{"id":"pmp-free","timeLimitSec":400,"questions":[{"id":"pmpf-001","section":"people","q":"In a weekly status meeting, two senior engineers argue again about which design to use, and the disagreement is now delaying design approval. What should the project manager do?","options":["Choose the cheaper design and record the decision in the issue log","Escalate the decision to the sponsor so the status meeting can move on to other topics","Meet with both to find the cause of the disagreement and solve it together","Tell both engineers to settle it between themselves before next week"],"answer":2,"explain":"Collaborating (problem solving) on the real cause gives the most lasting resolution. Escalating or forcing a choice skips the people who own the problem."},{"id":"pmpf-002","section":"people","q":"In a Scrum team's daily meeting, each developer now reports progress to the product owner, and the meeting runs 40 minutes. What should the scrum master do?","options":["Replace the daily meeting with a written status report","Let the meeting continue as it is, because the product owner is satisfied with it","Ask the product owner to run the meeting more strictly","Coach the team that the daily meeting is for the developers to plan"],"answer":3,"explain":"The daily scrum is a short planning event by and for the developers. A servant leader coaches the team back to that purpose instead of taking control."},{"id":"pmpf-003","section":"process","q":"A hospital project has a fixed building schedule and an app whose features are still uncertain. Which delivery approach fits best?","options":["Predictive for both parts, with all of the app features fixed and signed off now","Hybrid: predictive for the building, adaptive for the app","Delay the app until the building is finished","Agile for both, including the building works"],"answer":1,"explain":"Stable, well-known work suits predictive planning; uncertain work suits adaptive delivery. Combining them is a hybrid approach."},{"id":"pmpf-004","section":"process","q":"A project has earned value (EV) of $45,000 and actual cost (AC) of $50,000. What is the cost performance index (CPI), and what does it mean?","options":["0.9: the project gets $0.90 of work for each $1 spent","0.9: the project is ahead of schedule and spending to plan","0.9: the project is ahead of schedule","1.11: the project is under budget"],"answer":0,"explain":"CPI = EV / AC = 45,000 / 50,000 = 0.9. Below 1 means over budget for the work done."},{"id":"pmpf-005","section":"business","q":"An agile team has waited a week for another department's security approval, and two stories are blocked. What should the scrum master do?","options":["Work with the security department to remove the blocker","Wait for the next sprint to see whether the other department solves it by itself","Tell the team to skip the security review","Ask the developers to escalate it themselves"],"answer":0,"explain":"Removing impediments the team cannot solve alone is a core servant-leader task."}]}