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Question # 1

Project acceptance criteria include on-site training for the new users of a system. Due to unforeseen circumstances, all team members have to work remotely for an indefinite period of time.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Reschedule on-site training to online sessions.

B.  

Create a risk and assign remediation actions.

C.  

Cancel all of the on-site training sessions.

D.  

Document the project issue and provide options.

Discussion 0
Question # 2

A large project requires new equipment to support the project execution. The procurement manager communicated to the project manager that the delivery of the newly purchased equipment will be delayed. The project manager is concerned that this will directly effect the project schedule.

What should the project manager do next?

Options:

A.  

Validate the information and update the risk management plan.

B.  

Update the risk register and discuss it with the project stakeholders. b

C.  

Source second-hand equipment in order to prepare for any delivery delays.

D.  

Update the sponsor of the potential issue and ask for any suggestions.

Discussion 0
Question # 3

During a project meeting, the project manager expressed the importance of delivering reports on time. These individual reports will be

consolidated into a single report. One of the team member's reports was not delivered on time and therefore the report could not be integrated

with the other reports. This demonstrates a lack of teamwork and impacts project success.

What should the project manager do to resolve this issue?

Options:

A.  

Assign the task to someone else on the team.

B.  

Discuss it with the team member in confidence.

C.  

Discuss this matter during the project meeting.

D.  

Include this item in the risk register.

Discussion 0
Question # 4

A project lead is working on an agile project to build the team's vision, including the decision-making process. It was decided that the team will

vote on items, and if 90% of the team agrees on a decision, then it will be carried forward. At the very first technical design meeting, the team

makes a decision that the project lead strongly disagrees with.

How should the project lead proceed?

Options:

A.  

Refuse to let the team proceed with the work based on their decision.

B.  

Take the technical team lead aside and try to persuade them to change their vote.

C.  

Note the reasons for the disagreement and let the team proceed.

D.  

Set up a meeting with the project champion and ask them to intervene.

Discussion 0
Question # 5

A project manager is developing the stakeholder register and is having trouble understanding the motivation of some of the stakeholders. What should the project manager

do to get this information?

Options:

A.  

Organize a one-on-one conversation with each stakeholder.

B.  

Request stakeholders articulate their motivations at the kick-off meeting.

C.  

Email project objectives to all stakeholders and ask for endorsement.

D.  

Identify each stakeholder's motivations from the business case.

Discussion 0
Question # 6

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?

Options:

A.  

Meet with the new project sponsor to review the current project scope and the requested changes.

B.  

Rebaseline the project as there is now a new project sponsor, which is presenting an opportunity to review and recalibrate the project objectives.

C.  

Invite the project sponsor to a briefing with the project team to demonstrate progress and seek further support to meet project-committed deliverables.

D.  

Inform the new project sponsor that the new aspects will not be included in this project.

Discussion 0
Question # 7

A project's customer is furious. When the customer arrived at the project site, they discovered that one of their requirements was not met.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Refer to the requirements traceability matrix and analyze the requirement.

B.  

Analyze the benefits management plan and implement the needed change.

C.  

Consult the scope management plan with the customer to understand the gap.

D.  

Discuss and agree with the customer to implement the missing requirement.

Discussion 0
Question # 8

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?

Options:

A.  

Release the team and help them achieve their potential on a new project.

B.  

Ask the organization's management for advice regarding the project's direction.

C.  

Assess the environmental changes and recommend a pivot for the project.

D.  

Pause the project if business value cannot be reached and collect lessons learned.

Discussion 0
Question # 9

A few developers have identified a list of impediments at the daily standup and are asking for the project lead's assistance in prioritizing them. There are a few complex backlog items, and a new junior tester has identified a few compliance defects. The product owner and a couple of developers will be leaving the project team, and the contract with the test and production support partner will not be renewed.

Which issue should the project lead focus on first?

Options:

A.  

Developing a new contract for production support.

B.  

Finding a new product owner to prioritize the product backlog.

C.  

Regulatory compliance issues discussed in the meeting.

D.  

Recruiting, onboarding, and training new developers.

Discussion 0
Question # 10

A state-of-the-art product was delivered at the end of a project life cycle. However, the customer claims the product was not designed to specifications.

What should the project manager have done to avoid this issue?

Options:

A.  

The customer's requirements should have been captured in order to meet the customer's standards.

B.  

The iteration review planning meeting should have been planned accordingly.

