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WorksheetsPMP 380 mock questions - Full mock - part 2
Total questions: 60
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A project manager is managing an industrial project. He needs a batch of 1000 custom-made, identical filters for the project. Due to their high importance, the project manager chooses a reliable and well-known supplier to produce these filters. Knowing that a tested filter should be thrown away since it couldn't be reutilized, what should the project manager do?
Skip inspection, since he trusts that the supplier will deliver the filter according to a specifications
Order more than 1000 filters to perform acceptance sampling on the batch surplus
Require the seller to provide a performance certificate of the filters Raw materials
Conduct a 100% inspection upon delivery, then order another batch of 1000 filters if he satisfied with the quality
During project execution, the project manager found out that tasks were not being performed in the right order at the right time which resulted in rework and bad morale among the project team.
Which project management tool, the project manager implemented deal with this type of issue?
Organization chart
RACI Matrix
Communications management plan
Work authorization system
A project manager has taken over the management of a climate-smart agriculture project, replacing the project manager who has quit. At the Beginning of the execution phase, the project manager notices that team members have different opinions concerning the project, work and deliverables, as well as the overall complexity level. What should the project manager do?
They should not intervene. Instead, they should allow the team enough time to get familiar with the project scope.
They should identify and assess potential risks caused by this divergence of opinion, then develop the plant to manage and respond to these risks
They should organize a meeting involving all team members to identify and resolve, misunderstandings in order to avoid issues, disintegration, and rework
They should talk to each team member separately to explain the project requirements
A project manager at Max data has just put the finishing touches on her final project report before meeting with her manager. She spent the last few weeks holding numerous lessons learns sessions to get feedback from project participants for the final report. For what reasons did the project manager hold lessons learned sessions? (Select three)
lessons learned databases are an important element of the organizational process assets
Lessons learned meetings, focus on identifying individuals, accountable for failures, and errors
Lessons. Learned meetings, include recommendations for future performance improvements.
Phase-end lessons learned workshops represent a good team-building exercise for project members
After a long wait, the project manager gets a phone call from the project sponsor confirming that the budget has been allocated, Therefore, the project can get started. The sponsor also informs the project manager that the project development approach should be defined as soon as possible, and that the kickoff meeting should take place within the next two weeks. The project manager replies by saying that he must first receive the project charter.
What is the purpose of a project charter?
To document the project approach
The formally authorize the project and document its initial requirements
To be used as a reference during the project kickoff meeting
To set up the project of conduct
As part of the project quality control process, the project manager of MCN electric motorcycles decided to check only 10% of the manufactured motorbikes for environmental control.
Which technique is the project manager using?
Sample selection
Control chart
Statistical sampling
Pareto Diagram
A local school is planning to use a screening system to select vegetables and fruit suppliers for their healthy minds organic meals project. Which of the following is an example of a screening system?
You interview all the vendors, and make your decision based on these interviews
You negotiate with all the vendors and engage the one who offers the best price
Consider vendors with more than 10,000 in revenue in the last financial year
You engaged a vendor who response to your announcement
The projects business analyst is performing earned value reporting. The projects CPI is 0.9 and it's budget completion is $900. How much is the project estimated cost at completion?
$819
$810
$900
$1000
Depending on who is using them, bids, tenders, and quotes can take on different meetings. But, initially, all of these terms can be used interchangeably with:
Proposals
Make or buy decisions
Buyer responses
Pre-bid conferences
The agile triangle of constraints is different from the traditional triangle, because it allows:
Cost to vary while scope and time are fixed
Cost and time to vary while the scope is fixed
Scope and time to vary while the cost is fixed
Scope to vary while cost and time are fixed
A project manager is evaluating a potential industrial project. To determine whether its anticipated financial gains will outweigh its present day investment, the project manager uses the net present value (NPV) as an effective tool to help her determine whether the project will be profitable or not. For instance, NPV > 0 means:
The project will lose money
The project will break even
The project is profitable
We can't know until the ROI is calculated
In an effort to increase agile knowledge, a project manager has been paired with other agile project managers to observe how they lead their teams. The project manager notices that many project decisions are the responsibility of the project team, while project managers are more facilitative than authoritative as they share a common vision and allow the team to focus on their work.
