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PMI – PMP Certification Exam – 100 Practice Questions – Set 4

  1. A project manager is leading a strategic transformation project. Senior leaders want weekly technical updates, while business users want impact-focused summaries. What should the project manager do?
    a) Send the same detailed report to all stakeholders
    b) Tailor communication based on stakeholder needs and decision responsibilities
    c) Ask stakeholders to review the project management plan only
    d) Reduce communication to avoid confusion
    Answer: b) Tailor communication based on stakeholder needs and decision responsibilities
  2. A project team is delivering working software every month, but customers say the features do not solve their main problem. What should the project manager focus on first?
    a) Increasing sprint velocity
    b) Reviewing whether delivered outcomes align with intended value
    c) Adding more developers
    d) Creating more status reports
    Answer: b) Reviewing whether delivered outcomes align with intended value
  3. A project manager finds that team members are afraid to report defects because past mistakes were punished. Which action best supports a collaborative team environment?
    a) Require all defects to be reported anonymously only
    b) Create a no-blame culture focused on learning and prevention
    c) Ask the sponsor to discipline underperforming members
    d) Reduce testing to avoid conflict
    Answer: b) Create a no-blame culture focused on learning and prevention
  4. During planning, the project manager discovers that regulatory approval may take longer than expected. What is the best response?
    a) Ignore the delay until it occurs
    b) Include the uncertainty in planning and develop response options
    c) Remove regulatory approval from the scope
    d) Ask the team to work overtime
    Answer: b) Include the uncertainty in planning and develop response options
  5. A project manager is choosing between predictive and adaptive delivery. Requirements are unclear, but the sponsor wants early customer feedback. Which approach is most suitable?
    a) Predictive
    b) Adaptive
    c) Fixed sequential
    d) Operations-based
    Answer: b) Adaptive
  6. A project has stable infrastructure work and uncertain customer-facing software features. Which development approach is most appropriate?
    a) Fully predictive only
    b) Fully adaptive only
    c) Hybrid
    d) No formal approach
    Answer: c) Hybrid
  7. A team member has strong technical skills but frequently dismisses other team members’ ideas. What should the project manager do?
    a) Ignore the behavior because the person is productive
    b) Coach the team member on collaboration and respectful communication
    c) Remove the person immediately
    d) Ask others to avoid working with the person
    Answer: b) Coach the team member on collaboration and respectful communication
  8. A project manager notices that work is being completed, but benefits are not being realized by the business. What should be reviewed?
    a) Only the activity list
    b) Benefits realization and value delivery assumptions
    c) Only the resource calendar
    d) The procurement file only
    Answer: b) Benefits realization and value delivery assumptions
  9. A customer requests a major change that supports business value but affects cost and schedule. What should the project manager do?
    a) Reject the change because baselines exist
    b) Evaluate the impact and follow the approved change process
    c) Implement it immediately
    d) Ask the team to absorb the work
    Answer: b) Evaluate the impact and follow the approved change process
  10. A project manager is asked to reduce documentation on a small internal project. What principle should guide the decision?
    a) Use all templates regardless of value
    b) Tailor artifacts to the project context and governance needs
    c) Eliminate all records
    d) Use only verbal communication
    Answer: b) Tailor artifacts to the project context and governance needs
  11. A project is facing frequent misunderstandings between business and technical teams. What is the best action?
    a) Limit meetings to technical leads
    b) Create shared language, clarify assumptions and confirm understanding
    c) Ask the sponsor to make every decision
    d) Stop documenting requirements
    Answer: b) Create shared language, clarify assumptions and confirm understanding
  12. A project manager is using AI to summarize stakeholder feedback. What should the project manager do before relying on the summary?