C.  

The sprint retrospective meeting should have included necessary stakeholders.

D.  

The customer's requirements should have been captured and modified to meet the supplier’s standards.

Discussion 0
Question # 11

After a recent status review meeting, the project manager becomes aware that an influential stakeholder is unclear about the purpose and benefits of the project Consequently, the stakeholder has questioned the viability of continuing the project What should the project manager do next to address the situation?

Options:

A.  

Speak with the project sponsor to find out if the stakeholder would agree to a one-on-one review session

B.  

Log the stakeholder's comments in the risk register as a high-impact threat to the project's completion

C.  

Consider the stakeholder's concerns and review the project charter with the project sponsor.

D.  

Note the stakeholder's concerns but disregard them with regard to the project activities.

Discussion 0
Question # 12

A team shared a complaint regarding the scrum master during the last sprint review. The team expressed that they were delayed because the

scrum master did not remove impediments, such as scheduling some meetings with external teams and obtaining a room to work collaboratively,

among other critical blockers.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Request an additional resource to assist in solving all of the impediments listed by the team.

B.  

Determine and agree when a situation becomes an impediment to be solved by the scrum master.

C.  

Request the team review and prioritize the open impediments to resolve all of them as soon as possible.

D.  

Push back, explaining that a self-organized team should address all of the problems to get the work done.

Discussion 0
Question # 13

During a project's execution phase, two team members are having conflicts with other team members within the team on technical and interpersonal levels. Which two actions should the project manager take first to address this conflict? (Choose two)

Options:

A.  

Ask human resources (HR) to intervene before it escalates and affects the team's performance.

B.  

Arrange individual meetings with the team members who cannot work together effectively.

C.  

Address the conflict during team meetings for the entire team to participate and find solutions.

D.  

Discuss the conflict early among the affected team members using a direct, collaborative approach.

E.  

Plan to resolve the team members' conflicts after the sprint and focus on achieving the goal.

Discussion 0
Question # 14

An agile project for a database migration impacts nearly all business units of the corporation. Every effort has been made to complete the migration before the end-ofsupport date for the database platform. Anew impediment now implies the need to continue use of the old platform another year at a higher support price.

What should the product owner do about this situation?

Options:

A.  

Reprioritize the backlog based on value and cost of delay divided by duration.

B.  

Reprioritize the backlog based on story size and competence availability.

C.  

Remove low-value items from the backlog to compensate for the higher cost.

D.  

Switch to a predictive approach to prevent any further delays to completion.

Discussion 0
Question # 15

A project team is working on an agile software development project. The project manager is concerned that the virtual team may not be as effective as a colocated team at headquarters.

Which two actions should the project manager leverage to ensure the team is meeting performance expectations?

(Choose two)

Options:

A.  

Hold daily virtual meetings to review progress.

B.  

Implement time-keeping software for team members.

C.  

Task functional managers to drive accountability.

D.  

Utilize a web-based kanban board.

E.  

Require a monthly individual status report.

Discussion 0
Question # 16

A stressful situation has presented some challenges for the team. The project manager notices stress behavior in some of the team members, and it is beginning to spread across the group. The project manager needs to coach the team to change their mindset in order to be more efficient.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Establish a productive environment where all team members can assist one another with the workload.

B.  

Create an environment of respect and fairness so the team can increase their project performance in stressful situations.

C.  

Meet with the team to discuss the correct, expected behavior in stressful situations and start practicing it.

D.  

Ensure that people care about each other and work effectively together through effective team management

Discussion 0
Question # 17

A project manager meets with the development team to estimate the time required to complete a software application. The software developers are new to the company, and they have never developed a similar application.

Which estimation technique should the project manager recommend?

Options:

A.  

Planning poker

B.  

Parametric estimating

C.  

Three-point estimating

D.  

Analogous estimating

Discussion 0
Question # 18

A stakeholder informs the project manager about a few compliance-related gaps and issues. The stakeholder then presents several suggestions to the project manager to address the issues.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Use the compliance issues to identify coaching and mentoring opportunities.

B.  

Log the feedback from the compliance gaps in the lessons learned register.

C.  

Review this with the project sponsor to avoid compliance gaps and issues.

D.  

Discuss the suggestions with the staff responsible for the compliance issues.

Discussion 0
Question # 19

A typically high-performing team member has started to demonstrate a performance drop as well as some aggressive behaviors toward other team members in meetings.

