Sample PMP Questions



With over a million Project Management Professionals worldwide, the Project Management Institute’s certification program is now a standard across all industries. Becoming a certified Project Management Professional (PMP)® involves meeting certain education and experience requirements, and passing a 200-question exam. (PMP Certification Handbook from PMI.)


The key to passing the PMP exam is to practice with sample PMP questions and to understand the PMI view of project management.  This means reviewing and understanding PMI’s Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), but also becoming familiar with how PMI expects project managers to apply that knowledge.  In most cases, this requires PMP-candidates to become familiar with new concepts during their PMP exam preparation, and/or to “unlearn” practices that they have picked up over the years.


Posts in this category relate to sample PMP questions – examples of the kinds of questions you might expect to see on the PMP exam.

Sample PMP® Question: August 2016

The project is closed, and all documents have been finalized. These documents become part of: A. Project Archives B. Organizational Process Assets C. Lessons Learned […]

Sample PMP® Question: May 2016 2 comments

Which of the following is an example of scope validation? Decomposing the WBS to a work package level. Reviewing the performance of installed software. Performing […]

Sample PMP® Question: April 2016

When any request forces changes to the plan, an experienced project manager only implements the changes after receiving an approved change request, to maintain the […]

Sample PMP® Question: March 2016

Team development activities should take place throughout the project life cycle, but have greater advantages when conducted: Early in the project life cycle. In the […]

Sample PMP® Question: February 2016

  You are in the middle of deciding between two projects.  The business groups have made a lot of effort in collecting payback information, future […]

Sample PMP Question: January 2016

You got involved in the project when the project was on the drawing board. No decision has been made if this project twill be started. […]

Sample PMP Question: December 2015

You need a batch of 100 identical valves which will be custom-made for your project to build a food processing plant.  There is a risk […]

Sample PMP Question: November 2015

If your expected value is 110 and the standard deviation is 12, which of the following is true? A. There is approximately a 99% chance of […]

Sample PMP Question: October 2015

Phillip is a project manager in a manufacturing industry.  He has just been assigned to a project that has been in progress for three months. […]

Sample PMP Question: September 2015

In the projects final closure phase, which of the following should be done first? a.  Measure customer satisfaction as a key performance indicator of project’s […]