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During the course of a project, the project manager wants to ensure that the work carried out and the product being created do not deviate from the prescribed business value. What should the project manager pay special attention to in order to achieve this goal? Question 1Select one:

• Reviewing and updating the requirements management plan
• Carrying out quality audits and failure analyses
• Monitoring the work breakdown structure (WBS)
• Monitoring and updating the benefits realization plan

A new agile team is forming and the project manager notices that the team is struggling in many areas. The team is experiencing both the inability to meet iteration commitments and team member conflicts. What should the project manager do next? Question 2Select one:

• Raise the issues in the retrospective and propose solutions
• Inform management that commitments will not be met.
• Involve management to help resolve the conflicts
• Coach the team both as a whole and individually

An agile project is running its fifth iteration out of eight After the last iteration planning the team was informed that there is a new competitor in the market and it is necessary to move faster to ensure market share is not missed. What should the project manager do? Question 3Select one:

• Add the competitor's functionalities to the product backlog to improve the product
• Ask the sponsor to add more people to the team
• Help the team to find a new approach to launch the product as soon as possible
• Ask the team to increase the velocity to launch the product as soon as possible

A project for Company A was successfully delivered within scope schedule, and budget by the end of the last iteration However during the project celebration ceremony, one of the business stakeholders says they perceive the project as a failure as it did not add any business value. What should the project manager have done to avoid this perception? Question 4Select one:

• Involved the business stakeholders in the sprint review
• Defined product backlog priorities with the sponsor and key stakeholders to deliver business benefits
• Implemented a closing survey for key stakeholders
• Confirmed that there is a communications management plan in place to make business stakeholders aware of the success

During the design phase of a project the project manager notices that the schedule performance index (SPI) is 1 8 and the cost performance index (CPI) is 0 1 In a weekly meeting with top management, the project manager reports concerns about these indicators However the most concerned person was the project sponsor who said that if the trend continues, they will be forced to prematurely close the project. What should the project manager do? Question 5Select one:

• Monitor the project sponsor but understand that it is normal to spend more money in the design phase of a project.
• Stop crashing the schedule
• Manage the project sponsor closely and revise the project's resource management plan to improve indicators
• Use a resource-levelling technique

In analyzing a project for monthly status reporting, the project manager notices that the schedule performance index (SPI) is 0.75 and the cost performance index (CPI) is 1 25. The project manager must provide the first project status review soon and wants to emphasize that the project is under control. How should the project manager report the project status to key stakeholders? Question 6Select one:

• Prepare a detailed presentation for stakeholders on earned value including how it is calculated and the project's current earned value results
• Report that the project is behind schedule but that an additional experienced resource can be added to stay within schedule and maintain the budget.
• Perform a detailed root cause analysis utilizing a pareto chart and fishbone diagrams to demonstrate that the project is under control.
• Report that the project is not tracking as expected, but is still under control since the next project milestone is over a month away

A team has been struggling with various issues during the course of an iteration. The project lead facilitates a discussion of the issues and the team forms new team agreements. During the next iteration, some of the same issues appear again. What should the project lead do next? Question 7Select one:

• Notify senior management of the issues and have them review the importance of agreements with the team
• Challenge the team to determine if the issues surfaced again because agreements were not followed
• Post the agreements in a conspicuous place where all of the team members can see them.
• Let the team self-organize and determine the best means to prevent the issues from occurring again

A project manager at a company is considering a high-performing junior member of the organization to be the new project manager for a current project. What should the project manager do to prepare for a recommendation to senior management? Question 8Select one:

• Compile key highlights featuring the team member from the meeting minutes.
• Ask the team member to write a short biography listing their qualifications
• Gather project artifacts that demonstrate the team member's high performance
• Calculate the health of the projects on which the team member has worked

A high-performing team member’s performance has been consistently increasing over the past year, leaving other peers behind. The project manager has been reluctant to publicly recognize the team member’s contributions for fear of discouraging others. The project manager is also concerned that the team member may leave if not rewarded for the contributions made. What should the project manager do? Question 9Select one:

• Promote the higher performing team member to a higher position
• Request the high-performing team member to mentor the other team members
• Remind the high-performing team member to focus on shared rewards rather than individual rewards
• Reward the high-performing team member privately to avoid team disruption

A project manager is assigned to a global project where, during the planning process, team members from different regions are not agreeing to collaborate with each other. What should the project manager do? Question 10Select one:

• Review lessons learned from previous projects that used the same team
• Review the organizational culture, structure, and governance
• Coordinate a meeting to understand the situation and resolve any conflicts.
• Coordinate a meeting with regional managers to ask for support