Free Practice Questions for PMI Project Management Professional Certification

• Help ensure a shared vision with key stakeholders. • Promote the shared vision. • Keep the vision current. • Break down situations to identify the root cause of a misunderstanding of the vision .

• Identify conflict sources. • Analyze the context for the conflict. • Implement an agreed-on resolution strategy. • Communicate conflict management principles with the team and external stakeholders . • Establish an environment that fosters adherence to common ground rules. • Manage and rectify ground rule violations.

• Establish expectations at the team level. • Empower the team. • Solve problems. • Represent the voice of the team. • Support the team's varied experiences, skills, and perspectives. • Determine an appropriate leadership style. • Establish clear roles and responsibilities within the team.

• Identify stakeholders. • Analyze stakeholders. • Analyze and tailor communication to stakeholder needs. • Execute the stakeholder engagement plan. • Optimize alignment among stakeholder needs, expectations, and project objectives . • Build trust and influence stakeholders to accomplish project objectives .

• Categorize stakeholders. • Identify stakeholder expectations. • Facilitate discussions to align expectations. • Organize and act on mentoring opportunities.

• Identify internal and external customer expectations. • Align and maintain outcomes to internal and external customer expectations . • Monitor internal and external customer satisfaction/expectations and respond as needed.

• Identify knowledge critical to the project. • Gather knowledge. • Foster an environment for knowledge transfer.

• Define a communication strategy. • Promote transparency and collaboration. • Establish a feedback loop. • Understand reporting requirements. • Create reports aligned with sponsors and stakeholder expectations . • Support reporting and governance processes.

• Assess project needs, complexity, and magnitude. • Recommend a project management development approach (i.e., predictive, adaptive/agile, or hybrid management). • Determine critical information requirements (e.g., sustainability). • Recommend a project execution strategy. • Create an integrated project management plan. • Estimate work effort and resource requirements. • Assess consolidated project plans for dependencies, gaps, and continued business value . • Maintain the integrated project management plan. • Collect and analyze data to make informed project decisions.

• Define scope. • Obtain stakeholder agreement on project scope. • Break down scope.

• Identify value components with key stakeholders. • Prioritize work based on value and stakeholder feedback. • Assess opportunities to deliver value incrementally. • Examine the business value throughout the project. • Verify a measurement system is in place to track benefits. • Evaluate delivery options to demonstrate value.

• Define and plan resources based on requirements. • Manage and optimize resource needs and availability.

• Plan procurement. • Execute a procurement management plan. • Select preferred contract types. • Evaluate vendor performance. • Verify objectives of the procurement agreement are met. • Participate in agreement negotiations. • Determine a negotiation strategy. • Manage suppliers and contracts. • Plan and manage the procurement strategy. • Develop a delivery solution.

• Analyze project financial needs. • Quantify risk and contingency financial allocations. • Plan spend tracking throughout the project life cycle. • Plan financial reporting. • Anticipate future finance challenges. • Monitor financial variations and work with the governance process. • Manage financial reserves.

• Gather quality requirements for project deliverables. • Plan quality processes and tools. • Execute a quality management plan. • Help ensure regulatory compliance. • Manage cost of quality (CoQ) and sustainability. • Conduct ongoing quality reviews. • Implement continuous improvement.

• Prepare a schedule based on the selected development approach • Coordinate with other projects and operations. • Estimate project tasks (milestones, dependencies, story points). • Utilize benchmarks and historical data. • Create a project schedule. • Baseline a project schedule. • Execute a schedule management plan. • Analyze schedule variation.

• Develop project metrics, analysis, and reconciliation. • Identify and tailor needed artifacts. • Help ensure artifacts are created, reviewed, updated, and documented. • Help ensure accessibility of artifacts. • Assess current progress. • Measure, analyze, and update project metrics. • Communicate project status. • Continually assess the effectiveness of artifact management.

• Obtain project stakeholder approval of project completion. • Determine criteria to successfully close the project or phase. • Validate readiness for transition (e.g., to operations team or next phase) . • Conclude activities to close the project or phase (e.g., final lessons learned, retrospectives, procurement, financials, resources).

• Describe and establish the structure, rules, procedures, reporting, ethics, and policies through the use of organizational process assets (OPAs). • Define success metrics. • Outline governance escalation paths and thresholds.

• Confirm project compliance requirements (e.g., security, health and safety, sustainability, regulatory compliance). • Classify compliance categories. • Determine potential threats to compliance. • Use methods to support compliance. • Analyze the consequences of noncompliance. • Determine the necessary approach and action(s) to address compliance needs . • Measure the extent to which the project is in compliance.

• Execute the change control process. • Communicate the status of proposed changes. • Implement approved changes to the project. • Update project documentation to reflect changes.

• Evaluate the impact of impediments. • Prioritize and highlight impediments. • Determine and apply an intervention strategy to remove/minimize impediments . • Reassess continually to help ensure impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team are being addressed. • Recognize when a risk becomes an issue. • Collaborate with relevant stakeholders on an approach to resolve the issues.

• Identify risks. • Analyze risks. • Monitor and control risks. • Develop a risk management plan. • Maintain a risk register (e.g., poor IT security). • Execute a risk management plan (e.g., risk response for security and managing sustainability risks). • Communicate the status of a risk impact on the project.

• Utilize lessons learned. • Help ensure continuous improvement processes are updated. • Update organizational process assets (OPAs).

• Assess organizational culture. • Evaluate the impact of organizational change on the project and determine required actions.

• Survey changes to the external business environment (e.g., regulations, technology, geopolitical, market). • Assess and prioritize the impact on project scope/backlog based on changes in the external business environment. • Continually review the external business environment for impacts on project scope/backlog.