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Project Management Professional (PMBOK 7th Version)
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A project team has not been meeting its deliverables because they are not receiving adequate resources to do their job. What should the project manager do for the team to meet the upcoming deliverables?
A project manager is quantifying risk for their project. The project manager needs an expert opinion in this process, but experts are spread over different geographic locations and time zones.
What should the project manager do?
The project stakeholders represent diverse organizational functions and have differing opinions about project goals. The project has been approved, but change requests could result if the stakeholders do not align on the functionality needed and the minimum viable product (MVP).
What should the project manager do?
A project team is currently dispersed across multiple countries and time zones. Recent team feedback shows engagement levels are sub-optimal, and information flows are irregular and one-sided. There are also company travel restrictions in place, preventing physical colocation.
What improvements should the project manager implement to improve engagement?
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 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 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 has just started a project to build an external web application for customers to track their orders. The project is expected to take 2 years to complete. Customers are very dissatisfied with the time line and demand the project be completed in 1 year.
What should the project manager do to improve delivery?
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?
During a contract renewal meeting, an organization's commercial team and the customer are disagreeing and negotiations are failing. What should the project manager do to reach an agreement that will satisfy all parties?
During a project's execution phase, the team faced a setback in one of the deliveries and was asked to come up with a new plan. All team members joined a meeting to address the issue and, after a while, the project manager observed that two members of the team were just agreeing with anything that was proposed even though they were opposed to the outcome.
What conflict resolution style were the team members adopting?
A project team member who has the expert knowledge necessary for the project is often absent from meetings. The team member sends a message to the project manager questioning them about the rationale behind some decisions made on the project.
How should the project manager handle the situation?
A project manager is approached by two new product owners who were instructed by their managers to join a new agile team. Both product owners were told they could start working with the new agile team immediately.
What should the project manager do to advise both product owners?
A project is starting its first iteration out of six. During one of the daily meetings, the project manager realized that one of the team members does not have experience working in agile environments.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager was assigned to lead a global project with a virtual team that is globally dispersed. The project manager has difficulties communicating with the team members and there seems to be frequent misunderstandings and conflicts.
What should the project manager do?
Two project team members are having difficulty communicating updates and issues. One team member prefers telephone calls for any kind of urgency, whereas the other team member prefers email communication. This difference results in a lack of understanding between the team members and sometimes hinders timely communication.
What should the project manager do?
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?
After sending an on-site meeting invitation to seven people for the kick-off meeting of a project, a key stakeholder declines because they will be at another location for the rest of the month.
What should the project manager do?
During a kick-off meeting, the project manager notices that one of the stakeholders responsible for providing key information to the team has a
low level of participation. This stakeholder believes that there will be no benefit from implementing the project. The project manager realizes that
this could be a high risk for the project.
Which action should the project manager take?
In an effort to modernize the technology for a project, the project manager has been discussing risk prioritization with the project team. The project manager determines that additional parameters are needed to iteratively assess and prioritize the project risks.
Match the project manager's goals on the left with the relevant risk parameter on the right.
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?
There is frequent conflict between two project team members working on a project. This has caused a negative impact on the project.
How should the project manager handle this situation?
A project manager in a matrix organization has been assigned to a system solution project with tight time lines. There are two resources assigned as part of the solution
team: one who is experienced and one who is new. During development, the project manager notices that the resources disagree on the solution approach.
What should the project manager do next to deliver a reliable solution?
A project team is completing a design, while another team in a different country is performing implementation. How should the project manager communicate the design to the implementation team?
A highly critical project is in jeopardy due to missing professional resources. What should the newly assigned project manager do first?
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?
A project manager is well informed on the industry standards of the organization and believes that they are not reflected in the project deliverables. What should the project manager review next?
A project to build a new energy plant was just completed. However, a few days before operation of the plant, the local community protested and closed access to the plant. They argue that an important natural reserve was impacted and prior consultation was not done by the project team.
What should the project manager verify first?
Knowledge sharing has been a key priority for a complex technological project with a large number of team members. During the project
execution phase, the project manager receives numerous complaints from all team members that they are overloaded with knowledge-sharing
emails, which contain useful information but are unmanageable due to the high volume.
What should the project manager do to solve this problem?
A project team member contacts the project manager to say they are not familiar with the regulations to complete some activities. What should the project manager do?
A team member is not getting along with one of the project sponsors. The sponsor has requested to move the team member to another project.
What should the project manager do next to resolve the situation?
During user acceptance testing (UAT), a manager declined a core application functionality that was originally requested by a subject matter expert (SME). Due to the manager's influence, the project team is concerned about the overall impact to the project.
What should the project manager have done?
A product owner is continuously adding requirements to a project that will significantly impact project delivery. How should the project manager address this?
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?
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)
During planning, a virtual project team agreed to the project reporting structure and established a meeting cadence that fits multiple time zones. One month into execution, the project manager notices that certain members are disengaged during project meetings.
What should the project manager do to resolve this issue?
An important project to build a new airport was suddenly stopped because of the complaints from residents in the surrounding communities. The residents stated that they were not consulted and that the project would cause ecological and pollution damage.
What should that project manager have done first in order to avoid this situation?
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?
A project manager is in the process of authoring the communications management plan for a new project. One of the project's stakeholders has a habit of posting work updates on social media, which may include confidential project status updates.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is facilitating an iteration retrospective. The iteration did not go well and the committed functionality was not delivered to users. The project involves a vendor team for the build and an internal quality assurance (QA) team. In the past, there were tensions between the vendor and the internal team.
What should the project manager do?
In an ongoing project, there is an argument between two subject matter experts (SMEs) on what the correct approach to design should be. The project manager suggests that the two SMEs meet and come to a consensus.
Which conflict resolution approach did the project manager use?
A project manager has been assigned to a new project. The project sponsor has requested a detailed timeline, but the project includes some deliverables that are not yet clearly defined.
Which project management approach should the project manager advise using?
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?
An ongoing project with company A is impacted by the recent acquisition of company
B.
This could affect the current suppliers for the ongoing project.What should the project manager do next?
A project manager has been assigned a project team with members in two different locations. The project manager noticed that the productivity of a senior team member in the other location is much lower than the local junior team members.
What should the project manager do to address the issue?
A project manager works for an IT consulting firm that has submitted a bid during the request for proposal (RFP) process for a contract that focuses on data center migration and optimization. However, the consulting firm has little experience in data center optimization.
What should the project manager do?
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?
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 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 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?
