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.
Travel restrictions are suddenly imposed during a project's execution. The team members reside in different geographic locations.
What should the project manager do next to address this issue?
An agile team is working on a 2-week sprint to deliver business value. About 1 week after the sprint starts, the team members do not feel
confident about the product increment they are building. They do not want to wait until the end of the sprint and want to validate the product
increment with the product owner now.
What should the project manager do to mitigate this risk?
A project manager is working on a financial system implementation project for a government company. One of the key stakeholders, who uses
predictive approaches, does not like virtual tools such as chats, task trackers, and so forth. They prefer email, telephone calls, and face-to-face
meetings.
How should the project manager approach this situation?
A project manager agreed to a team member's request to have an alternative working schedule whereby they begin working at 12:00 p.m. each
day. This arrangement has worked well for the project, but has recently been scrutinized by members from other project teams because the
company's core working hours begin at 9:00 a.m.
What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation?
A project manager is leading a project in which the product requirements have not been fully met due to several uncertainties about customer acceptance. What should the project manager do?
A state-of-the-art product was delivered at the end of a project life cycle. However, the customer claims the product was not designed to specifications.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this issue?
A protect team is working remotely on a solution The client wants the solution as soon as possible and is uncomfortable because the team members are not colocated In addition the client expressed concerns about the understanding of the project context and the team's decision-making process
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is assigned to a multiyear project. During project execution, the customer delegates a new representative who contacts the project manager directly with a concern about their participation in status meetings. The representative wants to contact team members directly.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is preparing to start a new project in which the team members are distributed geographically across different countries. The project manager is using the communications management plan to engage the team members and find a communication method that suits everyone.
How should the project manager continually evaluate the effectiveness of the virtual team's engagement?
In an agile environment, a project is running iteration four out of six. A team member leaves the company with no replacement.
What should the project manager do?
Update the issue log and refer to the resource management plan to address the situation.
Ask the team for extra work to fulfill the project commitment.
Reduce the scope of the project and inform stakeholders.
A project manager is leading a project that is in the execution phase. During a team
meeting, the project manager realizes that there are two team members who lack the
technical skills required for some of the upcoming tasks.
What should the servant leader project manager do next?
A project manager is using a hybrid approach for a project. The project team created and reviewed the risk tog with the stakeholders at the beginning of the project However midway through the project, the project team and stakeholders became misaligned with the risks and mitigation strategies
When should the risks be reviewed to ensure alignment between the project team and the stakeholders'?
During the early phases of a project, mitigation actions were not executed in a
timely manner; therefore, the project schedule was impacted. Several project stakeholders are
now frustrated with the delays.
What should the project manager have done to manage the issue?
A project manager is managing a new development program to automate some technical functions. During project kickoff, the project manager
expresses the need for a technical architect to support the project for a moderate amount of time. The project sponsor informs the project
manager about an existing technical architect who possesses valuable knowledge but is already assigned at the portfolio level.
What engagement model should the project manager use for the technical architect role to ensure project success?
A project manager for an agile project wants to have a highly engaged team. How should the project manager achieve this objective?
During an iteration demo, a customer noticed an enhancement they would like to make to the product. What should the team do next?
A team member has indicated their user story will not be finished until the end of the iteration as their functional manager has requested they assist in resolving a high-priority production issue. What should the project manager do?
A project manager is leading a council's project that aims to ensure full compliance with health, ecological, and environmental standards.
At the same time, the project's goal is to remain fully adherent to the council's values, policies, and procedures.
How should the project manager ensure project success?
A project manager and a stakeholder have different opinions on the budget estimates for a project that is being initiated based on a new consumer privacy law. What would be a reason for this difference in opinion?
A project manager is starting a project using a hybrid approach and notices some team members only have knowledge of predictive approaches What does the project manager need to do first in order to have good project performance?
A company's project management office (PMO) is incorporating more adaptive technologies and has hired a new project manager with hybrid project management experience The team is slow in adopting the new methodology and has not been updating project artifacts in a timely manner.
Which action should the project manager take to improve the team's performance?
In an agile team, some of the team members are coming forward to ask for more
autonomy on the project. What should the project manager do in this situation?
A new privacy law will go into effect at the beginning of the next calendar year. The project manager realizes the project needs to be compliant with the new law. What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is managing the development of a dental wire bending machine. The machine is compatible with the three most popular dental wires in the market which covers 90°.© of the market The prototype is now under testing for certification. The manufacturer of one of the three wires announced they will be producing a different wire mat will be incompatible with the machine. This will result in a 25% loss of market coverage from the initially predicted 90% coverage
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is leading the first agile project for the organization. During the
kick-off meeting, the project manager notices that the team does not have the same
understanding about agile approaches. The project manager is concerned about the impact of that confusion.
What should the project manager do to address this situation?
An agile project manager has just been given a sizeable software development project to implement. Early in the initiation stage, the project sponsor requests an indication of time lines for delivery of the initial release.
What tools should the agile project manager use to do these estimates?
During a product demo with key stakeholders, the team identifies that one of the functionalities failed to perform as expected What should the project manager have the project team do first to address the issue?
A project manager is assigned to a new water treatment plant project that has been
delayed for many years. It is revealed in the project charter that the sponsors of this project
are from three different business units. This is the first time the sponsors have ever
implemented such a project.
What should the project manager do?
On a project with multiple international locations, a trend for delays has been
flagged. When looking into the issue, the project manager realized that some of the key
activities were scheduled over the holiday periods in the overseas offices.
What should the project manager do next?
An agile project manager is evaluating the method that will be used to display the
value of the work performed to date. Which method will they select to display to the project stakeholder?
