PMI PGMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PGMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 231:

  The program manager plans to address a negative cost variance generating a red flag in the program management status report. What should the program manager do?

  A. Contact the project sponsors to present the details, impacts, and possible corrective actions regarding the negative cost variance.
  B. Gather all the details, analyze impacts, determine corrective actions and present the findings to the governance board for direction.
  C. Work with program sponsor to compile impact analysis data to obtain additional funding for the program.
  D. Ask the program team to compile all details, analyze impacts, determine corrective actions and present to the governance board for direction.
  B. Gather all the details, analyze impacts, determine corrective actions and present the findings to the governance board for direction.

• Question 232:

  A country is in the process of strengthening its defense program. A key project is not meeting its specified performance objectives. The project manager initiates a change request to address this issue. What should the program manager do NEXT?

  A. Consider the option to close out the key project
  B. Evaluate the program and re-baseline the objectives
  C. Assess the benefits and impact to the program
  D. Amend the risk register with the key project changes
  C. Assess the benefits and impact to the program

• Question 233:

  You are the program manager for your organization. Management has asked that you determine when resources, such as leased equipment, are no longer needed so that you may release the resources to save time, money, and utilization of resources within your program. What program management process is management asking you to perform?

  A. Contract administration
  B. Resource management
  C. Resource control
  D. Procurement management
  B. Resource management

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• Question 234:

  A new program is being initiated for the HNQ Organization. The program manager is working with the business analyst and management to define several attributes of the program. All of the following are identified during program initiation except for which one?

  A. Program risk
  B. Program benefits
  C. Program scope
  D. Link to organizational strategy
  C. Program scope

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• Question 235:

  A hotel chain initiates a program to expand meeting offerings to include telecommunications technology and virtual meetings. The program has component projects, each of which requires team members to have different technical skills and expertise. The program manager assembles a team of project managers to lead each of the projects, and learns that the desired resources will not be available at the start of the program.

  As a result, the program manager must do which of the following?

  A. Utilize team members that are currently available, even though they do not have the expertise needed.
  B. Assign the tasks on the critical path to the resources available to adhere to the project schedule.
  C. Delay the start of the program until the assigned resources are available.
  D. Apply resource leveling considering the constraints of time, budget, and quality.
  D. Apply resource leveling considering the constraints of time, budget, and quality.

• Question 236:

  Hans is the program manager for his organization. His current project has seven constituent projects that each will create deliverables for the organization. Who is responsible for the project deliverables in this scenario?

  A. Project managers
  B. Hans
  C. Program director
  D. Hans and each project manager
  A. Project managers

• Question 237:

  Part of your job as the program manager is to coach the project managers on their duties and goals. One of the project managers, Holly, is having trouble discerning the difference between quality assurance and quality control. She understands that she needs both to help you reach the program goals. Which statement best describes quality control for a project within your program?

  A. Quality control is a management-driven effort to plan the work properly so the work is done according to plan.
  B. Quality control is an inspection-driven process to keep mistakes out of the customers' hands.
  C. Quality control is a management-driven policy to do the work correctly the first time.
  D. Quality control is an inspection-driven process to prove the existence of the requirements.
  B. Quality control is an inspection-driven process to keep mistakes out of the customers' hands.

• Question 238:

  A program manager joins a team during its preparation phase.

  What should the program manager do to obtain formal sponsor approval to begin the benefits delivery phase?

  A. Develop the program management plan based on the organization's strategic plan.
  B. Write the program charter, including the program mission statement and stakeholder engagement plan.
  C. Define a high-level program roadmap of milestones and schedules supported by a preliminary estimate.
  D. Identify and document the anticipated program benefits in the benefits management plan.
  D. Identify and document the anticipated program benefits in the benefits management plan.

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• Question 239:

  Which of the following tools/techniques keep program managers and executives informed of the program's progress?

  A. Component analysis
  B. Expert judgment
  C. Review meetings
  D. Capacity planning
  C. Review meetings

• Question 240:

  At the beginning of the second year of a five-year strategic cycle, the program management team attends a checkpoint session to review the state of the company's strategy. During the previous year, the company needed to comply with new government regulations that impacted this strategy.

  Based on this information, what should the program manager do?

  A. Update the program management, benefits management, and risk management plans, and modify priorities and interdependencies.
  B. Meet with stakeholders, and modify the program roadmap to comply with the new regulations and ensure strategic alignment.
  C. Obtain stakeholder approval to stop or postpone programs that fail to comply with the new regulations, and modify the program roadmap.
  D. Review resource capacity and capability, program priorities, and interdependencies, and create a change request to modify the program roadmap to ensure strategic alignment.
  D. Review resource capacity and capability, program priorities, and interdependencies, and create a change request to modify the program roadmap to ensure strategic alignment.