PMP Sample Exam 7

PMP Sample Exam 7

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An agile team has been performing at an extremely high level and pace, receiving praise from stakeholders and customers. A portfolio manager has asked the team to start a community of practice (COP) for the organization. The team members vote unanimously against this because of the intense time commitment. Instead, they offer an open invitation to anyone to attend their retrospectives.
Which two statements describe this team’s reaction to the portfolio manager? (Choose 2)

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A project team needs to decide whether to retrofit a fleet of bicycles as ebikes instead of buying brand new ones. The agile coach conducts a group exercise.
Review the notes on the whiteboard:
Retrofit old bikes
• 60% probability of success with a profit of US$50,000
• 40% chance it will lose US$50,000
Buy new bikes
• 50% chance of profit greater than US$25,000
• 50% chance of cost recovery
What is this project team doing?

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An agile team is prioritizing user stories for an app that helps people adopt dogs. After considering the impact on the project’s scope, budget, and time line, the team decides to exclude one user story because it is too complex to implement for the app’s first release. The product owner believes this specific user story will give the app an early competitive advantage over the current market leader.
How should this project team and product owner work together to make the best decision?

The best approach is for the project manager to start understanding the project situation by meeting all project team members and key stakeholders to better understand the project’s current status, key issues requiring immediate attention, project priorities, and short-term deliverables, then reviewing and revising the project charter. The problems with this company’s project team include geographical dispersion and lack of project management skills. They are highly skilled in their technical work, so the option of hiring new project team members is not a wise choice.

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The project sponsor, the CEO of a construction company, hires a project manager to lead and establish project management best practices. The company has a global project involving highly technically skilled teams in different countries who tried to create a project charter, but the document is not adequate.
Which two actions should the project manager take first? (Choose 2)

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An agile team sometimes uses an open workspace inside an otherwise quiet office. One afternoon, a giant screen is set up and customers are invited to a presentation. Approximately 1 hour later, the team is laughing and cheering so loudly that the entire office comes to see what is going on.
Which event is taking place here?

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A project manager in a nonprofit organization is working with the procurement department to identify new startup companies to bid for a major new project. The organization is committed to working with startup companies because of its public funding stream. However, in the past, many of these bid applications have contained unrealistic budgets because of the startups’ inexperience or higher costs because of the small size of their operation.
What should the project manager do?

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An oil and gas plant construction project had been progressing on schedule and within budget. Six months into the project, the company owner visits the site for a formal tour. After the tour, the owner asks the project manager to replace the edifice of the office building with marble—an expensive cosmetic change! Even though the project manager explained to the owner that this work would escalate the cost of the project and might delay completion, the owner insisted on using the marble.
What should the project manager do?

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A company is contracted to manufacture oil storage tanks for a construction project. According to the latest project report, the tanks are missing a venting system, as required by international industry standards. The project manager seeks advice from the company’s operations supervisor, who states that this will have an adverse effect on the quality of the product.
What should the project manager do to correct the situation?

 

 

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Two weeks after taking on a leadership role in a project, a project manager has completed the project team and key stakeholder analysis. Now they want to show the team how to organize a project and learn about project management. Training the team in project management is a high priority for stakeholders, especially the CEO.
Which action should the project manager perform next?

 

 

 

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The latest progress reports indicate that a software development project is within tolerance and forecasted to be completed on time and on budget. The product owner requests a change to the agreed specification, which will require significant rework of completed work packages and the introduction of new work. Although the reasons for the change are justifiable, the project manager is concerned about schedule and budget impacts.
Which action should be taken first?

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A large, valuable sculpture in a big city needs to be moved safely from one location to another. This is project A, which must be done before project B, the city’s largest infrastructure project, can begin. After a 2-week delay, the project managers meet. Project manager A announces another 6 months and US$900,000 will be needed to remove the sculpture and success cannot be guaranteed.
What should project manager B do?

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A project manager in a software company is working on a highly confidential project. One developer often works late and carries a large bag to work daily. The project manager learns that the developer’s brother-in-law works for a competitor company and they have been meeting for lunch.
What should the project manager do first?

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An agile project team is joined by a newly hired team member who is highly skilled but has only worked on predictive project teams. After working with the team for 1 month, the project team has scheduled a product demo with the client, an external customer. The client gives direct and passionate feedback: “This mechanism is overcomplicated. Customers won’t like it. We can’t support it. Start over!” The new team member begins crying and immediately exits the room.
How should the project team react?

