CAPM 75

An organization utilizes a matrix structure to support its global workforce. The CEO wants automated language translations service powered by artificial intelligence integrated into the company’s IT systems within the next six months.

The project manager has a few concerns as the result of analyzing the assumptions, constraints, and risks. Luckily, the project manager determines that the following two assumptions are true and the single constraint is the six month time limit.

• The translation technology is “plug-and-play”
• Our IT team is capable of integrating and maintaining the technology

Is the project suitable for a predictive approach?

A project manager is replaced during the execution stage of the During a handover meeting, the new project manager is introduced to the project sponsor and project team. The new project manager decides to engage the most supportive and influential stakeholder’s right-of-way.

In which project artifact can the project manager find out who the supportive stakeholders are and how to contact them?

A business analyst has identified stakeholders for an initiative and performed an initial classification. Most are listed as neutral, but one is classified as resistance. The business analyst plans to speak to the resistance stakeholder personally.

What should be the goal of the business analysts conversation with the resistance stakeholder?

A project to resurface a city’s roads and upgrade all the bus stops with solar panels is scheduled for two years. The total budget allocation by the city is $2 million.
After six months, the project manager wants to know the value of the work completed since the start of the project. Which metric is required?

How would you attempt to influence one of your stakeholders who is resistant to change and has not taken a supporting role in your project?

What is the term referred to by the deliberate adaptation of the project management approach, governance, and processes to make them more suitable for the given environment and the work at hand?

In a Scrum project, who is most likely to determine what is in the project?

An environmental conservation project is working to restore an ecosystem. Which of the following is a product deliverable in this project?

Team motivation seems low during a high – stress project for a significant event launch. Team members are arguing constantly, and conflicts are growing more serious.

Which needs from Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs pyramid should the project manager consult to identify a solution?

A business analyst is working with a development team to explore a solution for an internal app. Which tool or technique should they use to visualize the product for the end user?

A project team is working on a project schedule to run for 12 months, with a budget of $500,000. Here is the project status at the three-month milestone:
– plan value is US$100,000
– earned value is US$125,000
– actual cost is US$150,000
What is the cost variance for this project?

What should you do when planning to hold a team meeting to discuss a recently approved change request?

What is the relationship between Process Groups and project life cycle phases?

For which reason would a project manager tailor a strategy or framework such as communications or risk management during a project lifecycle?

A project team is preparing for the launch of the Deepwater scuba dive project. It is an extremely complex project involving many risk. Therefore, the project sponsor would like to receive updates twice per week on the risk and how the team will deal with them if they arise.

Which document should the project team develop during the planning phase to show this information?

A company is exploring a new mobile technology to improve a business process.

Which is a key output of the business analysts investigation?

A project team is working on a project scheduled to run for 12 months with a budget of US$500,000. At the three-month milestone:
– plan value is 125,000
– earned value is 125,000
– actual cost is 150,000
How is the project performing?

What should you do when you are told that one of the project analysts presented the work of a junior analyst as their own, without giving appropriate credit?

Which stage of team development is typical when the project team members complete the work and disperse to work on other things?

A project manager has been informed that an external auditor is going to conduct a quality audit on the project beginning the following week

What should the project manager expect from this audit?

A project is to host an annual gala which is in the planning stage. Which three options can be considered project resources?

(Choose three)

A project to build a parking garage is using a predictive development approach. Toward the end of the project, the project manager wants to run a few iterations to test traffic flow and capacity, and has the team plan four time-boxed iterations based on information in the work breakdown structure.
How can the project team plan the iterations based on the existing WBS?

A large engineering and infrastructure development company will initiate several portfolio projects in the future. The company prefers to use a plan-based development approach since the local government is always a key stakeholder with many compliance requirements; however, they want to try agile on one project that would benefit from this approach.
Which project from this list is suitable and would benefit from an adaptive approach?

Complexity is a characteristic of a program, project, or its environment, which is difficult to manage. How should complexity be addressed?

What is the target optimal outcome of negotiation when applying Steven Covey’s principle of “Think Win-Win”?

A business analyst explaining to a stakeholder how a new service will meet the needs of intended customers. The explanation includes a high level description of the customer needs and the value the new services could potentially provide.

Which artifact is the business analyst showing to the stakeholder?

