WorksheetsFull Length Exam 3.2 - soal 50
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins
A project is running over the allocated budget and still has many items in the backlog. The team has been releasing updated deliverables after each sprint and users are already getting value from them.
What should the project manager do in this situation?
Measure user satisfaction and present the results to the steering committee.
Remove the deliverables from the backlog that were not part of the project charter.
Request additional budget based on an updated estimation of the remaining backlog items.
Set the expectation that the committed work must be finished on time.
An agile project manager based in country A is working with a development team and business analyst in country B, and a quality assurance team in country C. During the second sprint, it becomes apparent that all of the test cases have failed. The agile facilitator ascertains that the business analyst changed the acceptance criteria of the stories and only communicated these changes to their local team.
What should the agile project manager implement going forward to prevent this from recurring?
Password protection on the user stories
Signed change control documentation
Automated change notifications from the user story tool
Backlog grooming
A project manager is assigned a complex project with significant legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements. However, these requirements have not yet been defined or finalized. Concerns exist regarding a delay in completing these requirements.
What should the project manager do?
Focus on the project deliverables instead as it is not the project manager's responsibility to fulfill these requirements.
Contact the product owner and highlight the project risks related to the delay in fulfilling these requirements on time.
Meet with the product owner and the legal department to review the project status and the progress in defining these requirements.
Delay the finalization of the legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements until the end of the project, and before the go-live date
A risk was identified at the beginning of an agile project and a mitigation plan was established. The risk event occurs but the impact is much higher than anticipated and the originally planned response will be ineffective. The project team developed a more effective response, but it is drastically different from the original mitigation plan and must be implemented as soon as possible.
What should the project manager do?
Implement only the initial response as outlined in the risk management plan.
Update the risk management plan and implement the newly created response.
Defer risk response until the next progress meeting to inform stakeholders.
Implement a contingency response and inform the stakeholders afterward.
The opening of a new overseas office is at risk of delay because the necessary permit has not yet been issued by the local government. The project team met to assess the response to take as indicated on the risk register. After a thorough assessment, the team decided to postpone the opening to another date.
Which document should the project manager use to update the project management plan?
Risk management plan
Risk register
Risk report
Lessons learned register
A scrum team is using a hybrid approach with 2-week sprints. The minimum viable product (MVP) release is at the end of the current sprint, and the team has completed the must have and should have features; however, some of the other priority features are still in development. The project manager is preparing the monthly report for the steering committee.
What should the project manager recommend?
Reschedule the MVP release review until all the agreed-on features have been completed.
Update the project management plan to include in the release only the features completed
Complete the sprint review and release the MVP with the completed features.
Estimate the effort required and submit a change request to add more resources to the team.
A project manager is leading a hybrid project with a self-organizing team. The team is unable to identify the scope for the next increment.
How should the project manager resolve this issue?
Facilitate the choice by enabling the team to explore different options so that their merits become clear.
Escalate the issue to the project sponsor so that the risk posed by the choice of technical approach becomes visible.
Collaborate with a suitable subject matter expert (SME) to determine the best technical approach for the next increment.
Request the team to identify the appropriate risk response action to remove the impediment.
In a hybrid project, the need for customer involvement throughout the project is not understood by the customer. As a consequence, rework is beyond acceptable levels.
What should the project manager do to address this issue?
Submit a change request to obtain the required involvement from the customer
Add this customer issue to the backlog for prioritization and review.
Meet with the customer to highlight the importance of their engagement for project success.
Instruct senior management to make the customer work closely with the team.
A team member who is unfamiliar with the subject matter is struggling to complete a complex deliverable. What should the agile project manager do to ensure that the team member is able to take on a similar challenge in the future?
Ensure that the team member receives adequate training and is comfortable with the subject matter.
Encourage the team member to take on more stories on this subject matter until they are completely comfortable.
Ask the team member to avoid taking on stories on this subject matter until the person is comfortable with the subject matter.
Replace the team member with a more experienced team member who will improve the team's velocity.
A project is currently behind schedule when a new team member, known for their high performance, is assigned to the team. While assessing the new team member, the project manager realizes that the individual lacks training for the specific project but has the skills and relevant experience to join the team.
