PMP PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
, PMP PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. Which of the following statements BEST describes how stakeholders are involved
on a project?
A. They determine the project schedule, deliverables, and requirements.
B. They help to determine the project constraints on the products.
C. They determine the resource needs and resource constraints on the project.
D. They help provide assumptions, the WBS, and the management plans.
2. In a projectized organization, the project team:
A. Reports to many bosses
B. Has no loyalty to the project.
C. Reports to the functional manager.
D. Will not always have a “home”
3. A project manager has very little project experience, but he has been assigned as
the project manager of a new project. Because he will be working in a matrix
organization to complete his project, he can expect communications to be:
A. Simple.
B. Open and accurate.
C. Complex
D. Hard to automate.
,4. A project team member is talking to another member and complaining that many
people are asking him to do things. If he work in a functional organization, who
has the power to give direction to the team member?
A. The project manager.
B. The functional manager.
C. The team.
D. The PMO
5. Who has the MOST power in a projectized organization?
A. The project manager
B. The functional manager.
C. The team.
D. They all share power
6. The project life cycle differs from the product life cycle in that the project life cycle:
A. Does not incorporate a methodology.
B. Is different for each industry
C. Can spawn many projects
D. Describe project management activities
7. A market demand, a business need, and /or legal requirement are examples of:
A. Reasons to hire a project manager.
B. Reasons projects are initiated.
C. Reasons people or business become stakeholders.
D. Reasons to sponsor a project.
, 8. What is a program?
A. An initiative set up by management
B. A means to gain benefits and control of related projects
C. A group of unrelated projects managed in a coordinated way
D. A government regulation
9. Operational work is different from project work in that it is:
A. Unique
B. Temporary
C. Ongoing and repetitive
D. A part of every project activity
10. Consideration of ongoing operations and maintenance is crucially important
to products of projects. Ongoing operations and maintenance should:
A. Be included as activities to be performed during project closure
B. Have a separate phase in the project life cycle, because a large portion of
life cycle is devoted to maintenance and operations.
C. Not be viewed as part of a project.
D. Be viewed as a separate project
11. In which project management process is the detailed project budget created?
A. Initiating
B. Before the project management process
C. Planning
D. Executing.
ANSWERS
, PMP PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. Which of the following statements BEST describes how stakeholders are involved
on a project?
A. They determine the project schedule, deliverables, and requirements.
B. They help to determine the project constraints on the products.
C. They determine the resource needs and resource constraints on the project.
D. They help provide assumptions, the WBS, and the management plans.
2. In a projectized organization, the project team:
A. Reports to many bosses
B. Has no loyalty to the project.
C. Reports to the functional manager.
D. Will not always have a “home”
3. A project manager has very little project experience, but he has been assigned as
the project manager of a new project. Because he will be working in a matrix
organization to complete his project, he can expect communications to be:
A. Simple.
B. Open and accurate.
C. Complex
D. Hard to automate.
,4. A project team member is talking to another member and complaining that many
people are asking him to do things. If he work in a functional organization, who
has the power to give direction to the team member?
A. The project manager.
B. The functional manager.
C. The team.
D. The PMO
5. Who has the MOST power in a projectized organization?
A. The project manager
B. The functional manager.
C. The team.
D. They all share power
6. The project life cycle differs from the product life cycle in that the project life cycle:
A. Does not incorporate a methodology.
B. Is different for each industry
C. Can spawn many projects
D. Describe project management activities
7. A market demand, a business need, and /or legal requirement are examples of:
A. Reasons to hire a project manager.
B. Reasons projects are initiated.
C. Reasons people or business become stakeholders.
D. Reasons to sponsor a project.
, 8. What is a program?
A. An initiative set up by management
B. A means to gain benefits and control of related projects
C. A group of unrelated projects managed in a coordinated way
D. A government regulation
9. Operational work is different from project work in that it is:
A. Unique
B. Temporary
C. Ongoing and repetitive
D. A part of every project activity
10. Consideration of ongoing operations and maintenance is crucially important
to products of projects. Ongoing operations and maintenance should:
A. Be included as activities to be performed during project closure
B. Have a separate phase in the project life cycle, because a large portion of
life cycle is devoted to maintenance and operations.
C. Not be viewed as part of a project.
D. Be viewed as a separate project
11. In which project management process is the detailed project budget created?
A. Initiating
B. Before the project management process
C. Planning
D. Executing.