    a) Accept the AI summary as final
    b) Validate accuracy, bias and missing context
    c) Delete the original feedback
    d) Share confidential data with all tools
    Answer: b) Validate accuracy, bias and missing context
  13. A project team is overloaded, and quality defects are increasing. What should the project manager do first?
    a) Ask the team to work weekends
    b) Analyze capacity, workload and root causes of defects
    c) Remove quality standards
    d) Delay all stakeholder communication
    Answer: b) Analyze capacity, workload and root causes of defects
  14. A stakeholder is highly influential but only mildly interested in the project. What is the best engagement approach?
    a) Ignore the stakeholder
    b) Keep the stakeholder satisfied with appropriate information
    c) Give the stakeholder daily task updates
    d) Remove the stakeholder from the register
    Answer: b) Keep the stakeholder satisfied with appropriate information
  15. A team completes deliverables, but acceptance is delayed because criteria were unclear. What should have been done earlier?
    a) Define acceptance criteria with stakeholders
    b) Ask the team to decide acceptance alone
    c) Avoid stakeholder review
    d) Wait until closure to define quality
    Answer: a) Define acceptance criteria with stakeholders
  16. Which action best demonstrates stewardship in project management?
    a) Delivering at any cost
    b) Considering financial, social, environmental and ethical impacts
    c) Avoiding difficult stakeholder conversations
    d) Prioritizing only sponsor requests
    Answer: b) Considering financial, social, environmental and ethical impacts
  17. A project manager sees that a vendor is meeting contract terms but creating poor user experience. What should the project manager do?
    a) Accept the work because the contract is technically met
    b) Review quality expectations, stakeholder needs and contract remedies
    c) Pay the vendor without review
    d) Remove the user group from acceptance
    Answer: b) Review quality expectations, stakeholder needs and contract remedies
  18. During an agile project, the product owner keeps adding urgent items to the sprint. What should the project manager or Scrum Master do?
    a) Allow all changes immediately
    b) Protect the sprint goal and discuss backlog prioritization
    c) Cancel the sprint automatically
    d) Ask developers to work extra hours
    Answer: b) Protect the sprint goal and discuss backlog prioritization
  19. A project team is using a dashboard with many metrics, but no one acts on them. What should be improved?
    a) Add more metrics
    b) Use fewer, actionable measures aligned to outcomes
    c) Stop measuring performance
    d) Report metrics only at closure
    Answer: b) Use fewer, actionable measures aligned to outcomes
  20. A project manager learns that a key assumption is no longer valid. What should be updated first?
    a) The assumption log and related risk analysis
    b) The team charter only
    c) The final report
    d) The vendor invoice
    Answer: a) The assumption log and related risk analysis
  21. A new team is unsure who can make technical decisions. What should the project manager clarify?
    a) Decision authority and escalation paths
    b) Only the project budget
    c) Only the meeting schedule
    d) The final acceptance date
    Answer: a) Decision authority and escalation paths
  22. A project manager wants to improve team ownership. Which action is best?
    a) Assign every task personally
    b) Give the team clear goals and allow them to decide how to deliver
    c) Prevent team members from speaking to stakeholders
    d) Make all decisions through the PMO
    Answer: b) Give the team clear goals and allow them to decide how to deliver
  23. A project is affected by new environmental regulations. Which PMP domain is most directly involved?
    a) People
    b) Business Environment
    c) Team
    d) Communications
    Answer: b) Business Environment
  24. A team is repeatedly missing sprint commitments. What should be done first?
    a) Increase sprint length immediately
    b) Review capacity, estimation accuracy and impediments
    c) Add more scope to improve productivity
    d) Cancel retrospectives
    Answer: b) Review capacity, estimation accuracy and impediments
  25. A project manager is preparing a procurement strategy for specialized work not available internally. What should guide the decision?
    a) Make-or-buy analysis and project constraints
    b) Team preference only
    c) The shortest vendor presentation
    d) The lowest number of stakeholders
    Answer: a) Make-or-buy analysis and project constraints
  26. A stakeholder becomes resistant after learning the project will change their daily work. What should the project manager do?
    a) Remove the stakeholder from communications
    b) Address change impact, listen to concerns and support adoption
    c) Ask the sponsor to force acceptance
    d) Stop discussing business benefits
    Answer: b) Address change impact, listen to concerns and support adoption
  27. A project manager uses historical defect data to predict future quality risk. What type of metric is this?
    a) Leading indicator
    b) Final acceptance record
    c) Contract term
    d) Closing artifact
    Answer: a) Leading indicator
  28. A sponsor asks for a project to continue even though expected benefits are no longer valid. What should the project manager recommend?
