PMP Test

Which technique is not a helpful practice in creating cultural compatibility for an agile approach?

A focus on getting things right the first time

You have recently been assigned as the manager of a project after the previous manager quit the company. From the first meetings with the project team you discover that the morale of the team is very low. You speak to some of the team members in private and you feel that they were not given opportunities to participate in team development activities and that they did not have opportunities to grow. Which of the following is a primary factor for this situation?

A poorly defined resource calendar

You have just been assigned to a new change-driven project. The team has never worked together before, but they are experienced with agile techniques. Which TWO of the following techniques would be most useful for promoting your team's performance? Creation of a detailed schedule with regular milestones. Allow the team to collaboratively develop a plan to execute the project. Expose and eliminate communication bottlenecks. Creation of a change control procedure so that only needed changes are addressed and implemented.

Allow the team to collaboratively develop a plan to execute the project. Expose and eliminate communication bottlenecks.

You are leading an Agile project for a new IT initiative in the company that will get a lot of visibility. You have been disappointed that the quality of the product delivered for the last several sprints has been poor. What is the best option that the team should take? Ensure transparency of the work progress by displaying the KanBan board in the team war room. Hold retrospectives more frequently Ensure the team is using test-driven development Remind the team about the importance of an agile mindset.

Ensure the team is using test-driven development

As the project manager, you are reviewing the control chart related to one of the project deliverables, and you find seven data points in a row on one side of the mean. What should be your next action?

Find an assignable cause

In an industrial project the equipment installation can be started 15 days after the equipment foundation is completed. What type of dependency is this? Start-to-finish with a 15-day lead Finish-to-start with a 15-day lag Finish-to-start with a 15-day lead Finish-to-finish with a 15-day lag

Finish-to-start with a 15-day lag

The photo transfer project will be starting in a few weeks, and it is up to you to decide which project methodology the team will use. You have some concerns about the project because the customer will not always be available, and the team has mixed experience in agile methods. Also, even though the sponsor is quite supportive in allowing you to choose whichever approach is best, he has given you a warning. He suggests that you be prepared since this particular customer is known to be demanding and changes their mind frequently based on the latest market intelligence they've heard. After reviewing the situation, which method would be most appropriate? Scrum Predictive Hybrid Waterfall

Hybrid

All of the followings are examples of the cost of nonconformance except?

Inspection

Frank has been meeting with stakeholders to flesh out and understand the requirements for his new project. Which activity would he likely not be engaged in? Inspection Facilitation Questionnaires & Surveys Prototypes

Inspection

Which TWO activities might a project manager be doing while acquiring resources for their project? Comparing labor rates to what is allocated in the project budget. Creating the staffing management plan. Planning communication protocols for virtual team members. Sending team members to the training needed for the project.

Planning communication protocols for virtual team members. Comparing labor rates to what is allocated in the project budget.

As a project manager, Tom is currently involved in the Control Procurements process. According to the records, one of the vendors has not delivered the items on time. The root-cause analysis shows that the problem was in the proposal evaluation activities that could have been done more accurately. What should Tom do at this point?

Update Organizational Process Assets

You are assigned as the manager of a construction project and the project sponsor has provided you with a draft project charter and immediately asks you to provide a preliminary analysis of the risks on the project. Which of the following would BEST help this effort?

A conversation with a team member from a similar project that failed in the past

You are asked by your management to provide an estimation of the costs of a new residential building project using the costs of an earlier residential building project that your company had carried out as the basis for your estimation. What type of estimation is this called?

Analogous Estimating

You have just been given the responsibility to staff and oversee a new Scrum project. There are very limited resources, and you don't have the budget to hire new people. One individual has been pre-assigned to the project, and she has asked to be the project's scrum master. Although she has participated in Scrum projects previously, she has never had this role. What would be your best option in this situation? Tell the team member that you need someone who is experienced in the role. Ask the functional manager if they have anyone available who can serve as the scrum master. Allow the team member the role but ask that she enroll in scrum master training right away. Assign the team member a coach who has experience in being a scrum master.

