Luna is working on a construction project that spans over 12 months. She reviews the schedule and notice that there are times when certain team members on her project team are severely over allocated, which means she might need to bring on extra resources to help handle the extra load.

However, at other times during her project the team is under-allocated, which means she may have to lay off some team members.

Which of the following should she does to rearrange her resources so that a priority given to constant number of resources are used in the project?

April is a project manager at her organization. She is currently assigned to work on a project to migrate a large number of servers from an on-site data center at her organization to an off-site data center that is monitored 24/7 by a third party vendor. The company believes this offloading will increase efficiency and reduce work requirements in areas where the company is not specialized.

April is putting together the project requirements, constraints, and assumptions. Which document is April likely working on?

Niclole is the project manager of the Raffles MIS Project. This project is to create a new software package for a client. She is working with the client, business analysts, software developers, business developers, and the sales team to create the vision and requirements of the newly initiated project.

Of the following, which one determines the scope of the project?

Which of the following is a method used to estimate the minimum project duration and determine the amount of scheduling flexibility on the logical network paths within the schedule model?

This schedule network analysis technique calculates the early start, early finish, late start, and late finish dates for all activities without regard to any resource limitations by performing a forward and backward pass analysis through the schedule network.

Angie is a project manager for her organization. Her current project assignment is with a team that is working to construct a component that will be used in a shuttle that will be launched by a commercial space travel organization.

The client corporation has stringent quality requirements that must be adhered to, otherwise the component could endanger the lives of the passengers on the shuttle.

Angie should be concerned with the quality attributes of the product her team is building.

Which statement best describes quality attributes in this context?

Elements of the project that are well known or have fixed requirements follow a predictive development life cycle, and those elements that are still evolving follow an adaptive development life cycle. Which of the following project life cycle types does this statement refer to?

A municipal waste management project that merges several administrative tasks with minor public works is referred to as a hybrid project. An agile track makes good progress on key objectives, but small tasks are accumulating in the backlog. These tasks are typically short and can be completed within a day, but they are dependent on different unpredictable triggering events.

Which approach would be most effective to clear out these minor tasks faster?

For a project to streamline processes, a product team has finished eight of the ten scheduled iterations. The product owner discovers a significant, company-wide budget adjustment while adjusting the backlog for iteration nine and writes the following email:

Dear Project Team for Streamlining,

Our project will be impacted by yesterday's budget modification. I might have to reprioritize some of our scheduled tasks.

How ought the team captain to react?

David is a project manager for Cambridge university. Currently, he is developing schedule for a project. As he was performing the critical path method on the project, he encountered three different types of float.

Map the correct float statement in the following:

Crissy is a project manager at her organization. She has recently noticed that her interactions with one of the engineers on her project have been very tense. Crissy knows she needs buy-in from this engineer for her project to successfully meet the objectives.

Crissy will begin reviewing the types of communication she has with this engineer to try to find ways to improve her communications.

Which one of the following is not a type of communication?

Jessica is a project manager on a large construction project. Late in the project, her client demands a big change. She assesses the impact of the change and tells the client how much time and money it will cost.

But the client won't allow any change to the schedule and won't pay anything more for change. Jessica explains that the proposed change is well outside the documented scope of the original work.

The client tells Jessica that he doesn't care what was in the original scope and that she needs to implement the change with no impact to schedule or budget.

What conflict resolution technique is the client using?

Momen is a project manager for his company. He has recently been assigned to a new project in a different country. He will be using a Project Stakeholder Management plan template provided by his PMO, but his head of PMO has suggested that he tailor the way he applies the Project Stakeholder Management Process in light of differences between this project and the previous project.

Momen should consider all of the following when tailoring his plan, except for

You are managing a large construction project, and a sudden change in government regulations requires a significant alteration in the project design. This change will have a substantial impact on the project timeline and budget.

What should you do to demonstrate resiliency in managing this situation

As a Project Management Professional there are a lot of issues to be handled during a project.

Which of the following statements about Control Quality is accurate?

A. Prevention refers to keeping errors out of the process, whereas inspection refers to keeping errors out of the hands of the customer.
B. Attribute sampling determines whether the result conforms or not, and variables sampling determines the degree of conformity.
C. Tolerances refer to a specified range of accepted results and control limits refer to thresholds, which can indicate whether the process is out of control.
D. Control Quality is only performed during the Monitoring and Controlling phase of a project.

While carrying out a project, a key team member expresses concerns about the approach outlined in the project management plan. The member surprises the project manager with negative feedback during a weekly status update meeting.

What steps should the project manager take to deal with the team member's concerns?

Upon recognizing that stakeholder interests will be contradictory in a project, the project manager elects to employ a stakeholder engagement assessment matrix.

