PMP Mock Exam 2023

Based on the characteristics of the project, the project manager suggests selecting an agile method that limits the number of tasks being worked on by the team members at any given time. This method will also allow the team to increase the visibility of issues and bottlenecks in their work process. Which of the following methods does the project manager suggest?

**A. Kanban** B. Scrum C. Crystal D. Kaizen

An agile team is tasked with the development of a robot. The project manager wants to ensure that before the actual robot is built, the team receives early feedback on requirements and adapts the design accordingly. Which of the following should the project manager use to achieve that goal?

**A. Prototyping** B. Design review C. Checklists D. Business case

You are the project manager of the ABC Project. The ABC Project has a BAC of $2,786,121. You are currently 20% complete with this project, though you should be 25% complete with the project work. The project has consumed $595,000 of the project budget to date. Management has asked you, based on the current project performance, what the project's estimate to complete will be considering the current project schedule variance. What is the ETC for this project?

*A. $2,380,000* B. 1.02 C. $2,975,000 D. $139,306

As per the project network diagram shown below, what is the float of activity E?

*A. 5 Days.* B. 7 Days. C. 2 Days. D. 0.

You are planning a kick-off meeting for your new project. The meeting will communicate the start of the project, key milestones, and other relevant information. Which of the following best describes the objective of this meeting?

*A. A Inform and engage stakeholders and gain commitment* B. Manage threats and opportunities throughout the project C. Ensure that the project is completed on schedule and budget D. Secure resources required to complete project deliverables

The following tools are relevant to the enablers addressed in employ continuous process improvement topic except which one?

A. Retrospectives. *B. Daily Standups.* C. Experiments. D. Quality Theory methods.

The latest software released to the customer in the first project phase is full of defects. The customer is angry and demands that the development of the new release, which is planned to be delivered in the second phase, is much more transparent. The customer wants to see the team's results more regularly and without very long development intervals in between. Which of the following could the project team introduce in the second phase to better comply with the customer's demand? (Choose four)

*A. A cadence with regular time boxes* *B. Regular and frequent retrospective* C. Optimization at the level of each individual team member *D. Test-driven development practices* *E. Incremental delivery using a backlog* F. Limiting the number of changes before the software is released

You are responsible for a project in your organization that has multiple internal customers. Because many people in your organization are interested in this project, you decide to prepare a stakeholder management strategy. *Before preparing this strategy,* which of the following should be done?

*A. Conduct a stakeholder analysis to assess information needs* B. Determine the potential impact that each stakeholder may generate C. Determine a production schedule to show when each stakeholder needs each type of information produced D. Prioritize each stakeholder's level of interest and influence

When should you monitor stakeholder engagement?

*A. Continuously through the life of the project.* B. During planning. C. During monitor and control. D. During initiation.

The project team reports that they have finished creating the requirements management plan, the requirements documentation, and the requirements traceability matrix. The team informs that they are going to start working on the project work breakdown structure (WBS) next. What has the project team forgotten to do?

*A. Create the project scope statement* B. Complete the project management plan C. Update the lessons learned register D. Perform the Validate Scope process

During a meeting, the product owner restated the product vision, described the target user groups, the business goals, and main features to be delivered by the agile project in its upcoming releases. Then, to visually depict these features, the product owner created the product roadmap. Which of the following best describes the purpose of the meeting?

*A. Establish a shared project vision among the project stakeholders* B. Create the product backlog for each one of the upcoming releases C. Establish a shared release vision among the project stakeholders D. Determine the project scope; schedule, cost, quality; and resources

The sponsor asks the project manager for the project's resource breakdown structure (RBS) so that she can present it to senior management during an upcoming meeting. All the subsidiary management plans are complete, but the RBS is not yet developed. Which process must be completed in order to produce the RBS for the sponsor?

*A. Estimate Activity Resources* B. Plan Resource Management C. Develop Project Management Plan D. Acquire Resources

You are managing a project team that has recently been expanded by new team members working remotely from another country. Their roles have been outlined to form a preliminary team charter. Nevertheless, you have noticed a considerable lack of acceptance of cultural differences in the team, resulting in frequent conflicts. Which of the following techniques could help you in this situation? (Choose three)

*A. Focus groups* B. Role definition *C. Ground rules* D. Ability tests *E. Meetings*

You are the project manager for a mechanical subcontractor on a large construction project. During your meeting with the main contractor engineer, he has asked that you manage your work in a detailed manner. What shall be your first step?

