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Project Management Professional (PMBOK 7th Version)
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A project manager is responsible for providing a budget estimate for a long-term project that will be executed over several years. Which essential task should the project manager implement at this phase?
A company is developing a new product. During project planning, a stakeholder from the legal department does not attend any of the project meetings and is not interested
in the product design.
How should the project manager deal with this situation?
During project execution, a project manager discovers that the budget at completion has shifted significantly and is higher than expected.
What should the project manager do?
According to the project contract the delivery date is approaching However one important material is still not on site The construction work will have to stop and wait for this special material, delaying the project.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager for an agile project wants to have a highly engaged team. How should the project manager achieve this objective?
An agile project team is building a new product. The stakeholders require ongoing
illustration of project business value.
How should the project manager proceed?
During the execution phase of a project a new project manager is assigned to replace the previous project manager As the project manager starts managing the project, they discover that team performance is significantly decreasing, which is impacting the project's key performance indicators (KPIs). This team has delivered good performance on similar projects in the past
What should the project manager do next to improve this situation?
A project manager brings in a new team member from an agile environment to work in a predictive environment The project manager expects to leverage the new team member's agile experience with the existing team members.
What should the project manager do to integrate the new team member effectively?
The project manager has initiated the project and the team's roles and responsibilities have been assigned. In preparation for the development of the project management plan, the project manager reviews lessons learned from previous projects and discovers that the same team has been missing delivery dates.
What should the project manager do to ensure timely delivery?
During an iteration demo, a customer noticed an enhancement they would like to make to the product. What should the team do next?
During the initiating phase of a project, a key stakeholder requests frequent changes to the project scope What should the project manager do to improve the stakeholder's engagement?
A company is leading a project to develop a new product using an agile approach. A supplier was contracted to provide a solution for one of the product features based on mandatory scope, stable requirements, and fixed-price contract. During a meeting with the supplier, the project manager was informed that the company's business analyst also asked the supplier to add a solution for another feature as part of their deliverable.
What should the project manager do?
In a weak matrix environment, two key team members are falling behind with their tasks, which will affect the success of the project.
Further investigation by the project manager reveals that they have unresolved issues with each other. The project manager asks them to find a way to resolve the issues, but this is unsuccessful. The project manager then holds a meeting with them to work outa permanent solution to the issues, but this is also unsuccessful.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is managing a project aimed at providing incremental deliveries to the market every three months. The team has been assigned, and the product backlog was created and prioritized by the product owner. After four iterations, the product owner escalates complaints to the CEO because the product does not meet the product owner's expectations.
What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation from happening?
A global company hired a project manager for a new implementation at all of its sites After reviewing the business case and project charter, the project manager notes that the project team has different locations and regions to consider.
What should the project manager do to address this situation?
A team is working on a project using a hybrid approach, and they are facing a lot of obstacles and blockers from some stakeholders. What should the project manager do to improve project performance?
A project manager is tasked with managing a customer relationship management (CRM) implementation project. The project charter is approved, and the project is now in the planning phase. The project manager meets with the stakeholders several times to gather the initial requirements. However, each time they meet, the stakeholders provide additional information that is different from what they provided earlier. The stakeholders are becoming frustrated, and the sponsor is now unresponsive.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?
A project manager works for a large software development company that has multiple strategic business groups. The project manager has been assigned to develop maintenance planning software for a power plant. The project manager heard that a similar project that was executed by another business group in the company recently failed. The project manager is concerned about the project's performance and wants to take steps to help the project succeed. What should the project manager do?
A project manager is managing an internal project that was poorly defined. Recently, the project manager received several change requests raised by the organization's upper management.
What should the project manager do first?
A new team member inquires about how much they need to learn about the organizational process assets (OPAs) residing on the company intranet. Another team member states they only need to know the basics. However, the project manager believes the team member should know everything regarding the OPAs.
What should the project manager do?
At the daily project meeting, team members are complaining about receiving emails from their functional managers to support other nonproject-related tasks. This is having a negative impact on the team's productivity.
What should the project manager do next?
For an ongoing project, match the key performance indicators (KPIs) on the left to the correct categories on the right.
A project sponsor asks the project team to add an enhancement to the project How should the project manager address this request?
A project is delayed due to an undelivered component, which was caused by a conflict between the procurement lead and the contracts manager. The project manager
schedules a meeting with the two stakeholders to resolve the issue.
What role does the project manager play in this situation?
A project manager is assigned to a technical research project. The project team has
already been assigned, and the main subject matter expert (SME) sends the project
manager a list of the technical skills required for the execution of this project.