    a) Continue because the charter was approved
    b) Reassess business justification and governance decision points
    c) Ignore the business case
    d) Add more resources
    Answer: b) Reassess business justification and governance decision points
  29. In a complex project, several teams are making local decisions that affect each other. Which principle is most relevant?
    a) Recognize, evaluate and respond to system interactions
    b) Ignore system dependencies
    c) Use only one communication channel
    d) Eliminate all governance
    Answer: a) Recognize, evaluate and respond to system interactions
  30. A project manager finds that two deliverables depend on the same scarce expert. What should be done?
    a) Adjust the resource plan and evaluate schedule impacts
    b) Assume the expert can do both at once
    c) Remove the expert from the project
    d) Ignore the conflict until execution
    Answer: a) Adjust the resource plan and evaluate schedule impacts
  31. A project manager is leading a public-sector project with strict compliance requirements and evolving digital features. What approach is most appropriate?
    a) Predictive governance with adaptive feature delivery
    b) No planning because features evolve
    c) Agile ceremonies only
    d) Pure informal delivery
    Answer: a) Predictive governance with adaptive feature delivery
  32. A team wants to reduce rework. Which action best supports quality?
    a) Inspect only at the end
    b) Define quality standards early and build them into the process
    c) Eliminate peer reviews
    d) Reduce customer involvement
    Answer: b) Define quality standards early and build them into the process
  33. A project manager notices that issue resolution is slow because every decision goes to the sponsor. What should be improved?
    a) Governance and decision delegation
    b) Final acceptance procedure only
    c) Project logo and branding
    d) Vendor payment timing
    Answer: a) Governance and decision delegation
  34. A project team works across three countries and time zones. What should the project manager prioritize?
    a) Clear working agreements and communication cadence
    b) One daily meeting at midnight for all members
    c) Removing all virtual collaboration tools
    d) Informal communication only
    Answer: a) Clear working agreements and communication cadence
  35. A project manager is asked to use AI-generated estimates from previous projects. What is a key concern?
    a) AI estimates always improve accuracy
    b) Historical data may not match current project conditions
    c) AI removes the need for expert judgment
    d) Estimates are no longer required
    Answer: b) Historical data may not match current project conditions
  36. Which artifact helps show how project work supports strategic outcomes?
    a) Benefits map
    b) Issue log only
    c) Resource histogram only
    d) Vendor payment record
    Answer: a) Benefits map
  37. A risk response creates a new secondary risk. What should the project manager do?
    a) Ignore it because the original risk is handled
    b) Document and analyze the secondary risk
    c) Remove the risk owner
    d) Close the risk register
    Answer: b) Document and analyze the secondary risk
  38. A team is using Kanban and work is piling up in testing. What should be reviewed?
    a) Work-in-progress limits and flow constraints
    b) Project charter approval
    c) Sponsor availability only
    d) Contract type only
    Answer: a) Work-in-progress limits and flow constraints
  39. A project manager is selecting metrics for an executive dashboard. Which metric is most value-focused?
    a) Number of meetings held
    b) Percentage of intended benefits realized
    c) Number of emails sent
    d) Number of slides prepared
    Answer: b) Percentage of intended benefits realized
  40. A project has multiple stakeholders with competing success criteria. What should the project manager do?
    a) Facilitate alignment on measurable outcomes
    b) Accept only the loudest stakeholder’s view
    c) Ignore success criteria until closure
    d) Let the team choose success criteria alone
    Answer: a) Facilitate alignment on measurable outcomes
  41. A team member suggests skipping testing to meet a launch date. What should the project manager do?
    a) Accept the shortcut
    b) Evaluate quality, risk and stakeholder impact before making a decision
    c) Remove testing permanently
    d) Hide the risk from the sponsor
    Answer: b) Evaluate quality, risk and stakeholder impact before making a decision
