A project to develop a critical safety system requires that there are no escaped defects. The system will be developed over the course of several iterations, and the project leader wants defects to be caught proactively and fixed as the code is being written. What is the project leader's best course of action?

Request that developers work in pairs while creating software

Include a user story for smoke testing in every sprint

Do not allow changes after the system design is approved

Employ continuous integration of product increments

Midway into project execution, a key stakeholder leaves the company. A new stakeholder fills in the vacant role. The project manager understands that the stakeholder engagement plan should be updated to reflect the strategies and actions required to involve the new stakeholder in the project. The project manager meets with the new stakeholder for an interview. Which of the following questions would be the most helpful for the project manager in updating the plan? (Choose three.)

How much risk are you willing to take for an anticipated benefit?

What are your communication preferences?

Do you have any lessons learned to share from your previous projects?

Have you ever managed a project before?

What position did you hold in your previous company?

A project manager is developing a quality management plan for a project to design a medical device. Given the nature of the product, quality will play a vital role. Additionally, the acceptance criteria for the project deliverables will have a direct impact on quality standards. The project manager wants to gain an understanding of the acceptance criteria. What document should the project manager review for this purpose?

The requirements management plan

The acceptance criteria register

The project team reports that they have finished creating the requirements management plan, the requirements documentation, and the requirements traceability matrix. The team informs that they are going to start working on the project work breakdown structure (WBS) next. What has the project team forgotten to do?

Create the project scope statement

Complete the project management plan

Update the lessons learned register

Perform the Validate Scope process

You are planning a kick-off meeting for your new project. The meeting will communicate the start of the project, key milestones, and other relevant information. Which of the following best describes the objective of this meeting?

Inform and engage stakeholders and gain commitment

Manage threats and opportunities throughout the project

Ensure that the project is completed on schedule and budget

Secure resources required to complete project deliverables

You are the project manager for a project that is in its early stages. During a meeting, your boss informs you that senior management would like you to include a particular staff member on your project team because of their necessary expertise. You have not recruited any other team members, and the project has not even been formally authorized yet. How should you handle senior management's request?

Accept the request, since identifying specific resources for the project can occur as part of the early planning process.

Deny the request because the project manager should be the one to acquire project resources.

Accept the request only after you have finished creating the project management plan.

Deny the request since you have not had an opportunity to verify that the individual has the proper skills.

A project manager invited several vendors to a pre-bid conference. After a private conversation with one of the vendors who had an inquiry about a new mandatory government requirement, the project manager sent an email to the vendor to address the question. The project manager realizes that the requirement should have been included in the project scope baseline and the statement of work (SOW). What should the project manager do in this situation?

Update the SOW, submit a change request to update the scope baseline, and communicate the changes to all vendors

No further action is needed as the vendor's question have been addressed

Update the statement of work and the scope baseline, and communicate the changes to all vendors

Update the statement of work and the scope baseline, and hold another pre-bid conference

You are leading two independent teams working on the same project. The nature of the deliverables requires that one team takes a predictive approach, while the other uses scrum. Due to dependencies between the teams and the variable nature of the outputs from the scrum team, the predictive team needs to confirm their understanding of the scrum team's activities with the shortest feedback loop possible. What is your best course of action?

Have the predictive team attend the daily scrum meetings

Include a project retrospective into the project schedule

Request that the scrum team use information radiator

Incorporate the use of periodic customer feedback loops

You are leading an off-grid housing construction project. Each of the ten homes in the development will have solar shingles to generate energy and a novel energy storage system. The performing organization is highly experienced with traditional construction methods, but this is their first project to incorporate energy generation and storage. How might you best support continuous improvement efforts throughout the project?

Construct the homes sequentially using a predictive model and hold a retrospective after the completion of each home

Review the lessons learned repository during project planning and apply the knowledge gained during project execution

Build all of the homes concurrently using a predictive approach and update the lessons learned register continuously

Utilize an incremental project management approach for the development of the homes and hold a project retrospective

The agile project team members are all working in an open office space arrangement. There are many conversations happening concurrently throughout the day. Which of the following is the best option for the project manager?

Schedule frequent team checkpoints and post project artifacts in a transparent fashion

Request team members to hold off their conversations until formal meeting times

Record the conversations and post them in a shared repository

Designate afternoons as quiet work times

It has been decided that the project will be managed using waterfall. However, due to ambiguous requirements, the software will be developed in short iterations using Scrum. After acquiring a team from within the organization, the project manager realizes that the organization lacks technical expertise in several key areas and will require external resources from a vendor. The organization, however, wants to preserve its strategic discretion on the work performed. What is the best contracting technique for the project manager to maximize collaboration with the vendor?

