PMP – Initiating – Facilitated Methods

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?

Run a SWOT analysis of priorities between compliance and consumer needs, and resume the project if the result prefers consumers

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Estimate impacted penalties on the project, increase the contingency reserve accordingly, and resume the project as planned

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Replan the predictive project as a large-scale scrum lifecycle, add new story points to estimate approval milestones

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Split work affected by the regulations into an agile tract and re-plan unaffected work in the predictive schedule

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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.

Remove the specific parcel development work from the quoted price and plan the parcel development as agile iterations, with payments based on time and materials

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Add a risk premium to the signed price of the entire contract, and add a clause to renegotiate when the new scope is fully defined

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Create a change request to examine the impact on scope and price, and include the details when all information is available

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Exclude all work on the specified parcel from the project plan and pricing, and propose a separate contract when the scope becomes clear

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What are two standard components of a project agreement?

(Choose two)

Team members

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Complete product backlog

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Pricing and payment terms

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Incentives and penalties

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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?

Key stakeholder list

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Overall project risk

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High-level requirements

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Work exclusions

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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 fully predictive lifecycle where each center deployed is a phase subject to dependencies

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A set of agile deployment iterations embedded in a predictive set of processes

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A predictive set of predictive deployment sequences embedded in a set of agile processes

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A fully agile lifecycle with dependencies and deployments combined in each iteration

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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?

Consult organizational protocols

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Organize only face-to-face meetings

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Use compatible technologies

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Determine appropriate channels and frequency

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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?

Consult the project charter.

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Reevaluate the business venture's objectives.

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Seek potential customer input.

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Conduct a feasibility study.

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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?

Use political awareness techniques

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Institute checklist policies

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Research effective meeting management techniques

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Make use of effective facilitation techniques

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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.

Nurture, recognized

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Reward, scheduled

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Identify, aware

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Leverage, motivated

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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?

Predictive

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Adaptive

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Hybrid

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Scrum

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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?

Assign the existing team overtime work

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Reduce the project scope

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Delay the product by an equivalent duration amount

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Request that the resource work remotely

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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)

Assess and categorize the stakeholders using the salience model

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Invite the stakeholders to team meetings to assure them that the project team takes their work seriously

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Send a questionnaire out to the stakeholder group, asking about their needs

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Use servant leadership to build a relationship based on stakeholder needs

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Share the stakeholder engagement matrix with the team

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All of the following are true about a project statement of work except:

Information included in a SOW can include specifications, quantity desired, quality levels, performance data, period of performance, work location, and other requirements

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The SOW describes the procurement item in sufficient detail to allow prospective sellers to determine if they can provide the products, services, or results. Sufficient detail can vary based on the nature of the item, the needs of the buyer, or the expected contract form

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The statement of work (SOW) for each procurement is developed from the project scope baseline and defines only that portion of the project scope that is to be included within the related contract

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The sponsoring management should be responsible for creating it

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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?

All stakeholders will receive every communication

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Each stakeholder has different expectations about the requirements information

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Display external stakeholder's names on the stakeholder engagement matrix

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Stakeholder communication should be push (not pull) because of data security

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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?

Review the project business case and the results of the feasibility study.

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Facilitate a meeting between the project sponsor and the team lead to discuss the concerns.

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Meet with the stakeholders to discuss the concerns and record their conclusions in the stakeholder engagement plan.

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Identify the risks and agreed-upon risk responses and modify the risk register accordingly.

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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?

As part of high-level requirements

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In the stakeholder list

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In the overall project risk

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As part of the resource management plan

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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?

Make one of the team member the project leader since they already know the sponsor

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As team members to share with the whole team everything they know about the sponsor, the team can work better

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Explore how team members can use personal influences with the sponsor to increase the project’s potential for benefit realization

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Discuss whether team members see this as a conflict of interest in order to maintain an ethical standard

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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)

Ensure using the MoSCoW method when writing all project requirements

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Analyze all projects to pick the appropriate agile model

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Show stakeholders how agile can increase quality and decrease risk

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Train project teams to be more self-reliant and cross-functional

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Identify opportunities for incremental business value delivery

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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)

Schedule meetings with the new stakeholders

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Update the Assumption Log

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Revise the stakeholder engagement plan

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Check the risk management plan

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Update the project charter

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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?

