It should not be adjusted. The process is out of control. The assignable cause should then be investigated and determined. This is the rule of seven, so statistically the data does not matter. As an IT project nears completion, a new sponsor is assigned to the project. Although the old sponsor has provided verbal approval of the deliverables, the new sponsor is unhappy with them and asks that several be redone. What should the project manager have done to prevent this? The integrated change control process should have been performed.
Followed procedures outlined in the communication management plan. Obtained additional approval from the customer. Documented the approval for each deliverable with the old sponsor. The project manager of a project evaluates the risks of the project by assessing the probability of the risk, then categorizes the risk as likely or not likely and assesses its impact as high impact, medium impact, or low impact.
This would be which type of risk assessment? A scrum master is managing a software development project. The Product Owner attempted to add an unplanned feature to the current sprint while the development team focused on the work of the sprint. What should the scrum master do next? Submit a change request to the change control board CCB. Ask the product owner to update the product backlog and the new feature will be discussed in the next sprint planning meeting.
Force the development team to add the additional feature. Acquire additional resources to help the development team to accomplish adding the new feature in the current sprint. You have been assigned as the project manager for an insurance project. Your project is now in its initiation phase.
You discover that the project charter for the project you are working on was never written, so you volunteer to draft one. However, the project sponsor calls you and asks you to skip the process of developing and creating the project charter-what should you do in this situation?
Agree with the project sponsor because that person is your boss and has a lot of authority and power in the project. Suggest that a preliminary statement of work be written to outline the objectives of the project instead of the project charter. Call a meeting with your project sponsor and project management team to discuss the importance of creating and developing the project charter. Escalate to senior management that your project sponsor does not agree to create the project charter. The project manager notes that one of the stakeholders is actively engaged in the project and helping to ensure its success.
The engagement level of the stakeholder should be classified as:. A project manager begins a project to develop a new software. The sponsor has requested the project manager to develop a high-level cost estimate in a short period of time. How can the project manager accomplish this? A project manager is assigned in an organization that is new to Agile approaches. Midway through the project, the project manager notices that the team is underperforming due to significant delays in communication among team members, and team members do not have a good understanding of what everyone?
What should the project manager use to maintain and improve communication and build trust among team members? Arrange a meeting with team members to inform them about their project task assignments. Identify and involve all team members as early as possible in the project.
Update the communications management plan to reflect the importance of the project. The sponsor accepted the product five days ago, but recently a quality team member identifies a quality issue that may cause the final product to be rejected by the customer.
What should the project manager do? Deliver the product since the sponsor already accepted the product. A major deliverable was accepted by the customer, but has been found to give unexpected results.
The primary complaint was that it did not meet the expectations discussed during the early stages of the project. Which of the following best describes what the project manager should do next? A project manager is encountering numerous problems on his project. He wants to identify the causes of the problems, so that he can focus his attention on those causes.
Which of the following tools should he use? A Project Manager is managing a software development project. During the validate Scope process, the customer rejects all of the presented deliverables. The Project Manager believes that all of the deliverables conform to the quality levels and specifications, and feels that the customer is mistaken.
What should the Project Manager do next? Refer to the Project Communications Management Plan. You are managing a new complex construction project. During project executing, you realize that there is no in-house expertise available to perform some critical activities. These activities are critical to the success of this project. What should you do next? Tell your sponsor that there is not anyone qualified to do the work. Hire a subcontractor to perform these activities.
You are the project manager for a large software development project. One of the key stakeholders hands over a change request to you. As the project manager, what should you do next? Analyze the impact of the change request on schedule, cost, and quality.
A multi-phase project has reached a phase gate. The key project stakeholders want to determine if the phase has met its success criteria and if the project should proceed to the next phase. You are leading a large project that involves many stakeholders. You want to get two new team members up to speed with the overall dynamics of the project and engage effectively with the project stakeholders. You are facilitating a meeting with your project team to develop the team charter.
At the start of the meeting, a team member states, "I don't understand the importance of this meeting. We are all professionals, and this isn't our first project working together. Wouldn't our time be better spent getting an early start on project execution? You are leading a project to build an oil pipeline in a foreign country.
You want to outsource some of the construction work to local contractors and are in the process of preparing the bid package for prospective sellers. You are developing the communications management plan for a construction project.