A project manager has been working with the same group of stakeholders for 3 years using a predictive approach. The stakeholders have invested in many projects and are familiar with the approach Recently the organization has strongly encouraged all project managers to adopt an agile approach. This was announced 2 weeks before the project manager planned to kick off a large complex project with the same group of stakeholders.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is working on a project with multiple workstreams. One of the
workstreams missed its deadline multiple times.
Who should the project manager speak to about this situation to ensure it does not happen
again?
A project manager has recently joined a small company. The company's chief
operating officer (COO) asked the team to skip some steps in the process in order to work
more quickly. The project manager wants to ensure that these steps are not skipped in the
future.
What should the project manager do?
A hybrid project manager has taken over a large-scale software development project m a highly regulated environment. During a handover session the outgoing project manager explains that they devised their own status reports which is different from the project management office's (PMO's) status report style. The project stakeholders are extremely particular about the information they receive in updates and do not believe the PMO's status reports have sufficient enough information
How should the new project manager proceed*?
A project manager is working with a team that is new to agile. One of the more
influential stakeholders struggles with the nature of agile. The project manager knows that this
stakeholder is needed as an advocate and wants to do everything possible to make the
stakeholder comfortable with the project.
What should the project manager include in the status report to illustrate the project's
performance?
During project execution a project team member resigned and a new junior member joined the team To smooth the transition the project manager assigned a senior project team member to transfer knowledge and support the junior team member The project manager subsequently received feedback from the senior team member saying that the junior member submitted a poor-quality deliverable and should be removed from the team However the project manager checked that deliverable and found it met quality requirements
Which technique should the project manager use to resolve this issue?
A project manager submits a version of the software that the project team created. During the review meeting, a team member informs the project manager of a recent regulation that requires a dual verification process in the software. However, the product sponsor strongly insists there should be no updates to the software.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager who works for a company involved in several industries is asked
to lead a software development project for a government agency. The company attempted to
execute similar projects for other industries before but was unsuccessful.
What should the project manager do to ensure project success?
Eight people have been working on a project for an extended period of time. The
scope has changed significantly and the product owner has been replaced multiple times. The
team members are feeling disassociated from the project.
What should the project manager do to ensure team alignment with the goals?
An issue reoccurs six months after a project's go-live date despite being resolved
during the project life cycle. What should the project manager have done in the previous
phase to avoid this issue?
The change control board (CCB) has approved a change request to add a new
component within a product. The operations manager discovers the change after its approval
and complains that the implementation of the change will cause significant disruption to the
production line.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager has noticed that a critical team member is consistently arguing
with a client. This has started to have a negative effect on the meetings.
How should the project manager address this?
A project manager is leading a hybrid project. The self-organizing teams are
continually late in delivering their demos, resulting in low morale. The steering committee is
familiar with the reporting and planning associated with a predictive approach and is
concerned about the project because it is unclear if the expected value will be delivered.
What should the project manager do?
A project team is experiencing conflict between two team members. Team member A feels that team member B is always talking over team member. A and does not listen to any advice Team member B is not willing to listen to feedback
What should the project manager do to resolve the issue?
A project manager is assigned midway through a project. The team members are in
different locations across the country and they are unable to meet in-person often. During a status review meeting, one of the stakeholders highlighted that they were unaware of the status for the project deliverables.
What should the project manager do first?
An agile leader is working on a complex project that is entering the final phase where solutions from different vendors are being integrated. This is the most critical delivery stage for the project
How should the agile leader ensure successful delivery?
A project manager is leading an electrical project that spans five towns. The project
manager is informed by the team that one of the towns is not allowing the team to work there even though the town was included in stakeholder engagements before the start of the project.
What should the project manager do?
A supplier is hired to provide information security services for a project. The supplier has decided not to provide this service any longer since they have not been paid on time. Their services are critical and this decision will affect the outcome of the project.
What should the project manager do to address this issue?
During the setup of an agile project, the product owner expressed clear interest in
having features released during product development over having the product completed in
one year. What should the project manager do?
When a project manager is trying to determine a leadership style to use on a project what should they consider?
A project manager submits several requests to purchase required hardware and
knows from previous experience that this kind of procurement usually results in disputes
between the company and its suppliers. How can the project manager mitigate this risk in the
request for proposal (RFP) with suppliers?
An engineer working on a project team has tasks that require an additional skill that the engineer does not have a designer on the team is experienced with this skill from previous jobs and is willing to teach this skill even though it is not part of the current work
What should the project manager do?
us graph describes the current performance of a protect in relation to cost and schedule. What should the project manager do to bring the project back on track?
A project is about to close and the project manager is p Set up a meeting to perform a root cause analy reparing a draft of the project closure report. The project sponsor has approached the project manager to stay on longer to ensure the benefits in the charter are tracked as completed However, some of the benefits will not be realized until 1year after project implementation.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is working on a critical path activity and notices a delay in product delivery due to an anticipated event What should the project manager do first?
A project manager is using a hybrid approach to comply with a regulatory requirement. The planning and closing phases will use a predictive approach, and the execution phase will use an iterative approach. During the second sprint review, the project sponsor requested a change in priority tor some of the product backlog items
What should the project manager do as a servant leader?
A project to implement a new online landing platform has started After the first sprint, the project sponsor requested a change. What should the project manager do next?
A project requires testing of the final product to be done at another department's
testing facility, which is known for having low availability. This situation could potentially
impact the project schedule.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager has heard about the large volume of emails the team receives each day which prevents them from doing project work. One team member has stated that they would like to be able to access project-related information when needed
To what type of communication is the team member referring?
A project manager is leading a project that is implementing an assembly line.
During the quality review meeting, a team member reports an issue stating that the product
being developed has discrepancies with the one requested by the customer.
What should the project manager do?