What should the project manager do?
Ensure that the team member receives training before joining the team.
Assign the new team member to critical activities under close monitoring while they receive training.
Assign the new team member to noncritical activities without close monitoring while training is provided.
Decline the addition of the new team member to the team
A strategic project has been launched and a project manager has been assigned. The project is progressing, and the team is delivering successfully, but a key stakeholder calls the project manager and complains about not receiving progress updates.
What should the project manager do?
Ensure the stakeholder is copied on the weekly status emails.
Review and update the project communications management plan.
Send the stakeholder a copy of the latest project status report.
Invite the key stakeholder to attend the next project meeting.
A project manager is developing a project budget. After estimating the cost of each activity, the manager adds a contingency reserve by increasing the estimated cost of all activities by the same percentage. However, this resulted in the total cost exceeding the allocated budget even before adding the management reserve.
What should the project manager do?
Request additional budget to ensure that all cost estimations are appropriately funded.
Reduce the percentage increase to reduce the total cost of the project.
Recalculate the contingency reserve based on identified risks and response strategies.
Allocate a portion of the contingency reserve to the management reserve.
. As part of a project deliverable, a project manager demonstrates how to use one of the products to a subset of a client's employees through a 30-minute virtual conference call. The client's employees complain that a two-day workshop would have been more effective for training.
What should the project manager have done to prevent this complaint?
Assessed the training needs of the client's employees.
Included this risk in the risk management plan.
Provided a contingency reserve for additional training.
Developed an asynchronous training plan
During the testing phase of a project, a team member finds that some requirements were not met. If the project now adds work to meet the requirements, it may cause a large time and cost overrun.
What should the project manager do first?
Escalate the issue to top management.
Perform an impact analysis.
Call for a stakeholder meeting.
Update the risk register.
During project execution, a customer asks to replace a piece of planned hardware with one that has more features and a lower price.
What should the project manager do first?
Evaluate the new features to ensure they align with the customer's business needs.
Incorporate the hardware immediately as it will reduce the overall project cost
Meet with the team to plan the implementation of the new hardware as requested
Seek approval from the procurement manager and develop a prototype.
A project manager is managing several interconnected projects. Some of these projects rely on specific deliverables from other projects. To avoid bottlenecks and facilitate project success, the project manager must assess the consolidated project plans for dependencies. What is the most appropriate action for the project manager to take in this situation?
Identify and document all inter-project dependencies.
Adjust project timelines to remove dependencies.
Eliminate all potential inter-project dependencies.
Ensure that all projects can proceed independently.
At the first meeting about a road construction project, the project manager reminds the team of the importance of observing all rules when carrying out their duties and interacting with stakeholders. Later in the project, team members start coming to meetings late and do not follow other ground rules.
To ensure the project outcomes and schedule are not affected, what should the project manager do next?
Address the issue with the specific team members who violated the ground rules.
Remove the team members who violated the ground rules
Promote all team members who do not violate any ground rules.
Allow the team to investigate any team members who violate the ground rules.
A project manager is involved in a project where requirements are constantly evolving.
What should the project manager do to achieve success?
Provide regular updates and request deliverable-based approvals from the product owner.
Work with the team to ensure they are on track and delivering on schedule.
Maintain a comfortable working atmosphere to improve team cohesion.
Ensure documentation and processes are filed appropriately and update the product owner.
A company decided to engage an international virtual team due to the lack of locally skilled resources. What should the project manager do to ensure this virtual team remains engaged?
Ensure the entire virtual team is invited to the kick-off meeting to ensure a common understanding.
Adopt a communications management plan used successfully for virtual teams previously.
Plan for a regular meetings with the virtual team in their home office.
Consistently monitor the virtual team's performance against expectations.
A gas pipeline construction project was planned for completion in 36 months. After 24 months, the project was suspended by the local government authorities, citing a breach of the local government's social impact procedures. Consequently, a meeting was arranged with the local government authorities, and construction resumed, resulting in a schedule slippage of 2 months.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this?
Considered all relevant stakeholders in the stakeholder management plan.