Formal/verbal and push

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Forma/written and push

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Informal/verbal and pull

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Informal/written and pull

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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?

Meet with functional managers to schedule team resources.

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Meet with stakeholders to obtain their buy-in and support.

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Meet with the project sponsor to understand the project's purpose and high level requirements.

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Update the requirements management plan to reflect the budget and time constraints.

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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?

The servant leader has granted the team a bit too much freedom

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The supplier has adopted extreme programming methods

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The supplier appears to be conducting “gaming” training sessions

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The project manager happened to visit the team during a teambuilding exercise

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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?

Review the blog in accordance with the communication management plan

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Reprimand the individuals involved, and report the issue to the compliance office

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Close down the blog as is not part of the communications management plan

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Identify an administrator who can monitor communications on the blog

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A government anti-money laundering software project needs a solution.

Spontaneous verbal communication between the team must be supported to collaborate with a remote agile team consisting of four people in another country
All the remote teams work stations, and Kanban boards must always be visible

Which virtual team collaboration solution is most appropriate?

Information radiator monitors

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On-demand videoconferencing

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Workstation screen mirroring on

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Always on fishbowl windows

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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)

Sprint retrospectives

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Product SME consultation

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Daily standup meetings

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Team performance reviews

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User feedback sessions

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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)

Identify and analyze stakeholders using matrix and onion diagrams

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Maintain a stakeholder register with names and roles of project team members and stakeholders

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Work with each project team or project manager to communicate with the stakeholders

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Use an organization chart to identify and match stakeholders with the right projects

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Use the responsible, accountable, consult, and informed (RACI) matrix

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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?

Work with the project team members to create ground rules for communications and develop a project plan.

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Facilitate sessions with key stakeholders to gather relevant information and define detailed product requirements.

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Meet with the functional managers of the relevant departments to ensure alignment with project objectives.

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Develop a resource management plan to define the resources required from each department.

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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)

Have a meeting with the test department manager to discuss mutual expectations.

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Request for the project sponsor to provide a rationale for the test automation

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Present data-driven, cost-benefit evidence of test automation to the test department manager

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Raise the risk of the senior testing engineers not being available for the testing

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Work with the project sponsor to create a project charter that the test department manager will not perceive as threatening

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A project has the following characteristics:

A functional manager is also a project stakeholder
The functional manager has time constraints and delegates project responsibility to another member of the functional team. This person becomes a new stakeholder.
The new stakeholder is not attending meetings.

How should the project manager engage this new stakeholder?

Examine the stakeholder engagement plan with the new stakeholder and assess their level of engagement

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Present the project schedule and the specific assigned task to the new stakeholder

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Request the functional manager to brief the new stakeholder and ask that they attend all relevant meetings

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Request the functional manager to brief the new stakeholder and ask that they attend all relevant meetings

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The project sponsor is not convinced that an agile track should be used in a new R&D project because the company needs to be 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)

Product roadmap can provide a detailed schedule breakdown

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Requirement priorities are confirmed at each iteration

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Incremental development reduces the risk of quality delays

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Impact mapping can be used to group related stories

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Stories can be broken down into granular epics

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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?

Employ third-party specialists to fill the knowledge gap

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At the next standup meeting, emphasize the importance of collaboration to the entire team

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Add cross-functional internal resources and explain their value to the team

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Start using Kanban boards instead of a Gantt chart so that work dependencies become evident to everyone

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A project manager is leading a project with seven key stakeholders. What should the project manager consider the most essential part of stakeholder management?

Avoid challenging stakeholders.

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Make changes to the project schedule in real-time.

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Ensure all stakeholders receive the same information.

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Establish good working relationships with all stakeholders.

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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?

To identify resources who worked on the previous project

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To define the project requirements and finalize the scope

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To determine a baseline for the project budget

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To understand issues in the previous project

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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?

Waterfall

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Incremental

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Predictive

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Iterative

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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?

Acceptance test-driven development

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Smoke testing

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Behavior-driven development

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Red-green- re-factor

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The opportunity cost is defined as the value of a proposed project selected.

True or False

True

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False

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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)

Track readiness status to help the team initiate the task at the right time

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Set deadlines to ensure that the team completes the work and acceptable limits

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Use the task board to group tasks into rows and track progress against columns

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Maintain a to-do task list to limit the number of tests in progress

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Pre-identify blockers to determine the order of execution

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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?

