The project team completed a demonstration of the main deliverable of the project. Although the project sponsor is happy with the outcome and is ready to sign the release to production, one of the business unit managers who attended the demo believes that the deliverable is not complete.
Which document should the project manager use to resolve this situation?
A project manager has an engineering team mostly comprised of new hires. The project manager has to carefully predict in which stage of the project they will need to spend most of their time to ensure the team is properly integrated and performing well.
In which stage of the project would the project manager need a greater effort to lead them?
A project manager is confused when the operational results from previous iteration solutions have not been acceptable to the client. Team members have already delivered all previous solutions, which were accepted by the client as complete.
What should the project manager do?
Two members of a new project team disagree on the best approach to solve a problem. The conflict has been going on for 1 week. The two
members are tense around each other and are taking everything personally.
What should the project manager do?
A project steering committee meeting was arranged to approve a milestone of a project within two weeks. The project manager is informed that a new project executive will take over the project.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager assigned to an agile project realizes that after iteration demos, new user stories to fix issues reported by the product owner are not included in prioritization of the following sprint. This has led to a high number of unprioritized stories in the backlog and will lead to delay of the product release.
What should the project manager do?
A new project manager took over a project that has been ongoing for a while. Some project team members are not clear on when the project will end and feel the project has already transitioned into business as usual.
What should the new project manager do first?
A project management office (PMO) is following the execution of an organization's critical project. Some of the project phases are experiencing serious delays due to an international supply chain crisis. Project team members suggested revisiting the planned project phases to maintain the project's value delivery.
What should the project manager do?
An agile project has completed several iterations. The project manager has been asked to participate in a meeting with the executive functional manager, who is a company leader and the product owner's supervisor. The executive functional manager wants to know about the project deliverables.
What should the project manager focus on for the required meeting?
A company is transitioning from using a predictive approach to using an agile framework on a project. The project sponsor is concerned about the level of uncertainty and how to determine the time and budget required to complete the scope.
What should the project manager do to address this situation?
A geographically distributed project team working on an iterative project adopts a new mode of communication following changes in health protocols. The colocated team members are finding themselves challenged with understanding verbal communication and collaboration methods.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager notices that a team member is upset during a team meeting. The project manager assesses the situation and determines that the team member does not collaborate with some of the other team members.
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?
During the initial stage of a project, the team estimated activities for the next iteration in story points. It was agreed that each story point would be assumed to be equal to one day of effort during project execution. There are some activities estimated as two story points and others estimated as 100 story points.
What should the project manager ask the team to do next?
After the first iteration, a scrum master notices that some of the team members are struggling with testing their developed product. What should the scrum master do next?
In an organizational upper-level management meeting, the CEO shows interest in a project of which they were not previously aware. After the meeting, what should the project manager do to ensure the CEO's support?
A project manager is working on a global project and realizes that one team member is not performing as expected. The project manager meets with the team member to find out what is causing this low performance. The project manager discovers the team member is experiencing conflict and feels uncomfortable with the team. The team member then asks to be moved to another project.
What should the project manager do?
A newly assigned team member immediately begins questioning operating procedures. This new team member wants the team to follow operating procedures that the team member had used previously. During assignments, the new team member begins using some of those processes and procedures and suggests these practices to other team members.
What action should the project manager take?
A project team is experiencing communication issues during project execution. The project manager realizes that the communications management plan needs to be reviewed.
Which are three fundamental actions the project manager should take? (Choose 3)
A project feature from the development team was rejected due to low quality. Over the past few weeks, the testing team has become concerned because the development team has not yet responded to the rejection. As a result, the testing team has escalated the conflict to the project manager.
What should the project manager do?
A product owner is complaining about the team's performance. The developers are highly skilled, and most of the issues were caused by dependencies. The developers provide a formal status report every day, but it is clear that the other team members are not satisfied with this.
What should the project lead do?
During a sprint planning, the development lead highlights the importance of working on technical debt tasks that are critical for the product performance. However, the tasks will consume most of the team's capacity and they will not be able to work on product feature development.
What should the project manager do?
A CEO of a general contracting company urgently asks the project manager to sign up two project team members to participate in a specific training course. Halfway
through the training, both team members complain that the training is too difficult, above their experience level, and that the material does not align with their tasks.
What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation?
An IT team has reached out to the project manager for guidance on which communication method to use when system downtime will impact the resources working on the project.
Which two communication methods should the project manager recommend? (Choose 2)
A project lead with a strong technical background oversees a project using agile delivery. The product owner asked the project lead to assist with ensuring the benefits of functionality that are built in the sprint are tracked.
