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What is meant by situational questions in PMP exams?

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Question added by Fredy Makram Labib , R&D manager , Universal for home appliances
Date Posted: 2014/03/18
Ahmed Montasser Hasan Ibraheem Farag
by Ahmed Montasser Hasan Ibraheem Farag , Project Manager , Rawafed Tech

senario question

Abdul Rehman Zaheer
by Abdul Rehman Zaheer , Marketing & Projects Specialist , King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

Situational questions are most toughest questions. They offer a lot of detailed background information / scenario based problems to solve or correct answers to them to identify. They really put your PM knowledge to test for skills assessment. Often more than answer may seem correct and it's hard to identify the correct one avoiding the trap embedded. Ofcourse if your knowledge of Project management is very thorough with experiences you should be able to deal with them.

You've given a 3-5 lines of senario paragraph and needs to select the best answer to fit with the senario needs, for example, terminating the project could be the best answer in case if the project sponsor found out that the project will be very hard to be completed and all of the possible solutions have been used.

Mohammad Tohamy Hussein Hussein
by Mohammad Tohamy Hussein Hussein , Chief Executive Officer & ERP Architect , Egyptian Software Group

These are scenario based questions. They provide a lot of background information about a situation faced by a project manager and provide multiple correct or very close to be correct and ask you to choose one of these answers.

 

 

Such questions aim to test your problem solving skills based on the information provided in the PMBOK..

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