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Questions # 601:

A sales team working on an IT deployment project approached the project manager on several occasions and complained about nonpayment of their overtime pay. The project manager realized that other team members are receiving their overtime pay

What should the project manager do next?

Options:

Have a discussion with the sales team to find a solution to the issue

Validate the reason and add n as an issue m the issue log

Escalate the issue to the functional manager

Direct the sales team to speak with accounting to resolve the issue

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Questions # 602:

The key stakeholder of an agile project has low visibility of the project's progress. The stakeholder expresses a concern to the project manager about whether or not the scope is moving in the right direction.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

Determine alternative solutions to provide improved stakeholder visibility and engagement.

Invite the stakeholder to the demo session and request their feedback about which direction to follow.

Prioritize all of the requirements that are critical to the stakeholder in the next planning session.

Review the scope with the stakeholder, request their feedback, and create an action plan.

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Questions # 603:

A project manager regularly sends out project progress reports. However, there have been a few complaints from stakeholders who expressed that the communication does not meet their needs.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

Analyze the communication needs of the stakeholders.

Communicate the project details to the stakeholders.

Communicate progress more frequently to the stakeholders.

Introduce a separate stakeholder engagement meeting.

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Questions # 604:

A project manager has just been designated to lead an approved project with a virtual team. The team members are from several countries and have never met before.

In order to promote team engagement and introduce the project team, what should the project manager do?

Options:

Share a presentation with information about each project team member.

Share all members' resumes and photographs in a sharing digital platform.

Schedule multiple one-on-one meetings between team members.

Schedule a kickoff meeting to present the whole project team.

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Questions # 605:

A company in the manufacturing industry has started a new initiative to integrate project management and improve product innovation. What first step should the project manager take to increase transparency among the stakeholders?

Options:

Define a plan on how communication throughout the project will be handled among the stakeholders.

Set up a project dashboard to show day-to-day project status across the company.

Invite key stakeholders to retrospective and review sessions to receive feedback as often as possible.

Invite upper management to process workshops where current project statuses will be discussed.

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Questions # 606:

A project manager is leading a diverse project team that includes new and experienced team members. A conflict has occurred between two team members. One team member prefers using digital tools for project communication. The other team member prefers in-person meetings and phone calls for communication.

What should the project manager do to manage this conflict?

Options:

Arrange a team-building activity to foster understanding and open communication among the team members.

Allow the team members to continue using their preferred communication tools and methods.

Initiate a conversation with the team members individually to understand their situations regarding communication.

Instruct the team members to adapt to the project's communication tools and methods.

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Questions # 607:

A project manager is assigned to a long-term project. The project manager came across a government debate over a new law that may affect the project.

Which first two actions should the project manager perform? (Choose 2)

Options:

Create a change request to discuss with the change control board (CCB).

Perform a risk identification process with the project team.

Ask the project sponsor for additional budget for contingency.

Consult with the project stakeholders and evaluate the impact.

Discuss the possible impacts with subject matter experts (SMEs).

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Questions # 608:

An investment company is interested in unifying direction and control criteria in one of its principal projects. The project manager was advised to enforce the main framework of this initiative.

What should the project manager do first?

Options:

Document the direction and control framework into the project charter.

Develop an engagement plan to achieve consensus.

Identify and interview all of the relevant stakeholders.

Get direction and control framework requirements from stakeholders.

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Questions # 609:

An important project to build a new airport was suddenly stopped because of the complaints from residents in the surrounding communities. The residents stated that they were not consulted and that the project would cause ecological and pollution damage.

What should that project manager have done first in order to avoid this situation?

Options:

Identified the stakeholders and their expectations

Presented the project to the community

Added this situation to the risk register

Added these requests to the project scope statement

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Questions # 610:

A project team is concluding the final sprint to deliver two work packages. However, the scrum master has not scheduled sprints for three packages on the critical path, which is going to cause the schedule performance index (SPI) to trend toward 0.90 the following month.

What should the project manager do first?

Options:

Evaluate the schedule performance index (SPI) trend for slack to enable all five sprints while maintaining the cost performance index (CPI).

Instruct the scrum master to suspend the current sprints and initiate the critical sprints immediately.

Ask the scrum master to identify why sprints are in process for work that is not on the critical path.

Contact the project sponsor to request adjustment to the completion date and to enable the current workflow.

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Questions # 611:

A team member has escalated an issue to the project manager, stating that they have done their part of the job. Their concern is that there is still no response from the other party in the service level agreement (SLA). The team member is eager to find a resolution for the reported issue.

What should the project manager advise the team member to do to ensure that the project escalation mechanism is effective?

Options:

Involve all of the stakeholders in the escalation by setting up a conference call.

Escalate to the other party's management and inform the steering committee.

Reach out to peer managers for similar escalation situations and follow past experiences.

Review the established project escalation process and take the appropriate action.

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Questions # 612:

The team's velocity is inconsistent, leading the product owner to believe the team is creating too many points in their user stories.

What should the scrum master do first?

Options:

Remind the product owner that their role is to determine what the team should work on during the iteration.

Meet with the product owner for planning and to resize the stories in the backlog.

Invite the product owner to planning poker meetings and get their approval after each story is sized.

Raise this concern with the team and review the performance of the past three sprints.

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