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Project Management Professional (PMBOK 7th Version)
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A project manager just completed a successful deployment and is preparing to transition the project to an operational state before starting closeout actions. What should the project manager do to ensure that the project is ready to move to an operational state?
An organization with a new project management office (PMO) team is now undergoing a restructuring. Additionally, there is a lack of communication from the PMO to the team members.
How should the project manager handle this situation?
Project stakeholders are engaged in a discussion on how to achieve the best user experience in the design of a new application. The agile team is divided on the approach. The conflict is more of a collective disagreement than an outright conflict.
What should the project manager do next?
Some of the more experienced members of a project team have complained about the project manager. The senior project team members feel that the project manager is micromanaging them and preventing them from completing their work.
What should the project manager do when made aware of these issues?
During the service procurement process for a strategic project, only one bidder submitted a bid. The price of the offer is significantly large and the project sponsor is not convinced that the return on investment (ROI) can be achieved.
How should the project manager address this issue?
A project manager is leading an engineering project. The project manager must obtain some certifications before mass production, which is scheduled in 3 months. The certification process will require at least 6 months.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is leading a project in an organization that has a functional structure. The project manager has been informed by the team that the tasks related to the purchase of services are taking too long, as the purchasing department has other priorities.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is preparing a budget estimation for an international construction project. They decide to consult the project team members who are experienced in this type of project and are familiar with the local laws of the country.
Which budgeting approach would be the least risky for the project team to apply?
A subject matter expert (SME) external to the project team provides a suggestion that will save the project delivery time. This SME has available
time to support the project, but was not planned to be involved in the current agile iteration.
What should the project manager do?
A facility extension project is in the execution stage. There is a project activity to connect the power of all new equipment to an existing facility,
Point A, which requires a significant cable length. The construction team found that the power could be connected to Point B and save money.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is planning a project with multiple work packages. Each work package has its own defined scope, but funding will be at the project level.
How should the project manager determine if the allocated resource budget is sufficient to cover the resource costs of the project?
A project manager is working on a project to transform the service delivery model in the organization. As part of the scope, this project includes diverse elements that have been well defined by the product owner. The team has expressed that the scope is not clearly defined.
How should the project manager address this situation?
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 large construction project is progressing well as per the project objectives. The project manager would like to report the project's value to the project sponsor and seek the
next phase of funding closure.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is preparing to start a new project in which the team members are distributed geographically across different countries. The project manager is using the communications management plan to engage the team members and find a communication method that suits everyone.
How should the project manager continually evaluate the effectiveness of the virtual team's engagement?
An agile team has completed five sprints. The final product is expected to be delivered in another three sprints. The project manager receives a call from the technical resource manager that one of the developers must take leave for the next 4 weeks, with no temporary replacement available. This is going to significantly impact the deliverable.
What should the project manager do?
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?
An adaptive project is in the planning stage. The project manager is preparing a communications management plan to share critical, project-related information and updates.
Which approach should the project manager take?
An agile project started 6 months ago. Since the beginning of the project, there have been disagreements among team members regarding daily meetings since some of the team members are not available at the same time. The project manager is convinced an agile team should be self-organizing, and that meeting times should be worked out by the team.
What should the project manager do?
Due to contractual issues, a key team member cannot travel to the project location for a design review meeting.
What should the project manager do?
An organization embarking on a significant transformation initiated a project to improve and document business processes. One of the objectives of the project is to implement agile project delivery.
What is the main reason for adopting agile?
A new file vault system vendor is being considered by a protect sponsor who has supported several projects over the previous year What should the project manager review to assist the sponsor on the decision?
A project team is conducting sprint planning. Based on the estimated effort, only 95% of the items included in the sprint may be delivered. The product owner asks the project manager for advice on how to prioritize the backlog items.
What should be used to prioritize the backlog items?
A laboratory is launching a new product, defined to be executed in eight iterations with a fixed release date. At the beginning of the second
iteration, the project manager realizes that a significant regulatory feature is missing in the project backlog.
What should the project manager do?
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?
A project manager works for an organization that intends to begin using agile delivery, but there is a lack of support from some business units. The project manager needs to address the lack of trust in agile.