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A product development team composed of one product owner and several global team members, all working virtually, has several projects in progress. A team member finishes a project and, in an attempt to help the team, they execute a product launch and closes a project on their own, without notifying the product owner or any other team member. After closure, the team member emails the whole team a list of lessons learned and quality improvements to be implemented across the portfolio.
Which two actions should the project team take to improve team communication? (Choose 2)

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A project team has recently implemented a software system to replace some of an organization’s internal manual processes. Although training has already taken place, some end users are resistant to the change and prefer the old manual methods.
Which two actions should the project manager take to ensure the new software is adopted by all users and that the transition is smooth? (Choose 2)

 

 

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A project manager is assigned to lead an organization’s first project using agile development approaches. To prepare, the project manager sketches some initial plans and notes some concerns, which include resource and talent management and who can help lead the effort.
Which team member or stakeholder should lead this project?

 

 

 

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A national beautification program is underway. One project—to remove the “locks of love” (padlocks fastened by couples in love) from the side of a 200-year-old bridge—is highly controversial. The locks are speeding up the destruction of the bridge railings, which is a safety concern, but thousands of people have been protesting the removal every weekend, shutting down city streets and creating bad publicity. Protests have become global, as a social media campaign shows thousands of tourists visiting the city are also angry about the removal.
What should the project manager do?

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Ten years ago, a family inherited a 140-acre estate but since then have only argued about what to do with it. Now, they must act within 24 months to avoid financial penalties for dereliction. The estate lawyer engages a development company with a project manager to find a solution. The project manager hosts a discovery and fact-finding meeting and hears the following viewpoints:
• Stakeholder F wants to restore the derelict building to preserve historical value.
• Stakeholders P and Q want to demolish the building, then build and sell houses.
• Stakeholder B wants to split the property among the family.
• The lawyer reemphasizes the time line.
Which two steps should the project manager take first? (Choose 2)

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A newly appointed project manager is reviewing documents and realizes the business case contains incomplete information. What should the project manager do next?

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A new project manager is asked to help a project sponsor create a project charter for the first time. After looking through the project documents provided by the project sponsor and the business stakeholders, the project manager creates a draft and is nearly ready to share it with the stakeholders and the project team.
Which additional step should the project manager take to ensure the project charter is ready?

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A project to catalog a knowledge base has been rejected several times. The work is now unavoidable, but the company has limited resources to complete it. A project manager has recorded a long list of quality defects of varying degrees of importance and criticality, which cause the stakeholders to be concerned.
Which tool or technique should the project manager use to approach the task of dealing with the defects?

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A software development project using a hybrid development approach has a fixed budget of US$500,000. During the execution phase, a project team lead has been tracking the costs and posting the actual cost (AC) and planned cost (PC) amounts on an information radiator. The project team notices that this trend has continued for the last 3 months, with the variance growing steeper during the last month. They plan to discuss the budget at the next retrospective.
What should the project team do?

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A project team is developing a new e-commerce website for an IT project. The project is facing several technical issues that are affecting progress, including multiple code corrections caused by poor quality of coding. The deliverables have been negatively impacted.
In which three ways should the project team address these issues? (Choose 3)

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A project to build a large resort-style swimming pool is in the execution stage. The project manager notices that team members are using different units of measurement to monitor project progress: some report completion of work in hours, some in days, and others note the percent complete. This is causing confusion.
What should the project manager do to prevent this from happening again?

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A project was discontinued because of severe resource limitations 3 years ago. Now the project sponsor insists that it should be restarted and offers a budget but no staff. The other stakeholders agree the business needs the work to be done but cannot allocate any of their staff members to do the work. Despite this, a project manager has been assigned to the project. The project manager is given 3 weeks to review the original project artifacts and report on recommendations to the project management office (PMO) so the project can be prioritized within the business portfolio.
In which two ways should the project manager approach this situation? (Choose 2)

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Every year, from May to October, a ski resort closes to undertake a project to inspect the surrounding mountain trails and repair the ski lifts before reopening. The date is now 15 September. The project manager wants to know how much more money to allocate to the project budget to meet the completion date of 31 October.
Which method or metric should the project manager use?

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Three project team members request long leaves of absence. Two team members are studying for a major exam and the other has a family emergency. Their project roles are very similar, and the project is critical to the business.
What should the project manager do?

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A project manager is replaced during the execution stage of a project. During a handover meeting, the departing project manager introduces the new project manager to the project sponsor and the project team. The new project manager asks who the supportive stakeholders are, but no one knows the answer.
What should the new project manager do?

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A company is considering a project to improve its IT infrastructure. The project team wants to identify the assumptions, constraints, risks, and issues.
Categorize the assumption, constraint, risk, and issue correctly.
A. The unique server used by the team is out of service from 8:00 a.m. this morning.
B. Negotiations conducted last week by the management team with our partner resulted in an agreement to register a budget of US$50,000 in the next quarter for IT infrastructure upgrades to avoid this type of server failure.
C. The project may be delayed due to possible loss of data due to sudden shutdown of the server during its failure.
D. Development work on the main project deliverable is struggling to move forward due to the limited capacity of the current development infrastructure.

