50 pmp test Practice Questions: Question Bank 2025

A new stakeholder with high influence joins the project after planning is complete and requests additional reporting. What should the project manager do FIRST?

During a daily standup, two team members argue about the best technical approach and the discussion is consuming the entire meeting. What is the BEST action for the project manager (Scrum Master role) to take?

A project is executing and several deliverables are being produced. The customer asks how they can confirm whether the work being produced matches what was agreed. Which document should the project manager reference?

A team member reports that they are blocked because they do not have access to a required system. What should the project manager do?

A project is behind schedule. The project manager adds additional resources to critical path activities, but the schedule does not improve and some tasks take longer due to coordination overhead. What is the MOST likely explanation?

A key supplier repeatedly misses interim delivery dates. The contract includes performance reporting requirements, but the supplier’s reports are inconsistent and incomplete. What should the project manager do NEXT?

A program manager informs you that your project must align with a new organizational objective focused on reducing operating costs. Which action best supports alignment while managing ongoing work?

Midway through the project, an external regulator issues a new compliance requirement that affects a deliverable currently in development. What should the project manager do FIRST?

A hybrid project has fixed milestone dates, but discovery work shows significant uncertainty and high technical risk. Stakeholders demand accurate long-term forecasts. What is the BEST approach to planning and communicating?

Two departments share critical resources needed for your project. A functional manager repeatedly reassigns your key subject matter expert to operational work, causing missed deliverables. The resource agreement is documented, but not being honored. What should the project manager do NEXT?

A project is delivering in iterations. Several stakeholders are asking for additional features after seeing the latest demo. The team is concerned about uncontrolled scope growth. What should the project manager do NEXT to address this?

A key stakeholder frequently misses requirements workshops and later disputes what was agreed. What is the BEST action for the project manager to reduce future misunderstandings?

During execution, you discover that a key supplier will deliver two weeks later than planned due to a capacity issue. What should the project manager do FIRST?

A project manager is leading a cross-functional team that includes several new members. The team is polite but avoids voicing concerns, and decisions take a long time. Which team development stage is MOST likely occurring?

Two departments disagree on acceptance criteria for a deliverable. Each insists their criteria is essential, and the disagreement is delaying testing. What conflict resolution approach should the project manager use to achieve a sustainable solution?

A project has high uncertainty and the sponsor wants earlier visibility into delivered value. The organization traditionally uses predictive methods. Which approach should the project manager recommend?

During monitoring and controlling, earned value analysis shows CPI = 0.82 and SPI = 1.03. What is the MOST accurate interpretation?

A regulatory change will take effect soon and may require additional compliance testing. The change is not yet confirmed, but credible sources indicate it is likely. What should the project manager do?

Midway through execution, a senior executive announces a strategic pivot that changes the expected business outcomes. The project is still on time and budget, but its benefits may no longer align with the new strategy. What should the project manager do FIRST?

A project uses a fixed-price contract for a critical component. During acceptance testing, defects indicate the component does not meet contractual performance criteria. The supplier argues the criteria were “implied” and not explicitly stated in the statement of work (SOW). What is the BEST preventive practice that would have reduced this dispute?

A project team member privately tells the project manager they feel excluded from key decisions during daily standups and are considering leaving the project. What should the project manager do FIRST?

During project execution, a key stakeholder requests a small feature that seems easy to add. The team agrees informally and implements it, but later the sponsor questions the schedule variance. Which action would have BEST prevented this situation?

A project manager is assigned to a project where most work will be performed by an external vendor under a fixed-price contract. What is the project manager's PRIMARY focus when managing this procurement?

A project has high uncertainty and frequent requirement changes. The sponsor still requires reliable forecasting and transparency. Which approach is MOST appropriate?

A new regulatory policy is announced that may affect the project's deliverables. The team is uncertain whether it applies. What should the project manager do NEXT?

A cross-functional team has recurring misunderstandings about who approves requirements and who owns testing sign-off. Which tool or artifact would BEST clarify these responsibilities?

A project manager notices that team members consistently underreport progress to avoid being assigned more work. This behavior is impacting performance reporting. What is the BEST action?

Midway through execution, earned value analysis shows CPI = 0.85 and SPI = 1.05. What is the MOST accurate interpretation?

A multi-country project has stakeholders with conflicting success criteria: one region prioritizes speed to market while another prioritizes long-term maintainability. The sponsor asks for a single definition of success. What should the project manager do?

A project uses a hybrid approach: predictive governance with iterative product development. A senior manager demands a fixed scope, fixed date, and fixed cost commitment for all features, despite ongoing discovery. What is the BEST response from the project manager?

Midway through a project, a key stakeholder starts escalating complaints that the product is not meeting their expectations. The stakeholder admits they have not attended review sessions. What should the project manager do FIRST?

A project team is distributed across multiple time zones and misunderstandings are increasing. Which action is MOST likely to improve communication effectiveness?

A project is using a predictive approach. The team has completed the work and is ready to hand off the deliverables to operations. What should the project manager do next?

A project manager learns that a planned vendor component will arrive two weeks later than scheduled. The project has float on that path, and no near-term milestones are affected. What should the project manager do?

A new compliance requirement is issued by a regulator and applies to your project’s deliverables. What should the project manager do FIRST?

A project is experiencing frequent scope additions requested directly from team members by influential stakeholders, causing rework. What is the BEST action to prevent this going forward?

A project team has identified a high-impact risk with low probability. The organization has little tolerance for the potential consequences. Which risk response strategy is MOST appropriate?

During sprint reviews, a product owner frequently introduces new priorities that disrupt the sprint goal and demoralize the team. What should the project manager (or agile lead) do?

A project is part of a program delivering benefits through multiple interdependent projects. Your project’s schedule change would delay another project’s critical integration testing. What should the project manager do FIRST?

A project is in execution when a major organizational restructuring occurs. Several subject matter experts are reassigned, and the original business case assumptions are no longer valid. What should the project manager do NEXT?

During project execution, a key SME repeatedly misses workshops, delaying requirements decisions. The SME’s functional manager says the SME is overloaded and cannot commit more time. What should the project manager do NEXT?

A project team is unclear about who should approve deliverables, leading to rework. Which artifact best clarifies roles and responsibilities for approvals?

In a predictive project, the sponsor asks for a quick view of how much work remains on each major deliverable over time. Which chart best meets this need?

A vendor delivers components that pass inspection but do not integrate with the system as specified. The contract includes detailed technical requirements. What should the project manager do FIRST?

A project has frequent small scope changes that individually seem minor but collectively are increasing cost and delaying delivery. What should the project manager implement to address this trend?

An agile team’s velocity has dropped for three iterations after adding two new developers. The product owner is concerned about delivery dates. What is the BEST action for the project manager/agile leader?

A company is running a project in a highly regulated environment. Midway through execution, a new regulation is announced that may affect product design and documentation. What should the project manager do NEXT?

A project is behind schedule. Schedule performance index (SPI) is 0.82 and cost performance index (CPI) is 1.03. The sponsor asks what this indicates. How should the project manager respond?

A global project has multiple teams using different estimation techniques, resulting in inconsistent forecasts and frequent disputes about progress. What should the project manager do to improve reliability of reporting across teams?

A strategic program depends on a project that delivers a customer-facing platform. Near the end, the sponsor requests adding a high-value feature that will delay launch by one month. Market analysis shows that delaying launch may reduce expected revenue by more than the feature’s projected benefit. What should the project manager recommend?