What leadership approach does this depict?
Participate leadership
Autocratically leadership
Transformational leadership
Servant leadership
A project manager leads a project with a highly talented team. Team members have diverse skills and expertise. Hence the project manager wants to encourage them to use their knowledge to make optimal decisions concerning project issues. Which leadership style is the most suitable for the project managers goal?
Laissez-faire
Democratic
Autocratic
Decisive
Over the last couple of years, an organization has grown into a corporate group by taking over a number of companies in the same field. This significantly increased the number of its projects, programs and portfolios. How many active portfolios should be managed concurrently by an organization?
One portfolio at a time
Based on the size of human resources allocated to portfolio management
Each portfolio manager should handle portfolio at a time
As many as the organization can handle
A project manager at Clinica labs, a bio pharmaceutical corporation, intends to talk to her manager about obtaining additional resources for complex activities that are team is unable to perform. These resources will roll off the project as soon as activities are completed. Which of the following skills does the project manager need the most in this situation?
Planning skills to identify resource requirements
interpersonal skills to convince her manager of her need for additional resources
Interviewing skills to hire the required resources
technical skills to respond to the risk associated with adding more resources
A project manager insures that the project team documents, all assumptions. The team records assumptions on an ongoing basis, and then validates these assumptions. Which of the following helps the team validate a project assumption?
Organizational policies
Historical data
Constraints
Team members recollection
The knowledge garnered through personal experience is the most difficult to express, articulate, or write down.
This type of knowledge is known as:
explicit knowledge
Tacit knowledge
Tangible knowledge
Formal knowledge
A project manager has just joined a new organization. A majority of the organizations projects are conducted by experienced project managers. What should be the primary focus of the new project manager in order to ensure is efficiency?
Acquire a skillful team
Learn about the organizations culture
Get to know the organizations executive managers
Get to know the organizations project managers
A project manager is facilitating a meeting to define the user stories of the next iteration. Two team members, Charlotte and Sam, get too vocal during the meeting. Charlotte believes that user story number two is clear enough, while Sam thinks it's ambiguous and needs further elaboration. The team moves on to the next user story, ignoring Sam's point of view. Sam accepts the teams decision and remains quiet for the rest of the meeting. At the end of the meeting, the project manager tells Sam that user story number two could be reviewed during the iterations first week when more information is available. which of the following conflict resolution techniques did Sam use in the scenario?
Smoothing
Compromising
Forcing
Withdrawal
A project manager chose for their new project and management framework. That is a hybrid of two agile approaches. the work will be organized in sprints and the team will use a board to display and monitor work progress.
Which of the following framework is the project manager using?
Scrumfall
Extreme programming
Dynamic systems development method
scrumban
A project manager, and their agile team are demonstrating a potentially shippable product increment to the project stakeholders. What type of agile meetings is the project manager conducting?
Review meeting
Standup meeting
Retrospective meeting
deliverables meeting
A project manager is leading a project that was supposed to last six months. The project is currently in its second year.
Which of the following statements best describes the situation?
The project scope was not clearly defined
The project should've been divided into sub projects
The project team didn't protect the scope from changes
The project should've been halted after six months
While performing beta testing with a small number of users, the project manager notices that the web application has defects due to:
- User interface and responsiveness issues 20%
- User experience issues 25%
- Bugs in functionalities 40%
- Missing important features 10%
- Others 5%
To illustrate these problems, the project manager can use a:
Histogram
Quality checklists
Scatter diagram
Flowchart
After facing endless issues with one of the project suppliers, The project manager decides to put an end to the disputes by concluding their professional collaboration.
Which document should the project manager refer to in order to examine the termination clause and the alternative dispute resolution mechanism?