This matrix identifies a powerful stakeholder who is unenthusiastic about the project. The project manager must bring this stakeholder's expectations in line with the project's objectives.
 
How can the project manager accomplish this goal?

In a hybrid virtual reality project that includes an agile software track and a predictive electronics track, delays are piling up halfway into the project due to inconsistent deliverable releases between the two tracks.

To address this issue, the project manager should consider combining which elements to create a shared network diagram?

The Trustees of a Race Track have appointed Ava as the Project Manager for a $400 million redevelopment project. They expect the project to be completed before the Race Date exactly 3 Years from Project Start Date.

Which of the following parameters will help in determining the probability of finishing on time?

Paris is a project manager at her organization. She is currently assigned to a project that will install a new software for her company that gives all the companys users access to a centralized reporting system. As part of her role, Paris is responsible for ensuring the quality of this system as it is conceptualized, designed, and implemented. Paris will be doing a cost of quality calculation for this.

Which of the following is not included in her calculation?

Zain is a project manager at his organisation, where he is currently assigned to work on a project that requires several permits from regulatory agencies. Zain is adding the permit applications to his schedule, which is tricky because each one requires a certain amount of work to be done on the project before the application can be submitted.

Two applications, in particular,, have to be submitted in a specific order. The completion of the application to Bravo Permitting is dependent on the Initiating of the successor application to Alpha Approvals. What relationship is implied between these two activities?

Ava is a project scheduler at her organization, which is an engineering-based organization with a centralized project management office. She is the only person at her organization that has access to project schedules, and few if any of the engineers understand critical path method scheduling.

She frequently receives change requests for project schedules, and must try to translate those requests into actionable schedule activities. Ava often uses decomposition to complete these changes.

Which statement below makes the most sense in light of Ava's role at her organization?

Justin is a project manager for his organisation. Justin's boss, the head of PMO, likes to receive weekly updates on each project. Justin is getting ready to draft his update to his boss. He updated cost information today and calculated that his project has an EV of $15,000, PV of $12,000 and AC of $11,000.

Which of the following updates from Justin is most accurate?

The product owner has been notified by the legal team that a different company possesses a patent for an innovative feature utilized in the product being developed by the agile team. The product is currently 75% finished.

What actions should the product owner take to choose the best course of action?

During a meeting, a project manager learns that a business result needs to be delivered in four weeks, although the original plan was sixteen weeks. The project manager also hears that there is no available technical resource who might be able to join the team. The project manager knows the technical resource manager because they worked together on a previous project.

What is the first thing the project manager should do?

Robin is providing update of her company to the CEO. This is a high-visibility project that she has been assigned to as the project manager. The CEO is particularly interested in knowing the value of the work that has been completed to date so that he can give his board an update on the project progress.

Which of the following is the most relevant information for the CEO?

Jonathan is the PO of 30 members agile team and they are planning the tools they will use for the project. They are debating how they should show what work is in progress.

Of the following options, which tool are they most likely to select?

As a project manager, you have recently completed a software development project for a client. To assess customer satisfaction, you decide to measure the Net Promoter Score (NPS) by surveying your client's users. The survey results indicate that 40% of the respondents are promoters, 30% are passives, and 30% are detractors.

What is the NPS for this project?

You are managing a project with 23 team members and six key stakeholders. Two team members identify a problem with the current approach. Addressing that problem will require changes to the project plan and its subsidiary plans. One of the stakeholders previously indicated that any delays are unacceptable, and your team members tell you that its possible the change could cause the team to miss at least one critical deadline.

What is the BEST way to deal with this situation?

Mary is the Senior Systems Architect of Global Software LLC. The company is planning a software release in 5 hours, but Mary just identified that one of the functions is not working properly. She rushed to James, who is the Chief Systems Architect in the subject matter, and explained the situation. James immediately advised to debug the function and restart the system. Mary completed the actions James advised and found the problem was now resolved.

What type of authority was James utilizing when Mary promptly adopted his suggestions?

During the last retrospective, an agile team recognized several risks, one of which is the possibility of employing a contractor to accelerate a crucial investigation's pace during the next iteration.

How should the team classify this risk?

Claire has replaced a project manager on a project that is already in the execution phase. The project is behind schedule and she has been specifically brought in to ensure the project meets its schedule. She decided to review the schedule network diagram created by the earlier project manager and she realizes that the project is 3 weeks behind schedule.

After reviewing the activities and the network diagram she decided to Crash the schedule. So this means she ____

Anne is a project manager for a construction company in London. She is currently working on a project to modernize the living quarters in one of the smaller castles located outside of the city limits. The project has been underway for some time. Anne wants to determine how well the project is executing.

Which tool might she use to evaluate how the project is executing at a specific point in time?

