WorksheetsPMP Exam-Simulation 1
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 17mins
Due to a recent budget reduction, two team members were released from an agile team. The
customer is still expecting early results for the project.
Which two actions should the project manager take to align customer expectations? (Choose two)
Review the impediments log with the customer.
Ask the agile team to review and update the quality management plan with the customer.
Ask the product owner to review the prioritized backlog with the customer.
Send a detailed project management plan to the customer.
Ask the agile team to review the updated sprint velocity with the customer.
An agile project is in the seventh iteration with multiple changes being accommodated from the project start due such as regulatory changes technological innovations market competition and other changes.
What should the project manager do to manage these continuous changes coming into the project?
Accommodate the critical and urgent changes in the current iteration
Leverage the product owner to monitor the external environment
Ask the product owner to stop accommodating further changes to the scope
Suggest to the product owner to execute the changes in a separate project
A project manager is managing an internal project that was poorly defined. Recently, the
project manager received several change requests raised by the organization's upper management.
What should the project manager do first?
Assess the time overrun, and start implementation to avoid additional delays.
Request a provisional budget increase to avoid any budget overruns.
Review the benefits of the proposed changes in relation to the business case.
Motivate the team to avoid the frustration of working on a prolonged project.
An agile project has a documented list or requirements prioritized in high, medium, and low
categories. The project team has expressed that it is difficult to know what to work on next as so many items are listed as high priority.
What should the project manager recommend?
Ask the team to prioritize the high-priority items based on what they feel is a logical sequence to build.
Discard the current categorization of requirements as high, medium, and low and prioritize
numerically.
Ensure the product owner determines the priority based on a product roadmap. release plan, and
iteration plan.
Ask the team to prioritize the high-priority Items based on the release plan and what allows tor
testing most effectively.
A company is involved in a mining project. There are some external stakeholders with no
knowledge of the mining industry.
How should the project manager communicate the organizational culture and project goal to these stakeholders?
Prepare a report outlining the organizational structure and project parameters.
Take the stakeholders out informally and verbally brief them about the organization and project.
Hire a company to advertise the project and company through a media outlet.
Ask a team member to directly address the information needs of the stakeholders.
A project manager is starting a project using a hybrid approach and notices some team
members only have knowledge of predictive approaches What does the project manager need to do first in order to have good project performance?
Deliver hybrid training to all team members
Coach those team members lacking hybrid knowledge to learn on the job.
Assess the required training per team member.
Change the team to include hybrid experts
A project manager is working on the delivery of a solution that needs to be deployed to the public quickly. The project team is experienced, the stakeholders are supporting the delivery, and the customer is cooperating.
What strategy should the project manager use to ensure on-time delivery of the solution?
Have a high-level plan for incremental deliveries and get the customer's feedback as early as possible.
Ask the sponsor for support regarding the allocation of additional resources to finish on time.
Meet with the customer to agree on the components of the solution and the priorities.
Have a detailed plan of all milestones, deliverables, functionalities, and allocation of resources.
To estimate the costs of a new project that is similar to a project that was implemented last
year, the project manager meets with a group of experts from the previous project The group uses a
three-point estimating technique The project manager submits the estimated budget to the project
sponsor for approval The project sponsor, who is new to the company, is concerned because the
budget exceeded their expectations.
What should the project manager do?
Review the historical information and lessons learned from last year's project to justify the new budget estimate
Change the budgeting technique to a more accurate, bottom-up cost estimation.
Review the organizational process assessment to determine if a contingency reserve was
considered in the budget estimate
Use soft skills to convince the project sponsor to approve the new budget estimate
A key stakeholder for a construction project has been spending a lot of time at the site and
interrupting the team's efforts.
What should the project manager do in this situation?
Arrange an ad hoc meeting to address the key stakeholder's concerns with team members
Work to understand the key stakeholder's concerns and provide feedback in regular project status
reports
Reinforce with the key stakeholder that the project is performing on schedule\
Escalate the situation to the project sponsor because the key stakeholder's behavior is impacting
progress
The project charter was just approved and the project sponsor has given permission to
proceed with the project The program manager has confirmed that one of the requested key
resources is also needed on another project at the same time This will affect project delivery.
What should the project manager do?
Have a meeting with the client to see if the project delivery deadline can be delayed due to resource
availability
Talk to the program manager and about prioritizing this project over other projects so the key
resources are available
Pay overtime to key resource to get the work done outside of working hours
Have a meeting with project manager of the other project to find a resource optimization solution
that works for both projects
The team is working on a critical project deliverable and the project manager is concerned about meeting the deadline. There have been complaints from some stakeholders about some of the team members' performance The project manager wants to understand the situation and provide feedback to the team as soon as possible.
