PMP PMBOK 8 Free Practice Questions and Answers

A project team member is struggling with development work, and no other qualified staff are available. What should the project manager do?

• A. Assess the person’s development needs and arrange suitable training
• B. Use budget reserves to hire a replacement immediately
• C. Ask the functional manager to offer an incentive
• D. Request a more skilled replacement

A junior project manager asks how to improve efficiency and reduce rework. What should the senior project manager recommend?

• A. Build a schedule from the project and resource requirements using a work breakdown structure
• B. Require everyone to work eight hours daily
• C. Assign tasks without considering team skills
• D. Hold daily stakeholder meetings to review the plan

A strong delivery team is working in an unfamiliar domain and is not meeting expectations. What should the project manager do?

• A. Help the team identify and address its development gap
• B. Dissolve the team
• C. Remove the members who are struggling
• D. Demand the same output as in past projects

On an agile project in a changing business environment, the sponsor is concerned about benefits realization. How should the project manager keep the product valuable?

• A. Change iteration objectives whenever a stakeholder requests it
• B. Stop every iteration when an external change occurs
• C. Reprioritize the backlog after each iteration to reassess business value
• D. Use pair programming as the main change-control method

While the project manager is temporarily away, the team develops a detailed schedule. On returning, the project manager finds it nearly complete. What should the project manager do?

• A. Check that the schedule aligns with the project vision and objectives
• B. Escalate the team to the PMO
• C. Move straight to execution without review
• D. Discard the schedule and start over