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Questions 11

A program with 10 components is in the planning phase. Project managers who oversee the component projects request detailed schedules. These schedules will be merged into one document to create a master schedule.

What should the program manager do to ensure that the overall program life cycle will meet stakeholder needs and deliver planned benefits?

Options:
A.

Establish a quality review for the project schedules to ensure that resource leveling and baselines are followed and component projects are delivered on time

B.

Work with the project managers to decompose their schedules to minimize risk and better understand the dependencies and resource needs

C.

Decompose the component schedules to determine if work can be executed more quickly to deliver value earlier than planned

D.

Create a work breakdown structure (WBS) to align program execution with stakeholder expectations and the benefits management plan

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Questions 12

You are the program manager for the GHT Program for your company. This program has a budget at completion of $789,000 and is currently 40 percent complete, though it was scheduled to be 50 percent at this time. Your program has spent $325,000 of the budget to date. Based on this information, how many pennies is your program losing per dollar spent on the work?

Options:
A.

11

B.

20

C.

3

D.

1

Questions 13

You are the program manager for your organization and are working with Tracy, one of the project managers in your program. Tracy is having some trouble understanding the concept of the critical path in her project's network diagram. Which one of the following is the best definition of the critical path?

Options:
A.

It is the path that carries the most risk of project failure.

B.

It is the path that reveals the earliest date the project can finish.

C.

It is the path with the most important activities in the project.

D.

It is the duration of all the project activities if the labor is summed.

Questions 14

A program manager is working with the sponsor, stakeholders, and steering committee to formulate a program’s benefits sustainment and transition plan. What should the program manager do to create this plan?

Options:
A.

Identify key measures to compare expected benefits in the benefits management plan with actual performance once benefits sustainment and program transition starts.

B.

Assign creation of the benefits sustainment plan to the organization responsible for monitoring and controlling the sustainment period.

C.

Interview stakeholders, and revise the benefits management plan to provide new insight into the program’s execution and benefits sustainment period.

D.

Update the benefits management plan, and provide a copy to the organization responsible for measuring the sustainment period.

Questions 15

To increase its presence and promote its products and services in new markets, a company begins to implement its new business strategy. The company’s CEO endorses a new program to promote and support this strategy. However, before the program is formally initiated, this strategy must be aligned with the organization’s strategic goals and objectives.

What should the program manager develop first?

Options:
A.

Program’s risk threshold

B.

Program risk management plan

C.

Program resource management plan

D.

Program risk and issue governance forum

Questions 16

A program manager evaluates conflicting stakeholder demands associated with cost, schedule, and intended benefits. The implementation team has a strong interest in cost and schedule, and a limited interest in the benefits being produced. The client is only focused on benefits.

Which of the following actions should the program manager take?

Options:
A.

Focus on the internal stakeholders to ensure cost and schedule objectives are achieved.

B.

Balance stakeholder needs through the use of trade-offs among the stakeholder groups.

C.

Focus on the external stakeholders to ensure the intended benefits are achieved.

D.

Conduct a stakeholder meeting to allow everyone to state their priorities.

Questions 17

You are the program manager of the NQA Program. In this program you're planning which contract types you'll allow into the program and which ones you will not. One contract type you won't accept is the cost plus percentage of cost contract. Which of the following is a valid reason you would not allow this contract type into your program?

Options:
A.

The contract type requires the vendor to provide a fee for the time invested and the materials used.

B.

The contract type allows the vendor to change the price of the work he's completed.

C.

The contract type allows is the most dangerous for the buyer.

D.

The contract type requires the vendor to provide a fixed price for the work.

Questions 18

Which of the following documents contain a list of all problems, unfavorable events, or situations that occurred so far in the program?

Options:
A.

Program charter

B.

Program risk register

C.

Program issue register

D.

Program scope statement

Questions 19

Which of the following represents the duration of activities against a calendar?

Options:
A.

Pie chart

B.

Scatter chart

C.

Gantt chart

D.

Pareto chart

Questions 20

The program manager wants to ensure that a program contributes to shareholder value.

The program manager should verify alignment with which of the following?

Options:
A.

Program charter

B.

Organizational structures and policies

C.

Organizational strategic objectives

D.

Program governance plan