PMI PMP Real Exam Questions
The questions for PMP were last updated at Nov 18,2024.
- Exam Code: PMP
- Exam Name: Project Management Professional
- Certification Provider: PMI
- Latest update: Nov 18,2024
A team is preparing the closing phase and building a plan for the next phase. One of the project sponsors is complaining that the last phase had some quality deliverable issues. However, the quality acceptance document was signed.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Reopen the quality acceptance documentation to add the sponsor’s complaints.
- B . Schedule a quality review meeting and include the sponsor’s complaints.
- C . Review best practices and lessons learned and apply them to the project plan.
- D . Postpone the next project phase until the impact of the quality issues is assessed.
A project manager is managing a large project. During a review meeting, the project manager discovers that one of the team members who use to be a high performer was not able to complete their work on time.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Talk to the team member to determine why their performance changed.
- B . Talk to the team member and a human resources (HR) representative.
- C . Talk to the team member’s manager to provide more training.
- D . Talk to the project lead and ask them to allocate less demanding tasks.
During a project’s execution phase, two team members are having conflicts with other team members within the team on technical and interpersonal levels.
Which two actions should the project manager take first to address this conflict? (Choose two)
- A . Ask human resources (HR) to intervene before it escalates and affects the team’s performance.
- B . Arrange individual meetings with the team members who cannot work together effectively.
- C . Address the conflict during team meetings for the entire team to participate and find solutions.
- D . Discuss the conflict early among the affected team members using a direct, collaborative approach.
- E . Plan to resolve the team members’ conflicts after the sprint and focus on achieving the goal.
A project manager is leading a cross-departmental project that involves many stakeholders. During the project, the project manager observes that the stakeholders are diverse and have different expectations about how the project should be handled. This leads to frequent confusion and misunderstandings among the stakeholders.
What should the project manager do to integrate the diverse stakeholder groups?
- A . Advise the team members to focus on project work and avoid getting distracted by the stakeholders’ disagreements.
- B . Hold separate meetings with the individual stakeholders and escalate their concerns to the project sponsor.
- C . Develop a joint quality policy for the project and seek a commitment by all of the departments.
- D . Analyze the probability and impact of the risks linked with the situation and implement the proper response plan.
A project manager is working on a large IT project. During a review for one of the deliverables, a stakeholder raised a concern about the final product.
What should the project manager do first?
- A . Set up a meeting with the product owner to discuss the stakeholder’s concern.
- B . Discuss this with the team and review the project requirements documentation.
- C . Set up a meeting with the sponsor to discuss the details of the deliverable.
- D . Discuss this with the team and put the stakeholder’s concern in the issue log.
A distributed project team has communication issues because of their collaboration tools.
The team feels that efficiency could be improved by changing the collaboration platform.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Discuss this with the project team and select the appropriate tools.
- B . Inform the project team to continue using the current tools.
- C . Implement the communication tools used by other project teams.
- D . Escalate the issue to the sponsor and ask them to decide.
All project team members refer to the project manager for various decisions. This causes delays for some tasks, as the project manager is usually preoccupied in meetings throughout the day.
What should the project manager do to prevent these delays?
- A . Review the Pareto diagram to identify the source of delays.
- B . Meet with the team in 2 weeks to respond to all of the open tasks.
- C . Consolidate the decision-making authority to remain with the project manager.
- D . Delegate the decision-making authority of some tasks to the team.
A project is about to start with a global project team. Travel is not a viable option for project team members, so most will participate virtually.
What should the project manager do to engage the team?
- A . Have one-on-one meetings with team members to improve communication.
- B . Ask human resources (HR) for team-building recommendations.
- C . Schedule weekly team meetings to encourage collaboration.
- D . Invest in a virtual collaboration/colocation environment.
A construction company is executing a building contract that includes firm milestones for replacing certain components of the building. During execution, the client complains that the new components do not meet the requirements.
What should the project manager have done to prevent this from happening?
- A . Defined acceptance criteria in a quality checklist agreed upon before starting the build phase
- B . Approved a detailed change management process before starting the build phase
- C . Provided compensation for issues due to the variance in the agreed-upon requirements
- D . Continuously communicated the changes in the work plan and the agreement to the client
An agile project for a database migration impacts nearly all business units of the corporation. Every effort has been made to complete the migration before the end-of support date for the database platform. Anew impediment now implies the need to continue use of the old platform another year at a higher support price.
What should the product owner do about this situation?
- A . Reprioritize the backlog based on value and cost of delay divided by duration.
- B . Reprioritize the backlog based on story size and competence availability.
- C . Remove low-value items from the backlog to compensate for the higher cost.
- D . Switch to a predictive approach to prevent any further delays to completion.