What should the project lead advise?
A project lead was asked to support the team by subdividing the project tasks as necessary to help define the minimum viable product (MVP).
Which two steps should the project lead take to define the MVP? (Choose 2)
A sales manager submitted a new feature request to the product owner, and the request was added to the product backlog. During the sprint planning meeting, the team struggles over which algorithm is the most efficient one to use. The team thinks that some development work is needed to decide.
What should the project manager do?
An agile team is struggling to successfully deliver what they have committed. During the daily status meetings, the project manager notices that the most senior engineer is doing all of the talking, leaving little time for the other members to share their status. The team's performance is not good, and some team members want to leave the team.
How should the project manager approach this situation?
A team is using an agile approach to maintain the project backlog. A new project obstacle was identified as a blocker and added to the backlog list. The team is facing challenges to remove this obstacle.
What should the project manager do next?
A project team is using an iterative and incremental delivery approach. The sprint's duration is 1 month with a production release every 3 months. In the last sprint review, the users communicated that they want the functionality presented and deployed in 5 weeks. The project lead is working on the next release plan.
When should the project lead have their team deploy the functionality?
A project schedule's risk level continues to increase during project execution because sprints are consistently delivering less than the intended results. The project manager becomes concerned that the deliverable will be delayed and cost more than the project sponsor intended.
What should the project manager do first?
A project team is struggling to meet the project deadline due to a reoccurring conflict between two team members. What should the project manager do?
A project is in the start-up phase of the project life cycle. The project team consists of 20 people from five different countries. The project team is scheduled to have quarterly face-to-face meetings. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, no face-to-face meetings can occur. The project manager is concerned that the team may not be able to fulfill their individual roles without face-to-face meetings.
What should the project manager do in this situation?
During a daily meeting of a challenging project, two team members started to argue on the preferred solution based on their assumptions. The situation prevented the progress to the next phase of development, which could impact the finish date of the project.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is working on a hybrid project and is responsible for ensuring the design, build, and delivery of the software is completed in an agile way. How should the project manager plan the iteration?
A project team used agile approaches to create a minimum viable product (MVP). Currently, the team is discussing the possible next steps.
What should be the next step?
A project manager notices that the project team is encountering product issues while coding client-specific developments. The project manager foresees delays to the project's timeline because of these product issues.
Which methods should the project manager use to communicate project delays and other difficult messages to stakeholders?
A project has recently completed its production go-live, meeting the project's completion requirements in accordance with the scope document. However, the customer has been requesting a number of significant project enhancements.
How should the project manager address the customer's requests?
Project stakeholders have provided a team with requirements that will take at least one year to complete. The project sponsor advised that they need to see some return on investment (ROI) soon.
What should the project manager do?
During project planning activities, a project manager identifies potential delays in obtaining resources required for a project. This will significantly impact the construction timeline.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is working on an ongoing construction project. The designer notifies the project manager about materials that were not included in the budget due to a technical mistake.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?
During execution of the third sprint in a project, a project team is uncertain about the frequent updates on the vendor's platform. The team is concerned about how the updates will impact the rest of the backlog.
What should the project manager do to minimize the uncertainty?
A project manager is working on a project that is using a hybrid approach. One key input for the deliverable will be from the outcome of another project that is using an agile approach.
What should the project manager do next?
A project leader is preparing to facilitate a sprint retrospective. The sales manager sends the project leader an email asking how a feature planned for the next shipment is being implemented.
What should the project leader do next?
A project manager is overseeing a 10-mile piping installation project that was supposed to spend US$15,000 per mile of piping installation and should complete the project exactly 20 weeks from its start. The project manager just found out that only 80% of the work has been completed.
What is the budget at completion (BAC)?
During the sprint planning of a project, the team members have a disagreement
about the comparative size of the backlog items and if they would fit into the next sprint.
Considering a hybrid approach, what should the project manager do?
A project team has not been meeting its deliverables because they are not receiving adequate resources to do their job. What should the project manager do for the team to meet the upcoming deliverables?
While sizing a user story in planning poker, one team member believes the user story should be 8 points. Another believes the story should be 2 points.
What should the scrum master do?
The project sponsor wants to obtain quick feedback from end users for a product under development. The roadmap is extensive and will not be completed for quite some time.
What should the project manager do?
A project sponsor indicates that the time frame for a project needs to be shortened. The project network diagram cannot be modified, but there are extra resources available in the company.
What action should the project manager take?
