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Which of the following is an example of result of Determine Budget process?

100, is required by the project on a quarterly basis. This is choice is an example of project funding requirements.

A sponsor requests to see the impact of the scope changes requested throughout the lifecycle of angle project in an easy-to-view format. What information radiator would be the best for the project sponsor to examine

A burns chart is a graphical representation of the wok completed toward the release of a product. Bunrup charts allow one to see changes in scope. Typically an increase ion scope is represented by a set up in the chart's horizonatal line depicting the initial scope and is relatively easy to recognize.

Cost of Quality (COQ)

A data analysis technique that can be used to determine the optimal COQ which reflects the appropriate balance of investing in the cost of prevention and appraisal (cost of conformance) to avoid failure costs (cost of nonconformance).

A project team is identifying and documenting the actions necessary to produce the project deliverables. which of the following may be created as a result of this process?

A milestone list. A milestone list identifies all project milestones and indicates whether the milestone is mandatory, such as those requrired by contract or optional such as those base on historical information. Milesotnes are similar to regular schedule activities, but the have zero duration because they represent a significant point or event. A milestone list is one of the output of the Define Activities process.

which of the following is not part of the scope management plan?

A process for how requirements will be prioritized. A requirements prioritization process is part the requirements management plan and not the scope management.

You are leading a project to be developed incrementally is small releases. Requirements have been established for the initial release. Feedback from a focus group will determine the scope of each subsequent release. The client has established a strict budget for the entire project. In this adaptive environment, which is the best way to proceed?

Add prioritized features to the project scope with each release until the budget is exhausted. With an adaptive approach where the cost is fixed, the schedule and scope must be adjusted to stay within the cost constraint.

A PM has encontered a new issue during project execution and wants to document this issue in the issue log. What should the PM do first?

Add the issue to the issue log. When a new issue arises throughout the course of a project, the issue should be added to the issue log. This does not need change request.

A TM reports that the risk she is assigned as an owner has occurred and will have a significant negative impact on the project. What the PM do first?

Advise the TM to check project documents for the risk response plan. The risk register is a project document that provides information on the agreed-upon risk responses for each individual risks and the nominated owner for each response plan. If the response were planned for this risk, the risk register would have this information.

When first gathering the project information to be considered as part of collecting requirements, which of the following might be left undone until after the requisite items are gathered?

Affinity diagram. The affinity diagram does not serve as an input but is instead a tool and technique for the collect requirements process. This data tool allows large numbers of ideas that have been brainstormed about requirements to be classified into groups for review and analysis.

Input to the develop schedule process?

Agreements.

You are assigned to lead an agile project to develop a new software application. The requirements are so vague that you don't even know where to start the project planning. You realize that managing changes on the project will be the biggest challenge. What is you best strategy to handle changes in this environment.?

Allow for changes, even late in development. While this answer choice does not provide specific guidelines as to how to handle changes on this project. The Agile Manifesto principles that states "welcome changing requirement, even late in development,

Customer requirements for the new application to be developed by an agile team limit the technology choices to only two approaches. The TM's are not familiar with any of them and ask the scrum master for advice. Which of the following should the scrum master recommend to select the best approach?

An architectural spike. An architectural spike is a technical time-boxed experiment aimed to explore a technical approach to use an unfamiliar technology or technique as is the one described in the scenario provided.

A PM is leading a new product development project. During project execution, the competitive advantage of this new product is threaten when another company is first to market with a similar product. This risk had been identified during initial planning and placed on a watch list. What should the PM do next?

Analyze the impact of the risk on the project objectives. Risks placed on the watch list do not have an associated risk response plan. Since an identified project risk has occurred wihtout an agreed-upon response plan, the most logical step for the PM is to analyze the impact of this risk on the project objectives to determine the best course of action.

You are developing a charter for a fiberoptic installation project that involves laying cable across a major interstate highway. You recall your company experienced problems related to traffic disruptions on a similar project about 3 years ago. Which of the following should you perform first to guide the implementation strategy?

Analyze the situation to determine EEF's. EEF's are internal and external conditions, not under immediate control of the team, that influence, constraint or direct the project, program or portfolio. Identifying EEF's early can help shape the implementation strategy and should be one of the first actions you perform when assigned a project.

a PM is leading an infrastructure development project and is in the process of comparing actual overall project performance against the performance against the performance objectives described in the project management plan. Which of the following activities is the PM least likely to conduct during this process?

Analyzing individuals or groups affected by the project.

A tTM responsible for tracking the costs of a project increases the budget to accommodate the unexpected rise in expenditures over the last 3 weeks. What should the PM say to the project TM.?

Any increase to the authoirzed budget can only approved via the Perform Integrated Change Control process (PIS). Unauthorized adjustments to the project budget aren not allowed.

During project planning, the project team rigourlously defined the project scope. During project execution, a senior engineer calls the PM and suggests a simpler and more efficient design that could benefit the project. What should the PM do next?>

Ask that the engineer submit a change request.A change request is a document to record a change that may affect the competing project constraints. Given that this change was proposed in a phone call, the change request† will also provide a means to capture the details required to evaluate the impact of the change to the project.

IN a daily standup meeting, a team member indicates that they found a big risk that was previously unknown. How should the agile coach proceed?

Ask the affected team members to stay after the meeting to discuss the issue in more detail. Issues that arise for the daily standup meeting are discussed immediately after the meeting. Keeping the discussion of the issue outside of the daily standup ensure that the pace of the daily standup is maintained and that all team members get their chance to speak.

working as a PM for a drug manufacturing project, you are performing a scheule network analysis to generate the project schedule model. You have already determined the critical path and float, optimized resources, and calculated a 90%, probability of completing the project by may 28. What else is left to do?

Assessing the need to aggregate schedule reserves to reduce the possibility of schedule slippage. Aggregating schedule reserves to reduce the risk of schedule delays is an analytical task in schedule network analysis. One form of this analysis is the critical chain method, which can only be done on a resource-optimized schedule. Using the critical path diagram as a basis, you must identify divergences and convergence at risk of delaying multiple activities. You can collect or aggreagate the available float for multiple tasks on a path accelerating their start and finish dates to create a buffer before at-risk path convergences. You only use schedule resources if necessary.

Executives in a certain business unit of the company have failed to attend project related meetings. The PM has sent multiple invites and requests to respond. Another PM tells him that he must work with the administrator of the respective business units to get any response and attendance. Which skill did the other PM demonstrate?

Awareness of the relationships and power structures within the organization is a skill that the PM demonstrated by explaining the means to reach and influence others in a system.

During the evaluation of the projects financial statements at the end of a project phase, concerns about some of the charges were raised the PM explains that the costs were justified both early in the project and as the project progressed. Which of the following is the best input for the PM to provide for reconciliation

Basis of estimates. The basis of estimates, as it pertains to the close project or phase process described in the scenario, is used to evaluate how the estimated of duration, cost resources and cost control compared to actual results.

Who has the responsibility to monitor, record, and report the realized benefits throughout the project?

Benefits owner. A properly prepared benefits management plan identifies a benefits owner that has the responsibility of monitoring, recording and reporting the realized benefits throughout the project.

As a PM for small company, you have been responsible for negotiating and issuing contracts. although you company has pre-qualified vendors, and the agreements are standard, you think the procurements should be handled by someone with more knowledge on the subject rather than the PM's. which of the following will you recommend?

Centralized purchasing.In a centralized purchasing environmen, the actual procurement and contracting functions are carried out by a separate department with a specific role and authority to purchase, negotiate and sign contracts. PM's would not be responsible for conducting procurements in this organizational structure.

During an iteration planning meeting an agile team is having difficulty estimating the wok required to develop the product increment bc the approach selected to develop the increment involves new technology, with which the team is unfamiliar. The use of tehcnology also represents a potential risk to the entire project if the approach fails. What should the team do to determine the impact of using the new technology?

Conduct a spike. A spike is a timboxed effort devoted to exploring an approach, investigating an issue, or assess project risk. A spike is typically performed when the team wants to gain knowledge or answer a question.

this refers to the process of selecting qualified sellers and implementing a legal contract for the delivery of services or goods. This is a process.

Conduct procurements

Which of the following is NOT a tool and technique of the Control Quality process?

Context diagrams.

The X process is contained in the monitoring and controlling process group. it is the process of managing procurement relationship, monitoring contract performance, making changes and correction as needed and closing out contracts.

Control Procurement (Process). It is the process that the bu¥er conducts performance reviews of sellers.

this is process involving procurment relationship management, contract performance moniotring, making contract modification as appropriate and closing out contracts.

Control Procurements.

You are concerned that too many quality audits drove the project costs beyond the planned value. To which cost group would you categorize these audits?

Cost of conformance, appraisal costs. The cost of conformance is the money spend during a project to avoid failures. Appraisal costs include expenses related to evaluating, measures, auditing and testing the product or device of the project. Appraisal costs are considered part of the cost conformance.

This is a data analysis technique used during the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process to support the selection of the best of severeal alternative courses of action.

Decision Tree Analysis.

A PM is in the process of obtaining the necessary equipment, materials, and supplies for a prototype development project. The project will require the use of the performing organizations industrial 3D printer and the PM has just learned that it is currently committed to another for the 3 days. What should the PM do first?

Document the printer's availability in the resource calendar. The describes a newly identified resource availability constraint which may or may not affect the project schedule. The resource availability should fist be captures in the resource calendar.

CPI =

Earned Value/Actual Cost or EV/AC

Schedule Variance (SV)

Earned value - planned value or (EV - PV)

integrated perspective on project performance

Earned value analysis

Who can terminate a contract on a project?

Either party by mutual consent. Agreements can be amended at any time before contract closure by mutual consent. If the early termination clause is NOT provided in the contract, this clause can be amended by mutual consent.

your project team is in the process of implementing the activities specified in the quality management plan. The scope, schedule, and budget are clear and well defined. Therefore, you manage this project using predictive methods. However, since your next project is agile, you want to start experimenting with some agile practices already in you current project. What can you do to achieve you goal as part of the process performed by the team?

Encourage continuous stakeholder engagement with the team members. One of the fundamental differences between traditional and agile projects is the level of stakeholder engagement/involvement. On traditional projects, the stakeholders are typically involved at key project milestones/gates. On agile projects, stakeholders are continuously involved and provide their input. Therefore, encouraging stakeholder engagement with the team would best meet the PM's goal of incorporating some agile practices into the current project.

you are planning to use a lot of expensive specialty tools in a year-long aviation project. You want to plan for quantity and types of the tools needed, as well as track their availability throughout the project. Which of the following processes would you use to estimate the type and quantity of these tools?

Estimate Activity Resources.This is the process of estimating team resources and the type and quantities of material, equipment and supplies necessary to do the job. The specialty tools required for this project are some of the equipment covered in this process.

Since the beginning of the project, the agile team has been experiencing long cycle times. The team has determined that these long cycle time are due to communication issues with the stakeholders because the project had been operating in a very siloed organization. What is the best course of action for the PM to improve and shorten cycle time under these circumstances?

Explain to the silos' managers the improtance of the cross-functional teams

At an iteration retrospective meeting, two senior developer express frustration that junior team members call them with questions late at night, waking them up and disrupting their family time. As a result, the developer are less productive during the work hours, which negatively affects product quality and creates variance with the performance measurements baseline. What could the PM have done earlier in the project to avoid the situation altogether or at least reduce its severity?

Facilitated a meeting to develop a team charter as part of the Plan Resource Management process.

How should an agile team view failure?

Failure is better when it occurs early rather than late. Team can take advantage of learning from failure if the occur early rather than late in project timeline.

You are managing a project team that has recently been expanded by new team members working working remotely from another country. Their roles have been outlined to from 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?

Focus groups, Ground rules, Meetings

A PM is drafting a charter for software development project. In support of this process, the PM has scheduled a brainstorming meeting to gather relevant information. Which of the following activities is the PM least likely to conduct?

Following the commmunications management plan to determine meeting atterndees. The question states that the project charter is being developed which occurs during project initiation. The communications management plan is not created until later in the project during the plan communications management plan.

A vendor on your project informs you that they will be unable to perform the ewokr as contracted after some equipment required for the project was destroyed in a hurricane. The vendor cites a clause in the contract that is designed to address the inability of a party to execute their reponsibilities due to extraordinary factors that were outside the control of the party. What clause does the vendor refer to?

Force Majeure. This clause is a common contractual clause that frees parties, bound by contract, from liability or obligation when certain circumstances beyond their control arise, making performance impossible. Examples of force majeure include war, flooding, tornado, etc...

A project is looking to procure a series of products to be developed in tandem with the project. A single supplier must be able to build out the products and provide services to the project team as the team work on the multitude of other components. To best manage the quality of the long-term procuement need, what is the best practice?

Form a relationship with the seller to build cooperation and mutually lasting solutions. The project is in need of many products from a selected seller. Developing a mutually beneficial relationship and understanding of the procurement needs over the course of the project improves cooperation and promotes understanding of shared goals and quality standards.

A project sponsor creates a draft of the project charter and asks you to complete its development and lead the project. What should you do next?

Gather information from stakeholder to document high-level details on the project. A document with high-level details on the project would be the reject charter. Gathering information from stakeholders is one of the techniques used to develop the project .

A scrum master is assigned to a new project in which ongoing stakeholder engagement will be a critical factor for the project's success. What strategy might the scrum master employ to monitor the satisfaction of key stakeholders?

Have conversations with stakeholders during the sprint reviews. The spring review is an agile ceremony during which the development team demonstrates the product increment developed during the iteration to the product owner and relevant stakeholders. One important aspect of sprint review meetings is to garner recurring feedback as the project deliverables evolve throughout the course of the project.

You are manging a project that is currently in the closing stage. You want to confirm that all deliverables were accepted, validate that the exit criteria have been met, evaluate the satisfaction of stakeholders and gather lessons learned. What should you do?

Hold meetings. Meetings are an effective tenchnique used in the closing stage to confirm that the deliverables have been accepted, to validate that the exit criteria have been met, to evaluate satisfaction of the stakeholders, to gather lessons learned.

You have recently completed a project to build a new airport for small personal aircraft. About a month later, you see an news report of protestors outside of the new airport. The new report indicates that local residents are very upset about the noise from aircraft taking off and landing. The residents are petitioning the local government to shut down the airport. Which project management process was inadequate.?

Identify Stakeholders. Th is is process of identifying stakeholder regularly and anlyiszing and documenting relevant information regarding their interests, involvement, interdependences, influence and potential impact on project success.

