WorksheetsBlank Quiz 128
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 14mins
The team architect resigned from the company. The new architect points out a design flaw during a planning meeting that may potentially impact the final quality. What should the project manager do first?
Review the scope management plan.
Update the design with changes.
Request an architecture review.
Update the quality management plan
A project manager prepared the base budget model to deliver a highly customizable software solution. The solution will be delivered in multiple countries with significantly different cultures and will be staged over phases. What should the project manager do next?
Review the base model with the team leaders in each country to establish an independent budget for each phase.
Overestimate costs and underestimate revenues to include the impacts of different cultural elements.
Apply the company's operational budgeting model.
Ask the project management office (PMO) to review the draft budget.
An agile team has completed an iteration and delivered the agreed features to the customer. In a surprise to the team, the features are not accepted by the customer. The project team conducts a root cause analysis. What should the project manager do to avoid this situation in the future?
Ensure that customer requirements do not change from the start of the project.
Ensure that the definition of done (DoD) is well defined and complete for future iterations.
Ensure that the development and quality assurance team members implement the feature correctly.
Ensure that the team facilitator allocates tasks correctly to team members.
A subcontracting company is presenting its feature release. A key stakeholder is asking to add a new feature to the product. How should the project manager deal with the new requirement?
Follow the change management process and work with procurement if needed
Engage an arbitrator to resolve any conflict while handling the new requirement
Add the change to the next sprint to meet the customer's needs
Allocate resources to work on the new feature immediately to complete the request
A project manager is responsible for providing a budget estimate for a long-term project that will be executed over several years. Which essential task should the project manager implement at this phase?
Include key risks in the cost baseline.
Perform an analogous estimate.
Perform a bottom-up estimate.
Include projected inflation rates.
A project manager has just been assigned to a project to build new software for a client. All the requirements have been gathered. What should the project manager tell the team members to focus on?
Reducing cost for the customer
Delivering value to the customer
Working together as a team
Finishing the project on schedule
The project manager of an agile project has been asked to reduce the budget by 30%. Since this is a small project team, the budget is primarily allocated to resources. What strategy should the project manager use in order to keep delivering value in a restricted environment?
Prioritize the product backlog looking for high business value and low effort, and adjust the project budget and staffing to account for those items.
Balance the project team in order to accommodate the budget challenges, and provide training to mitigate the risk of low performance.
Restrict the project scope only to basic critical features, and run the project with the current staffing level until all of the budget is consumed.
Reduce the project staff and adjust the scope and timelines accordingly in support of the budget reduction
A project manager has recently been assigned to an agile project and discovers that a contractor for the project does not have any experience with agile. What should the project manager do?
Ask the project sponsor to replace the contractor since they do not have agile experience
Issue a formal notice to the contractor to obtain an agile certification
Consult the project team to understand the extent of the training needs for the contractor
Instruct the contractor to receive agile training since the project has already started
A project manager for a building construction project is planning to go on vacation midway through the project execution phase. What should the project manager do first to ensure the team is empowered and deadlines are met?
Allow the team to make decisions to stay on schedule.
Postpone the vacation to a different time.
Ask the project sponsor to make any necessary decisions.
Analyze the impacts and create a plan for team decision making
A project manager is leading a virtual team that is geographically dispersed. What should the project manager do to avoid uncertainty in the project due to different cultures?
Start the project and add any uncertainty that arises to the risk register.
Dissolve the virtual team and build a colocated team.
Gather relevant cultural data and engage members in discussions covering their work ethics.
Build a culturally neutral team that will not be affected by cultural differences.
A product owner has an idea for a new product but is struggling to define the features because they are not certain of the perceived business value for each feature. What should the project manager have the delivery team do to address this issue?
Assess the product roadmap to see if there is another product that is more suitable for the build.
Develop a minimum viable product (MVP) for assessment from a select customer group.
Commission a business analyst to research similar competitor products.
Complete a work breakdown structure (WBS) to assess the cost of each feature
A project manager has noticed that the performance of a new team member has increased dramatically over the past few months. The project manager has been measuring this team member's performance through the cost performance index (CPl) and schedule performance index (SPl) of work packages. The project manager has also assigned new, unrelated work packages to this team member. The project manager wants to formally record the team member's success in the project documentation. What should the project manager do?
Attach a note to the project management plan about the team member
Hold a project team meeting about the team member's contribution and take minutes
Record the team member's contribution in the responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)
Send a communication to management recognizing the team member's contributions
An operations manager continuously raises concerns about a project's benefits to the company. While some concerns are valid, most of the time these concerns have caused delays in project meetings. How should the project manager handle this?
Discuss the meeting delays with the director of operations and ask for support with the concerns.
Review the operations manager's concerns and ensure these concerns are addressed
Escalate the concerns to the project sponsor and discuss options to address them
Include the operations manager's concerns in the risk register and assign actions to mitigate the risks.
A project manager is preparing a project closure report. The project sponsor is confident about the success of the project, but the client is not sure that the project outputs will achieve their business needs. Which aspect should the project manager highlight in the closure report to address the stakeholder's concern?
How the quality was managed
How the acceptance criteria were met
How the scope was managed
How the stakeholders were managed
In an attempt to streamline project communications, a project manager established a shared portal for all stakeholders to get project information. The sponsor complained about this system and says that it is ineffective. What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation from occurring?
