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Project Management Professional (PMBOK 7th Version)
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Following an investment decision-making meeting for a project, a change to the organizational structure takes place in a multinational company. Due to the organizational change, internal stakeholders are referring the project manager to various other personnel for approval of the project budget.
What should the project manager do to obtain approval of the project budget?
The project sponsor wants to obtain quick feedback from end users for a product under development. The roadmap is extensive and will not be completed for quite some time.
What should the project manager do?
An IT team has reached out to the project manager for guidance on which communication method to use when system downtime will impact the resources working on the project.
Which two communication methods should the project manager recommend? (Choose 2)
A project manager is working on multiple building construction projects using a predictive project management approach. Senior leadership within
the organization is promoting the inclusion of more agile practices into the current project methodologies. The project sponsor now wants the
projects to use more agile methodologies.
Before mandating any agile methods to be used in a project, what should the project manager do first?
A project manager ' s project relies on services from a department that has a new leader. Since the new leader was appointed, the services from their department have been slow which threatens the project ' s delivery deadline.
What should the project manager do?
Multidisciplinary teams will be needed for a project. The project manager asks the project planner to create a consolidated schedule. The project manager determines from the consolidated schedule that the project ' s finish date exceeds the requested finish date.
What should the project manager suggest to the planner to analyze this issue?
A government approved the construction of a river dam to enable year-round farming in a community. At the project kickoff meeting, a key stakeholder in the community disagrees with the location of the dam.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager is planning the fifth sprint of a project when the sponsor requests a report on the business value gained to date. What should the project manager show to the sponsor?
While working with the project team on planning project resources, the project manager discovers that a critical resource will be assigned at the same time to another project in the organization. The project team explains to the project manager that this resource cannot be replaced by another resource.
What should the project manager do first?
A company has decided to create a new product to prepare itself for the changing economy. The technology required for the new product is not well understood yet, and the requirements are still being debated.
Which approach should the project manager advise for this project?
A project manager is working in a regulated industry. The minimum viable product (MVP) for the launch has been defined. The project manager learns that the regulatory body requires a prototype for inspection before the product can be launched; however, the prototype is not part of the MVP definition.
What should the project manager do next?
During a business review meeting, a key stakeholder raised a concern on the quality of deliverables and has now escalated the concern.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager is working in a constantly changing business environment. In order to address this situation, the project manager has decided to use a collaborative leadership style.
Which landscape describes the project environment?
A project manager is leading a project with a team that is comprised of both experienced and inexperienced team members. What should the project manager do to ensure an effective project team?
Customers are concerned about the quality of an interim software system for a project. The quality control team has approved the software, but the customers are complaining that some functions do not comply with the requirements.
What should the project manager do to prevent this from happening again?
A team is using an agile approach to maintain the project backlog. A new project obstacle was identified as a blocker and added to the backlog list. The team is facing challenges to remove this obstacle.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is new to an organization that typically follows a hybrid approach but is shifting to incorporate more agile. A dedicated project team has been provisionally assigned. The new project manager needs to review the internal environment in order to build a high-performing team.
To build a high-performing team, which three factors should the project manager evaluate? (Choose 3)
A project manager coordinates several projects in one program. Each project concerns a different country, has a different sponsor, and has specific business priorities. The resources are shared among the projects. The project manager anticipates this could result in delays and/or conflicts that will affect the program outcomes.
What should the project manager do to prevent such a situation?
A project manager is preparing a large and complex international project. In order for the team to work well together in a virtual environment, the project manager needs to set up ground rules for good communication.
What should the project manager do first?
A project has obtained all of the necessary legal requirements and policies from the local government. During the execution phase, the product owner is informed that a new law impacting the project deliverables will be published within two weeks.
What should the project lead do?
A project team has obtained additional team members from different time zones. As a result, there are full-day delays in the work being completed because there are questions from team members from opposite time zones.
What should the project lead do?
A project manager is leading a project that is kicking off next month. The project manager realizes that there are many stakeholders that need updates on different aspects of the project at different frequencies.
What should the project manager do first to ensure each stakeholder has the information they need?
A company is building a minimum viable product (MVP). How should the project manager help to ensure the company builds a high-quality product?
The project lead is very concerned about the quality of a specific design feature and how the product will perform. What should the project lead focus on to ensure project success and customer satisfaction?
A product owner has indicated there is strong customer interest in adding a new set of functionalities to a product. Using agile approaches, the project manager evaluates the new functionalities of the product.
What should the project manager do?
An experienced team member has recently started performing at a slower pace and is no longer engaged in various team conversations. What should the project manager do?
A project is delivered using a hybrid approach. In the daily meeting, one of the developers informs the team that the business that will implement the next version of the product has a new manager. There is one more sprint before the new version of the product enters the staging phase.
