PMP – Planning – Facilitated Methods

The initial draft of the project management plan is completed. The project manager plans to show the draft to stakeholders for approval. The project manager has limited time to gain acceptance because the project manager is local, but the stakeholders are located worldwide. The project manager needs to ensure that the plan review is completed on time.

Which action should the project manager take?

Send the plan for the stakeholders to review, and then meet virtually with all of them to discuss the project management plan and get approval

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Ask each stakeholder to review the plan individually, adding their comments, and then update the document accordingly

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Ask several stakeholders to review particular sections of the guide based on their areas of expertise

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Organize individual meetings of the stakeholders who are available during this timeframe

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A new product development project has three main tasks:

Task A must be delivered four weeks before Task C starts

Once Task B finishes, Task C will start

What is the relationship between Task A and B?

Finish to start

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Finish to finish

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Start to start

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Start to finish

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

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

Schedule baseline

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WBS dictionary

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Work package

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Project management plan

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A looming fuel price increase was identified as a risk during the planning stages of a large construction project. The identified risk was assigned high probability with low impact; the price increase would not exceed 2%. The project begins, and a 20% fuel price increase will be implemented.
What should the project manager do?

Update the risk register.

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Update the assumption log.

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Update the issue log.

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Update the lessons learned register.

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During iteration planning, a project manager discusses user stories with the team. While prioritizing the user stories, some with a higher value are also identified as having greater risks.

What should the project manager do?

Suggest that the stories with higher risk are included in the earlier sprints instead of the later ones.

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Suggest that the stories with lower risk are included in the earlier sprints to increase team motivation.

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Work with the product stakeholders to schedule which user stories should be worked on in which sprints.

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Conduct a Monte Carlo analysis to identify which user stories should be completed first.

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A project sponsor is risk-averse and is therefore concerned about negative impacts on the project. To help with this concern, the project team identifies four project risks and then evaluates the probability of occurrence, and the impact of the risk event occurs. The team uses a 1 to 5 scale (one is the lowest and five as the highest)

Based on the risk rating, what is the order to address the risks?

Risk	Probability	Impact
A	1	5
B	4	4
C	2	5
D	2	2

D, A, B, D

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B, C, A, D

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B, A, C, D

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C, D, A, b

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A marketing team is developing a new website for an existing product. The team reviews some customer comments submitted on the current website:

“too much clicking”

“more and better please”

“make it easier”

Which tool or technique should the marketing team use to identify the target audience’s style preferences?

Brainstorming

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Product focus groups

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Product analysis

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Brainwriting

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After completing the stakeholder analysis, the project manager starts the planning phase. What should the project manager do with stakeholders who have no interest or influence in the project?

Closely monitor these stakeholders

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Highly encourage these stakeholders

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Attentively focus on these stakeholders

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Visibly harness these stakeholders

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A project to build a parking garage is using a predictive development approach.

Toward the end of the project, the project manager wants to run a few iterations to test traffic flow and capacity and has asked the team to plan four time-boxed iterations based on information in the WBS.

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

Convert the work packages listed under the relevant control account

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Match the levels of the WBS to levels in a story map template and plan a release

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Translate the content of the work package into user stories and place them on a product backlog

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Create an iteration backlog for each related work package

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A complex project is in the planning phase. The sponsor assigns a newly certified project manager to the project. Upon review of the project charter, the project manager uncovers several factors that could impact the project in unpredictable ways.
What should the project manager do?

Update the project plan with details about schedule and budget forecasts.

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Inform the project sponsor about the possible impacts these factors may have on the project.

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Develop a risk management plan with details about the various factors.

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Extend the issue log to include a what-if scenario analysis.

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An organization has just been shortlisted to win a project to implement three magnetic resonance units in the country’s main hospital. The hospital’s CEO asked the project manager for an updated proposal that reduced the implementation time by 30%.
Who should the project manager consult with to reduce the estimates most realistically?

