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Project Management Professional (PMBOK 7th Version)
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A project manager is leading a technically complex project. The project is part of a strategic program of work and the first to use an agile approach. One of the board members is interested in attending a meeting to see how the delivery of the project scope is progressing.
What should the project lead do?
An organization is transitioning to an agile delivery approach. There is only one project that is being used as a pilot for the new approach. The project management office (PMO) manager has asked the project lead how communications with the project team and the stakeholders will be managed.
What should the project lead recommend?
A software development project completed the initiation phase. The technical design was approved by the project steering committee. Later, it was discovered that the design will impact the company’s production system. A new technical design must be found and this could delay the project by 3 months.
What should the project manager do first?
A company wants to show the commercial advantages of a product in a competitive market. They commissioned a project team to create a prototype. The team is building the prototype incrementally.
What should the project manager set as a priority?
A team has individual daily start times for each team member. Sometimes the overlap between team member working hours is short. During those
times, the interactions and work as a team are reduced and ineffective.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is leading a hybrid project that is building an app for a travel industry startup. Due to unforeseen events, the features and the overall solution will not be useable by many customers due to new travel restrictions.
What should the project manager do first?
An organization is altering their schedule, and the project team is now expected to be in the office together once a week. Despite everyone being dedicated to the project, the team members all follow their functional teams ' schedules, which differ from one another.
How should the project manager address this situation?
A company faces challenges and decides to cut a few product features from the main project due to market conditions. During a status meeting, a new stakeholder expresses concern about the discrepancies between the current deliverables and the deliverables agreed upon in the project charter.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager is assigned to a major construction project. The project is critical to the city ' s population, and especially to the local government
official who committed to delivering the project on time as an election promise. A new project sponsor has been assigned and wants to include
aspects that the previous project sponsor did not support.
What should the project manager do next?
An agile project will be delivered to a client based on a fixed price in cryptocurrency. Due to the volatility of cryptocurrency, both parties have
agreed to adjust the scope to the value of the cryptocurrency at the end of every iteration and halt the project when the agreed price is reached.
Which approach should be used in this situation?
A project manager has been assigned to lead a software project to generate savings at an important financial institution. Initially, the duration of the project was 13 months,
but due to various issues during execution, the project was extended to 16 months. By month 11, the expected savings were exceeded but not all of the functionalities
planned for that date were fulfilled.
How should the project manager inform the stakeholders of the project ' s progress?
A project manager has been transferred to another country to work on a key project. The project manager successfully completed the planning phase and has started the execution phase, reporting good progress. During the last meeting with the project sponsor, the project manager was told that some stakeholders have complained that the project manager ' s emails are very harsh.
What should the project manager do to solve this situation?
A project manager encounters a governance issue during the project execution phase. One of the team members complains about receiving assignments from multiple people and states they are not able to work effectively.
What should the project manager establish first in the project governance structure?
After conducting a performance assessment, the project manager identified that some gaps still exist. What should the project manager ensure?
A project is starting its second iteration out of six. During the daily meeting, a team member asks for help. In order to finish a deliverable, an
approval from the design department will be needed.
What should the project manager do?
A global program is being kicked off, and various distributed teams are involved in delivering the initiative. Besides planning and executing the scope for the initiative, team
interactions must be considered.
How should the project teams interact in their meetings?
A project manager is managing a project that requires specialized architecture services. This project was identified as a high risk for the
organization. The project manager works with an external architect who is highly specialized. However, the architect will soon resign because they
accepted an offer from another firm.
What should the project manager do next?
In order to increase a project ' s profit margin, the project manager and subject matter experts (SMEs) agreed to select the oldest model of a
specific machine available in the market. When the machine reached its destination country, it was blocked by customs authorities who restricted
the import of this machine model.
What should the project manager have done to prevent this from happening?
A project had scheduling delays, which necessitated the team to work overtime to meet critical milestones. This led to some misunderstandings
among team members. The project sponsor has allocated a monetary award.
How should the project manager utilize the award?
A project manager is leading a project when a key stakeholder requests additional work that is not in the scope. The stakeholder is also concerned that the project sponsors may not approve and fund the additional change in scope.
What should the project manager do first?
A technician is scheduled to install internet service at the homes of three remote call center agents who have different working schedules. Their functional managers
arranged time off to allow time for installation and testing. The carrier sends an email to the project manager stating that one appointment is delayed for 2 days.
What does the project manager need to do now?
A project manager is scheduled to meet with a client for their weekly risk management meeting. The project manager observed that one of the tasks which had external dependencies is delayed by one week. The project manager knows this will have an impact but does not know the exact details.
What two things should the project manager do? (Choose two)
A project manager is managing a mobile application development project when one of the experienced team members starts missing deadlines. The delays will impact
project implementation.
What should the project manager do next?
In the middle of a software development project, the lead design programmer accepted an offer from a competitor. The project manager needs to find a replacement to meet an upcoming milestone.
What should the project manager do?
