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An organization looks to move its computing services to the cloud. A project team documents the requirements. Moving Windows servers to the cloud is part of what project initiative? (Select all that apply.) Anything as a service (XaaS) Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) Software as a service (SaaS) Platform as a service (PaaS)

Anything as a service (XaaS) Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

A project manager creates a communications plan for a large project. The objective is to share as many visuals as possible with the non-technical stakeholders. To accomplish this, what part of the plan does the project manager focus on for the upcoming project? Channels Artifacts Recipients Goals

Artifacts

A project manager procures a resource through a coworker that creates a script to automate a process. Which resource procurement method takes place? Build Buy Lease Subscribe

Build

An employee at a software development company looks to join a project team. Responsibilities will ensure that requirements stay aligned with project scope and business needs. What role does the employee pursue? Quality assurance Developer Business analyst Architect

Business analyst

A new project requires the purchase of several specialized servers. A project manager uses an approach of checking with other client experiences and the vendor's ability to meet demands. Which vendor evaluation techniques does the project manager utilize in project planning? (Select all that apply.) Value Capacity Reference Cost-benefit

Capacity Reference

A team member suggests the use of a task board for keeping track of progress. The project manager agrees and implements which components to track work? (Select all that apply.) Card Matrix Board Lane

Card Board Lane

A development team completes a project. The project manager presents the deliverables to stakeholders. Upon validation of the product, what conditions exist for the project manager to take the next steps? (Select all that apply.) Change requests are not allowed. No new work is performed. Deliverables are transferred. The project can be closed.

Change requests are not allowed. No new work is performed. The project can be closed.

When compiling a project closeout report, a project manager documents which content? (Select all that apply.) Closure approval ESG factors Change order requests Transition summary

Closure approval Transition summary

A project requires that team members have the proper background clearance and access to appropriate parts of the project. The project does not require the highest level of access defined in the organization. The project manager assigns access to sensitive materials on a case-by-case basis for what type of clearance? Restricted Public Internal Confidential

Confidential

A project manager kicks off a new project with a meeting. During the meeting, the project manager formalizes assignments and shares the responsibility matrix with the team. What role does a team of subject matter experts, who provide advice during the project, fill in the project's matrix? Consulted Accountable Informed Responsible

Consulted

A project manager needs to utilize extra funds for documented risks. What fund type does the project manager use? Management reserve Resource cost Expected monetary value Contingency reserve

Contingency reserve

A project manager provides project deliverable process content for a group of non-technical users. What approach does the project manager use to present this information? Mind mapping Quadrant diagramming Data flow diagramming Flowcharting

Data flow diagramming

A project manager (PM) builds a team project dashboard. What information does the PM find valuable and add to the dashboard? Risks Return on investment (ROI) Scope Deadlines

Deadlines

An organization instructs a project manager to utilize contingency reserves for training on a new development tool that will benefit the project. How does the project manager allocate the reserves? Decrease the reserve balance and increase the project estimate. Reduce the reserve balance and increase the project cost. Reduce the reserve balance and decrease the project cost. Increase the reserve balance and increase the project estimate.

Decrease the reserve balance and increase the project estimate.

A development team completes a project. The project manager receives product validation. The project can move to the next steps. Which of the following has just taken place in the project lifecycle? The project closes. New work takes place. Change request processes occur. Deliverables transference occurs.

Deliverables transference occurs.

Which project framework has a focus on continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)? DevOps Extreme programming (XP) Agile Waterfall

DevOps

An organization instructs a project manager to conduct a cost performance exercise on a project. The project manager calculates the cost variance of the project by referencing what other input? (Select all that apply.) Planned value Contingency reserve Earned value Actual cost

Earned value Actual cost

A project manager assigns tasks to project team members. In a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), where would a project manager place a high-level deliverable? Level Element Work Package Leg

Element

A project manager prepares a new project's work breakdown structure (WBS). The project manager creates a branch for certain tasks and then ends the branch with a final outcome. When drafting the WBS, what terminology does the project manager assign to the outcome? (Select all that apply.) Element Level Work package Leg

Element Work package

During a project meeting at an organization, a visitor states that they represent a group that will interact with the project's final output. What role does the visitor play? Senior manager End-user Sponsor Customer

End-user

A project manager reviews the notes from a previous project and discovers issues with community interactions. The project manager learns that the project improperly disposed of waste. What factors did the past project fail to impose? (Select all that apply.) Environmental Social Governance Current state

Environmental Social Governance

A project team member suggests that some deliverables in a software project are developed with paired programming iteratively. The project manager agrees and initiates what project framework? Agile Waterfall PRojects IN Controlled Environments (PRINCE2) Extreme programming (XP)

Extreme programming (XP)