The project manager has worked with this individual for many months on this project and has not seen this type of behavior before.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Discuss the project manager's observations with the individual to determine why they are behaving this way.

B.  

Discuss the individual's behavior with the other team members to determine if they have noticed and know what is going on.

C.  

Attend more team meetings to observe the team more closely to determine the root cause.

D.  

Discuss their performance with the team member's functional manager as well as human resources (HR) and discuss next steps.

Discussion 0
Question # 20

A project manager is leading a global project with resources spread out in different locations. The stakeholders have different interpretations of the

requirements. The project manager is concerned about scope creep.

Which action should the project manager take to control the scope?

Options:

A.  

Ensure that all key stakeholders agree to the project deliverables and there will be no need for changes.

B.  

Accept only those changes to requirements that provide additional value to the project.

C.  

Reject all changes that will increase the budget or increase the time line of the project.

D.  

Accept only those changes that are approved by the change control board (CCB) prior to being implemented.

Discussion 0
Question # 21

A project team is prioritizing the creation of project artifacts and enforcing it rigidly, while they face issues with delays in deliverables. How should the project manager respond?

Options:

A.  

Facilitate the implementation of an automated tool for the team to manage project artifacts.

B.  

Implement stricter controls so that project artifact creation is given the utmost importance.

C.  

Recognize the team's efforts for documenting artifacts and motivate them with an incentive mechanism.

D.  

Advise the team that solely focusing on artifacts will not produce successful project deliverables.

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Question # 22

All project team members refer to the project manager for various decisions. This causes delays for some tasks, as the project manager is usually preoccupied in meetings throughout the day.

What should the project manager do to prevent these delays?

Options:

A.  

Review the Pareto diagram to identify the source of delays.

B.  

Meet with the team in 2 weeks to respond to all of the open tasks.

C.  

Consolidate the decision-making authority to remain with the project manager.

D.  

Delegate the decision-making authority of some tasks to the team.

Discussion 0
Question # 23

An agile project manager notices that one of the team members is developing extensive knowledge in a specific matter. Other team members are

likely to require this knowledge in the future.

What should the agile project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Ask the team member to develop more expertise and become a subject matter expert (SME).

B.  

Ask the team member to provide a training session for the rest of the team.

C.  

Ask the team member to produce a lessons learned document and share it with the team.

D.  

Ask the team member to record highlights the team may want to know.

Discussion 0
Question # 24

A project manager is working on a multinational project that has more than 100 stakeholders. The project manager is concerned about the

appropriate stakeholder participation and involvement level required for successful project delivery.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Communicate with the stakeholders to find a solution.

B.  

Review the issue log with the project stakeholders.

C.  

Evaluate the stakeholder engagement assessment matrix.

D.  

Perform a stakeholder assumption and constraint analysis.

Discussion 0
Question # 25

Anew law was published about zoning permits for telecom towers. This may cause cost and schedule overruns for the new network rollout.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Assess and prioritize the impact of the new law on the project plan.

B.  

Update the project plan because the law is an obligation for the project.

C.  

Minimize the scope to catch the cost and schedule baseline.

D.  

Meet the sponsor to ask for additional time and budget increase.

Discussion 0
Question # 26

A major public-transportation construction project is aimed at significantly reducing emissions. The project has been

severely delayed due to noncompliance with environmental codes and bylaws.

What should the project manager have done to prevent this?

Options:

A.  

Incorporated sufficient schedule reserves based on similar delays in past projects.

B.  

Appointed a senior environmental compliance officer to report directly to the project manager.

C.  

Mapped environmental compliance requirements, identified risks to achieving them, and prepared mitigations.

D.  

Approached the regulator for a partial waiver in light of the environmental importance of the project.

Discussion 0
Question # 27

A project team member, who is inexperienced in system development work is not performing well. Currently, there are no other staff members

available who are qualified to complete the work.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Assess the team member's development requirements and arrange for the team member to receive training.

B.  

Seek approval from the project sponsor to use some of the project budget reserve to hire a new resource.

C.  

Work with the functional manager to determine an incentive for the team member to complete the project.

D.  

Request a substitute for the team member with a new resource who is more skilled in system development work.

Discussion 0
Question # 28

During iteration planning, team A identifies that an important deliverable is dependent upon a deliverable from team

B.  

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Inform team B of the dependency and ensure that the deliverable is planned.