Not-to-exceed time and materials

An organization is transitioning from predictive project management to agile. As a project manager, your upcoming project will require compliance reporting that will need to be submitted to internal auditors due to regulatory oversight. How might you address the need for compliance reporting in this hybrid environment?

Work with the auditors to streamline the process

Task one of the team members to complete the compliance reporting

Transfer the responsibility of compliance reporting to the legal department

Avoid agile as it not suitable for projects that operate in a regulatory environment

A project requires ongoing stakeholder engagement and needs to respond to high levels of change. The project manager selects a hybrid life cycle for the project and prioritizes the work items in a backlog. At the beginning of each iteration, the team determines how many backlog items they can deliver. Which project management process(es) will the project team need to repeat with each iteration?

Collect Requirements and Define Scope

Processes are not performed on a hybrid project

Collect Requirements and Create WBS

Identify Stakeholders and Close Project or Phase

You are leading a software development project, which is utilizing an agile framework. While monitoring the progress of the project, it is apparent that velocity is trending down, and you are aware of some setbacks that have been encountered by the development team. You want to capture and analyze lessons learned so far during the project to improve the process going forward. What is the best way to achieve this goal?

Conduct an iteration retrospective

Schedule a sprint planning meeting

Lessons learned are not utilized on agile projects

A senior executive suggests initiating a project to replace a significant portion of the company's labor force with an automated production line. Other company executives are skeptical that this approach is the best way to increase profit margins and wonder if they are ready to sponsor such an effort. What is the first thing that should be done in this scenario?

Consulting with the project management office

Appointing a project sponsor to create a project charter

Providing a project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources

A vendor has been contracted by a buyer to develop a new device. The vendor insisted that the contract thoroughly capture the device specifications. The buyer does not have clear requirements upfront and, therefore, requested that the vendor develop the device using agile. The vendor delivers as per the contract, but the buyer is not satisfied with the outcome. Which Agile Manifesto's value was most likely not appropriately applied?

Customer collaboration over contract negotiations

Business people and developers must work together

Individuals and interactions over processes and tool

Pair programming over continuous integration

As a project manager, you are leading a colocated project team that will create deliverables in an agile fashion, followed by a rollout phase that will use a predictive approach. You are concerned that the transition from agile to waterfall may cause friction within the project team. With the development phase complete, how might the team's working agreements need to change in this situation?

The social contract should reflect a transition from collective to individual ownership for the project tasks.

The team charter will need to be updated to reflect collective ownership for the completion of project tasks.

The project manager should institute a set of working agreements that worked well on previous waterfall projects.

Each project team member will need to develop their own social contract to support the new framework.

A software development project is in planning. The planning is done traditionally, but the product will be developed incrementally. The project manager creates a resource breakdown structure to identify staffing needs, work assignments, and training required for the team members. The project manager assigns hierarchical level 1 to individuals in a leading role. How should the project manager map the resource breakdown structure's entries to the resource breakdown structure's categories?

Equipment - Data Server Facilities - Tema Space Roam Software - Digital Scrum Board Personal - PO, Team Member, Office Clerk

Equipment - Tema Space Roam Facilities - Data Server Software - Digital Scrum Board Personal - PO, Team Member, Office Clerk

Equipmeny - Tema Space Roam Facilities - Digital Scrum Board Software - Data Server Personal - PO, Team Member, Office Clerk

Eqiupment - Team Space Roam Facilities - Digital Srcum Board, Office Clerk Software - Data Server Personal - PO, Team Member

A project manager has compiled a list of key deliverables, which include the working software, employee training materials, user manuals, etc. When is the first time that these key deliverables would have been identified?

During the Develop Project Charter process

During the Define Scope process

When processes of the Executing Process Group are performed

When processes of the Planning Process Group are performed

Monthly audits were performed to determine if project activities comply with corporate policies, procedures, and best practices. Throughout the project, the results of the monthly audits indicated that the team was in compliance. However, at the end of the project, it was determined that some of the project activities did not comply with organizational policies. What most likely caused these compliance gaps to be missed during the audits?

The audits were conducted by one of the project team members

The audits were conducted by the company's internal audit department

The audits were conducted by the project management office (PMO)

The audits were conducted by an auditor external to the organization

You are a scrum master leading an agile project team that has been consistently meeting the goals set for each iteration. The product owner is pleased with the team's progress, and the performance measurement baseline shows no deviations. However, you feel that one team member is less productive than the others. What is the most appropriate feedback approach for you to take in this situation?

