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A Canadian startup company announces to the press its imminent launch in the European Union (EU) and Latin America. Soon afterward, the compliance team recommended delaying the launch by six 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?
A project to start building an ecologically- focused. complex plant, and the contract is ready for signature. The client has told the prime contractor to suspend the planned development work on a parcel of land while the team runs a consumer study –so the team can determine what kind of structure to build on the parcel.
What are two standard components of a project agreement?
(Choose two)
To speed the completion of project Z, a project sponsor requisitions a project team that can work a full 24-hour day, and three shifts, and in hazardous conditions.
Team A: 02:00h – 10:00h
Team B: 10:00h – 18:00h
Team C: 18:00h – 02:00h
Teams A and C will need to receive overtime pay to work night shifts, and the company will need to increase security measures and insurance coverage.
Where should the project manager document this request in the project charter?
An emergency vaccine rollout project should be deployed to vaccination centers as soon as confirmed locations are booked. Factors such as delayed back shipments, safety protocol protocols, and target age groups may block the deployment at the last minute. However, the deployment process remains the same after passing the tollgate to begin set up at a new location.
Which project approach would best support the goal of maximizing the number of centers deployed?
A business analyst wants to create a collaborative relationship with an external stakeholder about a potential project. They have a good first meeting, and the project manager wants to ensure a good relationship in the future.
Which action will help the project manager establish effective communication with the stakeholder?
A company is venturing into a new business but has no previous experience in that market. The project manager is having trouble visualizing project requirements.
What should the project manager do next?
The project manager has difficulty obtaining consistent input from stakeholders and needs their input to identify assumptions and constraints.
How can the project manager improve stakeholder engagement?
Leaders of high-performing project teams ________ team member skills and knowledge and keep team members ______throughout the project.
Fill in the blank with the correct set of responses.
Your company won a contract to upgrade the website for a non-profit organization. The contract specifies the major deliverables, detailed content of website pages, a completion date, and a not-to-exceed budget.
What project development approach would be most appropriate?
A technology development project has the following characteristics:
It requires a highly skilled local resource that is not currently available.
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?
During work on a government project, stakeholders pressure the project manager to comply with their preferred actions because they have highly complex regulations and constraints.
The project manager was to build a successful relationship with the stakeholders because the company hopes to win more contracts with the government.
Which two approaches should the project manager take? (Choose two)
All of the following are true about a project statement of work except:
A project manager has been working with several internal and external stakeholders to upgrade a company’s data protection processes.
Which statement about stakeholder communication in this initiative is correct?
A project team lead meets with the project manager before a scheduled kick-off meeting. The team lead is worried that expectations regarding project deliverables might not be realistic.
What should the project manager do?
The project sponsor requires a project team be composed of resources who live in four different time zones, and work in four separate locations. The project sponsor did not consider the challenges created by this requirement and believes that the dispersion will provide an ideal team that will save costs.
Where should the project manager document this in the project charter?
A new project team is setting early priorities, and they plan to gain the customer’s trust by delivering value as quickly as possible. Team members mentions that they have worked with the project sponsor on other projects.
How should the project manager utilize this information and create an advantage for the project team?
Project iterations have a demo scheduled at the end as part of the iteration review.
What is the goal of this demo?
As part of an organizational change program, a company with a strong predictive culture hires an experienced project manager with agile experience and certification.
Which two actions can the project manager take to start helping the company adopt agile methodologies? (Choose two)
A governmental agency becomes a key stakeholder in a complex project due to regulatory changes. In light of this change, the project manager needs to develop an understanding of this new stakeholder and identify any new high-level risks that may result from the change.
Which two options should the project manager use? (Choose two)
Just before project initiation, the project manager needs more information from an external stakeholder. This information should provide the required risk input that will allow the project to commence.
Which type of communication and communication method is the best approach?
A project sponsor assigns a project manager to a new, critical project with a tight budget and time constraints.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager is visiting a software supplier’s office. Some of the sites are surprising: two people per workstation, estimations based on a deck of cards, developers forcing their tests to fail, and routines with names such as “traffic cop” and “ringleader.”
What could explain these practices?
An informal and unofficial blog was set up to enhance communication and morale among team project team members.
