PMP PMI Project Management Professional (2025 Version) Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)
Prepare effectively for your PMI PMP Project Management Professional (2025 Version) certification with our extensive collection of free, high-quality practice questions. Each question is designed to mirror the actual exam format and objectives, complete with comprehensive answers and detailed explanations. Our materials are regularly updated for 2025, ensuring you have the most current resources to build confidence and succeed on your first attempt.
A project is impacting several business units with different expectations and priorities. The project manager leading this project is meeting every month with each of these groups individually. During these meetings, each group has expressed dissatisfaction with the project and uses every opportunity to replace other groups' priorities with their own.
What should the project manager do to address these challenges?
Due to scope changes, some of the risks identified during the initiation phase have materialized into issues. What should the project manager do next?
A project manager who has been working on an ongoing volatile project is retiring. A new project manager is collaborating with the retiring project manager to ensure a smooth transition.
What should the new project manager first discuss, review, and clarify during the transition meetings?
During a sprint planning, the development lead highlights the importance of working on technical debt tasks that are critical for the product performance. However, the tasks will consume most of the team's capacity and they will not be able to work on product feature development.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager has been assigned to a new project. The project sponsor has requested a detailed time line, but the project includes some deliverables that are not yet clearly defined.
Which project management approach should the project manager advise using?
Negotiations are underway to secure an agreement with a critical supplier for the project. The negotiation situation has become contentious as it is becoming apparent that both parties will not receive everything they want and that a compromise might be necessary to avoid project delays, cost overruns, and damage to reputations.
What should the project manager do to help ensure a successful outcome for the project?
Project stakeholders have provided a team with requirements that will take at least one year to complete. The project sponsor advised that they need to see some return on investment (ROI) soon.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager assembled a team of 10 developers. Because the organization did not have a development team for this project, contractors were hired. In the kick-off meeting, one of the developers recommended the use of development standards. The project manager's previous team in another organization had good development guidelines.
What should the project manager do?
During a project iteration, half of the project team was reallocated to a new project. How should the project lead handle the situation?
An IT team has reached out to the project manager for guidance on which communication method to use when system downtime will impact the resources working on the project.
Which two communication methods should the project manager recommend? (Choose 2)
The team's velocity is inconsistent, leading the product owner to believe the team is creating too many points in their user stories.
What should the scrum master do first?
A project manager is approached by two new product owners who were instructed by their managers to join a new agile team. Both product owners were told they could start working with the new agile team immediately.
What should the project manager do to advise both product owners?
A project team used agile approaches to create a minimum viable product (MVP). Currently, the team is discussing the possible next steps.
What should be the next step?
A team is using an agile approach to maintain the project backlog. A new project obstacle was identified as a blocker and added to the backlog list. The team is facing challenges to remove this obstacle.
What should the project manager do next?
An organization is undergoing an agile transformation and migrating most of its projects from a predictive approach. The CFO expressed a concern that predictability on both costs and scope will be lost with the new agile approach.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager leads a regulatory initiative with tight, non-negotiable timelines. During a status meeting, a key stakeholder asks if a critical milestone associated with the reporting functionality can be moved up by 4 weeks.
What should the project manager do first?
A product owner is continuously adding requirements to a project that will significantly impact project delivery. How should the project manager address this?
A project manager has been assigned to an existing infrastructure project. The current project manager, who is retiring, and the project sponsor have had a good working relationship for many years. The project sponsor has expressed dissatisfaction with having a new project manager assigned to the project.
What should the project manager do?
After the first iteration, a scrum master notices that some of the team members are struggling with testing their developed product. What should the scrum master do next?
A project manager is trying to define a project time line despite having incomplete and ambiguous information on requirements and regulations. What should the project
manager do to finish planning?
The velocity of the team is decreasing at every iteration. The project team members are complaining that the user stories are being rejected by the quality assurance team.
Which three actions should the project manager take? (Choose three)
A work package to configure new computer hardware is received, and a list of related project activities have also been identified. What should the project manager do?
A project is nearing the completion of a sprint when the product owner announces that a local regulator has banned part of the deliverable. What should the project manager do?
A project is 20% complete. The client has accepted a project order amendment that involves a major change. Without this major change, the project result will be useless for the client organization.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is developing the project schedule with the project team. The team members estimate that an optimistic duration is 5 days, the pessimistic duration is 20 days, and the most likely duration is 11 days.
What duration should the project manager use?
A project manager has been assigned to a new project. The project sponsor has requested a detailed timeline, but the project includes some deliverables that are not yet clearly defined.
Which project management approach should the project manager advise using?
Developers spend most of the sprint writing code for user stories, leaving little time for testing. As a result, user stories cannot be tested in time and the stories remain unfinished by the end of the iteration, resulting in poor metrics.
What should the scrum master do first in this situation?
A project leader is preparing to facilitate a sprint retrospective. The sales manager sends the project leader an email asking how a feature planned for the next shipment is being implemented.
What should the project leader do next?
A project is continuously overlapping phases. Due to a recent human error, the team, which is made up of senior members, is experiencing distrust issues from other departments and lacking initiative. This is impacting overall performance and putting the project objectives at risk.
What should the project manager do when executing the next sprint?