A project team meets with project stakeholders on a software application project. Stakeholders request that the application have a very complex data searching option. Which requirement does the project manager note for inclusion in the project? Features Usability Compatibility Compliance

Features

A project manager (PM) completes a project closeout report. If the PM summarizes reserves, which report area is the focus? Performance analysis Financial summary Transition summary Lessons learned summary

Financial summary

A project manager completes a contract for services that places a vendor at risk. The vendor agrees to which contract type? Cost-plus Fixed-price Time and materials Unit price

Fixed-price

A project manager operates under a directive project management office (PMO). What level of authority does the project management office exercise? Upon request Partial Full None

Full

A project manager performs a gap analysis on a project and finds that outside resources have difficulty accessing a data storage drive. The project manager records this gap as which type? Allocation Utilization Function Skills

Function

The deliverable for a software project maintains some personal data for customers located in Virginia in the United States. Project team members focus on security features during development. A European team member suggests what regulation is similar to the state's Consumer Data Protection Act? Personally identifiable information (PII) Protected health information (PHI) Intellectual property (IP) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

An organization asks a project manager to create a communications plan for an upcoming project. The objective is to avoid jargon or unnecessary verbiage in the communication plan. To accomplish this, what part of the plan does the project manager focus on for the upcoming project? Recipients Goals Artifacts Channels

Goals

An in-progress project experiences severe delays. Upon review, middle management finds that upper management has been misreporting project progress and expenses. As a result, the organization places the project on hold and addresses which operational issue? Environmental Governance Social Identity

Governance

A project manager reviews resources that will participate in a large software deployment project. Resources that utilize soft skills are very important to the project's success. What resource type does this characterize? Procured Capital Physical Human

Human

A high-profile project experiences numerous difficulties and the client questions the team's ability in maintaining its reported vision, values, and mission statement. The project manager places the project on hold and coordinates efforts with management and HR to remediate the concerns vented by the client. What is the client questioning in this scenario? Social Governance Environmental Identity

Identity

A project manager deals with risk on a current project. When creating a risk register, what does the project manager document? Communication information Notable timely and high-impact risks Scope impacts as a result of realized risks Impact, priority, or other scoring criteria

Impact, priority, or other scoring criteria

An organization holds a formal meeting to discuss an upcoming product release. Management decides that a focus group will review an early project deliverable so designers can obtain feedback. All members vote for a dual-moderator approach. How will the team conduct the focus group? Include two moderators who take opposite views. Include two groups who will observe each other. Include a lead moderator and a second as a quality check. Include participants who may act as moderators.

Include a lead moderator and a second as a quality check.

An organization kicks off the start of a new project. A group of individuals who need to be kept up-to-date with the project's progress fill which role in the project's matrix? Consulted Informed Accountable Responsible

Informed

An organization's new project focuses on moving technology to the cloud. During the initiation phase, the project manager evaluates the need for storage services. Which specific cloud model does the project manager push to implement? Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) Platform as a service (PaaS) Software as a service (SaaS) Anything as a service (XaaS)

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

A project manager assigns a team member to perform quality control duties. What action does the team member take? Addresses all processes and procedures. Inspects finished work. Documents any industry or regulatory standards. Creates a list of measurable quality targets.

Inspects finished work.

A project manager reviews project risk for a deliverable and discovers that several related issues exist that will delay the project. The project manager documents the risk using which area of knowledge? Detectability evaluation Quantitative analysis Interconnectivity evaluation Qualitative analysis

Interconnectivity evaluation

A project manager is advised by leadership that the team's project deadline for the new project is decreased by two weeks. While planning for the project, the PM evaluates the variances between estimation techniques. What statements are true of Parametric Model Estimating? (Select all that Apply.) It augments either Bottom-Up or Top-Down estimates with historical data. It uses known variables to create a custom estimate for a project. It creates an estimate of the entire project or key deliverables. It creates estimates at the lowest-level activities, work packages, and user stories.

It augments either Bottom-Up or Top-Down estimates with historical data. It uses known variables to create a custom estimate for a project.

A project manager implements key performance indicators (KPIs) for several project processes. Which metrics does the manager record after finishing the deliverable? Leading indicators SMART objectives Objectives and key results Lagging indicators

Lagging indicators

A project manager uses a backward pass approach to evaluate a project timeline. What values will the project manager calculate while implementing this method? (Select all that apply.) Early start Early finish Late start Late finish

Late start Late finish

A project manager looks at a resource management plan and realizes that the project manager can do some phases of the resource lifecycle in parallel. Which phases does the project manager review and take action on simultaneously? (Select all that apply.) Retirement Maintenance Improvement Acquisition

Maintenance Improvement

A project manager looks to brainstorm ideas with a user-friendly tool. What approach does the project manager use while thinking through problems? Data flow diagramming Quadrant diagramming Flowcharting Mind mapping

