PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 821:

  During project execution, a project team member resigned and a new junior member joined the team. To smooth the transition, the project manager assigned a senior project team member to transfer knowledge and support the junior team member. The project manager subsequently received feedback from the senior team member saying that the junior member submitted a poor-quality deliverable and should be removed from the team. However, the project manager checked that deliverable and found it met quality requirements.

  Which technique should the project manager use to resolve this issue?

  A. Smooth/accommodate
  B. Compromise/reconcile
  C. Force/direct
  D. Collaborate/problem solve
  D. Collaborate/problem solve

• Question 822:

  A new file vault system vendor is being considered by a protect sponsor who has supported several projects over the previous year. What should the project manager review to assist the sponsor on the decision?

  A. Lessons learned database
  B. Procurement strategy
  C. Vendor's website
  D. Appropriate financial regulations
  A. Lessons learned database

• Question 823:

  The team's velocity is inconsistent, leading the product owner to believe the team is creating too many points in their user stories. What should the scrum master do first?

  A. Remind the product owner that their role is to determine what the team should work on during the iteration.
  B. Meet with the product owner for planning and to resize the stories in the backlog.
  C. Invite the product owner to planning poker meetings and get their approval after each story is sized.
  D. Raise this concern with the team and review the performance of the past three sprints.
  D. Raise this concern with the team and review the performance of the past three sprints.

• Question 824:

  A project manager is working as a servant leader for a pilot project to adopt agile practices. After three sprints, the team demos the product to the main stakeholders, but receives negative feedback about the product's features. The team feels that all the features met the acceptance criteria defined by the product owner and does not understand what went wrong.

  How should the project manager mitigate the product rejection?

  A. Share the product backlog for the main stakeholders to review in advance.
  B. Engage the main stakeholders in the upcoming sprint review sessions.
  C. Create dedicated sprints to implement feature fixes for the rejected ones.
  D. Ask the project sponsor to evaluate the assignment of a new product owner.
  B. Engage the main stakeholders in the upcoming sprint review sessions.

• Question 825:

  A project to add metro stations is being executed, with seven out of eight stations currently in place. Suddenly, a notification is received from the local community demanding that the project be stopped.

  What should the project manager do first?

  A. Register the issue and escalate it to the project sponsor.
  B. Execute the contingency plan defined in the risk management plan.
  C. Meet with the project stakeholders to define a mitigation plan.
  D. Estimate the cost of changing the project location.
  A. Register the issue and escalate it to the project sponsor.

• Question 826:

  A product owner is complaining about the team's performance. The developers are highly skilled, and most of the issues were caused by dependencies. The developers provide a formal status report every day, but it is clear that the other team members are not satisfied with this.

  What should the project lead do?

  A. Ask the developers to use peer programming.
  B. Build a task board on a large wall using sticky notes.
  C. Build a detailed schedule and describe each task in detail.
  D. Ask the product owner to reprioritize the backlog.
  B. Build a task board on a large wall using sticky notes.

• Question 827:

  A project team member wants to select specific challenging tasks in the subsequent iteration. How can the project lead help the team member in the next iteration?

  A. Assign the challenging tasks to the team member.
  B. Ask the product owner to assign the challenging tasks.
  C. Reprioritize the challenging tasks to future sprints.
  D. Coach the team member to pick up the challenging tasks.
  D. Coach the team member to pick up the challenging tasks.

• Question 828:

  A stakeholder on a project has a reputation for being easily angered and unreasonably difficult on projects. The project manager would like to minimize the impact of the stakeholder's behavior on the development team. What training should the project manager choose for their team to help with this situation?

  A. Communication training
  B. Negotiation training
  C. Emotional intelligence training
  D. Agile training.
  C. Emotional intelligence training

• Question 829:

  A project manager just completed the planning phase when a new stakeholder was assigned to the project. The deliverables were discussed with the customer, but the new stakeholder is still concerned about the benefits of two of the deliverables.

  What should the project manager do next to address this stakeholder's concerns?

  A. Review the benefits realization plan with the stakeholder.
  B. Provide the stakeholder with regular updates on project progress.
  C. Add the stakeholder to the stakeholder engagement plan.
  D. Review the prior analysis results with the stakeholder.
  A. Review the benefits realization plan with the stakeholder.

• Question 830:

  A globally distributed project team is running behind schedule due to the lack ol team commitment and low morale. In order to bring the schedule back on track, what should the project manager do first?

  A. Seek the sponsor's approval to extend the project schedule.
  B. Set up a meeting to perform a root cause analysis.
  C. Update the issue log and communicate it to the team.
  D. Permanently colocate the team for better performance.
  B. Set up a meeting to perform a root cause analysis.