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1. An organization is initiating a project that will be using new technology. The complexity of the project requires excellent technical skills. After reviewing the proposed project management plan, the project sponsor asks for options to reduce the labor cost without introducing risk to the project delivery.

What should the project manager do first?

2. 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?

3. A project manager is using an agile approach. During the sprint planning meeting, the product owner flagged a backlog item as high business value and easy to implement. However, the other team members identified a high dependency between this item and another item that is flagged as low business value and high complexity.

What should the project manager do to support the backlog prioritization?

4. Project stakeholders are engaged in a discussion on how to achieve the best user experience in the design of a new application. The agile team is divided on the approach. The conflict is more of a collective disagreement than an outright conflict.

What should the project manager do next?

5. A stressful situation has presented some challenges for the team. The project manager notices stress behavior in some of the team members, and it is beginning to spread across the group. The project manager needs to coach the team to change their mindset in order to be more efficient.

What should the project manager do?

6. A project manager is tasked with developing a coaching model to support and recognize team members' growth.

What should the project manager consider when defining their coaching strategy?

7. A project manager has just been appointed to a project that has two major deliverables. Both deliverables have the same level of priority and are to be delivered at the same time. The members of the team are complaining about the lack of information regarding which deliverable needs to be finished first.

What should the project manager do?

8. DRAG DROP

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.)

9. A project is on its fifth iteration out of six. One member of the team has left the company unexpectedly.

What should the project manager do next?

10. While a project manager is trying to build the first baseline for a project, a change request is being sent from one of the functional managers.

What should the project manager do?

11. Acompany recently adopted agile to develop innovation projects. The project manager is experiencing problems with some team members who consider some agile ceremonies to be unnecessary.

What should the project manager have done before the beginning of the project?

12. An agile project for a database migration impacts nearly all business units of the corporation. Every effort has been made to complete the migration before the end-of support date for the database platform. Anew impediment now implies the need to continue use of the old platform another year at a higher support price.

What should the product owner do about this situation?

13. A hybrid project has just deployed, and the project manager is planning project closure with lessons learned workshops. A key stakeholder informs the project manager that having the Scrum team in the workshops is a waste of time because the project was delivered successfully.

What should the project manager do?

14. During the closing process, the project manager learns that one deliverable is not meeting customer expectations.

How should the project manager proceed?

15. A project team is trying to meet the milestone target dates in order to receive a bonus promised by the project sponsor. Unforeseen challenges and poor communication among the team members resulted in mistakes and delays. Tensions are high, and the sponsor is concerned.

What should the project manager do?

16. A distributed project team has communication issues because of their collaboration tools.

The team feels that efficiency could be improved by changing the collaboration platform.

What should the project manager do?

17. A project manager is managing a large project. During a review meeting, the project manager discovers that one of the team members who use to be a high performer was not able to complete their work on time.

What should the project manager do?

18. A project manager just completed a successful deployment and is preparing to transition the project to an operational state before starting closeout actions.

What should the project manager do to ensure that the project is ready to move to an operational state?

19. A project manager is assigned to a multiyear project. During project execution, the customer delegates a new representative who contacts the project manager directly with a concern about their participation in status meetings. The representative wants to contact team members directly.

What should the project manager do next?

20. A project team is conducting sprint planning. Based on the estimated effort, only 95% of the items included in the sprint may be delivered. The product owner asks the project manager for advice on how to prioritize the backlog items.

What should be used to prioritize the backlog items?

21. A customer’s technical lead discussed a new feature with the project manager. The project manager believes the new feature will boost performance significantly and adds it as a high-priority item in the sprint backlog. At the end of the sprint, all of the planned stories were not completed because the new feature took more time.

What should the project manager do next?

22. A project is starting its sixth iteration out seven. During the daily meeting, a team member explains that a key function will take longer to complete than originally anticipated.

What should the project manager do?

23. A project manager is leading a technically complex project. The project is part of a strategic program of work and the first to use an agile approach. One of the board members is interested in attending a meeting to see how the delivery of the project scope is progressing.

What should the project lead do?

24. A project team has been working together for about 2 years. One of the team members has consistently shown high performance and stood out among their peers during the execution of the project.

How should the project manager recognize high performance?

25. A construction company is executing a building contract that includes firm milestones for replacing certain components of the building. During execution, the client complains that the new components do not meet the requirements.

What should the project manager have done to prevent this from happening?

26. 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?