Analyzed the sponsor's communication requirements.
Confirmed that the portal is providing adequate information.
Verified that the project team is following the communications management plan.
Ensured the sponsor had the necessary skills to use the portal.
An agile project is running its fifth iteration out of 10. After the last retrospective, the team members realize that they had to work extra hours to deliver the committed work. What should the project manager do?
Ask for additional team members to maintain the velocity
Implement a checkpoint in the iteration to verify if the team is on track
Conduct a focused retrospective to help the team to discover the root cause
Ask the team to have a lower commitment for the next iteration
A company is planning a digitization project. Which action should the project manager take first when defining the project scope?
Assess the current state process to define the scope of the digitization.
Digitize the current state process exactly as defined.
Redefine the current state process to scope the supporting software.
Develop the software that will support the current state process.
An organization in a regulated industry has decided to switch from a predictive to an agile delivery approach. It has been decided that the ongoing projects will adopt Scrum, and the project manager is still accountable for the project outcomes. During the fourth sprint demo, the customer notices that a feature is not compliant with the regulations. What should the project manager do?
Have the team consult with the compliance officer to update the definition of done (DoD) for the user stories in the past sprint.
Have the product owner consult with the change control board (CCB) to have the necessary compliance requirements implemented.
Have the scrum master organize a weekly meeting with the compliance officer, the product owner, and the project team.
Have the product owner review the user stories in the product backlog with the compliance officer on a regular basis to identify any gaps.
A project manager has been asked to participate in the procurement process for a software application that allows customers to buy online e-learning courses. The project manager will take over the project once the supplier has been sourced. What should the project manager do before the project starts?
Ensure that the requirements for the project are understood and that the objectives are verified before approval of an agreement.
Inform the project sponsor that once the agreement has been signed, there cannot be any changes to the scope of the project.
Notify the project sponsor that the project manager cannot be involved in the agreement negotiation process.
Ask the project sponsor to involve the legal department in the negotiation for the project agreement.
A company has agreed to run a transformation project using agile approaches. During the implementation, there is pushback from the functional groups that the project is moving too fast. What should the project manager have done at the beginning of the project to prevent this from happening?
Circulated the project charter
Assessed the organizational culture
Determined the level of maturity of the employees
Communicated the project schedule
A project manager has received a new request to integrate more features to a product. The team is fully allocated, and there is no budget to acquire new resources. What strategy should the project manager implement to deal with this situation?
Ask the team to accelerate the iterations and avoid interruptions.
Discuss the problem with the team and decide how to do the work together.
Verify team performance and ask for improvement during daily standup meetings.
Recommend that the project sponsor increases the budget to bring new resources.
A project manager is hired by a global company. The project manager is an agile specialist and is tasked with supporting the project team to reduce rework and dissatisfaction. How should the project manager address these objectives?
Decrease the scope of the portfolio and send new solutions to the customer.
Deliver a schedule with the portfolio timeline and delivery to the customer.
Adopt an incremental cycle of delivering value to the customer.
Prepare deliveries with more details to satisfy the customer.
According to the project contract the delivery date is approaching. However one important material is still not on site. The construction work will have to stop and wait for this special material, delaying the project. What should the project manager do?
Record it in the risk register
Ask the client to help solve the problem
Start procuring this material from another supplier.
Engage the project team to look for alternatives to find a solution
An agile team is making infrastructure changes to the human resources (HR) application system. Conflicting requirements are being submitted by various stakeholders. What should the project manager do to help move the project forward?
Review documents provided by other teams, such as lessons learned and the risk matrix.
Attend the Scrum of Scrums to identify roadblocks and manage dependencies.
Study the technology to assist the team in decision-making if progress slows.
Encourage the stakeholders to collaborate by facilitating meetings and sharing knowledge.
A project started 12 months ago and is currently on iteration 12 of 14. The team has performed well and completed all deliverables on time. However, some team members are starting to complain about the length of the project, creating a risk for lack of performance at this critical stage. What should the project manager do as a servant leader to mitigate this risk?
Meet with the team to reinforce their responsibilities and the consequences if the project deliverables are not completed on time.
Apply additional controls to the project deliverables to ensure that all milestones are achieved on time.
Contact the functional manager to ensure that team motivation remains high until the end of the project.
Schedule a team event with the project sponsor to highlight the importance of the project and recognize the work of the team.
A project manager is new to hybrid project management and is worried about the project because it has a high level of requirements uncertainty. The team has experience with hybrid projects, performs daily standups, and is committed to the project. The project manager is concerned about losing control of the project and would like to have a more central role. How should the project manager address this issue?
Modify the daily standup meetings to include project status reporting.
Escalate the issue to the change control board (CCB) and ask for advice.
Adopt the role of supporting and empowering the project team to do the work.
Change the approach for the project to a predictive approach.
Experienced team members assigned to a critical project are also supporting several other projects and this is delaying the critical project. If this critical project is not delivered, the company could receive a fine from the government. What should the project manager do?
Discuss the issue with the project sponsor.
Review the resources required for the tasks on the critical path.
Review and update the risk management plan.
Allocate resources to develop the competencies of the other team members