A PM is leading a process improvement project for a manufacturing company with a goal of improving the quality of the goods produced and reducing waste. The PM wants to take a proactive approach to continuous improvement. In addition to using a lessons learned register, what else might the PM do to achieve the project goals?

Implement the Deming cycle with the project team. The Deming cycle is AKA the plan-do-check -act cycle. The Deming cycle take an iterative and incremental approach to quality management which reduce variateions in a process, thus improving quality and reducing waste.

A project charter has been approved, and the PM has just completed the Identify Stakeholders process. Before project planning begin - what should the PM do?

Inform the key staekholders of the approved project charter. Once the Project Charter is approved, the identified stakeholders should be informed the project has received authorization to proceed. Informing stakeholders of the approved project charter ensures a common understanding of the key deliverables, milestones and their roles and responsiblities.

You are leading an agile software development project. During a sprint review, the customer rejects the deliverables stating that the grade is acceptable but not the quality. Of the following, which might be the best course of action?

Introduce more rigorous testing during the next sprint to reduce bugs. A high level of defects (referred to as bugs) is an example of poor quality. Introducing more rigorous testing should improve the quality of the product by reducing the quanitity and severity of the defects.

You are managing a software upgrade project for your company. Your project sponsor has a great deal of authority regarding project decisions, but you recently discovered that he doesn't have much interiors in your project. To complete the project successfully, you need your project sponsors continuous support. What stakeholder management strategy should you use with your project sponsor?

Keep the sponsor satisfied. A high a power/low-interest stakeholder, such as the project sponsor should be kept satisfied. Even though they may not be interested, they yield power. This type of stakeholder should be dealt wit caution.

a project has been plagued by quality issues in deliverables that risk the achievement of project objectives. The PM wants to meet w/ the team to discuss what could be improved going forward. What type of meeting will help the PM the most in achieving her goal?

Lessons learned. Lessons learned meetings can be held by the Project Team to discuss what worked well during the project/phase and what could be improved. Those meetings are conducted during the Control quality process.

The quality management plan specifies the use of a data representation technique to show the strength of relationships between 4 factors. which of the following tools or techniques should be used to comply with the plan?

Matrix Diagram. A matrix diagram seeks to show the strength of relationships among factors, causes, and objectives that exist between the rows and columns that form the matrix. For example, an X-shaped matrix can display 4 factors for comparison and is therefore the best tool to use.

Your software development project has an approved management plan that will incorporate an iterative approach as well as a constraint-driven delivery to complete the project on time and budget. You have empowered the development team with a high level of decision making authority , and the team has established a stable velocity that is exceeding expectations. Which of the following decisions is least likely to be delegated to TM's?

Moving up the release data in response to the accelerated develivery of features. With constraint-driven delivery, the budget and release data would be fixed, whereas the scope variable. If velocity is higher than planned, then the project team should be able to deliver more features for inclusion in the release rathe than moving up the release dates.

A PM is approached by the sponsor who requests to provide an estimate as to how long will it take for the agile development team to complete the project. How should the PM respond?

Once the velocity is established, the total amount of story points divided by the velocity of the project team will determine the project duration. Velocity is usually established after the team has run a few iterations (usually 2 or 3).

Which of the following is a tool or technique of the Plan Resource Management process/

Organizational Charts. these are hierarchical structure used to show position and relationship graphically. Such charts comprise one of several data representation techniques that serve as a tool and technique for the Plan Resource Management process.

The current project phase is schedule to conclude on July 31. Today is July 15, and the project team is anticipated to complete the remaining work well before July 31. The PM proposes a change to move ahead a few tasks form the next phase to into the current phase to prevent the team from coasting and stretching the work to fill the remaining time. Which of the following theories describes the PMs concern behind this change request?

Parkinson's law. Parkinson wrote in a book about the inefficinecy of bureaucracy. Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. In this scenario described the PM is concerned about optimizing resource utilization and minimizing idle time.

A PM is leading an infrastructure development project and is just starting the process of prioritizing individual project risks for further analysis. A stakeholder has expressed concern that the existing information about individual project risks may not be accurate and reliable. What is the best course of action?

Perform a risk data quality assessment. Risk data quality assessment evaluates the degree to which the data about individual project risks is accurate and reliable as a basis for qualitative risk analysis.

A project team has examined the degree of variance relative to the scope baseline. The PM needs to know if the variance has been improving or deteriorating as the project has progressed. What should the PM do next?

Perform a trend analysis. Trend analysis is a data analysis technique which examines project performance over time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating.

As a PM, you are in the process of prioritizing individual project risks. The project team has just completed a probability and impact matrix, and you have decided to consider other characteristics of risk when prioritizing individual project risk. What should you do next?

Perform an assessment of other risk parameters. A data analysis technique that may be used in the perform qualitative risk analysis process includes an assessment of other risk parameters. The project team may consider other characteristics of risk (in addition to probability and impact) when prioritizing individual project risks for further analysis and action.

You are managing a project to develop a robotic window washing system. Many of the necessary parts of the robotic system will be obtained from 3-rd party vendors. At this point in the proejc, you have obtained the vendor responses for the electronics required for the robots, selected a vendor and awarded a contract. Which of the following should you do next in the Project procurement management?

Perfromance reviews. You have obtained vendor response, selected a vendor and awarded a contract, all of which are activities performed as part of Conduct Procurements proces. The next step in the PPM knowledge area would be the Control Procurement process where contract progress is monitored using performance reviews.

X is the process of developing approaches to involve project stakeholders, based on their needs, expectations, interests and potential impact on the project.

Plan Stakeholder Engagement (Process) .

You are leading a project that is about to transition from a predictive phase to an agile phase. You want to ensure the proper application of best practices for the identified project management framework. As it pertains to accountability, what is the best strategy for the transition?

Present the prioritized product backlog to the development TM's during iteration planning and allow them to manage the work. Agile teams are self-organizing and self-managing. Therefore, the work needed to produce the project deliverables should be prioritized by the relevant stakeholders (typically the product owner) and introduced to the TM's, who then collaborate on how to organize, carry out and manage the work.

You are planning a highway construction project, and you have just completed the development of the quality management plan. Your organization requires that the project management office (PMO) review and approve all components of project management plans. You submit the quality management plan to the PMO for review, and a few days later they indicate that an element was missing. What element of the quality management plan might you have most likely missed?

Procedures that deal with nonconformance, corrective actions procedures, and continuous improvement procedures. Major procedures relevant to the project, such as dealing with nonconformance, corrective actions procedures and continuous improvement procedures are included in the quality management plan.

this is a techniques that is used during the Manage Quality process to identify opportunities for process improvement.

Process Analysis

you are managing the development of a new product. The customer has provided the objectives and description of the product. The project team is decomposing the customer's high-level requirements to the level of detail needed to design the product and define its scope. In which activity is the project team involved?

Product analysis. For projects that have a product as deliverable, product analysis can be used as a tool to define the scope of the product. As described in the scenario, requirments are captured at a high level and decomposed to the level of detail needed to design the product. You are in Define Scope process. Product Analysis is among the tools and techniques of this process and can be used to define products and services.

A company is considering two projects, project A with the internal rate of return (IRR) of 25%, and project B with the IRR of 15%. which project should the company select and why?

Project B because a lower IRR represents lower costs. The IRR is the interest rate at which the cash inflow and cash outflow of the project equal zero. A higher IRR means a higher potential rate of growth (return).

This is a high-level project description and boundaries, high-level requirements, and risks. Additionally this is an input to the Plan Risk Management process

Project Charter

this is a set of activities that include the processes necessary to purchase or acquire products, services or results needed from outside the proejct team.

Project Procurement Management.

A project manager wants to ensure that the resources assigned and allocated to the project are available as planned. In order to complete this process, the project manager has to know when resources are needed, and the location where they are needed?

Project Schedule. As is relates to the control resource process, the project schedule shows the resources that are needed , when they are needed and the location where they are needed. The project shcedule is a project document that shows which resources are needed, when they are needed and the location where they are needed.

You and your project team have just completed defining the scope for you project and are now in the process of decomposing the scope statement to create the WBS. Some of the deliverables will be produced later in the project and cannot be entirely decomposed at this time. When you have completed the process of creating the WBS, your scope baseline will include which of the following components?

Project scope statement, work packages, and planning. Components of the scope baseline include the project scope statement, WBS, work packages, planning packages, and WBS dictionary.

A majority of the project is planned out, although some sprints are being incorporated from time to time. when those sprints occur, the normal communication cadence is disrupted. What should the PM do in terms of communication during those sprints?

Propose changing communication during the sprints. The normal communication was disrupted with the incorporation of agile methodologies. The hybrid

An agile team is tasked with the development of a robot. The PM wants to ensure that before the actuakl robot is built, the team receives early feedback on requirements and adapts the design accordingly. Which of the following should the team used to address the PM's request?

Prototyping. This supports the concept of progressive elaboration in iterative cycles, such as those used on agile projects described in this scenario. When enough feedback cycles have performed, the requirements obtained from the prototype are sufficiently complete to move to the design or build phase.

A PM conducted a walkthrough with the sponsors to obtain approval for the project deliverables. The sponsors were very pleased with the completed scope and after the inspection sent a letter praising the project team for exceeding their expectations quality. Which of the following is least likely to be updated as the result of this letter?

Quality Management Plan. The QMP documents how applicable policies will be implemented to achieve the quality objectives of the project. There is nothing in the scenario that indicates that any of the policies or their implementation should be modified as a result of the successful inspection.

you are managing a project to relocate a historic building to a new property that is a safe distance from the rising river basin. You have just finished developing you cost estimate, and are preparing the supporting documentation to accompany it. What should be included in this documentation?

Range of possibilities. The range possible estimates is one of the supporting details included with the cost estimates.

Three are many projects under the management of one program. The program manager requests that before one of the project wraps up that the project manager and the team review and analyze the relationships between project variables that may have contributed to the project's success. The program manager would like to apply those findings to other projects in the program. What technique are the project manager and team to use?

Regression analysis. This is conducted to evaluate the interrelationships between various project variables to determine if any independent variables are related to a dependent variable and then uses that information to make predictions or forecasts based on those variables.

During the team's daily stand-up meeting. two of the TM's are arguing about how to solve an issue that is delaying development of one of the modules. What is the best course of action for the agile coach to take?

Remind the TM's that the daily stand-up is not the form to discuss such issues. A daily stand-up is a time-boxed event with a very clear agenda. 3 questions are addressed on the daily stand-up: what have done since the last daily stand-up meeting? what am I planning to do today? are there any impediments to my progress?. Stand-up is not the form for the rest of the team to render their opinions and let the majority rule to remove the impediment.

As an agile coach, you have requested to conduct a training session for a team assigned to their first agile project. You decide to start the session with the overview of the values outlined by the agile manifesto. Which of the following is one of those values.?

Repsponding to change over following a plan. Value #4 for the agile manifesto states "responding to change over following plan"

you are considering using unique foods inc for a catering work package in your project. Uniques Foods has begun ordering food based on informal discussions with you. They are requesting funds to order the rest of the supplies and begin work. What is your next best response?

Request Unique Foods to wait until procurement documents are prepared. Verbal notification or acknowledgement without proper documentation is not sufficient for a potential seller to proceed or produce materials.

The project requires frequent input from the senior management team. Some of the past projects succeeded in engagingg the team, however, most failed as senior management is notorious throughout the organization for responding slowly and not attending meetings. What is the best approach for the stakeholder engagement plan of the current project?

Review lessons learned from other project involving the management stakeholders. Lessons learned from other project can be an extremely valuable input to the plan stakeholder engagement process. Learning from the successes and failures of other projects can guide the plans for the current project.

Which factors should be consideredd while prioritizing items in the product backlog?>

Risk, cost, value. These are all factors contributing to the decision of how items in the product backlog should be prioritized.

WEhich of the following is NOT an output of the Monitor Risks process?

Risks reviews. These are meetings used to examine and document the effectiveness of risk responses during during the Monitor Risks process. They are a type of tool/technique and are not outputs.

example of this is an iterative planning technique in which the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail, while wokr further in the future in planned at a higher level. As more is know about upcmiong event in the near term, work packages can be decomposed into activities to the required level of detail.

Rolling wave planning.

identify the main reason for problems

Root cause analysis

A PM has been asked to draft a new project charter. The PM has reviewed the existing agreements and studied the project business documents. What might the PM do next?

Schedule a meeting with key stakeholders to identify summary information. For the creation of the project charter, meetings may be held with key staekghodlers to identify the project objectives, success criteria, key deliverables, high-level requirements, summary milestones and other summary info.

A PM has gathered and reviewed the inputs necessary to begin the development of the scope management plan for a project to build a new residential complex. What is the best course of action for the PM to complete this process?

Schedule a meeting with subject matter experts who have knowledge in construction. This choice describes two of the tools and techniques, which may be beneficial in the development of the scope management plan, including expert judgement and meetings.

As part of the routine activities to monitor and control the performance of your project, you determine that the project SPI is 0.8. In order to get the schedule back into alignment with the plan, you authorize the overtime pay for the project team. Which of the following best describes the tool or technique you used to align the schedule?

Schedule compression. Overtime pay is an example of Crashing which is one of the schedule compression techniques.

a vendor has been contracted by a business to develop a marketing campaign for their new product. Some of the contract items are fixed, such as warranties and arbitrations, and are locked in a Master Services Agreement (MSA). Others, such as services rates and product descriptions, are subject to change. Which of the following should the business use to secure contractual relationships with the vendor for these subject to change items?

Schedule of services. This is a document that describes outsourced work items that are subject to change, such as services rates and product descriptions, as presented in the scenario. This document may supplement a MSA used to secure the fixed work items. This approach, addressing fixed and subject to change items, is typical for hybrid procurement methods.

A key team member has left the project, and the planned risk response is implemented by replacing the TM with an individual that is very capable and highly productive. However, the PM now feels there is a risk that the productivity of the team may suffer as a result of not having an established working relationship with the replacement TM. This new risk is an example of which type of risk?

Secondary risk. a secondary risk is a risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response. the risk that the other TM's productivity may decrease arose as a result of implementing the risk response for the loss of the original TM.

Your marketing project started with a team comprised of junior graphic designers. Throughout the project, you have invested heavily in courses to strengthen the proficeinces of the team members. Now, you are evaluating the professional knowledge of each team member.

Skill assessments. Updates to skill assessments is an example of the EEF updates which are an output from the develop team process implied by the scenario.

which of the following is the best course of action for a development team to maximize the value delivered to the customer?

Split user stories in the iteration backlog. User stories may be sliced into smaller chunks or resized by the development team when necessary so that the story can be completed in one iteration.

