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Question 126
A project team was asked to resume development activities on a project that was suspended for a few months due to the fast-changing environment and conditions. What should the project lead do?
- A: Review the items remaining in the backlog with the project team
- B: Ask the project team to approve all of the remaining backlog items
- C: Ask the program manager to approve the backlog with the client
- D: Review the items remaining in the backlog with the project sponsor
Question 127
During project execution, a project manager discovers that the budget at completion has shifted significantly and is higher than expected. What should the project manager do?
- A: Perform a root cause analysis of the project performance.
- B: Adjust the original budget estimates with the current cost variance.
- C: Review the activity duration to reforecast the project completion date.
- D: Negotiate the project changes and adjust stakeholder expectations.
Question 128
In a project using a hybrid approach, the performance of the team was consistently excellent during the predictive stages. When the iterations began, however, the team members started to show signs of low commitment, conflicts, and confusion, resulting in low morale.
What should the project manager do to handle this situation?
- A: Coach the team members on agile processes and knowledge.
- B: Perform team-building activities and enhance collaboration.
- C: Identify the team members who are impacting low morale.
- D: Give team members more authority to make decisions.
Question 129
During the daily standup meeting that is assessing progress against the current sprint, a team member reports some delays due to a component managed by an external vendor. How should the project manager address the team member’s concern?
- A: Implement fast tracking to reduce the impact of the delay on the sprint.
- B: Ask the team member to provide details to address the issue with the vendor.
- C: Ask the team member to resolve the issue independently to minimize further delays.
- D: Update the communications management plan to prevent future reoccurrence.
Question 130
During the last iteration of a hybrid project., one of the key members of the team wants to leave the project. What should the project manager do to address this concern?
- A: Update the burndown chart to reflect this resource’s absence.
- B: Keep activities as planned regardless of the resource change.
- C: Have a meeting with the resource to understand the issue.
- D: Request an additional resource to finish the project.
Question 131
A project manager finds a mistake with an important server acquisition. The acquisition was expected for a critical path activity but has not arrived yet, causing significant impacts on time and cost. The team member responsible for this activity argues that they sent several emails to the supplier but received no reply.
Which document should be used to help avoid this kind of situation?
- A: Communications management plan
- B: Escalation process
- C: Statement of work (SOW)
- D: Stakeholder register
Question 132
In an agile project, the team planned to complete 40 story points in an iteration, but only completed 30 story points. What is the schedule performance index (SPI)?
- A: 30/40
- B: 30/70
- C: 40/30
- D: 40/70
Question 133
After 35 years of service, a company’s CEO has retired. The new CEO is planning to digitally transform the company and has assigned a new project manager to assist in this endeavor. The initial backlog has been created and agreed upon, and the team members have been assigned.
What should the project manager do before the project kick-off meeting?
- A: Perform integration management activities to consolidate the plans.
- B: Compare the team’s expertise against the project requirements.
- C: Conduct a backlog refinement and identify the key activity to start with.
- D: Review the project's environment to understand the organizational culture.
Question 134
A company is starting a new agile project with a team that has expertise working on these kinds of projects. During the backlog refinement meeting, the team realizes that they are not completing the estimations because some key information is missing.
What should the project manager do?
- A: Ask to postpone the iteration planning because the estimation is not complete.
- B: Ask the product owner to review the stories with stakeholders prior to planning.
- C: Review the project backlog with the product owner before estimating the stories.
- D: Review the previous project estimations and assign them to the stories.
Question 135
A project manager is involved with a project to remodel a long-used product. There are no proper records for the original design and execution of the original product. The stakeholders doubt that the remodel can be accomplished without this information and are hesitant to provide support for the project.
What should the project manager do?
- A: Acknowledge the stakeholders’ concerns with open dialogues and realign the project with stakeholder requirements and past lessons learned
- B: Create a plan to inform stakeholders on the progress so they are able to see that the project can succeed
- C: Share the threats of not updating old solutions and ask stakeholders to be patient with any inconveniences
- D: Solicit a larger reserve for cost and time and manage the stakeholders’ expectations
Question 136
A project manager has been assigned to lead a software project to generate savings at an important financial institution. Initially, the duration of the project was 13 months, but due to various issues during execution, the project was extended to 16 months. By month 11, the expected savings were exceeded but not all of the functionalities planned for that date were fulfilled.
How should the project manager inform the stakeholders of the project's progress?
- A: Complete the outstanding functionalities before informing the sponsor of the project progress
- B: Communicate the benefit expectations and the action plan for the pending functionalities
- C: Send an email with the monthly project progress to all relevant stakeholders
- D: Report that the project has not fulfilled all the expected functionalities
Question 137
A project is starting its third iteration out of six. During planning, the team realized that all of the requirements were not defined clearly enough to start working.
What should the project manager do?
- A: Review and replace the unclear requirements with ones that are clear.
- B: Update the issue log and escalate it to the project sponsor.
- C: Meet with the product owner to review the project backlog.
- D: Invite key users to the next daily meeting to get requirement clarification.
Question 138
A project team is working to deliver a solution to manage nationwide crisis relief operations. The project team is spending most of its time in meetings with end users. The meetings have been slowing down project progress.
What should the project manager do to keep the deployment on track while obtaining stakeholder approval?
- A: Inform the stakeholders that a daily meeting will take place at a specific time and ask them to share their feedback during this time.
- B: Stop attending meetings, start development with what was collected so far. and define a date for the first delivery of the solution.
- C: Ask the project sponsor to attend the meetings on behalf of the team while the team is working on the development.
