Free PMP Practice Questions for 2026: Start With 75, Try 5 Right Now

Quick answer: ExamElephant's free tier includes 75 PMP practice questions aligned to the 2026 Exam Content Outline, each with a full rationale covering every option, and no credit card is required. Anything you miss is automatically retested at 3 and 7 days until you have mastered it. Five original sample questions with worked answers are below, so you can start practicing inside this article.

Free PMP questions are easy to find and mostly stale — recycled from retired outlines, keyed wrong, or "explained" in one unhelpful sentence.

What the 75 free questions include

Signing up is free and gives you 75 questions drawn from the same bank the paid plans use. No credit card. Specifically:

• Aligned to the 2026 Exam Content Outline, which went live on July 9, 2026 — not the retired outline.
• Spread across all three domains — People, Process, and Business Environment — with mixed formats, including matching and scenario-based items.
• A full rationale on every question: why the credited answer is right and why each distractor is wrong.
• The retest engine included. Anything you miss comes back at 3 and 7 days until you've mastered it — the method behind that is in why retesting misses beats grinding new questions.

Seventy-five questions won't make you exam-ready by themselves, but they are enough to locate your weak domains honestly.

Try 5 sample questions

Commit to an answer before reading each rationale. These are original items written by our team — aligned to the exam style, never copied from it.

Question 1 — People

A developer on your agile team tells you privately that she has been blocked for two weeks waiting for the security team to approve her access request, and the sprint goal is now at risk. What should you do first?

• A. Escalate the delay to the project sponsor
• B. Reassign her work to a developer who already has access
• C. Contact the security team to resolve the blocker and make the impediment visible on the board
• D. Log the delay in the risk register and monitor it

Answer: C. Removing impediments is the heart of servant leadership, and the team member has already tried the normal channel for two weeks. A escalates before the project-level channel has been attempted; B treats the symptom and leaves the systemic blocker in place; D documents an issue that has already materialized instead of acting on it.

Question 2 — Process (earned value)

A project has a BAC of $200,000. EV is $80,000 and AC is $100,000. Cost performance is expected to continue at the current rate. What is the EAC?

• A. $220,000
• B. $250,000
• C. $180,000
• D. $300,000

Answer: B. "Expected to continue" is the trigger for EAC = BAC / CPI. CPI = EV / AC = 0.8, so EAC = $200,000 / 0.8 = $250,000. Option A is the atypical-variance formula, AC + (BAC − EV) = $220,000 — the right formula for a different stem. C and D come from combining the given figures without a formula.

Question 3 — Process (hybrid)

Your project delivers infrastructure through a predictive plan and software through two-week iterations. A stakeholder asks you to add a reporting feature to the software component. What should you do first?

• A. Submit a change request to the change control board
• B. Direct the request to the product owner for backlog prioritization
• C. Add the feature to the current iteration, since adaptive approaches welcome change
• D. Decline the request because the scope baseline is approved

Answer: B. Changes to the adaptive component flow through the backlog, where the product owner prioritizes them against everything else. A routes an adaptive-scope change through predictive governance; C bypasses prioritization and endangers the iteration goal; D applies baseline thinking to the component that was deliberately set up to absorb change.

Question 4 — Process (reserves)

During execution, an event that no one identified in the risk register occurs, and the response will cost $25,000. What is the correct source of funds?

• A. Contingency reserve, at the project manager's discretion
• B. Contingency reserve, with sponsor approval
• C. Management reserve, accessed through a change request
• D. A revised cost baseline funded by descoping

Answer: C. Unidentified risks — unknown-unknowns — are covered by management reserve, which sits outside the cost baseline and requires a change request to access. Contingency reserve (A and B) is sized for identified risks, however the approval is framed. D reaches for rebaselining before the standard funding mechanism has even been used.

Question 5 — People (conflict)

Two senior engineers publicly disagree over the integration approach, and sprint planning has stalled. Both options are technically viable, and the team needs a decision that will hold. What is the best course of action?

• A. Select one approach yourself so planning can resume
• B. Facilitate a working session where both options are evaluated against agreed criteria
• C. Defer the decision to the next sprint to let tensions cool
• D. Split the work so each engineer uses their preferred approach

Answer: B. With time available and a working relationship worth preserving, collaborate/problem-solve is the preferred conflict approach — and shared criteria make the decision durable. A is forcing: fast, but it breeds resentment and rework risk. C is avoiding while the sprint stays stalled. D dodges the conflict entirely and manufactures integration risk.

What to do after your 75

Your dashboard shows first-try accuracy by domain. Compare it against the readiness signals, and check whether your misses cluster in the topics our pilot data flags as hardest. When you need more than 75 questions, paid passes with the full bank and authentic mocks are coming soon, as one-time purchases rather than subscriptions. Join the waitlist and you'll hear the day they open.

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