Assign the team member a coach who has experience in being a scrum master.

Some projects have a comprehensive procurement phase that covers buying a huge number of items and for each item several suppliers are contacted to receive their bids. As a project manager in such projects, you need to make sure that every supplier has a clear understanding of the requirements of the project. Which one of the following techniques could be used for this purpose? Communication Matrix Formal Presentation One-on-One discussion Bidder Conferences

Bidder Conferences

A project manager is performing Reserve Analysis as a technique in one of the project management processes that he is currently working on. Which of these is likely to be that process?

Determine Budget

According to the contract, your customer has assigned one of his staff to your project office to attend the meetings and contribute to the decision making. However, this person is too confrontational and his behavior to your project team members is intimidating. What should be your action in this situation? Ask the customer to replace the person. You unilaterally decide to isolate the person and don't let him in the project meetings. Since the person is assigned by your client you don't have any authority over him, so don't do anything. Confront the person about his behavior and its impact on the project. Also, inform the customer about the issue.

Confront the person about his behavior and its impact on the project. Also, inform the customer about the issue.

As the manager of a large construction project you are currently conducting a meeting with the project management team to decide on a procurement contract. There are opposing views among the team members on the type of contract that best suits your situation. Which one of the following types of contracts have the most cost risk for your organization as a buyer?

Cost plus percentage of costs

As a project manager of a challenging software development project, you are in the middle of project execution when one of your team members approaches you and notifies you about a problem that has just happened and that was not included in the risk register. What would be your first action in this situation?

Create a workaround

You are a junior project manager, currently performing schedule controlling activities. You approach one of your experienced colleagues for advice on how to reanalyze the project and predict the project's remaining duration. She tells you to analyze the sequence of activities with the least amount of scheduling flexibility. Which technique is she referring to?

Critical path method

According to Tuckman, which of the following is not one of the stages of team development? Delegating Performing Forming Norming

Delegating

As a project manager you are performing scope management processes. What is the function of the WBS Dictionary? Used as a glossary to define the acronyms used in the project scope statement It is used for the planning of the project resources Used as a glossary to define the acronyms used in the project WBS Describes the details of each component in the project WBS

Describes the details of each component in the project WBS

You are managing a project in a highly cost sensitive company. Therefore, you need to reduce the costs to the extent possible. Which one of the following categories of cost would you consider as the first option for cost reduction? Variable and fixed costs Indirect and variable costs Indirect and direct costs Direct and variable costs

Direct and variable costs

As a project manager you are approached by one of the project stakeholders asking for a change in the project work breakdown structure. The stakeholder brings enough reasons to show that the change does not affect the project time or cost. What is the best action for you in this situation?

Look for other impacts that the change may have

Your website development project is newly underway. The team appears to be in the "storming" stage, with several members insisting that the process occurs in a certain way and others unwilling to participate after their views were overruled. You recognize that cooperation and collaboration are imperative for the team to achieve the sponsor's goal of a working prototype within the next few weeks. What is the most helpful action for you to take? Enroll the team in a course on emotional intelligence so that they will learn to be sensitive to each other's feelings. Hold a team meeting and facilitate the creation of a team charter that includes ground rules. Advise the sponsor that there may be a delay in the prototype delivery. Hold a networking event so that team members can get to know each other better.

Hold a team meeting and facilitate the creation of a team charter that includes ground rules.

You are managing a software development project which should be completed in 18 months according to the project contract and schedule. Your customer has recently faced regulatory changes that require your project to be finished 2 months earlier and he asks you to do so. How will you approach this situation? 1. Inform the customer of the impacts of his requirement to project constraints and, after getting the required approvals, crash the project. 2. Accept the customer's request and cut parts of the project scope to meet the new deadline. 3. Stick to your original schedule and tell the customer that once the contract is signed the project duration won't change under any circumstances. 4. Cut the duration of all project activities across the board to meet the requirement.