Source selection criteria
Supplier bid
Agreement
project charter
Along with developing a contingency plan for possible issues, a project manager might also need to create a workaround to deal with ______________________ when they occur
Identified and passively accepted risks
Unidentified and passively accepted risks
Identified and actively accepted risks
Unidentified and actively accepted risks
A project manager engaged Outsourci, An offshore software development company, to develop an e-learning platform using the adaptive approach. During the second iteration, the project manager was satisfied with the companies work, and hence decided to immediately terminate the contract. The project manager only had to pay the incurred costs with no additional fees.
What type of agile contract did the project manager sign with the supplier?
Incremental delivery contract
Time and materials contract
Target cost contract
Early termination contract
A project manager is leading a software project using a hybrid approach. During a lessons, learned meeting, one of the team members complained that every time she submits a new piece of code, she finds many errors caused by the coach changes made by her fellow developers. The project manager suggested testing, updating, and integrating new software code more frequently in order to reduce such errors.
Which of the following techniques did the project manager suggest?
Constant integration
Consecutive integration
Consistent integration
Continuous integration
y project manager is assigned to a packaging project. The organization purchased a custom built laser printing machine for $130,000 for the project, which was later found to be useless the hundred and $130,000 amount represent a(n) ____________ cost.
Fixed
Sunk
Indirect
Opportunity
During an iteration review meeting, the product owner rejected one of the features demonstrated by the development team.
What will happen next to the rejected user story?
It will be automatically move to the next Sprint backlog
It will be deleted from the product backlog and from the project
It will be updated to address the reasons why it was rejected
It will be moved back to the product backlog for reprioritization
In order to assess the project performance, a project manager calculates Both it's CPI and SPI.
Knowing that it has a high CPI and a low SPI, what is the project status?
behind schedule and under budget
Ahead of schedule and under budget
Behind schedule and over budget
Ahead of schedule and over budget
A project manager noticed that multiple interpersonal conflicts are arising among team members. What is the best way to handle conflicts?
The project manager should always smooth conflicts since they distract the team and hinder work progress
The project manager should address conflicts and open meetings, so that the entire team can contribute to finding a solution
The project manager should address, conflicts, proactively, and privately, using collaborative and direct approaches
The project manager should be firm and use their coercive power to quickly resolve conflicts
A project manager is assigned to an accounting software development project. In its beta version, some users reported that the software freezes one to three times a day. Since the project manager needs more information to fix the problem, they asked the users to fill-in a ____________________ whenever the issue occurs to include information about how the freezing happens and how long it lasts.
Check sheet
Cheat sheet
Checklist
Survey
The project manager is running a multinational organization. They want to learn the difference between high and low context cultures in order to ensure effective communication and avoid doing anything offensive or embarrassing. What is a typical characteristic of communication in high context, cultures?
The use of technical means of communication that on transferring spoken and written language
Communication is preferred to avoid missing out on a great part of additional information
A conveyed message has little meaning, without a full understanding of the surrounding context
There is no need for history or personal opinions to understand a message
During the risk, identification phase, the project manager, and their team identified more than 100 risks. The project manager believes that the quantitative evaluation of each of these risks will take a lot of time, whereas not all of the identified risks are important enough to justify such a measure. What should the project managers next step be?
identifying risk triggers, then performing a quantitative analysis of risks that have no triggers
using qualitative risk and analysis to qualify and prioritize risks for the quantitative risk analysis
conducting a qualitative assessment of each risks probability, then perform a quantitative analysis of risks with a high probability
conducting a qualitative assessment of the potential impact of each risk, then perform a quantitative analysis of risks with a high impact
A project manager works at a company that has been using the agile approach for the last nine months. When should the company stop tailoring the process?
Now
Never
18 months
12 months
The scruM master is starting a project with a new team and needs to develop an estimate for their velocity.
What should the scrum master use as a basis for the first sprint velocity?
Forecasted velocity
Actual velocity
Terminal velocity
Cycle velocity
An Agile project manager is leading an IT project using the Scrum framework.
While the team implements user stories during the sprint, what should the product owner do?