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During the risk management planning process for a software development project, a project team identifies a high-risk item related to the integration of a new third-party tool into the system. The team has identified a contingency plan but it is expensive and may impact the project budget.
What should the project manager do next?

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Midway through a project in a large organization, a project sponsor has left and been replaced by a senior department manager who is already a project stakeholder. The project manager is concerned because the department manager is not answering emails in a timely manner.
How should the project manager respond?

 

 

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A new project manager begins work on a project started last year to renovate a busy airport terminal. Even though the project uses a hybrid development approach—making incremental updates to the terminal—it has encountered many issues, especially creating conflicts with airport operations. The new project manager asks the project team about how they typically handle problems and risks, but no one has a clear answer.
What should the project manager do first?

 

 

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A business-critical project is in danger of missing a deadline in 15 days and failing. The team lead escalates the issue to management and is given the option of adding an unknown resource for the next 2 weeks or reprioritizing the backlog. The project team asks the product owner to reprioritize the backlog.

When the number of communication channels changes, we need to adjust our communication methods accordingly. The strategy can remain the same. To assume that two individuals working closely together would act as one is an unsafe assumption. With a plan in place to handle their individual communications, the project manager can have an effective strategy and engage and collaborate with these stakeholders effectively as individuals.

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A project sponsor announces their retirement and informs the project manager that they will be replaced by two company managers. The project sponsor says: “These two managers work together closely, so the transition should be seamless.”
What should the project manager do next?

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An oil and gas company is redesigning their oil storage tanks to meet updated international industry standards. A vendor is contracted to perform the work. During the latest inspection, a critical flaw is detected in the tank venting systems.
The vendor states this is a design flaw and they notified the team lead 3 weeks ago to inspect the tanks, but they did not perform the inspection. The vendor kept working, using the designs they were given, to meet the next milestone. The team lead says the inspection was not on the schedule.
What should the project manager do first?

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A project manager is responsible for a software development project, and the project team has been using a predictive approach. However, due to changing requirements and customer needs, the project team has decided to adopt an agile approach.
Which three actions should the project manager take to ensure a smooth transition from a predictive to an agile approach and that the team adapts well? (Choose 3)

 

 

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A project manager is ready to kick off a new construction project. The stakeholders are all enthusiastic about the project, but their varied opinions about the project are causing some problems. Most stakeholders want to use the reliable milestone-based predictive approach the company has always used, whereas others want to try an agile approach to move work along faster.
What should the project manager do?

 

 

 

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A project manager has subcontracted some technically challenging work to a vendor. The vendor has delivered the subcontracted work as per the technical specifications mentioned in the contract. Still, the project manager is not satisfied with the deliverables produced because they are not exactly what was required.
Which two actions should the project manager take first? (Choose 2)

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A large construction project to renovate a landmark building in a highly populated area has received significant media attention due to its potential impact on the local community. Several stakeholders, including community leaders, local politicians, and environmental groups, have expressed concerns about the project’s potential impact.
Which approach should the project manager take to complete this project successfully?

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A large utility company is using a hybrid approach to update their customer service software platform. The project has entered the testing phase, and the project team has identified several defects in the system. An expert joins the project to troubleshoot the defects. An investigation finds that incomplete requirements gathering and poor communication between project team members and stakeholders have caused the defects.
What should this project team record as lessons learned from this situation?

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A project is undergoing major restructuring, which includes recruiting a new project manager. Halfway through the restructuring, the project sponsor has approves the assessment report and confirmed the short-term actions and scope of changes required to address the many project issues.
What should the new project manager do next?

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A project stakeholder thinks they are being helpful by sharing a lot of negative customer feedback emails. This feedback is often difficult to understand and written in raw, verbatim form or without any context. After 2 weeks of receiving these emails almost every day, one project team member is frustrated and becomes angry and vocal at work.
Which three actions should the project team take? (Choose 3)

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A project team has deprioritized capturing lessons learned for two sprints now and just continues working. What should the project manager do first?

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Tragedy strikes on a project to restore a bus terminal and modernize the service. An unexpected natural disaster has damaged the site and surrounding city. The project team, watching from a safe location 250 kilometers away, is in emergency response mode.

What should the project team do next?

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A project team is moving a large sculpture from one part of a city to another. Since this is the first time the team has performed this kind of work, hazard specialists were contracted to oversee risk and compliance planning and advise the project team during the project.
Which three actions should the project manager take to lead this combined team successfully? (Choose 3)

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An agile coach is facilitating a discussion about servant leadership in the retrospective. During the session, the team members ask many questions.
Which one of these questions will the agile coach answer with “yes”?

