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WorksheetsAtoha PMP lesson 10
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 26mins
A project manager receives the preliminary scope, assumptions, and restrictions for a new project. What should the project manager do first?
a.Construct the project schedule and define the critical path.
b.Obtain project charter approval from the sponsor.
c.Understand the business case and project goals.
d.Build the project team and assign project tasks.
A stakeholder requests more frequent and detailed updates on the project's status. The stakeholder also expresses interest in helping with the project. What should the project manager do next?
Meet with the team to review the stakeholder register and reassess the roles and reporting requirements.
Update the detailed status report for all stakeholders with the same engagement level.
Include this stakeholder in all detailed project status communications and update the stakeholder's engagement level to supportive.
Send detailed status reports as soon as possible and update the stakeholder register.
An experienced project manager resigns, and a new project manager joins the team. During the initial assessment of project documentation, the new project manager discovers that the risk register has not been updated for the past month. What should the project manager do first?
Select one:
Update the risk register and inform the team of the changes.
Hold a meeting to identify and prioritize risks so that the risk register can be updated.
Meet with the project team to monitor risks, then update the risk register.
Consult the risk management plan to determine how often the risk register must be updated.
A project manager is working with stakeholders to identify strategic and operational assumptions and constraints. However, not all stakeholders are consistently providing input. What should the project manager use to enhance stakeholder input?
Political awareness
Checklists
Meeting management
Facilitation
While reviewing the quality of deliverables with the team, the project manager determines that several quality issues could have been avoided by using a simple checklist The checklist is then implemented for future deliverables. What did the project manager do in this situation?
Facilitated a retrospective
Used preventive action
Used corrective action
Conducted a lessons learned meeting
During project initiation, the project manager performed a cost-benefit analysis that resulted in 0.6. What should the project manager do next?
Consult with stakeholders about project approval.
Consult experts, look for options, and re-perform the analysis.
Review the results with the project sponsor to confirm the project's feasibility.
Examine reports to determine if the project should start or be rejected.
While working on a large project, the project manager notices that a specific developer is constantly missing deadlines. What should the project manager do?
Give the developer a warning via email to improve their work quality.
Personally meet with the developer, and offer support where applicable.
Identify whether the developer is a shared resource with another project.
Escalate the issue to the developer's line manager, and ask for the concern to be immediately addressed.
During the design process for a mining plant, the project team conducted a cost-benefit analysis based on current commodity prices. However, during project work, commodity prices fluctuate tremendously. This risk was identified, but the team did not expect such major fluctuations. Now, the project may be unviable. What should the project manager do?
Immediately escalate the issue to management and the stakeholders.
Work with the project team on a solution to make the project viable.
Issue a change request to cover the increased costs.
Perform a financial analysis based on the updated information.
A project is being planned in a remote area with limited access to vehicles and equipment. The project manager proposes that the company use an outside vendor to deliver all heavy equipment. The project manager will take full responsibility for this activity. However, this strategy will result in a significant expense. What type of risk response is the project manager demonstrating?
Avoid
Transfer
Accept
Mitigate
There are three main tasks in a new product development project. Task A must be delivered two weeks before task C starts, and task C will start once task B is finished. What is the relationship between tasks A and B?
Finish-to-start(FS)
Start-to-start (SS)
Start-to-finish (SF)
Finish-to-finish (FF)
At a critical design review meeting for a large project, several important issues surface. After hearing about a major technical problem, one of the subcontractor's engineers mentions that he experienced a similar situation on another project; he has some ideas on how to solve the current problem. What type of power is the engineer using?
Manipulative
Referent
Formal
Expert
A project manager is working with a seller on a project that is time-sensitive due to government regulations requiring the project to be completed by a certain date. She learns one of the sellers has bribed a subcontractor to work on this project instead of fulfilling previous commitments to other projects. What should she do?
She should report the offense to management and the project managers of the affected projects.
She should report this to other subcontractors.
She should resign from the project so as to remove herself from this type of activity, but keep her discovery to herself rather than cause problems.