*A. Follow the WBS that the prime contractor developed for the project and use the work packages you identified during the proposal* B. Develop a WBS dictionary to show specific staff assignments C. Develop a subproject WBS for the work package that is your company's responsibility D. Establish a similar coding structure to the prime contractor's to facilitate use of a common project management information system

Linda, a project manager, was reconciling expenditure of funds with funding limits on the commitment of funds for the project. She found a large variance between the funding limits and planned expenditures. As a result, she decided to reschedule work to level out the rate of expenditures. This is:

*A. Funding limit reconciliation* B. Funding limit constraints C. Funding limit expenditure D. Funding limit appropriation

Which of the following retrospective techniques describe What's working? Where are challenges? Problem Analysis?

*A. Generate Insights* B. Gather and Share Data C. Set the Stage D. Close

You have been provided a list of concerns some stakeholders have with your project. You meet with them to address the concerns in hopes of gaining their support and cooperation. You pay close attention by actively and effectively listening. You focus on each person's input to ensure you are aware of and are taking all perspectives into consideration. You then clearly articulate your point and your position and ask for their support. Which tool or technique best describes the skills you are using?

*A. Influencing* B. Team performance assessments C. Conflict management D. Emotional intelligence

Which might justify using self-paced training solutions?

*A. Large scale of needed training.* B. Extensive needs for question and answer sessions. C. Ability to iterate the training frequently. D. Already own an existing learning management system. A. Large scale of needed training.

A project manager is estimating the length of time the project will take. The project manager worked on a comparable project two years ago that installed 10 miles of guardrails at a rate of one mile a day in similar weather conditions, using the same size crew on the same type of highway. What estimating technique would be the appropriate option for the project manager to use for his *duration* estimate?

*A. Parametric estimating* B. Analogous estimating C. Bottom-up estimating D. Three-point estimating

You are managing a project with stakeholders from many different departments including marketing, engineering, and information technology. As you are monitoring stakeholder engagement, it becomes clear to you that stakeholders from the marketing department who used to be supportive appear to be neutral. After researching the reasons for the gap. You discover the marketing department views the project communicationsto be too technical, leading them to lose interest in the project. What might be your next step?

*A. Perform a communication styles assessment* B. Provide technical training for the marketing department C. Update the communications management plan D. Review the stakeholder engagement assessment matrix

A senior executive suggests initiating a project to replace a significant portion of the company's labor force with an automated production line. Other company executives are skeptical that this approach is the best way to increase profit margins, and wonder if they are ready to sponsor such an effort. What is the first thing that should be done in this scenario?

*A. Performing a needs assessment* B. Consulting with the project management office C. Appointing a project sponsor to create a project charter D. Providing a project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources

You are creating the schedule to deploy new ERP software in your company. The company is currently undergoing an agile transformation, so it was decided to develop the new ERP iteratively. The first release of the ERP should be rolled out in four months, and you know that another project, a company-wide operating system upgrade, is scheduled in three months. With the upgrade project affecting your schedule, an impact on which of the following should you assess to determine the number of iterations until rollout?

*A. Release planning* B. Product roadmap C. Iteration backlogs D. Project charter

A senior developer on your agile team announces that she leaves in two weeks. A change request to hire a replacement is approved, and the new developer is hired. You want to ensure that in the very short time left before the senior developer departs, the knowledge is transferred most efficiently and effectively and that the agile cadence of the team's workflow is maintained. What is your best course of action?

*A. Request that the senior developer and new team member perform job shadowing* B. Have the senior developer document their best practices C. Ask the new developer to review all of the project documentation D. Make use of the existing information radiators

Shadi is managing a mega construction project, he just advertised for a bidding of outsourcing critical electrical scope of his project. What key *output* is he hoping to generate?

*A. Selected sellers* B. Independent cost estimates C. Make-or-buy decisions D. Procurement strategy

As a project manager of a mega construction project that contains more than 82 team members, you realize that there is a continuous conflict between two of the project team members. What is the best approach to handle these conflicts?

*A. The best approach is to address the conflicts immediately and in a direct way involving both members, but preferably in private.* B. The best approach is to ignore conflicts because they are common and unavoidable in all of the projects. C. Conflicts are harmful to the project's progress, therefore you need to smooth them when they happen. D. It's suggested to handle conflicts in the team meetings so that everybody in the project team learns from them.

You want to buy a cell phone and you have two options. The first phone is cheaper and offers less functionality, but it has a proven track record of good stability and reliability. The second phone is a feature rich, costly phone but it has some stability and reliability issues. Which of the following statements is correct about these phones?

*A. The first cell phone is a low grade, high-quality phone* B. The second cell phone is a low grade, high-quality phone C. The first cell phone is a high grade, low-quality phone D. The second cell phone is a high grade, high-quality phone

You are working as the project manager of a client who is specialist in developing high-end residential complex projects. You are in the procurement process in order to buy 120 elevator units and other long lead items, due to the value and importance of the elevators procuring, you decided to perform an independent estimate of costs prepared by a third-party professional estimator. The estimator came up with an estimate of $2,350,000. However, the cost estimates prepared by prospective sellers were in the range of $1,500,000. How can this be best interpreted?

