A project manager was recently assigned to rescue a high-priority project for an Olympic facility. The project is behind schedule, with a heavy contractual penalty. The former project manager had numerous conflicts with the project team members and a few stakeholders.
What should the project manager do first?
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 informed by their supplier that there will be an upcoming raw material shortage due to a regulatory change. What should the project manager do?
A team is preparing the closing phase and building a plan for the next phase. One of the project sponsors is complaining that the last phase had some quality deliverable issues. However, the quality acceptance document was signed.
What should the project manager do?
In a frequently changing project, the project manager discovers a customer requirement change during a daily meeting. What should the project manager do?
A few developers have identified a list of impediments at the daily standup and are asking for the project lead's assistance in prioritizing them. There are a few complex backlog items, and a new junior tester has identified a few compliance defects. The product owner and a couple of developers will be leaving the project team, and the contract with the test and production support partner will not be renewed.
Which issue should the project lead focus on first?
An agile project has a broad set of product features intended for different user profiles and usages. It is difficult to define common acceptance criteria that can apply to
all the features.
How can the project manager ensure that the appropriate acceptance criteria are applied to the features?
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 large project requires new equipment to support the project execution. The procurement manager communicated to the project manager that the delivery of the newly purchased equipment will be delayed. The project manager is concerned that this will directly effect the project schedule.
What should the project manager do next?
An external project manager is managing the construction of new corporate offices for a large company. The project management plan states that it is necessary to
contract a highly trained external resource to revise and validate an important project component. The client has rejected hiring the external resource because of the
high cost, even though it is within the project budget.
What should the project manager do to resolve this issue?
A project manager is managing a project that requires specialized architecture services. This project was identified as a high risk for the
organization. The project manager works with an external architect who is highly specialized. However, the architect will soon resign because they
accepted an offer from another firm.
What should the project manager do next?
During the execution stage, the project manager discovered that one team member is not able to complete their work on time and is running later than expected. This delay may potentially impact a project milestone.
What should the project manager do first?
An experienced project manager is leading an enthusiastic team but realizes the team lacks the experience to complete the job successfully. What should the project manager do to reduce the risk of project failure?
In a geographically distributed team, a developer continues to delay a coding activity. This activity is on the critical path. The project manager
found out that the delay is due to the developer's lack of understanding of the customer requirements shared by the off-site team.
What should the project manager do?
A team needs to implement a mandatory compliance regulation in a product, which is required for its release. While nearing the product release, when completeness was
being verified, it was found that the compliance part was not implemented in the project.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is leading a product feature rollout that will gain more subscribers for a video-streaming application. During the backlog grooming phase, the business stakeholders were unable to understand the feature integration with the product and raised concerns.
What can the project manager do to demonstrate the feature integration?
A company is about to start a complex research project. Due to the level of uncertainty, the project manager
recommends the use of a hybrid approach; however, the organization only has experience with predictive projects.
How can the project manager strategize the use of a hybrid approach to the organization?
A project manager who recently joined the company has been assigned to manage a software project for a major recurring customer. What should the project manager do to
enhance the budget estimations for the project?
How can agile measurements improve upon predictive measurements in cases where the final 10% of a project takes longer than planned?
A mandatory compliance requirement that will impact the project software is introduced during the execution phase of an iterative project. The team is aware of the
compliance requirement.
What should the project manager do next?
A project team has established contracts for purchasing vehicles and construction services. In the middle of project execution, the team learns
that the vehicle supplier cannot deliver the vehicles. There is not enough time to find a new supplier without delaying the project.
Which action should the project manager take to procure the vehicles?
Drag the items on left side to the matching term within the correct project approach on the right side.
During the service procurement process for a strategic project, only one bidder submitted a bid. The price of the offer is significantly large and the project sponsor is not convinced that the return on investment (ROI) can be achieved.
How should the project manager address this issue?
A project manager receives a suggestion from a team member for improving the product attributes without impacting the schedule or cost. This will add value to the project
and the customer.
What should the project manager do?
During the closing process, the project manager learns that one deliverable is not meeting customer expectations. How should the project manager proceed?
A project charter has been approved and the project manager has been assigned to the project. The project manager is currently working with the project team to subdivide the project work packages.
What is the project manager doing?
product development team has team members located in four different countries. A senior manager is assigned the task of recruiting a project manager to manage this
project and the virtual team.
Which skill is required for a project manager to successfully manage this team?
A project manager is well informed on the industry standards of the organization and believes that they are not reflected in the project deliverables. What should the project manager review next?
A hospital is running a project for one of their internal critical systems to manage billing patient data and record management along with consultation reports and input from physicians The project manager now needs to categorize the identified risks
Drag each risk type on the left to its correct example on the right
A distributed project team has communication issues because of their collaboration tools. The team feels that efficiency could be improved by changing the collaboration platform.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager for an agile project is concerned that the team has been losing momentum over the last iterations. Which two tools should the project manager use to
analyze team performance? (Choose two)
In a daily standup meeting, a developer indicates that a backlog item will not be delivered because they need to take an unexpected leave for the next couple of days. The backlog item is a prerequisite for a feature expected by users in the next sprint review.
