Free PMI-CP Practice Questions

Question 1

During an occupied terminal refurbishment, the owner's authorized contract administrator directs an additional cable route in writing. The contract permits such directions before price is agreed, requires continued performance pending valuation, and has separate notice and recordkeeping requirements. The contractor accepts the technical solution but disputes the proposed allowance. The work can proceed safely. How should the contractor protect its position without breaching this procedure?

Accepted Answer

Proceed under the directive, give the required notice, and keep separate records of the changed work.

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Defer the revised route until a signed change order establishes the final price and any extension of time.

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Proceed using the owner's allowance as the agreed price, then seek additional costs in the final account.

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Combine changed-work costs with base-scope costs and separate them during final-account reconciliation.

Question 2

'The plant room will be yours on Thursday,' the mechanical lead tells the electrical lead. Both have allocated competent crews. Mechanical means installation finished; electrical means inspected and cleared for cable pulling. What is missing from this Commitment-based Management promise?

Accepted Answer

Mutually agreed conditions of satisfaction for the plant-room handoff.

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One supervisor with authority over both subcontractors.

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Financial incentives for meeting Thursday's deadline.

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A revised master schedule that records the electrical team's intended start date.

Question 3

An estimator reports a P80 cost of $42 million for a rail depot. The Monte Carlo model treats structural steel, reinforcement and steel cladding price movements as independent, although the three estimates use the same steel-price index. Each package also has unrelated labour and fabrication uncertainties. The sponsor intends to use $42 million as the funding limit. What must be resolved before relying on that percentile?

Accepted Answer

Represent the shared price exposure and rerun the model before using its confidence estimate.

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Run more iterations until the reported P80 no longer changes materially.

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Replace the package ranges with fixed most-likely prices to remove duplicated risk.

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Sum the packages' individual P80 estimates to obtain a project estimate at the same confidence level.

Question 4

A new research building records a Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) score of 175 using the building-project instrument. Equipment utility requirements were marked 'not applicable' because the tenant had not selected its laboratory equipment. The laboratories will require utility services, but those requirements remain undefined. Which conclusion belongs in the scope review?

Accepted Answer

The total may understate scope gaps; assess the utility requirements as undefined and rescore the element.

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The score supports baseline approval, with utility requirements carried as a post-approval design action.

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Retain 'not applicable' until the equipment selection is complete.

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Use the other equipment elements' average rating for utilities, rather than treating an unquantified requirement as a major deficiency.

Question 5

An Integrated Form of Agreement (IFOA) links the owner's, designer's and constructor's incentives to final project cost. A coordinated plant-room redesign would increase mechanical costs but produce larger savings in structural and electrical work. Equivalent performance, schedule and risk have been verified. The mechanical lead opposes it because that package would exceed its original target. Which commercial response fits the agreement?

Accepted Answer

Support joint approval of the redesign and apply the agreed project-level risk-and-reward sharing mechanism.

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Charge the mechanical increase to that contractor's fee before distributing savings.

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Preserve the original package targets and reject budget transfers between the parties.

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Negotiate a separate savings payment to the originating designer before applying the project's shared-reward arrangement.

Question 6

The owner and main contractor have agreed a night-time delivery plan for a city-centre project. Shopkeepers have little formal decision authority, but explain that the unloading area is their only route for early-morning stock deliveries. No statutory restriction is breached, and construction delivery times remain flexible. Before issuing the final plan, how can the engagement lead secure workable support?

Accepted Answer

Test revised delivery windows with the affected businesses and incorporate workable access arrangements into the plan.

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Reconfirm the owner's access rights and issue the agreed construction delivery times.

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Notify the shopkeepers through the main contractor's standard community circular.

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Ask the sponsor to convene an access review with both contracting parties before the project team discusses alternatives with the businesses.

Question 7

While two subcontractors prepare adjacent work areas, the temporary-works coordinator sees a shoring tower moving and fresh cracking at its base. Operatives are working beneath the supported deck. The principal contractor controls the area, but the subcontractors dispute responsibility for the tower. What takes priority during the next few minutes?

Accepted Answer

Stop the exposed work, clear and secure the danger area, and obtain a competent assessment.

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Ask the subcontractors' supervisors to agree responsibility for the tower, then have the responsible firm clear the area.

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Suspend new loading above the tower while workers below finish their current task and prepare the area for inspection.

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Have a structural engineer inspect the tower immediately, keeping the current work moving under the coordinator's direct observation.

Question 8

A project's governance plan delegates approval of individual changes up to $75,000 and one working day of completion delay to the project manager, provided required outcomes and external approvals remain unchanged. A $46,000 substitution causes no completion delay, meets the other conditions, has completed technical and commercial reviews, and fits approved funding. The sponsor is unavailable until next week. Who should authorize this change now?

Accepted Answer

The project manager, with the decision recorded under the delegated authority.

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The sponsor, as the project's business owner.

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The technical lead, who approved the substitute.

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The change committee, after the project manager secures an exception for the sponsor's absence.

Question 9

Before ordering a switchboard, a contractor can buy a $24,000 factory inspection-and-correction package. Without it, there is a 30% chance of a defect reaching the site and causing $180,000 of rework; the package reduces that chance to 5%. A separate expected transport-damage cost of $18,000 is identical under either choice. Both choices meet safety and contractual requirements. Using expected cost alone, what is the financial case for the inspection?

Accepted Answer

Approve it; the expected total cost is $21,000 lower.

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Decline it; the $24,000 fee exceeds the $9,000 residual expected defect loss.

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Approve it; the expected total cost is $45,000 lower.

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Approve it; the expected total cost is $39,000 lower.

Question 10

The weekly Obeya meeting ends with polished progress charts and a growing list of unresolved handoffs. Attendees understand the clashes, but package representatives must seek approval elsewhere before accepting a revised sequence. The same decisions return the following week. To change the meeting's results rather than its appearance, the facilitator should:

Accepted Answer

Arrange decision-maker attendance or obtain explicit delegation for the participating representatives.

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Increase the meeting frequency so emerging clashes can be reviewed before the weekly reporting deadline.

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Require each package to submit a more detailed recovery schedule before discussing changes to shared handoffs.

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Replace the workshop with written approvals circulated sequentially through each package's senior management.

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