Free PMP® Exam Practice Questions

1. Which of the following techniques could you apply, to any project in any industry, as a way of objectively measuring project progress?

2. Your project has a vendor that is under a firm fixed price contract and the seller has filed a claim. Which of the following is the preferred method of settling this dispute?

3. You just completed your weekly project status meeting. In this meeting, you received information from the team regarding actual engagement levels of stakeholders. One of your key stakeholders has ceased supporting the project and is calling for its termination. Which of the following is a true statement about this information?

4. Which of the following becomes increasingly important when working with virtual teams?

5. Your team has developed a strategy to set aside $1000 in a contingency budget and an extra week in the schedule, in the event a particular risk occurs on the project. What is the best description of this strategy?

6. As the project manager you have decided to separate the sources of risk by phase and by the WBS. Using this technique you will find the riskiest areas of the project. Which of the following best describes the technique employed?

7. As a new Project Manager in a large Healthcare IT company, you are asked to identify risks for your newly assigned project. This should result in the creation of which project document?

8. You are the project manager for a project with 200 stakeholders. The team identified five individuals as key stakeholders. You are developing the stakeholder engagement plan, which is an actionable blueprint of how to interact with the stakeholders to support the project objectives. You will base the actions taken on an analysis of key stakeholder needs, their level of interest, and their potential impact on project success. Where will you find this information to analyze?

9. Which of the following is included in the total project budget but is not included in the cost performance baseline?

10. When considering influences that could have an impact on cost management which of the following would you be the least concerned about?

11. You are the project manager for a major construction project. You have just completed a walk through with the construction superintendent, when they tell you that one of the critical path activities will be two weeks late. Upon further discussion you find out the underlying reason for this. What project management tool are you using?

12. Once the network diagram is complete, how many activities or milestones will not have both a predecessor and a successor?

13. Which of the following is a true statement regarding the schedule management plan?

14. In your project for the design and development of a new, ultra high speed hard drive, the team has defined certain information for the quality control department to use as a quality control check. The quality control department will check the data access time of each hard drive. In order to pass the quality test each drive must transfer 1 GB of data in 500 ms (plus or minus 100 ms). Which of the following terms best describes this information?

15. Your project team has been executing based on the project plan and is gathering the verified deliverables before planning to meet with the customer. What is the primary purpose of this meeting?

16. Which of the following items organizes and defines the total scope of the project and depicts the work specified in the currently approved version of the project scope statement?

17. All of the following are elements of the requirements management plan except which one?

18. The project management plan may be changed without a change request only under which of the following circumstances?

19. The chief financial officer, who happens to be your project sponsor, has just called you into their office to discuss a requested change in your project. After asking you several questions, the project sponsor tells you to implement the change. What is the next thing you should do?

20. The project manager wants all of the prospective contractors, who are expected to submit proposals on a new project, to have a clear understanding of the requirements of the procurement. The project manager decides to hold a meeting to describe the upcoming procurement event. What is the best description of this meeting?

21. Using of which of the following contract types will cause the seller to have the most risk?

22. The project manager may call on which of the following individuals to assist in managing difficult stakeholders as needed?

23. You're the project manager for a construction project. The project team identified a rainstorm as a possible risk. When the prediction of an approaching storm was announced the response plan was implemented, which included having sandbags on hand to reduce the impact of flooding on the site. Halfway through preparations to respond to this risk the project manager is informed that not enough sandbags were ordered. Who is the person informing the project manager of this?

24. From an organizational perspective, managing project knowledge entails which of the following?

25. Your project was recently terminated early. As the project manager you must review which of the following?

26. You have just been named the project manager for a new information technology project. Your sponsor has heard of an innovative approach to project management called agile and wants you to investigate. You are familiar with agile and explained that you would conduct a suitability assessment and report back on your findings. What three areas are you looking at?

27. Your project team is using an iteration based approach to a software development project. You are attending a meeting where the development team is asking questions about the requirements, getting clarification on the Definition of Done and estimating how much work they can finish in the upcoming iteration. What meeting are you attending?

28. You are using an iteration based agile approach to a software development project. You decided to use this approach because the sponsor knew the high level capabilities but were unable to provide a detailed list of requirements. At a recent status meeting the sponsor asks if you can provide an estimate of what capabilities will be delivered and when that will occur. What is the best document to provide?

29. Your colleague is new to agile and wants to learn more about it. You explain that agile is really a mindset that is established by following four paired values and 12 principles. What is the document that you are describing?

30. You are the project manager for the XYZ project. This a complex project involving the installation of hardware in a data center and the development of a new software application. The hardware installation requires a very specific process be followed and has fixed requirements. The software portion has known features, but the specific requirements are not documented. What is the most likely project approach given these facts?

31. You are new to agile methodologies, so you reach out to an experienced project manager for guidance. She explains that one of the primary differences between agile and a predictive project is the leadership approach of the project manager. In a predictive project, the project manager directs work at the start of the project while the agile project manager encourages and coaches the team to be self-directed. The leadership style of removing barriers, creating an environment of collaboration and encouragement of a self-directed team is called?