Hospital radiology team

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Project team

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Project sponsor

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Hospital procurement officer

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Although the sponsor and project team say that the new project has an adequate budget and realistic schedule, the project manager worries that unplanned events could threaten the project’s success.

What should the project manager do first?

Engage in the identification of project risks, then assess these risks

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Ask the project sponsor for additional funding to cover project planning

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Schedule a meeting with the functional manager to address the potential impact of unplanned risk

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Execute the project as planned and manage any risks as they occur

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A textile department development project needs a specialized resource to work for nine hundred hours. The company has decided to outsource these hours. Because of internal politics, all potential service providers must receive the same requirements information.

Which action should the project manager take to ensure this?

Hold direct negotiations with the service provider

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Conduct a bidder conference with the service providers

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Send the procurement management plan to each service provider

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Add the service providers to the stakeholder register

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What is the project manager’s role during the procurement bid process?

Making the make-or-buy decision

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Ensuring project risks are understood

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Establishing source selection criteria

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Approving changes to the agreement

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A project team is working with a group of diverse stakeholders. Even though the stakeholders are very active and vocal about ideas and opinions, the team is unable to determine the specific features desired for a new customer service program.

Which tool or technique should help the team obtain the information?

Questionnaire

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Prototyping

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Brainstorming

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Interviews

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During the planning phase for expanding a services company, stakeholders conducted a feasibility study to establish the type of new service the company should provide. An alternative analysis determined that a different service would be more effective. The change control board (CCB) has approved the change request for the alternative service.
What should the project manager do?

Implement the change as approved.

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Modify the change to reduce the impact on the schedule and budget.

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Request justification from the CCB for the change.

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Conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the alternative service.

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A newly qualified vendor may be used for an upcoming project. While discussing required services, the vendor tells the project manager they must pay equipment costs.

What should the project manager do?

Use the organizational procurement process

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Tailor a statement of work (SOW) to include payment for direct costs.

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Conduct a risk analysis for this situation.

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Use a fixed-price contract with incentive fees.

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A company plans to utilize a new product that leverages innovative technologies and processes. The project manager has verified that the component work packages were defined, and constraints identified for each component.

Which estimating technique should the project meeting manager use to obtain a precise project cost estimate?

Analogous

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Three point

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Bottom-up

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Parametric

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Project C is a partnership between a major city and a government contractor. Each of these entities has a different risk threshold, so it is the project manager’s role to ensure a risk approach that will satisfy both parties. Project C has a realistic schedule and an adequate budget; however, the project manager worries that unplanned events could threaten the project’s success and cause the city sponsor to be concerned.

How should the project manager handle the situation?

Focus on the original project plan and focus on completing the plan on schedule

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Ask the city sponsor for additional funding to cover additional unexplained or unplanned risks during planning

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Collaborate with representatives from both sides of the partnership to address the potential impact of unplanned risks

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List and assess any project risk and present them to the city sponsor

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Which process does the project manager use to prioritize individual project risks for further analysis or action by assessing their probability of occurrence and impact, as well as other characteristics?

Quantitative Risk Analysis

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Qualitative Risk Analysis

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Identify Risks

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Plan Risk Management

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The project manager is uncertain about the duration of the new project and consults several groups of subject matter experts (SMEs).

The first group advises that development can be finished 29 days.

The second group thinks it will take 46 days and the third group proposes a shorter time of 18 days.

Using the triangular estimation technique, what is the estimated development duration for the new project?

28 days

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31 days

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32 days

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36 days

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Review the following project characteristics:

A sponsor approves the project.
The project manager invites selected team members, key stakeholders, and the sponsors to a meeting.
The primary purpose of the meeting is to create a document that will guide the team by describing how the project will be defined, monitored, controlled, and validated.

What will be the results of the meeting?

Milestone list

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Work breakdown structure (WBS) dictionary

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Scope management plan

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Requirements management plan

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A product owner is selecting components for the first three releases and is using Kano analysis. What is the reason for using a Kano model or analysis to determine the content of a release?

