PMP Sample Exam 9

PMP Sample Exam 9

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A product team has completed 8 of 10 planned iterations for a streamlining project. While refining the backlog for iteration nine, the product owner learns about a massive, company-wide budget change and sends this email:

Dear streamlining project team,

The budget change announced yesterday will impact our project. I may need to reprioritize some of our planned work.

How should the team lead respond?

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During an agile project, key stakeholders are expressing concerns about their lack of involvement. They feel disconnected from the project. The product owner agrees with these concerns and wishes to do something quickly. The iteration is coming to an end.

What would be a good way to engage the key stakeholders at this stage?

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A government is ready to announce a new tax on sugary products to fund a healthcare program. The team is working on the first set of goals to secure buy-in from the industry stakeholders and launch a strong public campaign to support the mandate.

In which three ways can the project build a shared understanding of the project goals with public stakeholders? (Choose three)

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A newly assembled project team is holding a kickoff meeting over a weekend. About half of the project team already works together; the other team members are contractors.

The company already uses lean and agile approaches. However, during the meeting, the team members openly argued about everything—from project goals to the smallest details.

Which action will help the team to build a shared understanding?

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A project team is set to deliver a project in 12 months. The sponsor encourages innovation, and the project has a high risk tolerance. However, 8 months into the project, it is plagued with incomplete and failing prototypes. The highly capable team is feeling demoralized, and the project manager worries whether the deliverable will ever meet the stated acceptance criteria.

How would an adaptive life cycle have helped this project?

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A project team lead has challenged the team to minimize defects and waste in project teamwork. As an initial step, the team proposes to assess the relevant quality standards and framework.

How can the team do this?

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A team was assigned a project to build a new insurance policy administration system. After 6 months of project work, the project sponsor expresses concern. A colleague in an unrelated company division claims the policy administration system has bugs and the team is unable to solve critical problems.

Which two options should the project manager use to prepare a response to the project sponsor? (Choose two)

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During a sprint review, the team identified successful gains on planned improvements while noting that a lot more development and testing is required. The product owner wants to report on the business value of the work.

Which action should the team take to assist the product owner with validating business value?

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A product owner receives some confidential security information that needs to be included in the definition of done or as part of the acceptance criteria.

How should the project leader categorise this requirement?

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A medical charity organization operates in disaster emergency zones worldwide. At headquarters, the leadership wants to ensure that their practitioners’ professional licenses are compliant with governing bodies both in the practitioner’s home and in their working locations. This is a condition set by their board of directors and the charity’s legal team.

In order to facilitate the new measures, which three actions should be taken? (Choose three)

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A company is merging two similar projects. The extensive business processes from each project need to be merged. The team wants to optimize the merged business processes, and they hire a consultant to help them.

How can the team ensure knowledge continuity from both projects?

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An experienced software developer is asked to lead a project for a customized software application for a client they have worked with previously. About 2 months into the project, the client wants to know how change is being managed and wants to see the project management plan. The team lead tells the client that this is an agile project; therefore, there is no project management plan! The client escalates this issue to the sponsor.

How should the sponsor respond to the client?

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A team is developing the human resource (HR) module of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. During a site visit, the client observes concerning data on the team’s information radiators. The burndown chart depicts the progress of the current 3-week iteration. The team is one-third of the way through the iteration, but the actual progress to date reflects the team is behind the planned progress.

The client expresses concern and asks the team lead to discuss it with the product owner. How should the team lead respond?

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An agile team has been asked to update the project artifacts because new team members are joining soon. Which two of the following should be updated? (Choose two)

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An agile team is in dire need of additional resources, so the department decides to add another agile team. A few teams are possible candidates, so management decides on using a performance test to decide which team to add for 10 iterations.

Who should be responsible for hiring the new team?

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A client is making a lot of small, minor change requests, indicating that they are urgent and critical.

Which action should the project manager take?