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A company that manufactures and sells plastic containers is working on their latest product catalog. To comply with European laws, the photographs in the children’s products sections should not consist of more than 20% images of candy and processed foods and should consist of at least 80% images of fruits and vegetables. As the project team reviews the photographs before the final printing, they identify one photograph that clearly does not comply with the law.
Which activity was the project team performing during the catalog review and which activities should they perform in the future to avoid this issue from repeating?

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A project to upgrade a company’s human resources (HR) application is being planned. Since the work is a custom-designed application, the project team wants to use an agile approach. The product owner selects a go-live date which the project team believes is unreasonable without overtime work.
What should the project team do?

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A project team is reviewing a budget early in a project and is surprised at the great cost variances. At the next retrospective, the team focuses on the budget problem and determines the current funding will be insufficient because all vendors have significantly increased their prices.
What should the project team do next?

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An agile project team is using scrum methods. A previously unidentified risk has occurred and threatens the current release.
What should the scrum master do?

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A project manager wants to know whether an agile team possesses a good combination of T-shaped skills.

What can the project manager measure to determine this?

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An agile team member solved a problem that had blocked work for several weeks. After release of the software, it appears that the solution caused a function to fail. The quality director demands an explanation.

In which two ways should the project manager react? (Choose TWO.)

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A recently formed agile team is exhausted after working 12-hour days to fulfill sprint commitments.

Who has NOT properly performed their duties in this situation?

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The product owner’s schedule is very busy, and he wishes to delegate some of his tasks to the experienced agile team.

Which task is suitable to delegate to the agile team?

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A project is in the execution stage, and a change in the market pushes stakeholders to make the due date earlier. The project manager rapidly assigns skilled resources to build and establish the team.

Which of the following would NOT be included in the project manager’s next steps?

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Project A is experiencing schedule performance issues. After assessing the issues, the project manager determines that project resources have low expertise levels.
Specifically, a few of the senior-level resources perform irrelevant work, and some inexperienced resources take too much time to complete tasks.

Which action should the project manager take to enhance team performance?

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Several new members are added to an ongoing project. Although all original team members received basic training on the specifics of the business operation that the project supports, the new members do NOT have the same basic understanding. This lack of understanding results in decreased productivity.

How should the project manager respond to this issue?

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A team decides that an agile approach fits the needs of the next phase in their project. Unfortunately, some team members have NOT had the appropriate agile training.

How should the project manager respond to the lack of agile training?

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A project team has been efficiently delivering results. The product upgrade they are working on must be released in three months or else a competitor’s new product will make theirs obsolete. Citing this reason, the product owner makes a sudden request for a feature revision. However, no one on the project team is capable of doing the work. The project sponsor is willing to extend the budget but CANNOT extend the schedule.

What should the project manager do?

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Some agile approaches have recently been added to an infrastructure company’s predictive processes. The team is NOT completing the planned story points, and they are becoming passive. The project manager is concerned and wants to improve productivity.

Which two actions should the project manager take? (Choose TWO.)

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An agile approach is required during the final phase in a team’s project. As the team discusses the phase, some team members disclose that they have NOT worked with agile before. The deadline is approaching soon.

How should the project manager respond?

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A project has the following characteristics:

– Schedule performance issues occur due to low expertise levels of project resources.
– Junior-level resources are NOT completing tasks in a timely manner.
– Highly-experienced resources report that their junior colleagues are performing unnecessary tasks.

In what two ways can the project manager enhance the performance of this team? (Choose TWO.)

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During Project A’s kickoff phase, the project manager provided training for the entire team regarding the specifics of the company operations that the project supports.
A year later, project productivity is suffering because members who were added later in the project do NOT have the same level of understanding.

How should the project manager respond to this challenge?

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A technology development project has the following characteristics:

It requires a highly skilled resource that is unavailable locally.
The project manager has identified a resource who can do the work, but the resource lives in a different country and requires a work visa.
The work visa process is taking more time than anticipated.

What should the project manager do?

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A key team member is asked to move to another project during the middle of a technical project. The team believes this is an unwise move and expresses concern.

Which action will help to resolve the issue?

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A project manager is working on a small project that is critical for a larger program milestone. A new resource has been assigned to replace a key resource who had to leave the project. Unfortunately, an outside stakeholder claims that the person who assigned the new resource sent their weakest team member.

How should the project manager approach this rumor?

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A project manager in an organization that uses traditional project management is assigned to an ongoing project. Recently, the organization has started to use agile methodologies for projects. The project manager hears that some team members think key subject matter expertise is missing and that the team does NOT collaborate enough.

