PMP - Project Management Professional
PMP - Project Management Professional practice questions
30 free questions with explanations across 3 exam domains. Pick an answer to see if you got it right.
These are original practice questions based on the official exam outline, not real exam questions.
A project team member reports that a key deliverable will be delayed by two weeks due to an unforeseen technical issue. The project manager's FIRST action should be to:
Answer: B. PMI's exam consistently rewards assessing impact before acting or escalating. Jumping straight to informing the sponsor (A) or reassigning work (C) skips the analysis step that determines whether those actions are even warranted.
A team member consistently misses sprint commitments and seems disengaged in daily standups. As a servant leader, the PROJECT MANAGER should:
Answer: B. The People domain carries the heaviest weighting on the current exam, and PMI's servant-leadership philosophy consistently favors understanding root causes privately before any corrective or escalatory action.
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of a retrospective in an agile project?
Answer: C. A retrospective is specifically a process-improvement ceremony focused on the team's own way of working — not backlog management (that's backlog refinement) and not stakeholder reporting (that's a sprint review).
A stakeholder requests a change that would significantly increase project scope without additional budget or time. What should the project manager do FIRST?
Answer: B. All changes, regardless of stakeholder seniority, must go through formal change control so their impact on scope, cost, and schedule can be properly assessed before a decision is made.
During project execution, the team identifies a risk that was not in the original risk register. What is the appropriate NEXT step?
Answer: B. Risk identification is iterative throughout the project lifecycle, not a one-time planning activity. New risks get logged and analyzed as soon as they're identified.
A team member on a distributed team feels excluded from decision-making because most discussions happen informally among co-located members. This is BEST addressed by:
Answer: B. The People domain emphasizes inclusive team environments; structured communication practices are the standard response to location-based exclusion on distributed teams.
Which artifact BEST helps a project manager communicate the business justification for a project to senior stakeholders?
Answer: B. The business case is specifically designed to document the value proposition and justification driving the project — the document stakeholders reference for 'why' the project exists.
A sprint review reveals that a completed feature does not meet the product owner's expectations, though it met the original acceptance criteria. What is the MOST appropriate response?
Answer: B. Agile frameworks treat this as a learning moment for refining future acceptance criteria — not a failure — since the work satisfied what was actually defined at the time.
What is the PRIMARY purpose of a lessons learned register?
Answer: B. Lessons learned exist to build organizational knowledge over time — PMI frames this as a continuous improvement tool, not a closure-only formality or performance record.
A project manager notices that a team member consistently takes credit for others' work during stakeholder meetings. The BEST first step is:
Answer: B. PMI's servant-leadership philosophy consistently favors direct, private conversations to address interpersonal issues before escalation — public correction or HR involvement are disproportionate first responses.
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