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A project manager joins a project with the following features:

-Globally distributed team
-Fixed budget
-Very tight deadlines

How can the project manager avoid scope creep and keep the team focused on delivering a product that meets requirements during planning?

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Organization ABC merged with Company XYZ. The project management office (PMO) creates a team with the required expertise. They decide to prioritize an evaluation of company processes, then figure out what needs to be done to create an interim organization that meets the leadership’s needs.

Which two techniques should the project team use? (Choose two)

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An agile team is nearing the end of the project and has been able to complete all stories and deliver value to the client. However, the coach has noticed that the coding standards are NOT up to par.

What should the team do?

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Enterprise Z has partnered with a company to deliver a certain number of phone SIM card chips each month. The results are reviewed each month at the joint steering committee meeting. Enterprise Z has been clear about their preferences and tolerances in the service-level agreements.

What is the best tool to monitor the delivery of products?

 

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At a company party, people are having a friendly, open conversation about which team is the fastest. One person laughs and says that team A has a velocity of 20, whereas team B has a velocity of 40, so team B members will all be receiving bonuses.

How should the leader of team A react?

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A production streamlining project is halfway complete. The team is working well together and optimistic about achieving their goals. The company is having significant personnel issues and has lost many of their senior technicians to start-ups that were offering great salaries.

To make matters worse, the VP of manufacturing requests to use the team’s most senior technical resource for a major new project kicking off next week.

What should the team lead do?

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An agile team has identified several risks during their last retrospective, including the chance of hiring a contractor to double the speed of a critical investigation during the next iteration.

How should the team classify this risk?

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A project manager has drafted a project management plan. While working with the stakeholders, the project manager observes that the key stakeholder’s priorities for the scope and schedule are vastly different from the priorities of all of the other stakeholders.

Key stakeholder – site upgrades and user improvements in a 9-month project schedule
Stakeholders F, K, and S – user improvements in a 3-month project schedule

Stakeholder A has openly stated that the broader scope and longer schedule are necessary for project success.

What should the project manager do first in order to get this project management plan approved?

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A project’s goal is to improve a company’s customer service process through automation and staff development. The team sent initial surveys to the staff to assess their satisfaction with the current process and are now analyzing the responses. These are the top four responses:

• The current process works fine.
• The current process needs fixing.
• We need better training.
• We do not need any more training.

Which two activities should the project team perform first? (Choose two)

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To improve its culture for workers, an organization’s leadership team wants to provide childcare services. Other personal services such as wellness and financial counseling are planned for the next calendar year. The project team needs to decide how to implement the new services. Leadership wants these services in place as soon as possible. The team holds a brainstorming session.

Which two questions should the team explore to begin implementation of the services? (Choose two.)

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The team lead is having a coaching session with a team member. Read the scenario and answer the question.

Lead: We’ve noticed that your work is a few days late again.

Team Member C: It is. I took extra time to fine-tune settings before handing off to the release team.

Lead: OK. We have been through this for the last four sprints, and we need to resolve it. After sprint 3, you blamed a faulty technical setup for the delay, but we found out that was not accurate. Do you think you can give us more realistic estimates next time?

Team Member C: Yes, I was wrong. I thought I was giving realistic estimates, but I realize that after three sprints, my method must be flawed.

Lead: Do you want to do a planning session together so we can figure out a better way?

Team Member C: Yes, that would be helpful. I know that my delay is causing stress on the team. Thanks!

Which two steps in emotional intelligence (EI) has this team member just realized? (Choose two)

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A project team is being sent overseas to lead an integration project at a subsidiary factory. To prepare, they review a transcript from the retrospective from a previous trip to identify the main problems.

Which problem listed below can the team approach and potentially solve using servant leadership and active listening during the next iteration?

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A project team leader is reading feedback from a survey given to key functional manager roles. The project aims to introduce a new service to improve an internal process that will affect all of them. One of the questions was “What do you hope to learn or gain from this project?” The answers varied widely among the four team members.