How should the project manager respond to these team members’ concerns?

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During a technical project, a well-liked project member is reassigned to a different project. The team has expressed disapproval regarding the reassignment.

What action can help mitigate the team’s disapproval?

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A new resource joins a working project team and is assigned to a small project that is critical to a larger program milestone. Unfortunately, the new resource is under-skilled and very nervous. The team dynamic has become awkward, and work has slowed on the small project.

Which are two possible ways for the project manager to handle this situation? (Choose TWO).

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On an agile team, staff members from various organizational departments rotate in and out, to augment the team.  How can the project manager help shield the permanent team members from disruption?

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Before the next iteration begins, project team B meets an unexpected challenge which threatens to delay the current phase. The task in the next iteration CANNOT be completed because of this challenge. Another team within the project is depending on timely completion of Task 1 in order to fulfill their work.

How should the project manager resolve this issue?

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During a meeting, a project manager learns that a business result needs to be delivered in four (4) weeks, although the original schedule stated sixteen (16) weeks. The project manager also hears that there is NO available technical resource. The project manager knows the technical resource manager because they worked together on a previous project.

What is the first thing the project manager should do?

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A project manager in a virtual team realizes, during the third iteration of product development, that the team dashboard that shows progress on work is faulty and is NOT showing updates.

Which action should the project manager take?

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Project D is working virtually because of a recent natural disaster. Several activities are delayed because a project team member has NOT been working for the past week. This impacts the critical path.

How should the project manager respond to this problem?

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During an iteration, a project team working in country B encounters problems that may cause a delay in completion of task B. Teams in country A need task B to be completed on time in order to meet their schedules. These teams work together virtually.

What can the project manager do to resolve this problem?

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A new project manager needs to deliver a high-stakes agile project. The vendor working with the team is in another country. Though this vendor has delivered excellent quality work on time in the past, they are currently behind schedule. The team explains to the project manager that their attempts to get the vendor back on schedule have failed. They have sent emails and phoned, but the vendor only gives vague, noncommittal responses. The product owner insists that this vendor is essential to the success of the project and an important partner of the business.

Which action should the project manager take?

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A longstanding, key team member in a virtual team has been unmotivated for weeks after the death of a family member. Because of this, several project activities are behind schedule, impacting the project’s critical path.

How should the project manager handle this situation?

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Several items remain in the Kanban blocked column despite the team’s efforts to resolve the issues. The retrospective reveals that all of the impediments relate to mandatory corporate business processes, which introduce wait times.

What should the project manager do next?

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Several items remain in the Kanban blocked column despite the team’s efforts to address them. The retrospective reveals that all the impediments can be traced back to a particular department head. Previously, the project manager has tried to educate this stakeholder, but they still show resistance.

What should the project manager do next?

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Several unforeseen impediments suddenly appear on the Kanban board in a hybrid project. Each team member has reported one or more different problems relating to a regulatory specification issued by the predictive track.

Which parameter is likely to be highest in the risk assessment?

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A project manager is preparing the charter for a project. The project aims to automate 30 percent of the company’s product testing. The project sponsor advises the project manager to assign senior test engineers to identify the tests that can be automated.
The test department manager, however, is NOT cooperative because they believe that the project will lead to downsizing in their department.
Which two actions are suitable in this scenario? (Choose TWO.)

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Project manager A identifies three critical risks with the probability of a high impact on the schedule and budget of project A—this project is producing critical deliverables for the company.

The team meets to devise a solution for the risks and decides that three specific resources will be required to address the risks. However, these resources are already committed to a separate project, which is managed by project manager B.
Which party should the project manager work with first to find a solution?

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A customer is NOT satisfied with the delivered product, saying that it was NOT what they expected. The project manager is surprised, because the agile development team delivered the product several iterations early.

What is one way that the project manager could have avoided this result?

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A key stakeholder voices a concern during the planning stage about whether the available resources are adequate to meet the objectives of the project. After further discussion about the requirements and the number of resources identified, the project manager is hesitant about the original plan.

Which two steps should the project manager take next? (Choose TWO.)

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“A contractor has sent an email request for urgent payment of their last invoice on a project that is going through a long execution stage with multiple contractors.

How should the project manager respond to this contractor’s request?”

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The sales and marketing director at company A reports a 40% drop in revenue and significant increase in returns for Widget version 6.0. Customers are complaining directly to customer service and the social media teams report a high rate of negative feedback.
The project team is already working on Widget version 6.1., which is a small set of upgrades and bug fixes. The director gets in touch with the team, requesting a full disclosure of version 6.0 and 6.1 requirements.

