Stop. If you're still reading every PMP option line by line, you are losing marks. Mindset alone will not clear PMP exam.
In this video, I'll show you six powerful strategies to solve a real complex PMP scenario question and this will help you lock the right answer. And the best part is we will use all these exam strategies to solve a real PMP complex scenario based question so that you'll understand how it works under exam time pressure. Make sure to watch video till the end and also comment below what's hurting your score currently.
Is it time pressure or overthinking? So let's get started. Strategy one, skim for the core problem.
When you see a PMP question, don't read it like a normal. Skim the scenario. Ask yourself what is the real issue.
Is it scope or risk or stakeholder conflict or team issue or is it change request? PMI adds extra details to create noise. Your job is to filter out the noise and identify the core problem first.
Strategy two, identify the methodology. That's identify the project environment. Is it predictive, agile or hybrid?
Because agile requires collaboration and servant leadership. Whereas predictive requires formal processes and governance and hybrid requires a balance. Your answer must match the methodology.
If you answer an agile question with predictive thinking, you lose marks. Strategy three, read the actual question carefully. Now look at the last sentence.
What exactly are they asking? Is it first, next, best, most likely or negation or not to? One single word can change the entire answer.
Never ignore this step. Strategy four, eliminate before selecting. Before choosing the correct answer, eliminate the clearly wrong ones.
Look for the options that escalate too early. Avoid responsibility. Break process.
Ignore collaboration and react emotionally. Remove them fast. Now you are choosing between two strong answer.
Much easier, isn't it? Strategy five, track back before locking. This is where most candidates lose marks.
After selecting the best looking answer, pause, track back. Ask yourself, does this actually answer solve the problem described? Is it align with first or next?
And is it solving the root issue, not just reacting to the symptoms? Sometimes an option sounds perfect, but it answers the wrong question. This is your quality control check before locking.
Strategy six, flag and move on. If you are stuck after 60 to 70 seconds, flag the question. Don't sacrifice three easy questions for one confusing one.
Control time. Don't let time control you. Now we have built a solid framework.
Comment below which is your favorite step and subscribe for regular PMP question and smart exam strategies. Now let's dive into the question. Question.
A project manager is leading a hybrid digital banking project. The transaction engine is delivered using a predictive approach under a time and materials contract. While customer features follow agile iterations, the release date is committed to investors.
During sprint 5, the vendor identifies a performance limitation that may impact scalability. Fixing it could require refactoring baseline predictive components already used by the agile team. The risk was previously marked low probability.
The sponsor prioritizes market perception and the vendor indicates possible cost increases without confirming liability. What should the project manager do first? Options are A reassess the risk register and execute the planned response while informing stakeholders of potential cost and schedule impact.
B. Conduct an integrated impact analysis across predictive and agile components, including contractual and architectural implications before deciding on change control. C.
Engage the sponsor to reassess risk tolerance and confirm whether the performance issue is acceptable before taking corrective action. D. Work with the product owner and vendor to prioritize a technical spike in the next sprint to validate performance while maintaining baseline commitments.
Now let us solve the problem using the framework we discussed. Step one core problem. Let's identify the core problem.
And the core problem involves technical contract and risk. Step two methodology. From the question it's very much clear that it's hybrid methodology.
Step three to identify the keyword and the keyword is first. Step four is to eliminate. So now look at uh the options.
So option C in option C uh there is no data before tolerance. So we can eliminate this one. And when it comes to option D, we are just executing before governance.
So even option D can be removed. Option A acting before full impact clarity. This is slightly weaker answer.
So let's park it over here and let's see if we can track back and see the answer B. See now step five that's track back. Let's see option B.
It performs integrated impact analysis across predictive, agile and contract exposure. So data first and then decision making B as the most accurate and appropriate answer. Now let's look at the answer.
The correct option is B. Thank you.
