PMP Sample Exam 9

PMP Sample Exam 9

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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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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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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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A deliverable does NOT meet the agreed-upon quality specifications and is rejected by the customer. After investigation, the project team finds a fault with the vendor-provided parts. This fault caused the issue. The vendor says that they CANNOT correct the situation.

 

 

 

 

 

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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?

71 / 135

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?

76 / 135

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?

77 / 135

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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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.

89 / 135

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)

90 / 135

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?

92 / 135

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?

96 / 135

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?

98 / 135

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?

99 / 135

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?

 

 

 

102 / 135

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?

105 / 135

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?

107 / 135

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?

108 / 135

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)

109 / 135

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?

110 / 135

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)

111 / 135

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?

112 / 135

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?

113 / 135

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?

114 / 135

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.

115 / 135

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?

116 / 135

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?

 

 

117 / 135

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?

 

 

118 / 135

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.

119 / 135

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?

120 / 135

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?

121 / 135

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)

 

 

122 / 135

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?

 

 

 

123 / 135

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)

124 / 135

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?

125 / 135

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?

126 / 135

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?

127 / 135

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)

128 / 135

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

129 / 135

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?

130 / 135

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)

131 / 135

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”?

132 / 135

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?

133 / 135

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?

134 / 135

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?

135 / 135

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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