Manager J – I am excited to learn about the new technical service and add it to my team’s core competencies.
Manager K – I want to learn how the new service can help my team do their job better.
Manager H – Maybe not much. I already know how this service is supposed to work.
Manager M – I’m not sure. I’ll wait and see.

How should the project team leader support the growth and development of this group?

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A project team member is having an extremely difficult and busy personal life. The team is NOT aware. They only see mistakes and missed deadlines. The team is in the middle of an iteration and this team member’s latest mistake has caused a major issue.

How should the team lead respond in this situation?

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A project team is completing a sprint. This team normally performs well under time pressure. But this time, something seems different. The workrooms are quiet, and people are having conversations that seem secretive. A check of the scrum board shows that work is on schedule and quality checks are met, yet the team lead feels anxious.

What should the team lead do?

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In a product demo meeting, an engineering specialist presents the latest test-driven development prototype and asks for team feedback. Team member Y interrupts the demo to protest about the high cost of the prototype. Members of the engineering team immediately become defensive and begin answering all at once.

What action should the project leader take in this situation?

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A collocated agile team is updating the ground rules based on the last iteration and retrospective.

Which option should be excluded from the new ground rules?

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A project is more than halfway finished. The project manager noticed that the teams have not been conducting retrospectives at the end of every sprint. Instead, they are conducting them after the release, which is every 6 months. When the project manager addresses this problem during the all-hands meeting, the team responds that retrospectives are a waste of time because nothing changes.

What should the project manager do in this situation?

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While the team coordinates delivering the latest version of a machine-learning product, a client stakeholder shows signs of resistance. The team lead suspects this is because the stakeholder feels their job is threatened by the automation in the product.

Which approach should the team lead take to effectively reduce the stakeholder’s resistance?

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A product owner has created a lot of epics and has started breaking them down into user stories. These high-priority user stories fulfill the definition of ready. At the iteration planning meeting, the product owner leaves after 2 hours.

What should happen next?

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User testing on the last product release revealed low user interest in certain features that required a significant effort to develop. The team feels demoralized, and they want to make sure their future efforts are worthwhile. Success in the next iteration is critical as the competitor product is gaining market share.

How should the team respond?

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An agile team needs to decide who should represent them in the Scrum of Scrums.

Which option should be used to select the best-suited team member?

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As part of an organizational change program, an experienced project manager with agile experience and certification is hired by a company with a strong predictive culture.

Which two actions can the project manager take to start helping the company adopt agile methodologies? (Choose TWO.)

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A pharmaceutical project includes an agile team of doctors who analyze human tissue scans from drug trial patients. The CEO wants to leverage Machine Learning (ML) technology, because it is proven to be faster and more accurate than doctors in scan analysis.

How should the product owner proceed in response to the CEO’s wish?

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The quarterly results show that competitors are driving prices down. The company is losing market share and midway into a product development project, it appears the sponsoring unit is not likely to get return on their investment.

Which two actions should the project manager take to adapt the project to these new conditions? (Choose TWO).

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The agile team will take over from another supplier to maintain a client’s website. The team notices that recent browser changes imply that most of the website’s existing content would now require users to install a plug-in.

How should the agile team move forward?

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Over the past six months, the development cost per story has risen by more than 250% due to a faulty platform which is NO longer supported. The product vision highlights unique features of the platform as a pre-requisite for the product.

What should the project manager do to determine next steps?

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A company is losing market share to disruptive competitors with new business models. A cross-functional agile team has been formed to recommend ways to recover market share.

How can the team increase their chance of producing successful recommendations?

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The success of an ongoing agile project is measured as follows:

2-week Stories Stories Planned Earned
Sprint Planned Completed Value Value

1 15 10 450K 300K
2 20 18 600K 540K
3 20 25 800K 1000K
4 22 25 1100K 1250K

What two (2) conclusions can be drawn from these figures? (Choose two)

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An agile innovation team is highly productive. However, the Head of Operations informs the product owner that the company is NOT getting sustainable return on investment from the team’s work.