She should not do anything because this is the vendor's problem. The project manager herself didn't do anything wrong.
Your project schedule is tight and in danger of falling behind when two team members start disrupting status meetings by arguing with each other. As project manager, what is the best thing you can do?
Separate the two until the project is back on track.
Discuss the problem with the two team members.
Tell each team member they will not receive a recommendation from you if they continue arguing.
Meet with both team members and their manager to determine the source of conflict.
All of the following statements about workarounds are correct except:
They are unplanned responses to risks.
They are responses only to risks that were identified in project planning.
They may result in a project change request.
They make use of the project management plan.
To help the project team function more efficiently on complex and interrelated activities, the project manager decides to use a war room. What does this mean?
The tools needed to accomplish the work are kept in one place with easy access by the team from various locations.
The project's entire senior management team is located in one area
All the project records are kept in many locations.
The entire team is located in one area
You've been assigned to take over managing a project that should be half complete according to the schedule. After an extensive evaluation, you discover the project is running far behind schedule, and the project will probably take twice the time originally estimated by the previous project manager. However, the sponsor has been told the project is on schedule. What is the best course of action?
Report your assessment to the sponsor.
Move forward with the schedule as planned by the previous project manager, and report at the first missed milestone.
Try to restructure the schedule to meet the project deadline.
Turn the project back to the previous project manager.
The agile product development team is building a new customer facing mobile feature: in store checkout. While reading the monthly corporate newsletter, the project manager learns that stores in one geographic region have temporarily closed. How should the project manager respond?
Monitor the situation in the next month's newsletter.
No immediate response is needed, many stores are still open and need the new feature.
Recommend to the sponsor that the project be put on hold until the stores reopen.
Contact the stores' operations manager(s) to discuss the closings and re-evaluate the in-store checkout feature's value.
All of the following are true except:
The project manager needs to determine the skills of the stakeholders.
The stakeholder engagement plan is part of the project management plan.
The stakeholders' impact on the project must be assessed
The stakeholders do not have a role in determining the project management plan unless they are part of the project team.
The project manager must publish a project schedule. Activities, start/end times, and resources are identified. What should the project manager do next?
Confirm the availability of the resources.
Refine the project management plan to reflect more accurate costing information.
Distribute the project schedule according to the communications management plan.
Publish a bar chart illustrating the timeline.
Which of the following is the most appropriate thing to do in the planning process group?
Determine high-level stakeholders.
Hold a meeting of all parties to make certain everyone is familiar with the details of the project.
Manage Quality.
Implement approved process improvements.
A project manager has recently left an organization with a formal and highly regulated culture. In an upcoming role, the project manager will lead a virtual team of aeronautical engineers and designers. During the engagement interview, the project manager was informed these engineers and designers are accustomed to a great deal of freedom in their working styles and little supervision.
Which two actions should the project manager take to prepare for this transition? (Choose 2)
Review good practices for virtual team working.
Become familiar with the typical working styles of people in the organization.
Consider the benefits of the agile mindset.
Schedule a team kickoff meeting to update their continuous improvement plan.
Consult management theories about intrinsic and extrinsic motivations.
A project manager is leading a large-scale infrastructure project with high risk and complexity. This project will require steering committee approvals during the design and procurement phases to determine approval for the next phase.
Which approach should the project manager take?
Draft an initial set of plans and progressively elaborate them as the project progresses.
Develop a detailed and comprehensive project management plan with defined phase gates and approval criteria.
Use an agile approach to allow for flexibility and iterative development.
Create a robust risk strategy and detailed risk management plan and rely on the expertise of the project team to manage risks.
A project manager is leading a construction project to build a new office building. The project has multiple stakeholders, including the client, contractors, and local government authorities. The project manager recently noticed that team members and stakeholders frequently ask questions about the project details and schedule, and tasks are experiencing significant delays.
What might this indicate to the project manager?
The project management plan is not updated or integrated.
Team members have not received adequate training.
The project manager is too involved in the work of the team.