You are the PM leading your team to develop the stakeholder engagement plan for a software development project. Which of the following Enterprise Environmental Factors might influence this process?

Stakeholder risk appetites. This can influence how stakeholders are engaged. Stakeholder risk appetites are among the EEF's that may influence the plan stakeholder engagement process.

Halfway through a project., the project sponsor left the organization. You meet with project sponsor to bring her up to speed and ensure she has the appropriate level of support for the project. The new sponsor is excite about the project and she decides to expand the project slightly. What should you do first?

Submit a change request to expand the existing project. The question describes the situation in which the project scope is being expanded. An approved change request is required to modify any of the project baselines.

The project you are leading is supposed to upgrade the application developed by your company on desktop computers and mobile devices. Last weeks, a major supplier of electronics unexpectedly released a new mobile device. You realize that your application, with a little bit of modification, can run much faster and more securely on the new device. What should you do next in regards to this opportunity?

Submit a change request to modify the application.

You take over a project that has just been baselined. You review the project maangemt plan and realize that while the development phase of the project will use an adaptive lifecycle, the development team does not have any experience with agile methodologies. The resource management plan does not specify any agile training. What should yo do first?

Submit a change request to revise the project management plan. Addressing the issue with the lack of agile training for the development team would involve changes to the cost and schedule baselines, the resource management plan, and possibly other elements of the project management plan.

Reserve analysis that the remaining contingency reserves of a project are insufficient to cover the cost of implementing the risk responses that are currently underway. However, the existing management reserves should be adequate to cover the immediate need, as well as the remaining risk in the project. What is the best course of action in this situation?

Submit a change request to transfer the management reserves into the cost baseline. AN approved change request is required to transfer the funds from management reserves into the cost baseline. Once the funds from management reserves have been released, the PM can access the funds as part of the cost baseline.

You are in the midst of the project execution. You have identified new stakeholders and updated the stakeholder register with the identification, assessment and classification information. What should you do next as part of this process?

Submit a change request to update the Project Management Plan. Components of the PMP that may be updated as the reult of the identity stakeholders process described by the scenario may include the requirements management plan, communication management plan, risk management plan, and stakeholder engagement plan. With new stakeholders being introduced into the project, it is likely that each of these components will ned to be revised.

The this iteration of an agile project is underway. A stakeholder is not happy with the progress the team made so far. The stakeholder approaches the team and requests that form now on the team informs her about the status of their work on an ongoing basis. How should a Servant leader respond?

Suggest that the stakeholder periodically reviews the information radiators. These are used by agile teams to 'radiate' the status of their progress to the project stakeholders. A review of the information radiatiors would typically be sufficient for the stakeholders to understand the status of work being performed on a project.

A Project team is producing deliverables incrementally in order to take advantage of early revenue. The project is trending to meet all of the baseline. However, the PM has determined that the team's velocity has been 50 pts for each of the first five sprints with an SPI of .83 over the same time period. How should the PM respond to the team's performance?

Suggest that the team set more realistic goals during sprint planning. It seems as if the team over-committed by planning 60 story pts per sprint. Since the team has established a stable velocity of 50 story pts per sprint - it is unrealistic to keep committing to completing 60 pts, all else being equal.

How to calculate Estimate at Completion (EAC)

TCPI= (BAC-EV)/(EAC-AC) ... how to calculate EV? (% completion * BAC)

Two qualified vendors have been identified for a project. The requesting organization is capable of performing the work, but it was deemed less cost-effective to do so. during vendor selection, the PM leans that one vendor already works with a competitor and is restricted by an exclusivity clause. The other vendor is not avialable during the required timeframe. What might the PM have done differently to avoid this situation?

Tailored the source selection criteria to include vendors availability. Tailoring consideration include, among others, the aviablity of contractors. Had the PM considered the availability of contractors before completing the procurement management plan, time and effort could have been directed towards planning to perform the required work internally.

An agile project to build a new website is being implemented using a lean product development approach. The PM delegates some of the duties to the team lead as well as encourages the TM's to make local decisions, including managing their workflow. What is the PM trying to achieve ?

Team empowerment. Agile teams are know to be self-organizing, self-directing and empowered to make decision related to their work. Delegating some of the duties to the team lead as well as encouraging the TM's to make local decisions supports the concept of team empowerment, making this the best choice.

Individual and Team Assessments

Team performance assessments are an output of the Develop team process. Various tools are available such as surveys, structured interviews, and ability tests. These tools can be used to assist with team building, but will not evaluate team performance in a project.

Increased latency in transaction times was identified risk for a software upgrade project. While monitoring project risks, the project team performs some data analysis and discovers that the latency issues have resulted in average transaction times of 37 minutes vs. a traget of 12 minutes. What data analysis tool or technique has the project team most likely used?

Technical performance analysis compares technical accomplishments during project execution to the schedule of technical achievement. it requires the definition of objective, quantifiable measures of technical performance, which can be used to compare actual results against targets. Such technical performance measures may include weight, transaction times, # of delivered defects, storage capacity, etc. A deviation can indicate the potential impact of threats and opportunities.

A PM goes into the monthly steering committee meeting and says the project has a cost variance of 25,378.22. Instead of being praised for running under budget, one of the executives at the meeting expresses frustration at the number. What is wrong with the variance?

Th level of precision is not correct. Most projects have a level of precision that would round the variance rather than report a cost variance to the penny. For example, 25k would be a more reasonable number.

The project sponsor asks the PM how well the project is doing in terms of budget. The PM reviews work performance data and informs the sponsor that the project is doing well. What is wrong with the PMs approach?

The PM should have reviewed work performance information. WPI is the project performance data collected from various processes, analyzed in context, and integrated based on relationships across areas. Unlike work performance data, WPI is correlated and allows project stakeholders to reach a conclusion about project health.

Who is ultimately responsible for transferring the ownership of deliverables to the customer during the Close Project or Phase process?

The Project Manager.. When closing out a project, the PM would be responsible for transferring ownership of the project deliverables to the assigned stakeholders.

A team that is new to agile methodologies and has been instructed by senior management to adopt an iterative development approach using lean thinking and Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle. Which of the following would be true if the team is following the PDCA cycle?

The TM's are expected to performm their wok according to an explicit plan of execution. The PDCA cycle requires that the team performs its work according to an explicit plan of execution that is guided by experience, good principles and lessons learned.

In situations where a key resource is required for the success of the project, that resource can be-preassigned to the project in the project charter or during initial project planning.

The availability of the scrum master should have been negotiated between the functional manager and the project manager during project initiation. If a crititcal resource is required for the project - that resource can be pre-assigned in the project charter during project initiation or early in the project planning.

AN internal project is almost complete. The PM wants to have a final meeting with sponsor to discuss how to maximize the value of the deliverables after proejct's deliverable is deployed. What does the PM use to back up the conversation with the sponsor?

The benefits management plan. The benefits management plan defines how the customer must maintain the deliverables, so the deliverables provide the highest benefit after they are delivered and not under the purview of the project.

A PM oversee a team consisting of a business analyst and three software developers. The team released a prototype to the customer for review and just finished gathering new requirements for the next project iteration. After reviewing the requirements documentation, the PM discovered that some of the requirements were never documented. Who would be the person responsible for gathering and doucumenting requirements?

The business analyst. On projects w/ an assigned business analyst, requirements-related activities are the responsibility of that role. The business analyst specializes in conducting a business analysis and is reposible for analyzing, defining, documenting and managing requirements, while the PM ensure that requirements- related activities are accounted for in the PM plan and are delivered on time.

you are assigned to a software development project. The product requirements are not clearly defined upfront. Therefore, it has been decided to develop the product using an agile framework. Other aspects of the project will be managed using the traditional waterfall project management approach. Which of the following might you spend less time developed and or implementing for this project?

The change management plan.

Scrum meeting purpose?

The daily scum meeting should not be used to resolve problems or to remove roadblocks. Rather, the daily scrum should be used to identify the roadblocks and place them on a list to be discussed after the daily scrum meeting has been concluded.

During a sprint planning meeting, the scrum team is going over 115 story points' worth of user stories that the product owner is pushing to be ocmpleted in the upcoming sprint. However, the development team's average velocity is only 100 story points. Who makes the final decision on how many story points will be targeted for completion during a sprint?

The development team is responsible for determining what will be accomplished during the sprint, as the individuals responsible for completing the work are in the best position to make that determination.

A PM was asked to prepare a document, which the project sponsor will sign to authorize a new software development project. which of the following will the PM want to include in this document?

The key project deliverables. The PM has been asked to develop a project chartedr. The key deliverables for the project is an element which should be included as component of the project charter.

To fulfill some of the project requirements, the performing organibzation must partner with an outside firm. The PM revises the stakeholder register to reflect the new arrangement and marks the parent as downward in the classification under the directions of influence. What does that indicate?

The partner can influence with their specialized knowledge in a temporary capacity. The classification of various direction of influence is from the perspective of the project. Since the partners are considered part of the composition of the project, they are below or under the project umbrella; hence a downward influence.

At the strategy meeting in you organization, the meeting participants are arguing that a good project management practice means that the knowledge skills and processes should always be applied uniformly on all projects that the organization is about to undertake. Which of the following is the most accurate regarding the question under debate???

The processes used and the degreee of rigor for each process should be appropriate for any given project. Good practice does not mean that the knowledge, skills and processes should always be applied uniformly on all projects. The processes should be tailored to any given project.

During the last few iterations of the agile project the TM's found themselves with many partially user stories. One TM suggested imposing an upper limit on the amount of work that the team take on at any point during an iteration. What should an agile practitioner advise in this situation?

The team should set an upper limit on the WIP to reduce waste. Adding WIP limits reduces waste and increases productivity; hence business value being delivered.

An agile project team has just completed its 4th iteration, but no product increment has been demonstrated at the iteration review. The stakeholders are frustrated that no value has been created. The scrum master comes to the team's defense. What did the scrum master most likely tell the stakeholders?

The team spent time analyzing issues to mitigate project risks. If the team feels there s a risk on a project, it is better to investigate it now, even at the expense of not delivering any value to the customer in the short term. This course of action is a better approach than waiting until the risk 'explodes' later on and potentially causes the entire project to fail.

you are managing a project in which several contractors are being hired to complete project work. As you received the signed contracts from the contractors, you file them in the project folder where they wait for approvals by an appointed member of senior management. The onboarding process is slow than anticipated and you project starts out behind schedule. What was the most likely cause of the problem??

The use of pull communications The question states that the contracts are uploaded to a project file where the appointed member of senior management must pull them to provide the approval.

OPA's

These documents should be uploaded to the company's system throughout the life of the project.

Activity attributes

This includes activity codes, predecessors activities, successor activities, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, imposed dates, constraints and assumptions.

Kanban

This is an agile method for managing work with an emphasis on limiting work in progress (WIP) and visualizing the flow of work

Parametric Estimating

This is the best technique when the information available about the current project is coupled with the historical information form the previous project.

To create initial user stories, the product owner is facilitating a story writing workshop with the team and project stakeholders. What is the main focus of this workshop?

To create as many user stories as possible. During a story writing workshop, the focus should be on quantity rather than quality, so the meeting participants should write as many user stories within the prescribed time-box of the workshop.

Yo are creating the cost management plan for project where the scope will need to be elaborated as the project progreseses and the deliverables will be developed incrementally over the course of several iterations. What is the best budgeting strategy for this project?

Use lightweight estimation to generate a high-level cost forecast and only provide detailed estimates at the last responsible moment. When operating in agile-like environment where the scope cannot be fully defined developing detailed cost estimates may not be possible during initial project planning. The alternative is to use lightweight estimation methods to build a high-level cost forecast and only create detailed esimtes for short-term planning in a just-in-time fashion.

Your Project TM's are writing software code together as a pari and reviewing each other's work to determine if the code conforms to the requirements documentation. Which of the following will be a result of these reviews?

Verified deliverable. Verified deliverables are completed project deliverables that have been checked and confirmed for correctness through the Control Quality process. IN the scenario, the team is using the tool of inspection to determine if the software conforms to the requirments documentation which will ultimately result in a verified deliverable.

What is an output of the Control Schedule process that is an input to the Monitor and Control Project Work process?

Work Performance Information. WPI is summarized or an analyzed version of work performance data. Most processes in the Monitoring and Controlling processes group have WIP as output.

An agile team is using Kansan board to manage their workflow. A stakeholderappraoches the team lead and asks why the cycle time in this project is loinger than the cycle time in the previous projec. The team lead wonder how the stakeholder came to this conclusion. The stakeholder explains that they used the Little's law formula. Which of the following formulas did the stakeholder most likely use?

Work in progress divided by throughput. Little's Law is Cycle Time = Work in Progress/Throughput

you want to determine the progress that the team members have made so far on the project you are leading. You see that activity A was completed on July 30th and tool 25 hrs, activity B is not yet completed, but has 12 hours so far, there have been 15 changes requests and the actual costs are 1.1 million. What is this information called.?

Work performance data. Work performance data is the raw results, measurements and observations obtained during the Direct and Manage Project Work process.

an agile project has entered its seventh sprint. Two days before the end of the sprint, the customer informs the product owner that the¥ forgot to include one feature in the sprint. A senior manager obverhears the conversation and states that including the feature represents scope creep and should not be allowed. What is the product owner's best course of action?

Work with the customer to prioritize the feature in the product backlog. Agile best practices suggest that the product owner should let the team finish the work that has been assigned to the team members for the current sprint and then, with the customer, prioritize the feature that has been forgotten by the customer in the product backlog.

As the project team plans its next iteration, the TM's realize that the scope of the iteration is so complex that they are unable to think of any solution to produce the next product increment. The search for a potential solution available on the market brings no results either. Turning to an external vendor seems the only plausible course of action. What should the PM do?

Work with the tam and company's contracting professional to develop a request for proposal (RFP)

team performance assessments

You can conduct an evaluation of the team's performance, the PM can identify the specific training, coaching, mentoring, assistance, or changes required to improve the team's performance.

corrective actions for better performance

alternative analysis

you are in charge of a large project to install internet hubs across the city. Although most of the project variables are clear and can be managed using the waterfall approach, technical aspects are not fully defined and will be elaborates as the project progresses. The sponsor requests that project information will be commmunicated more frequently and quickly. To address the sponsor's request, you will use all of the following, except:

communicating project status weekly. it is unclear if weekly cadence would be considered by the sponsor to be frequent and quick enough. However, this option describes the practice that would 'least' likely support the need expressed by the sponsor to communicate project information more frequently and quickly.