What should the project lead do?
A project team is trying to meet the milestone target dates in order to receive a bonus promised by the project
sponsor. Unforeseen challenges and poor communication among the team members resulted in mistakes and
delays. Tensions are high, and the sponsor is concerned.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is part of an organization that is assessing the use of agile delivery approaches. A new project management office (PMO) manager who had a bad experience with a Scrum approach recommended that the project board replace Scrum with a predictive approach.
What should the project manager do?
A large multi-national company works on a project in an emerging-economy country. All business matters are conducted in local currency. During the course of the project,
the budget becomes the primary concern due to currency instability in the country.
What should the project manager do next?
A project is ready to deliver the first batch of the product when a quality control check rejects the product as unfit for delivery. The root cause
analysis (RCA) shows that a component added as part of the latest change request was not tested throughout the development cycle.
What should the project manager do next?
According to this burnup chart for the last 7-day sprint, what should the project lead address with the product owner and team?
A vendor has manufactured a complex product. During a factory acceptance test, several deficiencies were identified. Product delivery is on the
critical path, and any delay would impact project completion.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is leading an innovation project that is facing a lot of risks due to a high level of uncertainty. What strategy should the project
manager use to manage these risks using an agile approach?
A project manager is working with the same project team as in the last two construction projects. The project manager managed this team on a micro level for the last two
projects. However, now the project manager would like to use a different leadership style to allow the team to make their own decisions.
What kind of leadership style should the project manager utilize for the current project?
A project management office (PMO) director finds that the project managers leading software development projects are not consistently seeking approval from other division leaders in cybersecurity and operations before deploying code into production. The PMO director asks the project manager to develop a solution for this issue.
What should the project manager do to fix this problem?
In an industrial plant, the owner has decided to add more capacity to the plant by installing a new machine and updating the software used in production. This
capacity enlargement will occur while the plant is still functioning and producing. The software update will be accomplished using an agile approach in order to
minimize risk. The machine procurement, installation, and integration will be accomplished using predictive approaches.
What types of communications will the project manager have to design into the schedule management plan to ensure the project will be on schedule?
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?
A project is currently in the execution phase. Because of the complexity of the project and the large number of regulatory requirements involved, the project manager decides to hold a management review with senior executives to ensure the successful implementation of project deliverables.
What should the project manager review during the management review to ensure the meeting is effective?
Project stakeholders are engaged in a discussion on how to achieve the best user experience in the design of a new
application. The agile team is divided on the approach. The conflict is more of a collective disagreement than an
outright conflict.
What should the project manager do next?
Anew law was published about zoning permits for telecom towers. This may cause cost and schedule overruns for the new network rollout.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is assigned to a major construction project. The project is critical to the city's population, and especially to the local government
official who committed to delivering the project on time as an election promise. A new project sponsor has been assigned and wants to include
aspects that the previous project sponsor did not support.
What should the project manager do next?
A highly critical project is in jeopardy due to missing professional resources. What should the newly assigned project manager do first?
A large matrix organization is adopting a new communications approach. This is necessary because their projects
often require the resourcing of expert knowledge in the form of specialists from various departments and divisions.
What should the project manager do to set up effective communications?
A project manager is performing earned value management (EVM) for a cross-country pipeline project. The project manager has determined the ratio of earned value (EV)
to actual cost (AC) for the project and has found the calculated result to be 0.9024.
What does this value mean for the project?
During iteration planning, team A identifies that an important deliverable is dependent upon a deliverable from team B. What should the project manager do?
A project manager is part of an organization that is assessing the use of agile delivery approaches. A new project management office (PMO) manager who had a bad experience with a Scrum approach recommended that the project board replace Scrum with a predictive approach.
What should the project manager do?
A project has completed design activities ahead of schedule. Suddenly, the project manager is informed by a vendor that a deliverable may not meet the agreed delivery time frame due to a resource shortage. The internal team asked if they should continue to deliver as per the schedule.
What should the project manager do?
A project sponsor insists that the project scope for a new product launch should include two geographical locations. However, after the project scoping session was
done, a project charter was completed and approved with one location only.
What should the project manager do?
A town wants to build a community center and has appointed a project manager. A site was found, and all of the necessary approvals and governance were completed. When the project kick-off was held, it was discovered that a local farmers' group was not consulted, and they use the site for a monthly market.
What should the project manager do to move forward with the project?
A team has individual daily start times for each team member. Sometimes the overlap between team member working hours is short. During those
times, the interactions and work as a team are reduced and ineffective.
What should the project manager do?
Anew major road project is starting, and the contractor has contractually committed to submitting regular status reports and participating in integration meetings. Halfway through the project life cycle, the contractor stops participating in meetings and submitting reports, stating these items consume too much time.
What should the project manager do first?
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