How should the product owner address the problem?

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The marketing director is displeased that the agile innovation team is producing too many novelty products with too little business value.

Which two approaches should the project manager take to correct the team’s approach? (Choose TWO).

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A new product development project is to be initiated in a difficult business context. Competition is driving prices down, and supply costs are rising.

Why would an agile incremental project approach be the safest choice in this context?

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During user testing, a client agrees to the final product. One day later, the client indicates that the final product MAY NOT be acceptable.

What should be the project manager’s first step for resolving this issue?

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A key project resource is discussing the complexity of project deliverables with the project manager 2 weeks before the kickoff call. The resource expresses nervousness and concern regarding the deliverables.

The project manager wants to ensure that the deliverables are realistic.

What is the appropriate action to take?

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A week prior to the project kick-off call, a project manager meets with a key project resource to gain a deeper understanding of the complexity of the project deliverables.

The resource expresses concern and worry regarding the deliverables.

How can the project manager ensure that the deliverables are realistic?

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A project manager receives the following for a new project:

– Assumptions
– Restrictions
– Preliminary scope

After receiving this information, what should the project manager do first?

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A project manager leaves the company and is replaced. The new project manager is excited to start guiding the team toward project success.

What should the new project manager do first?

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A new regulation requires consumer warnings on labels, but a company’s product package is too small to fit the additional information. The regulatory specification does NOT provide a solution, so the agile team decides to solve the problem by displaying the information on a fold-out flap. The start of mass production of the new labels, the project’s next milestone, is scheduled to begin in five days.

What should the agile team do next?

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The legal team informs the product owner that another company owns a patent for an innovation used in the agile team’s product, which is now 75% complete.

What should the product owner do to determine the appropriate way forward?

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Two (2) months into a 3-year mobile telecom roll-out, the project manager discovers that approximately fifteen percent (15%) of the equipment is prohibited for delivery because of an embargo. The procurement contract does NOT cover the embargo case, but the company could incur severe penalties for incomplete delivery.

What is the appropriate solution for the situation?

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A Canadian start-up company announces to the press its imminent launch in the European Union (EU) and Latin America. Soon afterward, the compliance team recommends delaying the launch by 6 months to avoid substantial penalties related to a new set of EU regulations.

Which approach could the project manager take to advance the launch project while preparing the compliance measures?

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A project team learns about a new compliance requirement from an international entity that may impact the baseline business case for the project. They learn this right after the project charter is completed and the project sponsor has signed.

How should the project manager proceed?

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A project manager needs to ensure that all data security requirements are covered during a data warehouse development project’s execution phase. Each of the databases created during different project phases will have a specific data security policy to comply with governmental data security laws.

How should the project manager plan to meet these requirements?

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Project N is a business merger in a highly regulated industry. The project sponsor and a high-level executive have asked for changes that appear to disregard legal requirements.

What should be the first step in the project manager’s response?

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A new law is expected within the next 6 months that will affect a business’ product line. The next product is launching and should be completed within 3 months. Unfortunately, the new product will NOT meet the requirements of the proposed law.

How should the project manager respond to this potential problem?

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A project has the following characteristics:

– It is in the execution stage.
– A new law requires immediate compliance.
– This law will impact the project’s scope, schedule, and cost.

What are three possible actions to ensure compliance? (Choose three)

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An energy infrastructure vendor is delivering a complex solution proof of concept to a new strategic customer. The predictive project should be completed in 10 weeks, but there will be a long list of outstanding items, and some are dependent on external events with uncertain scheduling.

How should the project manager handle the outstanding items?

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At the end of an agile project, all stories are completed on schedule and all tests passed, but the customer does NOT consider the product a success.

Which is the most effective way to prevent this outcome in future projects?

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A project is completed, but the project manager and project team members are being asked to do the following:

– Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues
– Evaluate new requirements
– Make minor adjustments

The project manager needs to ensure that the product developed by the project now has operational support.

