In the middle of a software development project, the lead design programmer accepted an offer from a competitor. The project manager needs to find a replacement to meet an upcoming milestone.
What should the project manager do?
Anew engineer was assigned to a project. Although the engineer has adequate skills for the job, they always wait for authorization from the
project manager before acting.
What should the project manager do?
An agile team is in the early phases of the development cycle for a project; however, they have already begun to deliver functionality to the customer. The team has identified risks to the project and are working on developing the mitigation strategy.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is leading a project team composed of members with varying levels of knowledge and
experience. Some are experts and some have less than 1 year of experience. The project schedule was approved by the steering committee.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager analyzes the cumulative flow chart and identifies a bottleneck in the testing activities from a self-organizing team. After discussing it with the team, a gap related to testing skills is identified.
What should the project manager do to address the issue?
A company's key product is evolving and requires the use of a new technology. No one on the team is familiar with this technology; however, experienced developers on the team volunteered to study the concepts and application and believe they will be able to take full responsibility for the new technology.
What should the project manager do?
An organization embarking on a significant transformation initiated a project to improve and document business processes. One of the objectives of the project is to implement agile project delivery.
What is the main reason for adopting agile?
A company must implement a new regulation. The government has specified the date when the regulation will be enforced but has only provided high-level information on
the regulation's requirements. Therefore, changes in definitions are to be expected due to uncertainty.
Which life cycle should the project manager use for this project?
A project is behind schedule because of a delayed equipment installation. This is affecting many other activities. The manager responsible for the
equipment delivery notified the project manager that there is a capacity issue for the team doing the installation.
What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation from happening?
A laboratory is launching a new product, defined to be executed in eight iterations with a fixed release date. At the beginning of the second
iteration, the project manager realizes that a significant regulatory feature is missing in the project backlog.
What should the project manager do?
A major public-transportation construction project is aimed at significantly reducing emissions. The project has been severely delayed due to noncompliance with environmental codes and bylaws.
What should the project manager have done to prevent this?
A project manager is managing an agile project for the first time. Early on, the project manager discovers the team is struggling to agree on the scope of a feature during a sprint.
How should the project manager help the team resolve the issue?
A project manager manages a bridge construction project. The project manager has received a major change request from a regulatory stakeholder to add one branch of the bridge to the engineering design. The project manager prepared a change request, which was reviewed and accepted by the change control board (CCB).
What should the project manager do now?
A project manager holds periodic progress review meetings to discuss issues. What should the project manager do first on the agenda?
A project team member, who is inexperienced in system development work is not performing well. Currently, there are no other staff members
available who are qualified to complete the work.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager has just been hired by a company without a project management governance structure. During the kick-off meeting, a key stakeholder emphasizes the
importance of the project meeting the company's strategy, investment, and compliance requirements.
What should the project manager do?
A highly critical project is in jeopardy due to missing professional resources. What should the newly assigned project manager do first?
At the end of a project, the project manager was asked to provide a performance rating of the project team members. What should the project manager mainly make reference to?
A project manager received a request to add features and functions to the project after the scope had already been established. What should the project manager do?
Project acceptance criteria include on-site training for the new users of a system. Due to unforeseen circumstances, all team members have to work remotely for an indefinite period of time.
What should the project manager do?
A business transformation project has a four-phase delivery plan. The project team has successfully delivered one phase of the project.
To further enhance team performance and empower team members, which two actions should the project manager take? (Choose two)
An agile team is working on a 2-week sprint to deliver business value. About 1 week after the sprint starts, the team members do not feel
confident about the product increment they are building. They do not want to wait until the end of the sprint and want to validate the product
increment with the product owner now.
What should the project manager do to mitigate this risk?
An experienced project manager is leading an enthusiastic team but realizes the team lacks the experience to complete the job successfully. What should the project manager do to reduce the risk of project failure?
Some of the more experienced members of a project team have complained about the project manager. The senior project team members feel that the project manager is micromanaging them and preventing them from completing their work.
What should the project manager do when made aware of these issues?
Anew law was published about zoning permits for telecom towers. This may cause cost and schedule overruns for the new network rollout.
What should the project manager do?
A customer is concerned about the time required to complete a project and is asking the project team to reduce the number of iterations required to complete the product. Which approach should the project manager take?
A software development project completed the initiation phase. The technical design was approved by the project steering committee. Later, it was discovered that the design will impact the company’s production system. A new technical design must be found and this could delay the project by 3 months.
