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In a large energy company, a PMO was recently established to help organize the numerous projects that are completed every year. Executives have passionate discussions in meetings to select and prioritize projects to enter the portfolio. These discussions cause frequent delays and result in decisions being questioned by some of the executive board members.

What should the PMO professional do to improve this situation?

A.

Facilitate the selection and prioritization process based on their own project management experience.

B.

Implement a portfolio management service that includes established criteria for project selection and prioritization.

C.

Ask the executives to discuss issues based on the projects' proposed business cases so that discussions are more objective.

D.

Suggest informal activities to build interpersonal relationships among the company executives.

A PMO professional joins an existing PMO that displays warning signs that the organization's perception of the PMO's value is deteriorating.

Which step should the PMO professional recommend?

A.

Review and reduce the operating costs of the PMO, highlighting enhanced value for PMO customers.

B.

Highlight the benefits of the PMO effectively, using qualitative and quantitative measures for PMO customers.

C.

Switch out some PMO resources to ones with a wider range of core PMO skills and inform PMO customers of the additional skills.

D.

Move the PMO to report to a popular manager within the company and communicate the change to PMO customers.

A PMO professional is responsible for a team of project managers who lead projects for the business departments. A business manager has mentioned to the PMO professional that one of the project managers assigned to them is very set in their ways, which is causing friction among the project team members.

How should the PMO professional respond to this feedback?

A.

Assign a different project manager to this project, as keeping the business department happy is paramount to PMO success.

B.

Instruct the PMO team members to be more sensitive to how the other project team members work.

C.

Talk with the respective project team members about specific examples of situations that caused issues within the project team.

D.

Ask the project manager to explain the challenges of working with the other project team members.

A PMO professional overseeing multiple projects notices that project managers have varying levels of adherence to the project governance processes.

What should the PMO professional do first to ensure consistent governance across projects?

A.

Schedule individual meetings with project managers to understand their challenges with governance processes and provide support.

B.

Develop a comprehensive governance training program and mandate all project managers to complete it within a specified timeframe.

C.

Escalate governance oversight responsibilities to project sponsors to ensure project managers adhere to processes.

D.

Implement stricter enforcement of the governance processes by imposing fines and other penalties for noncompliance.

A PMO professional is supporting project managers who are implementing a new organization-wide user support system. The PMO professional needs to help the project managers enable change management effectively within the organization. In recent years, similar initiatives have failed because employees were too focused on the negative effects of change. The changes were enforced by sending memos to employees who did not adopt the new processes. The instructions to adopt the new processes did not offer any flexibility.

Which approach should the PMO professional recommend to enable change this time?

A.

Build trust and collaboration and communicate a shared vision and goals early in the project.

B.

Allow users to use social networks to express their negative feelings about the change.

C.

Enforce the adoption of the new processes with zero tolerance for variations or room for user feedback.

D.

Ensure that all users know exactly what to do in every situation during the change process.

A new PMO has been started in a medium-sized retail company that has several concurrently running strategic projects. A team of project managers with no PMO experience has been assigned to the new PMO.

Which two actions should the PMO professional take to help the project managers prepare for their roles? (Choose 2)

A.

Explain how they should understand the PMO's customers' needs first so they know what to focus on.

B.

Coach and mentor the project managers in managing the company's strategic projects.

C.

Explain that being part of a PMO requires extensive experience in the company's business sector.

D.

Conduct orientation sessions to raise the project managers' awareness about the organization of a PMO.

E.

Explain that being a part of a PMO requires high-level project management competencies.

In recent months, a company was contracted to deliver several projects requiring specialist technical resources. Several clients have begun to complain about the limited availability of the specialist technical resources, which will impact their project timelines.

What should the PMO professional do to help solve the problem?

A.

Request that the sales representatives review the contracts and deadlines that the company has taken responsibility for.

B.

Suggest the centralization of project resource management and align the project plans to their availability.

C.

Invite project managers to hire additional skilled resources to face the high number of simultaneously running projects.

D.

Support delivery managers and sales representatives in managing relationships with clients.

An enterprise PMO (EPMO) is working with different countries to staff project managers across the organization. Customers are providing feedback stating that the staffing is taking more time than expected when compared to the deadlines agreed upon with the customer.

Which two key performance indicators (KPIs) should the PMO professional monitor for this PMO service? (Choose 2)

A.

The Net Promoter Score (NPS) related to general customer satisfaction.

B.

The average time needed to recruit project managers for the customer.

C.

The number of days taken on average to formally finalize customer requests.

D.

The retention of project managers in their roles on the assigned projects.

E.

The percentage of project manager roles filled within the deadline.

A PMO was recently established to support the organization's new strategy following a global restructuring process.

Which two actions should the PMO leader take to effectively identify the expectations of PMO customers? (Choose 2)

A.

Review existing PMO guidelines and processes to ensure alignment with assumed customers' needs.

B.

Analyze past performance reports of the company's projects to create a catalog of services for the PMO.

C.

Establish a feedback loop with PMO customers to continuously gather insights on how the PMO can better support their needs.

D.

Conduct one-on-one interviews with C-suite executives to understand their strategic goals and how the PMO can support achieving them.

E.

Survey all employees to gather general feedback on the PMO's role and impact on the organization.

A PMO professional has been hired to establish a PMO within an organization. However, upon starting, they discovered that a PMO had already been implemented a few years ago but was shut down due to its failure to generate perceived value at the executive level.

What approach should the PMO professional take when beginning this task?

A.

Concentrate on delivering short-term wins and minimize the time spent analyzing the reasons for the previous PMO's failure.

B.

Investigate the root causes of the previous PMO's failure and identify any residual resistance that might affect the new initiative.

C.

Adopt a well-known PMO framework from a leading publication to ensure a structured approach and avoid past mistakes.

D.

Prioritize selecting industry-recognized tools and methodologies to demonstrate the value of the PMO quickly.