What should the project manager do?
A virtual product development team is working well together and is on schedule. One team member wants to take 1 week off to attend a training.
What should the project manager do?
The project manager is planning a project with several legal aspects for the city ' s municipality. The project is expected to take a year and will require a lot of paperwork since it involves multiple stakeholders, including the city ' s court.
What three actions should the project manager do? (Choose 3)
A project team is using a vendor solution. The project team has been notified that the vendor solution will no longer be on the premises, but in the cloud. The cloud transition will require additional infrastructure resources and adherence to new security standards.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager leads a regulatory initiative with tight, non-negotiable timelines. During a status meeting, a key stakeholder asks if a critical milestone associated with the reporting functionality can be moved up by 4 weeks.
What should the project manager do first?
A product owner is complaining about the team ' s performance. The developers are highly skilled, and most of the issues were caused by dependencies. The developers provide a formal status report every day, but it is clear that the other team members are not satisfied with this.
What should the project lead do?
A project to support an organizational transformation is in the planning phase. Transformation is the project sponsor ' s idea and is not aligned with key stakeholders because they all have different opinions about the project outcomes.
What should the project manager do next?
A project team is using an iterative and incremental delivery approach. The sprint ' s duration is 1 month with a production release every 3 months. In the last sprint review, the users communicated that they want the functionality presented and deployed in 5 weeks. The project lead is working on the next release plan.
When should the project lead have their team deploy the functionality?
A project team has difficulty understanding the relationship between functional requirements and their associated benefit to the business stakeholders.
How should the project manager improve the team ' s understanding?
To limit the amount of time and cost of using a contract programming firm, a product manager announces that the developers will not be paid for unrequested embellishments to the product. What should the development team and scrum master do to ensure they are paid for all their work?
A project manager is overseeing a 10-mile piping installation project that was supposed to spend US$15,000 per mile of piping installation and should complete the project exactly 20 weeks from its start. The project manager just found out that only 80% of the work has been completed.
What is the budget at completion (BAC)?
A project manager notices during project meetings that some team members repeatedly threaten to resign when they do not agree with something. Which phase of conflict escalation is the project in?
A project manager is finalizing the project charter and has invited the project sponsor and key stakeholders to confirm the project estimates. The project manager suggests adding a budget reserve to meet unforeseen risks, but the project sponsor disagrees.
What should the project manager do?
A global and complex project is in the execution phase. Recently, there were executive board changes, and the executive sponsor is transitioning to a new role. The outgoing sponsor asked the project manager to speed up project completion of the current phase to ensure successful onboarding of the new sponsor.
What should the project manager do?
A drone manufacturing company is designing its first drone. The new project architect has called the project manager to review the project scope. The architect wants to reshuffle the scope and schedule to test the drone functionality first. The project team disagrees because the scope has already been approved and any change might affect the timelines set by the CEO.
What should the project manager recommend?
In the execution phase of a project, the development team is informed by the IT security department that one of the external platforms that the team is using will be uninstalled for the whole organization.
What should the project manager do first?
The scope of a construction project that is being planned by a multinational company requires that services are procured via contract from an external provider. When considering communication channels, what should the project manager do to help maximize delivery success with this provider?
A newly hired project team lead was assigned a project using a hybrid delivery approach. As the project onboards a lot of new team members, the lead feels overwhelmed with the effort of explaining the project delivery process to each new team member.
What should the project lead do?
Two experienced team members in a hybrid project are having a conflict about a technical solution. The project manager has already spoken individually to the two team members without successfully resolving the conflict.
What should the project manager do next?
A project is delayed considerably from its original completion date for various reasons. The client attributes the delays to the contractor and is going to impose liquidated damages. The project manager of the contracting company reviews the schedule and observes that, though some activities were delayed by the contractor, the critical activity was delayed by the client.
What should the project manager of the contracting company do?
Four new teams have been formed to develop a new product. Several team members ask the project manager who will integrate the different work streams into one backlog.
What should the project manager do?
An organization is undergoing an agile transformation and migrating most of its projects from a predictive approach. The CFO expressed a concern that predictability on both costs and scope will be lost with the new agile approach.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager with global teams is managing a project that is progressing as expected. However, recently the project manager has learned of some team members missing the daily meetings. After investigating the issue, the project manager realizes different time zones is the main cause of the issue.
What should the project manager do next?
The sponsor calls the project manager and questions why the stakeholders have not received updates for over 1 month. The project recently implemented a project management information system (PMIS) that provides real-time access to various project status measurements and information. The project manager is certain that all stakeholders have the opportunity and permissions for status updates.
How should the project manager proceed?