B.  

Make team Aa part of team B and ensure that the deliverable is ready.

C.  

Request team B to immediately start this activity and deliver to team

A.  

D.  

Ask team B to focus on their backlog and deliver based on their priority,

Discussion 0
Question # 29

In a daily standup meeting, a developer indicates that a backlog item will not be delivered because they need to take an unexpected leave for the next couple of days. The backlog item is a prerequisite for a feature expected by users in the next sprint review.

What should the project lead do?

Options:

A.  

Ask the developer to postpone the leave until the backlog item is delivered.

B.  

Ask the development manager to provide a replacement for a couple of days.

C.  

Work with the product owner to change the priorities in the sprint backlog.

D.  

Work with the product owner to inform the users that the feature is delayed.

Discussion 0
Question # 30

A government agency is developing a new connectivity policy. The assigned project manager is a famous economist with international recognition. The team is eager to work with the project manager, but feels intimidated. The project manager realizes that a junior economist, whose tasks are behind schedule, is especially intimidated by the situation.

What should the project manager do first?

Options:

A.  

Evaluate the performance of the junior economist in the upcoming months.

B.  

Request to replace the junior economist with a more experienced economist.

C.  

Consider organizing paired work sessions for the junior and senior economists.

D.  

Reassign some of the junior economist's tasks to other economists.

Discussion 0
Question # 31

A project manager assigned to an education project needs to train a workforce in application development. The customer is responsible for

providing the training center, and the deadline to start the first training is in 2 weeks. The customer calls to say that the center will not be available

in 2 weeks due to some unforeseen problems.

What should the project manager do next?

Options:

A.  

Apply the terms and conditions of the contract with penalties.

B.  

Issue a change request to reflect the anticipated date for training.

C.  

Help the customer find an alternative location to start the training.

D.  

Update the project schedule with the new date for training.

Discussion 0
Question # 32

A project is starting its sixth iteration out seven. During the daily meeting, a team member explains that a key function will take longer to complete than originally anticipated.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Update the issue log and escalate the problem to the project sponsor.

B.  

Ask for a project extension to deliver the committed scope.

C.  

Review the options and possible solutions with the project team.

D.  

Ask for help to increase the team capacity to deliver on time.

Discussion 0
Question # 33

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?

Options:

A.  

Inform the client of the problem and follow the change request process.

B.  

Amend the design specifications and pass them to the development team for reprogramming.

C.  

Make a change request and get formal approval from the project owner.

D.  

Conduct a proof of concept to make sure there are no problems in the revised design.

Discussion 0
Question # 34

A protect team is working remotely on a solution The client wants the solution as soon as possible and is uncomfortable because the team members are not colocated In addition the client expressed concerns about the understanding of the project context and the team's decision-making process

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Update the communications management plan to satisfy the client's request

B.  

Request the client to attend the daily meetings with the project team

C.  

Encourage the client to interact with the protect collaboration platform

D.  

Ask the product owner to frequently communicate with the stakeholders

Discussion 0
Question # 35

An agile project has a broad set of product features intended for different user profiles and usages. It is difficult to define common acceptance criteria that can apply to

all the features.

How can the project manager ensure that the appropriate acceptance criteria are applied to the features?

Options:

A.  

Define the acceptance criteria and specific functional test cases only after analyzing the user feedback from testing the early feature release.

B.  

Integrate the acceptance criteria review into the definition of ready (DoR) for each feature and associated tests into the feature's definition of done (DoD).

C.  

Use the broadest set of acceptance criteria to ensure that all features have a common quality baseline and associated functional test cases.

D.  

Integrate the specific tests into the definition of ready (DoR) for each feature and the acceptance criteria into the feature's definition of done (DoD).

Discussion 0
Question # 36

A project that is using an incremental approach has colocated team members and is using a kanban board to visualize the work in progress

(WIP). A key external stakeholder requests that all project activities be placed on hold until a status report is distributed.

What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

Options:

A.  

Stored project documentation in a shared folder.

B.  

Organized monthly meetings with the external stakeholders.

C.  

Invited all of the stakeholders to daily standup meetings.

D.  

Sent weekly status update reports to all of the stakeholders.

Discussion 0
Question # 37

A project manager has recently been assigned to a new project. When the project manager first meets the project team, the team tells the project manager that all of the management plans and documents for the project are missing.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Ask the stakeholders to develop all of the project artifacts so the project team can continue their scheduled activities.