After two months into a three-year roll-out of a mobile telecommunications project, the project manager realizes that roughly 15% of the equipment is banned for delivery due to an embargo. The procurement contract with vendor does not account for this embargo, but the company may face substantial penalties for not completing the delivery.

What is the appropriate solution for the situation for delivery in the project lifecycle?

DSDM uses the MoSCoW technique to create the list of prioritized requirements. In the term "MoSCoW technique," "M" stands for:

Liam is a project manager at his organization, and he has been assigned to a project that is in progress because the previous project manager was promoted.

He is currently working on Stakeholder Management for the project, which the previous project manager did not complete. Which of the following statements is most true about when Liam should perform stakeholder analysis?

Abrar is in the process of executing a project that deals with laying out electrical cables connecting two cities. He has been reporting progress on a monthly basis. Due to unplanned vacations this month, many of the staff have not reported to work.

This has caused a delay in the schedule. Abrar decides to check if the schedule variance is within the allowable threshold. What document should he refer to?

Numerous risks and issues have been noted by the agile team, however the notes might use some clarification. Of the following, which are risks? (Select all that apply as risk)

Barbie is a project manager at a tech company, but she is currently managing a project to build her dream house. She wants to hire someone to do the landscaping on her house, but she isn't 100% sure yet what all she wants included in landscaping. She received several proposals for the work.

Considering the scope is not fully defined for her landscaping, which contract would be best?

Bruce has an excellent idea for a new project that can increase productivity by 20 percent in his organization.

However, management declines to approve the proposed project because resources are already devoted to other related projects and not providing optimized benefits with proposed project.

What Bruce has just experienced is called which of the following?

A single project is being worked on by three different teams, with each team responsible for a different part of the project. As the parts are highly interdependent, the team leader has expressed concerns that conflicts may arise when the outputs from the three teams are combined.

What advice or direction should the project manager provide to the team leader?

Lara is a project manager at an engineering firm. She is currently putting together a bid for a project to replace a bridge on the interstate in town. Her proposal includes a schedule that overlaps the design activities with the construction activities on the project.

She has to work with a construction firm in town, and the two companies will submit their bid together. Which of the following statements is true of Lara's project?

Organizations performing projects will usually divide each project into several project phases to improve management control. This also provides links to the ongoing operations of the performing organization. Collectively, project phases interactions grouped and overlapping between multiple phases from initiation to closure is also called:

As a project manager you will be asked to communicate with many different people from varied levels in the organization that have disparate backgrounds. It's important to find the best communication for each situation instead of relying on one method in all situation.

If you can get good at this it will set you apart from your peers, since most project managers prefer what kind of communication?

Felina is the project manager of a software implementation project. Three days before the software is supposed to enter Beta testing, there is a change order issued by the client that asks for a complete redesign of the interface. This type of redesign is unprecedented, and Felina finds herself at the center of a crisis. In previous weeks her leadership with the team had been minimal, but now she must jump to the front of the team as per the scenario and quickly figure out a way to implement the client's requested change order. What form of power is Felina exercising in this situation?

Jamie Anderson is the CEO of Club Royale Design LLC, which is the largest designer of night clubs and bars in Los Angeles, California. Recently, Jamie appointed his wife as the head of the PMO for Club Royale. This appointment included the authority to be the sponsor of an upcoming project, a collaboration with a very well known actress and singer.

What form of power did Jamie give his wife by appointing her head of PMO and giving her sponsorship authority?

You are a project manager managing a large software project. It has a month long design phase in which the team would be preparing the design documents for independent project modules. Review activity for these modules can be recommended to begin 15 days after starting the design phase.

The 15 days difference between the start of the design phase and the start of the review shows _ _ _ _ _between the two activities.

Bethany is a project manager at her organization. Her current project assignment is the PM on a project to modernize the camp sites at a state park, including running electricity and sewer hookups to the individual camp sites to they can accommodate recreational vehicles. Since the project is being funded through the State Park, there is a very strict budget that may limit some of the work that can be done on the project.

Which of the following statements is first and most true about the project budget?

Azalea is the project manager of an IT company. She is creating a collection and filing structure that details methods used to gather and store various types of information, and is also writing procedures to collect and disseminate updates and corrections to the concerned stakeholders.

Where will she record this information control procedures and processes?

Frank is planning procurement activities for his multi-million dollar project based in Jeneva. He is assessing different pricing contracts. He came across a contract type where the seller's performance period spans a considerable period of years, as is desired with many long-term relationships.

It is a complete project with detailed scope, but with a special provision to the contract price on moral grounds due to changed conditions like inflation, or cost increases (or decreases) for specific commodities or materials.

What is the name of this contract type?

An agile team member resolved a problem that had blocked work for several weeks. However, following the software release, it became evident that the solution resulted in a malfunctioning function. Consequently, the quality director requests an explanation.

