PMP Practice Exam – Part 4/8 – 22 Questions with Answers
Practice for the PMP exam with 22 multiple-choice questions. Answer each question before the reveal, then review the explanation to understand the reasoning.
This is Part 4/8 in the CertPunch PMP practice exam series.
Topics covered: scope, schedule, risk, stakeholders, agile delivery, change control, team leadership, and project governance.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:14 Question 1 of 22
01:03 Question 2 of 22
01:48 Question 3 of 22
02:47 Question 4 of 22
03:32 Question 5 of 22
04:20 Question 6 of 22
05:02 Question 7 of 22
05:55 Question 8 of 22
07:02 Question 9 of 22
07:59 Question 10 of 22
08:47 Question 11 of 22
09:55 Question 12 of 22
10:43 Question 13 of 22
11:26 Question 14 of 22
12:12 Question 15 of 22
12:50 Question 16 of 22
13:37 Question 17 of 22
14:41 Question 18 of 22
15:33 Question 19 of 22
16:13 Question 20 of 22
17:05 Question 21 of 22
17:55 Question 22 of 22
What you will practice
- The project team is currently having disagreements about the program and methods they would use to implement…
- The project manager is currently estimating how many programmers will be needed to complete the financial sof…
- While working on a project schedule, the project manager notices that activities A, B, and C all have a durat…
- While monitoring the status of an agile project, what numerical analysis can the project team use to help det…
- The project manager is having a very difficult time collecting the requirements from the customers. The custo…
- The product owner would like to see how much work remains to be done on a project. What would be the best agi…
Answers and explanations
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Q1. The project team is currently having disagreements about the program and methods they would use to implement a few of the features in the product backlog. What role should the agile project manager take during this scenario?
Answer: B. Coach them to a resolution
The agile coach guides the team to resolve disagreements during storming. Directing or delegating undermines self-organization.
Q2. The project manager is currently estimating how many programmers will be needed to complete the financial software upgrade project. What document can the project manager use to determine who is available to work on the project?
Answer: B. Resource calendar
Resource calendar shows resource availability for estimating team needs. Lessons learned register captures project knowledge.
Q3. While working on a project schedule, the project manager notices that activities A, B, and C all have a duration of 4 days. The project manager also notices that activities F and G have a duration of 7 days. Activities A, C, F, and G have…
Answer: A. 0 days
The correct answer proves that any activity on the critical path has zero slack. The rule is that critical path activities have no float, which eliminates all other options.
Q4. While monitoring the status of an agile project, what numerical analysis can the project team use to help determine if the project is on schedule?
Answer: B. Earned value management
The correct answer identifies earned value management as the tool for schedule variance analysis. The trap is distractors related to financial metrics or generic scheduling terms.
Q5. The project manager is having a very difficult time collecting the requirements from the customers. The customers are having a difficult time putting the requirements into logical groupings. What tool can best help them group the requireme…
Answer: D. Affinity Diagram
The correct answer identifies the affinity diagram as the tool for grouping ideas or requirements. The trap is distractors that are outputs or other techniques, not specifically for grouping.
Q6. The product owner would like to see how much work remains to be done on a project. What would be the best agile tool to display this?
Answer: D. Burndown chart
The correct answer identifies the burndown chart as the visual for tracking remaining work. The trap is distractors that show other project metrics, not remaining work.
Q7. You're currently working on a large new building development project. The project team is currently breaking down the deliverables listed in the project scope statement into work that is more manageable. What process best describes this sc…
Answer: C. Create WBS
Create WBS is the process of decomposing deliverables into work packages. Define activities is the next step, breaking work packages down further into individual tasks.
Q8. Project manager Mary was informed by the team that the constant conflicts in the project have slowed down the team so that they are now behind in the work. Mary is not sure what she did wrong while planning the project. She used a RACI cha…
Answer: C. Only one person should be held accountable for an activity when using a RACI chart.
The core principle of a RACI chart is that a single person is accountable for each activity to prevent ambiguity and confusion. Assigning multiple 'Accountable' roles directly creates conflict.