*A. The procurement statement of work was deficient and ambiguous.* B. The prospective sellers do not have the required skills to do the project. C. The professional estimator has inflated the estimate of costs. D. Prospective sellers are trying to underbid and win the project.

Roadmaps are progressively elaborated over time based on all of the following except which one?

*A. User stories.* B. Vision is refined. C. Vision is refined. D. Vision is refined.

An *agile team* is struggling with practicing agile in an organization that operates in a highly regulated industry that requires projects to use waterfall methodologies. What approach may an agile coach recommend in this situation?

A. Comply with the organizational requirements and abandon the team's existing agile practices *B. Factor the organizational requirements into the team's existing agile practices* C. Continue practicing agile methods but have the changes reviewed by the change control board D. Persuade the organization's senior management to transition to agile practices

You are leading a meeting with the project sponsor and key stakeholders to review the recently completed project management plan the goal of the meeting is to establish a common understanding of the plan, answer any questions or concerns, and gain formal approval of the project management plan. Which of the following interpersonal and team skills is the least beneficial to the project manager to use to achieve the meeting's goal?

A. Conflict management B. Facilitation C. Meeting management *D. Team building*

Your project team has completed 30% of works for a construction project with a total budget of $1,250,000. So far the project has already spent $600,000 and is expected to perform with the current rate until the end of the project. What is the estimated VAC of this project?

A. $ -225,000 B. $ 750,000 C. $ 225,000 *D. $ -750,000*

On your project, you have received a status report from the senior cost controller shown below, and as per the meeting occurs with him, he believes that the current *variances occurred because of a few factors, and you do not expect similar variances to occur in future.* Based on this information, what should be the estimate at completion (EAC) for your project?

A. $ 200,000 *B. $ 250,000* C. $ 300,000 D. $ 400,000

You are managing a 6 month web development project. The table shown below represents the approved cash out of the total project period which was submitted to the finance department before the start of the project execution. Now, you are in the middle path of the project and 30% of total work was actually accomplished and that $10,000 was spent so far. Given that no variances from BAC have occurred and you will continue in the same rate of spending, what is the forecast of the project Estimate To Complete (ETC)?

A. $20,000 B. $8,000 *C. $23,000* D. $10,000

Based on the earned value report shown in the table below, what is the ratio of the cost to finish the outstanding work to remaining *budget*?

A. 1.2 B. 1 *C. 1.1* D. 0.9

You are working on a project to set up a call center for your client. The duration of the project is two years. One year has passed, however, only 40% of the work has been completed against the schedule, which says that by now 50% of the work should have been completed. To date, you have spent 60% of the budget. What is the cost performance index of the project?

A. 1.25 B. 1.5 C. 0.8 *D. 0.67*

The Actual Cost (AC) is the total cost actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed for an activity or work breakdown structure component. What is the upper limit for the AC?

A. 50 percent over and above the Planned Value (PV) B. The Actual Cost (AC) is limited to the Planned Value (PV). C. 100 percent over and above the Planned Value (PV) *D. There is no upper limit for the Actual Cost (AC)*

As you execute the quality management plan for a project to develop a new autopilot feature for a vehicle, you have created the diagram below, which compares the vehicle speed with uncommanded lane departures. What can be said about this diagram?

A. Affinity diagram, which shows a weak correlation between the speed and lane departures **B. Scatter diagram, which shows a strong correlation between the speed and lane departures** C. Affinity diagram, which shows a strong correlation between the speed and lane departures D. Scatter diagram, which shows a weak correlation between the speed and lane departures

The organization's employees are eager for small perks to be released based on a new company-wide initiative to boost morale. The objective is to deliver small bits of value on their way to the larger goal of higher employee satisfaction. Which method would you recommend?

A. Agile. B. Predictive/Plan Driven. C. Iterative. *D. Incremental.*

As your project progresses, a team member suggests a minor modification to one of the project deliverables, saying that the modification will improve the overall performance of the final product. You believe that the modification constitutes a minor change to the project scope, schedule, and budget, and should be approved without going to the change control board. What should you do next?

A. Approve the change request. As the project manager, you should use expert judgment to decide what is best for the project. B. Meet with the change control board members individually and try to persuade them to approve the change request. C. Submit the change request to the change control board and abide by their decision. *D. Review the change management plan and follow the established process for processing change requests.*

In your project, as part of the manage communications process, you have created an information retrieval system, which helps team members and stakeholders to share information. What will you do next?