You want to determine the information needs of the project stakeholders, specifically focusing on the type and the format of information that will be required to communicate with the stakeholders. The following Gantt chart displays the schedule for a software upgrade project. The system analysis was completed on August 12 th , but the system design and development activities are still in process as of October 3 rd.
Once the product is developed, the project team will need to test and deploy it, which must be completed by October 17 th. The method used to determine the earned value is based on percent complete. A servant leader has just been assigned to an upcoming product development project and believes that the project is well-suited to Kanban. However, the development team is unfamiliar with this approach.
You are developing the project scope statement. You have specified the deliverables for the project, included the requirements under which the deliverables will be accepted, and explicitly stated what is out of project scope. A project manager is in the process of obtaining team members.
She wants to understand the availability of the team members required to complete project work. A project to reduce the defect rate of the manufacturing process is underway. To analyze and improve the process, the project team is now carrying out the quality assurance activities. During project planning of a large, complex project, project management best practices were rigorously and thoroughly followed. During project execution, the project experienced several critical risks, which were foreseen and previously identified.
Despite the meticulous planning, the project failed to achieve the established objectives due to these realized risks. A team member volunteered to provide the project status update in a weekly presentation to the key stakeholders. After the first meeting has taken place, feedback from the stakeholders suggests that the presentation was not very engaging.
A corporate restructuring project is in execution. The job responsibilities of many key stakeholders are being disrupted, which has caused challenges in keeping the stakeholders engaged in a positive manner.
You are leading a software development project where the developers are colocated within rented office space. Writing the code is taking longer than anticipated, and you have contacted the landlord requesting to rent the office for another week. Unfortunately, the landlord tells you that the office is already booked.
You capture the problem in the project documents. During a bidder conference, a supplier asks why a section is missing from the request for quotation RFQ. Upon realizing that the section is indeed missing, the project manager becomes flustered and stumbles through a brief reply. When the seller responses were received, all but three prospective suppliers fail to address the missing section. You are leading a project to develop a new web application.
Together with your project team you reprioritize the product backlog, determine velocity for the past iterations, and adapt your work plans accordingly. Additionally, you facilitate retrospectives every two weeks. You are part of a cross-functional development team piloting an adaptive approach to project management in an organization that has traditionally used a predictive approach. You realize that you have to tailor the template of the schedule management plan. A project team performs monthly risk audits for a project, where a large number of identified risks have been realized.
So far, the risk responses have been appropriate, and the reserves sufficient. An executive for the requesting organization criticizes the project manager improper risk audits, stating that only independent, external resources should perform risk audits. You are developing the risk management plan for your project. In support of this process, you need to determine the acceptable level of overall project risk exposure. You meet with your team to determine the life cycle for your project.
After analyzing the best way to define and manage requirements, develop deliverables, handle changes, control risk and cost, and engage key stakeholders, the decision is made to select a hybrid life cycle.
As a project manager, you are in the process of estimating the team resources that will be required for your project. The challenge you are having is that, due to the nature of the project and the selected development approach, only a few of the top levels of the WBS have been identified with the remainder to be progressively elaborated throughout the project.
You are part of a project team designing a new type of a vehicle. You are about to begin work on a work package for the braking system of the vehicle and want to review the acceptance criteria before starting the work. A project to construct an assembly line is nearly complete.
The project manager closes procurements, shares the final project report, updates the lessons learned repository, and obtains feedback from the relevant stakeholders.
A project team is mulling over two risk responses for inclusion in the risk register. To acquire resources for the project, the project manager consults the resource management plan.
The plan calls for the scrum master to be assigned to the team. However, the only individual in the company qualified to serve as a scrum master has already started working on another project, and her functional manager does not cooperate on a potential resolution. A project team is using the Stacey Complexity Model to map the degree of uncertainty in the project and select the appropriate project life cycle.
As the meeting progresses, it becomes evident that while the requirements are well-known, the team is unfamiliar with the technology required to implement them. As a result, the team selects an adaptive project life cycle. Your project team members are writing software code together as a pair and reviewing each other's work to determine if the code conforms to the requirements documentation.