27. A project with a hard timeline is starting its first iteration out of six. The project team is lacking the necessary skills to execute.

What should the project manager do?

28. A project manager is leading a project with strict time constraints. In team meetings, one of the team members is always silent. The project manager determines that this team member is not knowledgeable about the technology solution. The project manager is concerned that this problem will impact productivity.

What should the project manager do?

29. An agile project has a broad set of product features intended for different user profiles and usages. It is difficult to define common acceptance criteria that can apply to all the features.

How can the project manager ensure that the appropriate acceptance criteria are applied to the features?

30. At the end of a project's initiation phase, the budget was developed and sent to the approval board. During the approval meeting, one of the key stakeholders asked how the budget was developed for future uncertainties.

How should the project manager reply?

31. A consultancy firm is finally selected and contracted for a project following an extensive and competitive procurement process. A few months into project execution, the client asks the project manager why the consultant is contracted for only 18 months instead of the full 32-month-long project. The project manager will need to carry out an unplanned second bidding process to ensure services are in place until the end of the project.

What should the project manager have done to prevent this?

32. Midway through the execution of an agile project, there is a shift in the strategic objectives at the organization level to promote digital transformation.

What should the project manager do next?

33. A project manager is working on a software development project for an oil and gas client using an agile approach. The project manager is having difficulty preparing the schedule because the project has various unknowns.

Which scheduling method should the project manager use to develop the schedule?

34. During the execution of a construction project, one of the neighboring businesses is complaining that the current building height does not agree with the initial project plans.

What should the project manager do first?

35. A team realizes that there is no access to data that the project depends on to complete the current iteration. This dependency was known; however, the team is unsure of the available options to remove this obstacle.

What should the project manager do next?

36. Acompany 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?

37. In the middle of an iteration, an agile team working on the development of a new product was notified that an important team member will leave the project for a few weeks due to some urgent personal issues.

What should the project manager do regarding the activities that were the responsibility of this team member?

38. 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?

39. A company is going through structural changes. A couple of people will leave the company as their positions were made redundant. The team members are unhappy as they do not understand why the changes are being made when the project is on track.

What should the project manager do?

40. A team is preparing the closing phase and building a plan for the next phase. One of the project sponsors is complaining that the last phase had some quality deliverable issues. However, the quality acceptance document was signed.

What should the project manager do?

41. 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?

42. A project manager is assigned to a global project with dispersed team members. Previously, when working with remote teams, the project manager observed that team members do not tend to produce quality work.

What should the project manager do to ensure the project is completed on time with quality?

43. A project manager is preparing to start a new project in which the team members are distributed geographically across different countries. The project manager is using the communications management plan to engage the team members and find a communication method that suits everyone.

How should the project manager continually evaluate the effectiveness of the virtual team's engagement?

44. A project manager is managing the transition to operations. The project sponsor wants to ensure that good support is provided to the end users.

What should the project manager do?

45. A project sponsor would like to include a new deliverable. The sponsor contacts the project manager in order to seek advice on the most efficient approach to complete the deliverable within the next 2 months.

What should the project manager do?

46. A project manager is working on a unique project that is dissimilar to the project nature of the organization. The project manager is tailoring the artifacts for this new project.

Who should determine which artifacts should be used in the project?

47. A company is about to start a complex research project. Due to the level of uncertainty, the project manager recommends the use of a hybrid approach; however, the organization only has experience with predictive projects.

How can the project manager strategize the use of a hybrid approach to the organization?

48. A project requires the procurement of a large amount of equipment that needs to be on-site before any other activity can begin. The procurement department has a lengthy approval process.

What should the project manager do?

49. 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?

50. A project is about to start with a global project team. Travel is not a viable option for project team members, so most will participate virtually.

What should the project manager do to engage the team?

51. 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?

52. A project manager had to schedule additional planning sessions to add requirements from an international stakeholder. The stakeholder expressed concern about the product not meeting the client's needs.

Which factor should the project manager have considered when developing the product?

53. A multicultural team is working on a project. After a few months of observation, the project manager realizes that two team members are not responding to the construction manager properly. The project manager spoke to the team members individually and found that both had cultural differences with the construction manager.

What should the project manager do to improve the situation?

54. A key stakeholder who is highly involved in the project claims that the reports sent by the project team are inadequate.

What should the project manager do first?

55. A project to build a new energy plant was just completed. However, a few days before operation of the plant, the local community protested and closed access to the plant. They argue that an important natural reserve was impacted and prior consultation was not done by the project team.

