PMP Planning and Scope Practice Questions

The first two Process tasks are about planning: choosing how to deliver and building an integrated plan, then defining and breaking down scope. Practice original questions across predictive, agile and hybrid projects.

Take the full timed PMP mock exam

180 questions in the July 2026 format: a case-study section first, then two sections of independent questions, on one 240-minute clock, with a score by domain and an explanation for every option.

Or try the free planning and scope drill
  • 27 original planning and scope questions, every option explained
  • Process domain (41% of the exam)
  • ECO tasks: II-1 Develop an integrated project management plan and plan delivery; II-2 Develop and manage project scope
Free sample · Question 1 of 3Process · Planning and scope

How far should a deliverable be decomposed in the WBS?

Choose the best answer

What our planning and scope questions cover

  • Assessing project needs, complexity and magnitude, and recommending a predictive, adaptive or hybrid approach
  • Integrated project management plan: subsidiary plans, baselines and keeping the plan current
  • Estimating effort and resources; dependencies and gaps across plans
  • Requirements, the scope statement, the WBS and WBS dictionary, and the product backlog
  • Validate scope (customer acceptance) versus control quality (correctness); scope creep and gold plating
  • Using data to make project decisions
Line drawing of a tree-shaped breakdown diagram on a large sheet of paper with a ruler and pencil

This list is our own summary of the tasks, written for practice. PMI publishes the full task statements and enablers in the PMP Examination Content Outline.

Drill planning and scope, then sit the full exam

Take the full timed PMP mock exam

180 questions in the July 2026 format: a case-study section first, then two sections of independent questions, on one 240-minute clock, with a score by domain and an explanation for every option.

Or try the free planning and scope drill

Ideas the questions test most

  1. A predictive approach fits when requirements are well understood and stable; an adaptive approach fits when requirements are uncertain or likely to change and the product can be delivered in increments; a hybrid mixes the two.
  2. The scope baseline is the approved scope statement, WBS and WBS dictionary. The lowest level of the WBS is the work package.
  3. Validate Scope is the customer or sponsor formally accepting completed deliverables; Control Quality checks that deliverables are correct and comes before it.
  4. Gold plating is adding features the customer did not ask for; scope creep is uncontrolled expansion of scope without adjusting time, cost and resources. Both bypass change control.
  5. In agile, the product backlog is the ordered list of work; the product owner owns it and the definition of done sets when an item is complete.

Start the free planning and scope drill · Process domain drill · Full 180-question mock exam

Common questions

How do I choose between predictive and agile on the PMP exam?

Look at requirement stability and how the product can be delivered. Stable, well-understood requirements and a product that only has value when complete point to predictive. High uncertainty, changing requirements and a product that can be released in useful increments point to adaptive. Many projects use a hybrid.

What is the difference between validate scope and control quality?

Control quality checks that a deliverable meets its quality requirements, and the team does it first. Validate scope is the customer or sponsor formally accepting the verified deliverable.

Take the full timed PMP mock exam

180 questions in the July 2026 format: a case-study section first, then two sections of independent questions, on one 240-minute clock, with a score by domain and an explanation for every option.

Or try the free planning and scope drill

More PMP topics

Domains, tasks, question types and format: PMI: Project Management Professional (PMP)® Examination Content Outline, July 2026 PMP Certification Exam Update · PMI: PMP certification page (exam format, domains and breaks), checked November 2026.

PMP®, PMI® and PMBOK® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc. Game Assessment Prep is an independent practice site. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or an Authorized Training Partner of the Project Management Institute (PMI). Every question is original; none is taken from PMI materials, the PMP exam or another prep provider.