Engaged all relevant stakeholders to clarify their requirements and updated project schedule accordingly.
Kept the local government authority informed about the project.
Followed the local government's social impact procedures.
A multiyear project may be impacted by the imminent retirement of a key resource. The project manager is concerned about the impact on the project.
What should the project manager do?
Require the team members to work additional hours to make up for any unassigned tasks.
Advise the stakeholders that the key resource's tasks will not be completed after their departure.
Work with the resource manager to identify and train a replacement.
Encourage the team members to volunteer for the key resource's position.
A highly skilled subject matter expert (SME) is working on a government project. About 30% of the deliverables will be executed based on an agile approach, and the SME is asked to join the team. However, the SME does not want to work on the agile iterations because working on a team demotivates and slows the SME down. The SME mainly wants to achieve the highest-quality output possible.
Which approach should the project manager take to reconcile the SME's skills and motivation and the agile team structure and project goals?
Recommend that the SME develop emotional intelligence by integrating with the team.
Propose that the SME combine the product owner and team facilitator roles.
Request that the SME conduct the retrospective meetings as an objective observer.
Require the SME to receive mentoring to improve their attitude.
A senior stakeholder was invited to a sprint review meeting and asked a project team member to describe the final product that the project will deliver. The team member was unable to respond and deferred the question to a more senior member of the team.
What should have been done differently in this situation?
The team member should have advised the stakeholder to ask the scrum master.
The team member should have advised the stakeholder to ask the product owner.
The stakeholder should have held their questions until the next sprint review meeting.
The stakeholder should have directed their questions to the project manager.
A project is close to completion, and the customer wants to celebrate the success by sharing a business case about the benefits created by the project. What should the project manager add to their benefits report to the customer?
Return on investment (ROI)
Number of project team members
Number of project meetings held
Improved team communication
A project manager has been assigned to a new project with multiple high-level stakeholders. Each stakeholder has provided their expectations for the project, and the project manager realizes some expectations conflict.
What should the project manager do?
Disregard the conflicting expectations and focus on the project timeline.
Ignore the conflicting expectations and proceed with the project as planned.
Assign the conflicting expectations to different team members to handle separately.
Facilitate a meeting to address and resolve conflicting expectations.
A company in the financial industry is kicking off a new hybrid project to be in compliance with new government regulations. The team has established a reliable velocity of 65 story points per iteration. Every iteration lasts 2 weeks. The sponsor wants to know when the project will be done if there are 1,040 story points remaining.
How many months will it take to complete the project?
2 months
4 months
8 months
16 months
During a standup, a team member falsely reports the completion of a story which is a dependency for other stories. When the team begins to work on related stories, they are unable to continue with development because the initial story is not finished.
What should the project manager do first?
Review the sprint planning with the whole team to understand story interdependencies
Speak to the team member who falsely reported the completion of the story.
Tell the product owner to review the acceptance criteria before pushing it into the sprint backlog.
Ask the team to explain their interpretation of the definition of done (DoD) at the end of the sprint.
A project manager is assigned to a top innovation project that has high visibility with the company executives. Recently, one of the project requirements changed and requires the use of new and innovative technology. The change requires the creation of a new position to be filled by someone familiar with the new technology. During a status meeting, a current team member expresses interest in the new role and confirms they are certified in this new technology.
What should the project manager do?
Reassign the team member to the task to support their growth at the organization, and acquire a resource to replace the team member's old role.
Ask the team member to continue the current job assignment while also taking on the new assignment as time allows.
Escalate the request to the project sponsor in order to determine if the team member can be assigned to the new assignment.
Hire a new team member and ask the existing team member to provide the training needed for the new team member to obtain certification.
A project manager calls a meeting to identify risks for a complicated project. Several subject matter experts are invited to this meeting along with the project team.
Why has the project manager invited the subject matter experts?
Subject matter experts have specialized expertise and can help identify and address high-risk issues.
Identifying risks in a meeting with subject matter experts makes getting better project resources easier.
Risks will be easier to accept if the subject matter experts who attended the meeting work together.
The project manager can leverage subject matter experts' resources to follow up on the identified risks.