- D: Put all of the requirements, priorities, and progress on a visible board, share it with all entities, and decrease the number of meetings.
Question 139
A new team member inquires about how much they need to learn about the organizational process assets (OPAs) residing on the company intranet. Another team member states they only need to know the basics. However, the project manager believes the team member should know everything regarding the OPAs.
What should the project manager do?
- A: Create a training schedule for the new team member to follow over the next few weeks.
- B: Escalate the inquiry to the team member’s functional manager.
- C: Clarify the relevance of reviewing the documentation on the intranet.
- D: Ask a senior team member to help the new team member navigate through all the documentation.
Question 140
A project team is in the planning stage and has prepared a list of activities and completed sequencing the activities. During a review, the team noted that there is a dependency missing between:
• Test the product
• Release to customer
According to the quality management plan, the product must be tested before being released.
How should the project manager enter this dependency?
- A: Start to start
- B: Finish to start
- C: Finish to finish
- D: Start to finish
Question 141
A project manager has access to risk management tools but chooses to use a quantitative method to evaluate the project risks. During project execution, the project sponsor asks for an updated risk matrix.
What should the project manager do next?
- A: Use integrated risk management software to evaluate the risks.
- B: Trust in the quantitative method already chosen as it is a precise method.
- C: Add new risks and send the risk matrix to leadership for approval.
- D: Use their own professional knowledge to reassess the risks.
Question 142
In a highly politicized organizational environment, the stakeholders are driven by their own operational or business goals, which results in conflicting interests regarding the project. What should the project manager do to steer the stakeholders toward the collective project goal?
- A: Anticipate, alert, and follow the risk management process.
- B: Discuss, educate, and follow the communications management process
- C: Detect, track, and follow the issue management process
- D: Promote, inspire, and follow the stakeholder engagement process
Question 143
An agile project is running its second iteration out of six. A marketing director, who is a key stakeholder, contacts the project lead for a high-level report of the project.
What should the project lead do?
- A: Ask the product owner to develop the new report based on the iteration information.
- B: Develop the requested report based on the iteration information.
- C: Explain to the stakeholder that the key indicators are by iteration.
- D: Tell the stakeholder that a new report will be produced at the end of the iteration.
Question 144
A project manager has recently moved to an organization to lead a key project. The project manager notices that team performance is below the target, and the tasks assigned are not delivered on time. Team commitment is also not as appropriate as it should be.
What should the project manager do?
- A: Schedule a meeting and communicate the performance concern to the team.
- B: Hire a project team leader who can influence the project team members.
- C: Apply an agile approach to help improve team performance.
- D: Study and determine the appropriate leadership style suitable for the team.
Question 145
A project manager has commissioned a design study from a consulting firm to investigate a number of alternatives. The project manager has a strict policy on the cost of the study and has established a number of cost triggers and trend analyses.
Which tool is the project manager using?
- A: Time and materials (T&M) contract
- B: S-curve analysis
- C: Earned value (EV)
- D: Control chart
Question 146
A project using a hybrid approach to migrate from a current system to a new and enhanced system is underway. The plan is to migrate the system in stages. However, the operations team is complaining that they are not ready to start supporting the new system.
How should the project manager effectively approach this situation?
- A: Include knowledge transfer sessions between the project and operations teams at every stage.
- B: Prepare detailed documentation to be shared with the operations team during project closure.
- C: Change the project management plan to add a final stage for product handoff to the operations team.
- D: Create a lessons learned register to include operations team training for future projects.
Question 147
A project manager is working on the delivery of a solution that needs to be deployed to the public quickly. The project team is experienced, the stakeholders are supporting the delivery, and the customer is cooperating.
What strategy should the project manager use to ensure on-time delivery of the solution?
- A: Meet with the customer to agree on the components of the solution and the priorities
- B: Ask the sponsor for support regarding the allocation of additional resources to finish on time
- C: Have a high-level plan for incremental deliveries and get the customer's feedback as early as possible
- D: Have a detailed plan of all milestones, deliverables, functionalities, and allocation of resources
Question 148
A project manager is assigned to a project to develop a mobile app. The sponsor explains that the application should do better than their closest competitor’s app. The sponsor’s expectation is that the team can be put together and start work immediately.
What should the project manager do?
- A: Define the project scope with the stakeholders and determine how formal acceptance will be obtained
- B: Start working on the resource management plan in order to identify the best team for the project.
- C: Utilize expert judgment and organizational process assets (OPAs) to estimate the effort and budget
- D: Review the competitor's app to understand the functionalities that the project scope should consider
Question 149
A senior project manager is assigned to lead a team of project managers to run a large initiative. One of the key stakeholders often bypasses the senior project manager and girves instructions to the other project managers directly.
What should the senior project manager do?
- A: Tell the project managers to document the stakeholder’s instructions.
- B: Evaluate the stakeholder analysis to identify the stakeholder’s influence.
- C: Review the benefits realization plan with the sponsor and the stakeholder.
- D: Escalate to the project sponsors and the manager of this stakeholder.
Question 150
Halfway through project execution, stakeholders ask for equipment that was expected to be procured. The project manager explains that the equipment was purchased, but differs from what the stakeholders are currently asking for. This is because the initial requirements were changed during a previous meeting.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?
- A: Ensured project requirements were validated and communicated with the procurement team
- B: Ensured changing stakeholder needs and requests were properly monitored
- C: Ensured procurement contracts were able be canceled when situations like this arise
- D: Ensured that communications were sent to all stakeholders when requirements change
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