As part of the Direct and Manage Project Work process, the project manager conducts an iteration planning meeting. The meeting is dominated by the most senior developer who frequently and sharply interrupts the other team members. The project manager wants to ensure that during the next iteration planning meeting all voices are heard. The scrum master, business analyst, programmers, and testers have been assigned to a product development project.
The performing organization is well-versed with the traditional waterfall framework but will incorporate scrum for the software development phase of the project. What is the best strategy to ensure that all of the scrum roles and responsibilities are served in the project? The construction project has many people and specialized teams at the worksite every day.
Frequent communication between the team leads is critical for safety and efficiency. Which agile ceremony can this project incorporate to increase timely cross-functional communication? At times over a project life cycle, the team must adopt a few agile ceremonies. The aim is to communicate quicker in times of tight deadlines.
Unfortunately, team members are not getting the information needed during the ceremonies. A project manager is wrapping up the hardware development phase of a product development project. The project will now transition to the software development phase. You are conducting a sprint retrospective in accordance with the communications management plan.
The development team members want to try pair programming as they believe it will improve productivity by reducing rework. Even though you are very skeptical, you agree to implement the practice as you want to empower the team to be a self-managing unit. A project manager is leading a daily standup meeting with a scrum team as part of the Direct and Manage Project Work process.
A developer raises an impediment stating that he is struggling with the software code necessary to authenticate users on the sign-in page. The developer indicates that the impediment could result in a schedule delay to the current sprint.
Collecting requirements for the project and creating the WBS has been a daunting task because stakeholders' needs are vague and are only expressed in the most general terms due to the nature of the project.
As a result of this uncertainty, the project manager is concerned about excessive changes, wasted work, and rework anticipated during project execution. A project manager is implementing the requirements management plan for a software upgrade project that will incorporate some agile elements. The project manager needs to quickly define cross-functional requirements and reconcile stakeholder differences to build a consensus among the relevant stakeholders.
Team members are frequently changing during the long timeline of a multi-phase project. The project manager is questioning whether to include agile practices to accommodate the changes. Midway into project execution, new cybersecurity laws take an immediate effect and require audits of the system. The project has a well thought out project management plan.
The audits may come at any time throughout the system? What is the best way for the project manager and team to address the risk of audits disrupting the project plans? A plan-driven project has many deliverables planned to be released at the end of the phase. The project manager wants to ensure that the deliverables are completed as expected. Which agile practices can the project manager recommend to the team to make certain that the deliverables are completed and delivered as expected?
A project manager facilitates a discussion with the team about experimenting with some agile practices in their plan-driven project.
A suggestion of incorporating daily standups is on the table. The team members, however, are unsure of what is expected of them. The project team is undergoing an agile transformation.
This requires the team members to maintain their original project plans in the current management tool, but also enter performance data in the new tool built around agile practices.
The team identifies that the information in the two tools is out of sync. This risk has been identified earlier in project planning.
Projects in a program are using various project management approaches, such as plan-driven, agile, hybrid. The project teams are complaining that because of that, the team members must enter the same work, hours, risks, and other data in multiple tools. The redundant work is impeding on their productivity time. An organization is to undertake a multi-phased project. The sponsor wants to pursue the project objectives as they have been planned but also wants to accommodate and adjust to new information and changes in the environment as the project progresses.
Your sponsor has committed to building a high-speed rail from one major inland city, Azules, to the coast. You have two possible routes, either Brazos or Corazon. Given the costs, odds, and rewards of high demand and low demand of each route in this decision tree, what is the expected monetary value of the route to Brazos?
Senior leadership has returned from a conference where they have learned about the agile practice of retrospectives. Even though the organization does not manage any projects in an agile manner, they mandate that from now on this ceremony is included in all projects. The resource management plan for an international project calls for a scrum team to be colocated during the regular workweek. However, after five sprints were completed, the project manager got a change request approved to cut costs by transitioning the team to a virtual environment working remotely from their homes with the start of the sixth sprint.
After the team begins working remotely, what will be the best method to understand the impact of the change on the team's productivity? As part of the Plan Resource Management process, project team members hold a brainstorming session to charter working agreements. The team identifies 37 agreements that include communication guidelines, decision-making and conflict resolution processes, core hours, a definition of a story point, how and when user stories will move through the Kanban board, etc.
A project manager implements the project management plan meticulously but is struggling with leading the project team effectively.