How should the project manager interact with this stakeholder?

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A project has a quality management plan in place.

This plan states that project deliverables must be reviewed for quality at least five (5) business days before the deadline. Four deliverables have failed the quality requirement. What should the project manager do?

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The project sponsor is NOT convinced that an agile track should be used in a new R&D project because the company needs to be certain that specific features will be ready for mass production by a specific date.

Which three agile methods can ensure that the sponsor’s needs can be fulfilled in a hybrid project approach? (Choose THREE.)

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A project manager observes that team members are in a low mood after demos. Feedback from stakeholders is constantly causing concern for the team. As a result, the team rushes through product demos, and the interaction between the team and stakeholders is minimal.

Which action should the project manager take?

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The IT department of a glassware manufacturer enthusiastically approved the agile team’s mid-project demo of quality-checking software for assembly line workers. However, the final product was considered UNUSABLE because the workers’ gloves are too thick to press the machinery’s small buttons.

What should the project manager do to avoid this kind of failure in the future?

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The agile team sometimes has idle periods while awaiting a product director to inform the product owner on new goals. The decisions depend on analysis of market research.  Which measure could reconcile the needs of the director and the agile team?

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An agile development team changes a design element in a project. Testing results improve dramatically over the next two iterations. At the third iteration retrospective, the product owner is unhappy to learn about the change to the original design and asks the team to redo the work based on the original design.

How can the project manager prevent such situations?

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A product owner repeatedly complains, saying that a function developed by the development team does NOT seem to align with the original design. What will help to solve this issue?

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During a challenging stakeholder meeting, one stakeholder indicates that they will reject an iteration’s deliverable.

What should the project manager do?

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A team misunderstood one product’s functionality documented in an earlier stage of the project. During the current iteration, the functionality has NOT yet been developed, but a business representative has mentioned the deficiency.

How should the project manager proceed?

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A project team is working with an overseas contractor based in a country that has three official languages, and every contractor on the team is multilingual. Team meetings continue to be held in the commonly shared language, but during project work meetings, contractors speak to each other in a different language.

When the project manager brings this up in the next team meeting, the contractors express regret, but they explain that they work better when they can communicate freely with each other.

How should the project manager respond first?

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A project manager with limited experience managing globally distributed team members is appointed to a project with team members who are all from another country and speak a different native language.

To successfully manage this project, the project manager needs to have cultural sensitivity.

What of the following actions should the project manager NOT take?

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A governmental anti-money laundering software project needs a solution to collaborate with a remote agile team of four (4) people in another country. Spontaneous verbal communication between the teams must be supported. All the remote team’s workstations and Kanban boards must be visible at all times.

Which virtual team collaboration solution is most appropriate?

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Members of a virtual agile team are separated by seven (7) time zones. Daily meetings are too long, and the problem is made worse when laptop cameras switch between the speaking members.

Which two measures should the project manager take to achieve shorter, more efficient daily meetings? (Choose TWO).

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A company is constructing recycling plants in fifteen (15) countries around the world. The lead in the project management office (PMO) wants more timely progress reporting and experience sharing between project managers in each of the geographically distant projects.

Which two agile methods might the PMO use to fulfill this need? (Choose TWO).

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As a project manager, you are leading a colocated project team that will create deliverables in an agile fashion. followed by a rollout phase that will use a predictive approach. You are concerned that the transition from agile to waterfall may cause friction within the project team.

With the development phase complete, how might the team’s working agreements need to change in this situation?

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A project manager creates a procurement statement of work (SOW) from the project scope baseline. The scope of the SOW, however. is not yet well defined, therefore the project manager decides to contract with a vendor to provide an agile team of programmers. The contract is structured with fixed-price increments based on user stories.

How might the project manager verify that the vendor has met the contractual obligations?

103 / 175

For the last few iterations. a stakeholder has been approaching the scrum master with a suggestion to modify the way the team carries out its development work. According to the stakeholder. the change will save time without affecting the project backlog.

What action should be taken by the scrum master?

104 / 175

A project manager is drafting a charter for a software development project. In support of this process, the project manager has scheduled a brainstorming meeting to gather relevant information.

Which of the following activities is the project manager least likely to conduct?

105 / 175

You are a project manager conducting a meeting with your project team. The goal of the meeting is to improve the overall team environment to enhance project performance. The meeting becomes contentious with team members interrupting each other and being disrespectful to each other’s suggestions. You attempt to return civility to the meeting by establishing ground rules for acceptable behavior, but working relationships may already be damaged.

What might you have missed that could have prevented this situation?