What should the project manager verify first?

56. A project is currently in the execution phase. Because of the complexity of the project and the large number of regulatory requirements involved, the project manager decides to hold a management review with senior executives to ensure the successful implementation of project deliverables.

What should the project manager review during the management review to ensure the meeting is effective?

57. A project manager has recently been assigned to a new project. When the project manager first meets the project team, the team tells the project manager that all of the management plans and documents for the project are missing.

What should the project manager do?

58. A project manager has just received communication from an operational functional manager to complete an additional scope item for a project that was formally closed a few weeks ago. The scope looks relatively small and simple to handle as part of the daily operations activity.

How should the project manager deal with this request?

59. An organization is transitioning to an agile delivery approach. There is only one project that is being used as a pilot for the new approach. The project management office (PMO) manager has asked the project lead how communications with the project team and the stakeholders will be managed.

What should the project lead recommend?

60. A town wants to build a community center and has appointed a project manager. A site was found, and all of the necessary approvals and governance were completed. When the project kick-off was held, it was discovered that a local farmers' group was not consulted, and they use the site for a monthly market.

What should the project manager do to move forward with the project?

61. All project team members refer to the project manager for various decisions. This causes delays for some tasks, as the project manager is usually preoccupied in meetings throughout the day.

What should the project manager do to prevent these delays?

62. A project manager schedules virtual daily standup meetings for a project, but half of the team members regularly join late or miss the meeting all together.

What should the project manager do?

63. A mandatory compliance requirement that will impact the project software is introduced during the execution phase of an iterative project. The team is aware of the compliance requirement.

What should the project manager do next?

64. A project manager is performing the scrum master role for a project team of developers. At the daily standup, a couple of developers complain about the noise from a neighboring team, the performance of their laptops, and the difficulty in booking meeting rooms.

What should the project manager do?

65. A project manager holds periodic progress review meetings to discuss issues.

What should the project manager do first on the agenda?

66. A company is implementing a growth strategy by constructing a new production facility, which will soon move into the operation phase. Although a governance policy was already in place, the company must comply with new financial regulations that have been recently implemented. Compliance with the regulations will cause a major change in project scope.

How should the project manager respond to this requirement?

67. Anew project manager was assigned to a project during implementation. The project manager realized that new tax policies are creating a risk for a cost overrun by 25%. The project manager updated the risk register and kept the project running as normal. The CEO has announced that the project could be cancelled since the acceptable cost overrun is only 20%. The project manager was quite surprised as this was new information.

What should the project manager have done to avoid this?

68. During the early phase of a project, the requirements documentation was not approved. It was identified that the leader of a user party was not included in any of the requirements collection communications.

Which of the documents was likely missed or outdated?

69. During execution of a complex project, the project manager encounters numerous change requests from various teams. These changes may result in the project not meeting its objectives.

How should the project manager ensure that these changes are managed effectively?

70. A project manager is working on a large IT project. During a review for one of the deliverables, a stakeholder raised a concern about the final product.

What should the project manager do first?

71. 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?

72. During a monthly review meeting, a high-performing team member raised a concern about the quality feedback mechanism. The team member expressed that they are not able to deliver high-quality output.

What should the project manager do first?

73. A project charter has been approved and the project manager has been assigned to the project. The project manager is currently working with the project team to subdivide the project work packages.

What is the project manager doing?

74. A project manager was recently assigned to rescue a high-priority project for an Olympic facility. The project is behind schedule, with a heavy contractual penalty. The former project manager had numerous conflicts with the project team members and a few stakeholders.

What should the project manager do first?

75. A project manager is leading a cross-departmental project that involves many stakeholders. During the project, the project manager observes that the stakeholders are diverse and have different expectations about how the project should be handled. This leads to frequent confusion and misunderstandings among the stakeholders.

What should the project manager do to integrate the diverse stakeholder groups?

76. A project team is completing a design, while another team in a different country is performing implementation.

How should the project manager communicate the design to the implementation team?

77. A project is being executed. The project's life cycle is defined as predictive; however, a major deliverable will be handed over incrementally to the customer. The assigned resources are experienced and reliable and are willing to make decisions that the project manager used to make after each incremental delivery on other projects.

What should the project manager do?

78. A large matrix organization is adopting a new communications approach. This is necessary because their projects often require the resourcing of expert knowledge in the form of specialists from various departments and divisions.