To explore the various types of value that can be derived from the product development and process

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To learn how to gain efficiencies from the solution that can optimize product quality and reduce waste

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To understand from the customer's point of view the importance of features under consideration or the product"s future state

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To document and evaluate how user stories satisfy individual stakeholder requirements

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A project manager has finished a qualitative risk analysis with their team. Based on this information, which project documents may require updating?

Risk Register, Risk Report, Lessons Learned

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Plan Risk Management, Assumption Log

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Risk Register, Assumption Log, Issue Log, Risk Report

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Risk Register, Risk Report

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A medium-sized company is expanding into a new market. However, the company has yet to gain experience in that market. The project manager needs to determine the project scope and collect requirements.

Which two tools or techniques should the project manager use? (Choose two)

Programming items

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Expert judgment

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Prototype the product

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Product analysis

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Create a requirements traceability matrix

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A project manager recently joined a new project with the following characteristics:

Tight deadlines
Global virtual team
Fixed budget

During the planning stage, the project manager wants to avoid scope creep and keep the team focused on delivering a product that meets requirements.

How can the project manager achieve this goal?

Ensure that any changes to the scope go through the formal approval process

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Ensure that daily stand-ups occur, as a regular ceremony in all development team efforts

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Ensure that the development team leads generate detailed requirements

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Ensure that stakeholders do not directly interact with the development team leads

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A senior project manager oversees the project. A new project manager is added to the project. The sponsor asks the new project manager to develop the quality management plan.

How should the new project manager proceed?

Postpone the quality management plan’s development by submitting a change requests. Only proceed when quality metrics and quality checklists are created.

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Schedule a meeting with the customer to collect requirements and obtain benchmarking samples

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Schedule a meeting with the sponsor to obtain benchmarking samples and cost-benefit analysis

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Obtain established quality processes and plans from the senior project manager and then ask for guidance in selecting the appropriate quality standards

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

Stakeholder communication and risk management strategy specific to the ecosystem restoration

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Procurement strategy for acquiring materials necessary for ecosystem restoration

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Techniques for ecosystem restoration and the characteristics of the restored ecosystem

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Quality standards for a healthy and restored ecosystem

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The initial draft of the project management plan is completed. The project manager plans to show the draft to stakeholders for approval. The project manager has limited time to gain acceptance because the project manager is local, but the stakeholders are located worldwide. The project manager needs to ensure that the plan review is completed on time.

Which action should the project manager take?

Send the plan for the stakeholders to review, and then meet virtually with all of them to discuss the project management plan and get approval

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Ask each stakeholder to review the plan individually, adding their comments, and then update the document accordingly

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Ask several stakeholders to review particular sections of the guide based on their areas of expertise

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Organize individual meetings of the stakeholders who are available during this timeframe

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During a sprint, a team member encounters a technical problem and is unsure how to handle it.

What should the scrum master and the team consider resolving this problem?

Add ranked alternatives to the backlog

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Identify alternatives to build

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Add a spike team to the sprint for a specified time limit

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Choose an alternative to build

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A project team is working with the business analyst to develop a climate control system for commercial warehouses.

Which is an example of the validated requirement?

Stakeholders want a climate control system delivered on time and within budget

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The system complies with the required industrial specifications, with a sustained temperature of 18°C and an air quality index (AQI) rate of 45

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The design features a listed on the product backlog and a ranked order manner, according to which can deliver desired value

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The customer and other stakeholders have agreed on the proposed the side and the cost of the climate control system

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A marketing team is developing a new website for an existing product. The team reviews some customer comments submitted on the current website:

“too much clicking”

“more and better please”

“make it easier”

Which tool or technique should the marketing team use to identify the target audience’s style preferences?