106 / 175

To comply with the customer’s contract, the project must use a certified agile practitioner to lead and coach the project team. However, the only certified agile practitioner employed by the company was just assigned to another project. The project manager must now hire an independent contractor to serve as the agile coach, which delays the start of project execution.

Which of the following may have helped to avoid the delay in executing the project?

107 / 175

A project has to procure goods and services from a seller. Some aspects of the procurement are well-defined up-front while others will be known only after initial deliverables are validated and accepted.

What contracting technique would work best for this procurement?

108 / 175

You are leading a project in a small startup company with decentralized purchasing. A supplier informs you that they have excess inventory that can be purchased at a reduced price. You review the project’s inventory needs and find that most of the excess inventory offered by the supplier can be used for the project.

What is your best course of action?

109 / 175

Planning is underway for a project to develop a new online collaboration tool. The team will use the eXtreme Programming (XP) method to develop the tool. while the deployment to the customers will be managed using a waterfall approach. The agile coach wants to gather early customer feedback on a working tool to ensure its aligned with the product vision.

What is the best course of action?

110 / 175

To engage the newly identified stakeholders in the project at the earliest opportunity, the scrum master suggests inviting them to the upcoming sprint review meeting to demonstrate to the stakeholders that the team is moving in the right direction and get feedback from the stakeholders about what the team has accomplished.

Which of the following is another reason for inviting the stakeholders to this meeting?

111 / 175

An agile team is tasked with the development of a robot. The project manager wants to ensure that before the actual robot is built. the team receives early feedback on requirements and adapts the design accordingly.

Which of the following should the team use to address the project manager’s request?

112 / 175

You are leading a project with a critical time constraint and cannot afford any delays. An argument between two project team members over a minor formatting issue in a report they use to document their testing results turns into a shouting match. The team members draw you into their argument. You realize that resolving the conflict would delay the project timeline.

What is your best course of action?

113 / 175

You are managing a virtual project team across multiple time zones. As the project progresses, the team members learn to trust one another and adjust their work routines to accommodate the different time zones. work habits. and culture.

What stage of team development is being demonstrated in this situation?

114 / 175

The project team reports that they have finished creating the requirements management plan, the requirements documentation, and the requirements traceability matrix. The team informs that they are going to start working on the project work breakdown structure (WBS) next.

What has the project team forgotten to do?

115 / 175

After a few iterations, new features have been requested and added to the project backlog. Senior leadership has provided additional funding and approved a new project timeline. However. a team member mentions that the project charter is no longer in alignment with the updated project backlog.

What action should the agile leader take to resolve the issue?

116 / 175

You are leading a software development project, which is utilizing an agile framework. While monitoring the progress of the project, it is apparent that velocity is trending down, and you are aware of some setbacks that have been encountered by the development team. You want to capture and analyze lessons learned so far during the project to improve the process going forward.

What is the best way to achieve this goal?

117 / 175

After reviewing proposals for a large-scale product development project. vendors X and Y are equally qualified to deliver both the hardware and software. The project manager believes the hardware should be developed with a traditional project management approach, but the software might be better suited to an agile framework.

What is the best course of action?

118 / 175

A new program consists of five projects. each performed by a scrum team. Throughout the program life cycle, various deliverables from each of the scrum teams will serve as inputs to other teams.

What is the best strategy for each of the scrum masters to navigate this complexity?

119 / 175

The project team has just completed its fourth sprint. As part of the Control Costs process, you determine that the team’s average velocity is 25 points per sprint, and the team has earned 1/3 of the total number of story points required to complete the entire project. The average cost per story point is $575.

What is the estimate to complete the remaining work?

120 / 175

Your project team functions as a well-organized unit. The team members are interdependent and work through issues smoothly and effectively.

What is your best course of action?

121 / 175

The last three agile iterations showed a trend of increasingly prolonged test work. Which activity should the project manager plan to address the root cause?

122 / 175

Project team members are concerned that a new resource does NOT seem suitable for an assigned task. How should the project manager respond to this concern?

123 / 175

A project manager for a major annual international sporting event is reviewing data collected after the second of six planned project phases and sees that the team is performing poorly. The project uses a hybrid management model, with a project manager and decentralized decision-making at the team level. The project manager learns that several critical elements are behind schedule, and some delivered services are not operating correctly, resulting in rework and more delays. Also, team members might be enjoying working with the sports teams and being in the media spotlight a bit too much.

What should the project manager do?

124 / 175

Owners of a small luxury travel magazine want to expand their services to provide bookings for readers’ dream holidays. They commit 15% of the company’s annual profit over 3 years to develop and launch the service. The company creates a high-level vision statement and objectives and key results (OKRs), which they hand over to a consulting company.

Which approach and initial scope decision is suitable for this project to begin work?