Inform the customer of the impacts of his requirement to project constraints and, after getting the required approvals, crash the project.

As the manager of a large project, you are performing the Control Procurements process. Which one of the following activities would you likely not be involved in? Audits Claims Administration Inspection Negotiation

Negotiation

Your sponsor will be leaving your project soon due to other obligations. She informs you that her role will be filled with two new people. She assures you that this should not affect the communication complexity of the team since you are only going from eleven to twelve members. Is your sponsor correct? 1. Yes, because the sponsor is always right. 2. Yes, adding one additional person adds only one more communication channel for an eleven-member team. 3. No, Agile teams should be as small as possible. 4. No, adding one more person adds more than one communication channel for an eleven-member team.

No, adding one more person adds more than one communication channel for an eleven-member team.

Tom is managing a project and he has scheduled a number of training programs for his team. However, he knows that apart from planned training, unplanned training also takes place in a number of ways. Which of these is not one of the ways in which unplanned training can happen?

Online

The majority of the project management software applications use the ——— method to build the project schedule network diagram. Leads and Lags Critical Diagramming Precedence Diagramming Activity-On-Arrows Diagramming

Precedence Diagramming

To formally authorize the project, which of the following documents is necessary? Project Statement of Work (SOW) Project Charter Business Case Project Contract

Project Charter

As a project manager you are involved in purchasing various items for the project. However, you suddenly receive an official letter from your client ordering the immediate termination of the project. What will be your best course of action? Refer to Project Closure Guidelines in Organizational Process Assets Perform Inspections & Audits Perform Procurement Audits Release the Project Team

Refer to Project Closure Guidelines in Organizational Process Assets

As the project manager you wish to use a document that shows the work assigned to each project team member. What's the title of the document that you will use? Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) Project Resources Matrix (PRM) Resource Planning Chart (RPC) Project Schedule

Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)

You are a project manager and you are about to perform the risk management processes. Which one of the following documents evolves throughout the risk management processes? Risk Mitigation Plan Contingency Plan Risk Profile Risk Register

Risk Register

As the project manager you are reviewing the earned value analysis report performed by your team. The SPI is 0.87. What does this figure mean to you? Your project is running according to the budget. The project is getting 87 cents out of each dollar spent. You are ahead of schedule. The progress of your project is only 87% of what it is planned, so you are behind the schedule.

The progress of your project is only 87% of what it is planned, so you are behind the schedule.

Ashley, the agile team's product owner, recently hired Bill as a software developer for their team. Unfortunately, after Bill was hired, another product owner was able to reserve 50% of Bill's time for their project. What is one of the key problems with not having Bill dedicated to Ashley's team? Bill may not have the skills for the other team since he was not hired with their project in mind. Bill would become a generalist, or T-person, rather than a specialist. Bill may become dissatisfied with having too much work to do. The team's productivity would be affected because of Bill's task switching.

The team's productivity would be affected because of Bill's task switching.

You are a construction project manager and have been recently hired in a well known company as the manager of a highly crucial project. The project is expected to be completed in 2 years. During the project initiation phase you realize that some regulatory and environmental requirements have not been considered in the contract. Failure to meet the mentioned requirements will negatively affect your company's reputation, but meeting them will require more time and cost, which will lead to budget and time overruns. In that case, there's also a chance that the client decides to cancel the project. What would you do in that situation? 1. Your first and immediate action is to disclose your discovery to the project stakeholders and solicit their viewpoints. 2. This requires a scope change notification that should be written immediately. 3. Since this is only a probability it does not need an immediate action. Just try to gather more information as the project goes ahead and decide later on. 4. As a seasoned construction project manager, contact the regulatory body to find out some workarounds for your project.

Your first and immediate action is to disclose your discovery to the project stakeholders and solicit their viewpoints.