Đề 4

Over the past six months, the development cost per story has risen by more than 250% due to a faulty platform which is NO longer supported. The product vision highlights unique features of the platform as a pre-requisite for the product. What should the project manager do to determine next steps?

• Cancel the project due to exceeding the budget constraint

• Ask the product owner to select an alternative platform

• Cancel the project as the product vision CANNOT be fulfilled

• Run what-if cost impact scenarios with the product owner

Senior management asked you to consider the types of organizational structure and working
styles that might be followed at your development company that builds homes for low-income
families, and the possible impact on the projects you will be managing. Your organization has
departments for donations, construction, marketing, volunteers, and finance. But before you
start working on it, you need to verify your knowledge on the organizational structures and
functions.
Choose the organizational structure where the authority of the project manager is the
highest

• Functional

• Projectized

• Matrix

• Composite

Senior management asked you to consider the types of organizational structure and working
styles that might be followed at your development company that builds homes for low-income
families, and the possible impact on the projects you will be managing. Your organization has
departments for donations, construction, marketing, volunteers, and finance. But before you
start working on it, you need to verify your knowledge on the organizational structures and
functions.

In addition to the departments listed in the scenario, your company also has a manager
of project management to oversee all of the ongoing projects. As one of the project
managers, you report directly to the project management department but share staff
with other departments. What type of organizational structure does this describe?

• Functional

• Projectized

• Matrix

• Composite

The company you work for builds and operates large shopping centers throughout the United
States, and its culture is committed to continuous improvement. You are about to embark on
managing your first shopping center project, and your sponsor is testing your knowledge about
continuous process improvements.
Which of the following are key attributes of continuous improvement? (Choose three.)

• Better design of products to improve service

• Exceeding customer expectations

• Striving to always lower costs

• Higher level of uniform product quality

• Increasing sales through global markets

As part of an organizational change program, an experienced project manager with agile experience and certification is hired by a company with a strong predictive culture. Which two actions can the project manager take to start helping the company adopt agile methodologies? (Choose TWO.)

• Ensure that the MoSCoW method is used to write all project requirements.

• Analyze all planned projects to pick the appropriate agile model.

• Show stakeholders how agile can increase quality and decrease risk.

• Train project teams to be more self-reliant and cross-functional.

• Identify opportunities for incremental business value delivery.

An agile team needs to decide who should represent them in the Scrum of Scrums. Which option should be used to select the best-suited team member?

• Scrum

• DevOps

• extreme Programming

• CI/CD

A Canadian start-up company announces to the press its imminent launch in the European Union (EU) and Latin America. Soon afterward, the compliance team recommends delaying the launch by six (6) months to avoid substantial penalties related to a new set of EU regulations.
Which approach could the project manager take to advance the launch project while preparing the compliance measures?

• Run a SWOT analysis to weigh priorities between compliance and consumer needs, and resume project if the result favors consumers

• Estimate impact of penalties on the project, increase the contingency reserve accordingly and resume project as planned.

• Re-plan the predictive project as a Large-Scale Scrum life cycle, and use story points to estimate approval milestones.

• Split out work affected by the regulations into a agile track, and re-plan unaffected work in the predictive schedule.

A week prior to the project kick-off call, a project manager meets with a key project resource to gain a deeper understanding of the complexity of the project deliverables. The resource expresses concern and worry regarding the deliverables. How can the project manager ensure that the deliverables are realistic?

• Perform a feasibility study, and then assess the results.

• Discuss the resource's concerns with the sponsor and modify the project charter

• Note the concerns in the issue log to review at a later date.

• Identify threats and preventive actions by conducting a risk assessment.

A new law is expected within the next six (6) months that will affect a business’ product line. The next product is
launching and should be completed within three (3) months. Unfortunately, the new product will NOT meet the
requirements of the proposed law. How should the project manager respond to this potential problem?

• Schedule a meeting with the sponsor and key stakeholders to discuss risks. Then, using the results of the meeting, revise the assumption log and project charter.

• Revise the risk management plan. Then, move ahead with planning the project.

• Move ahead with the project, following the plan. Then ensure on-time completion, so that the product will NOT be affected by any possible rule change.

• Schedule a meeting with the sponsor and key stakeholders to warn them about the law. Then advise
  them to cancel the project until the legislation is finalized.

Senior management asked you to consider the types of organizational structure and working
styles that might be followed at your development company that builds homes for low-income
families, and the possible impact on the projects you will be managing. Your organization has
departments for donations, construction, marketing, volunteers, and finance. But before you
start working on it, you need to verify your knowledge on the organizational structures and
functions.
Which organizational structure is a combination of all the other types of organizations?

• Functional

• Projectized

• Matrix

• Composite