Brainstorming

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Product focus groups

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Product analysis

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Brainwriting

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A company wants to reduce future operating costs by installing solar panels on the facility being built. They are applying for a local government subsidy for energy-efficient projects, but they have not yet applied for the subsidy. Before the project starts, the project manager describes the project risks.

Which statement best describes the risk of the project if the application is unsuccessful?

Loss of energy-efficient ‘C’ rating

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Loss of funding for the project

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Increase in scope

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Increase in total cost

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Why is it important to determine risk appetite of the organization or key stakeholders?

To help calculate risk probability

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To help calculate risk impact

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To determine root causes

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To plan risk responses

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What are the primary purposes of defining acceptance criteria? (Choose two)

Create a detailed project schedule

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Establish a baseline for evaluating the final product

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Limit stakeholder involvement in the validation process

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Determine the budget for the project and resource allocation

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Ensure the product meets specified requirements

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The project manager begins to prepare the project management plan after receiving the project charter. There is currently no historical information in the project management office (PMO).

What is the next step should the project manager take in this scenario?

Utilize analogous estimating

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Seek advice from experts in the field

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Organize an initial kickoff call

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Request that the project sponsor provide input

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A textile department development project needs a specialized resource to work for nine hundred hours. The company has decided to outsource these hours. Because of internal politics, all potential service providers must receive the same requirements information.

Which action should the project manager take to ensure this?

Hold direct negotiations with the service provider

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Conduct a bidder conference with the service providers

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Send the procurement management plan to each service provider

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Add the service providers to the stakeholder register

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The project’s sponsor is risk-averse and is therefore concerned about negative impacts on the project. To address the concern, this project has identified four project risks and evaluated both the probability of occurrence and the impact of the risk if it occurs. The team uses a one to five scale (one is the lowest and five is the highest).

Risk	Probability	Impact
A	3	5
B	4	2
C	3	3
D	2	2

Based on the above information in which order should the project manager rank these risks for risk management purposes?

A, C, B, D

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B, A, D, C

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D, A, C, B

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C, D, A, b

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

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

Review the balance of the negotiations for stakeholder agreement

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Determine the project’s ultimate objectives after carefully evaluating project priorities

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Engage in negotiations for more resources

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Document the shortage of required resources in the risk register

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Re-evaluate the project objectives, review the planned activities, and recalculate the resource needs

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How do contingency reserves differ from management reserves?

Contingency reserves are not part of the project cost baseline, while management reserves are included in the cost baseline

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Contingency reserves require change approval to be expended, while management reserves can be utilized without change approval

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Contingency reserves are established for future situations that can be planned for in part, while management reserves are established for future situations that are impossible to predict

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Contingency reserves are established for situations that have already occurred, while management reserves are established to deal with situations that may occur in the future

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A project manager is leading a project with numerous risks that may occur sequentially and could potentially result in significant financial consequences.

What should the project manager do to better understand the risks?

Perform a SWOT analysis with stakeholders.

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Analyze a probability and impact matrix.

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Participate in a brainstorming session.

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Build a decision tree with the project team.

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Project C is a partnership between a major city and a government contractor. Each of these entities has a different risk threshold, so it is the project manager’s role to ensure a risk approach that will satisfy both parties. Project C has a realistic schedule and an adequate budget; however, the project manager worries that unplanned events could threaten the project’s success and cause the city sponsor to be concerned.

How should the project manager handle the situation?

Focus on the original project plan and focus on completing the plan on schedule

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Ask the city sponsor for additional funding to cover additional unexplained or unplanned risks during planning

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Collaborate with representatives from both sides of the partnership to address the potential impact of unplanned risks

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List and assess any project risk and present them to the city sponsor

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The company is struggling to define the scope of the new project that has multiple phases with a high level of dependency between the phases.

How should the project manager approach this challenge?

Contract with a third-party consultant that specializes in helping businesses define the scope of work on large projects

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Work with project stakeholders to recommend an iterative approach that will help define the project scope

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Review the project management plan to ensure that it provides extra time within the schedule, then revise the scope of work

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Move forward with the project to keep the daily check on the schedule to prioritize the dependency issues

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During the backlog grooming of user stories, some new user stories are prioritized but not estimated. The product owner requires a new set of tests to verify the unique properties of the new items.

