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Program Strategy Alignment

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

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1.

After you had been assigned to manage an important program in your organization, one stakeholder objected to initiate the program until the program feasibility study is developed. Which of the following is not considered a reason for the organization to have a feasibility study?

a)

Ensure a program's alignment with the vision, organizational strategy, and objectives

b)

Clarify and define program requirements and risks

c)

Clarify and define the program milestones

d)

Clarify and define program objectives

2.

The senior management in your organization is trying to identify the total sum of all tangible & intangible elements that exixt in the organization. To ease this process, they requested all the project & program managers to provide the necessary supporting information. What is the likely outcome of this?

a)

Identify the business value

b)

Identify the future goals

c)

Identify the business needs

d)

Part of project & program monitoring process

3.

Who provides the necessary support to the program manager to support program-level change management activities?

a)

Component project managers

b)

Program management team

c)

Program Management office

d)

Senior Management

4.

A manufacturer of luxury automobiles is keen on entering into a new market, which seems to have much potential. What should be the first step for the company on this venture?

a)

Establish a joint venture with a local automobile company that has a better understanding of the local market and local regulations

b)

Prepare a business case to understand the implications of this venture for the overall organization

c)

Undertake a detailed market study to figure out the demand for luxury automobiles in the target market

d)

Issue a program charter and appoint a program manager who is a resident of the target market region and an expert in the automobile industry

5.

Which statement below is TRUE?

a)

Project Management drives Organizational strategies

b)

Program Management drives Organizational strategies

c)

Organizational strategies drive Project, Program & Portfolio management

d)

Organizational strategies drive only Portfolio management and not Project, Program management

6.

You need to initiate a program. As a program manager, you document how the projects and other program components configured to deliver the program and the intended benefits. Which program artifact are you preparing?

a)

Business Case

b)

Program Roadmap

c)

Benefits management plan

d)

Program Charter

7.

A program manager uses a graph to present senior management about the program's key milestones and decision points where senior management involvement is needed. Which document program manager is using for this presentation?

a)

Program charter

b)

Program roadmap

c)

Benefits management plan

d)

Program Management Plan

8.

David and Ryan are discussing the program roadmap. David says it depicts how benefits such a system capabilities will be delivered through incremental releases or a series of models. However, Ryan says it can be a valuable tool for managing the organization of a program and assesing a program's progress toward achieving its expected benefits. What is the right description of the program roadmap?

a)

Ryan's description is right

b)

David's description is right

c)

Both are right

d)

Both are wrong

9.

Who is responsible for ensuring the alignment of the individual component plans with the program's goals and intended benefits to support the organization's strategy?

a)

The program manager

b)

The component manager

c)

The program sponsor

d)

The whole program team

10.

You have several programs in your organization, so many initiatives are taken. The organization is validating all the documents to determine which program will be most viable in that context. Which is the document that the organization will approve?

a)

Business Case

b)

Benefits Management Plan

c)

Program Charter

d)

Raodmap

11.

Your program sponsor is checking whether the program's objectives are aligned with the organization's strategic plan. Which document is he referring to?

a)

BMP (Benefits Management Plan)

b)

Program Roadmap

c)

Program Charter

d)

Business case

12.

Which document provides the relationship between expected benefits and how they are delivered within major stages to the program stakeholders?

a)

Scope Statement

b)

Program Roadmap

c)

BMP (Benefits Management Plan)

d)

Business Case

13.

Which of the following is not considered environmental factors taht may affect your learning and development program?

a)

Funding

b)

Technology

c)

Weather

d)

Market

14.

Your company agreed on an important initiative to be achieved through program implementation. The company is looking internally for a program manager capable of fulfilling this important initiative. Meanwhile, one stakeholder requested to conduct an initial program feasibility study. Why the organizations usually need to have a program feasibility study?

a)

To clarify and define program objectives, requirements, and risks to ensure a program's alignment with the vision, mission, organizational strategy, and objectives.

b)

To clarify and define a program roadmap to ensure a program's alignment with the organizational strategy.

c)

To define if the program worth financially to be initiated or not

d)

To validate the assumptions considered by the portfolio team

15.

Your Program was approved by Portfolio Management Board almost 3 years ago, and you have 4 years remaining for the Program Completion. You are preparing the Program Status report every month and sending it to the board. You believe the frequency of these reports can be changed from Monthly to Quarterly because most of your Program milestones & deliverables will be completed once every 3 - 4 months. Hence tracking the Program status, Quarterly will be better than doing it every month. What is your next course of action?

a)

Prepare this month's report and mention that the next status report will be sent after 3 months. As a Program Manager, you can decide on this frequency.

b)

Continue sending the report every month. The Decision-making authority for this will be PMO, not the Program Manager.

c)

Raise a change request to the governance board to approve the change in frequency for status reports with necessary justification.

d)

Discuss with your Project Managers and decide the frequency for the Status reports.

16.

Anil is managing a program in his organization, which is well-performing. Due to changes in some environmental factors, the strategic objectives changed; which of the following statement describes the best action that might be taken in the program?

a)

The program may be changed, put on hold, or canceled.

b)

The program will not be canceled as it is well performed, but change management will be applied.

c)

The program manager should call the steering committee the second level of escalation to discuss how to absorb the change.

d)

The program will continue irrespective of change in environmental factors if the program performance is good.

17.

You are in the program definition phase of the program life cycle. You are classifying the financial and non-financial benefits. What the purpose of the benefits classification?

a)

Create High-level scope and benefits realization plan

b)

Gets authorization to obtain/maintain funding from the sponsor

c)

Prepare program mission statement to show the program direction

d)

Prepare program charter for sponsor approval

18.

Which of the following statements is not correct to describe the program roadmap?

a)

The program roadmap reflects the linkage between the business strategy and the program work.

b)

The program raodmap provides a high-level view of key milestones and decision points.

c)

The program roadmap also reflects the pace at which benefits are realized and serves as a basis for the transition and integration of new capabilities.

d)

The program roadmap summarizes the program status in a chronological order.

19.

You are a program manager who is taking over the responsibilities of another Program Manager. The previous program manager has to leave the Program because he was asked to immediately take over a new role, and the handover is currently halfway. However, he sends you a few documents & web links to Program Repository to start working on this Program, and he also promises you that he will help you out in due course as the handover was incomplete. Which document you will be referring to for Preliminary level program authorization?

a)

Program Management Plan

b)

Program Charter

c)

Program Roadmap

d)

Program Financial Plan

20.

You are in the program concept development stage. You are currently evaluating the organization's capability by consulting with organizational leaders; what is the main purpose of performing organization capability assessment?

a)

Get approval from the executive sponsor

b)

Validate and assess the program objectives and alignment to the organization strategic plan

c)

Develop program charter

d)

Develop a high-level roadmap

21.

Your steering committee has authorized a new component project within your program. Which phase of the program life cycle are you in now?

a)

Program initiation phase

b)

Program definition phase

c)

Program delivery phase

d)

Program transition phase

22.

You are a part of the Organizational Program Selection Committee. Out of the below initiatives, which one do you recommend your committee to consider as Program?

a)

Multiple Projects which share common resources

b)

Multiple Projects which share a typical client

c)

Multiple Projects which are highly complicated and needs more management visibility

d)

Control not available by managing the Multiple projects individually

23.

You need to initiate a program. As a program manager, you document how the projects and other program components configured to deliver the program and the intended benefits. Which program artifact are you preparing?

a)

Business Case

b)

Program Roadmap

c)

Benefits management plan

d)

Program Charter