A. Create a communications management plan. B. Determine methods of assessing information for scheduled communications. C. Identify and document the approach to communicate effectively with the stakeholders. *D. Conduct regular status review meetings to exchange information on the project.*

Guidelines to ensure training occurs include all of the following except:

A. Create awareness among the stakeholders about available training. B. Be sure to create invitations to attend the training. *C. Inform only your internal project team member in training.* D. Engage with customer management to obtain their buy-in and commitment for their employees to attend the training programs.

Early termination of a contract is a special case of contract closure. This can happen because of:

A. Default of the buyer B. Default of the seller C. Mutual agreement of the parties *D. Any of the above reasons*

A particular stakeholder has a reputation for making numerous changes on the project. The project manager is concerned with this situation as the project needs to be managed against an agreed timeline and budget. What should the project manager do at the beginning of the project to manage the situation?

A. Ask the stakeholder to be reasonable and if not, they are not to be included in the stakeholder register B. Talk to the stakeholder's boss and persuade her that the stakeholder should be directed to another project C. Say 'NO' to the stakeholder to prevent him from submitting changes *D. Get the stakeholder involved in the project as early as possible*

A scrum master is conducting a daily standup. Each member of the development team states that their work has been stalled due to various blockers As a result, the entire development team has been idled, and the schedule baseline is in jeopardy. What should the scrum master do first?

A. Attempt to resolve the problems during the meeting *B. Analyze and prioritize the blockers* C. Assign the team to work on another project in the meanwhile D. Escalate the issue to the project sponsor

Which Agile Manifesto's value was most likely not appropriately applied?

A. Businesspeople and developers must work together B. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools C. Pair programming over continuous integration *D. Customer collaboration over contract negotiations*

Sami is the project manager for his project. Sami and his project team are identifying stakeholders who can significantly impact the project, what the level of participation for each identified stakeholder may be, and classifying the stakeholders by common characteristics, concerns, and their perception of the project. Sami and his project team want *to define an approach* as a result of this information to gain support from the stakeholders for their project. What should Sami and his project team create in this scenario?

A. Communications management plan B. Stakeholder assessment information *C. Stakeholder management strategy* D. Stakeholder register

You are the project manager for your organization. Management has asked you to document the national holidays, weekends, and other corporate working hours, which will supersede the project timings for your schedule. Which calendar will communicate to the project stakeholders, when the *project work* will take place within the organization?

A. Company calendar *B. Project calendar* C. Resource calendar D. Organizational calendar

You are working with your customers on completing deliverables in your electronic parts manufacturing project. Since these parts will be exported to other countries, they will need more testing before your customers accept them. In this scenario, which of the following statements about the completed deliverables is correct?

A. Completed deliverables not accepted by customers must be forwarded to the close project or phase process. B. Deliverables formally accepted by customers must be moved to organizational process assets. C. Deliverables formally accepted by customers are forwarded to the validate scope process. *D. Completed deliverables not accepted by customers must require a change request for defect repair.*

The project requires ongoing stakeholder engagement and needs to respond to high levels of change. The project manager has chosen an adaptive life cycle for the project. The backlog contains an ordered list of requirements and work. At the beginning of each iteration, the team determines how many of the items on the backlog can be delivered within the next iteration. Which process(es) will the project team need to repeat with each iteration?

A. Define Scope B. Collect Requirements and Create WBS C. Collect Requirements and Define Scope *D. Collect Requirements, Define Scope, and Create WBS*

Recently, your company introduced a new processing system for its products. You were the project manager for this system and now have been asked to lead a team to implement needed changes to increase efficiency and productivity. To help you analyze the process outputs, you and your team have decided to use which following technique?

A. Design of experiments B. System flowcharts C. Pareto analysis *D. Control charts*

Which of the following should be included in a project charter?

A. Detailed deliverables list B. work package description C. all project risks *D. Measurable objectives*

Your company has been contracted by a client for a software development project. The project will use agile methods to deliver product increments. For the client, however, this project will be their first experience with agile. You want to make sure that the client gains the full benefit of early and continuous delivery of software. What is your best course of action?

A. Develop a change management plan to address the inevitable changes B. Request the client to take part in product testing to speed up delivery *C. Gain alignment with the client on the timing of project deliverables* D. Instruct the project team to develop all features in a single release

To ensure that lessons learned are captured and documented throughout the project life cycle, the project manager creates the lessons learned register. What project management process is being performed?

A. Direct and Manage Project Work B. Monitor and Control Project Work *C. Manage Project Knowledge* D. Create Lessons Learned

You have a team of 8 software engineers working on your project. Two of the engineers have frequent disagreements. You ask them to resolve their differences through a discussion. However, that does not yield any results. Subsequently, you get involved and based on an analysis of the situation, suggest some changes in the way they work with each other. This still does not yield results and you find that the project schedule is beginning to suffer. As the project manager, what is your next course of action?