Yes, specialist teams are prone to higher error rates

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No, specialist teams are more effective than a generalist

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Yes, lack of diversity will limit the team’s adaptability

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No, the team performs better without distractions

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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?

Agile

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Hybrid

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Predictive

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Continuous Improvement

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Why is a situation statement used when working with stakeholders during a needs assessment?

To clarify how the proposed solution can solve the problem

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To ensure the business solution can work within the business operation

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To document the current problem that needs to be solved

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To gain agreement on the need for the project

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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?

An official team meeting to discuss the importance of teamwork would motivate the team and improve project performance.

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A better understanding of team members' priorities would create a common language that would foster cooperation.

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Understanding each team member's viewpoint would pinpoint areas where education and training were necessary.

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By developing its own understanding of the goals and objectives of the project, the team would gain confidence.

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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?

Develop detailed project requirements

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Focus on quality concerns

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Document the risk in the project charter

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Develop a competitor analysis

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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?

Project A

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Project B

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Project C

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Project D

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A project manager receives the following for a new project:

Assumptions
Restrictions
Preliminary scope

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

Review and understand the business case and project goals

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Put together the project team and assign project tasks

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Build the project schedule and determine the critical path

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Ensure the project charter approval is obtained from the sponsor

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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?

Use political awareness techniques

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Be a servant leader

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Time box meetings

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Use effective facilitation techniques

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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)

An initial product backlog

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Team assignments

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Product owner/customer

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A complete schedule

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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?

Yes, but a previous product roadmap should be tailored to the current project

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Yes, because a product roadmap states the company’s visit vision for all projects

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No, product roadmap is not transferable from one project to another

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No a product roadmap is part of the legal structure for a specific project

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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?

Refuse to accept out-of-scope change requests that would increase project duration and budget.

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Manage stakeholder expectations to exclude the possibility of changes to meet project goals.

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Adjust the project scope and schedule to stay within constraints and avoid potential changes.

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Establish formal change approval processes to guide teams in delivering essential features first.

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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?

Create slides for the kickoff meeting to address stakeholder involvement

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Survey key stakeholders preferred meeting dates and times to accommodate the teams in different time zones

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Verify that all required participants or their delegates will be available to attend

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Review the kickoff meeting agenda and materials for overall clarity and conclusion

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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?

It ensures a project can be canceled at any time without additional loss

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It accelerates the delivery of business value and minimizes the risk of irrelevancy

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It reduces the team size and eliminates communication bottlenecks

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It provides stringent methods to reduce the cost of quality and conformity

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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?

Conduct a stakeholder analysis

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Use facilitation and conflict management techniques to help the three stakeholders find consensus

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Request that the project sponsor resolve the conflict

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Use the project kickoff meeting to settle the project goals

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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?

Remove the specific parcel development work from the quoted price and plan the parcel development as agile iterations, with payments based on time and materials

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Add a risk premium to the signed price of the entire contract, and add a clause to renegotiate when the new scope is fully defined

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Create a change request to examine the impact on scope and price, and include the details when all information is available

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Exclude all work on the specified parcel from the project plan and pricing, and propose a separate contract when the scope becomes clear

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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?

Use the contingency budget to lower the cost of the EU launch and adjust plans for the non-EU launch

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Pre-plan the project as a fully agile set of iterations and ensure fixed milestones are documented in the burn-down chart

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Plan analysis activities and toll gates for the EU launch and crash the schedule for the non-EU launch new line

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Embed a set of iterations to analyze and develop the EU product while adjusting plans for the non-EU launch

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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?

Organize team activities to help team members express their interests.

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Establish a process of sharing information with all team members.

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Use timely and transparent assessment of the situation with team members.

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Allow free exchange of ideas and opinions between team members.

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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?

Continuously adapting to changing requirements throughout the project

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Collaborate closely with development teams in short iterated iterative cycles

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Gather and document detail requirements up -front following a structured and sequential process

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Focus on minimizing project reissue continuous risk assessment and mitigation

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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?

The project was delivered under budget by 25%, and the overall duration was 20% longer than initially scheduled.

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The project was delivered on budget, and the project management office (PMO) approved the project closure.

