This the third of our free PMP practice exams. It includes another 50 PMP practice questions. These are written in the same style as the questions that are found on the Project Management Professional certification exam. This is an interactive practice test with detailed explanations for all of the answers.
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Question 1 of 50
1. Question
Which one of the following options best describes the contents of the Scope Baseline?
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Question 2 of 50
2. Question
You are managing a software development project with a set of preplanned milestones. Your team has completed all milestones and you are now verifying that the product meets the specifications outlined in the project management plan. What process group are you currently in?
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Question 3 of 50
3. Question
Your construction project is located in an area which is prone to overnight burglaries. Since this is a problem that you cannot solve it, your project team has decided to do nothing for this risk other than just taking out an insurance policy. Which type of risk response planning is this?
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Question 4 of 50
4. Question
For the first time in your career you are assigned as the manager of a project with 250 stakeholders. You have never dealt with this number of stakeholders in a project. What would be your best course of action in this situation?
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Question 5 of 50
5. Question
In which one of the following organizations does the project manager have more power?
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Question 6 of 50
6. Question
Tom is managing a project that was contracted on a time and material basis and during the project execution he finds that some of the tasks have been taking less time than planned. On average each team member has required only 25 hours to accomplish work which was planned for 37.5 hours during the week. What is the best thing that Tom can do in this situation?
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Question 7 of 50
7. Question
Which structured technique in the Manage Quality process involves finding a long-lasting solution for a discovered issue?
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Question 8 of 50
8. Question
Your team is currently in the process of controlling and verifying the quality of the deliverables on your project. Which TWO tools would they not be utilizing to accomplish this?
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Question 9 of 50
9. Question
As the project manager of a manufacturing facility construction project, you have needed to estimate certain activity durations before all project team members were acquired. During the acquisition of the project team, you find that the actual competency levels of the team members are much lower than what you had anticipated when you were estimating the activity durations. What would be the best course of action in this situation?
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Question 10 of 50
10. Question
Your company’s vice president just informed your division that it would be utilizing a change-driven Agile project delivery method going forward for all new projects. Which quality may negatively impact the success of this initiative?
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Question 11 of 50
11. Question
You are currently implementing the risk management process of your project. There are a number of risks that have been identified in your project, however the team has elected not to change the project plan to deal with the risk, but they have established a contingency reserve in the event that some of these risks are triggered. This is an example of what type of risk mitigation technique?
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Question 12 of 50
12. Question
On a control chart, a source of variation that is intermittent, not inherent in the system, and is not predictable is known as:
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Question 13 of 50
13. Question
You are in the process of closing your project and you are looking at different documents which you have in your archive as the project manager. There is an untitled document in which throughout various project meetings you have documented differences in opinion, situations to be investigated, and emerging or unanticipated responsibilities. If you want to pick a title for this document, which one of the following it would be?
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Question 14 of 50
14. Question
You are going to start your fifth project as the manager at your company. From your past experience, you know that one of the stakeholders has always made a lot of changes in the projects. What would be your best approach to manage this particular stakeholder in the beginning of the project?
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Question 15 of 50
15. Question
Large fluctuations in the periodic expenditure of funds are undesirable for organizational operations. Therefore, the expenditure of funds is frequently reconciled with the disbursement of funds for the project. This is known as:
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Question 16 of 50
16. Question
Drag and drop the sort elements to match the descriptions with the leadership styles.
Sort elements
- Empowers, encourages, and inspires.
- Performance focused. Goal and objective-oriented.
- Leads through empowerment and coaching. The focus is on relationships and collaboration.
- Allows team to make their own decisions.
- Combines transactional, transformational, and charismatic qualities to suit the group dynamics.
- Energetic and passionate about convictions but may be motivated by personal goals.
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Transformational
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Transactional
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Servant−Leader
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Laissez−faire
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Interactional
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Charismatic
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Question 17 of 50
17. Question
You are working on a project where a negative risk has occurred. However, you have no contingency plan for this risk. You call a meeting and a solution is devised to change the workflow until a permanent solution can be implemented. This is an example of?
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Question 18 of 50
18. Question
The project sponsor gives you a project charter and asks you to start working on the project immediately and to provide him with a schedule. What should you do first?
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Question 19 of 50
19. Question
Your project is running slightly over budget. You mention this to another project manager, who suggests you shift some of your expenses to indirect costs that are not charged to your project budget. What do you do?
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Question 20 of 50
20. Question
What is the last thing that should be done in the Close Project process?
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Question 21 of 50
21. Question
Which is a technique that the project manager can use during the Implement Risk Response process to enable action when those who are responsible for executing the risk response are outside of the project team?
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Question 22 of 50
22. Question
As a project manager in the middle of project execution you realize that completing the project will take longer than the original plan. What is the best course of action to take?
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Question 23 of 50
23. Question
Yesterday you met with the customer on your current project and presented the progress on the deliverables for the new widget you are building them. Unfortunately, they were disappointed with what they saw and remarked that what was being built was not exactly what they asked for. They asked you to rectify it, and since it was your mistake, they would not expect the schedule or budget to be impacted.
You are not clear why there were crossed signals since everything had been signed off on until now. What should you do next?
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Question 24 of 50
24. Question
All of the following statements regarding a project manager are correct, EXCEPT which one?
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Question 25 of 50
25. Question
As a project manager you work under the supervision of a project division director who oversees several other projects. During a company meeting you are present when your manager is presenting a status report of all the projects being run in his division. He reports that all projects are within budget and none of them is behind the schedule. However, you know that your status reports for the last several weeks have been reporting a delay in the schedule. What do you do in this situation?
