PMP Practice Questions
Project Management Professional (PMBOK 7th Version)
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During the implementation phase of a project, a new regulation affects the project, and a critical status meeting discussing the scope changes is required. The project manager discovers that a key stakeholder cannot attend the scheduled meeting
What should the project manager do?
The tables show the requirements for an agile project with the anticipated return on investment (ROI) and identified project risks, along with the analysis details .
What should be the priority order in the product backlog?
An organization is introducing agile to its projects. During an informal discussion the project manager learned that team members who are currently working on different teams are discussing how they would like to be together on the same team
What should the project manager do?
Two functional managers disagree on key features of one deliverable during the planning of a project The project manager discovers that each manager included requirements that contradict each other The functional managers do not want to meet with each other to find a solution This situation has been escalated to the sponsor who requests a meeting with them
What strategy should the project manager use to resolve this conflict in the meeting?
A project team has recently completed the initial sprint for developing an automated payroll system for a company The project manager has scheduled a sprint planning meeting with the product owner and team members to discuss which features should be worked on next
Which two pieces of information does the project manager need in order to make this meeting productive and effective? (Choose two)
An organization is embarking on the deployment of a new digital solution that will revolutionize purchasing services The project manager has created all the necessary plans and activities to ensure a successful integration and solution launch There is a risk of a partner’s system being unavailable which could impact the project negatively
What key activity is needed to ensure the project's success?
During a daily standup meeting, a roadblock was raised that is preventing one of the team members from proceeding with work The project manager figures out that it is due to a technical issue.
What should the project manager do to prioritize this critical impediment?
A project manager is assigned to lead a newly formed agile team. The functional manager has assigned tasks to team members, but the team members do not feel empowered.
How can the project manager promote empowerment and accountability among the team?
A new project manager is assigned to lead an agile project The project manager wants to use motivation to encourage the team to perform well throughout the project
What should the project manager do?
In a time-critical construction project, a misunderstanding occurred between the supervisor and the technician The misunderstanding turned into a major conflict and the technician has complained to the project manager that they cannot continue to work under the supervisor any longer. The supervisor cites the technicians poor performance as the reason for the conflict
How should the project manager resolve the problem?
The project is delayed due to the high amount of major changes requested by different stakeholders at different stages of the project If the project continues on the same path, it will consume twice the time and budget planned.
What two actions can the project manager take to be more cost effective? (Choose two)
A project manager is struggling to figure out the performance of the project teams in an agile environment for the same scope of work, team A has calculated 100 story points and team B has calculated 125 story points
Which team is performing better?
An agile project is in its eighth iteration out of 16 After the last iteration review, the team members receive feedback from the security department about regulations with which the project must comply
Which two actions should the project manager take? (Choose two)
A company that is heavily focused on delivering projects using predictive approaches on-boards a new project manager who uses hybrid approaches The scope of the project contains a number of unclear requirements.
How should the project manager plan the delivery of the project?
A project team with members from many different countries is struggling to cooperate The project manager accepted these difficulties during the storming phase of team development, but the team has not moved to the next phase The project is beginning to fall behind schedule
What can the project manager do to move the team to the norming phase?
A large corporation is transforming itself from a predictive to agile approach A project team with knowledge of agile practices is experiencing significant conflicts with the executives regarding the processes to be followed.
How should these conflicts be resolved?
During an ongoing project a key resource asks the project manager about the project purpose and if it is aligned with the organization's strategy What should the project manager share with the key resource?
The project sponsor recently requested that a vendor begins working toward adopting a hybrid approach. In response, the vendor hired a project manager experienced in agile for the project.
What does that project manager need to do to make the team work in a collaborative way?
The project sponsor of a major initiative is consistently changing the prioritization of modular work packages The team is used to three week sprints and is becoming increasingly frustrated with the daily changes in scope>
What should the project manager do?
A vendor informed the project manager that a critical resource will be on a long leave of absence The project team reviewed the pending vendor deliverables and identified an alternative solution, but the solution will incur an additional cost The project is currently on schedule and slightly under budget
What should the project manager do next?
In analyzing a project for monthly status reporting, the project manager notices that the schedule performance index (SPI) is 0.75 and the cost performance index (CPI) is 1 25 The project manager must provide the first project status review soon and wants to emphasize that the project is under control
How should the project manager report the project status to key stakeholders?
The project manager is reviewing the program risks and issues with key stakeholders One of the stakeholders wants to understand when the risk may potentially become an issue. What artifact should the project manager share with the stakeholder?
A project manager is assigned to a project in a company that is transitioning to agile Not all stakeholders believe in the project, and some stakeholders would like the entire project defined and planned out early in the project However the project sponsor needs a quick win to ensure the continuation of the project.
