PMI-SP Study Guide 2026
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📋 PMI-SP Exam Format at a Glance
📚 PMI-SP Topics to Study (71)
✍️ Sample PMI-SP Questions & Answers
1. A project manager notices the SPI is 0.82 at the midpoint of a software project. Which action is MOST appropriate?
An SPI below 1.0 indicates work is progressing slower than planned, requiring root-cause analysis and corrective action.
2. Which of the following scenarios results in a positive Schedule Variance (SV)?
SV = EV - PV; when EV exceeds PV, more work has been accomplished than planned, yielding a positive (favorable) variance.
3. Which feature in scheduling software allows multiple projects to share a common pool of resources and see cross-project resource demand?
An enterprise or shared resource pool links multiple projects so schedulers can view and manage resource conflicts across the portfolio.
4. An approved change request extends the project finish date by 6 weeks. The project manager updates the baseline. What must also be updated?
A schedule change often cascades into cost baseline, project charter (if thresholds are exceeded), and communications plan updates to maintain integrated planning.
5. Which scheduling technique, supported by most professional scheduling tools, probabilistically estimates project completion dates using thousands of iterations?
Monte Carlo simulation runs thousands of iterations with varied duration inputs to produce a probability distribution of completion dates.
6. During schedule development, a project manager discovers that a critical resource is assigned to two parallel tasks at 100% capacity each. The BEST first action is to:
Resource leveling is used to resolve over-allocation by adjusting task timing to match resource availability.