What should the project manager do to set up effective communications?

79. An agile team is brainstorming and prioritizing all of the risks according to severity.

What should the team do about the identified risks?

80. A project team is prioritizing the creation of project artifacts and enforcing it rigidly, while they face issues with delays in deliverables.

How should the project manager respond?

81. A member of the project team always extends discussion topics, taking more time than necessary during project team meetings. Other team members feel this member is not being considerate of their time.

What should the project manager do?

82. A project team is planning the next sprint review. The project lead receives an email from a senior manager asking for a project status using a template that is more detailed than the one used for monthly reports sent to the project management office (PMO). The team uses an electronic product backlog and a kanban board to track the progress.

What should the project manager do next?

83. A new project needs to be submitted for urgent funding approval. The project, which will use a new technology, is vital to the organization. The entire Scrum team has worked together for over 3 years on multiple projects and delivered the previous project under the approved budget.

Which estimation technique should the project manager implement in this context?

84. A key project team member is out on sick leave in the middle of a critical project iteration. The project sponsor learns that any delay with the end-of-iteration release will displease the business stakeholders. Although all team members are cross-functional, they are also working close to full capacity.

What should the project manager do to address this situation?

85. A customer reviewed the plan for a project with high uncertainty. The customer expressed concerned about the work requiring SO many iterations with a risk of not reaching the mandatory delivery date.

Which approach should the project manager use in this situation?

86. A project manager is leading a hybrid project and is collaborating with the client to develop the project contract.

Some delays have been experienced due to unforeseen technical difficulties and new dependencies. However, the project manager is optimistic about recovering the delays in the upcoming sprints. A key stakeholder asked the project manager if the contract deadlines can be met.

What should the project manager do first?

87. A vendor project manager and team are implementing a software solution across the organization. A customer stakeholder who was not present during the sales process is demanding that the team implement requirements that are out of scope without adding additional cost to the project.

What should the project manager do next?

88. A project manager works in a matrix organization and is managing an internal software development project that is intended to reduce conflicts in the company's internal tracking system. During development, the project manager is informed that the software has to account for an unexpected change to government accounting requirements. The development team was able to make the change with no additional cost; however, the project manager notices that the testing costs are beginning

to exceed the testing budget.

What should the project manager do?

89. During the execution stage, the project manager discovered that one team member is not able to complete their work on time and is running later than expected. This delay may potentially impact a project milestone.

What should the project manager do first?

90. 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?

91. An organization is transitioning to agile delivery, and a new team has been assembled. A project is not going well because the variation of the team velocity is very high and every sprint delivers less than committed. A new project lead with a strong technical background has been assigned to the project.

What should the project lead do?

92. A project manager is reviewing a draft of the project charter with key stakeholders. During the meeting, a conflict occurs between the sponsor and the product owner.

How should the project manager deal with the situation?

93. A project team has finished its first iteration out of six. The iteration's delivery performance (velocity) was 50%.

During the iteration retrospective, the team realizes that the complexity of the work was

underestimated.

What should the project manager do?

94. 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?

95. During a project's execution phase, two team members are having conflicts with other team members within the team on technical and interpersonal levels.

Which two actions should the project manager take first to address this conflict? (Choose two)

96. A project manager is working with a Scrum team that is continually missing deadlines. The steering committee is concerned about the project as it is not clear that it will deliver the expected value. After some analysis, the project manager discovers there is a mismatch of competencies in one of the teams.

What should the project manager do?

97. A company is about to start a complex research project. Due to the level of uncertainty, the project manager recommends the use of a hybrid approach; however, the organization only has experience with predictive projects.

How can the project manager strategize the use of a hybrid approach to the organization?

98. A project manager is leading a project in an organization that has a functional structure. The project manager has been informed by the team that the tasks related to the purchase of services are taking too long, as the purchasing department has other priorities.

What should the project manager do?

99. A multiyear resource constraint project is midway through the execution phase. During a progress update meeting, it has been determined that there might be a schedule delay to deliver the project. The project manager has observed that all of the team members are working hard and lots of deliverables have already been completed.

What should the project manager do immediately about this situation?

100. A few developers have identified a list of impediments at the daily standup and are asking for the project lead's assistance in prioritizing them. There are a few complex backlog items, and a new junior tester has identified a few compliance defects. The product owner and a couple of developers will be leaving the project team, and the contract with the test and production support partner will not be renewed.

Which issue should the project lead focus on first?