Allow the project team members to address the issue if they deem necessary

Direct the underperforming team member to work extra hours to bridge the gap

Call out the team member's low productivity at the upcoming iteration retrospective

From the next iteration onward, assign the team member the easiest user stories

An organization has established a controlling project management office (PMO). The first task of the PMO is to update the guidelines for project compliance in the organization. Which of the following could the PMO enforce? (Choose three.)

Use of particular project management methodologies

Adoption of specific templates, forms, and tools

Conformance to governance frameworks

Adherence to local health regulations

Assignment of project managers by the PMO

Two days before the end of the last iteration of the project, an agile coach has noticed that the performance of one of the developers significantly degraded, risking the iteration goal. The coach and the developer have a one-on-one coaching meeting scheduled a day after the iteration’s end date. What is the best course of action for the agile coach to take in this situation?

Employ real-time feedback to address the issue with the developer

Conduct the individual performance appraisal of the developer

Ask the team to swarm on the tasks assigned to the developer

Wait for the one-on-one meeting scheduled with the developer

What was the most likely cause the product increment did not meet customer expectations?

Failure to respond to changes in scope

Delivering working software in each sprint

With the seventh sprint completed and three more to go, the performing organization establishes a new policy that all project changes must be approved by at least one member of the change control board (CCB). A scrum master finds that compliance with the policy will create an impediment to the project's progress. What is the scrum master's best course of action?

Comply with the new policy but request that the product owner be added as a member of the CCB

Submit the change requests after the changes have been implemented to avoid delays

Use discretion and only submit change requests that impact the project budget

Adhere to agile best practices and bypass the new change control process

You are managing a project that is nearing its end. You have been reviewing the project management plan to ensure that all the project work is completed and that the project has met its objectives. The next thing you need to do before moving on to the next project is to complete the administrative closure of the project. Which of the following activities will not be performed as part of this process?

Handing over the project deliverables to operations

Transferring the knowledge gained to the lessons learned repository

Measuring stakeholder satisfaction

You are in the initiation stage of a project that aims to deploy and then maintain the robotics for an automated production line for a returning client. In the project charter, you need to include the agreed mean time to recover (MTTR) in the event of a breakdown. What should you do to find this information?

Check the service level agreement with the client

Do nothing since agreements are not yet available during project initiation

Refer to the procurement management plan

Review any emails or other correspondence with the client

During project planning, the project manager creates the project schedule using a Gantt chart. Three Scrum teams will develop the project deliverables. Due to dependencies, the teams will be required to coordinate their work twice a week using extended standup meetings. What should the project manager do next?

Include Scrum of Scrums (SoS) meetings in the project schedule

Submit a change request to switch the Gantt chart to burndown chart

Crash the schedule to eliminate the dependencies between the teams

Reflect the actual velocity of the teams in the project schedule

After a few iterations, new features have been requested and added to the project backlog. Senior leadership has provided additional funding and approved a new project timeline. However, a team member mentions that the project charter is no longer in alignment with the updated project backlog. What action should the agile leader take to resolve the issue?

Take ownership of the issue and work with the project sponsor to revise the project charter

Ask the team member to revise the project charter and submit it to the project sponsor for approval

Capture the risk of misalignment between the project backlog and the charter in the risk register

Empower the project team members to develop and implement their own project charter

As the project manager, you are in the process of developing a draft of a document that authorizes a new software development project. You have reviewed the agreements and both business documents. What else should be done as part of this process?

Study the governance functions and processes to provide guidance and decision making

Identify stakeholders and prepare the stakeholder register

Update the business documents to correct any errors

Review the benefits management plan

An agile coach joined a team that has been working on a project for the last few months. The coach noticed that the team members were struggling to remove impediments, did not have a discipline around time-boxed events, and were not using information radiators to display the project status. What is the best course of action for the agile coach to take?

Help the team deal with impediments, remind of the importance of time-boxing, and suggest the team to use information radiators

Help the team deal with impediments, remind of the importance of time-boxing, and force the team to use information radiators

Tell the team to deal with impediments, remind of the importance of time-boxing, and suggest the team to use information radiators

Do nothing, since the issues are minor and can be handled by the team because agile teams are self-managing and self-organizing

A project team that is experienced in the waterfall project management approach has been assigned to their first agile project. To make the transition easier, it has been decided to keep some elements of the waterfall approach in place. During the iteration review, it was realized that a misunderstanding among the development team has led to a duplication of efforts. How might the project manager address this issue?

Bring up the topic during the upcoming iteration retrospective

Do nothing since the team members are transitioning from waterfall to agile

Fallback to a waterfall project management framework going forward

Submit a change request to update the communications management plan

To develop the product, the project will use new and evolving technology. The work items in the backlog have been estimated and prioritized. After completing several sprints, the team has been asked to re-estimate the remaining items in the backlog. How will the range, accuracy, and confidence of the estimates change?

