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Which of the following statements are true regarding agile projects?

An agile project has continually evolving requirements, a high degree of uncertainty, and high risk. In an agile project, small increments of work are produced in each iteration that the customer reviews for accuracy and completeness. Agile methodologies use a product backlog to contain user stories.

You are a project manager responsible for customizing and installing your company's software at the client site. You've completed the Initiation process and are now working on the Planning processes. This project has a completion date of December 1. You've penciled in Kathy as the lead programmer for this project. She is tentatively scheduled to work on this project starting July 1 and ending November 4. She and her manager have always agreed to work on your projects in the past. This is an example of which of the following?

An assumption because you have not yet checked on Kathy's availability

These people are often the first one that are assigned to a project and they are usually engaged in the business case or feasibility phase before the project even gets to the Initiating processes. They are involved in the processes associated with gathering, tracking, recording, analyzing, controlling requirements, and solution evaluation. What role does this describe?

Business analysts

Project teams are limited by which of the following?

Constraints

One of the deliverables for your project is a specific piece of hardware that must be built to exact specifications. If the hardware is not sized correctly, the project process will stop until the hardware is corrected. What is this deliverable called?

Critical success factors

Unanimity, majority, plurality, and autocratic are four examples of which of the following techniques?

Decision-making techniques, which is a tool and technique of the Collect Requirements process.

Which of the following statements about decomposition are true?

Decomposition is a tool and technique used to create a WBS and subdivide the major deliverables into smaller components until the work package level is reached. Decomposition is used in the agile methodology to create user stories at the work package level. They are documented in the product backlog and pulled from here into the iteration backlog at the beginning of each iteration.

Your project requires the manufacturing of a component part that will be installed into the final product. You've hired an external vendor to produce these parts for your company. The component part has specific measurable dimensions and must be manufactured to these exact specifications or your final product will not work as expected. You've also requested they deliver exactly 75 of these parts by May 31. Which of the following have you defined for the vendor?

Deliverables because you've described specific results, outcomes, and due dates that are measurable and verifiable.

Which of the following is not a major step of decomposition?

Identify resources

A kickoff meeting is important for which of the following reasons?

It communicates the start of the project and informs stakeholders of the project objectives and the business value the project will bring about. It ensures that a common understanding is established among stakeholders because the key milestones and key deliverables are identified. It helps establish stakeholder engagement and commitment.

You are creating your project management plan. The project you are working on involves accepting credit cards on your organization's website. This will require yearly audits to ensure you are following best practices in developing your website and not exposing sensitive customer information. Which of the following EEFs should you consider regarding this scenario?

Regulatory standard Compliance issue

According to the PMBOK® Guide, which document helps assure business value is realized when the project is complete?

Requirements traceability matrix

Project acceptance criteria, deliverables, project exclusions, and scope description are all documented in which of the following?

Scope statement

The documentation of project goals, deliverables, and requirements so that they can be used as a baseline for future project decisions is accomplished by writing and publishing which of the following documents?

Scope statement

Your company, Kick That Ball Sports, has appointed you as a project manager for its new Soccer product line introduction. The product line involves three new products, two of which will be introduced together and a third one that will follow within two years. You are ready to create the WBS. All of the following are true except for which one?

The WBS may be structured using each product as a level one entry.

Which of the following makes up the scope baseline when using a predictive lifecycle approach?

The approved project scope statement The approved WBS The approved WBS dictionary

Which of the following is true regarding the numbering system?

The numbering system is a unique identifier known as the code of accounts identifier, which is used to track the costs of the WBS elements.

You are a project manager for a documentary film company. The company president wants to produce a new documentary on the efforts of heroic rescue teams and get it on air as soon as possible. She's looking to you to make this documentary the best that has ever been produced in the history of this company. However, the best photographer in the company is currently working on another assignment. Which of the following is true regarding the scenario?

The primary constraint is quality because the president wants this to be the best film ever produced by this company. She's given you free rein to use whatever resources are needed to get the job done.

Your project is not proceeding well. Your team recently had to redesign one of the components of the final product to better comply with customer requirements. This rework has increased project costs and impacted the completion of other tasks on the work breakdown structure. This setback also seems to have caused a problem with morale among team members. According to the scenario, which of the following is true?