Corrective actions regarding the cost

cost-benefit analysis

The PM has scheduled individual discussion with experience project participants, stakeholders and SME's./ The purpose of these discussions is to obtain a comprehensive list of individual project risks and sources of overall project risk. Which tool or technique is the PM utilizing in this situation?

interviews. Interviews is a technique used in the project management process of identifying risks. The purpose of the interviews during the identify risks process is to obtain a comprehensive list of individual project risks and sources of overall project risk.

An agile coach has been assigned to a team that has already completed several iterations of their agile project. By the tension within the group and some mean comments the team members exchange with one another, the coach suspects that there are problems with the team's working relationships. What is the agile coach's best course of action?

observe the team's iterations over the next week. In order to understand the context of the conflict, the agile coach will need to spend solid time with the team members. Once the agile coach has a better insight into the team dynamics, an informed decision can be made regarding what action to take.

a project with a tight budget to update an inventory control system is underway. A key stakeholder submits a request to replace all barcode scanners. The request is rejected by the CCB. The stakeholder contacts the PM and insists that replacing all the scanners is necessary as some of the existing units are broken. The PM is concerned that the stakeholder may become resistant to the project if the issue is not addressed promptly. What its the best course of action?

offering to assist the stakeholder by submitting a change request only the broken scanners. This answer choice represents the interpersonal and team skill of negotiation. It is best to negotiate a reasonable solution to the concern raised by the stakeholder to retain their support for the project.

To communicate the projects progress the PM makes sure that the big visible charts (BVCs) are updates in real time. Despite these efforts, the project TM's complain that they are overwhelmed w/ ad hoc requests for information from various stakeholders. The situation the team says, is so severe the sprint goal is in jeopardy. What was the most likely cause for this issue?

project communication planning was not sufficient. Having Big Visible Charts updated in real time is a good project management practice, especially on an adaptive (agile) project, like the one in this scenario.

The product developed by the project team is plagued by defects. At every sprint review, the product owner rejects multiple user stories. How should the project leader address this issue?

recommend that the team writes automated tests before developing software code. This is a test-driven development where the team writes automated tests before creating the software code. This approach may help the team design and mistake-proof the product. Test-driven development helps ensure that the product increments demonstrated during the sprint review have minimum defects.

after a series of mergers and acquisitions, you are managing a multi-case rebranding project. After project deliverables have already been formally accepted and executive branding authority finds several instances of non compliance in print, digital and office sign samples and want to meet with those who signed off on them. Where would you find out details on who signs off and what they signed off?

requirements documentation. The requirements documentation may describe the stakeholders, attachments and waivers unbolted with requirements at various stages of development, verification, and validation. Therefore, the requirements documentation is the best place to look up who signed off on a deliverable and more details on what they signed off on in order to prepare for these meetings.

The project you are managing requires the rental of equipment. if your primary supplier cannot provide the necessary equipment on time, you may need to rent the equipment at higher rate from a different supplier. To address this risk., you have added contingency reserves. Fortunaltley, the primary contractor provides all equipment on time. What should you do next?

update the risk register and release the contingency reserves associated with the risk. The risk register should be updated to reflect the status of the outdated risk. Also, since the identified risk did not occur, the unused contingency reserve may be removed from the project budget to free up resources for other project or operations.

compared planned and actual performance

variance analysis

A new PM is brought onto the project. The PM wants to understand the process by which this particular project formally accepts deliverables. Which of the following should the PM consult?

The scope management plan. This contains plans and guidance on how the scope related work is to managed. This includes the process and procedures for the formal acceptance of project deliverables.

Midway into project execution, the customer runs out of money and cannot pay for the project. What should the PM do next?

Archive project information. Archiving project information is one of the activities performed during the Close project or phase process. This information can be used by the organization for future projects. No matter the circumstances under which a project ends, the project must always go the through the Close or phase process.

Agile TM's want to create an application for a new video game console. While the team wants to appeal to early adopters by hitting their targeted release window, they do not want to end up with a lackluster game. What strategy would best allow the team to balance building the game rapidly while meeting their objectives?

Arrange prioritized elements in the form of a wireframe.Wireframes assist the project's development by laying out content and functionality so the project has a visual structure and basis for development.

This provides a summary of the project performance and would include the information requested by your project sponsor as well as a summary of other project performance information. Creating and archiving this document is one of the several activities to be performed at the close of the proejc.

Final Report

Which off the following is NOT a tool or technique used in the Plan Schedule Management process?

Multicriterai decision analysis. This is an example of a decision-making tool and technique.

You want to build an atmosphere of trust among the team and stakeholders and motivate them to share their knowledge. Which of the following tool or technique would help your team the most to achieve your goal?

Networking. Knowledge is best shared using a combination of reviewing documentation and providing opportunities to interact with those who have previous experience. Networking allows natural connections among TM's and stakeholders creating conduittions for them to share and learn from the each other.

You are finalizing your project. As you start this process, you need to gain a clear understanding of the project's approval requirements and who will sign off on the project. What should you do to find this information?

Review the project charter. The project charter documents the project success criteria, the approval requirements and who will sign off on the project.

Which of the following is the best course of action for a development team to maximize the value delivered to the customer?

Split the use stories in the iteration backlog. Use stories may be sliced into smaller chunks or resized by the development team so that the story can be completed in one iteration.

Analogous Estimating

this uses historical data such as cost and duration from previous projects to estimate costs of the current project. This is typically used when there is limited information about the current project.

Which of the following might be listed in the project charter as a key deliverable?

A comprehensive manual. A deliverable is any unique and verifiable product, result, or capability to perform a service that is required to be produced to complete a process, phased, or project. A comprehensive use manual is an example of a project deliverable.

A PM is leading the development of a new car model. During testing, it is discovered that the power seats failed before 1000 cycles, which is an unacceptable blessing failure rate. The problem is traced to an interference issue with th wiring harness and the seat rail. The wiring diagram is updated to reroute the wiring harness to avoid the interference issue for the production cars and prevent it from occurring in the future. What best describes the measure taken to solve the problem in this scenario?

A corrective action was taken. This is an intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan. In this case, a problem was identified after a failure occurred and steps are taken to prevent the problem from hapennign in the future. There

A project to construct a new cruise ships in the execution stage when a small crack is discovered in the mount of the engine. The decision is made to apply stop-drilling and then weld the crack. After welding is complete the is inspected, painted and returned to service. Which of the following best describes the action taken in this scenario?

A defect repair was performed. Defect repair is an intentional activity that modifies a nonconforming product or product component. The crack discovered in the components is an example of a defect which was repaired by stop-drilling and welding crack.

During a daily standup meeting, the project team raises a risk that twas not identified earlier in project planning. The team discusses the risk with the PM, who realizes that a potential response to the risk is beyond his authority. The risk management plan does not provide any guidance on how type of risk should be managed. What is the PM's best strategy to deal with this risk?

Adopt risk escalation as a response strategy so that the risk can be appropriately managed. Risk escalation is a risk response strategy whereby the team acknowledges that the risk is outside of its sphere of influence and shift the ownership of the risk to higher level of the organization where it is more effectively managed.

During the last few sprints, the scrum team has been unable to complete any of its spring goals due to the defects coming from previous releases, unexpected call with the salespeople, and work request by the team members' functional managers. The scrum master approaches the sponsor requesting help. The sponsor replies that the situation is unlikely to change. What is the best course of action for scrum master going forward?

Allocate place holder user stories to account for interruptions. The scenario suggests that the interruptions have a repetitive nature and are unlikely to stop. even though the team does not know what and how many interruption they will experience, the TM's know the interruption are most likely to come. Thus, the team can account for this work in advance by allocating a particular amount of story points in their upcoming sprints.

During an esimtation meeting, the team was unable to reach consensus about the level of effort required to implement a high priority very complex feature with many technical unknowns. What is the best way to handle this situation?

Allow time for a spike to be performed. The spike would help the team understand the technical requirements to implement the feature and allow them to provide an effort estimation for this work.

A software development company has grown quickly and now employs scrum masters. To better coordinate activities and shared resources between the projects, the business is transitioning from scrum to SAFE as an overarching management framework. What strategy will most benefit the business in addressing the interdependicies between projects?

Applying systems thinking by taking a holistic view of how the projects and their parts interact. And of the key principles of the Scaled Agile Framework SAFE is the Application of systems thinking. Systems thinking entails a holistic view of how project and project parts interact with each other. Systems thinking will be critical in addressing the interdepencies. that exist between the project and project teams.

On your current project, you have participated in the development of the project charter, finalized the stakeholder register, and just completed the development of the project management plan. What still needs to be done before project execution can begin?

Approval of the project management plan by relevant stakeholders. The PMP is a document that describes how the project will be executed, monitored and controlled, and closed. It integrates and consolidates all of the subsidry management plans plans and baseline, and other information necessary to manage the project. It is obvious that the PMP should be approved before project execution can begin.

The second sprint of a project to develop an app that collects personal data wihtout user consent is underway. The project complies with the current data privacy law, but a new law will require use consent. Compliance with the new law that comes into effect next year will put the project over budget. But the team believes the project can be completed this year. What is the best course of action for the PM?

Ask the project sponsor to provide additional funding to comply with the new data privacy law. The project leader has an ethical obligation to ensure that individual privacy is respected and protected even after the project's completion. Since compliance will put the project over budget, additional funding will be required. The project sponsor will need to determine whether to absorb the incremental cost or terminate the proejct.

The PM reviews the issue log at the end of each day. One issue she recorded in the issue log stems from delays in the of material from a contracted supplier. The project manager suspects the procurement process is flawed. What should the PM use to determine if any adjustments to the procurement process are required?

Audit., An audit is how contract performance is monitored via a structured review of procurement process. The PM would conduct and audit to compare the suppliers obligations to deliver the material as outline in the contract versus their actual performance. results of the audit would determine if corrective action needs to be taken.

ths is a data gathering tool used in Plan Stakeholder Managment used to compare the results of the proejct's stakeholder analysis with information obtained from other organizations or proejcts that are considered to be world class.

Benchmarking

A PM is about to start the processes associated with the initiating process group. The PM needs to know who will be responsible for ensuring that the value to the project is preserved a year after the project deliverables are handed over to the customer. Where will the PM find this information?

Benefits Management Plan. This defines the benefits that are derived directly form the project's deliverables, how the benefits continue into the future, how the value is maintained and improved, and who is responsible for doing that work.

in order to produce required materials for a project, your team prepares documents that will be used to solicit information, quotations and proposals from prospective sellers. The documents are structured to facilitate an accurate and complete response from each prospective seller and to facilitate the evaluation of the responses. What type of documents is your team creating ?

Bid documents. These are documents used to solicit information, quotations or proposals from prospective sellers. Bid documents would include the request for information (RFI) request for quotation (RFQ) and request for proposal (RFP)

A PM is in the process of creating the quality management plan for a product development project.. Currently, the PM needs to understand and then estimate the cost quality for a particular process. What is the best course of action?

Build a SIPOC model (suppliers, inputs, process, outputs and customers) model type of flowchart that may prove useful in understanding and estimating the cost quality for a process.

A stakeholder approaches the scrum master and requests to see a report that shows the progress of the work remaining on the project at both the sprint level and release level. Which of the following would be the best for scrum master to provide the stakeholder with>

Burndown chart. This is an information radiator graph form that represents the team's remaining work and can be reported at the sprint level or release level.

A sponsor requests to see the impact of the scope changes requested by the customer throughout the lifecycle of an agile project in an easy-to-view format. What information radiator would be the best for the project sponsor to examine?

Burnup chart. A burn up chart is a graphical representation of the wok completed toward the release of a product. Burnup charts allow one to see changes in scope. Typically, an increase in scope is represented by a step up in the charts horizon line depicting the initial scope and is relatively easy to recognize.

As part of continuous improvement efforts, a project manager wants to determine the process efficiency of the current iteration. What should the PM do?

Calculate the ratio between value-adding time and non-value adding time. Process efficiency is a ratio used in lean systems to optimize the flow of work. This metric is often used in agile projects, like the one implied by the scenario, to calculate the ratio between value-adding time and non-value adding time. This choice accurately describes process efficiency, making it the best answer.

A PM is planning a project to bering a new offshore rig online. The project team is having difficulty planning the project schedule since they are unsure about the depth and the density of soil material that they would have to drill through to reach the oil. What is the best course of action for the PM to prove an estimate ?

Check the assumption log to determine if assumptions have been made regarding drilling. The assumption log is a project document used to record all assumptions and constraints throughout the project life cycle. While there is no guarantee that the relevant assumption exists in the assumption log, among the choice, understanding the assumption that have been made by checking the assumptions log is the best choice for a PM.

A change request to repair a defect was submitted to the change control board (CCB) several days ago, but the PM has not been informed of the decision. She wants to implement the change urgently to avoid schedule delays. What should the PM do?

Check the change log. The change log contain the status of all change requests. The pM should check the change log to see if the change was approved.

To ensure that units produced by a new manufacturing line meet customer specifications, a project team has been requested to conduct attribute sampling on the first 100 units from the line. What should the team do to comply with this request?

Check the existence of a specific characteristic in each sample unit. Attribute sampling is a method of measuring that consists of noting the presence (or absence) of some characteristics in each of the units under consideration.

You have just been hired to take over a software development project which is about thalway complete. ON your first day, you pattern the daily standup meeting where you learn that one of the developers has just quit without notice. You want to find out if this possibility was preoivouisluy identified and, if so, who was assigned the responsibility of following up o this situation. what is you best course of action?

Check the risk register. The risk register record the agreed-upon risk responses for each identified risk and the nominated owners for each response plan.

During a sprint, a scrum team is running ahead of schedule but encounters an issue that might delay the completion of a particular deliverable. Another project need the deliverable completed on time to meet its scheduled release date. What might the scrum master do to resolve the issue.?

Check with product owner if the deliverable can be repiroritzed to be completed sooner. With the project running ahead of schedule, a delay with the deliverable in question might not cause a significant issue. for the scrum team. However the delay will cause another project to miss its release date. Prioritizing the deliverable higher might allow it to be completed sooner, reducing the impact on the other team's release.

A client has just rejected the deliverables stating that they do not meet the intended need. The PM realized that the customers requirements were not clearly understood. How could the PM have avoided this situation?

Collaborated with a business analysis professional. Utilizing the expertise of a business analyst most likely would have created better alignment between project requirements and the business need for the client.

A PM is leading a project to design and manufacture a new product. As part of the process to define and document the stakeholders needs for the project, the PM wants to determine the critical characteristics of the new profduct. What is the best course of action for the PM?