What should the project manager recommend?
A project manager was recently assigned to a banking IT project. The project team has been developing products using a predictive approach for more than 10 years, but management wants the team to change to an agile approach. The project manager met with the team to introduce the agile approach. Most of the team members complained about changing approaches because the performance of this team has always been above average among the IT teams in the bank.
Which two actions should the project manager take? (Choose two)
A project manager works in a hierarchical organization. The project team members are used to being told what to do, and the performance reviews include the percentage of
completion of the allocated tasks. After a conversation with the sponsor, the project manager realizes that they need to reassign a couple of tasks to meet the next
milestone. This change can be perceived as poor performance by the current assignees.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager joins an existing project. One project stakeholder is unhappy with the frequency and types of project updates received and has made a request for more What should the project manager do next?
information to be shared.
During the early phase of a project, the requirements documentation was not approved. It was identified that the leader of a user party was not included in any of the requirements collection communications.
Which of the documents was likely missed or outdated?
A member of the project team always extends discussion topics, taking more time than necessary during project team meetings. Other team members feel this member is not being considerate of their time.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager holds periodic progress review meetings to discuss issues. What should the project manager do first on the agenda?
An organization is initiating a project that will be using new technology. The complexity of the project requires excellent technical skills. After reviewing the proposed project management plan, the project sponsor asks for options to reduce the labor cost without introducing risk to the project delivery.
What should the project manager do first?
An experienced project manager is leading an enthusiastic team but realizes the team lacks the experience to complete the job successfully. What should the project manager do to reduce the risk of project failure?
A project manager is assigned to a new project. The project is for a new product that the company wants to launch as soon as possible to test market readiness. The project is part of a large business transformation, and the objective is to open delivery channels for the new product.
Which delivery approach should the project manager recommend?
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 project manager is managing a project in the execution phase, which was agreed upon with the sponsor. However, the sponsor is constantly micromanaging and requesting iterations that are affecting the team's effectiveness. The sponsor indicates that as long as the project scope is not affected, these iterations are needed to simplify the project.
How should the project manager handle the situation?
An agile team is required to address a technical, complex requirement that has no visual deliverable to show the customer. What guidance should the product manager provide to improve the requirement development?
In a review session held halfway through the project's development, several important stakeholders voice extreme dissatisfaction with the solution's current development versus what they had agreed were the goals and outputs of the project. One of the more prominent individuals threatens to close the project immediately. With no dissatisfaction having been voiced at prior sessions, the project manager is surprised.
How should the project manager respond during the session?
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 team has expressed concern that certain remote team members are not able to collaborate with the larger project team due to their work schedule. The project
manager is confused since the entire team is located in the same time zone and believes there are other factors at play.
What should the project manager do next?
A team decides to adopt an agile approach for their new project. During a sprint, the project manager realizes that there is a need to show progress and optimize the collaboration among teams.
Which tool should the project manager use?
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)
A project is delayed due to multiple problems discovered during the quality review. Every time the team addresses one problem, additional problems are encountered. This is
frustrating for both the project team and the project sponsor, who are driven to meet the dates and results expected by the organization.
What should the project manager do?
An agile project is running its second of six iterations. One new team member who does not have agile experience has just joined the team. In the daily meetings, the project manager observes that the team is having problems meeting their goals.
What should the project manager do?
A self-organizing team was delivering as committed. The team accepted a development task with new technology and the iterations started to have reduced velocity. What management decision is suited for this situation?
During a meeting for product review, a key stakeholder announces that because they are receiving adequate information about the project they will not attend any further meetings. What should the project manager do?
A business stakeholder for a project is reluctant to accept an agile approach due to a previous bad experience, and is pushing for a predictive approach. What strategy should the project manager use to persuade the stakeholder to use an agile approach?
A business analyst on the project meets the customer in the elevator and says that due to constant changes in requirements the development of the product will take more time than expected What should the project manager do?
A project manager notices that the team lacks a subject matter expert (SME) in a specific area. This expertise will be required for many future projects.
What should the project manager do?