The project manager was unaware of the blog but has discovered that team members are inappropriately using this approach. This usage has caused some problems.
What should the project manager do?
A government anti-money laundering software project needs a solution.
Which virtual team collaboration solution is most appropriate?
A product owner in an agile project complains of too many meetings in their monthly schedule. There is not enough time for project work. They instruct the project manager to prioritize some meetings and decrease the frequency of others.
Which two of the product owner’s meetings could the project manager de-prioritize so that they attend less frequently? (Choose two)
A project manager is working within a company’s portfolio initiative and is regularly in contact with three project teams and associated stakeholders both internal and external to the company. In which two ways should the project manager optimize communication management? (Choose two)
A project manager has been assigned to a newly approved multi-national project. The successful implementation of the project relies on deliverables from various departments.
What is the most important thing the project manager can do to ensure the successful implementation of the project?
A project manager is preparing the charter for the project.
The project aims to automate 30% of product testing. The project sponsor has asked the project manager to assign senior test engineers to identify automated tests.
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)
A project has the following characteristics:
How should the project manager engage this new stakeholder?
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 sure that specific features will be ready for mass production by a particular date.
Which three agile methods in a hybrid project environment can fulfill the sponsor’s needs? (Choose three)
Mary is the project manager in an organization that uses traditional project management assigned to an ongoing project. Recently, the organization has started using agile methodologies for projects. She hears that some team members think critical subject matter expertise is missing and the team does not collaborate enough.
How should the project manager respond to these team members’ concerns?
A project manager is leading a project with seven key stakeholders. What should the project manager consider the most essential part of stakeholder management?
A project manager has been assigned to a new project that revisits a previously completed project. Why should the project manager refer to the previous project’s lessons-learned knowledge base and historical information?
A travel company wants to create a smartphone application for its users. Competitors are racing to do the same. The product owner’s vision describe several app versions – basic, pro, and premier.
Which project approach is best suited to the company’s needs?
A smartphone manufacturer is reassessing 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 not anticipated by the designers.
Given these findings, which agile practice would most effectively prevent the problem?
The opportunity cost is defined as the value of a proposed project selected.
True or False
An agile project is structured without time boxing. Tasks are grouped by high-level goals that cannot be predictably scheduled.
In which three ways can the work be distributed for efficient execution? (Choose three)
The agile team excels at solving technical problems, but when the product owner requests creative or business-related ideas, the team falls short.
Is this a problem?
A project manager is managing a project where requirements are fixed, and the workflow is planned for the full development lifecycle. Additionally, the customer involvement is at specific milestones and testing happens post-build.
Which methodology should a project manager use for this project?
Why is a situation statement used when working with stakeholders during a needs assessment?
A project manager has been assigned to a new project that revisits a previously completed project. Why should the project manager refer to the previous project’s lessons-learned knowledge base and historical information?
A project manager works for a company preparing the development of a new product. The new product will require skills that are not currently available.
What should the project manager do to initiate this project?
Two startup companies have merged, and now more than one hundred developers, on eight agile teams, are working on a common portfolio.
Which agile practice or method can best ensure release coordination between the teams?
Project A has an Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of 20%, Project B has an IRR of 12%, Project C has an IRR of 22%, and Project D has an IRR of 10%. Which of these would be the BEST project?
A project manager receives the following for a new project:
After reviewing this information, what should the project manager do first?
A project manager needs stakeholder involvement to identify strategic and operational assumptions and constraints. Unfortunately, the project manager finds it hard to obtain consistent input due to a lack of participation.
How can the project manager encourage the stakeholders to participate and collaborate?
A new agile team has just been formed. A project manager who is new to agile approaches wants to make sure that all the key aspects have been incorporated in order to start the project.
Which of the following is required at the outset of an Agile project? (Choose two)
A project sponsor want to save some money on this year’s version of the product and instructs the project manager to use last year’s product roadmap. Is this possible?
A new project is about to start and is subject to strict time and budget constraints. When reviewing the lessons learned repository, the project manager knows that constant scope creep caused a similar project to fail.
What should the project manager do now to avoid project failure?
A project manager is creating an agenda and presentation materials for a kickoff meeting that will involve stakeholders across the globe.
How can the project manager facilitate and optimize stakeholder engagement?