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Question 26 of 50
26. Question
You are preparing for your meeting with the customer so they can validate the work done so far. What do you need to ensure is ready and completed before the meeting begins?
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Question 27 of 50
27. Question
You are manager of a sports complex construction project. During the planning phase of the project one of the team members who is asked to prepare activity duration estimates sends you an email including duration estimates for two activities as follows: Activity A: 15 days + a lag of 4 days; Activity B: 1 month + a lead of 2 weeks. What would be your possible objection to these estimates?
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Question 28 of 50
28. Question
You are close to the project’s end when a group of stakeholders demands that some requirements be changed now that they see what the impact will be. This is obviously a problem because you have not accounted for the time and cost of these requirements in the project’s original plans. What is the best thing to do to prevent such problems in the future?
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Question 29 of 50
29. Question
Tom, as the project manager, is in the middle of project execution when his boss tells him that he should release one of his team members for another project. Assuming that all of his project resources have similar capabilities and each resource is working on only one activity at a time, which activity would be impacted the least if that resource were released?
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Question 30 of 50
30. Question
You are a software development project manager and most of your team members operate from remote locations without the benefit of face-to-face contact. One of your major concerns is to build trust among the team members. Which of the following will help you the most in doing so?
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Question 31 of 50
31. Question
A colleague of yours who is currently managing a project is retiring and you are going to be his substitute. During the handover meetings he tells you that the project is on schedule and within budget, but only because he has pushed the project team so hard. What should be your first course of action?
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Question 32 of 50
32. Question
Which conflict resolution method does not have long-term effects?
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Question 33 of 50
33. Question
You are going to be a construction project manager to build a new pharmaceutical plant. The project requires that governmental hearings about the end product of the plant be held prior to site preparation. What kind of a dependency is this?
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Question 34 of 50
34. Question
You are managing a construction project. After you have created the schedule performance baseline, your project customer, which is external to your company, approaches you about adding some new items to the project scope. You will ask the customer to issue which one of the following documents?
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Question 35 of 50
35. Question
When are risk identification activities performed?
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Question 36 of 50
36. Question
You are the project manager for the production of a commercial complex construction project. You have completed the Define Scope process for your project. Which of the following may be generated through this process?
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Question 37 of 50
37. Question
As the manager of an IT project, you have utilized 360-degree feedback techniques for your information gathering and are in the process of giving formal feedback to team members. You will be setting specific goals for employees for the remainder of the project. Which technique are you utilizing?
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Question 38 of 50
38. Question
You are managing a software development project budgeted at $360,000 according to the earned value analysis report which you have on your desk. As of today you have spent $110,000 and the earned value is $120,000. However, according to the project schedule you should have spent $150,000. Which one of the following options best describes your project status?
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Question 39 of 50
39. Question
Which of the following organizational types has many features of a functional organization and gives the project manager more of a coordinator or expeditor role than a manager?
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Question 40 of 50
40. Question
You are managing a multi-disciplinary project when the functional manager of a project resource responsible for a critical path task informs you that the resource will be out on sick leave for the next two weeks. There will be a day to day slip on the project until the resource returns, as there is not an alternative resource that can be used. What do you do?
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Question 41 of 50
41. Question
Your project has completed and the final deliverables have already been sent to the customer, but the customer refuses to give the project final acceptance. What would you do in this situation?
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Question 42 of 50
42. Question
You are explaining resource leveling to one of your team members. You can tell any of the following statements about resource leveling, EXCEPT?
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Question 43 of 50
43. Question
You are managing a project for a customer that has offered an incentive for meeting all deadlines. At this time, the project is running on a compressed schedule, but is continuing to have regular quality meetings to ensure the output of the project meets the customer’s requirements. Your manager, however, is concerned that the meetings will cause further project delays and missed deadlines, which will in turn result in the loss of potential incentive payments. He insists that the meetings be stopped immediately and that all project effort be focused on making on-time deliveries. What do you do?
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Question 44 of 50
44. Question
As a senior project manager you have been assigned as mentor for a newly hired junior project manager. You want to explain where the control limits are located on a control chart. Which option will you tell him?
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Question 45 of 50
45. Question
Place the following actions in the correct sequence for what to do when a change is requested by the customer. Drag and drop the actions to sort them first to last.
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Submit a change request
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Communicate the status of the change to relevant stakeholders
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Perform the Integrated Change Control Process
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Update the project management plan and project documents
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Document the change and analyze it for feasibility
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Determine the costs and benefits of the change
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Question 46 of 50
46. Question
Your company has an emergency and needs contracted work done as soon as possible. Under these circumstances, which of the following would be the helpful to add to the contract?
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Question 47 of 50
47. Question
As a new project manager in the company, you have been sent to a training course. During the course you hear the instructor using the expression “halo effect”. You don’t understand the expression and ask from the instructor about the meaning. He explains that “halo effect” refers to the tendency to:
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Question 48 of 50
48. Question
During the Sequence Activities process, your project team has identified several dependencies to a few related projects that will provide major and critical deliverables to your project. Some of those projects are very similar to your project in terms of their scope and deliverables. In this situation, which of the following processes you should be most concerned about?
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Question 49 of 50
49. Question
As the project manager you are in the middle of the project execution phase when a team member informs you of a cost overrun on a specific work package. What should be your first action in this situation?
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Question 50 of 50
50. Question
You are going to be hired in a company as a project manager, but you are told in the first interview that according to your capabilities, you will be given a coordinator or expeditor role. How is a project expeditor role different from a project coordinator role?
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