What should the project manager do?

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Project team members are spending a lot of time helping maintenance and operations staff with a recently commissioned project component.

The project manager needs to validate that the component was signed off and ownership transferred.

Which three (3) documents should the project manager use for this decision?

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After a project ends, the project manager and project team members are still being asked to do the following:

– Evaluate new requirements
– Make minor modifications
– Solve technical issues

The project manager wants to ensure the product or service developed by the project now has operational support.

What should the project manager do?

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Review the following project characteristics:

– The project is in the initiation phase.
– Due to lack of funding, the project is terminated.
– The project manager must close the project.

What is the first action the project manager should take?

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Review the following steps.

1. A project has been successfully delivered.
2. The project manager is executing formal closure.
3. ______________________________________.

What is step 3?

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A project manager has completed the following steps:

– Finished a major IT deployment project
– Confirmed with the release manager that all systems are working
– Confirmed that functionality has been verified by the quality assurance team
– Informed the customer

Which next step should the project manager take?

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After six (6) iterations, significant variations have occurred to project scope and schedule. These are due to the customer’s technology regulations and security policies, which are regularly reviewed. The project manager suggests taking a new approach to the next iteration to avoid possible delays.

What should the project manager do first?

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A large project includes functional groups in four (4) countries, a steering committee, and a project sponsor. As the project approaches completion, the project manager must prepare the closeout documents.

How should the project manager obtain appropriate signoff on the acceptance of project deliverables?

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Project team members are busier than usual. They indicate that they do NOT have the time to update the lessons learned repository because of other project responsibilities.

How should the project manager respond?

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While reviewing the issue log, the project manager notices that tasks assigned to two (2) team members are quite a bit behind schedule.

What should the project manager do?

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The team working on Project A has resolved a technical issue, and the project is moving forward. The project manager has been warned that the same issue will probably arise on similar projects in the future.

What should the project manager do first when responding to this warning?

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A project team collected sensitive client data during the early stages of a project to help develop the project management plan. The team is now working on deliverables for the project when the compliance manager discovers a data breach and alerts the team to a compliance issue.

Which document should the project manager review first?

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An organizational change program has met with internal resistance, a risk which was previously identified. A logistics manager is particularly affected, due to reduction of the team size and the rate of change driven by an agile planning of the predictive implementation. The manager’s supervisor formally requests the change program to delay implementation for the logistics team.

What should the project manager do next in response to this request?

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A medical equipment vendor is running a hybrid project which includes some custom software development by an agile team. The team progress is good, but slow customer approval causes unnecessary delays. The customer insists that approval can only be given after repeating all the test cases in the target environment.

How can the project manager accelerate the approvals and build customer trust at the same time?

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In a hybrid product design project, the team encounters a 3D printer malfunction resulting in costly losses of titanium supplies. When the production team tells the agile programming team about the problem, it becomes clear that mistranslated data sheets created problems for both teams. However, the agile team resolved their problems a month before the malfunction.

What could the agile team have done to prevent the current malfunction?

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A new wildlife reserve project will have a staff of approximately 80 experts, builders, and logistics workers with exposure to various safety risks. The project manager wants a scalable approach combining flexibility and team dynamics with traditional safeguards.

Which option could be used to tailor a hybrid project of this nature?

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A project to start building an ecology-focused resort complex is planned, and the contract is ready for signature. The client now asks the prime contractor to suspend planned development work on a parcel of land while the team runs a consumer study—the team needs to know what kind of structures to build on the parcel.

What should the prime contractor do to quickly close the deal, given the new client requirements?

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An emergency vaccine roll-out project should be deployed to vaccination centers as soon as confirmed locations are booked. Factors such as delayed batch shipments, safety protocols, and target age groups may block the deployment at the last minute. However, the deployment process does NOT vary after passing the tollgate to begin setup at a new location.

Which project approach would best support the goal to maximize the number of centers deployed?

