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Project Management Professional (PMBOK 7th Version)
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A team member mentions to the scrum master that the user stories are too long. The team member believes this may be the cause of the team ' s inability to deliver value for stakeholders.
What should the scrum master do?
An agile team is struggling to successfully deliver what they have committed. During the daily status meetings, the project manager notices that the most senior engineer is doing all of the talking, leaving little time for the other members to share their status. The team ' s performance is not good, and some team members want to leave the team.
How should the project manager approach this situation?
During a sprint, the team is experiencing conflict because the customer asks for additional features that increase the complexity. The scrum master is trying to resolve the conflict.
Which approach should the scrum master use?
During project execution, a project manager is leading the team to work on the project schedule. During a meeting, the team has difficulty understanding the complexity of a task and is unable to provide an estimate for the required resources.
What should the project manager do first to resolve this issue?
A team is performing above expectations, and the sponsor wants to expand the project scope to benefit the organization. However, there are only a few team members with the needed leadership experience.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is leading a diverse project team that includes new and experienced team members. A conflict has occurred between two team members. One team member prefers using digital tools for project communication. The other team member prefers in-person meetings and phone calls for communication.
What should the project manager do to manage this conflict?
A railroad construction project is in the planning stage. During a monthly progress meeting, an external project manager from the sponsoring organization mentioned there is a potential delay in the design completion date. The external project manager wants to know the impact of this delay on the overall project completion date in the next monthly meeting.
Which three actions should the internal project manager take next? (Choose 3)
A project manager notices that the project team is encountering product issues while coding client-specific developments. The project manager foresees delays to the project ' s timeline because of these product issues.
Which methods should the project manager use to communicate project delays and other difficult messages to stakeholders?
A project leader is preparing to facilitate a sprint retrospective. The sales manager sends the project leader an email asking how a feature planned for the next shipment is being implemented.
What should the project leader do next?
A project team is struggling to meet the project deadline due to a reoccurring conflict between two team members. What should the project manager do?
A project manager with agile experience is part of an organization that is transitioning to agile. The project manager was assigned to the first agile project by the project management office (PMO). The PMO manager asked the project manager if an existing governance from a previous project would be suitable to use in the current agile project.
How should the project manager respond?
A project manager is trying to define a project time line despite having incomplete and ambiguous information on requirements and regulations. What should the project
manager do to finish planning?
A scrum master noticed that one of the team members is afraid to ask questions, does not like to collaborate with other team members, and avoids taking responsibility for their actions. What is the likely reason that would cause a team member to behave that way?
A company in the manufacturing industry has started a new initiative to integrate project management and improve product innovation. What first step should the project manager take to increase transparency among the stakeholders?
A key team member informs the project manager that they have been accepted to a master’s degree program. The team member explains that the first semester of the master ' s program will coincide with the last phase of the project.
What should the project manager do?
Construction work is preventing the project team members from entering the building where their offices are located.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager wants to ensure that the project acceptance criteria are met for all project deliverables. What should the project manager do to accomplish this?
A multinational company is launching a company-wide digital transformation project that covers all of its regions and business lines. The project is expected to go through five phases and finish in 2 years. The project manager schedules a kick-off meeting.
What should the project manager do next?
An agile project team received an assignment to develop an industrial system that interfaces with robots. The project team does not have any previous experience
performing this type of work. Team members are interested in acquiring such expertise but it may result in a project delay.
How should this situation be handled?
A project ' s business case was just approved and the project manager is creating the benefits management plan. It is unclear how the benefits from the project align with the organization ' s vision.
What should the project manager do first to verify alignment?
A project team member does not submit the project status report on time. The team member is frustrated about being required to complete the report. The team member believes that the report does not reflect the reality of the project, has too many pages, and will not be read by stakeholders.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is overseeing a project as part of a program geared toward a major technology disruption. The team is comprised of brilliant young professionals who have worked on different projects for the organization in the past. However, the team complained that they previously experienced a lack of direction during project execution and are a traid of the same issue in this project.
Which two actions should the project manager take to ensure that this issue does not occur in this project? (Choose two)
A key stakeholder who is frustrated by the lack of transparency of IT projects declines an invitation to participate in the new project meetings.
What should the agile project manager do to engage the stakeholder in the project?
A multimillion-dollar project has started and is in the execution phase. A local regulatory authority has just announced changes to the requirements that will need to be implemented in 6 months, prior to completing the project execution phase.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is managing a national rollout for an innovative product in a regulated environment that is expected to change. The project management office (PMO)
needs visibility of the regulatory constraints while maintaining a degree of flexibility.
Which tool can the project manager use?
A project manager is assigned to a new project team that has several stakeholders who can have significant influence over the project outcomes.
The project manager categorized the stakeholders into four different groups and wants to define the communication strategy.
How should the project manager handle communication?
A project manager receives a suggestion from a team member for improving the product attributes without impacting the schedule or cost. This will add value to the project
and the customer.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is managing the opening of a new office overseas. At the beginning of the project, possible delays due to legal permits are raised by one stakeholder. Subject matter experts (SMEs)
reassessed the concern and suggested assigning more time for this permit, and the change control board (CCB) agrees.