Add more tasks for the team so they can deliver more value
Let the team do their work and respond to any questions they might have
Protect the team from interruptions and facilitate discussions
Monitor the sprint progress and extend its duration if the team cannot complete the assigned work on time
A project manager is leading a 3-year project that involves upgrading and improving an electric engine for industrial use.
Since the majority of the project activities are hazardous, the project team will receive extensive safety training.
The training will ensure the safety of workers and prevent delays caused by unsatisfactory work.
The cost of the conducted safety training falls under:
Cost of regulations
Cost of Quality
Cost of conformance
Cost of nonconformance
While working on a large project to develop a fingerprint voting system, a project manager notices that, lately, a senior developer in the project team missed two consecutive deadlines.
What should the project manager do?
Verify whether the developer is a shared resource with another project
Give the developer a formal warning via email so they can work on improving their work quality
Meet with the developer in person and offer support if needed
Escalate the issue to the developer's line manager and ask them to immediately address the issue
Which of the following options falls under the project manager's responsibilities in Agile?
Providing the overall strategic direction
Controlling the project budget
Defining user stories and prioritizing the backlog
Ensuring that the team delivers the project according to the defined requirements
A project manager is using an Agile approach to manage a web application project. During the daily standup, two team members start discussing which JavaScript framework to use: Angular, React, or Vue.
What should the project manager do?
Let the discussion continue since it's very important
Time-box the conversation and suggest that team members carry on with this subject after the standup meeting
Facilitate the conversation and invite the rest of the team to weigh in
Contribute to the discussion and share their own opinion on the matter
A project manager is in charge of a software development project.
Their organization primarily uses agile methods.
An intern who joined the project team once asked the project manager: "What is a User Story?"
How should the project manager reply?
A story that refers to the ideal user for your project
A day in the end-user life
A small, granular unit of work that brings added value to the customer
A collection of all the requirements that the customer wants in a project
A project manager is assigned to an internal project to develop Human Resource management software.
Since they have adopted the Scrum framework, a sprint planning meeting is held to select user stories.
During sprint planning, one of the team members insists that a user story concerning the implementation of a rewards policy should not be brought into the next sprint because it doesn't include enough details on how to set rewards according to the different positions and roles of the organization employees.
What is the most likely reason for the team member to push out this user story?
The user story doesn't meet the Definition of Ready
The user story doesn't meet the Definition of Done
The user story involves an unachievable stakeholder requirement
The user story might result in a waste of time and effort
A project manager is leading the construction project of a luxury residency.
Before proceeding with the site excavation process, a government clearance must be issued.
What kind of dependency does this describe?
Soft logic
Preferential logic
External dependency
Discretionary dependency
A project manager is assigned to a university complex project that consists of designing and producing 200 wayfinding and directional signs.
These signs will be placed and installed near doors, exits, offices, elevators, etc. by another company.
After getting the client's approval that the project scope is met, the project manager delivers the signs to the installation company.
The latter asks the project manager to help them with the signs' installation.
What should the project manager do?
Submit a change request to assist with the signs' installation
Do a favor for the installation company and help them out
Create a new separate project charter for the signs installation support to make it clear that it's not part of the initial project
Do nothing since the project scope has been officially fulfilled and approved by the client
Control charts are used to routinely monitor quality.
A project manager is measuring the response time of their application API, where the lower control limit is 200ms and the upper control limit is 800ms.
The first 11 data values that the project manager finds are: 790, 700, 750, 750, 716, 770, 620, 200, 444, 104, 404.
Which of the following represents a problem that needs to be solved? (Select two)
One of the values is the same as the lower control limit
One of the values is out of the control limit
Seven consecutive values are between the mean and the upper control limit
Two consecutive values are the same
All stakeholders are in a meeting to discuss a new project that is expected to start within one month and to last at least 10 iterations. One of the stakeholders mentions that someone should take the responsibility of developing and maintaining the product roadmap.
Who should take this responsibility?
Project Manager
Development Team
Scrum Master
Product Owner
A project manager is leading a project using an iterative development approach.
During which meeting is a potentially shippable product increment presented to the concerned stakeholders?
