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Project Management Professional (PMBOK 7th Version)
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A sales team working on an IT deployment project approached the project manager on several occasions and complained about nonpayment of their overtime pay. The project manager realized that other team members are receiving their overtime pay
What should the project manager do next?
One phase of a project took much longer than initially anticipated The key stakeholders expressed their concern regarding a potential project delay. What should the project manager do?
A project manager is a part of the project management office (PMO) and Is tasked with finding a reputable vendor to provide on-site support for their project. The project sponsor stresses the urgency of the need and suggests using a vendor they know to provide the support.
What should the project manager do given the urgency?
A project is assigned to two different project teams to develop product features. One team uses a predictive approach and the other team uses an agile approach to complete the work. Senior management is concerned about the success of the project.
What should the project manager do?
A company has transitioned and is now delivering projects using a hybrid approach
instead of a predictive approach. The distributed project team ' s knowledge of agile is varied.
The project manager feels this new methodology will impact the timely delivery of the project.
What should the project manager do?
A sales learn working on an IT deployment project approached the project manager on several occasions and complained about nonpayment of their overtime pay The project manager realized that other team members are receiving their overtime pay
What should the project manager do next?
A compliance strategy was created during the planning phase of a project During execution, the project manager left the organization and another project manager was assigned to the team
What should the project manager do first to ensure the project is compliant?
A project manager is asked to develop maintenance planning software for a power plant. A similar project was executed by another department in the organization that was later closed due to low performance. The project manager is concerned about the project ' s performance and wants to
take action in advance to ensure the project succeeds.
What should the project manager do?
A solution designer in an agile team often passes the design information to team members without any documentation, This has resulted in misunderstandings within the team.
What should the agile leader do?
A construction services company has influence within the local community with the potential to derail a project site establishment. Their build was unsuccessful but they continue to communicate with the hope that their influence will persuade the project manager to reconsider their offer.
What is the appropriate course of action for the project manager to pursue?
A project manager is managing a hybrid project that is using a contractor for a few key deliverables. The contractor has been hired to perform an important delivery, but has not yet confirmed that they can meet the required schedule.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is involved with a project to remodel a long-used product. There are no proper records for the original design and execution of the original product. The stakeholders doubt that the remodel can be accomplished without this information and are hesitant to provide support for the project.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is managing a project that is going to deliver a new risk platform. This platform will enable data-driven and new risk market models to ensure compliance with new regulations. The regulatory requirements for the models are released continuously and are not fully fixed yet. The project manager is reviewing the risk register and added a few new
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Match the risks on the left lo the correct category on the right.
A project manager for a large software delivery project is in the process of finalizing the project governance, The project manager would like to implement procedures that do not align with several policies required by the organization ' s project management office (PMO). The project manager
believes that the procedures outlined in the project governance will be necessary for this particular project due to the unique nature of the
technology.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager gas been asked by the project manager office (PMO) to select the appropriate project management approach for three upcoming projects. Match the projects on the left with the approach that should be used on the right.
A project manager for a construction site realizes the importance of stakeholder
relations, especially with the local community. The project manager and the project team strive to build effective relationships with these key stakeholders in order to prevent obstacles in the future.
What should the project manager do to customize the stakeholder engagement plan?
A company has a transformation project in progress. During a planning session, several stakeholders are in constant disagreement and often use personal arguments to support their position. Team members are getting frustrated with the situation.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?
A company has rolled out the latest retail management system, and the project has been handed over to operations. The operations team finds that many of the day-to-day requirements are not covered in the system, and support for the project has limited hours, The project team has dissolved and the contract resources are no longer working on the project. As a result, the operations team has been facing numerous customer issues.
What should the project lead have done initially to avoid this situation?
Early prototypes developed in a project show an unacceptably high detect rate. The quality management plan calls for a cause-and-effect analysis to address quality problems as they arise.
What is the protect manager ' s first step in addressing the problem?
A project manager has been assigned a low-priority project that includes new team members with no previous formal project experience. The project team has requested deadline extensions for the first development increment twice already.
What should the project manager do to support the team?
A project is nearing completion. The sponsor is already asking the project management office (PMO) when the project manager will be assigned to host a planning session for a new initiative.
What should the project manager do next?
A team is having a hard time completing work due to unclear requirements. They have not been able to complete an iteration successfully in several months.
In order to help the team, what should the project leader do?
During a kick-off meeting at the start of project execution, the vendor presents a
migration plan to client stakeholders. The director of the business unit that owns the solution being migrated demands the ability to make the final go/no-go decision about whether the systems go live.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager finds an unexpected issue halfway through a customer ' s protect After analysis the project team determines that the issue will affect the timeline unless more resources are allocated to the project.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager for a factory construction project in a small town is evaluating the necessary actions to engage stakeholders The local community is speculating the impact of the facility. There are rumors of job opportunities and environmental impacts which are listed on the project risk matrix
What should the project manager do with regard to community engagement in this situation ' '
During project execution, a global project team was using a video conferencing tool to support the daily meetings. However, during these meetings, only a few team members were actively participating As a result lots of misunderstandings occurred
What should the project manager do to address this issue?
