[Q44-Q66] PMP by PMI Actual Free Exam Questions And Answers [UPDATED 2026]

Q44. You have decided to award a contract to a seller that has provided quality services to your company frequently in the past. Your current project, although somewhat different from previous projects, is similar to other work the seller has performed. In this situation, to minimize your risk you should award what type of contract?

Fixed price with economic price adjustment

Fixed-price-incentive (firm target)

Firm-fixed-price

Cost-plus-award-fee

Q45. Which project document is updated in the Control Stakeholder Engagement process?

Project reports

Issue log

Lessons learned documentation

Work performance information

Q46. Managing procurement relationships and monitoring contract performance are part of which process?

Conduct Procurements

Plan Procurements

Administer Procurements

Close Procurements

Q47. A project manager works for an IT consulting firm that has submitted a bid during the request for proposal (RFP) process for a contract that focuses on data center migration and optimization. However, the consulting firm has little experience in data center optimization.
What should the project manager do?

Send the team to a data center optimization training workshop.

Partner with a company that is an expert in this area.

Outsource the data center optimization work to a vendor.

Request a budget to build this competency among project team members.

Q48. During the implementation of a project the project team discovered a new opportunity After an internal review the project team agreed that the opportunity is outside of the project scope The project manager decided to update the risk register and escalate the opportunity to a higher level What should the project manager do next with this opportunity?

Share this opportunity with another project

Establish a contingency reserve to support the opportunity

Further monitor the opportunity

No more action is required

Q49. A new project has been kicked off following a planning session. The project is under direct oversight of an executive in the organization After a review meeting, the project manager overhears an executive request a dashboard from one of the team members to show the overall project status What should the project manager do?

Update the stakeholder engagement assessment matrix

Update the communications management plan to include informal requests

Ask the team member to develop a dashboard to fulfill the request.

Tell the team member to route the request through the project manager

Q50. You are using the three points estimating techniques to estimate the duration of the scheduled activities. Which of the following statements are true given the following data? Pessimistic=200 days Optimistic days=100 days Most likely=120 days Average=140 days Variance=466.66

The calculations were performed assuming he beta distribution

The calculations were perform assuming a uniform distribution

The calculation were performed assuming a triangular distribution

Not enough information is provided

The calculation were performed assuming a exponential distribution

Q51. The product team is progressing with a prototyping approach to deliver a multiyear business initiative. A few user stories are taking longer to be delivered.
What should the project manager do?

Determine the risks and identify a resolution during the retrospective meeting.

Inform stakeholders about the delay during project updates.

Discover the gaps in the communications management plan and address them accordingly.

Determine cross-dependencies and plan a spike in the next sprint.

Q52. A company just started managing a project using an agile approach. Due to this change, the general manager is worried about the scope definition process for upcoming projects.
What should the project manager do to ensure the project scope is completely defined?

Ask the general manager to review every requirement to ensure all projects will deliver the requested products

Ask for a budget increase to implement a double-check process to ensure every business need is included in the requirements

Help sponsors and stakeholders craft the product vision, and bring the team and product owner together to clarify expectations

Meet with the general manager and convince them to return to using predictive approaches to avoid any risk

Q53. A bank is considering building another branch in one of three neighboring cities. The project manager has been tasked with demonstrating the benefits of building a new branch, renting an existing building, or not expanding at all.
How should the project manager proceed?

Calculate the payback period (PBP) for building a new branch in each location versus renting an existing building.

Calculate the costs for each option in each location and compare the net present value (NPV) for each.

Perform a Kano analysis on building a new branch versus renting in each of the locations.

Perform a gap analysis on renting in each of the locations.

Q54. Reserve Analysis a technique not used in:

Estimate Costs

Estimating Activity Duration

Control Costs

Determine Budget

Q55. During the execution phase of a large project there is an extremely high number of change requests Because of this the project manager realizes that there is a greater risk for rejection of the deliverables How should the project manager mitigate this risk without compromising the completion date?

Review the integrated change control process to restrict the number of changes

Focus on delivering incremental value through multiple smaller deliveries

Request sponsor support to get buy-in from the users and stakeholders

Restart the stakeholder engagement process by collecting user requirements again

Q56. The Project Manager has weekly scheduled status meetings with the team. The meetings have been unorganized, chaotic, and lacking direction. Which of the following would improve the meetings?

Determine who is in charge of the meeting

Send the team to communication training

Create and publish an agenda, and establish the leader of the meeting

Create and publish an agenda

Q57. Rolling wave planning in the create WBS process refers to situations in which______________

Certain deliverables or subprojects will be accomplished far into the future

Additional work is added to the project after the scope baseline has been established; therefore, additional decomposition is required

Identification codes for the WBS elements cannot be determined until the schedule activity list is complete in case revisions are required

Subprojects are developed by external organizations and then become part of the WBS for the entire project

Q58. A new team member has joined a project team. During the first sprint, the new team member approached the project manager and requested to implement a new way of testing. The team has been resistant to the proposed change.
What should the project manager do?

Ask the new team member to focus only on development and not do the testing.

Coach the new team member to conduct the testing the way it has always been done for this project.

Schedule a meeting with the new team member to learn about the new method of testing.

Request that the new team member do the testing the way it has always been done for this project.

Q59. The ability to achieve cost savings is inversely proportional to _____.

empowerment to the P.M.

productivity

the estimated costs to complete

the earned value achieved to date

None of the other alternatives apply .

Q60. Which input may influence quality assurance work and should be monitored within the context of a system for configuration management?

Work performance data

Project documents

Scope baseline

Requirements documentation

Q61. You are the project manager on an information technology project on which you and the sponsor have already approved the scope. An information specialist on your team, after having lunch with a low ranking customer representative working with him on a software project, learns that a simple alteration in the display would be a great addition to the project. The information specialist installs the change with no negative effect on the project schedule and at no additional cost. What action should be taken?

The information specialist should be recognized for exceeding customer expectations without affecting project cost or schedule.

The project manager should add an activity to the project management plan with no associated time.

The information specialist should be told that his behavior was unacceptable, as it may have negatively affected the overall project.

The project manager should create a change control form and have the customer approve the change since the change has already been made.

Q62. An agile project is running activities to define the minimum viable product (MVP) During the session, the project manager identifies some mandatory regulations but there is no consensus to include these regulations in the MVP because it may extend the duration of the project What should the project manager do?

Train the team on the new regulations as requested by management

Get commitment from the team to include all of the required regulations

Ask the project sponsor to add more time to the project.

Share with participants the need to focus only on product functionality

Q63. Match the project situation on the left to the meeting on the right where the situation could occur.

Q64. An agile project manager notices that one of the team members is developing extensive knowledge in a specific matter. Other team members are likely to require this knowledge in the future.
What should the agile project manager do?

Ask the team member to develop more expertise and become a subject matter expert (SME).

Ask the team member to provide a training session for the rest of the team.

Ask the team member to produce a lessons learned document and share it with the team.

Ask the team member to record highlights the team may want to know.

Q65. Cost baseline is an output of which of the following processes?

Estimate Activity Resources

Estimate Costs

Determine Budget

Control Costs

Q66. Inputs to communication planning include

Communication requirements, communications management plan, constraints, assumptions

Communication requirements, communications technology, constraints, assumptions

Performance measurement documentation, project archives, constraints, assumptions

Performance measurement documentation, project archives, performance reports, change request procedures

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