PMP Practice Test

PMP Practice Test practice questions, page 5 of 27, with answer review and explanations.

Question 21

A company is about to start a complex research project. Due to the level of uncertainty, the project manager recommends the use of a hybrid approach; however, the organization only has experience with predictive projects.How can the project manager strategize the use of a hybrid approach to the organization?

  1. Submit a notification to the project team confirming they will be using a hybrid approach on the project.
  2. Send a letter to the project management office (PMO) requesting to use a hybrid approach.
  3. Create a project change request to execute the project using a hybrid approach.
  4. Present the benefits of a hybrid approach to key stakeholders to get their support.

Question 22

A project is in the knowledge transfer phase, and a few subject matter experts (SMEs) went to the client site for knowledge transfer. The SMEs captured various process deviations without sharing with the project team.How can the project manager ensure knowledge transfer across the team?

  1. Ask the project team to run a deviation log review meeting with the client, highlighting that the project may not be able to go live as scheduled.
  2. Ask the project team to facilitate a lessons learned session during the project closure phase to incorporate this issue.
  3. Ask the project management office (PMO) to provide team members with real-time visibility for deviations and facilitate team members to resolve issues.
  4. Ask the SMEs to share the knowledge transfer documents with all other members by placing the documents in the project management information system (PMIS).

Question 23

A large multi-year project requires highly skilled staff for successful deployment. The management team and the project sponsor have analyzed the resource requirements and agreed to have permanent staff hired for the project to avoid potential budget overrun. However, there is a risk of staff turnover during the course of the project, which may have an impact on the delivery.Which two actions should the project manager take to mitigate this risk? (Choose two.)

  1. Meet with management to discuss dividing the project into smaller projects.
  2. Convince senior management to hire third-party staff.
  3. Enhance the competencies of the project team through training, mentoring, and coaching.
  4. Increase the trained staff to create back-up for resources.
  5. Introduce a recognition program to motivate and reward resource performance.

Question 24

A project team with members from many different countries is struggling to cooperate. The project manager accepted these difficulties during the storming phase of team development, but the team has not moved to the next phase. The project is beginning to fall behind schedule.What can the project manager do to move the team to the norming phase?

  1. Plan social activities to help foster stronger interpersonal relationships and identify shared goals.
  2. Figure out who is behind the issues and apply progressive disciplinary techniques.
  3. Speak with the project sponsor about changing the team composition.
  4. Show the team the schedule impact of their communication issues and encourage them to put their differences aside.

Question 25

In a software development project, the product owner and development team agree on a sprint backlog. The highest priority in the backlog is to build a payment module. The team worked on the module during the first half of the sprint, but now two developers want to spend the rest of the sprint focusing on refactoring another feature that might create issues in the future.What should the project manager do?

  1. Let the developers focus on the refactoring work and discuss it in the retrospective.
  2. Restate to the developers the importance of focusing and meeting the sprint goal.
  3. Escalate the issue to the developers’ functional managers.
  4. Praise the developers for their proactivity and focus on quality.