There is a great deal of unhealthy tension between the project team members as well as with the project manager. The project manager has had several outbursts during sprint retrospectives, which has caused the meeting to be abruptly adjourned. A project is six months into its nine-month projected duration.
The project manager reports that the project is at least three months behind schedule because certain key stakeholders were resistant to consequential changes due to the project. Two team members are arguing over how to organize the work packages in the work breakdown structure WBS. One says the work packages should be arranged in the order the work is planned to be carried out, while the other insists the order of the work packages in the WBS does not matter.
The two ask the project manager for advice. You are leading a project to design a high-efficiency solar cell. The project needs copper, silver, and silicon among other materials. You have ordered custom-built manufacturing equipment, secured permission to install a solar array on the roof for testing, and reserved a conference room for daily stand-up meetings.
During project execution, several unexpected issues have developed and are now threatening the project schedule and budget. To produce the deliverables, the project will procure goods and services from outside the organization. The project manager has instructed the team to develop a comprehensive list of individual project risks related to those procurements.
A major dispute arises with a vendor on a project. The project manager claims that the vendor has failed to perform its contractual obligations, while the vendor complains that the project is behind on payments.
You want to recognize the contributions of some of the high-performing team members so far in the project. You are managing a project to construct a bridge at a location that is highly regulated by multiple levels of government. You are in the process of developing a plan that will establish the criteria and the activities for developing, monitoring, and controlling the schedule.
One of the project activities requires that a search of a large area is conducted to find debris from an explosion of a failed prototype. The project is now in planning, and there is a debate among the team members on the type and quantity of resources needed to complete this activity.
A project manager is developing a cost management plan and needs to determine the best source of funding for a project that is dictated by a legal requirement.
The cost of capital is estimated at 9. You are in the process of developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project work for a large-scale multinational project which will take at least seven years to complete. Your previous projects have all been domestic with short timeframes. As part of the process you are currently performing, what might you need to do differently compared with your past projects?
You are assigned to a software development project, and you are conducting a product review with an important client. Although the deliverables were previously verified, the client detects a defect and rejects one of the deliverables.
In a pharmaceutical project, human trials have been started. The CEO is thrilled about the success of the trials up to this point. She announces that the size of the patient pool for the trials should double from the one originally planned and results tracked in the new system launching this week. Following is an illustration of a project network activity node that includes some information about activity D. Do you want to prepare for your PMP exam in the best possible way?
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Log in. Remember Me Forgot your password? Forgot your username? Time's Up! The summary is on the right and the details are below. Warning: The results you see on this page are temporary! Question 1 - Qid , Risk Management, 2. Process, Where in the project life cycle will the overall project risk be the lowest? Hint Marked Unmarked.
Question 2 - Qid , Cost Management, 3. Business Environment, 4. If project Alpha is selected, what will be the opportunity cost? Question 3 - Qid , Integration Management, 2. Process, 4. Question 4 - Qid , Stakeholder Management, 2. Which of the following processes should be performed next? Develop Project Management Plan. Identify Risks. Identify Stakeholders. Develop Project Charter. Question 5 - Qid , Stakeholder Management, 2. What stakeholder management strategy should you use with your project sponsor?
Keep the sponsor satisfied. Manage the sponsor closely. Monitor the sponsor's actions. Keep the sponsor informed. Question 6 - Qid , Scope Management, 2. Process, 5. Which project document is the project sponsor requesting? The requirements management plan. The requirements traceability matrix. The scope management plan.
The work breakdown structure WBS. Question 7 - Qid , Schedule Management, 2. Process, 6. What is the best way to resolve this problem? Use product analysis techniques such as product breakdown and systems analysis to decompose the system testing work package. Decompose the system development work package now and decompose the system testing work package later.
Break down the project into multiple phases so that the system testing work package goes into the second project phase. Consult the project management plan to determine what to do in this situation. Question 8 - Qid , Integration Management, 2.
As a starting point for initial project planning, what is the first thing you should do? Conduct a project kick-off meeting to inform and engage stakeholders and gain commitment.
Review the project charter to understand the high-level information about the project. Begin the process of identifying stakeholders so they can be engaged as necessary for project planning. Share the project scope statement with the project team for a common understanding of project deliverables. Question 9 - Qid , Resource Management, 2. Process, 9. What is the most likely cause of the variance?