B.  

Create the project management plans with the project team and share the documents with the stakeholders.

C.  

Continue working on scheduled tasks to avoid delaying the project and leave the development of project artifacts for later.

D.  

Adapt the project management plans and documents from previous executed projects in order to save time.

Discussion 0
Question # 38

A self-organizing team for a critical project is consistently delivering value according to their commitments. During a retrospective, the project manager observed that most of

the team members were stressed due to over commitments.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Help the team members by organizing regular stress-relieving and team- building sessions.

B.  

Request additional resources to continue delivering value while reducing team stress.

C.  

Support the team during the planning phase to only commit to what they are able to deliver.

D.  

Ask individual team members to plan staggered leave to avoid becoming stressed.

Discussion 0
Question # 39

A project manager is starting a new project, and the project team is located in different countries. The team was going to use a specific tool to hold virtual meetings.

However, that tool is not available in one team member's country.

How should the project manager deal with this situation?

Options:

A.  

Contact the project sponsor to have the team member removed from the project.

B.  

Ask the team member to move to another location where the tool is available.

C.  

Start the project and use email to communicate with the team member until the tool is available.

D.  

Investigate alternative tools for virtual meetings that are available to all team members.

Discussion 0
Question # 40

A project manager schedules virtual daily standup meetings for a project, but half of the team members regularly join late or miss the meeting all together. What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Discuss ground rules with the team that will include daily meetings.

B.  

Use one-to-one virtual meetings because they are more efficient.

C.  

Ask senior management for coaching regarding this situation.

D.  

Agree on a new time and reschedule the daily standups.

Discussion 0
Question # 41

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)

Options:

A.  

0Project schedule

B.  

Product backlog bumup chart

C.  

Work breakdown structure (WBS)

D.  

Cumulative flow diagram of completed features

E.  

Burndown chart

Discussion 0
Question # 42

A new project needs to be submitted for urgent funding approval. The project, which will use a new technology, is vital to the organization. The entire Scrum team has worked together for over 3 years on multiple projects and delivered the previous project under the approved budget.

Which estimation technique should the project manager implement in this context?

Options:

A.  

Budget estimate

B.  

Definitive estimate

C.  

Story points

D.  

Order of magnitude

Discussion 0
Question # 43

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?

Options:

A.  

Support the decisions of the team and transfer the decision making responsibility to them.

B.  

Consult the product owner about letting the resources make decisions.

C.  

Schedule a steering committee meeting and obtain their approval on the request.

D.  

Inform the team that although this is a hybrid environment, the project manager must still be responsible for making decisions.

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Question # 44

A project manager is managing an agile project for the first time. Early on, the project manager discovers the team is struggling to agree on the scope of a feature during a sprint.

How should the project manager help the team resolve the issue?

Options:

A.  

Direct the senior-most member to determine the scope on behalf of the team.

B.  

Discuss this with the team and decide what the scope of the feature should be.

C.  

Ask the team to log the story in the product backlog and move on to the next feature.

D.  

Encourage the team to collaborate to resolve their understanding of the feature.

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Question # 45

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?

Options:

A.  

The project sponsor should select the project artifacts that the project manager and project management team should use in the project.

B.  

The project manager and project management team should use the standard project artifacts from the database.

C.  

The project stakeholders should meet and determine the project artifacts to be used by the project manager and the project management team.

D.  

The project manager and the project management team should select the appropriate artifacts for use in the specific project.

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Question # 46

A vendor has manufactured a complex product. During a factory acceptance test, several deficiencies were identified. Product delivery is on the

critical path, and any delay would impact project completion.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Initiate regular conference calls with the vendor for status updates to keep this item in focus.

B.  

Hold the shipment until the rework is completed at the vendor's facility to eliminate extra work on-site.

C.  

Assess the schedule impact and evaluate the most feasible solution to keep the project on track.

D.  

Ship the package as is, complete carryover work on-site, and back charge the vendor for the rework.

Discussion 0
Question # 47

Eight highly qualified experts have been assembled to work for a 6-month period on an a specific aspect of an organization's product development process. How should the

project manager support this team to succeed?

Options:

A.  

Hand over control of specific aspects of their roles as experts and let them agree on their own timelines and targets.

B.  

Bring in a senior colleague who is also an expert to ensure the team is on track to achieve the goals and objectives.

C.  

