PMI PGMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PGMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 281:

  You are the project manager for your organization and are working with the project stakeholders and the business analyst to define all of the deliverables the project is to create. The stakeholders would like the option of adding more deliverables later in the project and keeping the requirements somewhat open for changes. You explain to the business analyst that you need a set of requirements that define exactly what needs to be delivered for the project. What document are you trying to create in this early stage of the project?

  A. Requirements technical documentation
  B. Project scope statement
  C. Project charter
  D. Detail design document
  B. Project scope statement

• Question 282:

  Your program has 121 stakeholders that you'll need to communicate with. Your communications management plan defines how the communication should happen, what should be communicated, and the expected modality of the communications. You'll also need which one of the following as an input to the information distribution process in your program?

  A. Change requests
  B. Earned value management results
  C. Stakeholder analysis plan
  D. Performance reports
  C. Stakeholder analysis plan

• Question 283:

  A multi-year complex program will deliver advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) components for autonomous vehicles. Several key stakeholders are concerned because they have not been regularly involved with the program and do not understand the program's benefits.

  What should the program manager do to address these key stakeholders' concerns?

  A. Meet with the stakeholders and update the stakeholder map.
  B. Create a progress report to share with stakeholders after the next status meeting.
  C. Capture stakeholder expectations, and revise the stakeholder engagement plan.
  D. Update the communications management plan after meeting with the program steering committee.
  C. Capture stakeholder expectations, and revise the stakeholder engagement plan.

• Question 284:

  During a program's definition phase, it is determined that the best approach for delivering the program's intended benefits is to supplement corporate resources with the procurement of specific products and services from external suppliers. The program manager should use which of the following to determine and/or document the results of the program procurement planning activity?

  A. Make-or-buy decisions, alternatives analyses, approach to competition, and best mix of contract types
  B. Requests for proposals (RFPs), proposal evaluation criteria, contract management, and best mix of contract types
  C. RFPs, alternatives analyses, approach to competition, and requests for quotes (RFQs)
  D. Make-or-buy decisions, proposal evaluation criteria, contract management, and RFQs
  A. Make-or-buy decisions, alternatives analyses, approach to competition, and best mix of contract types

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• Question 285:

  You are the program manager for the BHN Program. Your program has 122 stakeholders that you'll need to plan to communicate with. Considering the size of the program how many communication channels do you have in this program?

  A. 244
  B. 122
  C. 14,884
  D. 7,381
  D. 7,381

• Question 286:

  After meeting with the program sponsor and stakeholders, the program manager is asked by the sponsor to accelerate the program to replace two legacy financial systems. The legacy systems are at risk of premature failure. What should the program manager do next?

  A. Accelerate the projects and components of the program that replace the two legacy systems.
  B. Analyze the impact of accelerating the program, and present the pros and cons to the program sponsor.
  C. Identify the parts of the program that need to be accelerated and, if it is cost effective and increases benefits realization, implement the change.
  D. Create several "what-if" scenarios of alternatives to present to the program sponsor.
  B. Analyze the impact of accelerating the program, and present the pros and cons to the program sponsor.

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• Question 287:

  A program manager recognizes that a successful resource being used in project A could also be used in project B. What should the program manager do first to leverage the utilization of this resource?

  A. Assign project A's resource to project B.
  B. Reassign the resource to project B after project A ends.
  C. Prioritize the resource to optimize their use across both projects A and B.
  D. Mitigate risk by leveraging other resources in project A.
  B. Reassign the resource to project B after project A ends.

• Question 288:

  Your company and a competing company have created a teaming agreement for an opportunity. Through this team agreement you and your competitor can complete a major program for a client. This is, technically, a risk response for both organizations. What type of risk response are you dealing with in this instance?

  A. Teaming
  B. Exploiting
  C. Accepting
  D. Sharing
  D. Sharing

• Question 289:

  A biometrics firm has a facial recognition program with multiple components and project managers. The project manager from the mobile device division escalates a vendor-related risk to the program manager. After assessing the risk, the program manager determines that this risk may impact other projects within the program. However, this risk has a low degree of impact and probability of occurring.

  What should the program manager do first?

  A. Obtain a risk reserve from the executive sponsor, and execute a contingency plan.
  B. Communicate the risk to all project managers to manage at the component level.
  C. Add the risk details and analysis to the program risk register.
  D. Brainstorm with the project manager to develop an appropriate risk response.
  C. Add the risk details and analysis to the program risk register.

• Question 290:

  You are the program manager for a new software development program. One of the developers has been adding extra fields for information in the software that was not part of the original program scope. While the fields are a good idea, the customer did not ask for the information and some time has been wasted on this work that was not in the program scope. This is an example of which one of the following terms?

  A. Preventive action
  B. Corrective action
  C. Gold plating
  D. Program scope change
  C. Gold plating

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