Collect customer needs the quality function deployment (QFD) technique. This is a facilitation technique that helps determine the critical characteristics by collecting customer needs and then objectively sorting and priotiozing them.

A PM is leading a project to design and manufacture a new product. as part of the process to define and document the stakeholders needs for the project the PM wants to determine the critical characteristics of the product. What is the best course of action for the PM?

Collect customer needs using the quality function deployment technique (QFD). This is a facilitation technique that helps determine the critical characteristics by collecting customer needs and then objectively sorting and prioritizing them

Your project is nearing completion. Deadlines are extremely tight. Product testing has been moved up a day to align with resource constraints. Many minor issues are detected by testing; errors which could pose serious delays. What is your best action?

Complete a Pareto chart and triage the issues w/ the project team. A Pareto chart is a special form of vertical bar chart that can be used to identify the vital few sources that are responsible for causing most of the problems effects. Understanding the most frequent issues - especially since the issues have been deemed as 'minor issues' - allows the project team to better allocate their energy and resources.

your project is nearing completion. Deadlines are extremely tight. Product testing has been moved up a day to align with resource constraints. Many minor issues are detected by testing; errors which could pose serious delays. What is you best action?

Complete. a Pareto chart and triage the issues with the project team. Pareto chart is a special form of vertical bar chart that can be used to identify the vital few sources that are responsible for causing most the problems effects. Understaing the most frequent issues - especially since the issues have been deemed as 'minor issues' - allows the project team to better allocate their energy and resources.

Midway into project execution, a competitor is about to release a product similar to the one planned to be delivered by your project. If the competitor launches their product to the market before you, your project will be deemed as failed. With a response prepared to run some of the development activities in parallel, what should you do next?

Compress the schedule. The risk response was to speed up the schedule (fast track, compress). Now that the risk has been realized, the response should be implemented. Fast tracking is a method to speed up the schedule.

You plan project where you need several external contractor to complete the project deliverables. In past projects, internal developers have had disruptive personality conflicts with contractors. Therefore, before making any long-term commitments, you want to ensure that the contractors are a good fit for you corporate culture and will work well with the internal team. What is you best course of action?

Conduct a trilla engagement with several potential contractors for initial deliverables. Conducting a trial engagement will engage several Candace sellers for initial deliverables and work product on a paid basis before making the full commitment to a larger portion of the project scope.

you have just performed a variance analysis for you project and determined that the CPI is 0.9 and the SPI is 1.2. This project is considered high profile, and it is critical that you meet all project objectives. Based on the variance analysis, what should you do next?

Conduct further research to isolate and understand the variance from the cost baseline. The question indicates that the project is currently running over budget. Project cost control includes monitoring cost performance to isolate and understand variances from the approved cost baseline. Before action is taken, as the PM, should fully understand the issue along with the impacts of any efforts to further control costs.

to plan your new project, you review the lessons learned repository and notice that although the project management processes have been properly performed on all past projects (that have been managed traditionally), the quality of deliverables was far from perfect. You want to ensure that on you project, quality issues are detected early in the project life cycle. What can you do to achieve your goal?

Conduct recurring retrospectives.

On a project, a structural component was found to contain a defect and odes not meet regulatory requirements. A change request to repair the defect has been approved and is ready for implementation. What should you do next?

Conduct the Direct and Manage Project Work Process. Approved change are an input to the direct and manage project work process. Approved change requests are scheduled and implemented by the project team as part of that process. therefore, conducting the direct and manage project work process is what you should od next din this scenario.

Defects have been found in some of the project deliverables. The change requests to repair the defects has been submitted and approved, ant the deliverables repaired. What should the PM do next.?

Conduct the approved change requests review. this is a meeting that should be conducted as part of the Control Quality process to ensure that all approved change requests were implemented as approved. For example, defective deliverables that have been repaired will need to pass thru an inspections again to confirm they comply with the quality standards and can me moved to verified deliverables on to the Validate Scope process for the customer's acceptance.

As the project team demonstrates the product increment developed during the last sprint, an influential business stakeholder throws offensive comments about the product. When the product owner asks for details, the stakeholder doe not cooperate. As the meeting goes on, the team realizes that the stakeholder has negative perception about the project. What should the team do?

Confidentially gather information about the stakeholder and analyze them. Keeping stakeholders engaged and satisfied is essential to the project's success. In this scenario, it becomes evident to the team that an influential business stakeholder has negative perceptions about the project. Before any action is taken, information about the stakeholder should be gathered and analysis conducted in confidence.

Sharing of project information is of utmost importance to the organization. Project knowledge is shared on multiple systems, services, and apps. The array of locations is booming overwhelming for some of the project TM's. What is the best option for the PM to manage the project knowledge in this situation?

Consolidate or streamline sharing processes where possible. Assisting the team in managinng of project knowledge to be more effective and efficient is a good use of PM's time.

A PM is developing a plan that will describe how project communications will be planned, implemented and monitored. What else should be included in this plan?

Constraints derived from specific regulation, technology or organizational policies. in this scenario, the PM is working on the communication management plan. Constraints such as organizational policies regarding the use of social media, regulations related to confidential information or the availability and reliability of certain types of technology will affect the way communication is planned and implemented. These contraptions will be included in the communications management plan.

during an iteration, a member of an agile team pulls the work item from the top of the iteration backlog. The work item describes a feature to be developed next. As the TM reads the description, she realizes that the information is insufficient to develop the feature. The TM approaches the Scrum Master for advice. What should the Scrum Master recommend.?

Consult wit the product owner. In agile project, the product owner is responsible for the direction of the product, the contents of the backlog, and its prioritization. If the information provided in the backlog items is insufficient, the product owner should make a decision as to whether to elaborate the user story to allow the team to develop it or reprioritize the backlog so that the next user story to be developed is detailed enough

an urgent change request to a product increment is submitted. the product owner evaluates the change and, based on its high value to the customer, recommends that the CCB approves the change. The change is approved and the product owner prioritizes it for the current iteration. However, when the team attempts to implement the change, the product increment fails. What should the product owner have done differently to avoid this?

Consulted the team about technical dependencies. In an environment where product development is managed using agile methods, changes to the product are evaluated by both the product owner and the team. The product owner decides on the priority after getting the team's input on estimates and any technical dependencies the change may have.

an agile team is in the middle of sprint when the sponsor asks the PM to stop work on several user stories in the current sprint. With a recent news announcement of new technology soon to hit the market, the sponsor is inclined to think that these user stories would be of little value. What should the PM do?

Contact the product owner and ask if the user stories are still a priority. The product owner is ultimately responsible for the direction of the product. The product owner, in collaboration with the team, establishes the sprint backlog and determines the priority of its user stories. Therefore, of the

you are developing a WBS. Based on the required proejct deliverables, you have currently decomposed the wok in the WBS as deep as eight levels down. A team member points out that the WBS must not exceed six levels. What is your best couse of action ?

Continue decomposing the work as needed with no regard to the number of WBS decomposition levels. The depth needed to decompose the project work is not pre-defined. the level of decomposition is often guided by the degree ofcontrol needed to be effectively manage the project. The PMBOK guide provide no limit to the number of WBS decomposition levels.

You are managing a project to reformulate a reagent using a new suppliers raw material. An essential requirement of the new reagent is that when it is used for testing, the same sample should return the same results consistently. You are looking for way to determine if the reagent measurements are stable and have predictable performance. Which of the following tools and techniques can help you the most?

Control charts. Control charts are used to determine whether or not a process is stable or has predictable performance. In this, result obtained from the testing of the reformulated reagents could be plotted on control charts with specification limits to assess if the results are stable over time.

Your company was awarded a contract that includes a 10% bonus payment if the project is completed two months early. You consider several options to exploit this oppportunity. What is the best course of action for you to increase the chances of receiving the bonus?

Crash the schedule. This techniques may help exploit the opportunity by adding more resources to the critical path. A contingency reserve including amounts of time, money, resources to take advantatge of the opportunity should be established. Therefore the best course of action in this situation is to crash the schedule to shorten the critical path. Crashing the schedule is a compression techinuqe used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.

An agile team is developing a product for a customer. IN the last few iterations, the TM's spent extra hours creating product documentation and reviewing the contracts with the customer. How would the team's time been better spent?

Creating the product increment and working with the product owner. Creating the product increment and workin the product owner would have the best answer choices as it represents value to the customer and its aligned with the. Agile Manifesto values of creating working software and collaborating with the customer.

An XP development team discuses the size of the software release to be delivered by their new project. What advice should an agile practitioner give to the team?

Deliver small releases to demonstrate progress to the customer and stakeholders. One of the XP core practices is to deliver to the customer in small releases to demonstrate progress, increase visibility and get feedback from the customer and stakeholders.

As a PM, you are in the process of working with the project stakeholders to foster the appropriate level of stakeholder involvement. Which activity are you least likely to perform in support of this process?

Developing a matrix that compares current and desired stakeholder engagement levels. Stakeholder engagement matrix which is data representation technique that is used during the plan stakeholder engagement process, where's the question describes the Manage stakeholder Engagement process. T

During a sprint planning meeting , an agile team struggles with some of the user stories that they will have to develop since the user stories are insufficient in detail. Which of the following action would be most appropriate for the team?

Discussing each user story with the appropriate stakeholders. Discussing user stories with the appropriate stakeholders is necessary for the team to confirm their understanding of the user stories.

With each consecutive sprint, the project TM's get an increased # of external requests resulting in time fragmentation and reduced productivity. At the project retrospective, the team puts the blame on the PM. the TM's state that the PM provided insufficient:

Diversion shield. Diversions (or interruptions) may redirect the team from its primary focus of delivering value. This is where the PM as a a servant leader steeps in. Insufficient diversion shield would result in time fragmentation and reduced productivity.

With the meeting concluded, what should be done with the meeting minutes?

Documented in the OPA's. The meeting minutes are project records that are considered an OPA and could be archived for future reference. Ideally, the meeting minutes should be shared with the meeting participants and other stakeholders as necessary and then archived as part of the OPA's.

What's EAC?

EAC= BAC/CPI

CPI

EV/AC = CPI (earned value/actual cost)

In a large-scale corporate restructuring project for a multination company, the project team consists of operation and Human Resources managers from each of the 13 countries, were the companies has bases of opetation. As it pertain to managing the project team, which tailoring consideration is the least important?

Earned value management represents a tailoring consideration more typically associated with the Project Cost Management processes rather than the Manage Team process.

As project execution begins, the PM hears that many stakeholders are unhappy with the way they are involved in the project. After meeting with some of the stakeholders, the PM reviews the project management plan and submits a change request to incorporate an agile practice into one of the plan's components. Which of the following did the PM most likely include in the change request?

Engaging with stakeholders directly. One of the agile practices states that face-to-face communication is the most efficient method of conveying information. Stakeholder engagement and communications are closely related and depend on one another. Engaging w/ stakeholders directly reflects this principle and, therefore, would hopefully improve stakeholder satisfaction.

it has been determined that due to the lack of local resources, the project team member will have to be hired from different countries world-wide. The PM has concerns that miscommunication and misunderstanding among the TM's might be an issue. What the PM's best course of action to address these concerns?

Enroll the project team members in cultural training to raise cultural awareness. Under circumstances describes, where the TM's come from all over the world, it is easy for people to make inadvertent communication mistakes that may lead to a conflict. The PM should take a proactive action to minimize the risk of miscommunication and misunderstanding.

During a project kick-off meeting, the PM presents the approved project management plan in order to gain commmitment to the project and explain th roles and responsibilitiesof each stakeholder. However after the meeting, several members of the assigned scrum team begin asking questions like 'the are we even doing this project? and who would benefit from it and how ? the PM is concerned that the kick-off meeting was a failure bc of the lack of commitment to the project. What might the PM have done differently.

Ensured that the project's vision and mission were captured in the project charter and communicated to the stakeholders during the kick-off meeting. The project vision and mission describes the purpose of the project and should be reflected in the project charter. Clearly communicating the project vision would be an important aspect of a project kick-off meeting and would have likely answered the questions asked by the project team in the first place.

You are conducting the source selection analysis for a project that will procure services from a vendor. Since the value of the procurement is relative small, you have decided that a full selection process does not make sense. With three prospective vendors under consideration, what the best course of action?

Establish a qualification only selection method. This method applies when the time and cost of a full selection process would not make sense because the value of the procurement is relatively small.

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

Estimate Activity Resources. The EAR process estimates the team and physical resources needed to carry out the project work. The resources breakdown structure is an output of this process. The resource breakdown structure categorizes resources and is used for planning, managing and controlling project work.

A project team is suing a risk-adjusted backlog to compare the value of addressing the existing project risks and the business value of the product's features. The team has estimated dollar value for delivering the product features. Which of the following should they use to determine that value of addressing project risks?

Expected Monetary Value (EMV). Calculation of expected monetary is a common approach used to determine the value of addressing an identified risk to the proejct. EMV uses the probability of the risk occurring and the impact of that risk to determine the business value of addressing the risk.

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

Factor the organizational in to the team''s existing agile practices. If the team believes they could increase the value delivered by projects using agile practices without compromising the organization requirements, they should factor organizational requirements in to the team's existing agile practices.

You are facilitating a meeting with the customer, team, and key project stakeholders. It becomes evident that requirements are unclear at this point and will frequently change as the project progresses. The customer also mentions that they want the features delivered as the features are completed even if the time between the deliverables will vary from one feature to another. What life cycle you recommend for the project?

Flow-based agile. In flow-based agile, the team pulls features from the backlog based on the team's capacity to start work rather than on an iteration-based schedule. Since it's more important for the customer to have the features delivered as they are ready rather than based on the time boxed schedule, flow-based agile would be the best approach.

An organiztion has a planning cycle, where they approve their budgets and project hiring requirements annually. Senior Executives want to implement agile principles and methodology in their product and rollout. Which of the following should they adhere to?

Focus on minimal marketable features. By focusing on minimal marketable features, the organization can gain significant value.

An agile team has decided to use brand-new technology to develop a high priority user story. However, after several unsuccessful attempts, they concluded they could not proceed. The team tried out other approaches, brought external experts but nothing worked. What is the next step for the team to take?

Give up, Information the project stakeholders, and reset expectations accordingly. even though 'giving up' has a negative connotation, sometimes there's no other choice if all other alternative have been exploited and did not work. The team tried everything in their power.

A scrum master is assigned to an ew project in which ongoing stakeholder engagement will be a critical factor for the project success. What strategy might the Scrum Master employ to monitor the satisfaction of key stakeholders/

Have conversations with stakeholders during the sprint reviews. The sprint review is an Agile ceremony during which the development team demonstrates the product increment during the iteration to the product owner and relevant stakeholders. One important aspect of sprint review meeting is to garner recurring feedback as the project deliverables evolve throughout the course of the project.

