PMI – PMP Prep Questions

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A customer is considering appending new features to the project
deliverable. Before a project team member begins working on these new
features, which is a mandatory step?
a. Gain approval from the Project Manager.
b. Gain approval from the Project Sponsor.
c. Ensure the change control board (CCB) approves.
d. Ensure key subject matter experts (SMEs) approve.

2. A project is at the planning stage of the project. The Project Manager

realizes that producing a complicated multi-functional application is not
feasible with the current resources and decides to hire more resources
to produce the application. The Project Manager identifies and contracts
short-term resources. Which of the following risk response strategy
represent this scenario?
a. Mitigate
b. Transfer
c. Accept
d. Avoid

3. A Project Manager has performed the following steps:

I. Finished a major IT deployment project.
II. Confirmed with the release manager that all systems are working.
III. Confirmed that functionality has been verified by the quality
assurance team.
IV. Informed the customer.
Which of the following is the next step the Project Manager should take?
a. Update the risk register, stakeholders, and team members.
b. Add the lessons learned to the organization knowledge base.
c. Ensure that the procurement plan is closed out.
d. Review, verify, and complete the release documentation.
4. After realizing that a lack of resources on a project with an increasingly
high workload, management outsources some significant tasks to keep
the project on schedule. What should the Project Manager do in this
situation?
a. Revise the procurement management plan.
b. Review the communications management plan.
c. Escalate to the project sponsor.
d. Prepare an organizational chart.

5. A project has the following need:

I. Nine hundred resource hours must be outsourced.
II. Because of internal policies, all providers must be provided
with the same information about the requirements.
Which of the following action should the Project Manager take to ensure
this?
a. Hold direct negotiations with each provider.
b. Ensure the procurement management plan is sent to each
provider.
c. Conduct a bidder conference with the providers.
d. Have each of the providers added to the stakeholder register.

6. A company has a goal of increasing customer satisfaction within four

months. A project is initiated to meet this goal. The Project Manager
needs to identify best practices. Which of the following, the Project
Manager should utilize to achieve this?
a. Benchmarking
b. Interviews
c. Facilitation
d. Affinity diagram
7. When a customer identifies performance issues with this product, a new
product is released. The Project Manager realizes that cost of quality
(COQ) should have been used to estimate this cost. Which of the
following category of COQ should the Project Manager have used?
a. External failure costs
b. Prevention costs
c. Appraisal costs
d. Cost-benefit analysis

8. The Project Manager is conducting a risk analysis based on a high-level

scope and using expert judgement to prepare a document. What is the
Project Manager doing, based on the description of the activity?
a. Creating the project management plan.
b. Preparing a project scope statement.
c. Preparing a risk management plan.
d. Creating a project charter.

9. A Project Manager realizes that stakeholder interests will conflict on a

project and decides to utilize a stakeholder engagement assessment
matrix. The matrix pinpoints an influential stakeholder who is contrary
to the project. The Project Manager requires to align this stakeholder's
expectations. What should the Project Manager do to achieve this goal?
a. Convey the stakeholder engagement plan.
b. Produce a stakeholder engagement plan.
c. Gain consensus on project objectives by meeting with all
stakeholders.
d. Ensure that the stakeholder register is complete and updated.

10. A medium-sized company is developing into a new market. However,

the company does not have prior experience in that market. A Project
Manager needs to collect requirements. Which of the following two
tools or techniques should the Project Manager apply?
I. Product analysis.
II. Create requirements traceability matrix.
III. Prototypes.
IV. Expert judgment.
 a. I and II only
b. III and IV only
c. I, II, and III only
d. I, II, III, and IV

11. A Project Manager has local and virtual team members for a project. To
manage scheduling priority conflicts among team members, the project
manager schedules a video conference call. Which statement is correct
regarding this scenario?
a. It demonstrates the Smooth/Accommodate conflict resolution
technique.
b. It demonstrates the Force/Direct conflict resolution technique.
c. It is an example of the Collaborate/Problem Solve conflict
resolution technique.
d. It is an example of the Compromise/Reconcile conflict resolution
technique.