A project is two weeks behind schedule, and a key stakeholder requests an update. The project team proposes two potential recovery approaches: working overtime for the next two weeks or outsourcing a specific project segment. Both options present constraints and risks, such as additional costs for overtime and the potential quality risk for outsourcing.

How should the project manager proceed?

A project manager has just finished identifying and analyzing the project stakeholders. Now, the project manager is preparing to meet with the key stakeholder for the first time to clarify a few of the requirements that were elicited by the business analysts.

Which of the following should help the project manager have a successful meeting?

A project manager is overseeing construction work. For the next part of the bill, the construction team must use fire – resistant scaffolding.

Which statement about the relationship between quality and risk is correct?

A project to upgrade the lights on the highway to solar power modules has completed the testing phase. During testing, the project team determined that the battery storage capable capacity was insufficient. If the weather is cloudy for two days, the lights malfunction, creating dangerous driving conditions. The cost of increasing the battery capacity is almost the total project budget amount.
Which role can help this team and how?

Which of the following projects is most suitable for adaptive planning?

What is true regarding situational leadership?

Which type of key performance indicators (KPIs) provide early warning signs of potential problems?

A junior team member joined the team working in the scrum environment. The project team is coaching the new team member and has delegated the simplest task for prepare for planning the next iterations

Which two tasks should the junior team member complete? (Choose two)

A project manager has been trying to clarify requirements that have been elicited from a diverse group of stakeholders, but there are direct conflicts in the priorities expressed about the requirements.

Which two tools or techniques can be helpful in solving this problem? (Choose two)

A project manager is planning a project to develop a heat – tolerant battery system for a solar installation. The next step is using the cost of quality (CoQ) method to analyze the investment in terms of quality.

Which of the three possible examples of this project manager’s actions? (Choose three)

A project manager in the company is leading a project to implement artificial intelligence systems in the company’s customer service portal. The project manager works closely with the product manager of the customer service portal and the functional manager of the employees in the customer service department. Many of these employees are also members of the project team that is performing the implementation.
The project is performing well and integration into the department’s process is predicted to be smooth. What type of organizational structure does this company have?

A project team in a small IT startup company with a flat, non-hierarchical organization structure is assembled and ready to work. Because of budget constraints, the new project team will work remotely. The team has adopted an agile approach
Which statement correctly justifies the team’s chosen approach?

Which type of knowledge is difficult to articulate, but may be inherent with the more experienced members of the organization?

Which key aspect of emotional intelligence is reflected by the ability to understand our own emotions, goals, motivations, strengths, and weaknesses?

A project team is in the middle of a time-boxed iteration. A project manager has decision-making authority, and the team works autonomously on tasks. A technical issue arises that will potentially affect quality.

Which action should the project team take?

What is the approved version of the project budget called?

A construction project has been using a predictive approach. Work has been smooth but stops when the team discovers that the foundations have rotted from an underground stream. The project team was not aware of this before the project started.
The project team has a brainstorming session about how best to continue, and one team member suggests using an agile approach to continue the project.
How can an agile approach help this team?

Which of the following can help the project manager make decisions based on past project performance?

Which of the following is always true about project stakeholders?

A project is finally coming to an end after 36 months. Project closure tasks are on the agenda of the current team meeting. A team member is assigned the task of preparing for the transition of the product into the production environment.

Which action will this team member perform first?

A project manager with an approved project charter has already identified and analyzed the stakeholders. It is time to define the scope.

Which two elements should the project manager discover or consider next to help define the scope? (Choose two)

A government is undertaking a large-scale infrastructure project to build a new highway. This project will involve planning, engineering, construction, and coordination with various stakeholders to ensure successful delivery.
What should the project manager use to analyze the project risk?

During the Sprint planning meeting, both the Product Owner and Team discuss the backlog items.
Who is most likely to determine what will be completed from the product backlog in the upcoming sprint?

Why is tailoring important in project management?

Complexity is a characteristic of a program, project, or its environment, which is difficult to manage. How should complexity be addressed?

An agile project team is working with a very busy key stakeholder, who does not respond to emails and communications right away.

How can the team align this stakeholder with the project team’s way of working?

Which action should a project manager only perform at the end of a project?

What is the primary purpose of conducting a brainstorming session in a project management context?

Halfway through the project, a key supplier informs the team of a seven–day delay in delivering essential materials. Where can the project team look to find out if the project will be delayed?

A project manager is new to agile approaches and is asking you to help with understanding of what is the ideal size for a Scrum team. What advise would you provide?

