Pre-test Resources & Procurements Management

The Plan Procurement Management process has ten outputs, including:

1. Procurement management plan

2. Procurement strategy

3. Bid documents

4. Procurement statement of work

5. Source selection criteria

6. Make-or-buy decisions

7. Change requests

8. Project documents updates

9. 9. Organizational process assets updates

Which of the following outputs is missing from the list?

• Risk report updates

• Deliverables

• Performance reports

• Independent cost estimates

As a result of the customer inspection of project deliverables, some of which have been procured from a vendor, the project manager realizes that several components of the project management plan should be updated.

What should the project manager do next?

• Conduct a procurement audit

• Update the components as necessary

• Submit a change request

• Begin the Close Project or Phase process

An accounts payable manager withholds the payment for the rental of a piece of equipment. The rental company claims the money is due in full because the piece of equipment was necessary to fulfill the objectives of the statement of work defined in the contract. Further talks lead nowhere as both parties cannot come to an agreement.

What is the next step for them to take in this situation?

• Attempt alternative dispute resolution

• Go to court

• Approach local government officials

• Start direct negotiations

Which of the following is an output of the Control Procurements process?

• Work performance reports

• Enterprise environmental factors updates

• Closed procurements

• Audit reports

You have been tasked to lead a high-priority project that will involve a very large number of stakeholders. Several project team members from various functional units within the organization have been pre-assigned to the project. You are currently working on the processes necessary to acquire goods and services needed from outside the organization.

In which Project Management Knowledge Area are you currently involved?

• Conduct Procurements

• Project Procurement Management

• Control Procurements

• Project Stakeholder Management

You are leading a software development project, which requires knowledge of several programming languages. During project execution, one of the developers has been pulled out of the project by her functional manager. The manager provided you with another developer instead.

What should you do first?

• Provide the new developer with an ability test

• Introduce the new developer to the project sponsor

• Schedule training for the new developer

• Assign the developer the next user story in the backlog

Up until now, your project team has allowed the use of flextime where project team members may take time off during regular business hours and make up the time during the evening hours or weekends. Recently, excessive use of flextime has become a roadblock as some team members are not available when needed. The team feels they should set a standard that flextime is only to be used for personal emergencies.

How should you handle this situation?

• Contact the human resources department to update the corporate policies to prohibit flextime

• Submit a change request to update the team charter based on the team's inputs

• Discuss the issue with the team and update the team charter accordingly

• Do nothing as the team has already agreed to use flextime for personal emergencies only

An agile coach is leading an iteration planning meeting, which is being dominated by a highly respected senior developer. The agile coach is concerned that the senior developer might be exerting too much influence and overcommitting the team.

What is the best course of action for the agile coach?

• Address the situation during the next project retrospective

• Suggest that the team holds a round of fist-of-five voting

• Reduce the story points to avoid over-commitment

• Do not interfere as the iteration plan is determined by the team

A project manager provides overall direction, training, and support to her cross-functional team, but entrusts the team to manage and track their own work assignments and make decisions as a group. The project manager participates in regular team meetings to monitor the team's progress and provide support but generally stays out of discussions about workload or team decision making.

What is the project manager employing to manage the team?

• Emotional intelligence

• Self-organizing teams

• Team building

• Motivation

After gaining a clear understanding of the problem, a senior manager suggests to a newly promoted project manager that she should emphasize areas of agreement rather than areas of difference when handling the current conflict issues within the team.

Which conflict resolution technique is the mentor recommending?

• Smoothing

• Compromising

• Forcing

• Collaborating