  42. A project manager wants to improve lessons learned during a long project. What is the best approach?
    a) Capture lessons only after closure
    b) Capture and apply lessons throughout the project
    c) Wait for the PMO audit
    d) Record only failures
    Answer: b) Capture and apply lessons throughout the project
  43. A project has high uncertainty and limited historical data. Which estimating method is most useful?
    a) Expert judgment with ranges and assumptions
    b) Exact single-point estimates only
    c) No estimates until closure
    d) Lowest-cost estimate only
    Answer: a) Expert judgment with ranges and assumptions
  44. A project manager discovers an ethical concern in a supplier selection process. What should be done?
    a) Ignore it if the project is on schedule
    b) Disclose and follow the organization’s ethics and procurement procedures
    c) Award the contract quickly
    d) Ask the team to stay silent
    Answer: b) Disclose and follow the organization’s ethics and procurement procedures
  45. A project manager wants to build stakeholder trust during a controversial project. What is most effective?
    a) Hide difficult information until closure
    b) Communicate transparently, acknowledge concerns and show response actions
    c) Send only positive updates
    d) Limit access to project information
    Answer: b) Communicate transparently, acknowledge concerns and show response actions
  46. A team delivers features quickly but frequently creates defects. What should the project manager examine?
    a) Balance between speed, quality and sustainable delivery
    b) Only the number of developers
    c) Only the sponsor’s satisfaction
    d) The project title
    Answer: a) Balance between speed, quality and sustainable delivery
  47. A project manager must support organizational change after delivery. Which activity is most important?
    a) Adoption planning and readiness assessment
    b) Reducing all communication
    c) Closing the project before training
    d) Avoiding user feedback
    Answer: a) Adoption planning and readiness assessment
  48. A stakeholder asks for private project data to be entered into a public AI tool. What should the project manager do?
    a) Enter the data immediately
    b) Follow data privacy, security and organizational AI-use policies
    c) Ask the team to decide informally
    d) Share only half the data without approval
    Answer: b) Follow data privacy, security and organizational AI-use policies
  49. A project manager sees early warning signs that team burnout may affect delivery. What should be done?
    a) Track the concern as a risk and address workload sustainability
    b) Ignore it because burnout is personal
    c) Increase overtime
    d) Remove team retrospectives
    Answer: a) Track the concern as a risk and address workload sustainability
  50. A product backlog contains many high-effort items with unclear value. What should the team do?
    a) Prioritize by business value, risk and learning
    b) Work on the oldest items first
    c) Select items randomly
    d) Complete only the easiest work
    Answer: a) Prioritize by business value, risk and learning
  51. A vendor misses a milestone due to unclear acceptance criteria. What should the project manager review?
    a) Procurement statement of work and acceptance terms
    b) Team vacation schedule only
    c) Stakeholder register only
    d) Final lessons learned only
    Answer: a) Procurement statement of work and acceptance terms
  52. A project manager is deciding whether to escalate an issue. Which factor is most important?
    a) Whether the issue exceeds the project manager’s authority or tolerance threshold
    b) Whether the project manager dislikes the issue
    c) Whether the team wants fewer meetings
    d) Whether the issue is easy to explain
    Answer: a) Whether the issue exceeds the project manager’s authority or tolerance threshold
  53. A project has unclear ownership for operational handover. What should the project manager do?
    a) Define transition responsibilities and acceptance readiness
    b) Close the project immediately
    c) Ask operations to figure it out later
    d) Remove handover from the plan
    Answer: a) Define transition responsibilities and acceptance readiness
  54. A team is debating whether to automate a manual process. What should guide the decision?
    a) Expected value, cost, risk and long-term maintainability
    b) The desire to use new technology
    c) The number of available templates
    d) The project manager’s personal preference
    Answer: a) Expected value, cost, risk and long-term maintainability
  55. A project manager is using a predictive approach, but stakeholders are requesting regular product demonstrations. What should the project manager do?
    a) Refuse because demonstrations are only agile
    b) Incorporate feedback points where appropriate
    c) Wait until final delivery
    d) Stop stakeholder engagement
    Answer: b) Incorporate feedback points where appropriate
  56. A project includes sustainability objectives. What should the project manager do?
    a) Treat sustainability as separate from project success
    b) Include sustainability criteria in planning, decisions and measurement
    c) Review sustainability only after closure
    d) Assign sustainability only to procurement
    Answer: b) Include sustainability criteria in planning, decisions and measurement
  57. A project manager finds that reports show the project is green, but customer adoption is low. What does this suggest?