What approach should the project manager use?
A junior staff member was recently assigned to the team. The new team member tells the project manager that they are confused because they are not familiar with what is expected of them on the project
What should the project manager do to assist the new team member?
A geographically distributed project team has development issues between the collocated and virtual teams causing productivity to decrease. What should the project manager do to address this issue?
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?
The rollout of a new finance system is in the execution phase. A number of issues have surfaced in the last month that are slowing the project down A new project sponsor has recently started with the company but has not had time to meet the project manager The project is at the point where the issues are significantly impacting delivery of the project
How should the project manager alert the new project sponsor about these concerns?
In a newly formed project team one experienced team member is overwhelmed by the complexity of the tasks and is not happy with the project team. What should the project manager do?
A company is using a predictive approach for the development of a particular component as defined in the scope management plan Due to regularly changing regulatory requirements, the development team has requested to utilize agile approaches
What should the project manager do about the development team's request"?
During an iteration of a project, a planned activity becomes more complex. The work should be delivered in the shortest time possible
What approach should be used in this situation?
A key project stakeholder showed interest in the beginning of a complex agile project but has become less involved as the sprint has progressed due to additional responsibilities A few sprints later, the key stakeholder rejected a feature deliverable The team is reworking the rejected deliverable for the next sprint
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?
An experienced project manager is managing a multi-million dollar agile project The project manager communicates the ground rules to the team but after 12 iterations, the project manager starts noticing that some team members are not following the ground rules.
What should the project manager do first to ensure team adherence to the ground rules?
A project manager has been managing a highly complex project. The project manager has ensured that all of the required tasks have been completed. During a recent external audit. The project manager was informed of a heavy penalty being levied on the project for the latest module that was implemented
What should the project manager have done to ensure that there were no liabilities arising from the recent implementation?
A learn has been working for two months and has consistently missed planned user stories How should the project manager address this issue?
The team has reported the following impediments at the daily standup meeting Drag each impediment on the left to the action that the project manager needs to take on the right
A new team member has joined an agile project, replacing a team member who recently left The project team needs the new team member to speed up their ability to contribute effectively to the project
What should the project manager do to help in this situation?
After the project charter's approval the project manager needs to work on detailed project requirements, constraints and assumptions with stakeholders However, not all of the stakeholders are immediately available for a meeting in the short term.
What should the project manager do in order to gather the information needed from stakeholders?
After a project has been approved, a key stakeholder tells the project manager that the current project management strategy is not well defined The project manager is also informed that the key stakeholder does not want to hold a working session
What should the project manager do first?
During the daily meetings with the team the project manager notices that a new team member is not making the expected progress on an assigned task What should the project manager do?
A team has been struggling with various issues during the course of an iteration. The project lead facilitates a discussion of the issues and the team forms new team agreements. During the next iteration, some of the same issues appear again
What should the project lead do next?
During the third iteration, the team encounters a major delay that has not had significant improvements over the last few weeks What should the project manager do?
A client is structured as a matrix organization for an agile project The project manager is working on-site with key stakeholders from different parts of the organization
How should the project manager handle the different stakeholders?
The project sponsor on an agile project informed the project lead that an executive would like an update on the project’s progress What should the project lead do?
A company is working on a project and is using a hybrid approach to streamline a customer service process. At the end of the second iteration, a business analyst joins the team to learn about the financial and scheduling aspects of project management.
What should the project manager do to support the business analyst?
A team is ready to start working on a project with a customer who was very difficult to work with in the past because the customer was unable to describe exactly what they wanted What approach should the project manager take to remove this impediment?
A team member misses a project meeting without it being approved and has been penalized as defined in the ground rules. This team member, as well as other team members, insist that it is the first time they have seen this rule regarding the project and they do not agree with the penalty
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?
The project manager is having difficulty communicating with one of the team members The team member recently attended a training course and has been training other team members in a new agile technique However sometimes the team member is forceful in pushing ideas even if other team members are uncomfortable
What personality indicators should the project manager consider when determining what communication style to use with this team member?
A company has been following a predictive approach and always waits for the preceding phase to be completed before evaluating the quality of their products A new project manager with experience in hybrid approaches has been assigned to help increase the efficiency of the company's quality management process.
What should the new project manager do to address the process improvements?
In a software development project, the product owner and development team agree on a sprint backlog The highest priority in the backlog is to build a payment module The team worked on the module during the first half of the sprint, but now two developers want to spend the rest of the sprint focusing on refactoring another feature that might create issues in the future.
What should the project manager do?
Two weeks after the approval of the project management plan for a global project, the project manager noticed that it was approved based on a different level of understanding by international stakeholders and is not what the project manager presented for approval What should the project manager have done to prevent this from happening?