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An innovative product fails to satisfy targeted consumers despite significant investments in quality control and marketing campaigns.

Which agile practice would best prevent future failures of this nature?

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A consultant has advised an IT director to use a development and operations (DevOps) approach to a migration project. The IT director wants to understand how the necessary speed can be achieved in a safe way.

Which two examples could demonstrate how DevOps can reduce incidents and speed up deployment at the same time? {Choose TWO.)

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Company P’s IT transformation project has three (3) deliverables, and they have the following characteristics, according to the project team:

– Deliverable 2 has strictly scheduled milestones, with no expected variation in the timeline.
– Requirements for deliverables 1 and 3 will change quickly during development.

Which project life cycle should the project manager use for this project?

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A project manager begins to prepare the project management plan after receiving the project charter.

There is currently NO historical information in the project management office (PMO).

What next step should the project manager take in this scenario?

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Company G has a goal of increasing customer satisfaction within four (4) months and initiates a project to meet this goal. The project manager needs to identify best practices.

Which method should the project manager use to accomplish this?

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A hybrid project combines IT integration and software development tasks. The predictive and agile teams seem to be working in silos, resulting in misaligned deliverable scheduling.

Which two measures would most effectively enable the teams to better synchronize their deliveries? (Choose TWO).

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Near the end of a manufacturing project, several team members are transferred to another project. To complete the work, the project manager needs to acquire additional resource support from a new supplier but is concerned about the cost risk of using a new supplier at this advanced stage of the project.

Now, the project manager needs to work with the procurement team to establish specifications and type of contract to be used.

What should be done?

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Because a deliverable does NOT meet the agreed-upon quality specifications, it is rejected by the customer. Team members find that the deliverable fails to meet expectations because of a problem with vendor-provided parts.

The vendor says that they will NOT correct the problem.

Before deciding on next steps, what should the project manager do?

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A textile development project needs a specialized resource to work for 900 hours. The company has decided to outsource these hours. Because of internal policies, all potential service providers must be given the same information about the requirements.

Which action should the project manager take to ensure this?

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A project’s workload is increasing significantly, and the resource level is NOT sufficient. In response, management outsources some major tasks to keep the project on schedule.

What should the project manager do in this scenario?

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A multi-year, hybrid pharmaceutical project adds new fixed-date activities for the team to run Machine Learning (ML) processing of medical scans. The output from the ML analysis is used by an agile team of doctors to determine next steps in a patient case.

The project manager has updated the scope statement and schedule.

In which three other documents should the project manager record this new process? (Choose THREE).

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A worldwide product launch will likely be delayed by the lengthy analysis needed to assess the impact of new European Union (EU) regulations. Perishable ingredients and factory bookings are at risk of being lost. The executive committee decides to postpone the launch in the EU but maintain launch dates in all non-EU countries.

How should the project manager re-plan the project to support both launches?

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The project sponsor requests that an element of a product will be swapped for the equivalent supplied by a local manufacturer in order to have a more sustainable supply chain.

Which action should the project manager take?

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A project manager recently joined a new project with the following characteristics:

– Tight deadlines
– Global virtual team
– Fixed budget

During the planning stage, the project manager wants to avoid scope creep and keep the team focused on delivering a product that meets requirements.

The project manager should ensure __________. (Fill in the blank with the correct response.)

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A team was in the execution stage of the project management plan when three (3) necessary changes were brought to their attention. The team members all have differing opinions regarding how to implement the changes.

What should the project manager do?

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A project sponsor asks the project manager to change production materials because these materials could cause health problems to consumers.

Which step should the project manager take?

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A project is 50% completed. An essential project team member requests two (2) months leave for personal matters.

What should the project manager do first?

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A client’s employee asks the project manager for an additional, new product feature during a status meeting.

To which document should the project manager first refer to determine who has the authority to approve this request?

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A customer contemplates adding new features to a project deliverable.

Which mandatory step must a project manager take before a project team member can start working on these new features?