12. What should the Project Manager do to gain a stakeholder's approval if

the stakeholder believes a project's deliverables were not
accomplished?
a. Review the project charter thoroughly with this stakeholder on a
conference call.
b. Ensure that the stakeholder understands the quality management
plan.
c. Perform a risk analysis after obtaining the stakeholder's new
requirements.
d. Review the project scope while analyzing the stakeholder's needs
and expectations.
13. A client's employee asks the Project Manager for an additional, new
product feature during a status meeting. Which document should the
Project Manager first refer to find out who has the power to approve
this request?
a. Change log
b. Change management plan
c. Responsible, accountable, consult, and inform (RACI) matrix
d. Change request document

14. Review the following steps.

I. A project has been successfully delivered.
II. The project manager is executing formal closure.
III. ______________________________________.
Which of the following is the Step 3?
a. The Project Manager should obtain stakeholder acceptance.
b. The Project Manager should update the bid documents.
c. The Project Manager should reassign the project team.
d. The Project Manager should reallocate the unused funds.

15. Review the following project characteristics:

I. The project is in initiation.
II. Due to lack of funding, the project gets terminated.
III. The Project Manager must close the project.
Which of the following is the first action the Project Manager should
take?
a. Determine the potential impact of terminating the project by
performing a risk analysis.
b. Rely on the communications management plan to properly inform
all stakeholders.
c. Examine the organization's project closure guidelines.
d. Close all project procurement processes.
16. A Project Manager is attending a periodic review with stakeholders. The
project sponsor asks the project manager how deliverables will be
verified for accuracy and accepted. In which project document is this
information found?
a. Quality management plan.
b. Scope management plan.
c. Work performance reports.
d. Requirements management plan.

17. A project is being planned in a remote area with limited access to

vehicles and equipment. A Project Manager suggests that the company
deliver all heavy equipment themselves despite the significant expense.
The Project Manager will take full accountability for this activity. Which
of the following type of risk response is the Project Manager
demonstrating?
a. Transfer
b. Mitigate
c. Accept
d. Avoid

18. A client brings a Project Manager into a project during the execution
stage of the project. The Project Manager reviews the project scope for
cost estimating purposes and notices that some deliverables were
missed in the work breakdown structure (WBS). Which of the following
step should the manager take next?
a. Verify with the stakeholders to see if these missed deliverables
should be added.
b. Determine whether these deliverables are necessary by verifying
with experts in the field.
c. Ask that the project management office (PMO) approve additional
funds for this work.
d. Include the work in the WBS, per the 100% rule, and recalculate
the total project cost.
19. A Project Manager is working with three key stakeholders. Every
stakeholder has a different vision of the project and its goal. They all feel
strongly about their opinion. The Project Manager requires to get
approval of the project charter. What should the Project Manager do?
a. Use facilitation and conflict management to ensure the three
stakeholders are in agreement.
b. Conduct a stakeholder analysis.
c. Request that the project sponsor resolve the conflict.
d. Use the project kick-off meeting to settle the project goals.

20. Review the following project characteristics:

I. A sponsor approves a project.
II. The Project Manager asks chosen team members, key
stakeholders, and the sponsor to a meeting.
III. The primary goal of the meeting is to create a document that will
guide the team in defining the main project deliverables.
Which of the following will be the final output of this meeting?
a. Work breakdown structure (WBS) dictionary
b. Scope management plan
c. Milestone list
d. Requirements management plan

21. A project team collected sensitive client data early on in the project to
help in developing the project management plan. The team is now
working on deliverables for the project. The compliance manager
proposes an issue of project non-compliance. Which of the following is
the first document the Project Manager should review in this case?
a. Business case
b. Statement of work (SOW)
c. Risk register
d. Issue log
22. Suppose a project is underway and is 50% completed. An essential
project team member requests 1.5 months leave for personal matters.
What will be the Project Manager do first in that case?
a. Assess how the leave will impact the project.
b. Check with this team member to see if the leave can be
postponed.
c. Discuss the issue with the functional manager and request a
replacement.
d. Refer to the resource management plan.