Iteration kickoff meeting
Iteration planning meeting
Iteration review meeting
Iteration retrospective meeting
Grade and quality are two of the most commonly used terms in project management on a daily basis. Which of these statements is correct when talking about a performed service or a developed product?
Low quality is acceptable, but a low grade is not
A low grade is acceptable, but a low quality is not
Low grade and low quality are both unacceptable
Quality and grade are the same
A project manager couldn't be happier with his job; it provides him with almost everything he needs financially, socially, and especially in terms of self-esteem. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, what is the first level of needs that should be satisfied before attending to other needs?
Esteem
Physiological
Social
Safety
When a project manager first started managing procurement, a senior expert in her organization advised her to take oligopoly into consideration.
Which of the following best describes oligopoly?
There are no sellers in the market, so the project manager needs to build the product internally
There is only one qualified seller in the market
There are only a few sellers in the market and the actions of one seller impact the others
The company policy allows the project manager to contractually engage with only one seller
A project manager works for a B2B marketing company.
The company does not have an official archiving procedure.
The project manager has recently finished a project and got the client's official approval of the final deliverables.
Now that the project is in its closure phase, what should the project manager do with all associated paperwork?
Nothing since the company doesn't require the archiving of performed projects
Archive the project documents himself
Discard it since it represents a liability
Ask the client to keep the project's archive
A project manager got the approval to carry out a significant change that would bring added value to the project.
The change has a total cost of $10,000 and will add one month to the project's duration.
What should the project manager do right after getting the change approved?
Call for a meeting with the CCB to review the change
Update the time, cost, and scope baselines to reflect the change
Perform a change risk assessment
Update the change control system to reflect the change
During a meeting with stakeholders, the project manager is asked about the amount of work completed by the agile team during the last sprint.
What information should the project manager share with stakeholders?
The sprint velocity
The sprint backlog items
The average velocity
The forecasting velocity
A project manager is leading a wind turbine project.
The first experiment revealed that the turbine's speed is lower than the expected value.
The project manager and team attempt to find out the root cause of the issue.
Which of the following tools is the most effective for root cause analysis?
Five Whys
Kano
MoSCoW
Four Whys
An agile team is demonstrating a recently developed product increment.
Among the deliverables is the product's logo.
After explaining the meaning behind their choice for the different elements of the logo, the senior graphic designer solicited feedback.
The product owner appreciated the logo, while the majority of the cross-functional team noted that the logo icon would look better if it was 20% bigger.
However, the Scrum Master thinks that a 10% size increase would be enough to make the logo look better.
Which of the following decisions should be ultimately considered?
The icon size should be increased by 20% as per the recommendation of the majority of the cross-functional team
The icon size should be increased by 10% as per the recommendation of the Scrum master
The icon size should not be increased since the product owner was pleased with the result
The icon size should not be increased since the senior graphic designer is the one qualified to take decisions when it comes to design
Two team members discuss an issue concerning server configuration. When the first member asks why this issue keeps happening, the second member says that server parameters are confusing, making it difficult for him to handle its configuration. The first team member suggests that they should be consulted the next few times the server is being configured, to which the second team member agrees and the problem is solved. Which conflict resolution technique is being used in this situation?
Collaborating
Confronting
Norming
Forcing
A subcontractor is engaged to install the electrical wiring of a construction project.
A stakeholder requests a modification in the project's scope, which will result in a change in the subcontractor's workload.
Which of the following documents will address how the change in the subcontractor's workload will be handled?
The change control system
The procurement management plan
The contract
The scope
At the beginning of the project planning phase, the project manager would always emphasize how important it is for all data to be precise and accurate. During a meeting, a team member asks if there is really a difference between precision and accuracy.
How should the project manager reply?
Precision and accuracy are mutually exclusive
Accuracy measures exactness while precision measures correctness
Accuracy measures correctness while precision measures exactness
Precision and accuracy are actually the same
At the end of the project, and during the lessons learned meeting, a project manager presents the following chart, stating that project expenditures over time form a(n) ______________
Slanted line
S curve
Z curve
integral curve
