Topic 1: Exam Pool A
A project manager is leading a large-scale project that involves 70 stakeholders The project manager has heard various comments and expectations from the customers, some of which are contradictory Consequently, some requirements are not clear.
What should the project manager do to build consensus regarding the requirements?
A.
Escalate the issue to the management team for their review and guidance
B.
Create a survey template to collect feedback from stakeholders to reach an agreement
C.
Organize a face-to-face meeting with all stakeholders to understand their interests and concerns.
D.
Leverage expert judgment to determine the requirements that should be considered
A project manager is working with a Scrum team that is continually missing deadlines The steering committee is concerned about the project as it is not clear that it will deliver the expected value After some analysis the project manager discovers there is a mismatch of competencies in one of the teams
What should the project manager do?
A.
Emphasize to the teams the importance of meeting the agreed deadlines
B.
Provide appropriate training to compensate for the mismatch.
C.
Update the project schedule to reflect the delay
D.
Accept the risk of the project missing deadlines due to the mismatch.
Which two actions should a project manager consider while launching a new virtual team? (Choose two)
A.
Recruit the best resources within the organization to be part of the virtual team
B.
Evaluate the project manager’s own strengths and weaknesses as a virtual team leader to identify avoidable pitfalls
C.
Identify the types and quantities of resources required for each work package or activity
D.
Establish in the beginning, how progress will be monitored and the best means for communicating progress
E.
Verify if team members are on more than one team and cannot devote enough time to this team
A project manager is working on the implementation of new phases in the production process of a regulated industry. Which two stakeholders can help the project manager determine and address compliance requirements? (Choose two)
A.
Risk steering committee
B.
Functional managers
C.
Board of directors
D.
Advisory team panel
E.
Chief executive officer
A new regulation has been approved that will impact the deliverables in the fourth phase of the project The delivery is following an iterative approach and is currently completing the second phase.
What should the project manager do next?
A.
Consult with the project sponsor to discuss a cost increase
B.
Acquire approval for an exception to the implementation of the new regulation.
C.
Get approval for the additional budget from the steering committee
D.
Meet with subject matter experts (SMEs) to assess the impact to objectives
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.
Escalate the matter to the executive board so they can decide on next steps
B.
Prioritize the project backlog and ask the development team to fix the issues
C.
Review the project's benefits management plan with the product owner.
D.
Ask the product owner to terminate the project as it is no longer aligned to the expected benefits
Two weeks after the approval of the project management plan for a global project, the project manager noticed that it was approved based on a different level of understanding by international stakeholders and is not what the project manager presented for approval What should the project manager have done to prevent this from happening?
A.
Sent the meeting minutes to the stakeholders after the kick-off meeting
B.
Reviewed all the approvals immediately after the kick-off meeting was over
C.
Ran separate kick-off meetings for each culture and time zone
D.
Validated each stakeholder's understanding during the kick-off meeting
During project execution, the project manager notices that the work performance reports have deteriorated drastically in less than two weeks The project team in country A is complaining about delays resulting from holidays occurring in country B that have impacted their project team
How should the project manager handle this situation?
A.
Implement crashing to compress the schedule and improve the schedule performance index (SRI).
B.
Implement fast-tracking to compress the schedule and improve the SPI.
C.
Perform conflict management using the project's resource management plan.
D.
Review the risk management plan to evaluate the probability and impact of these delays.
A project sponsor commonly asks the project manager to skip project retrospectives due to time constraints However the project manager persists in running this critical ceremony by reducing the time for preparation and for discussion
What are two issues that these actions by the project manager could cause? (Choose two)
A.
A lot of discussions that yield no results or possibly too many results
B.
A lack of direction and motivation for the team in the workshop
C.
Lessons learned from other teams to not be considered
D.
Time management plan for the retrospective workshop to not be updated
E.
A focus on the negative and a disinterest in further improvements
A project manager for a large multiyear industrial project has a project with diversified stakeholders from various geographical areas. Recently, the project manager encountered an issue with stakeholder engagement
Which two tools should the project manager use to determine the underlying reason for why engagement is not having the planned effect? (Choose two)
A.
Five whys
B.
Communications management plan
C.
Ishikawa diagrams
D.
Issue log
E.
Open-space meetings
An agile project manager would like to convert the requirements document into epics, capabilities, features and stories In how many iterations should the project manager estimate the story duration?
A.
Four iterations
B.
One iteration
C.
Two iterations
D.
Three iterations
A company is changing their current business model The change requires implementing a complex project using multiple agile teams.
What three options should the project manager have the testing team adopt as testing mechanisms? (Choose three)
A.
Independent personal testing
B.
Security and performance testing
C.
An experimental approach to cover all possible choices
D.
Story testing
E.
Tests based on behavior and test-driven development
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