PMP PMI Project Management Professional (PMBOK 7th Version) Free Practice Exam Questions (2026 Updated)
Prepare effectively for your PMI PMP Project Management Professional (PMBOK 7th 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 2026, ensuring you have the most current resources to build confidence and succeed on your first attempt.
A project manager is leading a highly visible project with a critical time constraint. Frequent scope changes have been well-managed with change control, but there have been misunderstandings among project team members.
What should the project manager do?
Customers are concerned about the quality of an interim software system for a project. The quality control team has approved the software, but the customers are complaining that some functions do not comply with the requirements.
What should the project manager do to prevent this from happening again?
A team member increased the estimated completion time for their activities on the critical path. This action, however, has caused friction among the team members. The project manager reviewed the key performance indicators (KPIs) that show the issue.
What should the project manager do first?
During a project's execution phase, the team faced a setback in one of the deliveries and was asked to come up with a new plan. All team members joined a meeting to address the issue and, after a while, the project manager observed that two members of the team were just agreeing with anything that was proposed even though they were opposed to the outcome.
What conflict resolution style were the team members adopting?
A project is on its third iteration out of nine. During the daily meetings, the project team realizes that some deliverable approvals are delayed because a key stakeholder is out of the office.
An organization has successfully delivered many projects using only predictive approaches. The organization has now decided to add some agile development processes into their standard deployment framework.
What should the project manager take into account first when building the schedule for this new project?
A project's planning process is finished, and all resources were budgeted for and approved by senior management. Just before the kickoff meeting, a member of the production department realizes that the plan does not meet the requirements for their area.
What should the project manager have done during the planning process?
A project sponsor is replaced during a hybrid project closure. The new project sponsor wants to change all of the project documentation to reflect a fully predictive approach.
What should the project manager do next?
The project team completed a demonstration of the main deliverable of the project. Although the project sponsor is happy with the outcome and is ready to sign the release to production, one of the business unit managers who attended the demo believes that the deliverable is not complete.
Which document should the project manager use to resolve this situation?
A project lead is managing an agile project. The project activities, which have been placed in a backlog, still need to be refined and prioritized.
What should the project lead use for backlog refinement considering the sprints are 2 weeks long?
A project manager is leading a diverse project team that includes new and experienced team members. A conflict has occurred between two team members. One team member prefers using digital tools for project communication. The other team member prefers in-person meetings and phone calls for communication.
What should the project manager do to manage this conflict?
A project team is currently dispersed across multiple countries and time zones. Recent team feedback shows engagement levels are sub-optimal, and information flows are irregular and one-sided. There are also company travel restrictions in place, preventing physical colocation.
What improvements should the project manager implement to improve engagement?
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 customer complains that a software update project is failing to deliver value according to the original scope. What should the project manager do to resolve the problem?
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 manager has an engineering team mostly comprised of new hires. The project manager has to carefully predict in which stage of the project they will need to spend most of their time to ensure the team is properly integrated and performing well.
In which stage of the project would the project manager need a greater effort to lead them?
A project is on schedule. However, during a site visit, a project manager notices that the contractor's productivity is low.
What should the project manager do?
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?
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)
An agile project is completing its second sprint and products are being finished. However, two groups with different levels of expertise disagree on the backlog priority.
What should the project manager do first to resolve this dispute?
During a sprint, the product owner requested a change in the features to be delivered in the same sprint. According to the product owner, the request from the customer is due to regulatory reasons and they have a deadline to meet.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager has been asked by the human resources (HR) review team to share information about how the project team members interact, communicate, and conduct themselves to reduce the risk of conflicts and improve overall team performance.
What should the project manager do next?
A project to develop an enterprise resource system for a university is in the planning phase. The project has internal stakeholders such as operational departments, students, and academic staff, as well as global stakeholders who receive the information from the university on a regular basis. All the stakeholders have very different expectations and needs from the system.
What should the project manager do to ensure effective communication?
A drone manufacturing company is designing its first drone. The new project architect has called the project manager to review the project scope. The architect wants to reshuffle the scope and schedule to test the drone functionality first. The project team disagrees because the scope has already been approved and any change might affect the timelines set by the CEO.
What should the project manager recommend?
During a contract renewal meeting, an organization's commercial team and the customer are disagreeing and negotiations are failing. What should the project manager do to reach an agreement that will satisfy all parties?
During a project iteration, half of the project team was reallocated to a new project. How should the project lead handle the situation?
A key project stakeholder recently joined the project and is questioning some of the previously made decisions. This starts to impact project execution.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager coordinates several projects in one program. Each project concerns a different country, has a different sponsor, and has specific business priorities. The resources are shared among the projects. The project manager anticipates this could result in delays and/or conflicts that will affect the program outcomes.
What should the project manager do to prevent such a situation?
A project is in the start-up phase of the project life cycle. The project team consists of 20 people from five different countries. The project team is scheduled to have quarterly face-to-face meetings. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, no face-to-face meetings can occur. The project manager is concerned that the team may not be able to fulfill their individual roles without face-to-face meetings.
What should the project manager do in this situation?
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 company is building a minimum viable product (MVP). How should the project manager help to ensure the company builds a high-quality product?
Due to an anticipated expansion, a company procured new technology. The project team responsible for using this technology does not have experience with it.
What should the project manager do?
A product owner has indicated there is strong customer interest in adding a new set of functionalities to a product. Using agile approaches, the project manager evaluates the new functionalities of the product.
What should the project manager do?
A project team is defining the ground rules during their first meeting as a team. During this session, only a few of the team members suggested and approved the ground rules while most remained silent. As a result, the team's ground rules favor those few team members.
What should the project manager do?