    a) Output metrics may not reflect value delivery
    b) The project must be successful
    c) Stakeholders should be ignored
    d) No further action is needed
    Answer: a) Output metrics may not reflect value delivery
  58. A project team wants to skip stakeholder analysis because the sponsor already supports the project. What should the project manager explain?
    a) Other stakeholders may still influence adoption, risk and acceptance
    b) Sponsor support replaces stakeholder engagement
    c) Stakeholders matter only in closing
    d) Stakeholder analysis is optional for all projects
    Answer: a) Other stakeholders may still influence adoption, risk and acceptance
  59. A new regulation changes a product requirement mid-project. What should the project manager do?
    a) Evaluate compliance impact and update plans through governance
    b) Ignore it until the next project
    c) Ask the team to hide the gap
    d) Continue with the original requirement only
    Answer: a) Evaluate compliance impact and update plans through governance
  60. A team is spending too much time producing detailed plans for work that will not start for six months. What technique should be used?
    a) Rolling wave planning
    b) Scope creep
    c) Gold plating
    d) Fast tracking
    Answer: a) Rolling wave planning
  61. A project manager wants to identify how a delay in one supplier could affect several downstream teams. Which view is most useful?
    a) Dependency map
    b) Team celebration plan
    c) Vendor brochure
    d) Meeting attendance sheet
    Answer: a) Dependency map
  62. A project manager is leading a project with significant public impact. Which action best reflects responsible leadership?
    a) Consider safety, transparency and stakeholder consequences in decisions
    b) Focus only on schedule performance
    c) Avoid communicating risks
    d) Delegate all ethics decisions to vendors
    Answer: a) Consider safety, transparency and stakeholder consequences in decisions
  63. A project sponsor wants to add AI automation to reduce cost. The team is concerned about errors affecting customers. What should the project manager do?
    a) Implement the automation immediately
    b) Assess risks, controls, human oversight and value before proceeding
    c) Reject AI in all cases
    d) Remove customer-facing features
    Answer: b) Assess risks, controls, human oversight and value before proceeding
  64. A project manager notices that decisions are being revisited repeatedly. What should be created or improved?
    a) Decision log
    b) Resource calendar only
    c) Final invoice
    d) Sprint backlog only
    Answer: a) Decision log
  65. A team is unclear about what “done” means for a deliverable. What should be established?
    a) Completion and acceptance criteria
    b) More status meetings only
    c) A larger budget
    d) A new project sponsor
    Answer: a) Completion and acceptance criteria
  66. A project manager is managing a risk that could create a positive business opportunity. Which response strategy may be appropriate?