Which document should the project manager update first to document this change?
A project manager is assigned to a project related to taxes, which will be managed using an agile approach. By reviewing lessons learned from a
previous project, the project manager discovers that a key stakeholder is an expert on taxes and is willing to help.
How should the project manager leverage this information?
During the third iteration of a project, the product owner requests another mandatory feature. This also happened in the previous two sprints, which resulted in failure and caused frustration within the team.
What should the project manager do next?
A telecommunications project consists of departments spread across several countries with different cultures. The project team rarely meets in person, and each team member works independently using online reporting tools.
What should the project manager do to ensure team members are committed to project success?
A project manager is working on a project to release a new version of a key product, The product strategy and marketing areas are still working on defining the final details for the products appearance, but the team is clear about the main features. During the last sprint review, the project sponser expressed concerns about the low quality of the product,
What should the project manager, as a servant leader, do to address this situation?
A project manager works in an organization that embraces using different project approaches. The project manager ' s current project uses a
predictive approach with clear requirements. A few months following the kickoff, the project manager notices that the virtual development teams
are not communicating enough, and coordination is becoming an issue. The teams are not aligned on the tasks being done or the current
impediments.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager in one country is reporting to a lead project manager for a new software development project in another country. The lead project manager constantly
requests updates from the project manager, often demanding information via multiple communication channels if the project manager does not respond within a few minutes
of a request. Both of them are equal in seniority and both report to the same functional manager.
How should the project manager proceed?
A project manager is assigned to a project to develop a mobile app. The sponsor explains that the application should do better than their closest competitor ' s app. The sponsor ' s expectation is that the team can be put together and start work immediately.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager who is new to a matrix organization has just been assigned to an internal software development project that is intended to
reduce conflicts in the company’s internal tracking system. With over 1,000 people in the company who will benefit from the software, the project
manager wants to ensure everyone is aware of the great progress the team is making. The project manager meets with the project team to decide
upon the most effective way to communicate progress.
What should the project manager do?
The testing backlog for a hybrid project has increased significantly and is becoming a bottleneck. The team has researched a tool that could
resolve the bottleneck, and the project manager has been informed.
What should the project manager do next?
An organization is undergoing an agile transformation. The executive leadership team is concerned that they will lose control over the scope of the project.
What should the project manager, who is responsible for this project, do to mitigate this risk?
A team is entering into a forming stage after kickoff, with project objectives identified and team members assigned with roles and responsibilities. However, during the team meetings, a team member does not agree on project documents and makes comments that could affect the performance of other team members.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager has been assigned a project to build a new solar farm that will provide clean energy to a new housing complex. The government has decided to reduce
the tax on renewable energy products starting 1 January. The supplier has reached out and stated that the order placed for solar panels to be delivered on 20 December
might be delayed until early January. On the other hand, the project will face similar constraints due to the December holidays.
What should the project manager do about this risk?
After an executive-level reorganization, the new project sponsor is not keen on continuing with the project. What should the project manager do?
A project manager is assigned to a large construction project with more than 100 project team members. The project manager is having a hard time keeping the project on track and deriving the planned benefits. The project manager wants to make sure that each requirement is linked to the business and project objective.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is managing a technical project that requires intensive documentation as part of the key deliverables. Ina project review meeting, a key stakeholder reports that the latest documentation provided by the project manager includes a reference to unrelated products.
What should the project manager do?
A new development project is about to start, and the project manager knows that a high-profile customer makes very specific and frequent requests in all sprints. This project will demand contract coordination with third parties, and the project manager must find a better way to manage customer and partner expectations.
What strategy should the project manager use?
A project sponsor is concerned that the scope is not being met correctly and has questioned several team members about this individually. When the project sponsor approached the project manager, the project manager realized that the issue was that the project sponsor understood the scope in a different manner than the project team.
What should the project manager do to address this issue?
A company has undertaken a large transformation project in preparation for the changing economy. During the planning of the transformation project, the key resource from human resources (HR) refuses to approve the proposed project plan.
What should the project manager do to gain an understanding of the cause for the resource ' s refusal?
In an agile project, some stakeholders are asking to have a meeting with the team every 2 weeks in order to understand project progress. What
should the project lead do next?
A project manager holds meetings every Monday to review the team members ' progress. The project sponsor is insisting on daily updates to ensure improved delivery on products developed by all of the teams, including this one. Some learn members indicate they are on a very light time line and would attend me Monday meeting, but not the daily update meetings.
What should the project manager do to ensure all team members participate in daily meetings?
A project manager is assigned to work on a large global project. The resources for the project are dispersed among different organizations and countries. After the project kick-off meeting, the project manager learns that many virtual team members are unable to join the regular project update meetings. Their absence will impact the overall project schedule.
What immediate corrective action should the project manager take?
A product owner has added new high-priority work to the backlog, A project manager is working with a dedicated agile team that does not specialize in this specific area of work. The team reviewed the work and wants to accept it but acknowledges it may not have the same level of efficiency as another team having specialization in this area.
What should the project manager do In this scenario?
