10 Free PMP Sample Questions and Answers Based on PMBOK 5th Edition by PM Prepcast

10 free PMP sample questions and answers based on PMBOK 5th edition by PM Prepcast attempt to address such terms and concepts as Perform Quality Assurance process, business case, Quality Management Plan, Manage Communications,…, correspond to the PMBOK 5th edition and follow PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, Honesty. In answer to those realistic and hard sample PMP questions, you need think critically, not be distracted by immaterial information and never give in the questions with the tricky scenarios. After you’re done answering those quizlets, kindly hit submit at the bottom of the page to have your results checked and scored promptly. Once you have completed this test, you can measure your exam preparedness, reinforce your knowledge, improve critical thinking, and be more confident facing difficult questions on the exam day. Let’s get started!

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Note that below are detailed explanations for the answer to each of following questions. You’re strongly recommended to practice all the questions before moving back to this part to grasp why the correctness lies in such choices. If you’re answering right, then the explanations deepen your grip and strengthen your knowledge. If your answer(s) is/ are incorrect, to see those feedbacks will lead you to get an in-depth understanding and not to recur mistakes next time.

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You are a project team member on a project being managed by one of the senior project managers in your company. You are responsible for the Quality Assurance of the project. You have found some serious issues with the procedures the project team is following. If these problems are not corrected, the project may end up being a disastrous failure. What is the best way for you to deal with this situation?

Answer & Explanation
Correct Answer: B)Issue a change request for the recommended changes to these processes
As you are currently responsible for the Perform Quality Assurance process, it is your responsibility to officially report your findings and recommendations to the concerned authorities. In this case, you must officially issue a change request for Change Control Board (CCB) review.
Reference: PMBOK Guide 5th Edition, page 247

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Laura has recently been assigned as project manager on a construction project that is currently in the initiating phase. During a board meeting Laura is asked to present the business case for her project. Instead, Laura presents the project charter. What is wrong with this approach?

Answer & Explanation
Correct Answer: B) The project charter should not be presented in place of the business case
Although the business case is used as an input to the Develop Project Charter process, a business case is a different document to a project charter. The project charter cannot be used as a substitute for the business case. The project manager should be very familiar with the business case in order to better manage the project and should understand the business case sufficiently to present it to an audience such as the board. Management Strategy needs to be updated, which is contained in the Stakeholder Management Plan.
Reference: PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, Honesty

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The Perform Quality Assurance process on a project could create the requirement to update which of the following documents?

Answer & Explanation
Correct Answer: A)Quality Management Plan
After the Quality Audit you may have to create some change requests. The Quality Management Plan might get changed if the change requests are approved. You cannot change the Project Charter, Enterprise Environmental Factors, or Scope Statement.
Reference: PMBOK Guide 5th Edition, page 248

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Which is the process of creating, collecting, distributing, storing, and disposing of performance information, including status reports, progress measurements, and forecasts?

Answer & Explanation
Correct Answer: A) Manage Communications
Manage Communications is the process of creating, collecting, distributing, storing, retrieving, and disposition of project information including status reports, progress measurements, and forecasts.
Reference: PMBOK Guide 5th Edition, page 297

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You are conducting an electrical network and fixtures installation project. During project execution, your quality auditors highlighted some defects in the work performed. You analyze the situation and determine that these are genuine defects that need to be fixed. You submit a change request, which is approved and the team performs the necessary defect repairs. Which of the following is incorrect regarding this scenario?

Answer & Explanation
Correct Answer: D)You should document these defect repairs in the Project Management Plan

We are looking for the statement that is NOT true:
* Because you were able to identify the defects, you have performed the Monitor and Control Project Work process.
* Similarly, as you were able to remove the defects, you have performed the Integrated Change Control process as well.
* As you have performed both processes, you have followed the change control system.
All of these choices are true about the situation.
The only statement that is not true is the fact that details of defect repairs are not documented in the Project Management Plan (this detail is documented in the Change Request Log.)
Reference: PMBOK Guide 5th Edition, page 100

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A project has the CPI of 0.73 and SPI of 1.1. Two programmers on your project team are in conflict over the best approach to take now. A junior programmer wants to re-use some of the software components your company developed from a similar software application in the past. She supports her idea by claiming that this approach would save at least 1,000 hours of team effort. The opposing senior programmer wants to follow the current development plan because the new proposed approach would require major design changes.

Correct Answer: D) Analyze the idea and issue a change request if appropriate
Since the CPI is 0.73 and SPI is 1.1 we can infer that the project is over budget but slightly ahead of schedule.
Accepting the idea will reduce the project duration. Don’t get carried away by the fact that because the SPI is greater than 1 that time is not an issue. A point to be considered here is that if we can reduce the total project time by 1,000 man-hours of team effort, we can significantly reduce the project cost as well. Although this benefit is not highlighted in the junior programmer’s claim, it is very obvious. It seems that taking her advice is a good idea.
But in order to weigh all the pros and cons we need to first analyze it further and then issue a change request.
Reference: PMBOK Guide 5th Edition, page 283 and page 82

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Each time you perform the Validate Scope process with your customer he points out changes to the design that are nice and often useful but which he hadn’t really asked for. You are annoyed by all of this undetected gold plating. Which process are you not performing that would have detected it earlier?

Answer & Explanation
Correct Answer: C) Control Scope
Collect Requirements and Define Scope are processes that are performed early on in the project, usually a long time before the deliverables are worked on. These processes were performed and completed as a basis for your scope. They won’t help you detect gold plating.
Perform Integrated Change Control is the process of reviewing and approving change requests. Gold plating is applied without formally filling in a change request and asking for approval. This process won’t help you either.
The Control Scope process on the other hand might help you detect gold plating before you show the deliverables to the customer. In this process we monitor the status of the project scope. In particular we compare the original requirements with the work performance information. Gold plating will show up as a variance between the planned and actually produced features of a deliverable.
Reference: PMBOK Guide 5th Edition, page 137

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Your company provides specialized IT support services for firmware upgrades. Your country’s government has passed regulations stating that firmware of all telecommunication equipment must be upgraded to support IPv6. The government has approached your company to upgrade the firmware of all installed equipment at the major airports in the country. For your company, this project is a result of which of the following:

Answer & Explanation
Correct Answer: C) Customer request
This is a tricky scenario and the answer is at first a bit surprising. Let’s look at this from the point of view of both the government and your company: The government approached your company to do this project because they are bound by their own regulations. So for the government, this project was initiated as a result of their own legal requirement For your company, however, the project is initiated by a customer request. Remember that you don’t own the airports nor the equipment installed there so you don’t have a legal requirement to update the firmware. The government, on the other hand, owns the airports/equipment and is therefore asking you to perform this update. In this case, the government is a customer like any other customer and you are doing

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