Project Management Professional Certification (PMP) Practice Exam

Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)  Certification Exam

About the Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)  Certification Exam

Project Management Professional (PMP) is one of the most important industry-recognized certification specifically designed for project managers. PMP certification also provides a significant advantage when it comes to earning potential. The sole objective of the PMP certification is to signify that the candidate understands the global language of project management and connects to a community of professionals, organizations, and experts worldwide. Project management professionals need more diverse skills and approaches than ever before. 

The practice exams are as per the new version of the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam.

Who Should Apply?

The certification is suitable for candidates with a good level of experience as a project manager responsible for all aspects of project delivery, leading and directing cross-functional teams.

Exam Pattern for Project Management Professional Certification (PMP) Certification Exam

• Exam Name: Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Total Questions: 180 questions
• Format: Multiple Choice Questions
• Exam Duration: 240 minutes
• Type of Questions: Multiple-choice, multiple responses, matching, hotspot and limited fill-in-the-blank

Prerequisites for Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)  Certification Exam

Course Structure for Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)  Certification Exam

The Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)  Certification Exam is as per the latest and updated version - 

Domain I  - People - 33%

Task 1 - Develop a common vision 

• 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.

Task 2  - Manage conflicts 

• 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.

Task 3  - Lead the project team 

• 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.

Task 4  - Engage stakeholders 

• 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.

Task 5 - Align stakeholder expectations 

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

Task 6  - Manage stakeholder expectations   

• 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.

Task 7 - Help ensure knowledge transfer

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

Task 8 - Plan and manage communication 

• 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. 

Domain II - Process—41%

Task 1  - Develop an integrated project management plan and plan delivery 

• 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.

Task 2  Develop and manage project scope 

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

Task 3  - Help ensure value-based delivery 

• 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.

Task 4  - Plan and manage resources 

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

Task 5  - Plan and manage procurement 

• 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. 

Task 6  - Plan and manage finance 

• 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.

Task 7  Plan and optimize quality of products/deliverables 

• 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.

Task 8  - Plan and manage schedule 

• 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.

Task 9 - Evaluate project status 

• 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.

Task 10 - Manage project closure 

• 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).

Domain III Business Environment—26%

Task 1  Define and establish project governance 

• 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.

Task 2  - Plan and manage project compliance 

• 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 complies.

Task 3  - Manage and control changes 

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

Task 4  - Remove impediments and manage issues   

• 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.

Task 5  - Plan and manage risk

• 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.

Task 6 - Continuous improvement

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

Task 7 - Support organizational change

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

Task 8 - Evaluate external business environment changes

• 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. 

FAQs on Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)  Certification Exam

1. To apply for other PMI certifications,do one needs to be a CAPM, PMP, or a PMI member?
No. No one certification serves as a prerequisite for another. Also to apply to become a certification holder you do not have to be a PMI member.  

2. How can a PMI certification be earned?
You must first meet the eligibility requirements in order to obtain a PMI certification, outlined on these web pages and detailed in the certification handbooks. Then, you must pass an exam.

3. What are the eligibility requirements?
The eligibility requirements for each certification are mentioned on its web pages and detailed in each respective certification handbook. For complete guidelines please link to the appropriate certification handbook.

4. How do I complete the application?
All certification applications are available online. Click the "Apply" button on the available web pages.
*Note: Any missing information on the application will delay processing.

5. Are the exams available in languages other than English?
The PMP, CAPM, and PMI-ACP exams are translated into multiple languages. For details on specific languages available please consult the respective certification handbooks.
*Note: Other certification exams are not currently translated, but PMI will notify you when translations are available.

6. Can I take it again if I fail the exam?
On your first attempt, if you fail the exam. Also, you can re-take it two more times within your one-year eligibility period. Fees are associated with re-examination. Details for re-examination can be found in the certification handbook.

7. What happens if I have not taken the exam and my eligibility expires?
From the date of approval, your application is valid for one (1) year. You must re-apply if you allow your eligibility to lapse.

8. Are audit materials confidential?
Yes. Audit materials are strictly confidential and unless required through legal action involving PMI are not shared with any external organization.

9. Does Testprep Training offer Money Back Guarantee for the Exam Simulator?
Yes, we offer a 100% unconditional money back guarantee. In case you are not able to clear the exam for then, you can request for the full refund. Please note that we only refund the cost of product purchased from Testprep Training and not from the Microsoft Learning.

10. Is there any assistance from Testprep Training in terms of exam preparation?
Yes, Testprep Training offers email support for any certification related query while you are preparing for the exam using our practice exams. Your query will be handled by experts in due course.

11. Can we try the free test before purchasing the practice exam?
Yes, testprep training offers free practice tests for Project Management Professional PMBOK 7th Ed Certification Exam which can be used before the final purchase for the complete test.

12. Do you provide any preparation guidance for this certification exam?
Yes, our experts frequently blog about the tips and tricks for exam preparation.

13. Do you offer any discount on the bulk purchase?
Yes, we offer nearly 50% discount for the order more than 10 products at a time. You can reach the testprep training Helpdesk for more details. The member of the support staff will respond as soon as possible.

14. For how long is the license valid after purchase?
Once purchased, the practice exams can be accessed for the lifetime.

15. Am I required to retake the exam? As the exams become updated with performance-based items.
No. The skills that are tested do not change; therefore, retesting is not necessary.

16. Do the exams with performance-based questions take longer to complete?
Yes. These exams may take longer to complete than exams that do not contain performance-based items. As performance-based questions are added to exams, you may see changes in the standardized exam times. No exam, however, will exceed 200 minutes, and the maximum seat time is 240 minutes.

For more FAQs
https://www.pmi.org/certifications/faq

What do we offer?

• Full-Length Mock Test with unique questions in each test set
• Practice objective questions with section-wise scores
• In-depth and exhaustive explanation for every question
• Reliable exam reports to evaluate strengths and weaknesses
• Latest Questions with an updated version
• Tips & Tricks to crack the test
• Unlimited access
  

What are our Practice Exams?

• Practice exams have been designed by professionals and domain experts that simulate real time exam scenario.
• Practice exam questions have been created on the basis of content outlined in the official documentation.
• Each set in the practice exam contains unique questions built with the intent to provide real-time experience to the candidates as well as gain more confidence during exam preparation.
• Practice exams help to self-evaluate against the exam content and work towards building strength to clear the exam.
• You can also create your own practice exam based on your choice and preference
  

100% Assured Test Pass Guarantee

We have built the TestPrepTraining Practice exams with 100% Unconditional and assured Test Pass Guarantee!
If you are not able to clear the exam, you can ask for a 100% refund.