Blank Quiz 127

A project manager is preparing a project closure report. The project sponsor is confident about the success of the project, but the client is not sure that the project outputs will achieve their business needs. Which aspect should the project manager highlight in the closure report to address the stakeholder's concern?

• How the quality was managed

• How the acceptance criteria were met

• How the scope was managed

• How the stakeholders were managed

In an attempt to streamline project communications, a project manager established a shared portal for all stakeholders to get project information. The sponsor complained about this system and says that it is ineffective. What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation from occurring?

• Analyzed the sponsor's communication requirements.

• Confirmed that the portal is providing adequate information.

• Verified that the project team is following the communications management plan.

• Ensured the sponsor had the necessary skills to use the portal.

An agile project is running its fifth iteration out of 10. After the last retrospective, the team members realize that they had to work extra hours to deliver the committed work. What should the project manager do?

• Ask for additional team members to maintain the velocity

• Implement a checkpoint in the iteration to verify if the team is on track

• Conduct a focused retrospective to help the team to discover the root cause

• Ask the team to have a lower commitment for the next iteration

A company is planning a digitization project. Which action should the project manager take first when defining the project scope?

• Assess the current state process to define the scope of the digitization.

• Digitize the current state process exactly as defined.

• Redefine the current state process to scope the supporting software.

• Develop the software that will support the current state process.

An organization in a regulated industry has decided to switch from a predictive to an agile delivery approach. It has been decided that the ongoing projects will adopt Scrum, and the project manager is still accountable for the project outcomes. During the fourth sprint demo, the customer notices that a feature is not compliant with the regulations. What should the project manager do?

• Have the team consult with the compliance officer to update the definition of done (DoD) for the user stories in the past sprint.

• Have the product owner consult with the change control board (CCB) to have the necessary compliance requirements implemented.

• Have the scrum master organize a weekly meeting with the compliance officer, the product owner, and the project team.

• Have the product owner review the user stories in the product backlog with the compliance officer on a regular basis to identify any gaps.

A project manager has been asked to participate in the procurement process for a software application that allows customers to buy online e-learning courses. The project manager will take over the project once the supplier has been sourced. What should the project manager do before the project starts?

• Ensure that the requirements for the project are understood and that the objectives are verified before approval of an agreement.

• Inform the project sponsor that once the agreement has been signed, there cannot be any changes to the scope of the project.

• Notify the project sponsor that the project manager cannot be involved in the agreement negotiation process.

• Ask the project sponsor to involve the legal department in the negotiation for the project agreement.

A company has agreed to run a transformation project using agile approaches. During the implementation, there is pushback from the functional groups that the project is moving too fast. What should the project manager have done at the beginning of the project to prevent this from happening?

• Circulated the project charter

• Assessed the organizational culture

• Determined the level of maturity of the employees

• Communicated the project schedule

A project manager has received a new request to integrate more features to a product. The team is fully allocated, and there is no budget to acquire new resources. What strategy should the project manager implement to deal with this situation?

• Ask the team to accelerate the iterations and avoid interruptions.

• Discuss the problem with the team and decide how to do the work together.

• Verify team performance and ask for improvement during daily standup meetings.

• Recommend that the project sponsor increases the budget to bring new resources.

A project manager is hired by a global company. The project manager is an agile specialist and is tasked with supporting the project team to reduce rework and dissatisfaction. How should the project manager address these objectives?

• Decrease the scope of the portfolio and send new solutions to the customer.

• Deliver a schedule with the portfolio timeline and delivery to the customer.

• Adopt an incremental cycle of delivering value to the customer.

• Prepare deliveries with more details to satisfy the customer.

According to the project contract the delivery date is approaching. However one important material is still not on site. The construction work will have to stop and wait for this special material, delaying the project. What should the project manager do?

• Record it in the risk register

• Ask the client to help solve the problem

• Start procuring this material from another supplier.

• Engage the project team to look for alternatives to find a solution