PgMP PMI Program Management Professional (PgMP) Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)
Prepare effectively for your PMI PgMP Program Management Professional (PgMP) 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.
What schedule analysis simulation tool allows you, the project manager, to review possible combinations of events such as optimistic, most likely and pessimistic outcomes for your project?
An organization requests that a junior project manager, with no previous experience or training in the industry, take over a complex program component. The program component involves senior subject matter experts and has dependencies with other large projects to deliver key benefits to the organization.
How should the junior project manager respond to this request?
You are the program manager for your organization. Management has asked that you determine when resources, such as leased equipment, are no longer needed so that you may release the resources to save time, money, and utilization of resources within your program. What program management process is management asking you to perform?
A project is assigned to a qualified project manager by the program manager. The client rejects the project manager due to a lack of proper qualifications to manage such a project.
What should the program manager do next?
You are the program manager for your organization. Your current program has fourteen projects and one project manager in your program is about to close her project. She will need all of the following inputs to the close project process except for which one?
Over the life of your program you've received many change request forms. Some of the change requests have been approved and some have been declined. Where should you record all change requests and their status?
You are the program manager for your organization. Your program has a budget of $750,000 and is expected to last one year. The program is currently 30 percent complete and has spent $245,000. The program is supposed to be 40 percent at this time. What is the cost performance index for this program?
In your organization there are rules and procedures that the program manager must follow and abide by before the program can begin and must continue to follow once the program is in execution. What term is assigned to the enforcement of these program management rules and procedures?
You are the program manager for your organization. Your program has a budget of $750,000 and is expected to last one year. The program is currently 30 percent complete and has spent $245,000. The program is supposed to be 40 percent at this time. What is the schedule performance index (SPI) for this program?
A software development program will launch iterative versions of new software called Alpha over two years. Following that, a program will be released to the program team and developers to create new software called Beta. While the program manager prepares the program closure plan for Alpha, the program sponsor expresses concern about its support after program closure.
What should the program manager do as part of Alpha’s program closure plan?
A program governance board mandates that phase gate reviews must be held so each component project can be reviewed and individually authorized to proceed to the next phase. Tracking and reporting of actual benefits realized is one part of the review.
What is the other part of the review?
An organization is considering a new program. The business analyst believes that the benefits to the organization would equate to $1,550,000 in five years. If the rate of return for this program is six percent what is the maximum amount the organization should invest in this program?
A request for proposal (RFP) yields a bid with a better delivery schedule and a lower cost, but originates from a vendor not on the prequalified vendor list. During the final review of the RFPs, the program manager is informed that the new bidder is a relative of the project manager. Although the bid meets all company policies, the program manager is concerned about a conflict of interest.
What should the program manager do?
Which of the following is described in the statement given below?
"It serves as the primary input for the Plan Program Stakeholder Management process, as well as for the distribution of program reports and other communication."
Leigh is working with the project stakeholders to define the project scope. The stakeholders are deciding on what type of flooring their new hotel should have in the lobby. They have narrowed their choices to either carpet or tile. The two acceptable choices of carpet or tile during scope definition is an example of what planning approach?
A program manager evaluates conflicting stakeholder demands associated with cost, schedule, and intended benefits. The implementation team has a strong interest in cost and schedule, and a limited interest in the benefits being produced. The client is only focused on benefits.
Which of the following actions should the program manager take?
A program is near completion and the benefits will be delivered shortly. The program manager prepares to initiate program closeout activities to release the program resources.
Before initiating closeout and releasing the resources, what should the program manager do?
A newly appointed country manager suggests that the regional program manager use a social media platform to expedite communications and address QUESTION NO:s. The new country manager used this social media platform at a previous job.
What should the regional program manager do to address the country manager’s request?
You are the program manager for your organization and you are preparing to launch several constituent projects within your program. You need to ensure that each project manager is authorized to utilize the appropriate project and program resources in order to complete the project requirements. What document do you need to create for each constituent project in your program to ensure that each project manager can use the appropriate resources?
Near the completion of a transformation program, the operations manager is concerned that their department failed to be notified in advance of the new service being transitioned into operations. They claim that their
department did not approve this service, and is now unprepared and untrained to support the transformation. What should the program manager have done first to prevent this?