A new project manager takes over a construction project. Upon reviewing the project management plan, the project manager realizes that the health and safety requirements have not been adequately addressed. The project manager has serious concerns and wants to address this inadequacy.
Why is this situation concerning?
The project manager realizes that injury or loss incidents could delay the project outcome
The project manager must comply with the regulatory requirements of the project location.
The project manager should conform to the organizational process assets (OPAs) of their employer.
The project manager understands that it is crucial to meet the established performance metrics.
A project manager is tasked with addressing the product owner's concerns about the delivery of the minimum viable product (MVP) in sprint four. Which of the following metrics should the project manager use?
Scheduled Performance Index (SPI)
Schedule Cost Index (SCI)
Burndown Rate
Qualitative Risk Analysis
A construction project has progressed for about 18 months, and the schedule performance index (SPI) is 0.68. The project manager intends to complete the project as planned without additional cost.
What should the project manager do to complete the project on time?
Crash the schedule.
Fast track the schedule.
Reduce the project scope.
Reduce the project quality.
A project manager is managing a project for a successful startup. The startup has shown exponential growth with multiple benefits to the team members, including flexible work hours and a work-from-home policy. During the last retrospective, one of the team members noted that the team velocity improved when the team was physically gathered in the project room.
What should the project manager do?
Update the team charter to promote colocation.
Refine the backlog to improve team velocity.
Suggest an update to the company policies to senior management.
Update the resource management plan to promote colocation.
A project manager has developed a project management plan based on agile methodologies in an effort to deliver the product quickly. However, the project is complex and the requirements are unclear, putting the schedule at risk.
What should the project manager do to get the project back on track?
Rebaseline the schedule to accept additional expectations and potential delays.
Review the product backlog with the product owner and team to resolve the status.
Increase the number of standup meetings and implement daily status updates.
Adjust the plan to employ more iterative and incremental life cycle features.
During the execution phase of a project, a project team identifies a previously unforeseen risk that could delay the project for several months. What should the project manager do first?
Update the risk register.
Perform qualitative risk analysis.
Update the project sponsors.
Plan for additional budget.
A project manager is managing a project using a hybrid approach. During the project, some team members left the team but were replaced with other resources. However, at the beginning of another sprint, the project manager realizes that a specific skill is missing, and the only resource with this skill had left the team months earlier.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this?
Ensured team members have at least one skill in common.
Ensured the team skills were aligned with the project tasks every time a team member was replaced
Ensured the team members transferred their knowledge within the team.
Ensured review of the communications management plan to avoid the lack of information flow.
A project manager has just been assigned a new project team and needs to assign tasks for an upcoming project quickly and effectively. To ensure that tasks are assigned to the right resources, what approach should you take?
Distribute the tasks evenly because the team should all have equal skill sets.
Allocate the most complex tasks to the more senior members of the project team.
Evaluate the background, experience, and capabilities of the team, then assign tasks.
Assign experienced team members to assist team members who lack experience.
During a design workshop, the engineers asked the project manager about the safety and environmental prerequisites for the new robot's operating procedures. What should the project manager do?
Hire a specialized engineer to support the design team.
Provide the team with the organizational process assets in the project charter.
Look into lessons learned documentation for similar projects.
Run a benchmark with similar plants to capture their compliance constraints.
During sign-off for a strategic project that resulted in additional costs, a project manager was unable to justify the additional expense in relation to the business value realized with the successful implementation. What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?
Presented an evaluation of the potential benefits identified in the initial business case as enough to justify additional expense costs.
Measured and tracked the project benefits identified in the business case throughout the project life cycle.
Performed a reassessment of the current state of the organization after project implementation to show the benefits realized.
Shared nonfinancial or intangible benefits such as customer satisfaction and good reputation as indicators for showing the value realized.
In an innovative project, the sponsor wants to deliver a creative and large data processing platform to better serve the customers. However, the functionality of the platform cannot be described clearly in the project's requirements. In order to obtain continuous investment, every project output that shows progress will be demonstrated to management.
What kind of project approach should the project manager recommend?