In which two ways should the project manager react?

Dakota was recently hired on under a contract to perform project management services for an internet service provider. His current project involves running a new fiber trunk in an urban area. The project should be relatively simple since there is an existing conduit, but since there are lots of stakeholders and Dakota's company doesn't own the conduit, the project could become more complex. Dakota has just completed the requirements management plan and defined the scope of the project.

Which statement is the best explanation of Dakota's next step?

A company is starting to introduce Agile practices, and the project manager has been asked to identify how to introduce the new process.

What should be the project managers initial approach and plan ?

Despite the team's efforts to fix the problems, certain items continue to appear in the Kanban blocked column. All of the obstacles are related to required corporate business operations, which increase wait times, the retrospective indicates.

What should the project manager do next?

Hank is the CEO of a small company that does data analytics. Hank employs about 75 people and likes to run a tight ship. He wants to keep costs down and maximize the profitability of his small company. To this end, he sends out a memo stating that all project managers are now required to use only pencils, not pens, and that they may only request new pencils when the current pencils are less than 1 inch in length.

To show how serious he is in this directive, Hank searches online and finds some strong terminology to include in his memo: Failure to comply with this expectation will result in disciplinary action. What kind of power is Hank using?

In the context of change management, which model focuses on individual change and the stages individuals go through when transitioning from the current state to the desired future state?

You are in charge of a project to develop software. A new feature that your team is creating needs to be integrated with a third-party API. The team runs into an unanticipated technical problem with the API integration. To examine alternative answers and choose the best course of action, they suggest running a spike.

What approach would be best for you as the project manager?

Brighton is planning procurement activities for his multi-million dollar project based in New York. He is assessing different pricing contracts. He came across a contract type which is favored by most buying organizations because the price for goods is set at the outset and not subject to change unless the scope of work changes. Any cost increase due to adverse performance is the responsibility of the seller, who is obligated to complete the effort.

What is the name of this contract type?

You are assigned as a project manager to an existing project where the previous project manager departed without notice. After your first meeting with the project team, they pointed out some issues within the project that were common with other previous similar projects. You decide that you need to go through the proper documents to analyze its data, identify these common issues, and address possible resolutions?


Which documents are you supposed to cite?

Evan is a project scheduler at his organization. The owner of the company recently hired his nephew as a project manager, but the nephew had no project management experience. Evan is trying to explain to the new project manager how critical path scheduling works. Evan is explaining why it's important to know the longest path through the network that shows the shortest duration in which the project can be completed.

Which statement is most true about the concept Evan is explaining?

Picasso took over a customer project for his company. From the inputs available, including contract, statement of work, and project charter, he has developed a project management plan.

He already presented that plan in a meeting with key stakeholders including his project sponsor and some representatives from the customer organization. During the meeting he sensed a high level of dissatisfaction by the customer executives, who signaled that the project might not produce the results that their company had expected. In his understanding, all necessary actions have been planned to meet the customers requirements.

What should he do next?

You are in your third month of project execution which is expected to continue for a duration of 14 calendar months. Your sponsor has asked for a performance report. You decide to create a S curve. Based on the S curve you report your Actual Cost which is more than the Earned Value.

Also the Planned Value is greater than the Earned Value. What would be the interpretation of this data ?

Tragedy strikes on a project aimed at refurbishing a bus terminal and upgrading the service. An unforeseen natural disaster has caused damage to both the site and the neighboring city.. The project team, watching from a safe location 250 kilometers away, is in emergency response mode.

What should the project team do next?

Elbert has been working as a project manager at his organization for several years. Recently his PMO offered a training on a new software that assists project managers in performing risk assessment.

Elbert is excited for the new tool because it will allow him to model risks on a computer to show random probabilities. Which of the following statements is most likely true about Elbert's new tool?

You have recently joined an organizations project management office.After reviewing the organizational assets you realize that project managers have not routinely documented lessons learned for their projects.

There are a few projects that are about to start - You decide to call up a meeting of all the project managers and explain the need of Lessons Learned.In order to get a buy in from your managers - What would you focus on as the best use of this document

The project manager is facing challenges in obtaining consistent feedback from stakeholders, which is necessary to identify assumptions and constraints.
How can the project manager improve stakeholder engagement?

A software development project is under the purview of a project manager, and the project team, originally following a predictive approach, has opted to switch to an agile approach due to evolving requirements and customer needs.

Which three actions should the project manager prioritize to ensure a smooth transition from a predictive to an agile approach and that the team adapts well?

Kimmy is a project manager at an electronics manufacturing company. She is currently engaged in reviewing the scope statement on the project she was just assigned to. Kimmy is taking over the project from another project manager.

Kimmy can expect to find the product scope descrption and the project deliverables in the scope statement. What else should Kimmy look for in the scope statement?