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Project Management Professional (PMBOK 7th Version)
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A project manager is assigned to an important company project. While reviewing the lessons learned from a similar, previous project, the project manager finds that the biggest challenges were related to learn motivation.
What should the project manager do to avoid these challenges?
During the early phases of a project, mitigation actions were not executed in a
timely manner; therefore, the project schedule was impacted. Several project stakeholders are
now frustrated with the delays.
What should the project manager have done to manage the issue?
A business improvement opportunity to reduce energy usage has been identified.
The project manager has assembled a team that includes site engineers to deliver this project.
However, due to production imperatives, the site engineers may not be fully focused on the
project.
How should the project manager manage the team?
One team member Is complaining about an agreement made during the last meeting. That team member was present at the meeting ana participated in the decisions registered in the meeting minutes.
What should the project manager do next?
A system migration project is in its closing stage. The project manager is being pressured to close the project The project manager communicated to all stakeholders; however, the last department to migrate indicated that they have not received the notification
What should the project manager do?
A project team is identifying project risks for a bridge to be built across a river. The team needs to send out invitations for a risk workshop to better understand the risks involved.
Which distribution list should the project manager use when sending out invitations?
A new project manager has been assigned to an environmental project. After
reviewing the project plan, the project manager notices that health and safety requirements have not been properly addressed. This is a serious concern, and the project manager wants to fix this issue immediately.
Why is this situation problematic?
After difficult negotiations, a customer committed to pay the cost for changes to the
project scope. The team seems unhappy as the project completion time will take longer than
previously scheduled.
How should the project manager support the outcome of the new agreement?
There is a problem with a project because some features are not in compliance with
regulations. Some stakeholders do not believe compliance is a priority, while others disagree.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is establishing a project management office (PMO) for a
company-wide program to implement a software based on artificial intelligence (AI). As part of the PMO tasks, some stakeholders need help understanding how to deal with difficult situations.
Which activity should the project manager use to help train the stakeholders?
A key resource is newly assigned to a project. The project manager and the resource
did not get along well in a previous project. This resource is needed to ensure the completion
of a major component for the project.
What should the project manager do?
A project team is experiencing conflict between two team members. Team member A feels that team member B is always talking over team member. A and does not listen to any advice Team member B is not willing to listen to feedback
What should the project manager do to resolve the issue?
A project manager has heard about the large volume of emails the team receives each day which prevents them from doing project work. One team member has stated that they would like to be able to access project-related information when needed
To what type of communication is the team member referring?
A project manager and project team developing a new product are discussing which work methods and tools to use to build the deliverable. What should the result of this discussion be?
A project manager submits several requests to purchase required hardware and
knows from previous experience that this kind of procurement usually results in disputes
between the company and its suppliers. How can the project manager mitigate this risk in the
request for proposal (RFP) with suppliers?
An agile project manager has learn members from different continents on the project team. During the dairy scrum meetings the project manager notices that there are gaps in understanding about the project goals and objectives
What should the project manager do?
A project has been running for 2 months and now requires approval for a supplier to
begin some execution tasks. The project team has evaluated several suppliers and selected
their top two preferred suppliers. The project sponsor requested that another supplier who has
lower costs be added to the list. However, the project manager is aware that this supplier
does not always fulfill the project requirements.
What should the project manager do?
A project is on its sixth iteration out of seven. Select the two points where the team is
performing better than expected. (Choose two.)
A project manager must manage a virtual application control software team that is culturally and geographically diverse. The project manager wants to promote open collaboration in a Realtime manner.
What should the project manager do?
A project is in the execution phase During a few planning sessions the team brought up dependencies and risks based on their knowledge of other project. The project manager also received questions from the company in terms of how and when the team planned to perform acceptance testing and training activities
What should the project manager do next?
The sponsor approaches the project manager with new features they want added to
the project. The project is 95% complete, but the sponsor insists that continued support for the
project relies on the addition of the new features.
What should the project manager do?
A work package to configure new computer hardware is received, and a list of related project activities have also been identified. What should the project manager do?
A multinational company is embarking on an ambitious organizational change project. The objectives of the project include the complete transformation of the organization's structure, role catalog, and global locations in which supporting services are to be delivered.