A new product development project will be initiated in a problematic business context. Competition is driving prices down, and supply costs are rising.
Why would an agile incremental project approach be the safest choice?
A project manager is working with three key stakeholders. Each has a different vision regarding the project and its goal. They each feel strongly about their opinion.
The project manager needs to obtain approval of the project charter.
How should the project manager obtain approval of the project charter?
A project to start building an ecologically- focused. complex plant, and the contract is ready for signature. The client has told the prime contractor to suspend the planned development work on a parcel of land while the team runs a consumer study –so the team can determine what kind of structure to build on the parcel.
What should the prime contractor do to close the deal quickly, given the new client requirements?
Lengthy analysis needed to assess the impact of new European Union (EU )regulations will delay a worldwide project launch. Perishable ingredients in factory bookings are at risk of being lost. The executive committee decided to postpone the launch in the EU but maintains launches in all states and all non-EU countries.
How should the project manager plan to support both launches?
A project manager has just started building the team for a vast and complex project. The project manager is highly interested in effectively communicating with their large team.
What should the manager do to achieve this?
A business analyst is handing off a business case to a project manager for a large construction project that involves building a new office complex for a corporate client. The project manager has opted for a predictive project development approach.
Which statement describes the business analyst role for this project?
A project manager recently joined an organization that is implementing a portfolio of strategic initiatives aimed at enhancing profitability. The project manager reviews a past project’s business case with the project sponsor to ensure that the project was aligned with the organization’s goals and to learn from its successes and failures.
Which of the following project outcomes would be considered most successful in the context of this organization’s strategic initiatives?
To speed the completion of project Z, a project sponsor requisitions a project team that can work a full 24-hour day, and three shifts, and in hazardous conditions.
Team A: 02:00h – 10:00h
Team B: 10:00h – 18:00h
Team C: 18:00h – 02:00h
Teams A and C will need to receive overtime pay to work night shifts, and the company will need to increase security measures and insurance coverage.
Where should the project manager document this request in the project charter?
A company is constructing recycling plants in fifteen countries worldwide. The lead in the project management office (PMO) wants more timely progress reporting and experience sharing between project managers in each geographically distant project.
Which two agile practices might the PMO use to fulfill this need?
(Choose two)
A Canadian startup company announces to the press its imminent launch in the European Union (EU) and Latin America. Soon afterward, the compliance team recommended delaying the launch by six 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?
Leaders of high-performing project teams ________ team member skills and knowledge and keep team members ______throughout the project.
Fill in the blank with the correct set of responses.
A project manager has been assigned to a big project. The project sponsor would like the project manager to perform a stakeholder analysis.
Which points should the project manager consider while performing this analysis?
An organization is under a business transformation. The project manager has been assigned to a project related to one of the new business lines.
What should the project manager and team do before defining the scope of the project?
The project manager has identified all internal and external stakeholders in a project. The project manager now has to determine the best stakeholder engagement approach.
What should the project manager do first?
A technology development project has the following characteristics:
It requires a highly skilled local resource that is not currently available.
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?
An emergency vaccine rollout project should be deployed to vaccination centers as soon as confirmed locations are booked. Factors such as delayed back shipments, safety protocol protocols, and target age groups may block the deployment at the last minute. However, the deployment process remains the same after passing the tollgate to begin set up at a new location.
Which project approach would best support the goal of maximizing the number of centers deployed?
The project manager has difficulty obtaining consistent input from stakeholders and needs their input to identify assumptions and constraints.
How can the project manager improve stakeholder engagement?
A new project team is setting early priorities, and they plan to gain the customer’s trust by delivering value as quickly as possible. Team members mentions that they have worked with the project sponsor on other projects.
How should the project manager utilize this information and create an advantage for the project team?
You are an experienced project manager and understand how important it is to plan your communication activities for the project. Which of the following are most likely to not included in your project’s Communications Management Plan?
A multinational company with a cross-border project wants to implement new software that will impact several departments. The project manager needs to guarantee alignment of stakeholder expectations with the final product.
What should the project team develop?
A very customer-oriented ski apparel manufacturer is creating the next season’s designs. Manufacturing must start in 60 days. For publicity, they made a customer campaign called “Design my perfect ski suit.” The social media post gets more than 1 million responses.
