A newly commissioned project has had trouble recruiting team members because the turnover rate is high. The human resource (HR) manager
has conducted several exit interviews. Many team members have expressed that the project manager has inadequate relationship management
competencies. The project manager explains that the exiting team members were lazy.
What should the project manager do to prevent this high turnover rate from continuing?
A project manager is managing a large project. A stakeholder has just discovered a new risk that has not been identified in earlier stages.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is managing an internal project with a tight budget and schedule. While executing the project, the project manager realizes that
some stakeholders are working against the success targets of the project.
What should the project manager do to ensure successful project delivery? (Choose two)
During a system demo, a project stakeholder rejects the features completed from the most recent user stories. According to the stakeholder, the product does not meet the
quality standards required by regulations.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this?
A project manager has been assigned a project to build a new solar farm that will provide clean energy to a new housing complex. The government has decided to reduce
the tax on renewable energy products starting 1 January. The supplier has reached out and stated that the order placed for solar panels to be delivered on 20 December
might be delayed until early January. On the other hand, the project will face similar constraints due to the December holidays.
What should the project manager do about this risk?
A project manager is working with a customer's team on a new project. Some product definitions and requirements are still not clear, but the customer wants to start
activities as soon as possible. The organization is also expecting product delivery for a specific date due to a regulatory requirement. Due to the nature of the project, the
project manager has decided to use a hybrid approach.
Why did the project manager choose a hybrid approach?
A human resources (HR) cost report was disclosed, by error, to all members of the project team. This situation generated a conflict between the team members about differences in their salaries.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?
A project manager has been assigned to a new digital product line, which the company hopes will boost their revenue. The product is complex and requires customer feedback to continually refine the product. The project is being handled by a cross-functional agile team.
What should the project manager do to ensure value is delivered quickly?
A newly assigned project manager is reviewing the project management plan and realizes that the project is running behind schedule. What should the new project manager
do to address this situation?
A project's business case was just approved and the project manager is creating the benefits management plan. It is unclear how the benefits from the project align with the organization's vision.
What should the project manager do first to verify alignment?
A project team is struggling to obtain the required data for a complex project in order to proceed to the next stage. What should the project manager do?
A complex project is in the execution phase. A key stakeholder who is new to the project has not been approving project deliverables, which could impact the overall
progress.
What should the project manager do next?
A project team member was unhappy with a new change in project governance and complained to one of the project sponsors. The project sponsor challenged the project manager.
How should the project manager resolve this conflict?
A project manager receives information in preparation for reporting the project's monthly performance to the project steering committee,
* Actual progress = 2 units
* Planned progress = 3 units
* Actual cost (AC) = 2 units
* Budgeted cost = 3 units
What statement should the project manager make to the project steering committee?
A project manager is assigned to a new project team that has several stakeholders who can have significant influence over the project outcomes.
The project manager categorized the stakeholders into four different groups and wants to define the communication strategy.
How should the project manager handle communication?
A project manager has recently taken over a project and notices that a client team member often halts progress due to a lack of understanding of some project elements.
The former project manager gave the new project manager a complete list of people to communicate with, and this client team member is not on it.
What should the project manager do?
An organization is undergoing an agile transformation. The executive leadership team is concerned that they will lose control over the scope of the project.
What should the project manager, who is responsible for this project, do to mitigate this risk?
Due to unforeseen circumstances, a contractor was unable to mobilize the project team, which was necessary to conduct face-to-face meetings and discussions. Virtual meetings were subsequently put in place, but the local project team and end users now face a communication gap that is causing the team's low performance.
What should the project manager do?
A customer complains that the user stories released so far contain too much jargon and do not reflect the expectations of the product. What should the project manager do
next?
An IT project manager for a project that is 50% complete teams that a critical team member plans to relocate to another country soon. The team member is needed for the remainder of the project.
How should the project manager improve team dynamics?
In an agile project, some stakeholders are asking to have a meeting with the team every 2 weeks in order to understand project progress. What
should the project lead do next?
A project manager is leading a project that will be delivered using a Scrum framework. The organization has an innovative project management office (PMO) that fully supports agile and also has a very friendly procurement team. A new vendor needs to be engaged to provide more developers for a new reporting platform.
What should the project manager do?
A project team is in the planning stage and has prepared a list of activities and completed sequencing the activities. During a review, the team noted that there is a
dependency missing between:
+ Test the product
+ Release to customer
According to the quality management plan, the product must be tested before being released.
How should the project manager enter this dependency?