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The project was delivered early, entered the market before the competition, and exceeded the budget by 10%.

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The project was delivered on schedule, within budget, and yielded a 5% increase in projected product sales.

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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?

Key stakeholder list

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Overall project risk

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High-level requirements

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Work exclusions

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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)

Definition of done

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Electronic Kanban board

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Backlog refinement

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Virtual daily standup meetings

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Two-week retrospectives

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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?

Run a SWOT analysis of priorities between compliance and consumer needs, and resume the project if the result prefers consumers

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Estimate impacted penalties on the project, increase the contingency reserve accordingly, and resume the project as planned

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Re-plan the predictive project as a large-scale scrum lifecycle, add new story points to estimate approval milestones

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Split work affected by the regulations into an agile tract and re-plan unaffected work in the predictive schedule

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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.

Nurture, recognized

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Reward, scheduled

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Identify, aware

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Leverage, motivated

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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?

Interests, rights, ownership, knowledge, and contribution.

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Interests, requirements, rights, knowledge, and impact.

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Power, impact, influence, requirements, and expectations.

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Project role, impact, rights, knowledge, and interests.

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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?

Lead a procurement meeting.

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Create a work breakdown structure (WBS).

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Adapt and tailor existing assets.

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Sign off on the business case.

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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?

Conduct a stakeholder analysis.

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Create a SWOT analysis.

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Develop a multi-criteria decision analysis.

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Design a fishbone diagram.

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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?

Assign the existing team overtime work

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Reduce the project scope

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Delay the product by an equivalent duration amount

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Request that the resource work remotely

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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 fully predictive lifecycle where each center deployed is a phase subject to dependencies

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A set of agile deployment iterations embedded in a predictive set of processes

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A predictive set of predictive deployment sequences embedded in a set of agile processes

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A fully agile lifecycle with dependencies and deployments combined in each iteration

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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?

Use political awareness techniques

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Institute checklist policies

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Research effective meeting management techniques

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Make use of effective facilitation techniques

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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?

Make one of the team member the project leader since they already know the sponsor

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Ask team members to share with the whole team everything they know about the sponsor so the team can work better

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Explore how team members can use personal influences with the sponsor to increase the project’s potential for benefit realization

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Discuss whether team members see this as a conflict of interest in order to maintain an ethical standard

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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?

Project organization charts

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Templates for status reports

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Glossary of project terminology

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Roles and responsibilities for communication

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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?

Project statement of work (SOW)

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Stakeholder engagement plan

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Stakeholders engagement assessment matrix

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Risk breakdown structure (RBS)

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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?

A hybrid approach with an iterative design phase and plan-based implementation

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An adaptive approach to optimize learning from the customer feedback

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An iterative approach using several timeboxed iterations to create prototypes

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A predictive approach with a controlled scope that is progressively elaborated

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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?

PMO

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Project Manager

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Project Sponsor

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Customer

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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)

Ensure using the Moscow method when writing all project requirements

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Analyze all projects to pick the appropriate agile model

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Show stakeholders how agile can increase quality and decrease risk

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Train project teams to be more self-reliant and cross-functional

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Identify opportunities for incremental business value delivery

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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)

Assess and categorize the stakeholders using the salience model

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Invite the stakeholders to team meetings to assure them that the project team takes their work seriously

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Send a questionnaire out to the stakeholder group, asking about their needs

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Use servant leadership to build a relationship based on stakeholder needs

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Share the stakeholder engagement matrix with the team

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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?

As part of high-level requirements

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In the stakeholder list

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In the overall project risk

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As part of the resource management plan

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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?

Review the blog per the communication management plan

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Reprimand the individuals involved, and report the issue to the compliance office

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Close down the blog as is not part of the communications management plan

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Identify an administrator who can monitor communications on the blog

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According to Blanchard and Hersey’s situational leadership model, what is the most suitable leadership style for a inexperience or low maturity team?

Directing

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Coaching

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Supporting

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Delegating

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Which is a critical factor servant leadership aims to establish to improve team performance?

Trust

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Concentration

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Speed

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Accuracy

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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)

Balancing controls and oversight with changing customer requirements

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Dealing with an enthusiastic project sponsor and active stakeholders

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Managing the overall project risk

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Keeping up with customer demands in a competitive market

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Defining quality metrics

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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?