The problem was caused by poor scope definition.

You are a project manager for Giraffe Enterprises. You've recently taken over for a project manager who lied about his PMI certification and was subsequently fired. Unfortunately, he did a poor job of defining the project scope which is the last document he created. You will need to create the remaining subsidiary project management plans and documents. All of the following could happen if you don't correct this except for which one?

The project scope statement is used to document the process for defining, maintaining, and managing project scope.

You are a project manager for an agricultural supply company. You have interviewed the stakeholders and gathered their project requirements in the Collect Requirements process. Which of the following is true regarding the process to which this question refers?

The requirements traceability matrix ties requirements to project objectives, business needs, WBS deliverables, product design, test strategies, and high-level requirements and traces them through to project completion.

You are a project manager responsible for the construction of a new office complex. The prior project manager completed the project scope statement and scope management plan for this project. In your interviews with some key team members, you conclude which of the following? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

The scope management plan describes how the project scope will be managed and controlled and how the WBS will be created and defined. The project scope management plan defines, maintains, and manages the scope of the project.

You are a project manager working on a large, complex project. You have constructed the WBS for this project, and all of the work package levels are subprojects of this project. You've requested that the subproject managers report to you in three weeks with their individual WBSs constructed. Which of the following statements are correct regarding the scenario?

The work package level is the lowest level in the WBS and is known as a user story on an agile project. The work package level facilitates resource assignments. The work package level facilitates cost and time estimates.

Which of the following statements are true regarding brainstorming and lateral thinking?

These are the techniques that can be used in several planning processes to help determine project scope, requirements, assumptions, constraints, and more. Lateral thinking is a form of alternatives generation that's considered thinking outside the box.

You are documenting the acceptance criteria for your deliverables. Which of the following statements are true?

They are used in a predictive methodology to test or measure whether the deliverables of the project are acceptable and satisfactory when the deliverables are completed. They are documented in user stories in an adaptive methodology to test or measure whether the deliverables of the project are acceptable and satisfactory at the end of the iteration.

The purpose of the project scope management plan and the requirements management plan provides which of the following?

They help set a clear vision and mission for the project. They are used to further elaborate on the project charter, which contains a list of high-level requirements needed to satisfy stakeholder expectations before starting the project management plan. They are both used to plan and manage the scope of the project.

Your project has been decomposed and the work breakdown structure has been constructed. Your final WBS contains five levels. Which of the following are true regarding WBS?

This project's work package level is level five. The work breakdown structure is a deliverables-oriented grouping of project deliverables and elements. Level five for this project will facilitate resource assignments and cost and time estimates.

You are a project manager working on a new software product your company plans to market to businesses. The project sponsor told you that the project must be completed by September 1. The company plans to demo the new software product at a trade show in late September and, therefore, needs the project completed in time for the trade show. However, the sponsor has also told you that the budget is fixed at $85,000, and it would take an act of Congress to get it increased. Which of the following is the primary constraint for this project?

Time

You are working on a project where the requirements and scope are well defined, but you know there will be changes when performing the work of the project. Your stakeholders will need to provide continuous feedback during the development stages of this project. Which of the following are true when determining the deliverables for this project?

You should use a hybrid approach for this project. Because the requirements and deliverables are well defined, you may choose to document a project scope statement that further elaborates on the deliverables of the project and serves as a basis for future project decisions. You should document the project scope statement so there is an agreement between the project management team and the project customer and everyone knows what the work of the project will produce. You should use a hybrid approach for this project because the stakeholders would like to provide continuous feedback on the deliverables once the work of the project starts. User stories will be used to fulfill the deliverables of the project and will be pulled to the backlog.

Your company provides answering services for several major catalog retailers. The phone system is approaching the maximum load limits and needs to be upgraded. You've been assigned to head up the upgrade project. Based on the company's experience with the vendor who worked on the last phone upgrade project, you're confident they'll be able to assist you with this project as well. Which of the following are true regarding the scenario?

You've made an assumption about vendor availability and expertise. The project came about because of a business need.

Your project depends on a key deliverable from a vendor you have used several times before with great success. You're counting on the delivery to arrive on June 1. This is an example of a/an ___________________.

assumption


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