WorksheetsQuiz Night 5 OCT
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 15mins
A new program consists of five projects, each performed by a scrum team. Throughout the program life cycle, various deliverables from each of the scrum teams will serve as inputs to other teams.
What is the best strategy for each of the scrum masters to navigate this complexity?
Seek the program manager's approval of the deliverables before they move from one team to another
Apply systems thinking throughout the project life cycle
Request that the product owner prioritizes the least complex user stories in the program backlog
Enhance simplicity by minimizing the amount of work not done
Resource costs continue to rise and are expected to increase further.
What can the project team do to control the costs?
Hold the cost baseline steady
Conduct an alternatives analysis
Request more funds from the customer
Utilize management reserves
A vendor has been contracted by a business to develop a marketing campaign for their new product. Some of the contract items are fixed, such as warranties and arbitrations, and are locked in a master services agreement (MSA). Others, such as services rates and product descriptions, are subject to change.
Which of the following should the business use to secure contractual relationships with the vendor for these subject-to-change items?
Work breakdown structure
Change control board
Cost-reimbursable contract
Schedule of services
Which of the following is an output of the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process?
Stakeholder register
Risk management plan
Stakeholder engagement plan
Change Log
An agile team is working to meet an aggressive release goal. The scrum master has recently noticed that the performance of one of the developers has dropped and the developer seems to be participating less in group discussions.
What should the scrum master do?
Request the rest of the team members to backfill the workload of the developer
Discuss the developer's performance issues at the sprint retrospective meeting
Meet with the developer privately and try to determine what motivates them
Look for a replacement because agile teams require the best talent available
A project manager has ongoing issues with a pre-qualified seller who has repeatedly failed to meet quality standards outlined by the company. The seller has also been unresponsive when the project manager has tried to resolve the quality issues. The project manager wants to ensure that this seller will not be considered again for future contracts.
What is the best course of action for the project manager to take in this situation?
Recommend removing the seller from the prequalified sellers list
Capture the information in the issue log
Update the project management plan
Conduct a procurement audit
You were informed that one of your project team members falsified the certifications on her resume. You verified the information as accurate and want to terminate the team member's employment.
What should you do first?
Reprimand the employee in front of the team
Share your findings with the informant
Immediately terminate the employee for cause
Review the enterprise environmental factors
During project planning, the project team rigorously defined the project scope. During project execution, a senior engineer calls the project manager and suggests a simpler and more efficient design that could benefit the project.
What should the project manager do next?
Nothing, no changes are needed since the project scope was rigorously defined
Discuss the change with the project sponsor
Evaluate the impact of the proposed change on the project constraints
Ask that the engineer submit a change request
Midway into project execution, a competitor is about to release a product similar to the one planned to be delivered by your project. If the competitor launches their product to the market before you, your project will be deemed as failed.
With a response prepared to run some of the development activities in parallel, what should you do next?
Compress the schedule
Meet with the team to assess the Risk
Terminate the project
Request managment reserves
You are a project manager leading an online conference call with stakeholders regarding project status. In the call, a few stakeholders indicate they are not sufficiently updated on project status and request a bi-weekly email be sent to them with cost and schedule status reports. You realize this request is a change in the communication requirements, which would also change the form of communication outlined in the communications management plan.
Where should you initially capture this request?
Requirements Documentation
Issue Log
Communications management plan
Stakeholder engagement plan