Implementing an appropriate method for the project rollout, prioritizing the components with the highest business value.

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Developing a comprehensive communication management plan to ensure timely project progress updates for everyone.

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Ensuring unanimous agreement among stakeholders and the project sponsor about the project plan, scope, and deliverables.

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Ensuring unanimous agreement among stakeholders and the project sponsor about the project plan, scope, and deliverables.

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A government anti-money laundering software project needs a solution.

Spontaneous verbal communication between the team must be supported to collaborate with a remote agile team consisting of four people in another country
All the remote teams work stations, and Kanban boards must always be visible

Which virtual team collaboration solution is most appropriate?

Information radiator monitors

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On-demand videoconferencing

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Workstation screen monitoring on

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Always on fishbowl windows

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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)

Schedule meetings with the new stakeholders

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Update the Assumption log

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Revise the stakeholder engagement plan

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Check the risk management plan

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Update the project charter

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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?

The servant leader has granted the team a bit too much freedom

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The supplier has adopted extreme programming methods

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The project manager happened to visit the team during a team building exercise

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A project has the following characteristics:

A functional manager is also a project stakeholder
The functional manager has time constraints and delegates project responsibility to another member of the functional team. This person becomes a new stakeholder.
The new stakeholder is not attending meetings.

How should the project manager engage this new stakeholder?

Examine the stakeholder engagement plan with the new stakeholder and assess their level of engagement

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Present the project schedule and the specific assigned task to the new stakeholder

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Request the functional manager to brief the new stakeholder and ask that they attend all relevant meetings

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Ask the new stakeholder to pair with a more experienced stakeholder to learn responsibilities

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Project iterations have a demo scheduled at the end as part of the iteration review.

What is the goal of this demo?

To re-prioritize the backlog

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To revise the product roadmap

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To establish the features for inclusion in the product backlog

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To solicit feedback from the product owner and other stakeholders

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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?

120

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105

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136

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153

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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)

Add a risk to the risk log.

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Escalate the authorization of the contracts to the project sponsor.

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Note the delay as an issue in the issue log.

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Create contracts to be authorized by the project.

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Pay vendors from the project contingency budget.

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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)

Master service agreement (MSA) to capture fixed items

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Fixed-price contracts for all vendors

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Schedule of services for variable items

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Statement of work (SOW) for each vendor

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Contingency funding in the project budgets

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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?

Schedule a meeting with the project team and the sponsor to clarify the scope.

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Develop the project plan based on the current scope by breaking down the deliverables and requirements.

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Escalate to the project management office (PMO) to clarify the unclear scope.

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Submit a request to the PMO to be paired with someone familiar with the organization’s project management approach.

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The project sponsor is not convinced that an agile track should be used in a new R&D project because the company needs to be 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)

Product roadmap can provide a detailed schedule breakdown

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Requirement priorities are confirmed at each iteration

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Incremental development reduces the risk of quality delays

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Impact mapping can be used to group related stories

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Stories can be broken down into granular epics

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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)

Sprint retrospectives

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Product SME consultation

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Daily standup meetings

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Team performance reviews

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User feedback sessions

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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)

Have a meeting with the test department manager to discuss mutual expectations.

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Request for the project sponsor to provide a rationale for the test automation

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Present data-driven, cost-benefit evidence of test automation to the test department manager

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Raise the risk of the senior testing engineers not being available for the testing

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Work with the project sponsor to create a project charter that the test department manager will not perceive as threatening

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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?

Acceptance test-driven development

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Smoke testing

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Behavior-driven development

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Red-green- re-factor

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A project manager has been assigned to a big project. The project sponsor would like the project manager to perform a stakeholder analysis.

Interests, rights, ownership, knowledge, and contribution.

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Interests, requirements, rights, knowledge, and impact.

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Power, impact, influence, requirements, and expectations.

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Project role, impact, rights, knowledge, and interests.

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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?

Agile

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Hybrid

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Predictive

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Waterfall

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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?

Determine the specific accommodation requirements for the coaching staff.

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Create a lease agreement template and obtain validation from the budget stakeholders.

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Identify the time, cost, and quality constraints for the accommodation.

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Perform an assessment of the available housing stock.

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What can a project manager do to communicate the formal project announcement and relevant information to stakeholders and gain their commitment?

Create the project charter.