What should the project manager do first?
A company routinely outsources resources for specific core activities. Due to a sudden, unforeseen risk, all of the team members are needed to work remotely, including the outsourced ones.
How can the project manager address this challenge to assure outsourced vendors deliver?
A project team is performing a post-release evaluation of a product that requires detailed feedback from seven stakeholders. Six of the stakeholders have promptly provided feedback. One of them has not provided any feedback despite numerous requests from the team.
What should the project manager do in this situation?
A company is implementing a project with team members located in different countries and time zones. Individual performance is satisfactory, but the team's performance as
a whole is low, especially in terms of group activities.
What should the project manager do?
A production team will soon begin their first agile project. No one in the team or management has agile knowledge. The training manager can only fund three enrollments.
Match the team role on the left to the correct training course on the right. (Use all three of the team roles.)
A company has selected a cross-functional team to develop an innovative digital product to drive the digital transformation project for the business. What should the project
manager do to ensure business value is delivered early?
A team has had issues with behavior on an ongoing project, which is causing conflicts. As a result, the team is losing momentum and falling
behind in its sprints.
How should the project manager handle this situation?
A project manager is part of a global project team and is in charge of managing the scope defined by their country. There is a clear division regarding which pieces of the
scope should be treated by global and local teams. During the last sprints, the project manager has been receiving requests that the global team should handle.
What should the project manager do in this situation?
A customer initiated a minor scope change and expects this to be completed without delays or additional costs. The project manager believes that they have adequate
authorization to make the decision themselves but is not quite sure.
What should the project manager do next?
A high-performing team is involved in a project with a new domain. The team is unable to deliver as expected.
What should the project manager do?
The scope of a project is to replace the street signs within a 10-km radius. The client does not want to sign the project closure report if the radius
is not extended by 1 km, to be aligned with the council's development plan.
What should the project manager do?
A project is comprised of team members who are not engaged and committed to project success. What should the project manager do to address this situation?
A project manager is leading a project that has a dependency on the client's vendor management system for critical requirements. The vendor
management team will not derive any benefits from the project. However, the project requires support from the vendor management head.
What should the project manager do next?
A project scope statement has been approved, and the project manager and core team have been assigned to the project. Suddenly, the project
manager takes a temporary leave of absence due to a medical emergency. While the project manager is on leave, the team develops the project
schedule. When the project manager returns, a detailed schedule is almost complete.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is building a team to work on a service integration project that will transition technology management services from company A to company B. The project team will consist of members from both companies. Prospective team members for the project are located all over the world, have different types of technology backgrounds, and use different approaches for work.
How should the project manager build a cohesive, high-performing team?
A new team member has joined a project team. During the first sprint, the new team member approached the project manager and requested to implement a new way of testing. The team has been resistant to the proposed change.
What should the project manager do?
A stakeholder informs the project manager about a few compliance-related gaps and issues. The stakeholder then presents several suggestions to the project manager to address the issues.
What should the project manager do?
A development team is struggling to find design documentation for the upcoming sprint. Prior to leaving for vacation, the product owner
communicated that the documentation had been uploaded to the project file repository.
What should the project manager do to address this issue?
A project manager discovers that the project team is spending a large amount of time delivering several reporting formats for the same project updates to multiple stakeholders. What should the project manager do to reduce the time spent on these activities?
A project team member identified a procurement risk and sent an email to the project sponsor highlighting the risk.
The sponsor forwarded the email to the project manager asking for further details. After speaking with the sponsor, the project manager decided to take preventive action.
Which document should the project manager review with their team?
A project manager is performing earned value management (EVM) for a cross-country pipeline project. The project manager has determined the ratio of earned value (EV)
to actual cost (AC) for the project and has found the calculated result to be 0.9024.
What does this value mean for the project?
A project manager for an agile project is concerned that the team has been losing momentum over the last iterations. Which two tools should the project manager use to
analyze team performance? (Choose two)
A project manager is working with team members and customers who are operating in multiple countries. The team is working on implementing a new technology that includes ambiguities, uncertainties, and unknowns, both in terms of technology and of the end-user expectations for this solution.
What should the project manager do to keep the stakeholders engaged?
A project manager leads a development project for a mobile chatting application. One of the experienced developers constantly creates conflicts
with the other team members. As a result, the other team members are refusing to work with the developer. Since the developer is a high
performer, the project goals may be negatively impacted if they leave the team.
What should the project manager do in this situation?