PMP Practice Questions

You are managing a bridge construction project and have just completed developing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) with your team. Each work package has been defined and assigned a unique identifier. A team member asks what the lowest level of the WBS represents. How should you respond?

September 24, 2026

Your manufacturing project has a budget of $500,000 and is scheduled to last 10 months. You are currently at the end of month 4. According to the project management plan, you should have spent $200,000 by now, but you have actually spent $180,000. The value of the work completed is $190,000. What is the Cost Variance (CV) for this project?

September 24, 2026

You are managing a government infrastructure project with strict documentation requirements. During a planning meeting, a stakeholder questions why you need to document lessons learned throughout the project rather than just at the end. The stakeholder is concerned about the additional administrative burden. What is the primary benefit of documenting lessons learned throughout the project lifecycle?

September 24, 2026

You are leading a software development project using a predictive approach. The project sponsor has approved the project charter, and you are now ready to begin detailed planning. Your next step is to gather requirements from stakeholders to understand what the software must accomplish. Which process group are you currently working in?

September 24, 2026

You are managing a construction project to build a new office facility. During project planning, you identify that concrete foundation work cannot begin until the excavation is complete and inspected. The concrete must cure for 7 days before framing can start. You need to document these relationships in your project schedule. What type of dependency exists between excavation and foundation work?

September 24, 2026

A project team is using a hybrid approach where high-level milestones and deliverables were defined upfront, but the team uses two-week sprints to deliver increments. At the end of each sprint, the team holds a review session with stakeholders. A key stakeholder has missed the last three sprint reviews and is now complaining that the project is not meeting their expectations. What should the project manager do?

September 18, 2026

A hybrid project has a fixed budget approved by the steering committee, but features are being delivered iteratively based on business value. After completing 40% of the planned iterations, the project has spent 50% of the budget due to higher than expected infrastructure costs. The remaining features in the backlog are all considered high priority by stakeholders. What should the project manager do next?

September 18, 2026

A project manager is leading a hybrid project where the design phase was completed using a predictive approach, and now the team is moving into iterative development sprints. Several team members who were not involved in the design phase are confused about the project requirements. Velocity has been lower than expected in the first sprint. What should the project manager do?

September 18, 2026

A project team is using a hybrid approach where requirements are gathered upfront but development is executed in two-week sprints. The product owner has just requested a new feature that was not in the original project scope. The team has completed three sprints and has five more planned. What should the project manager do first?

September 18, 2026

A software development project is using a hybrid approach with a defined budget and timeline, but iterative delivery of features. During the third iteration, the team discovers that a core architectural component needs to be redesigned, which will impact the overall project schedule. The project sponsor is concerned about meeting the fixed deadline. What is the best way for the project manager to address this situation?

September 18, 2026

Your agile team has completed a two-week sprint and is preparing for the sprint retrospective. This is the team's first retrospective, and some team members are unclear about the purpose of the meeting. One developer asks why they need to have a retrospective when they already completed a sprint review with stakeholders. How should you explain the PRIMARY purpose of the sprint retrospective?

August 28, 2026

Your team is working on an e-commerce platform using Kanban. The team has a board with columns: To Do, In Progress, Code Review, Testing, and Done. The team notices that work items are piling up in the Code Review column, and the flow of work has slowed significantly. What is the BEST action the team should take to address this bottleneck?

August 28, 2026

You are facilitating a daily standup for your agile development team. One team member begins explaining in detail the technical solution they are implementing and starts discussing code architecture with another developer. The conversation extends beyond 15 minutes, and other team members appear disengaged. As the Scrum Master, what should you do?

August 28, 2026

Your agile team has just completed their third sprint of a mobile app development project. During the sprint review, stakeholders provide feedback and request several changes to features that were demonstrated. The product owner wants to incorporate this feedback. What should the product owner do NEXT with the feedback received during the sprint review?

August 28, 2026

You are managing a software development project using Scrum. During the sprint planning meeting, the development team is estimating user stories for the upcoming sprint. One team member suggests using story points to estimate the relative effort required for each user story. Another team member asks why the team doesn't just estimate in hours instead. What is the PRIMARY benefit of using story points over hours for estimation in an agile project?

August 28, 2026

You are the project manager for an agile marketing campaign development team. During sprint planning, the team has identified 15 user stories they believe they can complete based on their average velocity of 40 story points per sprint. However, two team members will be on vacation for one week during this three-week sprint. The total story points for the 15 stories equal 40. What should the team do?

August 16, 2026

Your organization is transitioning to agile and you are leading your first Scrum project. At the end of the first sprint, the team has completed 80% of the committed user stories, but none of them fully meet the Definition of Done due to incomplete testing. The product owner is pressuring you to accept the stories as done so they can be demonstrated to stakeholders. What should you do?

August 16, 2026

You are facilitating a daily standup for your agile development team. One team member mentions they are blocked because they are waiting for access to a testing environment that requires approval from the IT security team. This is the third day this issue has been raised. The team member asks what they should work on while waiting. What should you do as the Scrum Master or agile project leader?

August 16, 2026

Your agile team is planning their next iteration. During the planning session, team members are estimating user stories using story points. A new developer on the team asks why the team uses story points instead of estimating in hours or days. The team lead explains that story points help with relative sizing. What is the primary benefit of using story points for estimation in agile projects?

August 16, 2026

You are managing a software development project using Scrum. The team has just completed their second sprint and the product owner wants to see what has been developed. Several features have been coded and unit tested, but integration testing is still pending. The product owner asks when they can review the completed work. What should you do?

August 16, 2026

A hybrid project has completed three sprints for its software component while the predictive infrastructure component is progressing through its execution phase. The project sponsor asks for a progress report to present to the steering committee. The sponsor wants to understand overall project status in a clear, unified way. What should the project manager provide?

August 13, 2026

A project manager is overseeing a hybrid project where regulatory compliance work follows a waterfall approach and customer-facing features follow Scrum. During a sprint review, stakeholders request adding a new compliance requirement that affects both components. The compliance work requires detailed documentation and formal approval, while the Scrum team prefers to add items directly to their backlog. What is the best approach to manage this change?

August 13, 2026

A product owner for a hybrid project needs to create requirements documentation. The project includes both a predictive hardware development phase and an agile software development phase. The hardware specifications must be finalized before manufacturing begins, while the software features will evolve based on user feedback. How should the project manager guide the product owner in documenting requirements?

August 13, 2026

A project manager is leading a hybrid project where the infrastructure component follows a predictive approach and the software development follows an agile approach. The infrastructure team has just completed their foundation work ahead of schedule, which was a prerequisite for the software team to begin their first iteration. The software team lead asks how they should proceed with planning their upcoming sprint. What should the project manager recommend?

August 13, 2026

A project team is planning a hybrid project where hardware procurement will follow a predictive approach with fixed contracts, and software configuration will follow Scrum with two-week sprints. The project manager needs to plan how the two components will integrate. The hardware delivery is scheduled for month 3, and software sprints will begin in month 1. What integration approach should the project manager establish?

August 13, 2026