A company is implementing a growth strategy by constructing a new production facility, which will soon move into the operation phase. Although a governance policy was already in place, the company must comply with new financial regulations that have been recently implemented. Compliance with the regulations will cause a major change
in project scope.
How should the project manager respond to this requirement?
A project manager has just received communication from an operational functional manager to complete an additional scope item for a project that was formally closed a few weeks ago. The scope looks relatively small and simple to handle as part of the daily operations activity.
How should the project manager deal with this request?
A project team is conducting sprint planning. Based on the estimated effort, only 95% of the items included in the sprint may be delivered. The product owner asks the project manager for advice on how to prioritize the backlog items.
What should be used to prioritize the backlog items?
All project team members refer to the project manager for various decisions. This causes delays for some tasks, as the project manager is usually preoccupied in meetings throughout the day.
What should the project manager do to prevent these delays?
When a project is in its final stage, the project manager will request from the team to prepare a delivery acceptance document. What is the
importance of this document to the project manager?
In an agile project, the team decided to have a rotating group of facilitators for the daily scrum. Overall, most of the facilitators have grown and done well in this role; however, a few of them tend to run inefficient daily scrums.
What should the project manager do next?
After a recent status review meeting, the project manager becomes aware that an influential stakeholder is unclear about the purpose and benefits of the project Consequently, the stakeholder has questioned the viability of continuing the project What should the project manager do next to address the situation?
A customer has provided excellent feedback on the project. However, a key project resource is leaving the company.
Which measure should mitigate the impact of this key resource's departure?
A project manager is leading a project when a key stakeholder requests additional work that is not in the scope. The stakeholder is also concerned that the project sponsors may not approve and fund the additional change in scope.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager decided to use a highly adaptive approach to manage a large-scale project. In this project, there are many iterative tasks that utilize highly specialized experts. The project manager would like to create practical plans with high levels of buy-in from the team members.
What should the project manager do next?
An urgent meeting has been established with the project team to discuss the cause of some quality issues that are preventing delivery to the client. The product owner recommends a root cause analysis (RCA).
What should the project lead do?
A project manager is beginning a new project with very diverse team members. The project manager chose to use consensus building so the team can agree on and be
engaged in how the project will be executed.
How should the project manager proceed?
A project team is planning the next sprint review. The project lead receives an email from a senior manager asking for a project status using a template that is more detailed than the one used for monthly reports sent to the project management office (PMO). The team uses an electronic product backlog and a kanban board to track the progress.
What should the project manager do next?
During a project meeting, the project manager expressed the importance of delivering reports on time. These individual reports will be
consolidated into a single report. One of the team member's reports was not delivered on time and therefore the report could not be integrated
with the other reports. This demonstrates a lack of teamwork and impacts project success.
What should the project manager do to resolve this issue?
A project manager was recently assigned to a banking IT project. The project team has been developing products using a predictive approach for more than 10 years, but management wants the team to change to an agile approach. The project manager met with the team to introduce the agile approach. Most of the team members complained about changing approaches because the performance of this team has always been above average among the IT teams in the bank.
Which two actions should the project manager take? (Choose two)
A stakeholder informs the project manager about a few compliance-related gaps and issues. The stakeholder then presents several suggestions to the project manager to address the issues.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is assigned to deliver a development project with subcontracted resources from a sister company. What should the project manager do to ensure a smooth inclusion of the new subcontracted resources?
A key project team member is out on sick leave in the middle of a critical project iteration. The project sponsor learns that any delay with the end-of-iteration release will displease the business stakeholders. Although all team members are cross-functional, they are also working close to full capacity.
What should the project manager do to address this situation?
A project manager schedules virtual daily standup meetings for a project, but half of the team members regularly join late or miss the meeting all together. What should the project manager do?
An organization is using a hybrid delivery approach for a business project. The product owner, the person who was also managing the project, was promoted to a more senior role. A new project lead has joined the project.
Which artifact should the project lead use to ensure that the project benefits have been identified?
A new team member has joined a project team. During the first sprint, the new team member approached the project manager and requested to implement a new way of testing. The team has been resistant to the proposed change.
What should the project manager do?
A highly critical project is in jeopardy due to missing professional resources. What should the newly assigned project manager do first?
A project manager is developing the stakeholder register and is having trouble understanding the motivation of some of the stakeholders. What should the project manager
do to get this information?
During project execution, the project manager discovered that a key deliverable was missing from the scope of work After investigation, the project manager and the team discovered that the missing deliverable will impact the critical path
What should the project manager do to avoid future delays?
Due to a company merger and acquisition process, the main stakeholder of a critical project has been changed This new stakeholder complains that they were unaware of a delay on the project of which the rest of the stakeholders were aware. All the communications about the project are shared via email at the start of every week.
How should the project manager address this situation?