What three actions should the project manager take to address this situation? (Choose three)
Perform a retrospective session
Conduct an annual review
Request a manager performance review
Define team ground rules
Implement daily team meetings.
A project manager is working on a large project in another country and realizes that only a few people from the project team are working on all of the releases.
What should the project manager do to prevent this in the future?
Involve the product owner to rewrite the user stories.
Speak to the customer and add the issue to the issue log.
Review user roles and update the team charter.
Document the risk register in the project charter.
During project planning, a development team is assigned an agreed-upon work package to determine the appropriate pattern for integrating a new service with a legacy system. The lead developer has requested a meeting with the project manager and Is looking for direction as to which technology to select.
How should the project manager help guide the lead developer?
Direct the lead developer to conduct a weighted evaluation of all products and solutions.
Advise the lead developer and team to consult with the project architect and for their
development team leader.
Listen to the concerns and suggest that the lead developer and the team be empowered to
recommend the best approach.
Reassign this work package to another area given the lead developer's concern
A team member shares with their functional manager some negative details about the
performance of another team member that was discussed during the retrospective. The project
manager finds out about this discussion What two actions should the project manager take? (Choose
two)
Meet with the sponsor to review the situation.
Contact the team member's functional manager and invite them to the next retrospective
Contact the team member to explain what information can be shared outside the team
Meet with the entire team to review the ground rules about safe environments
Meet with the product owner to talk about the situation.
A project manager has been assigned to a new project. There is one team member who never says anything during meetings. After meetings, however, the team member sends detailed emails with very good suggestions that help with project execution.
How should the project manager guide the team members?
Arrange a team-building activity to involve all team members.
Remind the team members to follow the team charter.
Motivate the team members to speak freely in the meeting.
Review the communications management plan with the team members.
A project manager is using a hybrid approach for project delivery. The
development team was sized, but is not yet fully resourced. The project manager is working on defining the project schedule.
What should the project manager do to address the issue of developer availability?
Use expert judgment to estimate all of the tasks and complete the schedule in the allocated time.
Ask the resource manager when the new contractor is available to start and change the delivery
date for the project schedule.
Organize a planning session with the development team and use their estimations to complete the
schedule.
Ask the sponsor to provide the desired completion date for project activities and complete the
schedule.
During a project gate review meeting, it is identified that one of the project deliverables will
require corrective actions to meet the project quality requirements.
What should the project manager do first?
Submit a change request to update the project quality requirements for the involved project
deliverable.
Identify the resources that were responsible for the deliverable and request a team development
plan.
Update the risk register and implement the approved risk response plan for quality deviations.
Update the issue log, identify the involved stakeholders, and assign resources to the corrective
actions.
A team is working on implementing a communications system when the client says that they are considering closing the project. The project manager schedules an urgent meeting with the client to understand why the project is at risk.
Which two tools or techniques can the project manager use
to influence the client's decision to keep the project active? (Choose two)
Cost-benefit analysis
Autocratic decision making
Multi-criteria decision making
Alternatives analysis
Voting
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 the team to have a lower commitment for the next iteration
Ask for additional team members to maintain the velocity
Conduct a focused retrospective to help the team to discover the root cause
Implement a checkpoint in the iteration to verify if the team is on track
A project manager became aware of misunderstandings between a key stakeholder and a team member with regard to some of the features defined in the project scope.
What should the project manager do?
Work with both the team member and the key stakeholder to reach a consensus
Reconcile the key stakeholder to the team member's recommendation
Reconcile the team member to the key stakeholder's recommendation
Escalate the communication concerns to the project management office (PMO) and request that
they take action
A new agile team is having trouble completing tasks. There are many disputes occurring in the team.
What should the agile leader do in this situation?
Review the roles and responsibilities document
Escalate the issue to the team's manager
Develop working agreements with the team
Remove some of the team members
A project manager recently joined the company. At the interview, the project manager demonstrated experience with agile delivery, and the project management office (PMO) manager asked for assistance in implementing agile.
What should the project manager do to initiate the adoption of agile within the company?
Advise the PMO manager to continue with the company's current predictive approaches until all
the projects in execution are closed
Request that all the project managers and business managers receive training in the agile
framework used previously by the project manager
Organize agile workshops with the developers and testers to gain their support in using agile
approaches for their projects
Assess the organization's culture to determine if agile can be used in project delivery and
determine the practices to be used