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Conduct a kick-off meeting.

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Develop the communications management plan.

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Prepare and distribute the responsible, accountable, consult, and inform (RACI) matrix.

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The project sponsor is not convinced that an agile track should be used in a new R&D project because the company needs to be 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)

Product roadmap can provide a detailed schedule breakdown

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Requirement priorities are confirmed at each iteration

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Incremental development reduces the risk of quality delays

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Impact mapping can be used to group related stories

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Stories can be broken down into granular epics

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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?

Employ third-party specialists to fill the knowledge gap

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At the next standup meeting, emphasize the importance of collaboration to the entire team

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Add cross-functional internal resources and explain their value to the team

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Start using Kanban boards instead of a Gantt chart so that work dependencies become evident to everyone

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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?

Waterfall

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Incremental

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Predictive

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Iterative

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Which of the following would you not expect to find in the project charter?

Project success criteria

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High-level budget and schedule

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Project management authority level

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Project team roles and responsibilities

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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?

Start developing the project management plan based on a previous project template from the project management office (PMO).

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Conduct an impact analysis of the new initiative to determine how the project should be rolled out.

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Plan a working session focusing on the initiative's scope, vision, and mission.

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Conduct benchmarking to determine the business viability of the initiative.

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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?

Meet with the functional manager to review the statement of work (SOW).

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Ask the project sponsor to explain the rationale for third-party evaluation to the functional manager.

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Provide a cost/benefit analysis of third-party evaluation to the functional manager.

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Explain the intent of the UI evaluation to the functional manager.

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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?

Check why meetings are declined

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Re-share communications plan

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Set up a project team ground rules

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Hold a project kick-off meeting

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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?

Crystal methods

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eXtreme programming (XP)

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Data-driven development

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Monte Carlo simulation

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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?

Use political awareness techniques

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Be a servant leader

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Time box meetings

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Use effective facilitation techniques

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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?

Develop detailed project requirements

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Focus on quality concerns

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Document the risk in the project charter

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Develop a competitor analysis

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A vendor submits a high-level project schedule for a three-year project, including a detailed design-phase schedule.

What does this describe?

Rolling wave planning

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Decomposition

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Expert judgment

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Templates

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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?

Interrupt the argument and firmly assert their authority to maintain order and control over the meeting

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Facilitate a structured discussion to understand each stakeholder's perspective and find common ground.

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Conclude the meeting prematurely to allow stakeholders to cool off and reschedule it later.

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Ignore the argument and proceed with the meeting's agenda as planned, addressing the conflict afterward.

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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?

Conduct a stakeholder analysis

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Use facilitation and conflict management techniques to help the three stakeholders find consensus

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Request that the project sponsor resolve the conflict

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Use the project kickoff meeting to settle the project goals

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A project manager receives the following for a new project:

Assumptions
Restrictions
Preliminary scope

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

Review and understand the business case and project goals

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Put together the project team and assign project tasks

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Bill the project schedule and determine the critical path

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Ensure the project charter approval is obtained from the sponsor

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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?

Use the contingency budget to lower the cost of the EU launch and adjust plans for the non-EU launch

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Pre-plan the project as a fully agile set of iterations and ensure fixed milestones are documented in the burn-down chart

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Plan analysis activities and toll gates for the EU launch and crash the schedule for the non-EU launch new line

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Embed a set of iterations to analyze and develop the EU product while adjusting plans for the non-EU launch

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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?

Create slides for the kickoff meeting to address stakeholder involvement

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Survey key stakeholders preferred meeting dates and times to accommodate the teams in different time zones

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Verify that all required participants or their delegates will be available to attend

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Review the kickoff meeting agenda and materials for overall clarity and conclusion

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It is commonly understood that the ability of stakeholders to influence a project is:

Usually high in the early stages of a project and diminishes as the project moves through its life cycle

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Typically high in the early stages of a project and increases as the project moves through its life cycle

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Typically high in the early stages of the execution phase of a project but decreases as the product moves through its life cycle

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Typically high in the later stages of a project but increases as the project moves through its life cycle

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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?

Stakeholder engagement plan

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Stakeholder register

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Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix

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Stakeholder grid

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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?

Low Influence / Low Commitment

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Low Influence / High Commitment

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High Influence / Low Commitment

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High Influence / High Commitment

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