What should the project manager do next?
On a project to create the perfect paper airplane, the development of the airplane Is performed In iterations. The artwork to go on the wings and tail is done using a predictive approach. One of the stakeholders provides a requirement that conflicts with the product owner's requirements.
Who is responsible for analyzing the new requirement and making the final decision?
One of the service providers on a complex project has been facing resource
availability problems over the last six months. However, the service provider has assured the
project manager that the deliverables will be on time.
How should the project manager address this situation?
A software system is being built for a company. Once the system is in production, the team would like to collect usage data to evaluate the delivered value.
Which evaluation practice should the project lead use to obtain accurate usage data?
A global company is executing a strategic project to upgrade a legacy enterprise system. The company uses a hybrid approach to project management and has just completed the first sprint A team member provided ideas to improve the testing process during the sprint retrospective.
What is the next step for the project manager?
The team architect resigned from the company. The new architect points out a
design flaw during a planning meeting that may potentially impact the final quality.
What should the project manager do first?
A contractor has been making small changes to the engineering specifications without submitting change requests. The contractor and the technical team did not discuss the changes with the project manager, and the modifications do not affect the budget and quality of the deliverable.
What should the project manager do?
A large company has agreed on a business case for an environmental project. The
project will cause some major changes in their operations, such as reduction in paper use,
which will obviously affect all of the users.
What is the first thing the appointed project manager should do?
In a functional organization, a product analyst is assigned to a short-duration application development effort The analyst expresses concerns about the task and asks the project manager to provide the support of a peer with expertise in this domain
What should the project manager do?
A project manager has been asked to participate in the procurement process for a
software application that allows customers to buy online e-learning courses. The project
manager will take over the project once the supplier has been sourced.
What should the project manager do before the project starts?
A project manager is working on a large project with a very difficult client. During
the course of the project, the project manager realizes that if the project team had a little more time and funding to make some minor changes, the client could realize the benefits of 25% of the project outcomes early.
How should the project manager approach this?
A project manager is attending a progress meeting with a client The client requests a design change which might potentially add value to the project What action should the project manager take?
A project manager receives a call from the customer's account manager requesting support for a critical operational issue. Although the issue is unrelated to the project, the customer believes that one of the project team members has the technical expertise to recommend a solution.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager was just assigned to a project as the leader of an experienced agile team. How should the project manager influence the team to accomplish the project objectives?
A project is ending and the final deliverables have been accepted by the customer. The project team is pleased that the project was a success: however, some groups within the customer's organization believe the objective of the project was not met.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this issue?
An agile team is working on a product deliverable in an organization that is transforming itself to quickly respond to change. The finance
team is requesting a project budget for the new product.
What should the team do to address this request?
During a project review meeting, several project team members expressed that they did not have an understanding of the benefits of certain features for the project What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is appointed for the deployment of a new solution. The solution will be integrated into the environment by a third-party vendor. This vendor just announced a delay in delivering a key component, which will impact the project schedule.
What should the project manager do?
An agile project is running its fifth iteration out of 10. After the last retrospective, the team members realize that they had to work extra hours to deliver the committed work What should the project manager do?
A project started 12 months ago and is currently on iteration 12 of 14. The team
has performed well and completed all deliverables on time. However, some team members
are starting to complain about the length of the project, creating a risk for lack of
performance at this critical stage.
What should the project manager do as a servant leader to mitigate this risk?
Two key team members suggest different options to prevent time overruns and delays. There is a conflict between these two team members because of their divergent views.
What should the project manager do next?
A team has been consistently delivering outcomes. However, based on their current performance, it was discovered that their velocity has decreased by 30%.
What should the project manager do to ensure the velocity is under control?
A project manager has received a new request to integrate more features to a product. The team is fully allocated, and there is no budget to acquire new resources.
What strategy should the project manager implement to deal with this situation?
A project manager is working on the budget for a long-term project. The project manager creates a work breakdown structure (WBS) and estimates the cost for each work package based on past projects.
What else does the project manager need to do before determining the budget baseline?
A project manager is assigned to a hybrid project involving multiple sectors. The sectors collaborated in the joint venture delivery facility.
The chief executive officer (CEQ) from each participating sector is a sponsor of the project. Each sector nominated project representatives, who in turn appointed a product owner who was the most experienced in delivering such projects.
Match the stakeholders on the left with the appropriate frequency for updates.
A project manager has joined a company m an unfamiliar industry and has been given a strategically important project Being new, and not fully understanding the interdependences of the various departmental work items, the project manager is unsure of how to plan the project
How should the project manager proceed?