Which development approach should the project team consider using?
Who has the authority to act as an integral stakeholder and a key decision-maker throughout the life of each project in order to keep it aligned with the business objectives?
As part of an organizational change program, a company with a strong predictive culture hires an experienced project manager with agile experience and certification.
Which two actions can the project manager take to start helping the company adopt agile methodologies? (Choose two)
During work on a government project, stakeholders pressure the project manager to comply with their preferred actions because they have highly complex regulations and constraints.
The project manager was to build a successful relationship with the stakeholders because the company hopes to win more contracts with the government.
Which two approaches should the project manager take?
(Choose two)
The project sponsor requires a project team be composed of resources who live in four different time zones, and work in four separate locations. The project sponsor did not consider the challenges created by this requirement and believes that the dispersion will provide an ideal team that will save costs.
Where should the project manager document this in the project charter?
An informal and unofficial blog was set up to enhance communication and morale among team project team members.
The project manager was unaware of the blog but has discovered that team members are inappropriately using this approach. This usage has caused some problems.
What should the project manager do?
According to Blanchard and Hersey’s situational leadership model, what is the most suitable leadership style for a inexperience or low maturity team?
Which is a critical factor servant leadership aims to establish to improve team performance?
An established airline has been losing money for a decade, so they are creating a new budget airline service. Three other budget airlines have failed in this market. Though it is a significant risk for the business, the project sponsor is highly enthusiastic, and the stakeholders confidently forecast that, with careful planning, controls, and oversight, the project can succeed by meeting customer requirements. The project manager decides to use a predictive development approach to ensure tight controls and oversight, especially on budget and quality.
Which two options will most likely be the most challenging for this project manager because of the choice to use a predictive approach? (Choose 2)
The company’s top executives are embarking on a pivotal project that is immensely important for the organization’s future. This project involves a comprehensive overhaul of their production system. Given the project’s high-risk nature, the executives emphasize that its success is non-negotiable.
What should the project manager prioritize as the initial step?
A government anti-money laundering software project needs a solution.
Which virtual team collaboration solution is most appropriate?
A governmental agency becomes a key stakeholder in a complex project due to regulatory changes. In light of this change, the project manager needs to develop an understanding of this new stakeholder and identify any new high-level risks that may result from the change.
Which two options should the project manager use?
(Choose two)
A project manager is visiting a software supplier’s office. Some of the sites are surprising: two people per workstation, estimations based on a deck of cards, developers forcing their tests to fail, and routines with names such as “traffic cop” and “ringleader.”
What could explain these practices?
A project has the following characteristics:
How should the project manager engage this new stakeholder?
Project iterations have a demo scheduled at the end as part of the iteration review.
What is the goal of this demo?
You have 10 team members along with 4 stakeholders that you are in communications. You add two more team members to your team. How many communication channels do you now have?
A project has been initiated, and the project team is ready to get to work, but all their vendor contracts are stuck in procurement. Which two actions should the project manager take?
(Choose 2)
An agile project team is facilitating three projects within an organization that has a fixed annual operational budget for the projects. Which three options should the team consider using when creating vendor contracts? (Choose 3)
A project manager is hired by an organization and given a project with a vague scope and unclear deliverable requirements.
How should the project manager proceed with this project?
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 sure that specific features will be ready for mass production by a particular date.
Which three agile methods in a hybrid project environment can fulfill the sponsor’s needs?
(Choose three)
A product owner in an agile project complains of too many meetings in their monthly schedule. There is not enough time for project work. They instruct the project manager to prioritize some meetings and decrease the frequency of others.
Which two of the product owner’s meetings could the project manager de-prioritize so that they attend less frequently?
(Choose two)
A project manager is preparing the charter for the project.
The project aims to automate 30% of product testing. The project sponsor has asked the project manager to assign senior test engineers to identify automated tests.
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)
A smartphone manufacturer is reassessing 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 not anticipated by the designers.
Given these findings, which agile practice would most effectively prevent the problem?
A project manager has been assigned to a big project. The project sponsor would like the project manager to perform a stakeholder analysis.
A project manager manages a project where requirements are not fully known and there is high uncertainty. Which methodology should be used for this project?
