PMP sample questions

7 March 2018.

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Often arises on our programmes the question from our participants: when is the best time to take the exam? In all cases, the answer is always: after a proper exam routine and after having mastered the theoretical side. The right exam routine can be achieved through a lot of practice, which in our experience can be achieved by solving and evaluating around 1,500 test questions. As the quality of the free and paid test questions on the Internet varies, in this post we have collected 20 sample questions that may be similar to those you may encounter in the PMP exam. Solving the sample test below can help you decide whether you are ready for the exam or not.

1. You are the project manager of a time-sheet tool development project. The project was chartered to develop and implement a new tool that will support the staff assigned on projects. The purpose of the project is to decrease the time required to document charged hours on organizational projects. After implementing the solution you know the tool was delivered on time and under budget, but according to the organizational policy, you need to perform a post-evaluation as well. After successful data gathering you know that the new weekly average administration time is 10 minutes for each project member. Which of the following document should you use at this point to evaluate whether the project reached its purpose or not?

Scope management plan

Benefits management plan

Final report

Work Breakdown Structure

2. As a project manager you are managing a training management system development project. You have a path (path "A") whose duration is close to the critical path (path "B"). All the other paths (path "C", "D" and "E") have considerable floats. You need to assign resources to activities. You have a four experienced and six relatively inexperienced team members who are all capable of performing all the activities. What would be the best course of action of the following while assigning the team members to activities based on the information above?

Assign all the experienced team members on path "B" and the inexperienced on the other paths.

Since the team members are capable of performing the activities, it is irrelevant how you assign them.

Split the experienced team members between path "A" and "B" and assign the inexperienced team members on "C", "D" and "E".

Assign all the experienced team members on path "A", "C", "D" and "E" and the inexperienced on "B".

3. You are managing a project that works with short iterations. There is confusion about your role within the team, as you seem to be more of a coach than a manager. You explain the team, that your tasks include removing impediments, roadblocks and other hindering items from their environment. Your job also includes providing for the team's needs. This is also described as which of the following?

Agile leadership

scrum master

Project leadership

Servant leadership

4. What is the difference between facilitated workshops and focus groups?

Focus groups bring prequalified stakeholders together, workshops are cross-functional.

Focus groups are generally used during identifying risks, workshops are used during the collect requirements process.

Workshops need a trained moderator, focus groups do not.

Nothing, they are the same.

During an estimation session you determine three scenarios for an activity: optimistic (tO)= 8 weeks, most likely (tM)= 9 weeks, pessimistic (tP)= 14 weeks. According to the internal project management policy, you need to use the three point estimation based on triangular distribution. What is the calculated expected activity duration?

11 weeks

9.66 weeks

10.33 weeks

9 weeks

6. An activity in you network diagram has the following characteristics: ES= 16; EF= 23; LF= 28. What is the LS of the activity?

It is not definable without the network diagram.

7. Top down cost estimating...

can only be used during the creation of the project charter.

uses the actual cost of previous, similar projects as the basis of estimating the project costs.

uses statistical relationship between relevant historical data and other variables to calculate cost estimation for a project work.

is used by decomposition and detailed estimation.

8. You are the project manager of a construction project. You need to perform a communication analysis to plan the communications management. According to the organizational chart you have 3 team leaders and every team leader coordinates 5 team members. The project is supported by three external subject matter experts (SMEs), a sponsor and one representative of the customer who suggests increasing the number of the SMEs by two. If you accept the suggestion, how many more communication channels will you add?

9. As a project manager, you have identified and analysed risks with your team. You decided to mitigate a risk from your register and the planned action has a cost of 1.200 USD. Which of the following is true in this situation?

The 1.200 USD is considered as an element of the management reserve.

The 1.200 USD is considered as an element of the activity cost estimates.

The 1.200 USD is considered as an element of the contingency reserve.

The 1.200 USD is considered as an indirect, variable cost.

10. You are participating in a project that uses an agile approach. Which of the following is true about agile release planning?

Agile release planning is performed on four levels: iteration level, release level, detailed level and product vision level.

Release plan determines the number of iterations for a specific release.

Product vision determines the number of iterations for a specific release.

Iteration plan determines the number of iterations for a specific release.

11. Which of the following situation is not considered as "out of control" according to the control chart?

5 consecutive measurement values below the mean

A measurement value beyond the upper control limit

A measurement value beyond the upper control limit provided by a supplier

Rule of seven

12. Which of the following is not part of the resource management plan?

Roles and responsibilities.

Types and quantities of resources required for each work package.

Training strategies and methods for developing the project team.

Methods for identifying and quantifying team and physical resources needed.

13. As a project manager you decided to collect proposals from several companies for a part of the project work. Before creating the RFPs, you selected a DBB delivery method. Which of the following is true?

DBB means creating a procurement statement of work is not required.

DBB means contracting separate entities for each the design and construction part of the project.

DBB means you will only have to contact the design builder for any project questions or concerns.

DBB is part of the source selection criteria.

14. As a project manager, you are using a classification model for stakeholders' analysis that categorizes the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their level or concern regarding the project outcomes. What is the name of this tool or technique?

Power-influence grid

Power-interest grid

Influence-impact grid

Salience model

15. Agile and adaptive approaches track and review progress and performance by maintaining the...

critical path of the project.

backlog.

WBS.

project network diagram.

16. As a project manager you have to following data during execution: BAC=200.000; PV=100.000; AC=120.000; EV=80.000. You are assuming that the future work will be performed at the budgeted rate. What is the estimate at completion in this case?

240.000

260.000

300.000

280.000

17. As a project manager you have 14 team members and a vendor responsible for delivering a part of the work. You are ahead of schedule, the project duration is 9 months according to the plans. The vendor informs you their delivery is going to be delayed by 2 weeks. When you check the project management plan and the schedule baseline, you analyse the situation. Based on your analysis by moving activities you see that there would be no impact to the performance measurement baseline. What should be your next action in this situation?

Perform the rescheduled activities since there is no impact to the performance measurement baseline.

Crash the project by allocating resources to the vendor.

Analyse the impact to the triple constraints and submit a change request.

Create a change request and submit it to the CCB.

When collecting the requirements you see that the stakeholders cannot specify their requirements. You decided to obtain early feedback on requirements by providing a working model before building the product, that will be discarded after confirmation. This is called...

Throwaway prototype

Low fidelity prototype

Storyboard

Wireframe

19. Functional and nonfunctional requirements are called...

Business requirements

Stakeholder requirements

Solution requirements

Transition requirements

20. Before closing the project a team member informs you that he thinks adding a new feature to the product would be reasonable and the users would appreciate it. According to his analysis the work can be performed in 4 hours. What would be the best course of action from the following in this situation?

Tell the team member not to add the feature because this would be a scope creep.

Tell the team member to add the feature to increase customer satisfaction.

Tell the team member to add the feature, but make sure he can add the feature in 4 hours.

Tell the team member not to add the feature because this would be gold plating.

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