental features that can be delivered iteratively.
  D. Acknowledge that the benefits cannot be realized any sooner due to the nature of the requirements.
  A. Request additional funding from the project sponsor to accelerate delivery.

• Question 739:

  A software company office will be shut down for repairs, and a project team will be required to work remotely. A few team members have never worked this way and are apprehensive of how they will be able to consistently deliver their work products.

  What should the project manager do to ensure that the team continues to perform while working remotely?

  A. Request funding from management to enable all team members to work from an alternative workspace.
  B. Reach out to the resource managers for alternative team members who have experience working remotely.
  C. Identify areas of training for the team to be able to use remote tools for team collaboration.
  D. Reduce the scope of the project to compensate for productivity during remote working conditions.
  C. Identify areas of training for the team to be able to use remote tools for team collaboration.

• Question 740:

  An agile project team is creating an enterprise workflow system for a company. One of the project team members, who is the system design architect, keeps receiving telephone calls from the users who are asking questions about the system. The calls are impacting the architect's daily work schedule.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Ask the users to send emails instead of calling so that the system architect can reply when they are available.
  B. Ask the system architect to write up a self-help manual so that the users can resolve the questions by themselves.
  C. Revise the backlog and assign stories to another team member to reduce the architect's workload.
  D. Include user training materials as part of the project deliverables so that users can receive self-help.
  D. Include user training materials as part of the project deliverables so that users can receive self-help.