A project manager who is experienced in predictive and adaptive approaches has been assigned to a new project. Most of the project
stakeholders have only worked on predictive projects, and only a few have been exposed to adaptive projects.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager was recently assigned to a project that is in the execution phase and is experiencing roadblocks. During a review of the
processes and procedures, the project manager notices similarities to a previous project that experienced similar roadblocks. The project manager
reviews the task schedule and finds that certain tasks are well behind expectations. In speaking with the project team, the project manager
confirms that the team is following the processes exactly.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is newly assigned to the second phase of an ongoing project. During the implementation, a defect occurred and no one knows how to fix it, as the former engineering team has moved to another project. The customer warns that previously, this defect negatively affected the project schedule.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager is assigned to a large construction project with more than 100 project team members. The project manager is having a hard time keeping the project on track and deriving the planned benefits. The project manager wants to make sure that each requirement is linked to the business and project objective.
What should the project manager do?
During the execution phase of a healthcare IT project, the project manager finds one stakeholder is very difficult to communicate with and obtain
feedback from on project deliverables. What should the project manager do?
A proof of concept for a proposed solution was conducted during the project implementation, and it was determined that the current technology cannot support it. What should the project manager do next?
A product owner has added new high-priority work to the backlog, A project manager is working with a dedicated agile team that does not specialize in this specific area of work. The team reviewed the work and wants to accept it but acknowledges it may not have the same level of efficiency as another team having specialization in this area.
What should the project manager do In this scenario?
During a business review meeting, a key stakeholder raised a concern on the quality of deliverables and has now escalated the concern.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager is working with a team that is demotivated and tired, as the project has been changing direction due to budget cuts from the sponsor.
What should the project manager do first?
A team member has very strong technical skills and is interested in a leadership role. A leadership position opens up outside of the team in the organization. The project manager has observed that the team member has a major gap in communicating in a professional manner.
What should the project manager do?
In an organization with good work-life balance, one team was continuously overloaded, thereby delivering the product ft quality. What should the project
manager do?
A project manager coordinates several projects in one program. Each project concerns a different country, has a different sponsor, and has specific business priorities. The resources are shared among the projects. The project manager anticipates this could result in delays and/or conflicts that will affect the program outcomes.
What should the project manager do to prevent such a situation?
A project manager collects various pieces of information and consolidates metrics in an agile project. The project manager finds that there is slack in the team in terms of productivity. The number of items sent to development per person has decreased by 10%, and the project manager used a root cause analysis (RCA) and discovered the reason is a lack of knowledge in one of the frameworks used for modeling.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is in the process of authoring the communications management plan for a new project. One of the project's stakeholders has a habit of posting work updates on social media, which may include confidential project status updates.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is leading a highly visible project with a critical time constraint. Frequent scope changes have been well-managed with change control, but there have been misunderstandings among project team members.
What should the project manager do?
A technology project is delivering new functionality on a new platform. Several team resources are starting to train their teams, but they are asking questions about the training that the project will provide.
What should the project manager's first action be?
A project was initiated due to an external business influence. During the course of the project, some of the business parameters considered at the
beginning of the project have changed.
What should the project manager do?
In a project steering committee meeting, a few stakeholders raise concerns that the project manager's report shows that the outcome of the project is already in the market
while the project is still in development. The project manager explains that the project is being delivered in sprints and involves different releases.
What should the project manager do to avoid a reoccurrence of this scenario?
A company has undertaken a large transformation project in preparation for the changing economy. During the planning of the transformation project, the key resource from human resources (HR) refuses to approve the proposed project plan.
What should the project manager do to gain an understanding of the cause for the resource's refusal?
The project manager's firm is executing a construction project. The project is stalled due to reemerging conflicts and misunderstandings among stakeholders.
What should the project manager do to ensure a smooth start and completion of the project?
An organization is transitioning to agile. The project manager is discussing how to manage risks with the development team in light of the transition for a particular project.
The team estimates the risk level as low.
What should the project manager do?
A company initiated a project to introduce a new product to the market. The product must undergo the industry's regulatory process prior to approval and launch However, the company sees a great demand for this product and wants it to launch as soon as possible.
What should the project manager do to realize this opportunity?
A project team is globally distributed with team members living and working in different time zones. The project manager is trying to get the team
to collaborate effectively.
Which three actions should the project manager take to accomplish this goal? (Choose three)
A project manager is managing a project that has a new sponsor who is cutting the budget As a servant leader how should the project manager handle the budget cuts with the team?
An agile project team is working on an infrastructure product to be delivered incrementally over several iterations. Midway through the third iteration, the whole company is
informed that the operating systems supported by the infrastructure will be terminated in the upcoming quarter. Several thousand machines will be impacted by this change.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager is working with several junior engineers on a project. The project manager noticed that when the junior engineers are asked questions, they defer te more senior team members on the team for answers. Having worked with the junior engineers on another project, the project manager knows they are capable of making these minor decisions correctly.
This uncertainty from the junior engineers is now slowing progress.
‘What should the project manager do?
In the planning phase of a software implementation project, two of the team members disagree on how to approach end-user training. The
discussion has intensified and the team members are not able to agree.
What should the project manager do next?