125 / 175

A pharmaceutical company has manufactured its best-selling product for more than 50 years. Production has steadily increased, and the company is ready to make a significant investment to expand the business.

Leadership asks the project management team to carefully assess the risk of this expansion. What should the team focus on?

126 / 175

An established farm is struggling to maintain profitability and plans to integrate an agro-tourism project to expand the business. They hire a project manager and personnel and initiate a project. The new team members will be shared resources for both the farm and the playground project. The farm needs to continue generating cash flow to support operations until the project is integrated–in 8 months.

By the second month, the project manager learns that farm production performance has decreased drastically because the project takes up a lot of the team’s time. Which two approaches should the project manager consider to provide the best chance for the business to succeed and produce the desired outcomes? (Choose two)

127 / 175

A financial services project will be executed by a team of three teams. Each team has unique objectives for the first phase and then will merge efforts for the second phase to deliver the product. The product owner wants it done as soon as possible. In the initial draft of the schedule, team A finishes their work in a 9-week timeline, but teams B and C need 14 weeks to complete their work.

The scrum master suggests allocating resources from team A to teams B and C during weeks 10-12, to shorten the total timeline. Teams B and C agree and would like the added resources. However, team A says “no” because they need to prepare the transition plan and train staff on the product during weeks 10-14.

Which two actions should happen? (Choose two)

128 / 175

A virtual team will travel to a work site and work as a colocated team for 6 weeks in Q3 of next year to transition their project to the customer. One team member, whose role is critical to the transition, is getting married during Q3 but has not told anyone until now. This team member requested 3 weeks of holiday right before the planned team travel.

What should the project manager do?

129 / 175

 A project team member is consistently missing deadlines, creating bottlenecks for the rest of the team. Which action should the team take to support the team member?

130 / 175

A project manager is assessing the risks to a hybrid project in the execution stage. At the end of each iteration, the team has only reported normal issues such as equipment malfunctions. However, the team has recently alerted the project manager to a developing problem that signal regulatory noncompliance for the product.

Which artifact should the project manager review and update?

131 / 175

A PMO in a large manufacturing company has been working diligently to retrain project managers and standardize software and templates across all projects, so that every project in the company will produce compliant artifacts. Which type of PMO is being described?

132 / 175

Two project managers are chatting in an airport lounge, on their way to a conference. They have never met and work in different companies. Project manager A tells a story about the last project, in which the team was given strict deadlines for updating artifacts and were audited to ensure risk registers and issue logs were updated at least once per week. Project manager B is shocked by project manager A’s story, because their project team is allowed to work independently, with very little reporting required.

Which statement is true?

133 / 175

An international bank is performing a merger as part of a major program change and hired a consulting company to perform an advisory role during the merger. The consultants recommend using agile to ensure the best chance of success.

What do the consultants mean by this?

134 / 175

In an organization, some people work longer days in a 4-day week, while others work standard days 5 days per week. On one project, a mix of these schedules has caused some scheduling problems, particularly for standups and iteration demos.

Which approach should the team take?

135 / 175

A team member has reported a project manager to HR for shouting during meetings. Other team members validate the complaint, but when the PMO asked the project manager about this, their answer was they were only trying to motivate the team.

What is the problem here?

136 / 175

A project manager meets frequently with a company’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) coordinator, because several members of the project team wear t-shirts on Fridays that others in the organization consider controversial. They are allowed to wear the shirts, but there are numerous complaints from around the company.

What should the project manager do first?

137 / 175

A project team is brainstorming a complex issue with the prototype in development. They have consulted numerous experts in the field and together, have narrowed down the choice of possible actions to two.

How should the team decide which action to take?

138 / 175

A project team relies on work with an overseas contractor. For years, this contractor accepted payment in the team’s currency, but have now notified the team’s company that after next month, future payments must be made in the contractor’s local currency.

How can the team deal with this problem with the least disruption to the team?

139 / 175

An agile team is deployed to create a workable solution for helping a region with contaminated water supply. They are working with the government, contractors, and local residents to find the right technology to solve the problem. The product owner is trying to determine the urgency of the problem.

How can the team help the product owner?

140 / 175

A project team has just successfully completed development of an underwater exploration device, which has cost more than $US3 billion to deliver. The company immediately orders five more units to be delivered, but with a budget of $US1 billion. The stakeholders’ reason for the reduced budget was since the technology has been developed, the project can be funded for building costs primarily, with a small amount for troubleshooting or development work. The stakeholders’ priority is to recoup some financial value from the first project.

How should the team and the product owner approach this situation?

141 / 175

A project team is worried about product packaging and presentation. They receive a lot of negative feedback about this during iteration demos.

How can the team improve their chances of customer acceptance?