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2023S Review Questions 2

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 30mins

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A project manager is leading a project with seven key stakeholders. What should the project manager consider as the most important part of stakeholder management?

Avoid challenging stakeholders.

Make changes to the project schedule in real-time.

Ensure all stakeholders receive the same information.

Establish good working relationships with all stakeholders.

After 20% of a project was completed, the customer made the decision to change the provider for data center implementation. The new provider project manager requested a meeting with the customer to clarify how the project will be impacted if the requirements are not well gathered. Which are the project areas that could be impacted if the requirements are not well gathered? (Choose 3.)

Cost

Quality assurance

Schedule

Quality customer service

Quality planning

A project manager sends out requests for regular status meetings and daily standup meetings during the project setup phase. However, business stakeholders are declining the meetings. What should the project manager do?

Discuss optional stakeholder representation.

Create a communications management plan.

Set up a project team room.

Hold a project kick-off meeting.

Which is a key component of effective communications with others?

Trust

Transparency

Honesty

Loyalty

A company outsources the execution of a project with a fixed-price contract to a supplier. During execution, the supplier agrees to deliver additional customer requirements that were not included in the contract. To fulfill the expanded scope, both parties add more resources to keep the project on the planned schedule. Which technique is being applied in this project?

Fast tracking

Crashing

Resource leveling

Lead and lag

A research and development department is planning to develop a product that will introduce a new line of business for the organization. What should the project manager do to increase the project's chances of success?

Start developing the project management plan based on a previous project template from the project management office (PMO).

Conduct an impact analysis of the new initiative to determine how the project should be rolled out.

Plan a working session focusing on the scope, vision, and mission of the initiative.

Conduct benchmarking to determine the business viability of the initiative.

What can a project manager do to communicate the formal project announcement and relevant information to stakeholders, and then gain their commitment?

Create the project charter.

Conduct a kick-off meeting.

Develop the communications management plan.

Prepare and distribute the responsible, accountable, consult, and inform (RACI) matrix.

An organization is under a business transformation. The project manager has been assigned to a project related to one of the new business lines. What should the project manager and team do before defining the scope of the project?

Lead a procurement meeting.

Create a work breakdown structure (WBS).

Adapt and tailor existing assets.

Sign off on the business case.

A project manager is developing a project management plan to submit to the project sponsor in two weeks. The project sponsor, however, wants to review the early resource estimates before the deadline. How should the project manager show this information?

Work breakdown structure (WBS)

Work breakdown structure (WBS) dictionary

Statement of work (SOW)

Resource breakdown structure (RBS)

10.

A customer requested a change to a functionality that is being delivered in the next iteration The specialist responsible for this functionality was recently assigned to another project. What should the project manager do first?

Request a new resource from HR.

Request a new resource from the project sponsor.

Negotiate for the resource's availability.

Tell the customer that the new change is not possible.

11.

A project team is arranging user testing to be completed for a project but does not have a strong enough server to do so. The team orders a new server and postpones user testing. What should the project manager do moving forward?

Eliminate the user testing from the project plan.

Utilize the current server to complete user testing.

Request to expedite the new server from the supplier.

Await the arrival of the new server and reevaluate timelines for user testing.

12.

A project team creates an influence/commitment matrix to identify key stakeholders and prioritize them for specific action planning. Being cautious not to label a stakeholder as a "blocker", where on the matrix should they place a stakeholder that has a potentially negative impact on the project?

High Influence/Low Commitment

Low Influence/ High Commitment

Low Influence/Low Commitment

High Influence/High Commitment

13.

Since the beginning of a project, the product owner keeps asking during ceremonies about the budget spent for each product iteration. The product owner seems much more interested in the cost rather than the product itself. What should the project manager have done earlier to change the product owner's behavior?

Worked on different approaches of estimating to give confidence of the cost spent in each product increment.

Worked on a communications management plan with reports of budget spent in each iteration versus planned to avoid these discussions during ceremonies.

Worked with the product owner to clarify their role in an agile project and the scope of the agile ceremonies

Worked on a fixed-price contract to switch the product owner's attention to value instead of money

14.

The team and product owner are reviewing user stories in the iteration planning meeting. While reviewing stories, it is identified that some of the high-value stories have more associated risks. What should the agile project manager do?

Recommend that the team include risky stories in early iterations rather than later ones.

Recommend that the team choose stories with low risk for easy completion to keep team motivation high.

Work with the product owner to decide on the stories that should go during the iteration.

Use the Pareto analysis to decide which stories can be completed the fastest.

15.

While preparing a project's third progress report, the project manager identifies that the project will experience delays due to late material deliveries. The two previous project reports indicated that the project was on track. What should the project manager do next?

Discuss it with the project team to determine the most appropriate way to respond.

Add it to the issue log and include it in the project report.

Contact the procurement manager to expedite delivery of the material.

Escalate the issue to the project owner and request a schedule change.

16.

An organization has just has been shortlisted to win a project for implementing three magnetic resonance units in the main hospital for the country. The hospital's CEO asked the project manager for an updated proposal where the implementation time is reduced by 30%. Who should the project manager consult with to reduce the estimates in the most realistic way?

Hospital radiology team

Project team

Project sponsor

Hospital procurement officer

17.

After completing a project, the team meets to conduct a lessons learned session. During this meeting, the team sees that all deliverables were completed to the defined parameters. However, during the testing, there were a large number of errors identified. What should the project manager have done in this situation?