Narrower range, greater accuracy, similar confidence

Wider range, greater accuracy, higher confidence

Narrower range, poorer accuracy, lower confidence

Same range, same accuracy, same confidence

A project manager is explaining the roles and responsibilities for the quality assurance process with the project team. Who will play a role in this process?

The project manager, project team, project sponsor, management of the performing organization, and the customer

The project manager, project team, and management of the performing organization

The project sponsor along with the project manager and project team

The project manager along with the project team

A change request has been approved and is currently being implemented by the project team. According to the project life cycle shown on the chart below, which of the following is true about project costs and risks associated with the process group described in this scenario?

The cost of changes is nearly equal to project risk

Both the cost of changes and the project risk are zero.

The cost of changes is lowest while the project risk is highest.

The cost of changes is highest while project risk is lowest

A scrum master is conducting a daily standup. Each member of the development team states that their work has been stalled due to various blockers. As a result, the entire development team has been idled, and the schedule baseline is in jeopardy. What should the scrum master do first?

Analyze and prioritize the blockers

Attempt to resolve the problems during the meeting

Assign the team to work on another project in the meanwhile

Escalate the issue to the project sponsor

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Your company has been contracted by a client for a software development project. The project will use agile methods to deliver product increments. For the client, however, this project will be their first experience with agile. You want to make sure that the client gains the full benefit of early and continuous delivery of software.

What is your best course of action?

Develop a change management plan to address the inevitable changes

Request the client to take part in product testing to speed up delivery

Gain alignment with the client on the timing of project deliverables

Instruct the project team to develop all features in a single release

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

As a project manager, you recently completed a project team performance appraisal, and a previously unknown competency gap in technical skills was uncovered, which needs to be addressed.

What should you do next?

Implement the response planned for this risk

Conduct unplanned training to address the competency gap

Consult the training management plan

Let go of the staff who have technical skill gaps

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A project manager has developed the following earned value analysis chart for a software development projectBased on the current trend, what action should the project manager take immediately?

Submit a change request to increase funding for the project

Look for options to reduce costs and improve schedule performance to meet project objectives

No immediate action is required in this case

Crash the schedule to bring it back into alignment with project objectives

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

1. During the development of the stakeholder engagement plan, the project manager realizes that a key stakeholder is resistant to the project. Without the support of this stakeholder, the project may fail.

What is the best course of action for the project manager to identify the reason for the stakeholder being resistant?

Escalate to the project sponsor

Update the stakeholder register

Use the mind mapping technique

Utilize an Ishikawa diagram

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

To better use existing knowledge and to create new knowledge for a project, the project manager is looking for ways to identify any knowledge gaps.

Which of the following would help the project manager the most to complete this process?

Bid documents

Resource breakdown structure

Quality metrics

To-complete performance index

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

To ensure that lessons learned are captured and documented throughout the project life cycle, the project manager creates the lessons learned register.

What project management process is being performed?

Direct and Manage Project Work

Monitor and Control Project Work

Manage Project Knowledge

Create Lessons Learned

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

During project execution, the new state-of-the-art technology that is used on the project to produce the deliverables is unstable, which puts the whole project at risk of failure. Your sponsor is on vacation and cannot be reached. To get immediate attention to the issue, you want to know what is the escalation procedure.

What should you do next?

Consult the communications management plan

Consult the risk register

Consult the stakeholder engagement plan

Submit a change request to replace the technology

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PMP Exam-1 dengan 180 soal

As a project manager, you recently completed a project team performance appraisal, and a previously unknown competency gap in technical skills was uncovered, which needs to be addressed. What should you do next?

A project manager has developed the following earned value analysis chart for a software development projectBased on the current trend, what action should the project manager take immediately?

To better use existing knowledge and to create new knowledge for a project, the project manager is looking for ways to identify any knowledge gaps. Which of the following would help the project manager the most to complete this process?

To ensure that lessons learned are captured and documented throughout the project life cycle, the project manager creates the lessons learned register. What project management process is being performed?

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As a project manager, you recently completed a project team performance appraisal, and a previously unknown competency gap in technical skills was uncovered, which needs to be addressed.

What should you do next?

To better use existing knowledge and to create new knowledge for a project, the project manager is looking for ways to identify any knowledge gaps.

Which of the following would help the project manager the most to complete this process?

To ensure that lessons learned are captured and documented throughout the project life cycle, the project manager creates the lessons learned register.

What project management process is being performed?