PfMP PMI Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP) Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)
Prepare effectively for your PMI PfMP Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP) 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.
In preparing your communications matrix, you identified five communication areas. One is portfolio governance decisions. A communication vehicle for these decisions is:
Values assist in guiding actions, evaluations, and decisions. Assume your organization is considering entering into a consortium to produce a heliumcontrolled car. Once the helium is supplied, additional amounts will not be needed. The car is to be personally appealing with a focus on an inexpensive cost to increase marketability. The consortium will enable each firm to capitalize on the expertise of the other firms in it, but the customer will view it as a separate entity. If your organization enters into the consortium, it must justify the value to the portfolio of doing so. In addition to ensure benefits are realized a focus is needed on:
When we talk about portfolios, programs and projects, it is inevitable to mention the business value which is the sum of tangible and intangible assets of an organization, also known as the net quantifiable benefit. When it comes to business value, at which level of the organization is the Business Value achieved?
Based on the data in the following table, your organization should pursue which component:
Your Portfolio Review Board is scheduled to meet in a week. Resources only are available to support one project, and detailed business cases have been prepared for two of them. Your company has a policy of being risk adverse. Based on the following table, which project would you recommend to the Board, and what else would you mention to them?
Establishing a portfolio management process starts with the development of the organizational portfolio management implementation plan. Which of the following helps while developing this plan?
Many people in your country are no longer eating food from cans because of the risk of botulism and eColi O1H747. Your low acid canned foods company is seeing its revenues decrease as a result, and it is updating its overall strategy for the company to diversify into other markets as well as to add an aggressive marketing campaign to ensure the public that its low acid canned foods are generally recognized as safe by the Food and Drug Administration. This means in terms of portfolio management:
Your company has multiple portfolios on the way and a variety of different clients and industries. Risk levels are high due to recent governmental regulations and the company has recently been penalized due to a non-compliance to one of the standards. You know that you need to closely managing this. As a result, you will be come out with
As part of the portfolio communication management, multiple documents are prepared in order to effectively manage communications. The Stakeholder matrix is one of the prepared documents, what does it include?
Assume you work for a technology company that is publically owned, and the value of its stock is tracked daily by the CFO and is reported to the portfolio manager. Quarterly meetings are held with stockholders as the company went public through an Initial public offering (IPO) last year. These stockholders:
Managing risk is key to the success of any initiative. Risk is considered to be inherent in any activity we do in project management and at any level. Risk is part of project, program and portfolio management and has a different exposure in each and every one. You are currently developing the guidelines and approaches for managing risks and are looking for methods to help you. What are you looking for?
Assume you are managing the corporate portfolio for your company noted for many products primarily focused on farm equipment. Recently it has diversified into other markets especially with the economic downturn in the country. While many of the traditional products are in the portfolio as new features are added to enhance customer satisfaction, one of the new product lines is a high-profile program that is ranked number five in the corporate portfolio. As the portfolio manager, you know this program has several interdependencies with other projects and programs, and recently this high-ranked program has experienced difficulties as needed technology is not available externally, and internal staff lacks the needed competencies to develop it. Its termination will be discussed at Friday's Portfolio Board meeting. You plan to discuss these interdependencies as part of your responsibilities in:
comes to this type of organizations, which of the following statements is true?
Having worked in portfolio management before, you are pleased you were selected to implement it and be the portfolio manager for your motorcycle company, well known throughout the world. As it is a new function, you worked with the Enterprise Program Management Office to ensure you had a complete inventory of the work in progress. Now as you prepared your various portfolio management artifacts, and have a Portfolio Review Board meeting upcoming in two weeks, sponsors will be proposing new components. This means:
Your State Governor is fiscally conservative and has limited significantly the financial resources to be provided to each University in the eight Universities in the State's system. Recognizing your University is going to have a 55% reduction in its budget, your Chancellor is re-evaluating all the work that is under way to see how much it can do with fewer resources. Every department will have layoffs at all levels. However, the University does have a portfolio management process in place, which people support. This means for effective portfolio management:
Your company's water treatment center serves three cities. Tests are conducted each day to see if the water is safe to drink. On Thursday, E coli were found in the water, but the water authority did not notify the citizens in the three cities. Instead, the citizens learned on Friday, the water was now safe to drink. The citizens are in an uproar, and your company is to blame. It is obvious one of the problems is the aging infrastructure and limited resources. To best optimize the portfolio, your CEO asked you to:
As soon as you complete the portfolio risk management plan, and you have been working on it now with a team, you realize you need to update some organizational process assets such as:
You are currently using a Comparative Advantage Analysis and conducting a what-if analysis to consider how the portfolio component and its intended benefits could be achieved by various options, including resource capability and capacity mix. In which process are you currently working?
Due to a strategic change, multiple components on your portfolio have been terminated, leaving you with limited remaining funds coming from the terminated components. What should be your best course of action?
You are the manager for a governmental portfolio aiming to restructure the roads in your country. Having a tight schedule, a large number of stakeholders including the public, in addition to a strict budgeting framework, you know that you will be managing the performance closely and that the governance board and the stakeholders would want to check on the progress and performance frequently. For this you have developed a robust performance management plan. What is expected to be found in this plan?