Mind mapping

An organization takes on an IT implementation project. The goal for the development team is to use a modular approach where components will exist on different servers for a single solution. Which computing service does the development team design and construct? Networking and connectivity Data warehousing Multitiered architecture Storage plan

Multitiered architecture

A new project manager performs a needs assessment for an upcoming project. How does the project performance improve if the manager addresses any documented unknowns? Resource smoothing On-time performance Resource leveling Gap differences

On-time performance

A project manager looks to resolve project timeline issues using the 80/20 rule. How does the project manager analyze the issues? Scatter diagram Pareto chart Run chart Five-why

Pareto chart

A project manager creates a requirements traceability matrix (RTM) for an in-progress project. What does the project manager use the matrix for in the in-progress project? (Select all that apply.) Perform impact analysis. Test results. Understand requirements. Establish a budget.

Perform impact analysis. Test results. Understand requirements.

A project manager needs to visualize a project concept for stakeholders. Which productivity tool does the project manager utilize to accomplish this goal? Presentation Spreadsheet Word processor Text document

Presentation

The project team has identified a change that needs to be made to the final deliverable. However, the change will not be implemented in the current project iteration and will be deferred to a later version. A change order has been created to document this change and is awaiting approval. Which type of change order is being used in this scenario? Plan update Team improvement Product change Strategic change

Product change

A project manager decides to manage a project using a framework based on the concept of improving during the project's progress. Which team member role does the project manager introduce that is specific to this framework? Project manager Product owner Product manager Project stakeholder

Product owner

A software development team develops a data storage system for a customer that uses various levels of security. Which level does the team design so digital press releases can be available? Public Restricted Confidential Internal

Public

A project manager assigns a team member to create a list of measurable quality targets. Which quality-related function does the team member perform? Quality assurance Quality control Quality standards Quality objectives

Quality objectives

An organization's project team meets to discuss current project risks. The team members determine that verifiable data will be useful in calculating risk for certain tasks. What risk tool do the team members utilize in calculating the risk? Qualitative Quantitative Interconnectivity Detectability

Quantitative

A vendor provides examples of product offerings while communicating with a project manager of a large software project. Which document do the parties utilize for this process? Request for information (RFI) Request for proposal (RFP) Request for bid (RFB) Request for quote (RFQ)

Request for information (RFI)

Vendors compete for a contract on a new project by submitting proposed solutions. To which document do vendors respond? Request for proposal (RFP) Request for information (RFI) Request for quote (RFQ) Request for bid (RFB)

Request for proposal (RFP)

A project manager (PM) builds a compressed view for a dashboard. This approach allows for a quick and easy view for executives. What information does the PM find valuable and add to the dashboard? Return on investment (ROI) Scope Risks Deadlines

Return on investment (ROI)

A project's software deliverable is to have a significant defect. When software product users use a keyboard command rather than the mouse to select a menu item, the software crashes. Documentation shows that the project team did not test the keyboard command to the same capacity as the mouse action. Failure to find this defect is an example of what risk analysis concept? Quality escape Quality audit Risk detectability Risk interconnectivity

Risk detectability

A project manager looks to resolve project timeline issues by keeping track of two distinct variables. How does the project manager analyze the issues? Run chart Pareto chart Scatter diagram Five-why

Scatter diagram

A new project manager takes inventory of project management tools. Of interest is a tool that will utilize workflow automation for resource allocation. Which type of software does the manager utilize to accomplish this goal? Diagramming Scheduling Surveying Conferencing

Scheduling

A project manager discovers that a team member has been discussing project details in an online public chat room. While the intent is not malicious, the team member's mistake is cause for concern. The project manager discusses the issue with the team member and educates the entire team on the potential impact of which operational issue? Governance Social Environmental Identity

Social

A project manager needs to provide historical cost and budget data for several closed projects. Which productivity tool does the project manager utilize to accomplish this goal? Text document Presentation Word processor Spreadsheet

Spreadsheet

A project manager tracks tasks and realizes that two tasks are not set to run properly. One task is to run only after another begins. The other task is to finish only after another begins. The project manager has to remedy which two task types? (Select all that apply.) Finish-to-Finish Start-to-Start Start-to-Finish Finish-to-Start

Start-to-Start Start-to-Finish

A project team member submits a change order request. The team member explains that the service in use for software development is no longer available, and they need to research a new solution. What change order type does the team member submit? Scope Product change Team improvement Strategic change

Strategic change

A seasoned project manager requires all team members to be available for a weekly meeting. Participants are required to be present as the meeting occurs in real-time. Following the meeting, a staff member will use a designated communication channel to distribute meeting minutes. What communication methods are used in this scenario? (Select all that apply.) Synchronous Informal Formal Written

