PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 741:

  A project sponsor asked the product owner to deliver the functionality that provides the highest return on investment (ROI) as soon as possible. Which artifact should the project lead use to track benefits?

  A. Requirements backlog
  B. Product backlog
  C. Project charter
  D. Project scope
  B. Product backlog

• Question 742:

  A project manager is managing an innovation project for a big corporation. The project manager is planning to use email as the main communication channel, however, the product owner prefers to use another approved communication tool instead of email.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Contact the sponsor to request direction regarding the communication tool to be used by the project team
  B. Update the communications management plan based on the product owner's preferences and distribute to the team
  C. Suggest to the team to start using the communication tool suggested by the product owner
  D. Request the product owner to use email because using another tool will increase the workload
  B. Update the communications management plan based on the product owner's preferences and distribute to the team

• Question 743:

  A project manager starts to receive emails from different stakeholders requesting information about the project status. What should the project manager do to avoid this in the future?

  A. Schedule weekly project status meetings with all stakeholders including the customer and internal resources.
  B. Include the project stakeholders' needs while planning the project communications strategy.
  C. Designate a team member to respond to the emails from these stakeholders.
  D. Include the stakeholders' emails in all of the project status communications.
  D. Include the stakeholders' emails in all of the project status communications.

• Question 744:

  A sponsor and project manager found out that a vendor in a different time zone has delayed the delivery of its products and needs close supervision until the project gets back on track. The only option is to relocate three key members of the project team to spend 6 months abroad.

  What should the project manager do next?

  A. Communicate to the whole team the decision to relocate team members abroad and the implications of doing so in the next project status meeting
  B. Communicate individually with the affected team members to negotiate the decision and confirm their willingness to relocate
  C. Communicate the decision to the human resources (HR) department so they can direct the project team members to be sent abroad
  D. Communicate to the affected team members' manager and schedule a meeting to discuss the details of this assignment
  B. Communicate individually with the affected team members to negotiate the decision and confirm their willingness to relocate

• Question 745:

  There are several dependent work streams in a project. Some project stakeholders feel that coordination among project team members and progress visibility are lacking.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Escalate the concerns to the project steering committee.
  B. Review and update the communications management plan.
  C. Organize a team meeting to review the project status.
  D. Discuss the concerns with the project sponsor.
  B. Review and update the communications management plan.

• Question 746:

  A project manager is part of a distributed team. The project team is using a product backlog, but due to an excessive workload, the backlog items are not very detailed. In the retrospective, a couple of new team members are raising the issue of knowledge transfer inside the team.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Ask the team to outline their expectations and confirm with them the approach to use for knowledge transfer.
  B. Organize knowledge-sharing workshops and ask one of the senior team members to facilitate them.
  C. Ensure that formal email communication is used when more information is needed to understand the work done.
  D. Hire a technical writer to document the work completed to date and develop a handover document.
  A. Ask the team to outline their expectations and confirm with them the approach to use for knowledge transfer.

• Question 747:

  Due to a company merger and acquisition process, the main stakeholder of a critical project has been changed. This new stakeholder complains that they were unaware of a delay on the project of which the rest of the stakeholders were aware. All the communications about the project are shared via email at the start of every week.

  How should the project manager address this situation?

  A. Send evidence to the new stakeholder that the project's status was sent according to the schedule
  B. Suggest that the new stakeholder review the project status before the next board meeting
  C. Share the communications management plan with the new stakeholder
  D. Discuss project requirements with the new stakeholder, and update the communications management plan.
  D. Discuss project requirements with the new stakeholder, and update the communications management plan.

• Question 748:

  During the project planning phase, the customer explained the importance of delivering the project results proposed in the scope as soon as possible.

  What should the project manager do first to address this issue?

  A. Gather all requirement details and schedule a refinement meeting.
  B. Prepare a project management plan for the full scope using an agile approach.
  C. Assess opportunities to deliver project value incrementally.
  D. Approve a change request to change the project approach to agile.
  C. Assess opportunities to deliver project value incrementally.

• Question 749:

  A project has been reporting a declining schedule performance index (SPI) for the past four reviews. No corrective action is under development, and the project team does not seem concerned. What should the project manager do first to address the SPI trend?

  A. Notify the project stakeholders that the scope needs to be reduced in order to hold the costs within budget.
  B. Engage with the project team to create a plan that will deliver benefits on a defined and incremental basis.
  C. Contact the project sponsor to let them know you require more resources to meet the schedule.
  D. Meet with the project scheduler to rebaseline the project using a more realistic schedule.
  D. Meet with the project scheduler to rebaseline the project using a more realistic schedule.

• Question 750:

  The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.

  

  Based on the chart, what is the cost performance index (CPI) for Task 2?

  A. 0.8
  B. 1
  C. 1.25
  D. 1.8
  C. 1.25