23. A Project Manager operates for a company that is planning to develop a

new product. The new product will need currently unavailable skills. To
start this project, what will the Project Manager do?
a. Develop detailed project requirements
b. Document the risk in the project charter
c. Focus on quality control
d. Develop a competitor analysis

24. A Project Manager is doubtful about the project duration for a new
product and consults several subject matter experts (SMEs). The first
group suggests that it can be finished in 25 days. The second group
identifies some risks that could make the duration up to 40 days. The
third group offers a new method that can shorten the time to 10 days.
Using the triangular estimating technique, what is the duration of the
new project?
a. 23 days
b. 30 days
c. 25 days
d. 27 days
25. A new product development project has the following characteristics:
I. There are three main tasks.
II. Task A must be delivered four weeks before task C starts.
III. Once task B is finished, task C will start.
What is the relation between A and B tasks?
a. Start-to-start (SS)
b. Finish-to-start (FS)
c. Start-to-finish (SF)
d. Finish-to-finish (FF)

26. A product deliverable is undergoing acceptance testing. A senior-level

stakeholder raises concern that an essential product feature for their
department was not developed. The Project Manager wants to avoid
this issue in the future. What is one method to achieve this goal?
a. Prepare a change management plan.
b. Ensure a scope management plan gets approved.
c. Properly manage stakeholder expectations.
d. Hold a product demo with stakeholders.

27. A skincare company reports that customers are increasingly

complaining that a product is underweight. A Project Manager needs to
determine if something needs to be changed in the production line.
Which of the following tool or technique can the Project Manager use
for this task?
a. Control chart
b. Scatter diagram
c. Histogram
d. Affinity diagram
28. A product passes 96% per cent of the functional requirements defined
in the scope. However, a customer is unwilling to accept the product
since it did not pass 100%. A Project Manager is assessing what could
have been done differently to avoid this. What should the Project
Manager have done?
a. Assessed and evaluated the test management plan.
b. Reviewed the requirements documentation.
c. Ensured that the quality metrics were defined.
d. Created the work breakdown structure (WBS).

29. A Project Manager is working on a data center migration project and is

developing the schedule management plan. Per the project sponsor's
request, the schedule must plan for all tasks as soon as possible.
Additionally, the Project Manager is presented with modified resource
availability that should not violate schedule constraints. The Project
Manager needs to select the appropriate leads and lags relationship for
this situation. Which of the following type should the Project Manager
choose?
a. Early start equals the late start in all activities.
b. Early start is smaller than the late start in all activities.
c. Early start equals the late start in some activities.
d. Early start is smaller than the late start in some activities.

30. A Project Manager is preparing the charter for a project. The project
aims to automate 30 per cent of product testing. The project sponsor
advises the Project Manager to assign senior test engineers to identify
the tests that can be automated. However, the test department
manager is uncooperative because they believe that the project will
downsize in their department. What should the Project Manager do
first?
a. Request for the project sponsor to provide a rationale for test
automation.
b. Have a meeting with the test department manager to review the
statement of work (SOW).
 c. Raise the risk that the senior testing engineers will be unavailable
for the testing.
d. Present data-driven, cost-benefit evidence of test automation to
the test department manager.

31. A project has the following characteristics:

I. Is in the process of completing the planning stage.
II. A key stakeholder will be unavailable for 2.5 weeks during the
project.
The Project Manager must decide what to do first, after learning about
the key stakeholder's unavailability. Which of the following is the correct
step to take?
a. Request that the finance department provide a replacement
during the stakeholder's absence.
b. Continue with planning, and acknowledge the impact the change
may have on the project schedule.
c. Ensure that the issue log is updated and inform the other
stakeholders.
d. Organize a meeting with the sponsor to evaluate the situation and
identify alternatives.

32. The project has the following characteristics:

I. It is in the execution stage.
II. A regulatory law has recently been approved that mandates
immediate compliance.
III. This law will impact the project's scope, schedule, and cost.
The Project Manager needs to determine what to do first. What is the
correct step to take?
a. Begin the change request process.
b. Initiate mitigation of the risk.
c. Escalate the issue to senior management.
d. Ensure the project management plan is updated.
33. A deliverable on the project's critical path is lagging behind schedule.
The cost performance index (CPI) is 1.3. The Project Manager can put the
project back on schedule. Which of the following is the most likely
outcome for the project?
a. There will be activities performed in parallel
b. There will be rework
c. There will be a revised scope
d. There will be an increase in costs and risks

34. A project that should have been 90 per cent complete by now is only 65
per cent complete. The total project budget is US$120,000, and the
actual cost spent to date (AC) is US$80,000. What is the scheduled
performance index (SPI) and cost performance index (CPI) of this
project?
a. The SPI is 1.38, and the CPI is 1.2
b. The SPI is 0.72, and the CPI is 0.98
c. The SPI is 0.80, and the CPI is 0.91
d. The SPI is 0.94, and the CPI is 1.04