Synchronous Formal Written

An organization initiates a new software project. A project manager prepares the paperwork and establishes performance measures for milestone activities. The project manager records leading indicators by utilizing which metric reporting approach? Ensuring goals are realistic Taking predictive measures Taking reflective measures Using reasonable estimation

Taking predictive measures

A developer working on a software project submits a change order request. The developer explains that a new software tool has become available and will improve development processes. What change order type does the developer submit? Strategic change Product change Team improvement Scope

Team improvement

When practicing a waterfall project methodology, in which phase is a project team member responsible for valid quality specifications? Testing Design Requirements Maintenance

Testing

A project manager works on a work breakdown structure (WBS). The goal is to create a clear and easy-to-navigate design. Which guidelines does the project manager follow when stopping to break a work element down to maintain level responsibility? (Select all that apply.) The element produces a measurable deliverable. The team can confidently estimate the time, cost, and resources. The element will span multiple reporting periods. The element will last for more than 4 and less than 40 hours.

The element produces a measurable deliverable. The team can confidently estimate the time, cost, and resources.

A project nears an important milestone date. As a result, the project manager closely monitors daily task progress. Which tool does the project manager utilize daily to display the number of items completed per iteration? Burndown chart Throughput chart Burnup chart Velocity chart

Throughput chart

A project team is preparing for an upcoming project and is completing a project estimate to forecast time, resources, and costs. What estimating technique creates an estimate of the entire project or key deliverables? Top-Down estimating Bottom-Up estimating Three-Point estimating Parametric model estimating

Top-Down estimating

A project manager presents stakeholders with a risk management plan. In the plan, a third party handles the risk. What risk management strategy does the project manager initiate for these risks? Avoid Accept Mitigate Transfer

Transfer

Project stakeholders meet and decide that a focus group session will help keep a project deliverable on track. The stakeholders propose a dueling-moderator approach for the session. How does the session present itself to attendees? Two moderators take opposite views. Participants may act as moderators. Two groups will observe each other. There is a lead moderator and a second as a quality check.

Two moderators take opposite views.

A company posts an internal memo inviting team members to join a project. The post states that participants will receive an additional 2% pay for any eligible project hours. The project manager calculates the pay with which value while building a resource worksheet? Resource cost rate Unit of measure Cost aggregation Reserves

Unit of measure

A project team meets to discuss documenting functional and non-functional requirements for a new software application deliverable. Which nonfunctional requirements does the team document as requirements? (Select all that apply.) Implementation Usability Features Compliance

Usability Compliance

A new project requires specialized tools for the development of a software product. Several vendors provide a solution, so the project manager focuses on functionality at a reasonable price. Which vendor evaluation technique does the project manager utilize in project planning? Capacity Reference Value Cost-benefit

Value

A project team falls behind on scheduled tasks. As a result, the project manager pushes for an increase in productivity. While doing so, the project manager uses which measurement tool to check story points in previous iterations to calculate an average of iterations? Throughput chart Burnup chart Burndown chart Velocity chart

Velocity chart

A project manager pilots a project for a new customer. The project has a strict budget. Which project management framework does the project manager practice? Kanban Scrum Agile Waterfall

Waterfall

A seasoned project manager prefers to manage projects in a linear and sequential fashion. Which framework does the project manager use? Waterfall Agile Kanban Scrum

Waterfall

Which project framework has extremely high costs when changes are implemented later in the project? Agile Extreme programming (XP) Waterfall DevOps

Waterfall

A project manager realizes that some risks exist in a few project tasks. As the impact is low, the project manager does not act upon the problems. What risk management strategy does the project manager initiate for these risks? Transfer Mitigate Avoid Accept

Accept

A project manager builds an escalation plan for an in-progress software development project. The manager can map solutions to possible issues by escalation level using a matrix. With six months left on the project, what issue does the manager deem as an issue for the highest level of escalation? An error in a code module function A team member's temporary scheduling conflict An exhausted overall budget The desire to upgrade development tools

An exhausted overall budget

An organization assigns a solution architect to a large cloud-based implementation project. The architect is currently working on an initial solution for the deliverable. What project phase and which document is the architect currently creating? (Select all that apply.) Analysis Low-level Design High-level

Analysis High-level

A project manager (PM) conducts a needs assessment to realize the skills needed for a new project. The PM should include which data in the skills matrix to determine the needed skills? Areas for development Cause and effect Total allocation Skills gap

Areas for development

A project activity starts later than anticipated. The project manager performs a critical path exercise to view the project timeline and determines that the late start does not have a negative impact. What concepts influence this output? (Select all that apply.) Critical path Total float Slack Weighted average

Total float Slack