During the execution of a project, a company decides that everybody will need to take vacation time before the end of the year. This may cause a change in the project time line. How should the project manager address the situation?
A. Discuss the vacation plan and include scheduling changes in the change log database.
B. Submit a formal request to senior management asking them not to proceed with this decision based on the impact it will have on the project.
C. Agree with functional management and team members on a vacation schedule that would minimally impact the project schedule.
D. Push out the project timeline according to the vacation plan in place based on the recent company policy.
An agile team completes a deliverable that is to be certified by another expert team. The second team does not take the deliverable for many months. What should the servant leader do?
A. Review the process and remove the impediment.
B. Escalate this to the project director for a resolution.
C. Remove the certification need from the project scope.
D. Escalate this to the agile lead of the second team.
Early prototypes developed in a project show an unacceptably high detect rate. The quality management plan calls for a cause-and-effect analysis to address quality problems as they arise. What is the protect manager's first step in addressing the problem?
A. Communicate the issue to the change control board (CCB) and relevant stakeholders identified in the stakeholder engagement plan.
B. Create a problem-solving team from quality assurance subject matter experts (SMEs) experienced in this type of analysis.
C. Form a brainstorming team from project team members selected for their relevant technical analytical and management knowledge.
D. Form a brainstorming team with stakeholders from all of the functional departments involved in the project.
A new project manager is assigned to a project that will deliver a new and optimized credit system. The project manager is allowed to use a hybrid approach which is new to the organization to manage the project and new tools. In order to deliver the project successfully, what should the project manager focus on as part of the plan?
A. Align with the organization's project management office (PMO) to inform and make them aware of the new approach
B. Explain and communicate the new approach to the project sponsor and key stakeholders
C. Develop a detailed schedule for the entire project m the planning phase and communicate that to the stakeholders
D. Communicate with other project managers to see how they manage hybrid projects
A project manager is assigned to lead a global implementation of a cloud-based system. Team members are dispersed across five countries. As time goes on, the project manager notices that some team members have become quiet during status calls or other project discussions, while others often call into meetings late and cite time zone differences as the reason for the delay.
Which three actions should the project manager take to encourage engagement? (Choose three)
A. Require a written status report from all team members on a weekly basis.
B. Form a core group of team leads representing members from each country and encourage them to collaborate.
C. Ask team members to agree on a meeting time prior to setting up virtual meetings.
D. Set up a discussion board that allows team members to collaborate online at any time of the day.
E. Establish virtual one-on-one's with team members to address any issues and/or concerns privately.
A project is being delayed due to a large amount of rework caused by a quality problem that is impacting the critical path. What should the project manager do?
A. Rebaseline the project schedule to absorb the delay.
B. Report the delay with rectifying actions to the project management office (PMO).
C. Notify the project steering committee about the cause of the delay.
D. Report the delay with rectifying actions to the change control board (CCB) for review.
A project manager at a plant with continuous operations needs to deliver a project urgently to meet a market opportunity. What should the project manager do to meet the time-to-market need?
A. Add resources to activities
B. Conduct serial activities on tasks
C. Increase the number of standup meetings
D. Perform tasks in parallel
A project team is implementing a new solution that will be distributed worldwide. Due to a new issue that has a global impact, several government agencies are implementing new regulations that will affect the solution. The project manager must assess and prioritize the impact of these changes on the project scope/backlog.
Which analytical tool can be used by the project manager to define this scenario?
A. Political, economic social, technological legal, and environmental (PESTLE)
B. Strengths, weaknesses opportunities, and threats (SWOT)
C. Valuable rare, inimitable resources, and organization (VRIO)
D. Net present value (NPV)
As a result of the first iteration review, the stakeholders' feedback indicated that they saw more technical features than business ones.
What should the project manager do?
A. Include this topic in the next iteration retrospective.
B. Review this topic with the product owner before the next iteration planning.
C. Discuss this topic with the team in the next daily meeting.
D. Ask the product owner to review this topic in the next iteration planning.
A new project manager is assigned to an ongoing agile innovation project that started 2 weeks ago. After reviewing the project, the new project manager discovered that the previous project manager was planning to use a predictive approach. The previous project manager planned to present the first major deliverable to the client when the project was completely finished in 8 months.
What should the new project manager do?
A. Meet with the team to review the backlog and create small iterations that can deliver incremental value to the client.
B. Continue working with the predictive approach to deliver the value at the end of the project.
C. Use a hybrid approach in which agile practices are used but the value is provided to the client at the end of the project.
D. Submit a change request to the project board to adjust the delivery date to 2 months earlier than planned.
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