The critical path was calculated incorrectly.
A project team is building new infrastructure for government schools in a rural area. During the planning phase, the project manager identifies several compliance requirements related to environmental regulations, safety standards, and local government policies.
Which of the following actions should the project manager take to ensure compliance throughout the project life cycle?
Assign a team member to monitor compliance and report any issues directly to the project sponsor.
Include compliance requirements in the project charter and ensure all team members are aware of them.
Develop a risk management plan that outlines how compliance will be monitored and controlled.
Schedule regular meetings with local government officials to review compliance requirements and project progress.
A project manager has recently been assigned to lead a project in the pharmaceutical industry. The project manager has extensive experience in managing IT projects but is unfamiliar with the specific regulations and compliance requirements of the pharmaceutical sector. During the initial phase of the project, the project manager realizes the project team is struggling to meet the regulatory standards required for the project.
What should this project manager do first?
Ask the stakeholders and subject matter experts (SMEs) for help identifying potential compliance issues and consulting lessons learned.
Conduct a thorough risk assessment to identify potential compliance issues and develop a mitigation plan.
Delegate the responsibility of understanding the regulations to a team member with some experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
Request additional resources from senior management to hire a consultant with expertise in pharmaceutical regulations.
A chocolate manufacturing company discovers that one of its suppliers has violated an international law, engaging in prohibited labor practices to reduce costs. The company authorizes a project to correct the supply chain and address the negative publicity. The project manager has met with stakeholders and created a list of requirements.Which two requirements should the project manager consider for this project? (Choose 2)
Establish guidelines for new suppliers working with internal stakeholders in the procurement and legal departments.
Create a campaign to reimagine the company’s public profile and social media.
Conduct a cost-benefit analysis to identify how the company can maintain sustainability and still be profitable.
Collaborate with the supplier to make the necessary changes to their labor source and continue with the current supplier.
Take legal action against the vendor.
A project team member reports that environmental issues at the job site are causing emotional and physical distress to residents and businesses in the surrounding community. The team spends a significant amount of time each morning speaking to community members, explaining and rectifying impacts of the site construction.
Which engagement strategy should the project team have used for these stakeholders?
Circulate project information to local stakeholders in the mail (postal service).
Hold open “town hall” meetings to discuss the project with stakeholders.
Erect signage at the project site 3 months before beginning work.
Post the required legal notices in the local newspaper.
Three project team members request long leaves of absence. Two team members are studying for a major exam and the other has a family emergency. Their project roles are very similar, and the project is critical to the business. What should the project manager do?
Prioritize the leave requests based on seniority and company policy.
Approve all the requests because they will return to the project with positive energy.
Assess how approving the leave requests could affect the project.
Compress the project schedule and approve shorter leave times for all.
A project was discontinued because of severe resource limitations 3 years ago. Now the project sponsor insists that it should be restarted and offers a budget but no staff. The other stakeholders agree the business needs the work to be done but cannot allocate any of their staff members to do the work. Despite this, a project manager has been assigned to the project. The project manager is given 3 weeks to review the original project artifacts and report on recommendations to the project management office (PMO) so the project can be prioritized within the business portfolio. In which two ways should the project manager approach this situation? (Choose 2)
Propose using automation or artificial intelligence (AI) to assist in completing the work.
Engage the stakeholders and force them to release the resources per the project sponsor’s mandate.
Try to convince the project sponsor to wait until the needed staff members are free to begin the project.
Circulate the project charter and discuss resource requirements with the stakeholders.
Request more funding to hire contractors to perform the work.
A project to build a large resort-style swimming pool is in the execution stage. The project manager notices that team members are using different units of measurement to monitor project progress: some report completion of work in hours, some in days, and others note the percent complete. This is causing confusion. What should the project manager do to prevent this from happening again?
Direct the team to use a single measurement unit.
Refer the team to the guidelines in the schedule management plan.
Design a unit conversion tool to convert different units to a common unit.
Consult the project management office (PMO) to decide on actions.
