Hi PMP aspirants, welcome to AKVTutorials. Looking for a comprehensive set of PMP practice questions that address the nuances of stakeholder engagement and communication management? Engage stakeholders effectively using our practice questions, addressing communication and stakeholder management nuances crucial for PMP success. In this article, you will get PMP Exam Preparation Course Test 29 Questions With Answer Keys. PMP (Project Management Professional) is a certification offered by PMI (Project Management Institute) to get a skill managing the people, processes, and business priorities of professional projects. The PMP certification holders are called Project Manager who have proven they have project leadership experience and expertise in any way of working.
PMP Exam Practice Questions
PMP Practice Test Question No 1
During execution in a project to build a major road bridge, your team found a major flaw in the technical drawings. On an ad-hoc base, they had to find and implement a workaround to avoid delays and mitigate technical problems. What should you do next?
Option A : Meticulously document the problem and the workaround to create a requested change to the project management plan, which will then be passed to the body responsible for the change control decision.
Option B : The workaround was performed on a technical level only. As long as it does not influence the function of the bridge or the organizational configuration of the project, a change request will not be necessary.
Option C : A retroactive formal change request side is not reasonable. Create some additional documents describing the workaround and sign them by yourself, you can present them during the next regular CCB meeting.
Option D : It is normal in projects that during project execution inconsistencies arise between planning documents and actual implementation. This is no problem as long as the functional status of the product is maintained.
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Answer Keys: YES
Explanation: No
Correct Answer: A
Meticulously document the problem and the workaround to create a requested change to the project management plan, which will then be passed to the body responsible for the change control decision.
PMP Mock Test Question No 2
You recently took over the assignment for a project. The project charter has been developed. What is an appropriate next step for you?
Option A : Develop the risk register.
Option B : Develop the project milestone schedule.
Option C : Develop management plans.
Option D : Get approval for the project management plan.
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Answer Keys: YES
Explanation: No
Correct Answer: C
Develop management plans.
PMP Practice Exam Question No 3
You scheduled a kick-off meeting in order to announce the start of your project, present the plan and develop consensus on it. Another topic will be explanation of each team member’s role. In addition, you planned some time for discussions. You published the agenda of the kick-off meeting some weeks ago to all invited attendees. Now, short term before the event, you receive various cancellations by team members, who say that they cannot join the meeting. But they will be with you when project work will start.
Option A : The kick-off meeting is secondary, you are happy if the team members will do their jobs.
Option B : You should insist on the presence of the team members to the appointed date.
Option C : If you force team members’ presence, they would anyway be distracted by their current
problems.
Option D : It is probably a good idea to reschedule the meeting to a day, when all team members can attend.
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Answer Keys: YES
Explanation: No
Correct Answer: B
You should insist on the presence of the team members to the appointed date.
PMP Mock Exam Question No 4
During a meeting, a discussion came up: To which degree does your project have to be compliant to the processes enumerated in the PMBOK® .Guide? What should be the guiding principle to answer this question?
Option A : The processes are meant as rough guidelines to which a team should only adhere if there is enough consensus.
Option B : The more processes the project team follows, the better the project’s performance will be.
Option C : The project manager must follow all 49 processes for project management without alterations.
Option D : The project team must select appropriate processes required to meet the project requirements.
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Answer Keys: YES
Explanation: No
Correct Answer: D
The project team must select appropriate processes required to meet the project requirements.
Project Management Professional Question No 5
Your project team is complaining that the acceptance criteria of their work result are unclear and ask you to provide clarification with the customer. You arrange a meeting, and several criteria are identified. The product acceptance criteria should now be laid down in which documents? (Choose 2)
Option A : Project scope statement
Option B : Work breakdown structure
Option C : Resource assignments
Option D : Project scope management plan
Option E :Can addendum to the project contract
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Answer Keys: YES
Explanation: No
Correct Answer: A, E
Project scope statement , Can addendum to the project contract
PMP Certification Prep Question No 6
During project execution you found out that work is often not performed at the right time and in the right order. Deliverables are made by one team member that cannot be processed by another one. This already leads to timely rework and bad morale among team members. Which project management tool is most appropriate to deal with problems like this?
Option A : Organization chart
Option B : RACI matrix
Option C : Communications management plan
Option D : Work authorization system
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Answer Keys: YES
Explanation: No
Correct Answer: D
Work authorization system
PMP Exam Question No 7
Your management is applying the 10 percent solution: It has requested that you reduce the budget for the project which you are currently initiating by 10%. What will this probably mean for your project?
Option A : If the budget is cut by 10%, then the project will have an accompanying degradation of quality by 10%.
Option B : If the project budget is an honest one, then a reduction in budget must be accompanied by a trade-off in either time or performance.
Option C : A 10% reduction in budget will be accompanied by a loss of performance much less than the
target reduction in cost.
Option D : Most projects have “padded” estimates, and the budgetary reduction will force out the padding from the project.
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Answer Keys: YES
Explanation: No
Correct Answer: B
If the project budget is an honest one, then a reduction in budget must be accompanied by a trade-off in either time or performance.
PMP Exam Sample Question No 8
While applying procurement management processes in your project, you identified the need to gain a more objective understanding of sellers’ capabilities in order to rank proposals and develop a negotiating sequence. Which technique may help avoid bias and subjective decisions best?
Option A : Bidder conference
Option B : Weighting system
Option C : Oral contract
Option D : Letter of intent
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Answer Keys: YES
Explanation: No
Correct Answer: B
Weighting system
PMP Exam Practice Question No 9
During code inspection in a major software development project, a project management team identified frequent occurrences of critical programming errors. These errors are scattered across the code and occur without a discernible pattern. Which tool is most likely to help the team identify areas of error concentration in order to develop a prioritized response strategy?
Option A : Check sheet
Option B : Influence diagram
Option C : Decision tree
Option D : Process decision program chart
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Answer Keys: YES
Explanation: No
Correct Answer: A
Check sheet
PMP Certification Exam Question No 10
The term baseline is used in both disciplines project management and configuration management. Which statement is not true?
Option A : Baselines in system configurations are often also referred to as deltas.
Option B : In configuration management, baselines are used to control change.
Option C : Project management baselines are used for performance measurement.
Option D : In project management, baselines help assess variance and trends.
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Answer Keys: YES
Explanation: No
Correct Answer: A
Baselines in system configurations are often also referred to as deltas.
