PMP Exam Sample Questions

PMP® Sample Questions

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1. Your pharmaceutical drug manufacturing project is running late and you

have deadlines to meet on your project. You want to replace some of the

inefficient human resources with more talented human resources to finish

the project on time. What risk response strategy is being followed in this

context?

A. Share

B. Accept

C. Transfer

D. Mitigate

Hint: You are trying to reduce the likelihood of the risk occurrence.

Sample PMP® Exam Question

The correct answer is D

Explanation: This is an example of risk mitigation. By replacing

the human resources you are reducing the probability of the

risk.

Answer and Explanation

2. You are performing the Plan Risk Responses process for your manufacturing project

and encounter a critical risk that may have a high impact on the project completion. All

of the following are valid responses to this new risk except?

A. Allocating Contingency Reserves

B. Developing Fallback Options

C. Conducting Bidder Conferences

D. Reviewing Risks Driven by Strategies

Hint: A fallback plan is used when a primary response plan proves to be inadequate.

Sample PMP® Exam Question

The correct answer is C

Explanation: Conducting bidder conferences is not a

strategy used in Risk Management. All other answer

choices are valid risk responses.

Answer and Explanation

3. Which of the following Enterprise Environmental Factors does not influence the

Estimate Activity Durations process?

A. Duration Estimating Databases

B. Project Management Information Systems

C. Productivity Metrics

D. Published Commercial Information

Hint: All of the given choices are valid Enterprise Environmental Factors but which one of them

is not relevant to the Estimate Activity Durations process?

Sample PMP® Exam Question

The correct answer is B

Explanation: All of the given choices are valid Enterprise

Environmental Factors. However, the Project

Management Information System will not influence the

Estimate Activity Durations process. We do use project

management software for scheduling (Scheduling Tools)

during the Estimate Activity Durations process but we

do not use the Project Management Information System.

Conceptually, these two software applications are

different and perform different functions. However, you

can find a software application that performs both of

these functions, e.g. Microsoft Project. For the actual

PMP Exam you must remember that these two software

applications are different and perform different

functions, i.e. one is for reporting and one is for

scheduling.

Answer and Explanation

4. You are managing a hardware design project in India with locally trained engineers

but your client is based in the U.S. You are unable to meet your client face-to-face

and you cannot talk to your client on the phone because of the different time zones.

Instructions are sent via email but there is a communications breakdown and your

team fails to understand the messages. What is causing this issue?

A. Poor message encoding

B. Poor message decoding

C. Noise

D. Medium

Hint: You are faced with a language problem between native and non-native English speakers.

Sample PMP® Exam Question

The correct answer is C

Explanation: This is an example of noise. The PMBOK Guide

defines noise as "Anything that interferes with the

transmission and understanding of the message (e.g. distance,

unfamiliar technology, or lack of background information)".

In this case the "noise" is the fact that your team members

who are local to India do not speak English as well as your

customer. This interferes with the understanding of the

message.

Answer and Explanation

5. You are working at a steel manufacturing company as a project manager. There is a

department called Welding and Fabrication in your company. You are getting ready to

put together your project team and you want to see a hierarchical representation of

how many welders are working for your company in the Welding and Fabrication

Department. Which of the following illustrates this information?

A. Work Breakdown Structure

B. Organizational Breakdown Structure

C. RACI Chart

D. Resource Breakdown Structure

Hint: A welder is a resource. The project manager wants to see all welding resources in a

hierarchical format.

Sample PMP® Exam Question

The correct answer is D

Explanation: A Resource Breakdown Structure is a hierarchical

structure of resources broken down by resource category and

resource type.

Answer and Explanation