Free PMP® practice questions, fully explained.

During a sprint, an agile development team is blocked because a third-party API they depend on is unavailable, and they cannot complete a committed story. As the team's servant leader, what should you do first?

A project manager leads a team distributed across several time zones. Some members rarely contribute during video meetings, and the project manager suspects scheduling and communication barriers are the cause. What should the project manager do?

Midway through a project, the project manager realizes a recently added team member lacks a technical skill required for upcoming work, which threatens the schedule. What is the most appropriate first step?

Several team members show signs of fatigue and declining morale after weeks of sustained overtime to meet an aggressive deadline. What is the best course of action for the project manager?

A normally engaged, high-performing team member has become withdrawn and is missing commitments, and the project manager is unsure why. What should the project manager do first?

A newly formed project team is experiencing friction over basic working practices: members arrive late to meetings, interrupt one another, and disagree about how quickly messages should be answered. What should the project manager do?

A few weeks after a project team is assembled, members who were initially polite begin openly challenging each other's ideas and questioning how the work is divided. Productivity has dipped. What is the project manager's best response?

A junior team member tells the project manager they want to grow into a project leadership role and asks for guidance. The project manager has capacity to help. What is the most appropriate approach?

During a tense meeting about a missed milestone, a stakeholder criticizes the project manager's competence in front of the team. The project manager notices their own anger rising. What should the project manager do?

A new team member joins a fully remote project team. After several weeks they contribute little and report feeling disconnected from the rest of the team. What should the project manager do?

On a predictive project, an influential stakeholder asks the project manager to add a significant new feature that was not in the approved scope. What should the project manager do?

A project's requirements are not well understood and are expected to change significantly as stakeholders see early results, and stakeholders also want to begin realizing value as soon as possible. Which development approach is most appropriate?

Several stakeholders complain that they are receiving either too much or too little project information, and not in a useful format. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is assigned to a new project but finds there is no clear statement of the project's objectives, high-level scope, or authority. What should the project manager do first?

During execution, a team member identifies a potential supply constraint that could delay a future activity. The risk was not identified during planning. What should the project manager do?

A critical test environment has gone offline and the team cannot proceed with validation work today. How should the project manager treat this?

A project manager plans to hold a single lessons learned session at the end of a two-year project. A team member questions this approach. What is the better practice?

Late in execution, a regulatory affairs group the project manager was unaware of raises concerns that could affect the final deliverable. What should the project manager do first?

A team using a kanban board has many items in progress but very few reaching completion, and cycle time is increasing. What is the most appropriate action?

A project needs a specialized component. The organization could build it internally, but doing so would require hiring and training staff for a capability it will not need after this project. What analysis should guide the decision?

While planning a project, the project manager discovers that part of the planned solution would not meet a mandatory industry regulation that applies to the organization. What should the project manager do?

Partway through a project, a shift in the market significantly weakens the business case that originally justified the project. What should the project manager do?

An organization is launching its first project in a country where it has never operated. The project manager is experienced but unfamiliar with the local legal and regulatory landscape. What should the project manager do during planning?

A project delivered all of its scope on schedule and within budget, and the deliverable has been handed over to operations. The sponsor asks the project manager how the organization will know whether the expected benefits are actually achieved. What is the best answer?

A new system that will noticeably change how a department does its daily work is scheduled to go live in a few weeks. So far, the affected staff have not been told what is coming or how it will affect them. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is beginning compliance planning for a new project. What is the most effective first step?

Throughout a regulated project, the project manager wants to be able to demonstrate later that each compliance obligation was met. What should the project manager do?

A sponsor asks the project manager to distinguish the project's deliverables from its benefits. Which of the following describes a benefit rather than a deliverable?

Partway through a project, the project manager is repeatedly asked to make trade-off decisions between competing options. What should the project manager use as the primary reference for judging which option best serves the organization?

Which of the following is an external business environment change that a project manager should be monitoring for its potential impact on the project?

At initiation, the project manager assessed the external regulatory and market environment and found no concerns. How should the external environment be treated for the rest of the project?

A project will introduce a significant new way of working across several teams. Which factor most strongly supports successful adoption of the change?