What should the project manager advise as an essential component of the project?
A hybrid project is experiencing several issues with both the agile delivery of the
product as well as the predictive development of a marketing strategy. What should the project manager do to receive feedback from stakeholders located in different time zones?
A project is about to close and the project manager is p Set up a meeting to perform a root cause analy reparing a draft of the project closure report. The project sponsor has approached the project manager to stay on longer to ensure the benefits in the charter are tracked as completed However, some of the benefits will not be realized until 1year after project implementation.
What should the project manager do?
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?
During execution of the third sprint in a project, a project team is uncertain about the frequent updates on the vendor's platform. The team is concerned about how the updates will impact the rest of the backlog.
What should the project manager do to minimize the uncertainty?
An organization has successfully delivered many projects using only predictive approaches. The organization has now decided to add some agile development processes into their standard deployment framework.
What should the project manager take into account first when building the schedule for this new project?
A project team has experienced deliverable delays in the last few iterations. During the retrospective, the team realizes that the quality issues identified are because the quality process is outdated.
Who should the project manager ask to update the process?
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 manager has been assigned to an existing infrastructure project. The current project manager, who is retiring, and the project sponsor have had a good working relationship for many years. The project sponsor has expressed dissatisfaction with having a new project manager assigned to the project.
What should the project manager do?
A project is approaching the closing phase. While preparing for the final steps, the quality system is updated in accordance with new international quality standards, resulting in new deliverable/approval procedures.
Which action should the project manager take?
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 project manager of an infrastructure development project receives multiple issues from the customer validation team close to the product launch date.
What should the project manager do to manage such a situation for upcoming phases?
Negotiations are underway to secure an agreement with a critical supplier for the project. The negotiation situation has become contentious as it is becoming apparent that both parties will not receive everything they want and that a compromise might be necessary to avoid project delays, cost overruns, and damage to reputations.
What should the project manager do to help ensure a successful outcome for the project?
A project manager has taken over a project and realizes a number of the suppliers responsible for the delivery have not done an implementation as complex and large as this project. The project manager reviews the risk log and logs this as a risk. Three months later, two suppliers have missed key milestone dates and delivered substandard work.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is managing a project that will engage resources from multiple countries in different time zones. What should the project manager do to ensure that team members are effective?
A project was recently flagged as being noncompliant during an inspection. Several options were suggested on how to address the noncompliance, but each may have different impacts on the budget, schedule, and quality.
How should the project manager proceed?
A project manager has identified the key stakeholders for the project. The project manager wants to use their expertise to help the stakeholders understand and support the project objectives and benefits.
What should the project manager do?
A project sponsor is replaced during a hybrid project closure. The new project sponsor wants to change all of the project documentation to reflect a fully predictive approach.
What should the project manager 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 was notified about a new regulatory requirement that could impact the project schedule.
What should the project manager do first?
A functional team member often becomes disruptive during status meetings and attempts to derail progress with the key stakeholders. This team member often discusses why the project will not be successful.
What should the project manager do?
A project team is working together for the first time. During the first sprint, the project manager was asked to solve a prioritization conflict between the Scrum Master and the Product Owner related to a feature requested by an important customer.
How should the project manager resolve this conflict?
A project lead with a strong technical background oversees a project using agile delivery. The product owner asked the project lead to assist with ensuring the benefits of functionality that are built in the sprint are tracked.
What should the project lead advise?
A customer complains that a software update project is failing to deliver value according to the original scope. What should the project manager do to resolve the problem?
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?
During the execution of a project, a project manager is informed that a team member is leaving the company. What should the project manager do next?
A project lead was recently elected to complete the execution of a legacy project for a water filtration plant due to the project director's reassignment. The project lead has been on five similar projects in the recent past. The client has challenged the completion status due to a lack of construction evidence. The client has also indicated their intention to apply performance-associated penalties that are detailed in the contract.
What should the project lead do?
A new offshore call center project is vital for a company's branch offices. The project is at the end of the planning phase when the project manager is informed by the sponsor that the project will be delayed due to reprioritization.
What should the project manager do?
