Practice Questions
PMP Practice Questions
Scenario-based questions aligned with the 2026 PMP Exam Content Outline. All questions reviewed by a certified PMP before publishing.
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Your agile project to modernize a healthcare claims processing system has been running for five months with three-week sprints. The team has been successfully delivering functional increments, but you discover that the compliance officer has not been reviewing any deliverables because they were not included in sprint reviews. A regulatory audit is scheduled in six weeks, and the compliance officer now states that three completed features do not meet HIPAA requirements and cannot be deployed. The product owner is frustrated because compliance requirements were not in the original user stories. Rework will take approximately four sprints. What should be your primary focus to address this situation?
July 2, 2026
Your distributed agile team spans three time zones with six developers in India, four in Poland, and three in the United States. After six sprints, retrospective data shows that defect rates have increased by 40% and the team reports frustration with asynchronous communication. Most collaboration happens through written messages, and the daily standup rotates times weekly to accommodate all zones, resulting in inconvenient hours for different team members each week. Despite using collaborative tools, integration issues are discovered late. Team morale is declining. What structural change would most effectively address these delivery and collaboration challenges?
July 2, 2026
During a portfolio planning session, your organization has identified eight high-value initiatives for the next quarter, but only has capacity for five teams. The product owners are present and have sized their initiatives using story points. Three initiatives are strategic bets with uncertain outcomes, while five have clear customer demand and proven business cases. The CFO wants to maximize ROI by selecting the five safest initiatives. The CTO argues for including at least two strategic bets to drive innovation. As the agile practice lead, you need to recommend a portfolio approach. Which recommendation best applies agile principles to this portfolio decision?
July 2, 2026
You are leading an agile transformation for a financial services organization. After four months, three of your five scrum teams have adapted well, but two teams continue to struggle with completing their sprint commitments. Analysis shows these teams have significant dependencies on a legacy system team that works in two-week cycles but doesn't use agile practices. The legacy team cannot attend daily standups or sprint ceremonies due to their own schedule. This dependency causes delays in 60% of the struggling teams' stories. Senior management is pressuring you to show improved velocity metrics. What is the most effective approach to address this systemic impediment?
July 2, 2026
Your agile team has been working on a mobile banking application for three sprints. During the current sprint review, the product owner expresses dissatisfaction because the authentication feature doesn't match their vision, even though it meets all acceptance criteria that were discussed during sprint planning. The team completed all committed stories and the feature is technically sound. Several stakeholders at the review agree with the product owner's concerns. The product owner wants to reject the story and have it reworked immediately. What should you do first?
July 2, 2026
You are facilitating a sprint planning meeting for a three-week sprint. The product owner has presented the prioritized product backlog, and the team is discussing which user stories to commit to. One experienced developer suggests committing to 15 user stories, saying the team completed 12 last sprint and should push themselves. However, two team members will be on vacation for one week during this sprint. What should you do?
June 26, 2026
Your agile team has completed a sprint and is conducting a sprint review with stakeholders. During the review, a key stakeholder sees the working software for the first time and requests significant changes to the user interface, saying it doesn't match their expectations. The team completed all committed user stories and met the acceptance criteria as originally defined. The stakeholder insists these changes must be made immediately. How should you respond?
June 26, 2026
You are managing an agile software development project. The product owner has created a product backlog with 50 user stories but hasn't prioritized them yet. The development team is ready to start their first sprint planning meeting tomorrow. The product owner asks you what preparation is needed before the sprint planning session. What is the most important thing the product owner should do?
June 26, 2026
Your agile team is working on a website redesign project for a retail client. During the daily standup, one developer mentions she is blocked because she's waiting for design assets from the UI/UX designer, who is working on another high-priority task. The developer has been blocked for two days. The team has a sprint goal to complete three user stories by the end of the week. What should you do first as the Scrum Master?
June 26, 2026
You are leading an agile project to develop a mobile banking application. The team has just completed their second sprint and is preparing for the sprint retrospective. Several team members have mentioned challenges with the current definition of done, which seems unclear for certain user stories. As the project manager, you want to ensure the retrospective is productive and leads to actionable improvements. What should be the primary focus of this retrospective meeting?
June 26, 2026
You are managing a hybrid project for developing a medical device, where regulatory compliance work follows a waterfall approach with formal documentation and sign-offs, while the user interface development uses Kanban. The regulatory team has just completed validation protocols that must be signed by the quality assurance director before UI testing can begin. However, the QA director is unexpectedly on medical leave for two weeks, and the UI team has already completed their work and is ready to begin testing. The QA director's delegate can review documents but doesn't have signature authority. What is the best approach?