35. An intricate project has key stakeholders located in the United States,
France, and China. The Project Manager discovers that a senior manager
asked a team member for project information. Which step is appropriate
to take next?
a. Rely on the information in the stakeholder register.
b. Refer to the project management information system (PMIS).
c. Ensure that the senior manager attends the next team meeting.
d. Read the communications management plan.
36. A Project Manager is working with a customer who repeatedly submits
requests for new requirements for an existing software product. The
Project Manager has already provided the completed scope definition
for the product's next version release to stakeholders. Which step is
appropriate for the Project Manager to take next?
a. Hold a meeting with the product manager to request that the
number of new requests be reduced.
b. Define project boundaries immediately with the sponsor.
c. Organize a meeting with the stakeholders to set expectations.
d. Analyze the scope management plan to see how changes in scope
are handled.

37. A project is seven months into an execution. A Project Manager

determines that the cost performance index (CPI) is .80. According to a
trend analysis, the CPI has a downward trend. What is the next step that
the Project Manager should take?
a. Issue a change request for cost re-baselining.
b. Ask for additional resources.
c. Crash the project schedule.
d. Utilize the management reserve.

38. A project is being implemented. The research and development

department communicate to the Project Manager that the product's
requirements have changed. These changes were not anticipated, may
significantly influence potential sales numbers, and could impact project
scope. What is the appropriate action for the Project Manager to take?
a. Update the risk register accordingly and identify risk responses.
b. Use forecasting methods.
c. Plan to use the contingency reserve and update the risk mitigation
plan.
d. Utilize methods such as earned value management (EVM).
39. A project has the following characteristics:
I. US$3 million budget
II. Planned value of US$630,000
III. Actual cost of US$650,000
IV. Earned value of US$540,000
Which statement is true about the current status of the project?
a. The project is ahead of schedule and under budget.
b. The project is behind schedule and over budget.
c. The project is ahead of schedule and over budget.
d. The project is behind schedule and under budget.

40. A project is in the execution stage. Due to a demand to complete the

project quickly, the Project Manager needs to rapidly allocate resources
to establish the team and meet project requirements. Which action
should the Project Manager take next?
a. Build library services.
b. Deliver workshops.
c. Acquire and train the new team.
d. Host a webinar.

41. A Project Manager leaves the company and is replaced. The new Project
Manager wants to start guiding the team toward project success. What
should the new Project Manager do first?
a. Look over the project charter to identify goals and deliverables.
b. Review the project diary and look for notes made by the former
Project Manager.
c. Modify the project schedule, adding a new activity related to the
knowledge transfer process.
d. Revisit the project budget to determine if extra time is required.
42. A Project Manager receives the following for a new project:
I. Assumptions
II. Restrictions
III. Preliminary scope
After receiving this information, what should the Project Manager do
first?
a. Review and understand the business case and project goals.
b. Put together the project team and assign project tasks.
c. Build the project schedule and determine the critical path.
d. Ensure project charter approval is obtained from the sponsor.

43. A Project Manager joins a project that has the following features:
I. Globally distributed team
II. Budget that is fixed
III. Very tight deadlines
During planning, what should the Project Manager do to avoid any scope
creep and keep the team focused on delivering a product that meets
requirements?
a. Ask that all development team leads prepare detailed
requirements.
b. Hold daily stand-ups with all development teams.
c. Put any changes to scope through the formal approval process.
d. Disallow stakeholders from directly interacting with the
development team leads.

44. A project is delayed. To obtain the desired quality level of the

deliverables, a change is required. First, the Project Manager issues a
formal change request and communicates the change to all
stakeholders. Then, the Project Manager learns that this
communications approach did not meet stakeholders' expectations.
What should the Project Manager do next?
a. Refer to the communications management and stakeholder
engagement plans.
b. Provide a change request to include stakeholders' expectations in
the project management plan.
 c. Organize a meeting with the project sponsor to better understand
stakeholders' expectations.
d. Review the communications management plan, follow it, and
issue a status report.

45. The project sponsor requests the Project Manager to change production
materials because these materials could cause health problems to
consumers. Which of the following is an appropriate step for the Project
Manager to take?
a. Follow the perform integrated change control process and
thoroughly investigate the matter.
b. Immediately implement the change and submit a change request
for formal documentation.
c. End the current work and enact the change control process.
d. Reject the change because the request is outside of scope.