You are in the execution stage of a large and complex project which involves coordinating the activities of many vendors. you recognize that the procurement manager's engagement level plays a critical role in the success of the project, and you would like to increase this stakeholders involvement in the project. What is the best way to accomplish this goal?

Have the stakeholder to provide their opinion. The project will benefit from the uniquely qualified insights that can be provided by the procurement manager in aspects of the project related to the project's vendors.

An agile team has to provide a rough estimate of their velocity for an upcoming project. In terms of the domain, evironment, and tools, the project is expected to be very similar to the last 3 projects that the team completed recently. However, the technology that the team will use to develop the product for this project will be different. Is it advisable for the team to use historical velocities in order to estimate their velocity for the new project?

Historial velocities are most accurate when the project to be estimated is very similar to past projects. However, when two projects are not entirely similar (which is likely the case in most situations), the uncertainty of the estimate due to deffirences in personnel that will work on the project, technology, to be used by the team, or any other factor, should be reflected in the range of the estimate.

At one of their meetings, agile TM's tell each other what they have done since their last meeting, what they are going to work on till the next meeting, and what issues stand in their way. A roadblock was mentioned by one of the TM's. Wha should the team do next?

Hold a re-planning or impediments removal session. A roadblock was mentionedd by one of the TM's. therefore, the team should hold a replanning or impediments removal session to remove the roadblock and replan the daily work.

as part of its transformation to agile, an organization selects a pilot team for a project to develop a software tool. An agile coach is assigned to the team to guide them throughout their transition. For the first few iterations, the coach works with the PM and team to coach them on agile practices and assign tasks to the team members. What is the agile coach's best course of action to determine if the team has acquired the required skills to perform the upcoming iteration without coaching?

Hold iteration retrospectives. These are used by teams to review their work process and improve. In the scenario, the agile coach guides the team through their first iterations, including the retrospectives. The retrospectives will allow the coach and team to determine if the team mature enough in their agile practices to perform without further coaching.

a new project will require extensive stakeholder involvement and is expected to produce its first deliverable as soon as one month after getting light to proceed. The deliverable is anticipated to have a high degree of innovation. The performing organization operates in an industry that has considerable regulatory oversight. What development approach should the PM recommend for this project?

Hybrid. the combination of the project variables described in the scenario, such as, on the one hand, the significant stakeholder involvement, the need for early delivery, the high degree of innovation of the deliverables, and on the other hand, the considerable regulatory oversight, is an indication for the project to use a hybrid approach.

Senior management is considering a project to replace the company's inventory tracking system, and the pre-project work is underway. At this point, the project needs assessment has just been completed. What should be done next ?

Identifying key project deliverables. The question indicates that task #1 of the initiating domain has just been completed, which includes the project needs assessment. Task #2 is to identify key deliverables based on the business requirements and is, therefore, the best answer.

A project to revise procedure to streamline company operations will be implemented over the course of 12 iterations. The agile leader and product owner are concerned that once the new procedures are implemented, the employees might revert back to their old habits resulting in a loss of benefits realization. What is the best strategy to address this issue?

Include user stories for post-project activities that will reinforce the change after implementation. Enabling change in an organization can be challenging as resistance to change is common even when the benefits are well understood. Including activities that will reinforce the change after the implementation will likely be necessary until the change is fully adopted.

As the project gets the go-ahead, the PM requests that with each consecutive sprint, the product owner and team take a practice approach to managing project risks. How should this request be addressed?

Include user stories to maximize positive risks and reduce exposure to negative risks. Project teams should seek to maximize positive risks (opportunities) and decrease exposure to negative risks (threats) as the project unfolds. Including risk mitigation and opportunity stories in the project backlog and prioritizing them to the sprint backlogs as needed would be a way to proactively manage risk on an agile project.

your project has been plagued with numerous change requests. What is the most likely reason?

Incomplete stakeholders register. This is the primary output of the identify stakeholders process. This document contains information about identified stakeholders such as the staeholders main requirements and expectation for the project. If key project stakeholders are notidentiofied soon enough or at all, their project requirements would not be included in the project scope leading to na increased number of change requests.

You are developing the PMP for a project to develop an interactive computer-based visualization that will demonstrate the efficacy of a new drug versus a competitors drug and placebo. A completed visualization must be available for a convention that is scheduled in six months, after which time the visualization will no longer provide any value. What might you do to ensure the project delivers the intended benefits?

Incorporate the DSDM framework of constraint-driven delivery within the existing predictive model. Constraint-drivien model delivery establishes the project's time and/or cost as fixed while allowing the scope to be flexible to meet the specific needs of the project.

A project to develop a new smartphone application for use with a popular operating system is underway. To penetrate more markets, a change request has been submitted to expand the project scope to include an additional operating system that would support the application. The members of the change control board (CCB) are meeting to discuss the request. They are familiar with the origininal operating system but do not have experience with the new one. What is the best course of action?

Invite a programmer with technical knowledge of the new operating system to the meeting. Expert judge should be sought to understand the technical aspects of the new operating system in order to render an informed decision based on the merits of the request.

A charter for a two-phase project to build a space satellite has just been approved. The first phase is design; the second phase is development. requirements for the first phase are well defined up-front. Requirements for the second phase are known only at a high level. Some satellite components will be produced by vendors. How should the PM approach planning for the second phase?

Involve as many project team members and stakeholders as possible. Involving as many project TM's and stakeholders as possible during initial project planning reduces uncertainty as the inputs from the team and stakeholders are incorporated into the plans allowing for a better understanding of what should be done to produce the project deliverables.

You are halfway through a project, which has experienced several setbacks due to unanticipated problems. based on recent feedback, you are concerned that critical support for the project among key stakeholders is eroding. You want to bring the stakeholders together for a meeting address any concerns and rebuild support for the project. Which of the following meetings would be the most beneficial for the key stakeholders to attend?

Iteration Retrospective. This is a specialized type of meeting used unprotect with angle framework conducted at the end of each iteration. The purpose of an iteration retrospective is to cover project progress thus far and determine what has done well, what has not gone well, and how project performance can be improved going forward. Inviting the key stakeholders to the iteration retrospective will allow the project team to address any concerns the stakeholders may have and develop a plan to ensure the problems encountered do not recur.

you want to ensure that your project team has the tools and techniques to connect with each other, so they can work together to create new knowledge, share knowledge and integrate the knowledge of the diverse team members. To support this effort, you have scheduled monthly meetings so the project team can exchange best practices. Additionally, you have started an online form where the team can ask questions to share information. What set of tools and techniques are you using?

Knowledge Management. These tools and techniques connect people so they can work together to create new knowledge, share tacit knowledge, and integrate the knowledge of diverse team members. Knowledge management tools and techniques include networking, online forums, meetings, workshops, seminars and conferences.

A current project is much larger in size and complexity compared to the previous project that the PM has managed. to save time and effort, the PM uses the risk management plan and risk register from a historical project as a template. During project execution, several unexpected high-impact risks were realized, which derailed the project caused its termination before completion. What most likely caused the project to be terminated .?

Lack of tailoring of the risk management plan and risk register. Project size and complexity have a direct impact on overalll project risk. A large and complex project will require a more robust risk management plan and a more detailed risk register.

A project uses a lean framework to develop a software product. At the sprint retrospective, the team creates a value stream map to analyze the process and see how to reduce the time between the moment a user story is submitted to the team as a requirement from the customer and when it is deployed at the customer production system and start delivering value. Which of the following is the team trying to minimize or reduce?

Lead time. this refers to the time when a feature request is made by the customer until the complete feature is released to the customer and starts delivering value. It is the time it takes to finish the complete process.

A development project is behind schedule and the PM finds a way to bring the schedule back into alignment with the plan. The testing of the software code is scheduled to start one week after the coding is complete, so the PM adjusts the timeline to have the software testing begin immediately after the coding is complete. What tool or technique has the PM used to get the schedule back on track?

Leads and Lags. Adjusting leads and lags is a technique which can be used to bring project activities that are behind into alignment with the plan. The question describes a situation in which the lag time between the completion of software code and start of the testing has been eliminated.

You have tasked the project team with identifying and documenting the specific activities required to produce a key project deliverable. the team's work will result in schedule activities that can provide a basis for estimating, scheduling, monitoring, and controlling the project work. Which of the following tools and techniques is least likely to be used during this process?

Leads and lags. This s tool and technique used during the Sequence Activities process to produce a project schedule network diagram. The

A project sponsor is developing the project charter. She understands that the project would have to take into consideration conditions that are not under the immediate control of the project team. Which of the following is an example of such contditions?

Legislation on overtime pay for the project team. legislation that imposes overtime pay is an example of a legal requirement. Legal and regulatory requirements are EEF, which are not under the immediate control of the project team.

A PM has taken over project early in its execution. The company has a policy that specifies the minimum frequency for conducting risk audits on all projects. What you the PM do to determine the timing of the risk audits for this particular project?

Look in the project management plan. The risk manage plan is a subsidiary of the pmp. The required frequency of risk audits is defined in the risk management plan.

A PM schedules a meeting for the scrum project team to reflect and adapt. What will the participants be most likely doing at this meeting?

Looking for any improvements to the team's process. The agile manifesto principles #12 Staes " at regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly" The purpose of a retrospective meeting is to provide TM's an opportunity to analyze the processes the team uses to develop the project deliverables and determine what improvements can be made so that the next iteration will be more effective and productive. These meetings may include the elements such as setting up the stage, gathering data, generating insights, deciding what to do and finally closing the retrospective. Agile teams use sprint retrospective meeting to reflect on the processes used in the latest sprint to develop the product and termite how to improve or adapt those processes for the next sprint. A team

You have just been named the PM of an existing project, which is currently in its execution stage. You have discovered that the project is lacking support from the stakeholders, and a few stakeholders have become resistant. These unresolved issues have caused the project to fall behind schedule. you want to increase the probability of project success by working with stakeholders to meet their needs and expectations. On which project management process should your efforts be focused?

Manage Stakeholder Engagement. This is the process that allows the PM to increase the probability of success by working with stakeholders to meet their needs and expectations. This is the project management process where you should focus you efforts.

All the technilcal work on project has been completed, and the product has been transitioned to a support team. What should the PM do before the project can be closed ?

Measure stakeholder satisfaction. All the technical work on project has been done, and product has been transitions to a support team. Before the project can be close, several activities, mainly administrative, should be carried out. Measuring stakhodler satisfaction is one of them.

A PM receives an email from a new executive who has just joined the company. IN the email, the executive requests to be included in all communications about the project. What should the PM do next?

Meet with the executive. The PM should first meet with the executive to understand their needs and ask what the executives goals are for being included in the project's communication. After discussing the situation w the executive, the PM will be in a better position to determine how best to engage this stakeholder.

An agile team is setting up a Kansan board with the goal of limiting the amount of WIP. Which of the following should be considered by the team when setting up the queues of the Kansan board?

Multitasking extends the completion date of work and leaves WIP longer. Longer task completion time increases the amount of WIP and lowers productivity. Therefore, minimizing multitasking is an important consideration for the team.

You are leading a project for a weak matrix organization, which will use internal resources. As you acquire the TM's, you realize that the staff being offered to you lack the necessary skills required to perform the project work. Training these individuals will take too long, and the training costs were not included in the project budget. What is the first thing you should in this situation?

Negotiate with the functional manager. In a weak matrix organizational structure, the Human Resources needed for the project are controlled by their functional managers. If the resources being offered are inadequate to successfully complete the project, the project manage should consider negotiating for the appropriate resources with functional managers. Whether or not negotiating is the first you should over submitting a change request is arguable.

During the initiation, the project stakeholders attend a meeting where they discuss how project success should be determined. The majority of the stakeholders are in favor of measuring project success by meeting the metrics of scope, cost, schedule and quality only. As the PM, should you agree w/ this approach?

No, the measure of project success should be determined after considering all the project objectives. Along with the traditional metrics, project success should also be measured with considerations toward achieving all the agreed upon project objectives, for example, completing the project benefits management plan, customer satisfaction, achievement of business goal, meeting organization strategy, meeting financial and non-financial measures, and customer adoption of the solution.

Inputs to the Sequence Activities process?

PMP, project documents (activity list, activity attributes, milestone list), EEF, OPA's

While reviewing the issue log you are leading you suspect there is a pattern of errors and defects. You and your project team want to determine the causes and frequency of these errors and defects in the system. In particular, you are interested in identifying and ranking the vital few sources that are responsible for causing the majority of the problems. Which of the following tools will help you the most?

Paret Chart. A Pareto chart is a special form of a histogram or vertical bar used to identify the most common sources for causing the majority of the problems.

You have begun evaluating sellers progress in producing projects deliverables to see if there have been any reported issues with quality and availability as well as how the schedule and the cost are comparing to the agreement with the vendor. The activities you are performing are best be described by which of the following?

Performance reviews. A performance review is an evaluation of sellers progress delivering the contracted products within cost, on schedule, and of the quality required as compared to the contract. In this scenario, the activities you are performing are that of a performance review.

On a project, two change requests were recently submitted for review and approval. One change request was submitted to repair a defective system. the other change request was submitted to modify the terms and condition of a contract with one of the supplier. Both of the change requests have been revewied and approved by the CCB. Which of the following is least likely to be performed as a result of the approved change request?

Performed integrated change control. Approved change requests are an output of the PICC proccesss. once the change request has been approved, the PICC is complete, and there is nothing more that need to be done in this process pertaining to the approved change request.

a program manager requests regular updates on the projects under the program. All but one project in the program are managed using traditional methods. The program manager indicates that there are too many scope changes across the program and wants to see how these changes affect the overall progress of the various projects. What is the best course of action fro the Scrum Master leading the agile project to address the Program Managers request?

Periodically send the release burnup chart to the PM. A release burnup chart has the same information displayed as a release turndown chart. However, instead of displaying work remaining, it displays the work completed. The main difference is that burnup chart can show changes in scope, which is what the Program Manager requested.

As the project unfolds and the team delivers product increments in a two-week cadence, the project leader notices that the productivity of the most experienced developer diminishes. A private conversation reveals that the developer is not motivated enough. When asked what would improve their motivation, the developer replies that they want more autonomy. What is the best course of action for the project leader?

Permit the developer to establish their own work hours and delivery cadence. The project delivers the product in a two-week cadence. Allowing the developer to establish their own delivery cadence may sound counter-intuitive. However, assuming the project leader wants to retain and motivate this experienced developer, this approach is the only feasible one.