What should happen before adding these new user stories to the Sprint backlog?

Use analogous estimating based on similar tests on comparable stories

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The product owner defines a new epic to allow testing in the new Sprint

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Add the relevant acceptance criteria to the user stories’ definition of ready before estimating

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The product owner should provide the initial estimate to be refined by the team

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A project manager has started a new project with a 24 month timeline. Soon after the kickoff, the sponsor informs the project manager that the timeline needs to be shortened to 6 months.
What should the project manager do in this scenario?

Focus on developing a minimum viable product (MVP) by referencing the product backlog for items with the highest prioritization that can be completed in the new timeline.

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Refer to the product backlog to identify the items that can be completed in the shortest amount of time and add them to the project to complete in the new timeline.

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Work with the sponsor to increase the budget to hire vendors to develop the deliverables in the compressed timeline.

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Implement fast tracking and record this timeline change in the risk register.

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A technology project has members of a project team from multiple countries. The stakeholders have stated that this arrangement will keep the project within budget. However, the project manager believes that the stakeholders have not accounted for issues that might arise that could affect the project’s success.
What should the project manager do to record this concern?

Document the risks in the risk register.

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Revise the stakeholder engagement plan.

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Capture the information in the issues log.

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Update the resource management plan.

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The project is in the planning stage. The project manager realizes that producing a complex, multi-functional application is not feasible with the current number of resources and desire to hire more resources for the production of the application. The project manager identifies and contracts temporary resources.

Which risk response strategy does this scenario exemplify?

Mitigate

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Transfer

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Accept

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Avoid

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Near the end of the manufacturing project, several team members are transferred to another project. To complete the work, the project manager needs to acquire additional resources from a new supplier but is concerned about the cost and risk of using the new supplier at this advanced stage of the project.

Now the project manager needs to work with the procurement team to establish specifications and type of contract to be used.

What should be done?

Recommend a time and material contract

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Recommend a fixed price incentive fee (FPIF) contract

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Recommend a cost-plus incentive fee (CPIF) contract

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Recommend a firm fixed price (FFP)contract

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The project manager of a software development project is conducting a planning meeting with her team. The team members are arguing on the planning effort and are not collaborative. Which stage of Tuchman’s ladder of team development is in?

Norming

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Performing

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Forming

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Storming

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A company that manufactures standard equipment for municipalities must ensure consistency in regular tasks during product assembly. What should the project manager develop to achieve this?

Estimate Activity Resources

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Establish design for X (DfX) guidelines.

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Develop quality checklists.

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Interview subject matter expert (SME)

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A senior project manager oversees the project. A new project manager is added to the project. The sponsor asks the new project manager to develop the quality management plan.

How should the new project manager proceed?

Postpone the quality management plan’s development by submitting a change requests. Only proceed when quality metrics and quality checklists are created.

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Schedule a meeting with the customer to collect requirements and obtain benchmarking samples

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Schedule a meeting with the sponsor to obtain benchmarking samples and cost-benefit analysis

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Obtain established quality processes and plans from the senior project manager and then ask for guidance in selecting the appropriate quality standards

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A number of team members are concerned that a new resource does not seem suitable for an assigned task.

How should the project manager respond to this concern?

Contact senior management to discuss the possibility of transferring the new resource to a different project

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Schedule time to talk with the new resource to reassess the skills and understand their strength level

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Ask the team members to document tasks-related deficiencies displayed by the resource

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Contact the project sponsor to highlight these concerns and decide on an appropriate response

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A project manager is developing a project management plan to submit to the project sponsor in two weeks. The project sponsor, however, wants to review the early resource estimates before the deadline.
What should the project manager do?

Ask the sponsor to wait until the Work breakdown structure (WBS) is done.