Q9. While planning a project, the project manager is given many requirements that the customers would like to add to the project. Upon further investigation, the project manager decides that a few of the requirements will not be feasible withi…
Answer: A. Project scope statement
The project scope statement explicitly lists the deliverables and, just as importantly, defines what is excluded from the project. This provides a baseline to prevent scope creep.
Q10. The project sponsors have informed the project manager that they would like to be included in the weekly meetings along with the team members. What should the project manager update to include the sponsors in the weekly meetings?
Answer: C. Communication management plan
The communication management plan defines communication requirements, including who receives information, their format, and the frequency. This is the correct document to update for meeting attendance.
Q11. A project manager is having a very difficult time negotiating with a functional manager. The project manager would like to have Peter, the system administrator, work on the project full time, but the functional manager needs Peter full tim…
Answer: D. Compromising
Compromising is a lose-lose approach where both parties give up something to reach a temporary solution. This is different from problem-solving, which aims for a win-win outcome.
Q12. The project team has just assigned costs to all activities on a project. They will now use these costs to find the overall budget of the project. What tool can the project team use to complete this task?
Answer: D. Cost aggregation
Cost aggregation is the process of rolling up individual activity costs to establish a total project budget. It is the final step in the Determine Budget process.
Q13. The project manager is informed that a manager in the finance department has requested to be included in the weekly status updates on the project. What document should the project manager update immediately?
Answer: D. Stakeholder register
The stakeholder register must be updated with the new stakeholder and their communication requirements. Other documents are updated later in the process.
Q14. Over the last three weeks the project team has finally been able to establish a shared vision of what the product would look like when it is complete. This is an example of?
Answer: C. Progressive elaboration
Progressive elaboration is the process of iteratively adding detail to a project plan. A shared vision is an outcome of this process, not a project management method.
Q15. After the iteration has completed, where will the team inspect the methods they used to build that increment?
Answer: D. Retrospective
The retrospective is the event where a team reflects on their process and plans improvements. It is distinct from review or planning meetings.
Q16. While constructing a roof for a large building, the project team has identified the risk of a snowstorm. Due to the region in the country and the time of the year, the team has decided to take no action or preparations for the snowstorm. W…
Answer: B. Acceptance
Acceptance is a risk response strategy where no action is taken. All other options involve active mitigation, avoidance, or enhancement.
Q17. The project manager is working on a new electrical wiring upgrade project for the entire office. Due to safety issues, the project manager cannot move forward with many parts of the project without inspections and permits from the local Bu…
Answer: D. Risk register
Opportunities are documented in the risk register. An assumption log tracks assumptions, and a change request is for approved changes.
Q18. The project manager and the team have worked many hours to calculate the amount of time it will take to conduct each activity. They would like to document some of the assumptions they made and the constraints they may face when the project…
Answer: B. Basis of estimates
Correct answer proves the basis of estimates document details calculation rationale. Distrators trap candidates by naming related but incomplete documents.
Q19. The agile project team has completed the Sprint planning meeting. What would be the output of this meeting?
Answer: D. Sprint backlog
Correct answer proves the sprint backlog is the key output. Distrators trap candidates with similar but incorrect artifacts like product backlog.
Q20. While managing a product development project, the project manager met with the team to determine some of the key tasks that will ensure they produce a high-quality product. What should they consider the most important concept in quality?
Answer: B. Quality is about prevention
Correct answer proves prevention is more important than inspection in quality management. Distrators trap candidates with cost of quality misunderstandings.
Q21. While attempting to determine the schedule for the project, the project manager has been informed from the team that each line of code will take about 15-45 minutes to write and debug. There will be about 1 million lines of code in the app…
Answer: C. Parametric
Parametric estimates use statistical relationships to calculate duration. Analogous and bottom-up are not driven by a unit metric like this.
Q22. While working on a complex software development project, the team is having a difficult time understanding a process used to code a particular report. They find the process to have many different paths and if/then scenarios. They have aske…
Answer: B. Flowchart
A flowchart visually maps steps, decisions, and paths in a process. The other diagrams are for different purposes.
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