PMI PgMP Program Management Professional (PgMP) Online Training
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The questions for PgMP were last updated at Jul 20,2025.
- Exam Code: PgMP
- Exam Name: Program Management Professional (PgMP)
- Certification Provider: PMI
- Latest update: Jul 20,2025
A program manager is concerned that a program will be unable to achieve its intended benefits.
How should the program manager handle this concern?
- A . Meet with the program management office (PMO) to review critical program success factors.
- B . Meet with the component project managers to reallocate resources within the program.
- C . Meet with the program stakeholders to determine if a reduction in program scope is acceptable.
- D . Meet with the component project managers to perform risk analysis.
A program management team is invited to a company’s annual strategy planning session . The CEO discusses the mission and vision of the organization, and how the strategic plan will create opportunities to fulfill them.
How can the program manager use the company’s vision to establish a program?
- A . Define the program and component projects to enable the fulfillment of strategic goals.
- B . Set the priority matrix, and map the projects’ priorities that will be included in the program.
- C . Define the program roadmap, and highlight the individual projects’ benefits.
- D . Identify program benefits that will enable the fulfillment of strategic goals.
When is the lessons learned document updated?
- A . At closing phase
- B . At planning phase
- C . Throughout the project lifecycle
- D . At execution phase
A program manager joins a team to fix a troubled enterprise-wide customer relationship management (CRM) system. Analysis indicates that duplicate customer information data is resulting in redundant client information . The program manager accesses the knowledge repository for similar programs to gather historical data and trends. A corrective action is identified, and a change in process is implemented to regain data integrity.
What should the program manager do with the knowledge gained from this activity?
- A . Include the lessons learned in the weekly program report
- B . Update the communications management plan
- C . Update the lessons learned database
- D . Communicate the corrective action to the program sponsor
You are the project manager of a construction project. You have to close a phase of the project.
Which is the only technique (or tool) available in the Close Project or Phase process?
- A . Change control meetings
- B . Project management information system
- C . Expert judgment
- D . Observations
After attending a technology exposition, an influential stakeholder believes that integrating a new technology into the program will increase benefits and help shorten the schedule . The stakeholder asks the program manager to immediately include the new technology into the program.
What should the program manager do next?
- A . Assess the new technology and discuss the results with the program steering committee to determine next steps.
- B . Start the change management process and submit a change request to integrate the new technology.
- C . Inform the stakeholder that the program will not be changed until proof of concept (PoC) is completed.
- D . Research the new technology and begin its integration during the next development cycle.
A program is midway through the program delivery phase when a key stakeholder asks if the program is meeting its defined objectives.
How should the program manager demonstrate the program’s progress?
- A . Define the key performance indicators (KPIs) for the program’s outcome.
- B . Invite the key stakeholder to review the program charter and the program objectives.
- C . Provide additional program performance reports to the key stakeholder.
- D . Maintain the benefits register and provide it to the key stakeholder.
Andy is the program manager of the HQN Program. This program is nearing its completion and there is still $25,000 left in the program budget. Andy has asked the program team to identify some extra deliverables that can be included in the program scope to improve the program deliverable but also to use all of the funds in the budget.
What term is assigned to the actions that Andy is trying to do in this instance?
- A . Value-added change requests
- B . Zero based budgeting
- C . Integrated change control
- D . Gold plating
The project manager of project A develops a communications management plan . The project manager of project B is new and is uncertain how to develop appropriate communications for the company’s staff.
What should the program manager do to ensure communications on the component projects are consistent?
- A . Request a more experienced project manager to work on project B.
- B . Create a program communications management plan across all component projects.
- C . Direct all projects to use project A’s communications management plan as a template.
- D . Rework the communications management plans for all projects to be consistent.
What is the other name for critical delivery dates?
- A . Substantial completion.
- B . Phases.
- C . Flags.
- D . Milestones.