25 Free PMP Exam Questions

June 5th, 2011

Test yourself with this PMP Quick Quiz as part of your revision towards the Project Management Professional (PMP) credential exam. 25 PMP exam questions of varying difficulty, arranged by Project Management Knowledge Area. You should be able to complete the Test in 30 minutes. Note that in the real PMP exam you will not know in which Knowledge Area the questions are set.

After completing the PMP exam questions your answers will be individually marked, and an overall percentage score with explanation of the correct answers will be given.

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1. In which Project Management Process Group is the Project Charter created? (PM Processes)





2. A detailed Project Schedule can only be created after creating the: (PM Processes)





3.  During the course of planning the project, you receive many requests to change the Project Charter. Who has primary responsibility to decide if these changes are necessary? (Integration)





4. You are assigned as Project Manager of a large IT infrastructure rollout for a Government Agency. The Project is in the Execution Phase. The customer is not happy with the performance of the project. What is the FIRST thing you should do? (Integration)





5. Which of the following is the most important output of the Verify Scope Process? (Scope)





6. All of the following are included in the Scope Baseline, except: (Scope)





7. If the optimistic estimate for an activity is 18 days, and the pessimistic estimate is 24 days, what is the standard deviation of the activity? (Time)





8. A large hardware upgrade project is in the Execution phase when the Project Manager discovers that the time needed to complete the project is longer than the time available. What is the BEST thing to do? (Time)





9. Which of the following represents a value for the amount of work actually accomplished? (Cost)





10. You are assigned as Project Manager to open a new restaurant, and you need to analyze the project costs to find ways of decreasing costs. Which costs would you be BEST to focus on: (Cost)





11. Who is responsible for Quality on a Project? (Quality)





12. Which tools and techniques would NOT be appropriate if you were to implement a Quality Assurance Program within the existing Quality Control activities? (Quality)





13. Conflict Resolution techniques that may be used during a project include confronting, smoothing, forcing, and: (H.R.)





14. Brian works in a functional organization and is currently assigned to three separate projects. He complains that he gets conflicting directions and priorities from the three project managers. What should he do? (H.R.)





15. What is the purpose of a status meeting? (Communiucations)





16. A Project Manager has been assigned to a project team with people from many different countries. What is her BEST tool for success? (Communications)





17. If a project has a 60% probability of making a $10,000 profit and a 40% probability of a $10,000 loss, what is the expected monetary value of the project? (Risk)





18. During Project Execution, a problem occurs that was not included in the Risk register. What should you do FIRST? (Risk)





19. During which process is contract negotiation performed? (Procurement)





20. In a Firm Fixed Price Contract the final fee, or profit, is: (Procurement)





21. You are in the Execution phase of a project to design a new Smart Phone for your company. You discover that the previous Project Manager made a $500,000 payment that was not approved in accordance with company policy. What should you do? (Ethics)





22. A project manager observes that a colleague has secured an unlicensed version of a software tool for use in his project. The project manager also needs to tool for his own project. What should the project manager do? (Ethics)





23. The project sponsor wants a 10% reduction in cost estimates prepared by the project team entrusted with the objective of improving radio network infrastructure downtime by 3%. Which of the following would be the best course of action by the project manager? (General Question)





24. You project team needs to move a large piece of machinery through the crowded streets in the middle of town, to the project site. Your contact in the country advises that you will have to pay the local police a fee for coordinating traffic. What should you do? (General Question)





25. A team member is not performing well on your project as they are inexperienced in detailed hardware optimisation. There is no-one else available to do the work. What is the BEST solution for the Project Manager? (General Question)







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