June 26, 2026
Your organization is transitioning to hybrid project management. You are managing a project where requirements gathering and architecture design follow a plan-driven approach, while development and testing use Scrum with two-week sprints. After three sprints, the cumulative flow diagram shows that completed story points are consistently 20% below the planned velocity, while the predictive architecture work is on schedule. Stakeholders are concerned about meeting the final delivery date. What should be your primary focus?
June 26, 2026
You are leading a hybrid project where the design phase follows a predictive approach with fixed milestones, while implementation uses iterative delivery. During the third implementation iteration, the team discovers that a design assumption documented in the approved design specification is technically infeasible. Implementing the original design would require significant rework. The design phase gate was formally closed two months ago. How should you proceed?
June 26, 2026
Your hybrid project uses a predictive approach for hardware procurement and an adaptive approach for software development. During a sprint review, stakeholders request a significant feature enhancement that would require additional hardware components with a 10-week lead time. The current sprint has three weeks remaining, and four more sprints are planned. The product owner wants to add this feature to the product backlog immediately. What is the most appropriate action?
June 26, 2026
You are managing a hybrid project for a financial services company where the infrastructure team uses predictive methods while the application development team uses Scrum. The infrastructure team has completed their work package on schedule, but the development team needs an additional sprint to integrate a regulatory compliance feature that was just clarified by the legal department. The infrastructure lead is concerned about team members being reassigned if they remain idle. What should you do first?
June 26, 2026
Your agile team is building an e-commerce platform. At the sprint review, the team demonstrates a completed shopping cart feature to stakeholders. The functionality works as specified in the user story, but the product owner notices the user interface colors don't match the company's recently updated brand guidelines, which changed during the sprint. What should happen next?
June 22, 2026
You are facilitating sprint planning for a three-week sprint. The product owner presents the prioritized backlog, and the team begins selecting user stories. After selecting six stories totaling 24 story points, three team members mention they have committed to attending a mandatory company training program that will take them away for three full days during the sprint. What should the team do?
June 22, 2026
During a sprint retrospective for your software development project, team members identify that unclear user story acceptance criteria have caused significant rework in the past three sprints. The team estimates that 30% of their time has been spent redoing work that didn't meet unstated expectations. What should the team do to address this issue?
June 22, 2026
Your agile team is developing a customer relationship management (CRM) system. The product owner has created a prioritized product backlog with 45 user stories. Several stakeholders are asking when specific features will be delivered. The team has completed two sprints, delivering 12 and 11 story points respectively. What is the best way to provide stakeholders with delivery expectations?
June 22, 2026
You are leading an agile project to develop a mobile banking application. The team has just completed Sprint Planning and committed to delivering eight user stories in the upcoming two-week sprint. During the daily standup on day three, a developer mentions that one of the stories is taking much longer than estimated and may not be completed. What should you do first?
June 22, 2026
You are managing a marketing campaign project using a hybrid approach. The creative content development uses Scrum sprints, while media buying and placement follow a predictive schedule tied to specific launch dates. During sprint review, stakeholders are extremely pleased with the creative work completed and want to launch two weeks earlier than planned. However, the media buying contracts are already finalized for the original dates, and changing them would incur significant penalties. How should you respond to this request?
June 20, 2026
Your construction project uses a hybrid approach where procurement and permitting follow predictive methods, while interior design selections use an iterative approach with the client. The general contractor has reported that the foundation work (on the predictive critical path) is 15% behind schedule due to weather delays. Meanwhile, the client wants to accelerate the interior design iterations to make faster decisions. The project has a fixed completion date for regulatory reasons. What should be your primary focus?
June 20, 2026
You are leading a healthcare application project using a hybrid methodology. Regulatory compliance requirements are managed through predictive planning with detailed documentation, while user interface features are developed using two-week Scrum sprints. During a retrospective, the development team reports frustration that compliance reviews are creating bottlenecks, as the compliance officer needs five business days to review each increment before it can be released to staging. This delay is impacting the team's ability to get timely feedback. What is the best approach to address this issue?
June 20, 2026
Your organization is implementing a new enterprise software system using a hybrid approach. The infrastructure setup and data migration follow a predictive waterfall model, while feature configuration and user acceptance testing use iterative cycles. You've just completed the second iteration of user testing when stakeholders request a major change to the data migration strategy that would affect already-configured features. The change would improve data quality but requires re-work of completed iterations. How should you handle this request?
June 20, 2026
You are managing a product development project using a hybrid approach where the design phase follows predictive practices while development uses Scrum. During sprint planning for the third development sprint, the team discovers that the design deliverables from the predictive phase are incomplete, missing critical UI specifications needed for the planned user stories. The design team operates on a different schedule and won't complete these specifications for another three weeks. What should you do first?
June 20, 2026