A procurement team lead has been reported as getting into conflicts with other project team members on a weekly basis, The project manager engages with the team lead and discovers that other team members do not believe the team lead is right for this position.
What should the project manager do to resolve these recurring conflicts between the team lead and the other team members?
A project manager for a software technology project works in a matrixed organization with virtual teams. Unfortunately, the functional manager informs the project manager that there may not be any resources available to test the software.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager works in a startup company and is in charge of a key project that has critical and time-sensitive delivery objectives. One of the project team members missed completing an assigned deliverable on time, despite repeated assurances from the team member that it would be completed on time
What should the project manager do next?
In experienced project manager has never managed an agile project until now. Due to the uncertainty of the project, the project manager is struggling with the definition of the project scope and is taking a long time trying to define it.
What should the project manager do?
During a status review meeting a team member raises concerns about tasks that are not being completed due to an underperforming resource on the team. What should the project manager do first?
A project manager has received an updated earned value analysis report The following are the key findings from the report
•Budget at completion = USS1 million
•Earned value = US$0 7 million
•Actual cost = US$0 75 million
•Cost performance index = 0 933
Based on this information, what should the project manager conclude about project performance ' ?
A project manager just started managing agile projects The project manager realizes that due to the lack of a clear definition of project objectives and definition of done (DoD) their colleague ' s projects have had many difficulties Sponsors keep asking for more features and the projects have yet to be completed
What should the project manager do to avoid these issues?
In a hybrid project, the customer has issued a contract that specifies the deliverables for each quarter The customer wants to show their stakeholders a tangible outcome in the first quarter and wants to move the second milestone to the first quarter The project manager explains to the customer that it is not feasible unless the requirements for the second milestone are changed
Which two actions should the project manager take? (Choose two)
The programming activities of a project were planned to last 35 days per module but the programming of the first module has taken 45 days What should the project manager do?
A verbal announcement is made that the new team member joining the Scrum team has limited mobility The scrum master is aware that some team members are unsure how the dynamics of the team will change
What should the scrum master do?
An agile project manager would like to convert the requirements document into epics, capabilities, features and stories In how many iterations should the project manager estimate the story duration?
During the design phase of a project the project manager notices that the schedule performance index (SPI) is 1 8 and the cost performance index (CPI) is 0 1 In a weekly meeting with top management, the project manager reports concerns about these indicators However the most concerned person was the project sponsor who said that if the trend continues, they will be forced to prematurely close the project
What should the project manager do?
A project is being executed The project ' s life cycle is defined as predictive however, a major deliverable will be handed over incrementally to the customer The assigned resources are experienced and reliable and are willing to make decisions that the project manager used to make after each incremental delivery on other projects
What should the project manager do?
A new project manager learns the work assigned to the team has already been decomposed to its lowest level The project manager reviews the work and feels some additional useful information is missing
What should the project manager review?
A new project manager was assigned to a project during implementation. The project manager realized that new tax policies are creating a risk for a cost overrun by 25% The project manager updated the risk register and kept the project running as normal The CEO has announced that the project could be cancelled since the acceptable cost overrun is only 20%. The project manager was quite surprised as this was new information.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this?
A project manager joins a team that is providing a customized enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to a client A potential design problem is identified by the development team After reviewing this issue with the project owner and team members, all agreed to revise the design to avoid a system defect when deployed The design is already approved.
What should be the project manager ' s next steps?
A geographically distributed project team has development issues between the collocated and virtual teams causing productivity to decrease. What should the project manager do to address this issue?
During project execution, the project manager notices that the work performance reports have deteriorated drastically in less than two weeks The project team in country A is complaining about delays resulting from holidays occurring in country B that have impacted their project team
How should the project manager handle this situation?
A project manager works with a global virtual team. The team is facing difficulty in communicating with each other and often misses important messages. This difficulty leads to missed deadlines.
What should the project manager do to enhance project team effectiveness?
The project sponsor on an agile project informed the project lead that an executive would like an update on the project’s progress What should the project lead do?
A retail chain is evaluating a project to replace payment systems across all its stores in multiple locations The project does not pass the financial threshold but is also expected to increase market share, improve customer services and retain more customers The project is planned as a phased implementation building on learning from the retrospectives during each phase
How should the business increase the value of the project?
A new project manager is assigned to lead an agile project The project manager wants to use motivation to encourage the team to perform well throughout the project
What should the project manager do?
A company has been following a predictive approach and always waits for the preceding phase to be completed before evaluating the quality of their products A new project manager with experience in hybrid approaches has been assigned to help increase the efficiency of the company ' s quality management process.
What should the new project manager do to address the process improvements?
An organization is introducing agile to its projects. During an informal discussion the project manager learned that team members who are currently working on different teams are discussing how they would like to be together on the same team
What should the project manager do?
