PMI Project Management Office Certified Professional Sample Questions:

1. An organization is implementing a new project management methodology. The PMO professional is responsible for establishing governance structures to support the implementation of the new methodology.
What should the PMO professional do to ensure that the new project management methodology will be used within the organization?

A) Develop a framework that will define the organization ' s approach to project governance.
B) Implement a project governance software solution that will automate many governance tasks.
C) Create a project governance board that will be responsible for setting project standards and policies.
D) Establish a centralized PMO that will be responsible for all aspects of project governance.

2. There have been numerous complaints about the performance of one of the project managers.
How should the PMO professional address this issue?

A) Check the project manager ' s talent development plan and identify gaps for improvement.
B) Conduct a competency gap analysis and provide respective trainings and coaching.
C) Reassign the project manager to another role and replace them with a more skilled project manager.
D) Review the PMO maturity report and make an appropriate decision based on the findings.

3. A PMO professional is acting as the PMO leader temporarily in a well-established and mature PMO unit. In this role, a PMO professional receives an escalation from the portfolio manager that a new business stakeholder ' s activity is overlapping with key portfolio management functions.
What should the PMO professional do to resolve this issue?

A) Refer the portfolio manager to the approved project charter.
B) Review the adopted PMO charter with the portfolio manager and the new stakeholder.
C) Train the new business stakeholder on the organization ' s key values.
D) Assess the conflict resolution portion of the compliance code of conduct.

4. In recent months, a company was contracted to deliver several projects requiring specialist technical resources. Several clients have begun to complain about the limited availability of the specialist technical resources, which will impact their project timelines.
What should the PMO professional do to help solve the problem?

A) Suggest the centralization of project resource management and align the project plans to their availability.
B) Request that the sales representatives review the contracts and deadlines that the company has taken responsibility for.
C) Invite project managers to hire additional skilled resources to face the high number of simultaneously running projects.
D) Support delivery managers and sales representatives in managing relationships with clients.

5. A well-established PMO in the banking sector has decided to evolve the company ' s current project management practices as an element of its mandate to drive organizational project management maturity.
However, the proposed changes were received with skepticism by the leadership team due to concerns about the impact on delivery throughput. The PMO professional was asked to address these concerns.
How should the PMO professional begin to address this issue?

A) Deliver training sessions, which are already within the PMO mandate, and work toward achieving higher project management maturity through them.
B) Prepare a detailed communication with Q & A about streamlining the current project management practices.
C) Demonstrate success stories of accelerated project delivery from more mature organizations to the leadership team.
D) Develop a map of proposed changes that do not affect delivery speed and resubmit the proposal to the leadership team.

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