A. Ensure that they work in different shifts so that they don't clash with each other. B. Don't do anything. Differences of opinion among the team members is a healthy situation C. Speak to the two team members and ask them to resolve their conflict amicably. *D. Take Disciplinary action, if required, since the needs of the project are not being met.*

During the development of the stakeholder engagement plan, the project manager realizes that a key stakeholder is resistant to the project. Without the support of this stakeholder, the project may fail. What is the best course of action for the project manager to *identify the reason* for the stakeholder being resistant?

A. Escalate to the project sponsor B. Update the stakeholder register C. Use the mind mapping technique *D. Utilize an Ishikawa diagram*

A scrum master is working with stakeholders to develop the project vision for inclusion in the project charter and wants to ensure that regulatory compliance measures are incorporated into the project requirements. How might the scrum master analyze the consequences of non-compliance?

A. Facilitate a project post-mortem *B. Play a session of 'Remember the future'* C. Lead a round of planning poker D. Conduct a t-shirt sizing exercise

Agile practices like Scrum have popularized a ceremony called a Retrospective, which is a time specifically set aside for the team to reflect on its performance and practices, identify and solve problems, and identify specific proposed improvements for how the team works together. There are literally hundreds of different methods and techniques for running a retrospective, but they generally follow a model like this except which one?

A. Gather and Share Data— Team Performance metrics, Earned Value Analysis, etc. B. Generate Insights—What is working? Where are challenges? Problem Analysis. *C. Starting iteration — which involve the customer in backlog prioritization.* D. Make Decisions—Agree on 1-2 improvements/changes to try in the subsequent iteration.

Sami was assigned as the project manager for the highest priority project within the organization. A constraint of the project is that the budget is very tight, and the senior management wants to monitor the project cash out closely. Due to this constraint, and after the first couple of months, Sami realized it takes an extra two weeks to get approvals on any purchase order over $10,000. Out of the listed options, which should be Sami's best action?

A. Ignore the situation; Sami is not responsible for the approval of purchase orders. B. Record the information in the project records. *C. Document the information in your Lessons Learned.* D. Adjust the purchasing practices to keep all purchases under $10,000.

You are leading two independent teams working on the same project. The nature of the deliverables requires that one team takes a predictive approach, while the other uses Scrum. Due to dependencies between the teams and the variable nature of the outputs from the Scrum team, the predictive team needs to confirm their understanding of the Scrum team's activities with the shortest feedback loop possible. What is your best course of action?

A. Include a project retrospective into the project schedule B. Request that the Scrum team use information radiators C. Incorporate the use of periodic customer feedback loops *D. Have the predictive team attend the daily scrum meetings*

Which of the following is a component of a Resource Calendar?

A. KPI of human resource Department B. Training Strategies C. Recognition Plans *D. Availability of physical resource*

What is the technique that a project manager can use to appraise the skills of a potential team member?

A. Kanban boards. *B. Ability tests.* C. S-Curve. D. Team building activities

During the current sprint, the product owner's availability has been limited due to other commitments. At the daily standup, the team members complain that they cannot get answers from the product owner, and, as a result, the development of the product increment is delayed. What is the best course of action for the scrum master?

A. Let the senior developers make the product decisions *B. Contact the product owner on behalf of the team members* C. Mention the availability issue during the sprint review D. Discuss the availability issue at the sprint retrospective

A supplier requires two months to manufacture the necessary equipment for a project. This situation means that the project manager must order the equipment at least two months before the installation start date. This dependency is an example of which of the following?

A. Mandatory logic B. Discretionary dependency *C. Hard logic* D. Soft logic

A project manager working in your organization has just finished a critical construction project that has not gone well. Apart from cost overruns and schedule overruns, there have been a lot of quality defects and the project required a lot of senior management intervention to finally reach completion. Among the listed options, what should be the project manager's action?

A. Mask bad data and only present good data since his performance appraisal will otherwise be impacted. B. Focus on presenting the data in positive light while ensuring that the reasons for the delays and problems are appropriately documented. *C. Document lessons learned from the project and update the lessons learned knowledge database.* D. Focus on closing the project and moving on to the next one. Lessons learned is not applicable to this project since it has gone badly.

Yara is the project manager of an event management project, she is addressing risks or potential concerns related to stakeholder management and is anticipating future issues that may be raised by stakeholders. What *process* is she performing?

A. Monitor Stakeholder Engagement B. Manage Communications C. Monitor Communications *D. Manage Stakeholder Engagement*

You are managing a project, and members of your project team are at odds about the tasks they are assigned. Disagreements between the team members have escalated and have created a reduction in performance across the project. What tool or technique will you use to address the team's issues and get the project back on track?