Overestimated material costs. Lack of stakeholder support. An incomplete milestone list. Excess inventory. Question 10 - Qid , Resource Management, 1. People, 9. Which empirical rule did you forget while considering the promotion of Sam?
Expectancy theory. Halo effect. Pareto concept. Murphy's law. Question 11 - Qid , Communications Management, 2. What should you do first? Tell the team members to stop responding to unexpected requests since it is not the responsibility of the team.
Push the team to respond to all the requests faster so that they can perform their assigned project activities on time. Ask the team to forward all stakeholder inquiries to you so that the team members can focus on their assigned tasks.
Review the communications management plan to understand how stakeholder requests should be handled. Question 12 - Qid , Scope Management, 2.
Which of the following components did the project manager most likely notice? A process that describes how the project requirements will be prioritized. The metrics that will be used and the rationale for using them. A process that specifies how a project scope statement will be prepared. How requirement activities will be planned, tracked, and reported. Question 13 - Qid , Scope Management, 2. Implement the corrective action. Submit a change request. Consult the project sponsor.
Delay the customer inspection. Question 14 - Qid , Integration Management, 2. Which of the following activities might be carried out during this process? Comparing actual project performance against the project management plan. Implementing approved change requests to achieve the project's objectives.
Analyzing change requests and either approving or rejecting them. Gaining formal acceptance of the deliverables by the customer or sponsor. Question 15 - Qid , Integration Management, 2. Submitting a change request. Implementing approved change requests. Initiating and closing a project.
Monitoring implementation of approved changes. Question 16 - Qid , Integration Management, 2. Project manager. Project sponsor. Project team. Any stakeholder. Question 17 - Qid , Procurement Management, 2. What should you do? Check the procurement management plan. Look at the scope statement. Review the risk register. Consult the contract. Question 18 - Qid , Stakeholder Management, 2.
What should the project manager do first? Begin the process of directing and managing the project work. Perform the process of identifying the project stakeholders. Start the process of monitoring and controlling the project work. Begin the process of developing the project management plan. Question 19 - Qid , Stakeholder Management, 2. The business documents as a source of information about the project's stakeholders. The communications management plan to learn about the project's stakeholders.
The stakeholder engagement plan to identify the management strategies and actions required to engage stakeholders effectively. The requirements documentation for information on potential stakeholders. Question 20 - Qid , Schedule Management, 2. What is the duration of the critical path? Question 21 - Qid , Stakeholder Management, 2. What is the first thing to do when using that technique? Convene a data gathering meeting with the participants.
Develop your own template for a stakeholder register. Send a list of questions to participants before the creativity session.
Consult the stakeholder engagement plan to understand how the stakeholders are to be identified. Question 22 - Qid , Communications Management, 2. Which of the following is not considered one of these techniques? Concise expression. Clear purpose directed to the needs of the reader. Controlled flow of words and ideas. Communications register. Question 23 - Qid , Risk Management, 2.
Have you properly conducted risk management planning? No, you should be the one developing the risk response plans as you are ultimately responsible for the outcomes of the project. Yes, the risk response plans are an output of the Identify Risks process and should be developed right after the risks have been identified. No, before assigning risk responsibility to team members, you need to assess each risk's probability of occurrence and its impact.
Yes, the team members should be assigned responsibility for a risk as soon as possible and tasked with creating a risk response plan. Question 24 - Qid , Scope Management, 2. The methods the team is using are representative of which tool and technique?
Data gathering. Data analysis. Decision making. Data representation. Question 25 - Qid , Scope Management, 2.
What would likely have helped avoid this conflict had it been properly created first? A project charter. Physical resource assignments.
Quality metrics. A work breakdown structure. Question 26 - Qid , Scope Management, 2. Which of the following best describes this change request? Corrective action. Preventive action. Defect repair. Gold plating. Question 27 - Qid , Schedule Management, 2. What estimation technique does the project manager use? Expert judgment. Three-point estimating. Analogous estimating. Bottom-up estimating. Question 28 - Qid , Quality Management, 2. With the release of the 6th Edition of the Guide, PMI has revised its terms of use to completely prohibit any form of printing of the Guide.
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