A project was recently flagged as being noncompliant during an inspection. Several options were suggested on how to address the noncompliance, but each may have different impacts on the budget, schedule, and quality.
How should the project manager proceed?
During a requirements review session with a customer, a team member gets upset when questioned by the customer and responds angrily.
What should the project manager do next?
An ongoing project with company A is impacted by the recent acquisition of company B. This could affect the current suppliers for the ongoing project.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is preparing a large and complex international project. In order for the team to work well together in a virtual environment, the project manager needs to set up ground rules for good communication.
What should the project manager do first?
Presented with flowcharts of the organization's operations, stakeholders are unfamiliar with several recorded processes, and others note that some recorded processes were discontinued. The project sponsor notices that the chart is several years old and wants an updated version immediately.
What should the project manager do?
A project lead was asked to support the team by subdividing the project tasks as necessary to help define the minimum viable product (MVP).
Which two steps should the project lead take to define the MVP? (Choose 2)
A project team is struggling to meet the project deadline due to a recurring conflict between two team members. What should the project manager do?
A company is going through a large cost-cutting initiative. Senior management requests a report on the work remaining for outstanding projects.
Which tool should the project manager use for this purpose?
A project manager notices that the project team is encountering product issues while coding client-specific developments. The project manager foresees delays to the project's timeline because of these product issues.
Which methods should the project manager use to communicate project delays and other difficult messages to stakeholders?
A project manager is assigned to a long-term project. The project manager came across a government debate over a new law that may affect the project.
Which first two actions should the project manager perform? (Choose 2)
A project manager found a repeated defect in a junior developer's code. The code is due in 2 days and a severe fine will be incurred if it is not fixed by then. The project manager wants to reassign the assignment to a more senior developer, but the junior developer is strongly opposed to the reassignment.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager was assigned to lead a global project with a virtual team that is globally dispersed. The project manager has difficulties communicating with the team members and there seems to be frequent misunderstandings and conflicts.
What should the project manager do?
During a progress review meeting, the project sponsor requests a complete revamp of the product roadmap to meet the strategic objectives based on market conditions. This change will result in a completely new product.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager is working with a team that is demotivated and tired, as the project has been changing direction due to budget cuts from the sponsor.
What should the project manager do first?
During a planning session, the development team and the product owner are arguing about the effort needed to deliver a specific feature in a software development project. The product owner says that the feature can be developed in one week, whereas the team estimates that it will take at least two weeks. After several hours of discussion, they have not reached an agreement.
What should the project lead do?
During a risk review meeting early in a project, the project team flags the possibility that a key team member might be away during the implementation of a key work package. Unfortunately, this team member is currently the only resource with the knowledge to perform this work, although it is possible someone else could do it with training.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager's team has been working very hard to meet a critical deadline. Some project team members are experiencing burnout due to the high workload.
What should the project manager do first to manage the team's workload effectively?
A project has obtained all of the necessary legal requirements and policies from the local government. During the execution phase, the product owner is informed that a new law impacting the project deliverables will be published within two weeks.
What should the project lead do?
A project team member contacts the project manager to say they are not familiar with the regulations to complete some activities. What should the project manager do?
A project manager is leading the development and delivery of a strategic product that must be delivered on time. The project is facing technical issues that could significantly impact the budget and ability to deliver some of the product features.
What should the project manager do first to resolve the issue?
A project manager's project relies on services from a department that has a new leader. Since the new leader was appointed, the services from their department have been slow which threatens the project's delivery deadline.
What should the project manager do?
An agile team member discovers an impediment that is preventing them from doing their work efficiently. At which of the meetings should they bring up this impediment for resolution?
A compliance manager announces a new policy issued by the government that may impact project development.
How should the project manager respond?
A railroad construction project is in the planning stage. During a monthly progress meeting, an external project manager from the sponsoring organization mentioned there is a potential delay in the design completion date. The external project manager wants to know the impact of this delay on the overall project completion date in the next monthly meeting.
Which three actions should the internal project manager take next? (Choose 3)
A project manager is leading a project that involves on-site and remote team members One task that was assigned to a team member in another country appears to be behind schedule When the project manager inquires about this, the team member claims that the task was completed and that this was reported to the team lead via a telephone conversation
What should the project manager do?
A project manager notices that one of the marketing executives in the firm always appears stressed. The project manager observes that the executive's performance is gradually declining and is affecting the project deliverables.
What should the project manager do?
A solution designer in an agile team often passes the design information to team members without any documentation, This has resulted in misunderstandings within the team.
What should the agile leader do?
An agile team is conducting a sprint retrospective and wants to focus on the practices that allowed them to recover after a bad start Please click on the area of the burndown chart that the team should focus on.
In a geographically distributed project team, the project team members continue to email status reports and update schedules after their weekly meeting discussions. However, the team is having difficulty tracking the changes and progress made.
What should the project manager do?
A client comes to the company asking to copy a project that was executed 2 years ago
in the same city, with the expectation that the new project will have the same cost and duration.
While finalizing the project management plan, the project manager realizes that the baseline
costs are much higher than the original project.
What could the project manager have done to avoid this?
Clients are complaining about the delay on a product delivery timeline. It is confirmed that the issue is related to the product inventory and availability.
What should the project manager do to engage the stakeholders?
