Project Management Professional (PMP)

10 Sample Questions

Questions
1) While discussing with a colleague, you inform him that you are currently involved in creating, controlling,
verifying and validating deliverables. Additionally, you tell him that you are adapting approved changes
into the projects scope, plans and environment. You are most probably in which process?
a) Monitor & Control Project Work.
b) Create Deliverables.
c) Direct & Manage Project Execution.
d) Control Scope.

2) Two Project Managers debate the definition of progressive elaboration. Project Manager A says that
progressive elaboration means developing in steps, and continuing in increments. Project Manager B says
that progressive elaboration means developing in steps and continuing with decomposition. Who is right?
a) Project Manager A.
b) Project Manager B.
c) Both.
d) None.

3) One of the key suppliers in your project is finally condemned in the court for polluting the environment.
This particular supplier is very important because both the quality as well as the price of their products is
excellent, and your project will be impacted if you stop cooperating with them. What is the way to deal
with this situation?
a) Dont do anything unless you have a better alternative option.
b) Stop as soon as possible any cooperation with that supplier.
c) Try to hide the fact that you are working with this particular stakeholder.
d) Enter into negotiations with that supplier in order to get an even better deal from them in
order to continue the cooperation.

4) The triple constraint includes:

a) Time, Cost, Quality.
b) Cost, Quality, Scope.
c) Cost, Scope, Time.
d) Scope, Quality, Time.

5) What is the duration of the following project?

a) 9
b) 10
c) 12
d) 11

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10 Sample Questions

6) The key features of the Project Management Office (PMO) include all of the following except:
a) A mentoring platform for project managers.
b) Identification and development of project management methodology, best practices and
standards.
c) Centralized management of all company projects.
d) Central coordination of communication management across projects.

7) The Project Director of project DDD has to deal with the following situation: the top management wants a
PM Information System as cheap as possible, the Project Managers want it as feature-rich and easy to use
as possible, while the IT Department want it to be connected to their existing systems as easily as possible.
This situation immediately calls for:
a) Change management.
b) Stakeholder management.
c) Risk management.
d) Integrated change control.

8) During the acceptance tests of a new telephone exchange system, some stakeholders refused to give
acceptance due to the fact that their requirements were not included in the system specification. During
which phase of the project should the stakeholder identification have taken place?
a) Initiation.
b) Planning.
c) Monitoring & Control.
d) Executing.

9) In preparing for a new project, the Project Manager must determine what project management processes
are appropriate to be used. The first thing to do is:
a) Collaborate with the project team.
b) Read the project manual.
c) Study the project management plan.
d) Review lessons learned.

10) Successful project management includes actively managing process interactions to successfully meet:
a) Sponsor, customer and other stakeholder requirements.
b) The project plan.
c) Customer needs, wants and expectations.
d) The projects business case requirements.

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"PMI", "PMBOK Guide", "PMP" "CAPM", "PgMP", "PMI-RMP", "PMI-SP", "PMI-ACP" are registered marks of the
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