Predictive
Waterfall
Agile
Hybrid
A project manager communicates with a key stakeholder via phone calls only, as indicated in the communication management plan. Three weeks into the execution of a project, the project manager begins receiving an increasing amount of redundant ad-hoc communication requests from that stakeholder.
How should the project manager address this issue?
Continue with phone call communication as it has been effective so far.
Meet with the stakeholder to discuss their communication needs and expectations.
Send an email to the stakeholder requesting a change in communication approach.
Assign a team member to act as a liaison between the project manager and the stakeholder.
A project manager is responsible for a 12-month waterfall project to create a new product. The project is nine months into execution when the customer suggests using a new technology becomes available that would reduce the project costs by 10%.
What should the project manager do?
Update the configuration management plan to include the new technology as part of the design.
Continue working as planned since the new technology was not part of the project management plan.
Create a change request to evaluate the feasibility and impact of using the new technology.
Ask the development team to implement all remaining components with the new technology.
A specialized team member has just received news that they must leave the office for several weeks. They have approximately two workdays until they will leave, and then they will become unavailable through any communication channels. There is a key deadline approaching.
What should the agile project manager do?
Ask the team member to work with their peers to knowledge share.
Ask the team member to host a special team meeting
Ask the team member to identify their specialist tasks
Ask the team member to complete as much as they can now.
A team is working on a new product development project using a hybrid approach. After the fourth sprint, they learn that the exchange rate for imported goods will increase significantly.
What should the project manager do in order to make sure the final product gets launched on time and as defined?
Work with the stakeholders to develop incremental budgeting approaches.
Reduce the product’s specifications to use less imported material.
Spend the extra money and plan to compensate for it in the next sprint.
Review the backlog to see the impact of a budget increase.
A project manager is leading a project that follows the company's predictive approach. The project manager discovers that the project is behind schedule and over budget because a key stakeholder has been submitting an unusually high number of change requests.
What should the project manager do to help the company achieve its desired project outcomes?
Review the risk management plan to determine a mitigation plan
Use the contingency reserve to implement a fast-track activity.
Review the change control process and implement improvements.
Escalate the problem with the stakeholder to the project sponsor.
A project is in the planning phase and requires tremendous time and effort for data collection and analysis. The project sponsor asks the project manager to skip a planned focus group discussion and brainstorming sessions in an effort to accelerate the process.
What should the project manager do next?
Report the issue to the project steering committee
Acknowledge the project sponsor's request and skip the sessions.
Tell the project sponsor that skipping the sessions will jeopardize the project.
Meet with the project sponsor to understand the reasons for the time constraints.
An agile team is planning for a 2-week iteration. In the middle of the last few iterations, the product owner made changes and reprioritized features, affecting the team's deliverables.
What should the project manager do first?
Escalate the issue to senior management and request that the product owner take action.
Inform the team to ignore the changes requested by the product owner during the iteration.
Explain the implications of making changes during an iteration to the product owner.
Request the product owner make changes as needed since an agile approach responds to change
A project team working on a change-driven project is continually missing the release time lines. The project manager identifies that an experienced team member is assigned to multiple projects.
What should the project manager do?
Report the issue to the project sponsor.
Adjust the schedule and issue a change request.
Discuss this with the team at the next retrospective and find a solution.
Ask the functional manager to assign a dedicated team member to this project.
A senior team member is having challenges with a new project team member. The senior team member asks the project manager for advice on how to handle the new team member.
What should the project manager do?
Check the team member's performance and responsibility assignment matrix to assess the conflict.
Instruct the senior team member to confront the new team member at the next daily standup meeting.
Coach the senior team member on conflict resolution models and how they can be applied to this situation
Ask for a one-on-one meeting with the new team member and tell them to avoid the senior team member
A project manager is assigned to a hybrid project. The organization uses a risk register, but the development team considers this concept as a predictive process and prefers to use a Scrum process.
What should the project manager do?
Manage and own the risk register, because this is an organizational requirement
Assign the responsibility of updating the risk register to the development team lead.
Ask the developers to use the risk register because this is an organizational requirement.
Add impediments as a new category and coach the developers on the role of the risk register