What type of power is gained through the ability to invoke discipline or negative consequences?

Which project management principle is used to provide constant attention to internal and external conditions in order to navigate a wide spectrum of changes?

In a daily standup, the following conversation takes place. Which team members’ statement is in the correct format for standups?

A project manager is replaced during the execution stage of the During a handover meeting, the new project manager is introduced to the project sponsor and project team. The new project manager decides to engage the most supportive and influential stakeholder’s right-of-way.

In which project artifact can the project manager find out who the supportive stakeholders are and how to contact them?

A business analyst is working with a celebrity stakeholder to create user stories for development of a new brand of perfume.

As a successful singer with a global reputation for sophistication, I want to be able to offer an equally sophisticated perfume so that I can increase brand awareness and make my fans happy.

Which of the following options is part of the possible acceptance criteria for this user story?

A project assistant is being coached by the project manager on preparing a work breakdown structure. The project manager gives feedback that some of the work packages are not following the hundred percent rule.
What does the project manager mean by the hundred percent rule?

You have been studying the difference between project management versus leadership. Which of the following terms is used to describe project leadership?

Which core competencies are representative of business acumen?

What term applies to determine if a deliverable produces consistent metrics each time it is performed or produced?

A junior team member joined the team working in the scrum environment. The project team is coaching the new team member and has delegated the simplest task for prepare for planning the next iterations

Which two tasks should the junior team member complete? (Choose two)

A business analyst in a technology company has created a business case for developing a new company brand aimed at smartphone products for customers in the 65 to 85-year-old demographic. The company plans to launch the new brand within the next 2 years and has authorized several related projects. The initiative includes unique marketing, hardware design, and software development using AI to assist users
What type of organizational concept is this?

A product team is implementing an app for call center employees. The project team is working with the product owner and a business analyst. The project has three key stakeholders:

• call center front-line employees
• call center manager (process owner)
• business analyst

In which two ways can this project ensure project benefits are planned adequately? (Choose two)

Which term describes a structure or arrangement of context in the work breakdown structure?

Which communication method is being used when you send an email to members of the project team?

A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result – is the definition for which of the following terms?

What aspect is referred to with the creation of a transparent work environment, including open communication channels and opportunities for stakeholders to raise concerns without penalty or fear of retribution?

Which statement about the product roadmap is correct?

A junior team member joined the team working in the scrum environment. The project team is coaching the new team member and has delegated the simplest task for prepare for planning the next iterations

Which two tasks should the junior team member complete? (Choose two)

A project to upgrade the bus stops for a city has come to a sudden halt because of a hurricane.

What action should the project manager perform first? (Choose two)

A project team is in the middle of a time-boxed iteration. A project manager has decision-making authority, and the team works autonomously on tasks. A technical issue arises that will potentially affect quality.

Which action should the project team take?

A project manager for a software project is creating a schedule.

Which three actions should the project manager take? (Choose3)

A project is in the planning phase. The project manager is decomposing the scope into the work breakdown structure.
Where on the WBS will the team find information about the deliverable that allows them to obtain the information about the schedule and cost?

Which success indicator and driver of projects focuses on the outcomes of deliverables from a customer perspective?

What would a project manager do if several members of the project team are having a conflict, and the goal is to try and bring some degree of satisfaction to all parties to temporarily or partially resolve the problem?

When should lessons learned be recorded?

An agile software development team is building an e-commerce website. After just a few iterations, stakeholders start seeing valuable features on the website.

Which two options best explain how this team is achieving early value delivery? (Choose two)

The project management plan specifies that an appropriate development approach has been selected to produce the project deliverables.

Where in the project life cycle will the overall project risk be the lowest?

A project manager is decomposing the scope of a project to scrap a squadron of submarines.

Where will the project manager record details about the deliverables, activities, and scheduling information for each component of work?

A project manager is decomposing a project into a work breakdown structure, which of the following statements applies to work packages in a WBS?

What does the principle of Stewardship encompassing responsibilities within and external to the organization include?

What is the meeting where the project manager communicates the project’s objectives, explains the roles and responsibilities of each stakeholder, and obtains the project team’s commitment?

A project team is in the middle of an iteration, and the probability of a known serious risk developing into an issue has increased. The product owner is overseas on holiday.

What should the team do first?

Which statement about project management plan integration is correct?