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The agile team is building a version of a smartphone shopping application suitable for older people. Marketing has not been able to find any volunteer test users fitting the profile.

Which option would be most effective to ensure the best product value is delivered?

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During estimating, the team is discussing an item in the backlog. It becomes clear that the item can be done in different ways, but the best way is NOT obvious.

What should the team do to progress on this item?

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User test results for a prototype release are ready. The test users describe the kind of smoother experience they want, the many missing features they desire, and the ways the product could be more visually appealing.

What conclusions can be drawn from the user’s input?

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A project has the following characteristics:

– To determine what product should be created, a feasibility study was conducted.
– A change request was approved to develop another product that contradicts the original requirements.
– Data analysis was conducted before the change request was approved.

Which action should the project manager take?

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A marketing team is developing a new website for an existing product range. The team reads through some customer comments submitted on the current website:

“Too much clicking!”
“More and better please.”
“Make it easier”

Which tool or technique should the marketing team use to identify the target audience’s style preferences?

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A merger of two companies results in combining an agile software project and a predictive electronics project into a single hybrid project. Two months later, requirements have changed in both tracks but NEITHER has a full picture on status or importance of the requirements.

How can the project manager best resolve the problem?

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An agile team is struggling to solve a blocking issue with packaging design. Eventually, they find a solution, but it requires a different product format.

What should the team do before further developing the solution?

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An empowered agile team showed impressive progress in the first four iterations, but now the product owner has noticed low output in the latest five iterations without any apparent reason.

What could be the cause of this situation?

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A project manager is working on a software development project.

Two customers are repeatedly submitting new feature requests. The completed scope definition for the product’s next version release has already been provided to stakeholders.

What should the project manager do next?

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A project manager is working with a customer who repeatedly submits requests for new requirements for an existing software product.

The project manager has already provided the completed scope definition for the product’s next version release to stakeholders.

Which step is appropriate for the project manager to take next?

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Review the following project characteristics:

– A sponsor approves a project.
– The project manager invites selected team members, key stakeholders, and the sponsor to a meeting.
– The primary purpose of the meeting is to create a document that will guide the team in defining the main project deliverables.

What will be the final output of this meeting?

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A client brings a project manager into a project during the project’s execution stage.

The project manager reviews the project scope for cost estimating purposes and notices that some deliverables were missed in the work breakdown structure (WBS).

Which step should the manager take next?

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A medium-sized company is expanding into a new market. However, the company does NOT have previous experience in that market.

A project manager needs to collect requirements.

Which two tools or techniques should the project manager use? (Choose TWO).

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The agile team surpassed the planned number of stories in the last three agile iterations.

How can the project manager be sure all the work performed is truly complete?

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A start-up company needs to quickly expand its product portfolio to meet market demand. Recently, staff members are working on two or three agile teams, each dedicated to a different product line. Output is dropping and defect rates are rising in all teams.

In which two ways can the project manager help the agile teams improve their work? (Choose TWO).

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A smartphone manufacturer is re-assessing its product development methods in response to a sharp increase in user complaints. Analysis of the complaints indicates that the users try to use some features in ways that designers did NOT anticipate.

Given these findings, which agile practice would most effectively prevent the problem?

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During sprint planning, some new backlog items are prioritized but NOT estimated. The product owner requires a new set of tests to verify the unique properties of the items.

What should happen before adding it to the sprint backlog?

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Company B is setting up a new agile innovation team with a mission of placing product quality above all other considerations. The initiative comes after a number of high-profile complaints on social media networks about the brand’s diminished quality.

Which option would be most effective to achieve the team’s goals?

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The project is overseen by a senior project manager. A new project manager joins the project, and the sponsor asks the new project manager to develop the quality management plan.

How should the new project manager proceed?

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A project is in the execution stage. Based on the originally approved blueprint, 1,000 products were developed. The project team randomly chooses 100 products to evaluate against the quality plan.

What is the project team undertaking?

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