32. You have just completed your Sprint Review meeting and the Product Owner is not satisfied with the results. They state that they will not accept the software and will re-adjust the Product Backlog. The team facilitator suggests that the Product Owner attend a meeting to discuss what could be improved to stop this from occurring in the next sprint. They are most likely inviting the Product Owner to what meeting?

33. Your sponsor is curious about the progress of your project team. They ask if you have any charts that could help them understand your progress in reaching the sprint goal, and you assure them you do. You will most likely provide them with what agile tool?

34. Your project team has been working for several months on a new software application designed to increase productivity for the call center representatives. The Product Owner has accepted the results of your sprints, and you are now ready to do final testing. During user testing, you are surprised to hear that both the end users and the sponsor are disappointed in your software as delivered. How could you have potentially avoided this?

35. Your company has just decided they could gain a competitive advantage by adopting agile methodologies, so they sent you to Scrum Master training. You have just returned from the training, and the PMO calls you for a discussion. They have a new project they believe would be a great opportunity to try agile and want your thoughts on what the next step should be. What are you most likely to recommend?

36. Your team is working on a project to provide research capabilities to a wide variety of users. You have successfully completed several sprints, but at the last daily stand up meeting several team members identified a problem with stakeholders interrupting their work with requests for status reports. Specifically, they wanted to know what they were working on and inquiring about the progress of the sprint. What could have avoided this problem?

37. The project you were assigned to has recently delivered a highly successful product, and you are preparing for your next project. A colleague who is unfamiliar with agile has heard about story points but does not understand how they are used. What should you tell him?

38. You have just been assigned a software project and are considering adopting the Scrum methodology, but you are concerned that the project will require many developers working on a highly integrated product. You decide to conduct an Agile Suitability Assessment to ensure that Scrum is the correct approach. What is not a factor you will consider?

39. You have just been assigned a software project and are considering adopting the Scrum methodology for delivery. You know the maximum size for a Scrum team is 9 developers, but this project will require at least 3 times that to meet the externally imposed deadline. You discuss this with the Scrum Master, and he suggests that there is a technique to coordinate deliverables across several Agile teams. What did he likely suggest?

40. One of your project managers is confused about Agile. They understand Agile is a mindset based on the Agile Manifesto 4 Paired Values and 12 Principles. They are confused because they keep hearing about different agile approaches like Scrum, XP, and Lean. You explain that within this framework, every agile team needs to identify their unique __________.

41. You are new to agile and are confused about the Kanban board. The Kanban board contains all the work committed to for the current sprint, as well as the status of the work. You ask the Agile Coach to help you understand how the Kanban board is used, and they explain it to you. Which of the following is not a use of the Kanban board?

42. You are the team facilitator and are listening to the Daily Scrum. The team is facing several challenges, including technical challenges and an unresponsive stakeholder. Those challenges are now threatening the ability of the team to achieve the sprint goal. How should you proceed?

43. Based on the continuum of project methodologies, an adaptive approach is both:

44. You have just completed your Agile training and are confident you know all there is to know about the topic. You are discussing it with a senior Scrum Master and mention that all Agile approaches are based on Scrum and use a backlog. He explains that there is another approach that does not use a backlog, but it does normally use a tool that is common to backlog based Agile. He is most likely describing what?

45. Your team is developing an application to increase the productivity of the employees in your regional call center. Your team has been working closely with the Product Owner to ensure all the features planned for the next release were completed. Suddenly your lead developer informs you that there is a group of requirements that were missed, and the deployment must be delayed several months as they work through them. The system cannot go live without them. What type of requirement did you likely miss?

46. Story points are often used by agile teams to determine the level of effort for a user story or task. After several sprints, the Scrum Master would like to forecast when the next release in the Product Roadmap will be ready, and does this by averaging the number of story points in all of the prior team sprints and comparing that to the work remaining in the product backlog. The average number of story points an Agile team is completing in their sprints is referred to as what?

47. Your Agile team is working on a new order fulfilment system for their client. Their customer does not know exactly how they want the system to function, but they do know the features that will deliver the highest business value. You use those features to develop a high-level schedule of what functionality will be delivered and roughly when it will be delivered. You have just completed the _________ ___________.

48. You conducted an analysis of the progress of your team. You realize that at the current pace of development, the estimated date of the next release will be delayed substantially. You approach the Agile Coach about the possibility of approving overtime so the team can get back on track. To your surprise, they disagree with that approach. They state that approving overtime or applying additional resources violates one of the principles of the Agile Manifesto. Which principle did it violate?

49. You have just completed discussing your project with a colleague who is using a waterfall approach on his project. You are curious about their use of Earned Value to use current project performance as a basis for forecasting future performance. You wonder if Earned Value can be used for an Agile project, so you ask your Scrum Master. They state:

50. You have assembled your Agile team and are beginning to determine your Way of Working. You hold a meeting to discuss what method you will use to estimate, establish team norms and coordinate with the product owner. What is this initial meeting called?