You are leading a meeting with a group of stakeholders to prioritize the product requirements for your project. After several rounds of voting, no prioritized ranking of product requirements attains more than 50% of the votes. With the meeting at an impasse, what is you best course of action in this scenario assuming you don't want to decide for the group?

Permit the plurality of voters to prioritize the requirements. You as, as the PM are using the decision-making technique of voting to determine a prioritized ranking of product requirements. Without being a being able to establish a majority for the requirements ranking, setting for the plurality of votes may be the only viable option at this point..

A new product is to target millions of end users. The project involves hundreds of internal stakeholdersm including the director of sales, VP of operations and the head of PMO. The director of sales holds the most power and the VP of operations seems very interested ion the final product. The power of the PMO's head are unclear. What strategy should the project team employ during the first sprint to work effectively with the stakehodlers?

Prioritize the director of sales and VP of Operations. When a project involves millions of stakeholders, as the case in the subject, engaging with all of them directly and effectively is not feasible. Initial stakeholder prioritization is required. Typically, the team should focus on stakeholders with the most power and interest , such as the director of sales and VP of operations.

Which of the following is an input to the plan procurement management process/

Project charter. The project charter is an input to the PPM

A senior office has asked you to manage the development of a new product that the company has found to be economically feasible. You prepare a document outlining the key project objectives, high-level project and product descriptions and present it to a committee of senior officers for approval to start the project. Which of the following documents are you preparing in this scenario?

Project charter. The project charter is the document that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the PM with the authority to proceed with the project. The project charter documents high-level information on the project and on the product, service, or result the project is intended to satisfy.

Which of the following is an output of the Estimate Activity Durations process?

Project documents updates.

You have just completed the Develop Schedule process and you are now preparing information for the project sponsor to highlight the activities that may create a delay in the overall project sschedule. Which of the following would be most useful in this situation?

Project network diagrams. This identify critical path tasks and show the project network logic. In addition to providing critical path tasks, the network diagrams could be used to determine the need for resource optimization techniques and to identify conflicts with logical activity relationships.

During project planning, a PM allocates a dedicated TM to develop and distribute weekly project status reports to project stakeholders. What project document should reflect this repetitive and time-consuming task?

Project schedule. The project schedule is a project document that presents linked activities with planned dates, duration, milestones and resources. The PM has assigned a dedicated TM to develop and issue status reports. The PM should update the project schedule to reflect these communication activities.

Due to the size and complexity of an upcoming project, two scrum teams will be assigned. However only one scrum master can be allocated to lead both teams. All of the scrum team members are very experienced and high performing. What strategy might the scrum master employ to support both project teams effectively?

Provide leadership training to the development team before the start of the project. Leadership is not exclusive to an an assigned project leader. Anyone on the project can exhibit effective leadership skills. When a designated project leaders absent, high-performing and experienced team members can trained to apply their skills to demonstrate effective leadership and fill in.

you are managing a large manufacturing pilot project project with extensive and highly detailed quality requirements. During planning, it is determined there will be a high volume of quality control measurements being captured by a fully automated system. Which of the following would you likely use as a guideline on how and where this data be stored and processed?

Quality management system. The quality management system is the organizational framework whose structure provides the policies, processes, procedures and resources required to implement the quality management plan. The system may include, for example, guideline on how and where the quality control measurement captured during the control quality process should be stored and processed.

You are about to start the development of the assumption log for the project you are leading. What should you do first?

Read the project business case. High-level strategic and operational assumptions and constraints are normally identified in the business case before the project is initiated and can serve as a source of relevant information for inclusion in the assumption log.

During a sprint retrospective, the team has identified an excessive rework issue that decreases velocity and threatens the project timeline. What action might the agile leader take to address the problem ?

Recommend that the iteration length to be shortened. Iteration length is typically determined at the start of the project and rarely changes. However, there are circumstances in which this action might be necessary. Shortening the iteration would shorten feedback loops. More frequent feedback would improve alignment between the team and relevant stakeholders, thus likely reducing rework.

A development team is working through one of the sprints planned for their agile project. A stakeholder approaches the scrum master wondering why a certain feature was removed from the last sprint, what features are planned to be delivered in the next sprint and how the money is being spent on the project. What is the best course of action for the scrum master to take in this situation?

Recommend that the stakeholder talk to the product owner. Question relate to the direction of the project, project schedule and project budget fall into the responsibility of product owner, rather than the scrum master or the development TM's.

An agile project has been successfully completed. The customer is very happy with the project deliverables. Which of the following most likely contributed to the project success and customer satisfaction?

Representatives of the customer were always available to answer the team's question. Frequent feedback from the customer helps the team build what the customer requested. therefore, having the customer representatives available to answer the team's questions was the most likely reason for the project's success and customer satisfaction.

You have just completed the Collect Requirements process with a group of senior executives and your team. You begin developing the scope statement and realize that you need more clarification on a specific component of the deliverable. What document should you reference to find the person who requested the specific component?

Requirements Traceability Matrix. This links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them. It identifies the person (or source) who originally requested the requirement. You can then contact them to get more details about the specific requirement.

A PM is working on a plan for how the project team will acquire goods and services from outside of the organization for an infrastructure development project. The PM is seeking guidance on what type of contacts can be used on the project. What is the best course of action for the PM?

Research the organizational process asserts is a source of information on formal procurement policies and procedures as well as approved contract types. OPA's are one of the inputs into the Plan Procurement Management process. The OPA's sever as a source information on formal procurement policies and procedures as well as approved contract types.

When review the issue log, the PM finds a new entry indicating that additional fencing is needed to address ground security risks one the proejct. After reviewing the risk register, she finds ground security among the risks identified during poroiejct planning. She wants to address the risk but is not sure if the project has enough funds to cover it. Which data analysis tool can be used to make this determination?

Reserve Analysis. This tool compares the amount of the contingency reserves remaining to the amount of risk remaining at any time in the project. The PM should use reserve analysis to determine if the extra fencing can be covered with the reserve security funds.

The XX document identifies the needed material, equipment, supplies and other resources.

Resource Requirements

a PM is about to start the process of identifying quality requirements and standards for an infrastructure project. The PM examines the project charter to gain high level understanding of project objectives and reviews relevant information from the available components of the project management plan. What else should the PM do to gather inputs to the process?

Review requirements documentation to gain an understanding of the project and product quality requirements.

A scrum master is leading an agile project in which the development team has failed to achieve the sprint goal for the past 3 iterations. During the sprint retrospective, the team decides to implement several changes to improve velocity. How might the scrum master verify any performance improvement?

Review the burnup chart. A burnup chart is a graphical representation of the work completed toward the release of a product. The burnup chart would reveal the development teams productivity over time.

An agile project project is underway when the budget is drastically reduced. As a result, the team will not be able to complete the project backlog?

Review the project backlog with the development team and product owner. With a drastically reduced budget, the project team will be unable to deliver the originally planned project scope. The agile leader will need to collaborate wi th project team, product owner and other relevant stakeholder to determine what business value can still be delivered with the reduced budget.

you are planing a research and development project, and you need to determine how the project costs will be estimated, budgeted, managed, monitored, and controlled. to complete this process, you need to know if there are any pre-approved financial resources from which the detailed project costs can be developed. What should you do next?

Review the project charter. The project charter provides the reapproved financial resources from which the detailed project costs are developed. the project charter also defines the project approval requirements that will influence the management of the project costs. Therefore, reviewing the project charter is what you should do next to complete the process.

You are reviewing the resource allocation for apreoject that you are managing. You discover that one of the raw materials you received is of lower quality than what was originally approved. What should you do?

Revise the issue log. The issue log is ap project document used to identify and monitor issues that occur in the project. The issue log can be updated with any new issues found during the Control Resources process.

A project team is meeting to discuss and assess the rject rtisks taht have bee nidentified on their planned construction project. A facilitator has been brought in to lead the discussion and help the group determine which risks to prioritze base on their prboasbility and potential impact. During the discussion, the group identifies additional risks and assigns risk owenr to all identified risks. What technique is being employed here?

Risk workshop. This is a technique used to undertake qualitative risk analysis. The purpose of a risk workshop is to review previously identified project risks, asses risk probabilty and impact, categorize and prioritize risks, assign risk owners, and identify additional risk. Facilitators are sometimes used to guide the discussion.

a high-performing project team is on track to complete the product development within the remaining two iterations. Unfortunately, the PM get severely sick and won't be able to come back to work for the rest of the project duration. It's unclear how soon if at all, the organization will be able to find a replacement. What should the team do?

Rotate the facilitator's role among the TM's. Whether the project leader is assigned to the project or missing, high-performing project teams, especially those working in an agile envrionment, as implied by the question, should be able to share the facilitator's role amongst themselves. The role can be shifted from one TM to another.

One month in to a project, the PM is pleased to see the plans are working well. One morning the PM gets an email from the accounting department saying the project is performing poorly. after some investigation, the PM determines that neither the costs nor the resource utilization numbers have been updated in the corporate accounting system. What is the most likely problem?

Rules of performance procedures links. If the organizational procedures links are defined incorrectly, the performance and corporate accounting system will not match, which may lead to the project manager have a vastly different view performance than the accounting department.

A PM is in the process of analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements and schedule constraints. What would be the most likely outmode of this process?

Schedule model. Analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements and schedule constraints is the definition of the develop schedule process. The outcome of this process is the schedule model for project execution and monitoring and controlling.

You are workinng with your project team to identify and document the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables. Which of the following do you need before you can start this process?

Scope baseline. You are in Define Activities, which involves decomposing work packages in to the activities required to produce them. The required inputs are the schedule management plan, the scope statement, the WBS and the WBS dictionary. The last 3 documents make up the scope baseline.

A new developer joins the project. However, her productivity is limited since she lacks the competent in one of the programming languages. This language is not used on this project but will also required on future projects. Training costs were not included in the project and the project CPI is 0.75. What's is the best course of action for the PM?

Seek approval for the performing organization to absorb training costs. The PM should seek alternatives in addressing the gap in skillset, which will not effect the project budget. In this case, training costs may be supported by the performing organization if the added skills will be useful for future projects.

T select a technical approach for the project, agile TM's have been holding series of meeting. The fist iteration was supposed to start today, but the team could not reach an agreement as to what approach to choose. The TM's meet one last time but do not seem to agree on anythingm thus jeopardizing the critical milestone of the project's start. What is the best action for the scrum master to take?

Select a technical approach and make a decision.

During the planning of a project to build a new smartphone model, the PM gets information from a regional sales rep that the desire for a major feature is waning. Earlier, during project initiation, the demand for the feature was so high that it was considered a must-have feature. The PM wants to validate the findings to ensure this trend is not just a local anomaly. What should the PM do next?

Send a survey or questionnaire to the sales groups in other regions.

Yo are facilitating a risk worship with your project team to discuss, evaluate, and prioritize previously identified project risks based on the probability and impact of each risk. During the meeting, a key stakeholder proposes that as part of the analysis, the team consider other characteristicscs of the the risk beyond just probability and impact. Which of the following is the least likely characteristics proposed by the stakeholders?

Sensitivity. Sensitivity analysis is a technique used as part of quantitative, not qualitative, risk analysis to determine which project risks or other sources of uncertainty have the most potential impact on project outcomes. A sensitive analysis focuses on evaluating a risk's potential impact on achieving project objectives. However, the goal in this scenario is to find characteristics of risk to use beyond probability ad impact.

The PM and project team have worked together for many years. There is a deep sense of community and collaboration. Everyone knows their stuff and gets better with every project. Which leadership style of the PM is most effective in deepening those connections?

Servant Leadership. this is a leadership approach where the PM serves and supports the needs of the project team over everything else to maintain the high-performance level of the team and achieve the project objectives.

A company sports a unique market opportunity that would make the company the market leader. to avoid wasting any time, the comp[any request an experience PM to begin workin on the project immediately, prior to formal project authorization. The PM decides that an adaptive approach would work best for this project. What should the PM do next?

Start high-level project planning. Starting project planning without having a project charter is counter-intuitive. however, the way this question is posed, implies that the company trusts the experienced PM.

One of the key deliverables on a project has been found to contain a defect and it does not meet the project requirements. To scrap the deliverable and replace it would cost $12,000 and take 5 days to complete. To repair the defect would cost $4,000 and take 2 days to complete. What should the PM do first?

Submit a change request. If the deliverable is replaced, a change request is required. If the deliverable is repaired, the change request may be required depending on the change management process defined for the project.

After completing all the planning processes, acquiring the project team, and creating some of the deliverables, one of the key project TM's is injured in a car accident. The TM will be available for the rest of the project. What should the PM do?

Submit a change request. Losing a key project TM at the beginning of a project execution is a significant roadblock. Its unlikely that PM will be able to resolve the issue quickly enough and without impacting the project management plan. A change request should be submitted to update the plan and other project documents as needed.

What role might the PMO play in the development of the change management plan?

Supply a template for the change management plan. A supportive PMO provideds a consultative role to projects by supplying templates, best practices, training, access to information, and lessons leaned from other projects.

A complex project to develop the prototype for a new communication satellite is underway. The project team is creating checklists and detailed traceability matrices to be used late in the project to determine if the quality objective for the project have been achieved. Which of the following is the project team preparing ?

Test and evaluation documents are outputs of the manage quality processs and inputs to the control quality process. They are used to evaluate the achievement of quality objectives and typically include checklists and other documents such as requirements traceability matrices.

During a risk review meeting, the PM leans that the company has just approved a new policy that prohibits the use of overtime. This restriction represents a new constraint for the project. Where should this newly identified constraint be documented?

The assumption log. The assumption log (sometimes referred to as the assumption and constraints log) is a project document used to record all assumptions and constraints through the projectlife cycle.

A junior software developer will be paired with a senior developer in a Extremely Programming (XP) project. What can the senior developer tech the junior developer about XP pair programming practices?

The product quality is higher because defects are caught early in development. The earliest time the defect can be caught is when it first coded. Pair programming allows one developer to watch another developer code and catch any issues ASAP.

A project team is creating the WBS for a research and development,ent proejct. After the team has completed the scope baseline, they begin the process of building the schedule. While reviewing the WBS, the PM realizes that the team did not follow the 100 percent rule during decomposition

The project management work is missing from the WBS. The WBS represents all product and project work, including the project management work. If the project management work is missing from the WBS, the WBS will not pass the 100% rule. Therefore, of the choices provided, the project management work missing the WBS was the most likely problem determined by the PM.

On a project you are leading, you have developed all subsidiary management plans and had them approved. What should you do next?