    a) Enhance the opportunity
    b) Mitigate the opportunity
    c) Transfer the opportunity
    d) Avoid the opportunity
    Answer: a) Enhance the opportunity
  67. A project is delayed because approvals are taking too long. What should the project manager examine?
    a) Governance workflow and decision bottlenecks
    b) Only the risk register title
    c) Only team morale
    d) Only procurement documents
    Answer: a) Governance workflow and decision bottlenecks
  68. A project manager must decide whether to continue a failing initiative. Which information is most important?
    a) Remaining business value versus cost, risk and feasibility
    b) Number of completed meetings
    c) Team preference only
    d) Original project name
    Answer: a) Remaining business value versus cost, risk and feasibility
  69. A project manager wants to ensure users are ready before launch. What should be included?
    a) Training, communication and adoption support
    b) Only technical deployment steps
    c) Only the final invoice
    d) Only developer documentation
    Answer: a) Training, communication and adoption support
  70. A quality audit finds that the process is followed, but outcomes remain poor. What should the project manager do?
    a) Improve the process based on evidence and outcomes
    b) Continue the process without change
    c) Stop measuring quality
    d) Blame the audit team
    Answer: a) Improve the process based on evidence and outcomes
  71. A team member reports that a requirement conflicts with a legal rule. What should the project manager do?
    a) Investigate compliance impact and escalate as appropriate
    b) Tell the team member to ignore it
    c) Remove the requirement without analysis
    d) Continue work to protect schedule
    Answer: a) Investigate compliance impact and escalate as appropriate
  72. A project manager is planning communications for a multicultural team. What should be considered?
    a) Language, cultural context, time zones and preferred channels
    b) Only the fastest communication method
    c) Only executive reporting
    d) Only written documents
    Answer: a) Language, cultural context, time zones and preferred channels
  73. A predictive project discovers that early assumptions about user needs were incorrect. What is the best response?
    a) Reassess scope, value and change impacts
    b) Continue the original plan without review
    c) Avoid telling the sponsor
    d) Close the project immediately
    Answer: a) Reassess scope, value and change impacts
  74. A project manager wants to improve transparency in an agile project. Which artifact is most useful?
    a) Visible backlog with priorities and status
    b) Confidential task list only
    c) Final report only
    d) Vendor contract only
    Answer: a) Visible backlog with priorities and status
  75. A project team is dependent on an external vendor with limited availability. What should the project manager do?
    a) Include vendor constraints in planning and risk management
    b) Assume the vendor will always be available
    c) Remove vendor communication
    d) Delay all planning
    Answer: a) Include vendor constraints in planning and risk management
  76. A project manager is asked to report only positive progress to executives. What should the project manager do?
    a) Provide accurate, transparent reporting including risks and issues
    b) Hide negative information
    c) Change metrics to appear favorable
    d) Avoid reporting until closure
    Answer: a) Provide accurate, transparent reporting including risks and issues
  77. A project has a high number of unresolved issues. What should the project manager do first?
    a) Prioritize issues by impact and assign owners
    b) Delete old issues
    c) Wait until the next phase
    d) Ask the customer to solve them
    Answer: a) Prioritize issues by impact and assign owners
  78. A team has conflicting views on whether to release a feature. What should guide the decision?
    a) Readiness, acceptance criteria, risk and value
    b) The loudest team member’s opinion
    c) The number of hours spent
    d) The original idea alone
    Answer: a) Readiness, acceptance criteria, risk and value
  79. A project manager is managing a product with frequent market changes. Which planning approach is best?
    a) Short planning cycles with regular reprioritization
    b) Fixed detailed planning for the entire project
    c) No backlog refinement
    d) Annual review only
    Answer: a) Short planning cycles with regular reprioritization
  80. A stakeholder claims the project is not delivering value, but the team disagrees. What should the project manager do?
    a) Review agreed value measures and evidence with stakeholders
    b) Ignore the stakeholder
    c) Ask the team to continue without discussion
    d) Close the project
    Answer: a) Review agreed value measures and evidence with stakeholders
  81. A project manager wants to reduce dependency on one technical expert. What should be done?
    a) Cross-train team members and document critical knowledge
    b) Assign all critical work to the expert
    c) Avoid knowledge sharing
    d) Remove technical reviews
    Answer: a) Cross-train team members and document critical knowledge
  82. A team is under pressure to accept a supplier’s incomplete deliverable. What should the project manager do?
    a) Compare the deliverable against acceptance criteria and contract terms
    b) Accept it to maintain the schedule
    c) Ignore quality requirements
    d) Ask the supplier to decide acceptance
    Answer: a) Compare the deliverable against acceptance criteria and contract terms