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Share a draft copy of the Budget Estimate Sheet (BES) with the sponsor.

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Re-share the Statement of Work (SOW) with the sponsor.

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Share a draft copy of the Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS) with the sponsor.

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A project depends on the reliability of one component. The project manager proposes designing redundancy into the system to reduce the impact that failure of this component would have on the project’s success.
What type of risk response is the project manager demonstrating?

Transfer

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Mitigate

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Accept

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Avoid

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To whom should the project management plan be distributed?

All stakeholders in the performing organization

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All project stakeholders

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Project team members and the project sponsor

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Those people defined in the communication management plan

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During a sprint, a team member encounters a technical problem and is unsure how to handle it.

What should the scrum master and the team consider to resolve this problem?

Add ranked alternatives to the backlog

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Identify alternatives to build

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Add a spike team to the sprint for a specified time limit

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Choose an alternative to build

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The project is in the planning stage. The project manager realizes that producing a complex, multi-functional application is not feasible with the current number of resources and desire to hire more resources for the production of the application. The project manager identifies and contracts temporary resources.

Which risk response strategy does this scenario exemplify?

Mitigate

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Transfer

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Accept

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Avoid

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Although the sponsor and project team say that the new project has an adequate budget and realistic schedule, the project manager worries that unplanned events could threaten the project’s success.

What should the project manager do first?

Engage in the identification of project risks, then assess these risks

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Ask the project sponsor for additional funding to cover project planning

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Schedule a meeting with the functional manager to address the potential impact of unplanned risk

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Execute the project as planned and manage any risks as they occur

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The team and product owner review user stories in the iteration planning meeting. While reviewing stories, it is identified that some high-value stories have more associated risks.
What should the agile project manager do?

Recommend the team include risky stories in early iterations rather than later ones.

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Recommend that the team choose stories with low risk for easy completion to keep team motivation high.

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Work with the product owner to decide on the stories that should go during the iteration.

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Use Pareto analysis to decide which stories can be completed the fastest.

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A project team implements a change approved by the change control board (CCB). The change was intended to minimize risk but had the opposite effect.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this outcome?

Schedule a meeting with the stakeholders and walk them through the project plan to gain their approval.

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Distribute the plan to the stakeholders for their review days before scheduling a meeting to obtain approvals.

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Tell the project sponsor that the stakeholder approvals will require more time and adjust the schedule.

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Obtain partial stakeholder approvals and track incomplete approvals as a risk to be managed later.

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A company wants to reduce future operating costs by installing solar panels on the facility being built. They are applying for a local government subsidy for energy-efficient projects, but they have not yet applied for the subsidy. Before the project starts, the project manager describes the project risks.

Which statement best describes the risk of the project if the application is unsuccessful?

Loss of energy-efficient ‘C’ rating

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Loss of funding for the project

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Increase in scope

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Increase in total cost

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The project manager begins to prepare the project management plan after receiving the project charter. There is currently no historical information in the project management office (PMO).

What is the next step should the project manager take in this scenario?

Utilize analogous estimating

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Seek advice from experts in the field

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Organize an initial kickoff call

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Request that the project sponsor provide input

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A company plans to utilize a new product that leverages innovative technologies and processes. The project manager has verified that the component work packages were defined, and constraints identified for each component.

Which estimating technique should the project meeting manager use to obtain a precise project cost estimate?

Analogous

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Three point

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Bottom-up

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Parametric

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A project has just been initiated. It has two key stakeholders and should be completed within 18 months. Stakeholder A wants to complete work early—in 14 months—and proposes saving time by using an untested technology during development. Stakeholder B prefers staying within the 18-month timeline and using a proven technology.

What should the project manager do?

Perform a cost-benefit analysis of the two scenarios and submit the analysis to all project stakeholders for a decision.

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Create a project schedule for the 18-month timeline, tailor it with agile test iterations for the untested technology and record any achieved time savings in the lessons learned.