Set up a meeting with the testing team to get more information about the testing methods to be used.

Evaluated when the mitigation strategy will be implemented to prepare for future projects.

Conducted a Monte Carlo analysis which will determine potential outcomes and responses.

Planned for these errors in the risk register as something to look for in future projects.

18.

A project manager is managing a credit card acceptance software project. During testing, it is learned that the application cannot accept foreign credit cards, making the application nearly useless. The team leader had entered a user story that said “Customer can pay using credit card”, but it was put into the backlog as too large for the sprint. As a project manager, what should have been done to prevent this issue?

Ensure that a detailed user story was presented to the project team.

Have the project team implement the user story during the next sprint.

Ensure that the team performs iterative backlog refinement.

Ensure that the team recorded detailed application functionality requirements from the stakeholders.

19.

A local government passes a law that affects the scope of a project that is currently in the execution phase. The regulations take effect immediately. The project manager knows that the project schedule and budget will be impacted as a result. What should the project manager do first?

Initiate a project risk management process to assess and mitigate the risk.

Seek expert judgment regarding the scope of the new regulations.

Consult with key stakeholders to revise the project management plan.

Start the formal change control process.

20.

A project manager is hired by an organization and is given a project that has a vague scope and unclear deliverable requirements. How should the project manager proceed with this project?

Schedule a meeting with the project team and the sponsor to clarify the scope.

Develop the project plan based on the established scope by breaking down the deliverables and requirements.

Escalate to the project management office (PMO) to clarify the unclear scope.

Submit a request to the PMO to be paired with someone familiar with the organization’s project management approach.

21.

Moving from a traditional to an incentive-based model enables remote workers to be more self-sufficient. Which of the following is most important while working with virtual teams?

Initiative and intelligence

Creativity and passion

Confidence and trust

Obedience and diligence

22.

During a high-risk project, several risks have been materialized and responses have been implemented, However, the project still appears to be in trouble. The project manager is concerned that the risk management rules are not being carried out as specified. What should the project manager do to identify the weaknesses of the risk management process?

Transfer the risks.

Update the risk register.

Request a risk audit.

Analyze the risks.

23.

During a team induction meeting, the project manager notices some hostility between three key project team members who have very different personalities. How should the project manager address this hostility?

Plan a team building event where different personality types are required to solve problems.

Remind the entire team that as professionals, emotions should not impair their work performance.

Plan project tasks and meetings to avoid contact between the three members.

Avoid interfering and allow the team members time to resolve their differences.

24.

A large project involving functional groups in four countries is nearing completion. The project manager is meeting with the functional managers to prepare closeout documents. Why should the project sponsor sign off on the acceptance of project deliverables?

Because the project sponsor is responsible for procuring funding and committing resources to the project

Because the project sponsor communicates directly with the customer regarding acceptance of deliverables

Because the functional managers have authority to approve project objectives but not final deliverables

Because the functional managers are too geographically dispersed to sign off on the deliverables

25.

Multiple stakeholders have identified an issue regarding one of the project’s deliverables and bring their dissatisfaction to the project’s manager. What should the project manager do next?

Schedule a meeting with the stakeholders.

Update the risk management plan.

Review the documented project requirements.

Review the final scope statement.

26.

Company executives are launching a project critical to the future of the organization. The project will completely update their production system. While they recognize that this is a high-risk project, they also say that it must succeed. How should the project manager proceed?

Ensure that the communication management plan is detailed to ensure that all stakeholders and project team members receive timely updates of project progress.

Ensure that the stakeholders and sponsor agree on the project plan, scope, and deliverables.

Implement an appropriate method for the rollout to ensure that the project focuses on the highest business value components for success.

Work closely with the marketing team to ensure that the end products align with customer communication.

27.

A project manager for an important agile project has a key stakeholder who was actively involved at the beginning of the project. Early in the project, the stakeholder received a promotion and has significantly reduced their participation in the project. Nearing the end of the project, the stakeholder did not accept a deliverable, resulting in significant rework that threatens the project deadline. What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

Update the risk management plan to document the stakeholder’s promotion.

Monitor the stakeholder attributes and make necessary adjustments to engage the key stakeholder actively.

Reach out to the sponsor to manage stakeholder engagement.

Removed the key stakeholder from the decision-making process.

28.

A project manager is assigned to join a mega industrial project already underway. The latest performance indices are CPI=0.42 and SPI=0.20. This project is:

Ahead of schedule and under budget

Ahead of schedule and over budget

Behind schedule and under budget

Behind schedule and over budget

29.

A project manager is working on an agile project. The project has 100 user stories broken down into ten iterations. Each user story is worth US$100. The actual expenditure is US$4,500 and 50 user stories have been delivered after 5 iterations. Which statement is accurate?

The project is behind schedule and is over budget.

The project is on schedule and is under budget.

The project is on schedule and on budget.

The project is behind schedule and under budget.

30.

The project sponsors for a multinational project have put a process in place that generates emails and reports at the end of each phase. The goal is to ensure the project remains unified across the company. The company plans to use the process as a model for future, similar projects. What should the project manager do?

Update the communications management plan to include details about the emails and reports.

Include a formal sign-off at the end of each phase to engage the stakeholders.

Hold status meetings to solicit input from project sponsors for the emails and reports.

Update the stakeholder engagement plan at the end of each phase to maintain their commitment to the project's success.

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2023S Review Questions 2

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 30mins

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