A. Networking B. Recognition and rewards C. Training **D. Conflict management**

Sandria's project has a large number of key positive and negative stakeholders. To ensure the project's success, it is essential to manage the influential negative stakeholders closely. Do the key positive stakeholders need to be managed, too?

A. No; more attention needs to be given to the key negative stakeholders. *B. The positive stakeholders need to be closely managed, as well, since stakeholders' needs and expectations change over time.* C. Project stakeholders should not be classified as positive and negative stakeholders. D. Yes; positive stakeholders should be more closely managed than the negative stakeholders.

You're a project manager and you've completed your project schedule. The schedule will take 24 months to complete the project work. Throughout the schedule there are instances that the project work will require the project team members to work more than fifty hours per week. If you must adhere to a maximum of 45 hours of project work per team member, per week, what will likely happen to your project *schedule* as it stands right now?

A. Nothing, the 45 hours limit is a guideline. *B. The project will take longer to complete.* C. The project will require more resources. D. The project will take less time to complete.

As a recently assigned project manager for the most critical project for your organization, you are aware of the importance of *common understanding* of the key deliverables, milestones, and their roles and responsibilities for the project success. Which of the following activities can be done to ensure this?

A. Obtain project charter approval from the sponsor. B. Identify key deliverables based on the business requirements. C. Perform project assessment based upon available information, lessons learned from previous projects, and meetings with relevant stakeholders. *D. Inform stakeholders of the approved project charter.*

You are leading a software development project, which is utilizing an agile framework. While monitoring the progress of the project, it is apparent that velocity is trending down, and you are aware of some setbacks that have been encountered by the development team You want to capture and analyze lessons learned so far during the project to improve the process going forward. What is the best way to achieve this goal?

A. Perform a sprint review B. Schedule a sprint planning meeting *C. Conduct an iteration retrospective* D. Lessons learned are not utilized on agile projects

You and the project management team have been vigilant about observing different aspects of the project to ensure the project is progressing as planned. Currently, you are using performance data generated during project execution to determine if the status of overall project risk has changed, if the project assumptions are still valid, if contingency reserves for cost or schedule require modification, and if project strategy remains valid. What process are you performing?

A. Plan Risk Responses *B. Monitor Risks* C. PIan Risk Management D. Identify Risks

You are creating your activity list, but only for the next two portions of the project. The rest of the work you are leaving at the work package level. What approach are you using?

A. Predictive life cycle. B. Brainstorming. C. Bottom-up. *D. Progressive elaboration.*

At the end of a 3 years construction project, a junior team member approached you as the project manager, and wanted to know that before considering a project closed, what document should be reviewed to ensure that project scope has been satisfied?

A. Project scope statement *B. Project management plan* C. Project closeout checklists D. Scope management plan

A PMO steeped in traditional waterfall project management has hired you, as an agile practitioner, to guide the organization's transformation to agile. After completing an initial assessment of the organizational culture, you have realized that many of the stakeholders are resistant to the change. What is your best course of action?

A. Provide training to ensure the employees are more highly specialized B. Transition all projects to agile at the same time *C. Seek a high-level executive willing to champion the cause* D. Ensure the work is decomposed into silos

You are creating a scope statement that includes only the smallest collection of features included in a product for customers to consider it functional. What product approach are you using?

A. Release Planning. B. Progressive Elaboration. **C. Minimum Viable Product.** D. Horizon Planning.

A project manager has been asked to create a document that formally authorizes a project to use ground-penetrating radar to map geological conditions along a proposed crude oil pipeline route. The performing organization has agreed to share the data with a local university. The project manager has reviewed the business documents and considered any relevant external environmental factors to create the requested document. What might the project manager do next?

A. Research the stakeholder engagement plan for any information to be included in the document *B. Ensure any relevant information from the memorandum of understanding (MOU) is included in the document* C. Review the business case for any pertinent information D. Look to see if a benefits management plan was previously created

A project manager is assigned to an agile software development project for a large banking corporation. With the project just getting underway, the project manager has learned about new hacking tactics that present a potential threat to regulatory compliance for the project. What should the project manager do next?

A. Review the risks during the project retrospective **B. Analyze the consequences of non-compliance** C. Submit a change request to update the risk management plan D. Develop a cumulative flow diagram

An agile software development project consists of four releases, with features incrementally added with each release. Due to an excessive number of defects found by users after the first release, the risk response plan was implemented, which involved more rigorous testing by the project team. After the second release, the client has reported two bugs. What must first be done to determine the effectiveness of the implemented risk response?