A project team is coordinating accommodation for teams attending next year’s global sporting event. Team members will stay in newly built accommodation, while the coaching staff—an estimated additional 2,000 persons—will be accommodated in a mix of housing stock nearby, including several hotels, university dormitories, and privately owned properties.
The team is negotiating lease agreements for the accommodations of the coaching staff. What should the team do first?
What can a project manager do to communicate the formal project announcement and relevant information to stakeholders and gain their commitment?
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 sure that specific features will be ready for mass production by a particular date.
Which three agile methods in a hybrid project environment can fulfill the sponsor’s needs?
(Choose three)
Mary is the project manager in an organization that uses traditional project management assigned to an ongoing project. Recently, the organization has started using agile methodologies for projects. She hears that some team members think critical subject matter expertise is missing and the team does not collaborate enough.
How should the project manager respond to these team members’ concerns?
A travel company wants to create a smartphone application for its users. Competitors are racing to do the same. The product owner’s vision describe several app versions – basic, pro, and premier.
Which project approach is best suited to the company’s needs?
Two startup companies have merged, and now more than one hundred developers, on eight agile teams, are working on a common portfolio.
Which agile practice or method can best ensure release coordination between the teams?
Which of the following would you not expect to find in the project charter?
A research and development department plans to develop a product that will introduce a new line of business for the organization. What should the project manager do to increase the project’s chances of success?
A project manager prepares the charter for a software development project that will outsource 33 percent of user interface (UI) evaluation. The project manager needs software developers to identify the parts of the UI that a third party can evaluate. However, the software functional manager believes that the project will reduce staff in the software development department and refuses to cooperate.
What should the project manager do first?
During the project setup phase, a project manager requests regular status meetings and daily standup meetings. However, business stakeholders are declining the meetings.
What should the project manager do?
A new wildlife preserve project will have a staff of approximately eighty experts, builders, and logistics workers with exposure to various safety risks. The project manager wants a scalable approach with traditional safeguards and flexibility and team dynamics.
Which option could be used to tailor a hybrid project of this nature?
A project manager needs stakeholder involvement to identify strategic and operational assumptions and constraints. Unfortunately, the project manager finds it hard to obtain consistent input due to a lack of participation.
How can the project manager encourage the stakeholders to participate and collaborate?
A project manager works for a company preparing the development of a new product. The new product will require skills that are not currently available.
What should the project manager do to initiate this project?
A new product development project will be initiated in a problematic business context. Competition is driving prices down, and supply costs are rising.
Why would an agile incremental project approach be the safest choice?
A vendor submits a high-level project schedule for a three-year project, including a detailed design-phase schedule.
What does this describe?
During a kick-off meeting for a critical project, three stakeholders with varying perspectives and interests engaged in a heated argument about the project’s goals. How should the project manager address this situation?
A project manager is working with three key stakeholders. Each has a different vision regarding the project and its goal. They each feel strongly about their opinion.
The project manager needs to obtain approval of the project charter.
How should the project manager obtain approval of the project charter?
A project manager receives the following for a new project:
After reviewing this information, what should the project manager do first?
Lengthy analysis needed to assess the impact of new European Union (EU )regulations will delay a worldwide project launch. Perishable ingredients in factory bookings are at risk of being lost. The executive committee decided to postpone the launch in the EU but maintains launches in all states and all non-EU countries.
How should the project manager plan to support both launches?
A project manager is creating an agenda and presentation materials for a kickoff meeting that will involve stakeholders across the globe.
How can the project manager facilitate and optimize stakeholder engagement?
A company is constructing recycling plants in fifteen countries worldwide. The lead in the project management office (PMO) wants more timely progress reporting and experience sharing between project managers in each geographically distant project.
Which two agile practices might the PMO use to fulfill this need? (Choose two)
It is commonly understood that the ability of stakeholders to influence a project is:
Tom is leading an initiative to update national food industry standards to include source or origin information on all food product labels. First, Tom wants to differentiate between internal and external stakeholders.
On which document can Tom do this?
A project team uses the influence/commitment matrix to identify and prioritize key stakeholders for specific action planning. For a particular group, the project team plans to keep them informed and feed them with any “early win” good news about the project.
In which quadrant of the matrix are they located?