An experienced project manager is managing a multi-million dollar agile project The project manager communicates the ground rules to the team but after 12 iterations, the project manager starts noticing that some team members are not following the ground rules.
What should the project manager do first to ensure team adherence to the ground rules?
During the third iteration, the team encounters a major delay that has not had significant improvements over the last few weeks What should the project manager do?
The team has reported the following impediments at the daily standup meeting Drag each impediment on the left to the action that the project manager needs to take on the right
A project manager is leading an in-house company project in its very early stages This current project is similar to another project that ended a year ago
What should the project manager do to analyze the involved stakeholders?
A company is working on a project and is using a hybrid approach to streamline a customer service process. At the end of the second iteration, a business analyst joins the team to learn about the financial and scheduling aspects of project management.
What should the project manager do to support the business analyst?
A project manager is starting a project using a hybrid approach and notices some team members only have knowledge of predictive approaches What does the project manager need to do first in order to have good project performance?
From previous lessons learned working with a client, a project manager notes that the client's turn-around times on documents sent for approval were very slow and well outside of the agreed timelines At the initial kick-off meeting with the same client, how should the project manager approach this issue for the new project?
A company has a lot of experience with predictive projects The project management office (PMO) has been trying to implement iterative tools within the project management framework, and the project manager has been asked to use these tools in their current project After the successful implementation of the iterative tools, the PMO asks the project manager to determine the benefits these tools brought to the project.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is assigned to a project within a program. The high-level requirements of the project are known, but the priorities of some of the requirements are uncertain as they are interdependent on some other pipeline projects within the program.
How should the project manager prepare for the next steps of the project?
In a hybrid project, the customer has issued a contract that specifies the deliverables for each quarter The customer wants to show their stakeholders a tangible outcome in the first quarter and wants to move the second milestone to the first quarter The project manager explains to the customer that it is not feasible unless the requirements for the second milestone are changed
Which two actions should the project manager take? (Choose two)
During project execution, a project manager is informed that most of the project team members have enrolled in the newly implemented work-from-home company policy. How should the project manager reflect this change in the project?
A company is initiating a project to enhance one of its existing products. All of its products are developed internally What should the project manager do?
A project manager has been managing a highly complex project. The project manager has ensured that all of the required tasks have been completed. During a recent external audit. The project manager was informed of a heavy penalty being levied on the project for the latest module that was implemented
What should the project manager have done to ensure that there were no liabilities arising from the recent implementation?
A newly formed team has become accustomed to agile practices The project lead has noticed that while they are performing according to expectations, there is boredom with daily team practices among many of the team members.
What should the project lead do in this situation?
A retail chain is evaluating a project to replace payment systems across all its stores in multiple locations The project does not pass the financial threshold but is also expected to increase market share, improve customer services and retain more customers The project is planned as a phased implementation building on learning from the retrospectives during each phase
How should the business increase the value of the project?
During the last sprint review the product owner stated that the product does not deliver any value The project manager believes that the product meets all the provided specifications
The team is confused by the product owner's statement
What should the project manager do when using a hybrid approach?
A project manager has been managing a project for several months when an issue that had not been registered as a risk appeared. This issue may have a big impact on the project.
What should the project manager do?
Two functional managers disagree on key features of one deliverable during the planning of a project The project manager discovers that each manager included requirements that contradict each other The functional managers do not want to meet with each other to find a solution This situation has been escalated to the sponsor who requests a meeting with them
What strategy should the project manager use to resolve this conflict in the meeting?
A company that is heavily focused on delivering projects using predictive approaches on-boards a new project manager who uses hybrid approaches The scope of the project contains a number of unclear requirements.
How should the project manager plan the delivery of the project?
An integrated project involves the interaction of both hardware and software and the sponsor has approved the schedule management plan The project team evaluated the product's feasibility of functionality and accelerated testing What should the project manager do as a servant leader?
Team members are having a discussion with the project manager In the last retrospective meeting, the team realized that the obsolete equipment could affect the next iteration of the project The team recommends buying new equipment because it is critical to the success of the final deliverable
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager of a large company needs to categorize the stakeholders' involvement at the beginning of a project initiated by the board of directors. The sales and delivery teams are internal teams.
Drag each stakeholder scenario on the left to the correct engagement level on the right.
A project team has recently finished a sprint for developing two features for a fleet management system Although the team delivered the required features, they encountered several issues and conflicts during the sprint. Team members were upset about this experience and are now showing a lack of motivation due to what has occurred.
What can the project manager do to help increase the team's motivation and engagement with the project?
During the execution of a maintenance project the contractor submits an offer for additional work The project manager realizes that the activities billed are included in the initial scope of work.
What should the project manager do next in this situation?
A software project using an agile approach is facing quality issues with every release, generating many production problems. What should the project manager do to fix the problem and improve the quality?
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