The subsidiary management plans have been developed and approve. The subsidiary management plans are typically created at the beginning of project planning. Those plans mainly answer questions like (how would you manage XYZ knowledge are on you project)?. Project scope will defined, developed, monitored controlled and validate. This plan, however, doe not include requirements.

You are managing a project, which has been plagued with quality issues, and you decide to schedule a lessons learned meeting to determine how to address the quality issues. The meeting is rather contentious with lengthy discussion about everything that has gone wrong on the project but adjourned without any concrete actions to prevent the problems from recurring. What might have made the meeting more productive?

The use of a skilled facilitator to guide the meeting. A facilitator can help keep you, and everyone else, on track. Lessons learned sessions don't deliver any value when the discussion only focuses on what went wrong. A facilitator can help guide the group to turn negatives into positives by eliciting what can be done differently in the future and developing concrete actions to make sure the problems do not recur on the project.

Based on your experience as a PM, you know that there is confusion about the difference between the validate scope process and the control quality process. Which of the following statement would help clarify this confusion?

The validate process is concerned with acceptance of the deliverables, while Control Quality is concerned with the correctness of the deliverables. Validate Scope is concerned w/ the concerned of the acceptance of deliverables and Control Quality is concerned w/ correctness.

a company is about to undertake a project that will use new technology. It is expected that the customer will request a very large number of changes throughout the entire project life cycle. The project sponsor indicated that delivering incremental value to the customer frequently while maintaining the cost baseline under control is of the utmost importance for the project. Which of the following would help the most in addressing the frequent changes.?

Time-boxing. This is an effective tool that can be used on project where requirements are anticipated to change frequently. This approach is used on agile projects where the requirements are documents in user stories that are prioritized and refined just before being developed, and the product features are delivered using time-boxed periods of work.

you are in the process of monitoring the overall progress of project work. Throughout your project, you have experienced recurring issues and you want your current and future projects to run more smoothly. Which of the following is left likely to proactively promote continuous improvement.

Timely implementation of planned responses for the realized risks. Timely implementing responses of the realized risks will help ensure the risks are addressed as planned. However, this activity would not prevent risk and issues from recurring on the current project or future projects.

a project is divided into phases. Each phase consists of task involving design, development, testing, and integration. You have developed a project charter, and the project sponsor has just signed and approved the charter. The purpose of this document includes all of the following, except:

To authorize functional management responsibilities to the project to the PM.

Your project team has evaluated each identified risk and assigned an estimated dollar amount or time impact to it. to determine which risks will require more detailed response plans, you ask them to compare the risk and determine which ones could most impact the project. You want the data in graph form, with the risks displayed in order from greatest to least potential impact on the project. What would be the best tool for the team to use in this case?

Tornado diagram. As the PM, you are requesting a diagram that depicts the relative potential impact of each risk on project outcomes, with the risks ranked from greatest to least potential impact. Tornado diagram is the best tool to accomplish that.

You are an executive in a large organization that considers a gradual transition from a predictive to the agile PM approach. You hire an external company to evaluate th current practice and propose the best way for the transition. After observing your organization for several months, the consultant lays out several option. Which option would you least likely to select?

Trackking the project progress using weekly meetings. Tracking the project progress using weekly meetings is an ppraoch which is very typical for tradition projects. Since question is asking the least likely option to help with the transition from the predictive to agile methods, this choice is the least likely.

you are leading a multi-phase project. What should you do at the end of each phase?

Transfer ownership of the deliverables. Transferring ownership of the deliverables to the assigned stakeholders according to the project management plan facilitates project closure. At the end of each phase, the PM should ensure the outputt is handed over the responsible party of the phase.

Forecast performance based on results or is a data analysis technique which examines project performance over time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating.

Trend analysis

During a meeting to determine the requirements for a software project, everyone agrees to include a particular feature except the director of finance who adamant that it is too expensive. After a lengthy debate he changes his mind and agrees to the inclusion of the feature. What decision-making tecnique has been used in this scenario?

Unanimity. requires all participants to be in agreement for a decision to be reached. Everyone was on-board. aka consensus.

With only a few sprints left to complete, the PM is concerned w/ some leading indicators, which suggest that project performance is at risk. The PM shares their concerns w/ the project sponsor and asks for the sponsors help w. those early warning signs of potential problems. What is the most likely reason for the PM's concern?

Unavailable or insufficiently engaged key stakeholders. On a agile project, continuous feedback is vital to project success. Insufficient stakeholder engagement may be a severe roadblock. While seeking help from the sponsor is typically the last resort, sometimes it's the only way to help engage stakeholders.

Two project TMs have completed their training and certification activities as defined in their employee development plan records, greatly benefiting project productivity. You want to ensure that the organization is ware of their accomplishments and utilize their new capabilities in future projects. What should you do?

Update Enterprise Environmental Factors. Employee development plan records are considered EEFs that are updated as an output of the Develop team process. When project team members achieve significant training and development goals, these achievements should be recorded in the EEF to ensure that the organization is aware of their accomplishments and will utilize their new capabilities in future projects.

During project planning, a risk was identified that the vendor contracted to supply materials for the project may not be able to meet the contractual requirements. The response to this risk was to contract with a secondary vendor has been contracted to provide the remainder of the needed material. What should the PM do first ?

Update the risk register. This should be updated to reflect any changes to the previously agreed-upon risk responses for individual project risks that are subsequently made as a result of the implement risk responses proces. Since the risk response has been implemented, the risk register should be updated first.

Due to a cold weather condition, it takes more time for the team complete an activity. The PM ensure that the response planned for this identified risk implemented by fast-tracking another activity. What should the PM do next?

Update the schedule using the PMIS. PMIS can be used to update the project schedule to reflect the changes being implemented by fast-tracking an activity.

A PMP for a multi-phase project is underdevelpment. As part of the define activities process, The PM create the activity list. All but one phase, the development of the product, will be managed traditionally. The product development phase will be carried out using agile techniques. How should the activity list be handled during the product development phase?

Updated periodically as the phase progresses. The activity list is a project document that includes the schedule activities required on the proejct. For projects (or phases) that use agile techniques, the activities often change based on the evolving requirements and, therefore, will be updated periodically as the project progresses.

After several sprints, the project team encounters significant resistance to the required changes from some of the impacted stakeholders., The resistance to the change poses a threat to the successful outcome of the project. The TM's feel handling the issue is beyond their sphere of influence or authority., They ask help from the project leader. What is the best course of action for the project leader ?

Use a motivational strategy to enable change. Effective change management uses a motivational strategy rather than a forceful one. Project leaders leverage engagement and two-way communication to create a positive environment in which adoption and assimilation of the change can occur. While not guaranteed, this approach may soften resistance from the affected stakeholders.

A newly formed, collocated agile team was debating whether it would be best to use an electorinc or phydiscla kanban boarrd for their new software de3velopment project. The team members do not fully understand their needs yet, but they know they want a place where stakeholders can gather around, discuss the status, and easily make changes. As PM experienced w/ agile best practices, what would you recommend to the team?

Use any type of boar as long as the team and the stakeholders can gather around and make changes. The team is new, and the TM's are not fully aware of their needs yet. Therefore, they select any type of board, either physical or electronic, to experiment with. Later on, the team will adapt based on their needs.

The scope and schedule baselines have been approved. However, developing the cost baseline becomes a difficult task for the PM. The problem is that the project has to procure materials from abroad. However, due to political instability in the country from which the materials are imported, the prices are very unstable. What is the best approach of the PM to take in this sitaution?

Use lightweight estimation methods. With a high degree of uncertaintyy in the cost of matetrials, providing accurate estimates would be unlikely possible. Under these circumstances, lightweight agile estimation methods can be used. Then, as the project progresses, the costs can be adjusted for short term planning in a just-in time fashion.

A project team is testing a prototype of a new drone. Something goes wrong and causes the drone to crash and explode. Fortunately, this risk has been identified easy in the project and the contingency reserves allocated for the sis are sufficient to construct another prototype. What the PM do?

Use the contingency to construct a new prototype. The scenario implies that a reserve analysis has been done, and it was found that the contingency reserves are sufficient to build a new drone. Therefore., the next logical step is to construct the new drone using the contingent reserves.

An agile team meets with the customer and stakeholders to plan their upcoming agile project. the participants are looking for a tools that would help them understand the sets of high-value features to be created overtime, identify omission in the backlog, and effectively plan releases that will never value to the customer in every iteration. Which of the following tools would best meet the needs of the meeting participants ?

User story mapping.

to collect requirements for the new software application, a product owner facilitates a meeting with developers, customer representatives and other stakeholders. The participants create short, textual descriptions of the required functionality, indicate those who will benefit from the feature, as well as the goal of and the motivation behind the functionality. What type of meeting does the product owner facilitate?

User story workshop. A user story workshop is a meeting that includes developers, customer representatives , end-users and other relevant stakeholders who all collaborate to write user stories.

A project team has just finished development and is planning to have the customer and the sponsor inspect the system's user interface for acceptance. Which project management process will facilitate this activity ?

Validate Scope. The validate scope process includes reviewing deliverables with the customer or sponsor to ensure that they are completed satisfactorily and obtaining formal acceptance of a develiverables by the customer or sponsor.

Outputs of Control Schedule process?

WPI, Schedule forecast, change request, PMP updates, Project documents updates

During a team meeting, the agile coach proposes that the team implemented a defined process for reporting defects on their online tracking tool. Since the team are well familiar with the tool from their past projects, they, by consensus, agreed that they do not need to waste their time discussing this matter. The agile coach is unhappy. What is the next best step for the agile coach?

Wait and see if the team experiences fast failure. 'Fast failure' is a concept used in agile coaching. The idea behind the concept is that if a project/initiative/process is doomed to fail - it is better to let it fail fast so that organizational resources are not wasted. Therefore, instead of arguing with the team, it is better for the agile coach to let the team fail (assuming this failure does not jeopardize the entire project).

A PM is leading a project which has experienced numerous quality issues. these issues threaten the successful completion of the project objectives. in order to improve the performance of the project, the PM schedules a retrospective with the project team and relevant stakeholders. Which of the following topics is least likely to be discussed?

What are the project objectives and the roles and responsibilities of the stakeholders.

your project has been in execution for one mont, and you have performed earned value analysis (EVA) to determine how the project is performing compared to the cost baseline.

Work Performance Information. Work performance information is derived from the analysis of work performance data.

a company has beeb merged with a former competitor. The merger undergoes a major reorganization. As a result, an agile team is assigned to a new manager who announces that the project has dropped in priority and will lose two its ten members, but would still need to deliver on time. What is the best course of action for the PM?

Work with relevant project stakeholders to reprioritize the remaining features preparing a new product roadmap and backlog to meet the original project completion date. given the project has lost resources, it is unlikely that all of the features or user stories will be able to be completed within the established timeline with reduced resources. Reprioritizng the reamaining features in the product backlog is an agile best practice whenever scope, resources, or deadline changes.

Agile teams are more apt to deliver true business value when they are focused on:

Working product. Delivering a working product is what represents business value for the customer. Conversely, a non-working product delivers no business value to the customer regardless of how much customer collaboration was involved in creating it. Therefore, when the teams are focused on the outcome of their work, that being a working product, they are more apt to deliver true business value.

Is it ethical to use a stakeholder register from a previous project when identifying project stakeholders for this project?

Yes, because project management best practices recommend using information from past project as an input to the identify stakeholders process.

A product review to demonstrate what has been worked on during this first month is scheduled for Friday. Should the PM communicate to the customer about this meeting and why or why not?

Yes, the customer can join and provide feedback on the Work in Progress. The inclusion of the customer and other appropriate stakeholders in product reviews and other project meetings enables dialog between the customer and the project team. that communication is desirable to build a product aligned to stakeholder needs.

An agile team has to provide a rough estimtate of their velocity for an upcoming proejct. In terms of the domain, environment and tools, the project is expected to be very similar to the last three projects that the team completed recently. However, the technology that team will use to develop the product for this project will be different. It its advisable for the team to use historical velocities in order to estimate their velocity for the new project?

Yes, the team use historical velocities but the range of estimate should reflect the underlygin uncertainty. When one of the factors on the new project is different from what it was in the previous one (i.e. technology), historical velocity can still be used. However, the team should put larger range around the velocity values to account for the uncertainty in the estimate due to these differences.

a few weeks after completing a project, a company's representative calls the consultant who served as the PM to get some information on the project, including pitfalls and best practices to be used for future projects. The representative state that they searched the project files but did not find the one that included the information. What might the consult have missed?

archiving the project documents and materials the OPA's of the company.

A PM informs the agile TM's that due to unexpected personal issues, the product owner will be unable to attend the upcoming sprint review. What would be the most likely outcome of this situation?

it will be unclear whether the product increment developed by the team during the spring is accepted or not. The sprint review meeting is the opportunity for the team to demonstrate the product increment they developed during the sprint. One of the responsibilities of the product owner is to define what should be developed in each sprint. Therefore, without the product owner attending the sprint review, the team will be unable to determine if the product increment they developed during the sprint is accepted or not.

A senior executive is very interested in a product that an agile team is bruising and asks the scrum master to include several additional features. How should the scrum master respond?

refer the executive to the product owner. While others may write the user stories, the product owner is solely responsible for ensuring that these user stories add value to the business. When the senior executive approaches anyone on the team but the product owner about adding a new feature, the TM should refer executive to the product owner.

During project execution, the client provided updated requirements, which apparently will only require a minor adjustment to the WBS. What should you do first?

submit a change request to update the scope baseline. The WBS is a component of the scope baseline.

once a month, you attend a steering committee meeting to report on project status as specified in the communications management plan. During the meeting, the committee members challenge you on the productivity of you project team, pointing out that you team has a velocity of 40 sotry pts per sprint, while another project team is averaging 80 pts. What your best course of action?

take the opportunity to coach the steering committee members on the proper use of the velocity metric. Since the definition of a story point is typically established by individual project teams, comparing the velocity of one team to another would distort the actual performance. You as the team leader, should mentor the steering committee members on agile best practices and explain the proper use of velocity metric

The project team has completed a prototype of a machine. Product testing has revealed that a component of the machine does not have longevity required by project objectives. A change request to replace the part with a more durable component is submitted and approved. The change is implemented and the issue is resolved. What should the PM do next ?

update the issue log with the final status of the issue. The issue log is a project document where all the issues encountered during a project are recorded and tracked. The issue log should be updated next to the document the fact that the problem described by the question has been resolved. While the question does not explicitly state that the problem has been documented in the issue log, it can be implied that such significant drawback in the functionality of the prototype would have been defined as an issue and captures in the issue log.