Define roles and targets for all team members and regularly follow up with one-to-one meetings to review progress.

D.  

Work with the team members to define the overall objective and support them to engage around the goal.

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Question # 48

A company just started managing a project using an agile approach Due to this change, the general manager is worried about the scope definition process for upcoming projects What should the project manager do to ensure the project scope is completely defined?

Options:

A.  

Help sponsors and stakeholders craft the product vision, and bring the team and product owner together to clarify expectations

B.  

Meet with the general manager and convince them to return to using predictive approaches to avoid any risk

C.  

Ask for a budget increase to implement a double-check process to ensure every business need is included in the requirements

D.  

Ask the general manager to review every requirement to ensure an projects will deliver the requested products

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Question # 49

At the end of a project's initiation phase, the budget was developed and sent to the approval board. During the approval meeting, one of the key stakeholders asked how the budget was developed for future uncertainties.

How should the project manager reply?

Options:

A.  

Recurrent team meetings are planned to control the budget against future uncertainties.

B.  

Probabilistic analysis was used to develop the budget to address future uncertainties.

C.  

The budget was developed by using the lessons learned from previous project data.

D.  

Feedback from stakeholders will be addressed at each board meeting to adapt the budget.

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Question # 50

A project manager is working on a financial system implementation project for a government company. One of the key stakeholders, who uses

predictive approaches, does not like virtual tools such as chats, task trackers, and so forth. They prefer email, telephone calls, and face-to-face

meetings.

How should the project manager approach this situation?

Options:

A.  

Use regular screen-sharing sessions to show the progress to the stakeholder.

B.  

Align and agree with the stakeholder on the communication approach.

C.  

Ask the manager to use virtual communication tools and online dashboards.

D.  

Create a digital dashboard to meet the manager's information needs.

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Question # 51

A project manager is leading a software development project that will assist in maintenance management for a power plant. The project manager is analyzing project performance data and trying to forecast if the project will have any slippage in the future.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Perform quality control analysis.

B.  

Perform schedule analysis.

C.  

Perform trend analysis.

D.  

Perform root cause analysis (RCA).

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Question # 52

A project manager is managing the transition to operations. The project sponsor wants to ensure that good support is provided to the end users.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Ensure that the user guide is detailed and has clear instructions.

B.  

Ensure that comprehensive documentation is handed over.

C.  

Ask the project team to provide operational support for 1 year.

D.  

Ensure that knowledge is transferred to the operations team.

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Question # 53

A project manager received a request to add features and functions to the project after the scope had already been established. What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Follow the requirements management process.

B.  

Follow the stakeholder engagement process.

C.  

Follow the risk management process.

D.  

Follow the change management process.

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Question # 54

Anew major road project is starting, and the contractor has contractually committed to submitting regular status reports and participating in integration meetings. Halfway through the project life cycle, the contractor stops participating in meetings and submitting reports, stating these items consume too much time.

What should the project manager do first?

Options:

A.  

Assess the risk of the contractor not attending meetings and submitting reports for the rest of the project and escalate it to the project sponsor.

B.  

Submit a claim for not fulfilling the contract terms and handle the claim in accordance with the alternative dispute resolution.

C.  

Remind the contractor that they committed to attending meetings and submitting reports per the contract.

D.  

Speak with the company’s lawyer and request that they demand the contractor fulfill their contractual commitments.

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Question # 55

A company is starting a critical project with a strict deadline. During the first planning meeting, the team realizes that the list of requirements has

too many items to allow on-time delivery.

What should the project manager do first?

Options:

A.  

Update the risk register and present a contingency plan to meet the deadline.

B.  

Suggest to the customer to reduce the backlog to meet the date.

C.  

Increase the capacity of the team to finish the project on time.

D.  

Ask the team to propose a minimum viable product (MVP) to meet the date.

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Question # 56

A project team Is trying to meet the milestone target dates in order to receive a bonus promised by the project sponsor. Unforeseen challenges and poor communication among the team members resulted in mistakes and delays. Tensions are high, and the sponsor is concerned.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.  

Discuss with the team how the project objectives can be met.

B.  

Request that the sponsor increase the bonus for high performers.

C.  

Schedule a team-building activity to boost the team's morale.

D.  

Organize a team meeting to remind the team of the ground rules.

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Question # 57

Drag the items on left side to the matching term within the correct project approach on the right side.

Question # 57

Options:

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