PMP® Exam Practice Test

1. You are the project manager for a new training program at your customer’s site. This program will require each of the customer’s employees to attend the half-day class and complete an assessment exam. You will be completing the training at the customer’s facility, and will need a trainer for the duration of the training, which is six months. This is an example of which of the following?

2. You are a project manager taking over a project midway. The project is in the execution stage. You would like to know more about the project deliverables, work required to complete those deliverables, project constraints, assumptions, etc. Which of the following documents would be most useful?

3. As a project manager, you have decided that each team member will report progress by effort and cost expended. After collecting this information at the status meeting, you review it; perform an analysis discovering that the project is within budget, and on schedule. What should you do next with the results of your analysis?

4. A project manager realizes that a lot of time and effort is spent by his team in capturing the data during product testing. The best option to address the issue is:

5. Project managers can present project information in many different ways. Which one of the following is not a method a project manager can use to present project performance?

6. You are the project manager for your organisation. You and your project team are in conflict on the amount of time allotted to complete certain activities. Several of the team members want to bloat the time associated with activities to ensure they will have enough time to complete their tasks should something go awry. The law of economics that these tasks may suffer from is which one of the following?

7. Your company has just been awarded the contract for an important research project. The CEO of your company has asked you, as the project manager, to create the project charter and send it to her so that she can review and approve it. To create the project charter, you need the project’s statement of work (SOW). What should you do?

8. A project manager is proactively managing a requested change through the scope control process. Which of the following should he be most worried about?

9. You are the project manager for the LKH Project. Management has requested that you create a document detailing what information will be expected from stakeholders and to whom that information will be disseminated. Management is asking for which one of the following?

10. You are managing a project in Alaska to extend an existing oil pipeline, and you are about to start project planning. Due to the large size of the project along with the regulatory and environmental considerations, the development of a detailed project management plan will be critical. As a starting point for initial project planning, what is the first thing you should do?

11. A project manager is in the final closure phase of the project. Which of the following should he do first as part of the project closure activity?

12. The customers of the project have requested additions to the project scope. The project manager brings notice that additional risk planning will need to be added to the project schedule. Why?

13. You are a project manager for a large manufacturer. Your current project is to create a new manufacturing assembly line that will allow your organisation to create its products with less downtime and faster turnaround time for its clients. A stakeholder has presented a change request for your project which will likely increase the cost and time needed to complete the project. All of the following components are not part of the Change Control System except for which one?

14. A project manager, who works in a weak matrix organization, has a role of communication coordinator and has little power to make decisions. He reports to a high level manager. He is probably fulfilling the role of a:

15. You are assigned as a project manager to a project that is in execution stage. Current schedule and performance indices for the project, SPI and CPI, are 1.12 and 1.15. The project performance is well within the baseline. The defects found during internal testing for the last deliverable were well below the organizational limits. However, the customer doesn’t seem to be happy with the project progress. What should the project manager do first?

16. A project manager has invited key stakeholders and team members for the first project meeting. The agenda of the meeting is to announce the start of the project, outline the project goals and objectives, as well as communicate the project success criteria. The project manager also plans to discuss the individual roles and responsibilities, along with the commitment of the stakeholders. What is this activity called?

17. During project execution activities, a project sponsor’s role in a functional organisation can best be described as doing which one of the following?

18. Which one of the following best describes the risk register?

19. A memo has been sent to you, the project manager, project team members, and the project customers from the project sponsor. In this instance, who is the encoder?

20. A project manager is studying the project contract along with the narrative description of products and services to be supplied under that contract. He is also meeting key stakeholders and subject matter experts to evaluate whether or not the project is worth the required investment. Which of the following documents would be created as an output of the process?