  83. A project manager observes that scope decisions are being made without customer input. What is the risk?
    a) Delivered outputs may not meet stakeholder needs
    b) The project will always finish early
    c) Quality will automatically improve
    d) Procurement risk will disappear
    Answer: a) Delivered outputs may not meet stakeholder needs
  84. A project manager is leading an initiative with high technical innovation. What should be emphasized?
    a) Experimentation, learning and risk-based decisions
    b) Fixed plans with no change
    c) Removing all prototypes
    d) Avoiding customer feedback
    Answer: a) Experimentation, learning and risk-based decisions
  85. A project team wants to use a new tool that may improve delivery but requires training. What should be assessed?
    a) Benefit, cost, adoption effort and delivery impact
    b) Tool popularity only
    c) Vendor marketing claims only
    d) Team curiosity only
    Answer: a) Benefit, cost, adoption effort and delivery impact
  86. A project manager needs to manage confidentiality on a sensitive project. What should be included?
    a) Information access rules and secure communication practices
    b) Open access to all project files
    c) Public posting of all risks
    d) Informal sharing through personal accounts
    Answer: a) Information access rules and secure communication practices
  87. A project manager wants to understand why users are not adopting a delivered feature. What technique is most useful?
    a) User feedback analysis
    b) Contract closure
    c) Resource leveling
    d) Fast tracking
    Answer: a) User feedback analysis
  88. A sponsor wants the project completed faster but with no reduction in scope or quality. What should the project manager do?
    a) Analyze schedule compression options and impacts
    b) Promise the date without analysis
    c) Remove testing quietly
    d) Ignore resource constraints
    Answer: a) Analyze schedule compression options and impacts
  89. A project manager is monitoring the external environment for market, legal and economic changes. Which performance domain is strongly involved?
    a) Uncertainty
    b) Team only
    c) Delivery only
    d) Stakeholder register only
    Answer: a) Uncertainty
  90. A team is using iterative delivery but never incorporates feedback. What is the main concern?
    a) The team is missing the learning purpose of iteration
    b) The project is automatically predictive
    c) Velocity will always increase
    d) Stakeholders are unnecessary
    Answer: a) The team is missing the learning purpose of iteration
  91. A project manager is asked to select a contract type for clearly defined work with low uncertainty. Which contract type is generally appropriate?
    a) Firm fixed price
    b) Cost plus percentage of cost
    c) Time and materials without a cap
    d) No contract
    Answer: a) Firm fixed price
  92. A project manager identifies that a critical assumption depends on a government approval. What should be done?
    a) Track it as a risk or dependency and monitor it actively
    b) Ignore it until approval is denied
    c) Remove it from planning documents
    d) Assume approval is guaranteed
    Answer: a) Track it as a risk or dependency and monitor it actively
  93. A project manager wants to support benefits after handover. What should be coordinated?
    a) Operational ownership and post-implementation measures
    b) Only project team release
    c) Only project closure celebration
    d) Only archive storage
    Answer: a) Operational ownership and post-implementation measures
  94. A team is spending time on features that stakeholders do not value. What should be reviewed?
    a) Prioritization criteria and value alignment
    b) Only the meeting schedule
    c) Only the resource histogram
    d) Only the project name
    Answer: a) Prioritization criteria and value alignment
  95. A project manager is using scenario analysis. What is the main purpose?
    a) To explore possible future conditions and prepare response strategies
    b) To close procurements
    c) To assign blame
    d) To avoid planning
    Answer: a) To explore possible future conditions and prepare response strategies
  96. A project manager notices that decision makers are unavailable, causing repeated delays. What should be established?
    a) Clear escalation and delegation rules
    b) More informal conversations only
    c) A larger issue log without owners
    d) No decision deadlines
    Answer: a) Clear escalation and delegation rules
  97. A project team is unsure whether an item is a risk or an issue. How should it be classified if it has already occurred?
    a) Issue
    b) Threat
    c) Opportunity
    d) Assumption
    Answer: a) Issue
  98. A project manager is preparing for closure. What should be confirmed before releasing the team?
    a) Deliverables are accepted, records are updated and transition is complete
    b) All stakeholders are happy without evidence
    c) The project had no risks
    d) The budget was fully spent
    Answer: a) Deliverables are accepted, records are updated and transition is complete
  99. A project manager wants to improve adaptability in a volatile environment. What is the best practice?
    a) Review plans frequently and adjust based on new information
    b) Freeze all plans at initiation
    c) Avoid risk reviews
    d) Stop stakeholder engagement
    Answer: a) Review plans frequently and adjust based on new information
  100. A project manager is tailoring the project approach. What is the most important question to ask?
    a) Which processes, artifacts and governance add value for this project’s context and risk?
    b) Which method requires the most documentation?
    c) Which approach was used by the last project?
    d) Which option avoids stakeholder involvement?
    Answer: a) Which processes, artifacts and governance add value for this project’s context and risk?
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