PMP® Exam Self-Assessment Test
100 Free Sample Questions

1. The first project is a process optimization which would result in a cost reduction of $120,000 per year. This benefit would be achieved immediately after the end of the project.
    
2. The second project would be the development of a new product which could produce the following net profits after the end of the project:

Assumed is a discount rate of 5% per year. Looking at the present values of the benefits of these projects in the first 3 years, what is true for their monetary attractiveness?
 

The measurements made at the end of the process yielded the following results:

20.033cm, 19.982cm, 19,995cm, 20.056cm, 19.970cm, 19.968cm, 19.963cm, 19.958cm, 19.962cm, 19.979cm, 19.929cm.

What should be done?
 

EV: 523,000; PV: 623,000; AC: 643,000.

Which results are correct?

Which of the following is usually not an element of the project charter and can therefore removed from the document?

A project management team decided to develop a risk management plan. What would be an appropriate occasion to create it?

Which of the following activities should you do first?
 

What kind of information is the person expected to provide in the document?
 

The detailed information from a business standpoint to determine whether bidding for the customer project will be successful.

You found the following earned value analysis information for a project that was recently closed-out:

SPI = 0.7, CPI = 1.0

Which should be included in a requirements management plan?

The document should trace requirements to project scope / WBS deliverables.

It should trace high-level requirements to more detailed requirements.

A project management team has subcontracted work to a service company. Which of the following tools is the best choice to assure that the contractor will adhere to the customer's policies, processes and procedures and will be able to meet the quality requirements of the project?

Which of the following techniques can ensure best that the different perceptions and opinions are contributing to the expert discussion?
 

Peer review

Focus group

Which is the PTA (= point of total assumption, break point) of the project?
 

She discovers that two members assigned to the project have charged time without performing any work for the project customer. Upon further investigation, she determines that this occurred because there have been no other project assignments open for these employees and that her company wanted to keep their time billed to a customer. The customer is unaware of these facts. 

What should the project manager do?

If tasks are scheduled to begin at early start date, what is true?

A project management team wants to procure customized products which can be specified easily and are available in identical grade and quality from several vendors.

The procurement documents will probably have to support what main intention?
 

Specifying attributes of the requested deliverables in detail to get identical bids from vendors and allow selection using the "Least cost method".

Helping to clarify the approved project scope statement and giving guidelines to break it down into the WBS and the WBS dictionary of the project

Which of the following statements is true?

When do bidder conferences normally take place?
 

The scope baseline is used to ídentify variance on the scope during the project. It consists of what?

What is the minimum total duration between the milestones A and B?

Which tools and techniques are used in the processes Create WBS and Define activities?
 

1. Theft, embezzlement
2. Fraud
3. Corruption
4. Bribery

In order to avoid such a situation, rejected change requests should be consistently communicated to stakeholders through which process?

You and your project team received a note this morning informing you that the software delivery will be delayed by 2 weeks.

What should you do right now?

What is the term commonly used for the resources inside the directory?

EV: 250,000; PV: 200,000; AC 275,000

BAC is 500,000.

What is right?

A review to determine, whether the intended execution of project activities will comply with organizational and project policies, processes, and procedures is commonly called
 

This morning you received a message that the resource pool members will be unable to perform as planned for the next months because the overall work load has grown too high and while delays are adding up, the morale of the staff is going down.

What should you do next?
 

You have been criticized that certain specifications in your scope statement do not pass the test for SMART objectives. What are SMART objectives?
 

After budget approval, an additional and unexpected cost item has been identified, which made the project more expensive some weeks ago. The item has meanwhile been paid by the project, and it is expected that for the remaining duration of the project, costs will be as budgeted.

In this case, which is the best formula to calculate EaC (Estimate at Completion)?
 

What do you think?

Which is an appropriate order in most project situations for the development of scope-related documents?
 

An output of the process Estimate activity resources is the documentation of "resource requirements". It identifies the types and quantities of resources...

What is not the purpose of configuration control when configuration management is applied in a project?

Ensuring that proposed and approved changes to configuration items are fully analyzed.

Which statement describes best the meaning of the term cost baseline?

A project sponsor requested reports on two concurrent software projects from the project managers. Both projects are regarded as equally important and strategically beneficial and have been finished by over 80%.

The sponsor considers to shift some resources from the first project to the second to accelerate the second project, which is currently behind schedule.

What is the most likely outcome of such a measure?
 

Changing team assignments during late course of a project typically increases cost efficiency.

Project A will become slower. According to Brooks's law, Project B will also lose pace.

According to the law of diminishing returns, the consolidated cost variance of the two projects will increase.

A project management team intends to develop a lifecycle for its new software development project on a continuum between the extremes of highly agile and highly predictive methods. What is a typical signal that the lifecycle chosen is located between the two extremes?
 

You have just created the following network logic diagram to describe the planned flow of activities for your project which will start tomorrow:

Which potential inconsistency in the diagram should you solve right now to ensure that the activities and the milestones "Start" and "A-F finished" are correctly linked?
 

A project manager travels to a country whose culture is unknown to her. She realizes that her direct way of communicating creates discomfort for some people she interacts with. What could she consider improving?
 

A project manager ensures that a team of development engineers is freed from operational tasks, so that the team members can focus on self-organization and on getting the project work done. The person listens to the team’s concerns and removes obstacles and impediments whenever they occur. What is the best description for the leadership style of the project manager?
 

A project manager is performing a project with contract partners in different countries. What should the person be aware of?
 

When does a project manager perform the integrated change control process to make sure the effects of change requests are under control?
 

A project was planned to take 5 months. The team is currently 3 months into it and has completed half of the work.

Applying Earned schedule technique, what are the performance data of the project?
 

A project management team identified the need to remove over-allocations of resources and optimize their usage. They are discussing whether to apply resource leveling or resource smoothing.

Which of the following statements is correct?
 

A project management team has identified, analyzed and prioritized a great number of individual project risks and also some overall risks. The team discusses strategies to respond to them.

What is true for strategies that can be used for individual risks?
 

A project has been given into the hands of a contractor and will be performed against payments by the customer.

During contract development, it has been agreed that the buyer’s procurement statement of work (SOW) would become an appendix to the contract (CSOW), turning it into a part of the agreement.

From the contractor’s perspective, which should be among the next steps to initiate and plan the customer project?
 

A project management team has identified a large number of sellers who seem capable to be taken as contractors into the project supply network and allocated to work items.

What should be the next step for the team?
 

A project management team has decided to use an assumptions log for lower-level tasks and activities in a project to refurbish and modernize an old business building that should be rented out for upmarket customers.

The actual project work will mostly be done by contractors, and the task of the project team will be mainly contract development and management and the coordination of the contractors regarding technical and schedule matters.

In addition to assumptions, what other content may the team capture in the assumptions log?
 

A project manager is discussing with the project management office the implementation of risk audits in the project.

What should be the purpose of a risk audit?
 

A company is writing a job advert to look for a project manager to lead and direct an urban development project. The mission of the project is to implement a bold architectural vision. It will be the project manager’s task to ensure that project work is accomplished through the project’s team members and other stakeholders.

What skills should the advertisement focus on?