An agile team is working on a 2-week sprint to deliver business value. About 1 week after the sprint starts, the team members do not feel
confident about the product increment they are building. They do not want to wait until the end of the sprint and want to validate the product
increment with the product owner now.
What should the project manager do to mitigate this risk?
A project manager is managing a large project. During a review meeting, the project manager discovers that one of the team members who use to be a high performer was not able to complete their work on time.
What should the project manager do?
A customer ' s technical lead discussed a new feature with the project manager. The project manager believes the new feature will boost performance significantly and adds it as a high-priority item in the sprint backlog. At the end of the sprint, all of the planned stories were not completed because the new feature took more time.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager for an agile project is concerned that the team has been losing momentum over the last iterations. Which two tools should the project manager use to
analyze team performance? (Choose two)
A project manager is assigned to a project where a vendor has been engaged to build a new system One week before user acceptance testing (UAT) is scheduled the vendor informs the project manager that they can only deliver half of the promised functions by the UAT start date.
What should the project manager do next?
A project sponsor would like to include a new deliverable. The sponsor contacts the project manager in order to seek advice on the most efficient approach to complete the deliverable within the next 2 months.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager has been approached by the project sponsor about adding to the project scope How should the project manager accommodate this request?
A project manager is in a cross-functional agile team. The project manager has been assigned a software project with multiple features that will
take the team about a year to complete. The CEO is insisting that the solution needs to meet business goals for the year end, which is due in 6
months.
What should the project manager do to align stakeholders’ needs and expectations?
A project manager has been assigned to a new project that will be delivered using an agile framework. The sponsor is asking for a cost estimation to build the business case.
What should the project manager do?
A new project team consists of team members from different departments who have varying levels of experience and different areas of expertise.
Which three approaches should the project manager take in order to facilitate knowledge sharing? (Choose 3)
In a financial company, a strategic project has been planned to use a predictive approach. During project planning, the product leader requests
that milestones be submitted for review. There is a defined scope and an established deadline to conclude the project.
What should the project manager do first to meet the product leader ' s expectations?
A project manager is working on a unique project that is dissimilar to the project nature of the organization. The project manager is tailoring the artifacts for this new project.
Who should determine which artifacts should be used in the project?
A project manager agreed to a team member ' s request to have an alternative working schedule whereby they begin working at 12:00 p.m. each
day. This arrangement has worked well for the project, but has recently been scrutinized by members from other project teams because the
company ' s core working hours begin at 9:00 a.m.
What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation?
During execution of a complex project, the project manager encounters numerous change requests from various teams. These changes may result in the project not meeting its objectives.
How should the project manager ensure that these changes are managed effectively?
A project has recently completed its production go-live, meeting the project ' s completion requirements in accordance with the scope document. However, the customer has been requesting a number of significant project enhancements.
How should the project manager address the customer ' s requests?
An organization ' s human resources (HR) department wants to create a high-performing team and implement a project that includes job grading, organizational restructuring, and soft skills training.
To ensure the quality of the project deliverable, which three actions should the project manager take? (Choose 3)
A key stakeholder who is highly involved in the project claims that the reports sent by the project team are inadequate. What should the project manager do first?
The project sponsor reports that a key stakeholder is complaining about performance differences in the metrics reported by the project manager,
which gives the impression that the project is out of control. The project manager has been providing the project ' s status according to the agreedupon communications management plan. This key stakeholder, however, seldom attends the status report meetings.
What should the project manager do first to address this situation?
A project manager is leading a hybrid project funded by a time and materials (T & M) agreement. The project was completed, and the client
accepted the delivery of the product. One week later, the client asked the project manager to fix two defects they found in the product. The project
manager responded with an estimate of time and money and asked the client to confirm this. The client disagreed and insisted that the work
should be done for free because it is a defect in the product.
What should the project manager have done to prevent this?
In a global project, the main definitions were developed in country A, and the delivery of the project will be completed in phases in countries B, C, and
D.
Country B discovers that one of the legal requirements was not addressed.What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?
A project manager is leading a project to develop accounting software for a trading firm. As the outcomes are being delivered, a new risk is
identified regarding an indirect tax regulation that is being changed by the government in the next 6 months. This risk will have a significant impact
on the project outcomes.
What should the project manager do next?
A project team is performing a post-release evaluation of a product that requires detailed feedback from seven stakeholders. Six of the stakeholders have promptly provided feedback. One of them has not provided any feedback despite numerous requests from the team.
What should the project manager do in this situation?
A project team is engaging a development team in another country to develop software. During progress reviews, the project manager identified completion date delays due to rework because there were different interpretations of the client ' s needs.
What should the project manager do?
In the daily check-in meeting, a team member informs the project team that the licenses for one of the components that will be used will expire in
a couple of months. The licensing cost is significant.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is beginning a new project with very diverse team members. The project manager chose to use consensus building so the team can agree on and be
engaged in how the project will be executed.
How should the project manager proceed?
A project is ending its fifth out of six iterations. During the iteration review, a customer adds a new regulatory feature that exceeds the capacity of the remaining iteration.
What should the project lead do?