A. Schedule a release retrospective B. Complete a sensitivity analysis *C. Conduct technical performance analysis* D. Perform a reserve analysis

Which of the following is a set of technical guidelines that may be applied during the design of a product for the optimization of a specific aspect of the design?

A. Scope creeping B. Rolling-wave planning *C. Design for X* D. Scrum master

The project manager has just determined that four functional managers with a high interest in the project hold a particularly high degree of influence in the allocation of enterprise resources. *Where is the project manager likely to document this information?*

A. Stakeholder analysis *B. Stakeholder register* C. Stakeholder engagement plan D. Resource management plan

The quality management has been perfect for the project up to this point. Suddenly, the quality assurance (QA) lead who developed and performed most of the quality activities for the project has been temporarily reassigned to help another project. What should the project manager do?

A. Submit a change request to adjust the cost baseline and the schedule baseline B. Request the team to develop replacement quality activities *C. Assign another team member to carry out the originally planned quality activities* D. Pause quality activities until the QA lead returns to the project

As part of the Develop Schedule process, the project manager creates the project schedule using a Gantt chart. Three Scrum teams will develop the project deliverables. Due to dependencies, the teams will be required to coordinate their work twice a week using extended standup meetings. What should the project manager do next?

A. Submit a change request to switch the Gantt chart to the burn down chart *B. Include Scrum of Scrums (SoS) meetings in the project schedule* C. Crash the schedule to eliminate the dependencies between the teams D. Reflect the actual velocity of the teams in the project schedule

First, a project manager assisted with the development of the project charter which has been approved. Second, he completed the development of the stakeholder register. What should the project manager do next?

A. Submit a change request to update any project documents with information gathered during the Identify Stakeholders process. B. Update the communications management plan to include the communication requirements of stakeholders identified in the newly developed stakeholder register. C. Update the stakeholder engagement plan with any pertinent information uncovered during the Identify Stakeholders process. *D. Establish the scope of the project, refine the objectives, and define the course of action required to attain the objectives that the project was undertaken to achieve.*

You are leading a project to develop a product that will be sold through an existing nationwide dealer network.The product will be built incrementally by a virtual team, while the dealer training and product rollout processes will be well defined upfront. You want the dealers to provide the team with regular feedback throughout product development. What is the best strategy to achieve your goal?

A. Suggest that the dealers attend the biweekly iteration retrospective meetings B. Collect requirements upfront and develop a detailed WBS for product development *C. Invite the dealers to attend product demonstrations via video conference* D. Colocate the dealers with some of the developers for the duration of the project

Which of the following is not an example of soft skills?

A. Team skills *B. Intelligence quotient* C. Influencing D. Negotiation

All of the following are typically included in a team charter EXCEPT?

A. Team values. B. Team agreements. *C. Team personality assessments.* D. Team operating guidelines.

Sami is managing a 5-star hotel construction project. He is working with a real estate development company that is used to build 3-4 hotels each year. For this project Sami is managing, the stakeholder register exists, but the stakeholder engagement plan was not developed during the planning phase of the project. During the project execution, a big number of change requests came in and got approved. Sami now believes that a formal stakeholder engagement plan should be in place in order to guarantee the project's success. What must Sami do?

A. Terminate the project and start the project from scratch. B. Continue with the project and delegate the plan development to one of the project team members. *C. Go ahead and develop the project's stakeholder engagement plan.* D. Hold the project work till the management prepares the new stakeholder engagement plan.

A project manager is considering changing the Control Costs process currently used on her project. Instead of submitting budget change requests to the CCB, she wants to invite stakeholders to the parking lot portion of the daily standups and discuss requested changes there The project manager meets with the stakeholders to propose the process change. Which of the following arguments would be least likely to convince the stakeholders of the benefits of the new process?

A. The cost management and change management plans will be updated to reflect the new process. B. Earned value analysis data from a previous project will be compared to iterative data accumulation *C. Only those budget change requests that do not affect the project cost baseline will be discussed.* D. Other project managers in the organization going through similar process changes will be consulted.

Dima has recently been asked to manage the deployment of an enterprise resource planning system for her real estate development organization. Dima has sent her project sponsor a meeting request to discuss her project's stakeholder management plan. The sponsor believes that the stakeholder management planning is not relevant for such internal projects. The sponsor believes that only the scope, schedule and cost management plans are sufficient for such projects. The sponsor has asked Dima to describe the objective of the meeting. Which of the following is the best response of the sponsor question?

A. The objective of the meeting is to conform to the PMBOK standards. B. The objective of the meeting is to develop the project stakeholder register. *C. The objective of the meeting is to develop strategies to effectively keep the project stakeholders engaged and committed to the project.* D. The objective of the meeting is to identify and classify project stakeholders.