A project manager is trying to determine which project deliverable and processes are subject to strict compliance requirements or auditing. Which project document should the project manager review?

What is the name given to the set of behavioral parameters and working norms established by the project team and upheld through individual and project team commitment?

What is the name of the set of behavioral parameters and working norms established by the project team and upheld through individual and project team commitment?

A business analyst is working on a complex software initiative for financial institutions. The stakeholders approved a project and created a project charter. The assigned project manager decides on an agile development approach.

Which statement describes the kind of work this business analyst can look forward to on this project?

An environmental conservation project is working to restore an ecosystem. Which of the following is a product deliverable in this project?

Which tool can a project team use during the execution of the project to monitor problems?

A project team is working on a 6-month software project with a budget of US$150,000. After three months, the team assesses the project’s progress. At this point, the team determines that US$70,000 worth of work has been completed, but the planned value for this stage was US$75,000.

What is the schedule variance (SV) for this project?

How are baselines used as a project control?

In which life cycle do the needs and solution become more stable as the project progresses?

What outcome is achieved by focusing on the outcomes of deliverables from a customer perspective, and make this the ultimate success indicator and driver of projects?

How do project teams gather diverse perspectives and insights from team members for in-depth discussions, idea generation and issue resolution during the project?

Which are three examples of activities included in stakeholder engagement?

(Choose three)

Which statement about contract change control is correct?

A project to build a parking garage is using a predictive development approach. Toward the end of the project, the project manager wants to run a few iterations to test traffic flow and capacity and has the team to plan four timeboxed iterations based on information in the work breakdown structure

How can be project team plan the iterations based on the existing WBS?

A project to build a bird sanctuary is scheduled to last five years and is now entering its second year. The project manager wants to perform an audit on the project to ensure the team is adequately measuring and checking various project constraints, including time, cost, scope, quality, risk, and resources.
What should the project manager check?

What type of behaviors are common with project managers who have highly developed skills in emotional intelligence would engage in such behaviors?

Which communication method is used when you send an email to members of the project team?

In a Scrum project, who is most likely to determine what is in the project?

A project manager is leading a project that is large, complex, and has numerous stakeholders. The project manager instructs a team member to quickly determine which stakeholders hold the most power, have the most legitimate reasons for being on the project, and have immediate needs for communication and collaboration.

Which tool should the team member use?

What is the difference between a milestone and a task duration?

Which three strategies can help project professionals manage conflict and solve the problem that is causing the conflict?

(Choose three)

Which statement correctly describes the intention and practice of lessons learned correctly?

Which option distinguishes correctly between the roles of a project manager and a project sponsor?

Which of the following statements accurately describes the difference between predictive and adaptive projects?

An environmental conservation project is working to restore an ecosystem.

Which of the following is a product deliverable in this project?

A group of project managers is discussing a senior executive’s recent presentation on being leaders rather than managers.

Which conclusion is correct?

A project team and a large global company is developing a self driving car. This includes marketing, hardware design, software development, and manufacturing by an overseas company.

Which type of organizational concept is this team working on?

A business analyst in a technology company has created a business case for developing a new company brand aimed at smart phone products for customers in the 65 to 85-year-old demographic group. The company plans to launch a new brand within the next two years and has authorized several related projects. The initiative includes unique marketing, hardware design, and software development using artificial intelligence to assist users.

Which type of project management organizational concept is this?

A project is upgrading a scientific facility, including the building construction, installing a new air-conditioning system, and a state-of-the-art security system. The facility must meet current environmental protection standards.

Luckily, the company and project team are experienced, and the plans are highly detailed. The air conditioning system will be a customized bill.

Which tailored development approach should be used?

A professional working in an international bank overseas a few projects and is responsible for ensuring that, together, the projects deliver benefits aligned with company strategy. What is this individual’s role?

A project team is building a new airport terminal, including a new terminal building runways, taxiways, parking facilities, and landscaping. However, as the project progresses, the airport authority requests a new feature – a rooftop garden with a viewing deck.

What is the most appropriate action to take regarding the request for the roof top garden, considering project scope management guidelines?

A project manager is creating an artifact that includes a sequence with categories of feasibility, design, build, test, deploy, and close.

What is the sequence an example of?

Prior to a retrospective, discussions among team members indicate conflict. An agile practitioner wants to ensure an open and safe environment during the retrospective. What should the team lead do?