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Determine the viability of prioritizing the potential time savings with the added risk and cost of the untested technology by reviewing the critical path and schedule compression options.

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Interview subject matter experts (SMEs) on the untested technology to determine its feasibility for this project.

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Interview subject matter experts (SMEs) on the untested technology to determine its feasibility for this project.

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After receiving the project charter, a project manager starts preparing the project management plan. Although the project management office (PMO) has limited detailed activity information, the project manager needs to calculate the expected duration of the project.
What should the project manager use to determine this?

Analogous estimating

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Bottom-up estimating

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Kick-off meeting feedback

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Input from the project sponsor

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A number of team members are concerned that a new resource does not seem suitable for an assigned task.

How should the project manager respond to this concern?

Contact senior management to discuss the possibility of transferring the new resource to a different project

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Schedule time to talk with the new resource to reassess the skills and understand their strength level

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Ask the team members to document task-related deficiencies displayed by the resource

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Contact the project sponsor to highlight these concerns and decide on an appropriate response

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

Which two steps should the project manager take next?

(Choose two)

Review the balance of the negotiations for stakeholder agreement

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Determine the project’s ultimate objectives after carefully evaluating project priorities

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Engage in negotiations for more resources

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Document the shortage of required resources in the risk register

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Re-evaluate the project objectives, review the planned activities, and recalculate the resource needs

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

Which task is suitable to delegate to the agile team?

Prioritize items in the backlog according to size

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Refine the backlog work

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Prioritize items for the Sprint backlog

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Add user stories to the backlog before prioritization

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A project manager is leading a project that will deliver a new product. The project manager needs to decide between options proposed by various cross-functional teams. The project manager uses a decision-making matrix and has identified criteria to evaluate the options and assign a relative weight to each criterion.

What should the project manager do next?

Draft a counter-proposal and share it with stakeholders.

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Eliminate the alternative with the least weight.

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Score each alternative for each criterion.

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Choose the preferred alternative based on voting.

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A customer identifies performance issues on a newly implemented product. Why should the project manager estimate the cost of quality (COQ) for this project?

To find the optimal cost to prevent failures in future iterations of this product.

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To assess the conformance and non-conformance cost during the life of this product.

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To assess the quality of the product to minimize future appraisal costs.

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To minimize rework and scrap associated with failure costs during project execution.

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During the backlog grooming of user stories, some new user stories are prioritized but not estimated. The product owner requires a new set of tests to verify the unique properties of the new items.

What should happen before adding these new user stories to the Sprint backlog?

Use analogous estimating based on similar tests on comparable stories

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The product owner defines a new epic to allow testing in the new Sprint

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Add the relevant acceptance criteria to the user stories’ definition of ready before estimating

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The product owner should provide the initial estimate to be refined by the team

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A medium-sized company is expanding into a new market. However, the company has yet to gain experience in that market. The project manager needs to determine the project scope and collect requirements.

Which two tools or techniques should the project manager use? (Choose two)

Programming items

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Expert judgment

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Prototype the product

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Product analysis

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Create a requirements traceability matrix

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A project manager recently joined a new project with the following characteristics:

Tight deadlines
Global virtual team
Fixed budget

During the planning stage, the project manager wants to avoid scope creep and keep the team focused on delivering a product that meets requirements.

How can the project manager achieve this goal?

Ensure that any changes to the scope go through the formal approval process

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Ensure that daily stand-ups occur, as a regular ceremony in all development team efforts

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Ensure that the development team leads generate detailed requirements

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Ensure that stakeholders do not directly interact with the development team leads

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A complex project is in the planning stage when the sponsor identifies a need for a specialist who is a citizen of a foreign country. The project manager knows the budget does not allow for this specialist’s travel expenses.
What should the project manager do?

Train a resource on the existing team in the special skills.

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Submit a change request for additional budget.

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Find a local replacement.

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Assign the specialist to a virtual team.

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