You have a project with a budget of 100,000 USD. The duration of the project is 20 months, and the work is evenly distributed throughout the duration. After 10 months, you review the project's progress and you find that 55% of the work is completed and 65,000 USD has been spent. Based on the above information, you come to the conclusion that:

A. The project is behind schedule *B. The project is ahead of schedule* C. The project is under budget D. Not enough information

As a project manager, you are leading a collocated project team that will create deliverables in an agile fashion, followed by a rollout phase that will use a predictive approach. You are concerned that the transition from agile to waterfall may cause friction within the project team. With the development phase complete, how might the team's working agreements need to change in this situation?

A. The team charter will need to be updated to reflect collective responsibility for the completion of project tasks. B. The project manager should institute a set of working agreements that worked well on previous waterfall projects. C. Each project team member will need to develop their own social contract to support the new framework. *D. The social contract should reflect a transition from collective to individual responsibility for the project tasks.*

Shadi is working as a project manager of a software development project. The project is following a Scrum methodology. In the daily scrum meeting, the development team always comes to meetings late. Which of the following is most likely to be the cause of this problem?

A. The team resents the work that they're doing. B. The team is in the storming phase of team development. *C. The project manager was late to meetings himself, and this influenced the team.* D. The project manager needs to schedule meetings later in the day.

Which is the BEST definition to describe the work package?

A. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time, cost, and resources *B. The work defined at the lowest level of the work breakdown structure for which cost and duration are estimated and managed* C. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined, developed, monitored, controlled, and validated D. The approved version of a scope statement, work breakdown structure (WBS), and its associated WBS dictionary, that can be changed using formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results

During a project status meeting, you request updates to work tasks. One of your close friends accountable for the most critical milestone on the schedule notes that they are on track. Over meeting the previous evening, the friend had confided that the task was two weeks behind schedule. What should you do as the project manager?

A. Throw your friend under the bus. B. Immediately report the slip, along with the source of your information. *C. Give your friend an opportunity to report accurate status; if this does not occur, report accurately that a slippage has occurred.* D. Do nothing. Honoring friendship is far more important, and this is an opportunity to display trust.

In every time boxed iteration, the project team has a demo scheduled at the end during the iteration review session. What is the goal of this demo?

A. To groom the iteration backlog. B. To revise the product roadmap. *C. To solicit feedback from the product owner and other stakeholders.* D. To establish the features to be included in the product backlog.

To engage the newly identified stakeholders in the project at the earliest opportunity, the scrum master suggests inviting them to the upcoming sprint review meeting to demonstrate to the stakeholders that the team is moving in the right direction, and get feedback from the stakeholders about what the team has accomplished. Which of the following is another reason for inviting the stakeholders to this meeting?

A. To reflect on the team performance B. To prioritize high-risk user stories for the next sprint C. To reprioritize the release backlog *D. To discuss the high-level plans for the next sprint*

Four vendors have responded to a bid request on your project. Which of the following vendors should you select based on the expected monetary value (EMV)?

A. Vendor 1 with an 80% probability of success and profit of S20.000 *B. Vendor 2 with a 90% probability of success and profit of S19,000* C. Vendor 3 with a 75% probability of success and profit of S18.000 D. Vendor 4 with an 85% probability of success and profit of S20.000

The contract to rent the monitors stipulates that you should inspect them before the meeting. You are in a hurry and forget to do this, and as the meeting begins, one of the monitors does not work. Which of the following is the correct term for this situation?

A. Warranty. B. Breach of contract. *C. Waiver.* D. Negotiated settlement.

You have been assigned as a project manager of a new project to be executed in Dubai where your international organization headquarters is located. However, you determine that the project requires a Global Positioning Systems Expert who is not available within the company in Dubai. On doing a little checking, you determine that the company has an expert based in London, who is suitable for the project. However, the London based employee is not willing to relocate to Dubai for the project. In this situation, what should be the project manager's best action?

A. Write to the manager of the London based employee and inform him that the employee needs to be convinced to relocate to Dubai due to project requirements. *B. You would look at the option of moving ahead with the project by using a virtual team.* C. Co-location of resources is a key factor for the success of projects. D. Manage the project without the key resource and flag this as a risk.

You were assigned as a project manager for a $7 million project which your contracting company was awarded one week ago. You started your efforts through identifying high level risks, assumptions, and constraints based on the current environment, organizational factors, historical data, and expert judgment. The project sponsor approached you to know why you are performing these activities. Which of the following should be your best reply?

A. You are performing these activities in order to align expectations and gain support for the project. B. You are performing these activities in order to manage customer expectations and direct the achievement of project goals. C. You are performing these activities in order to validate project alignment with organizational strategy and expected business value. *D. You are performing these activities in order to propose an implementation strategy.*