Prior to a retrospective, discussions among team members indicate conflict. An agile practitioner wants to ensure an open and safe environment during the retrospective. What should the team lead do?

Which three of the following stakeholder updates are relevant? (choose three)

A software development project with a fix budget and a tight schedule is in the execution phase. The project team identifies a potential security vulnerability in the software that could lead to data breaches if not addressed prop promptly. This vulnerability was not initially identified during the project planning phase.

What is the best way to categorize the security vulnerability in this scenario?

A project has conflicting stakeholder The human resource manager wants a new appraisal system. To lower costs, the system architect emphasizes technical excellence, and the programming contractor wants to maximize profits.

Which conflict resolution technique and achieve some degree of satisfaction?

During a project team meeting, a team member reports that a critical server required for a software development project has crashed and caused hardware failure, resulting in a delay in the project schedule.

What is the most appropriate categorization for this situation, and how should the project manager respond?

A project is started to develop a new system in the company’s customer service portal. The project manager works closely with the product manager of the customer service portal and the functional manager of the employees in the customer service department. Many of these employees are also members of the project team performing the implementation.

The project is performing well and integration into the departments process is predicted to be smooth. What which type of organizational structure does this company have?

A project team is evaluating their readiness to perform a new project. Which analytical tool can they use to evaluate the team’s potential for performance in both the internal organizational and external business factors?

Which problem-solving tool or technique involves using a logical method to understand an issue or problem?

A project manager is leading a team on a software development project. The team is working diligently to meet a tight deadline; however, one team member has been struggling due to personal issues., Which are affecting their work performance. They confide in the project manager, asking not to share this information with anyone else, as they fear it may jeopardize their job.

According to the PMI code of ethics and professional conduct, what should the project manager do in this situation?

What are four lifecycle categories?

In the context of measuring project quality, which statement is accurate?

A business analyst in a technology company has created a business case for developing a new company brand aimed at smartphone products for customers in the 65 to 85-year-old demographic. The company plans to launch the new brand within the next 2 years and has authorized several related projects. The initiative includes unique marketing, hardware design, and software development using AI to assist users.

What type of organizational concept is this?

Which of the following best describes the difference between organizational change management and change control?

In an elevator one day, a company vice president tells a project manager about a risk that may affect the current project. The VP is not involved in the project but they are well respected in the company because of their market knowledge.

The project manager adds the VP to the stakeholder register and alerts the team about the risk. Now, every time the project manager meets the VP in the elevator or the office kitchen, they give a brief status of the project and how the team is dealing with the risk that was raised.

Which statement describes the project manager’s action in this scenario

A project team and individuals from a mining company are working diligently to meet a tight deadline to refit equipment. One team member often arrives late. Although the team member apologizes, the rest of the team is visibly annoyed because they are working more than this team member.

Which statement describes how the project manager should use emotional intelligence in this situation?

During a virtual team meeting, one team member is talking over others, making inappropriate jokes, and eating on camera. No one else is laughing.

What is the cause of this team member’s behavior, in emotional intelligence terms?

A project manager is assessing a list of risk and that was offered by the business analyst.

What are the two categories of risk the project team can use to categorize risks during this risk analysis?

All of the following are guidelines for the daily stand-up except…

As project team moves from using a traditional approach to more agile methods, which way will they start measuring time for the individual user stories?

Agile projects often pride themselves on implementing continuous improvement throughout the project effort.
What is another term for continuous improvement?

There are a number of features that have been suggested for the project. Because “time is of the essence” only the most important can be delivered.
Which of the following are considered when prioritizing features based on relative weighting? (Choose two)

The daily stand-up meeting should result in the team’s awareness of… (Choose two)

In a traditional project, reassessment of risks are identified as part of the Risk Management Plan.
When are risks for an Agile project reassessed?

The team has just completed an iteration that has not created value for the product owner/customer.
Which of the following has the team completed?

The project manager is coaching some team members who are familiar with traditional project management approaches, but new to agile.
What is the best way to describe the traditional project approach equivalent of the Agile retrospective?

There are a number of agile principles that pertain to the mindset that supports delivering a project in a more adaptable manner.
Which of the following reflect those principles best?

A team is ready to start working on a project with a customer who was very difficult to work with in the past because the customer could not describe exactly what they wanted. What approach should the project manager take to remove this impediment?

A small group of users complain during a project’s user acceptance stage. The users say that their expectations are not met. Which action could help avoid this issue on future projects?