A project manager is struggling to figure out the performance of the project teams in an agile environment. For the same scope of work, team A has calculated and delivered 100 story points and team B has calculated and delivered 125 story points.

At the midway point of a project, the project manager was informed of a market movement that would make the project results useless to the client. This information could cause the project to be cancelled or at least a big change on the scope and desired outcome. What should the project manager do next?

In an agile environment, a project leader should always consider a time for open and free discussions between team members on how the team can increase their performance. Why is this practice important for the team?

A team is working on a complex and fast-changing new product development project. After a recent process evaluation, the team decides to add an agile toolkit to the predictive approach they are using. This addition is intended to improve the overall project delivery, success, and productivity. Which of the following describes how this change is intended to add value to the overall delivery, success, and productivity?

The project manager of an AI project leads with grace and confidence. They provide support, listen attentively, and allow their team members to work under little supervision. What model of worker behavior does the project manager exhibit?

A project manager is managing a hybrid project. A stakeholder has directly contacted a team member and has requested a change. Due to the request, the team member was distracted from their work, which caused a loss in productivity. What should the team member do?

A long-term agile project has just reached its midway mark and a new project manager is appointed to take over. Additional to the project manager, a current stakeholder was interchanged with another who has more experience regarding the projects’ technology. What next step should the project manager take?

A project manager is working on a complex, political project with many stakeholders having conflicting priorities. Senior management asked the project manager to ensure that there was no "noise" regarding the project. During a stakeholder meeting, the project manager asked a series of questions to confirm acceptance for each deliverable before asking for acceptance of the whole project. What did the project manager do to satisfy stakeholders?

A project manager is assigned to a project that is already in progress because the original project manager left the organization unexpectedly. Unfortunately, the previous project manager did not adhere to the organization's knowledge transfer procedures prior to leaving the organization. What can the new project manager do to fill the knowledge gaps? (Choose 3)

An internal project has delivered its scope on time, within budget, and with the expected quality. The client was satisfied with the result and it enabled them to launch the new product to market. However, the product did not attract the expected interest and did not cover the investment made. The project team is aware of these results and it is impacting their morale to deliver the next project. How should the project manager handle this situation? Choose 2 answers.

A project manager is in a successful automotive company with high quality standards. The project manager needs to ensure that they create a high-quality WBS. Which of the following is not a key characteristic of a high quality WBS?

A project manager's team has identified the lack of proper knowledge transfer expectations in the project. Which of the obstacles does not apply in this situation?

A project to create a new product is completed and introduced into the market, but sales are much lower than expected. Analysis determines that the product is misaligned with the organization's core competencies. During what activity should this have been discovered?

A project team has identified a number of defects with some deliverables and intends to resolve these as soon as possible. The project manager will need to submit a change request to the change control board (CCB). What should the project manager do before the request is submitted?

A project manager is managing an agile project. A new team member, who has never worked in an agile team, joins the project. The new member asks the project manager to explain why an agile approach is used. What should the project manager's response be?

A project manager in a cross-functional organization needs to inform the department manager of the number and type of resources required, and the length of time they will be needed. What should the project manager use to present this resource information?

Project managers must be able to identify flaws that cause errors in decision making. Which option would help a project manager make optimal decisions?

A company's project management office (PMO) is incorporating more adaptive technologies and has hired a new project manager with hybrid project management experience. The team is slow in adopting the new methodology and has not been updating project artifacts in a timely manner. Which action should the project manager take to improve the team's performance?

A newly-hired project manager is running a project for the first time and is worried about rising tensions. Project team members are arguing during an effort-intensive phase and stakeholders have voiced some doubts about the project's performance. In a discussion with a senior project manager, the new project manager admits that they have a fear of conflict and asks the senior project manager how they perceive conflict. How should the senior project manager respond?

During release planning, a conflict arises between stakeholders regarding prioritizing certain needs, which is causing the development team to lose focus. To align all stakeholders and resolve this conflict, which conflict resolution technique should the project manager employ?

A project manager has identified stakeholders for a software development project: the sales team will be the primary users of the new software application; the IT department will be responsible for deploying and maintaining the new software application; and the project sponsor is the executive who is responsible for approving the project and providing funding. The project manager is in the planning phase of the project, and must engage the stakeholders. What is the most important thing for the project manager to do to build shared understanding?

A project team is in the process of identifying the benefits associated with two projects in order to choose the one that will deliver more business value. The task involves analyzing which project best helps the company meet its compliance and regulatory requirements, as well as improve customer satisfaction. Which of the following best describes the category of the benefits being analyzed in this task?

A team receives outsourced deliverables and determines that they do not meet the agreed-upon acceptance criteria. What should the project manager reference to verify this with the vendor?

A project steering group has made a decision to change the vendor that will deliver a component of a project. Which of the following activities should be included in the handover? (Choose 2).

While preparing a project charter for a new project, a project manager reviews lessons learned from previous projects. The lessons learned documents show frequent issues with low engagement levels and stakeholder misalignment on project objectives. What should the project manager do to avoid repetition of this issue in the new project?

During a group activity to identify an input to the Plan Procurement Management process, some participants disagree with the ranking of compliance-related items. What tool or technique should the project manager use to resolve this?

An impact assessment reveals that a deliverable could be delayed by two weeks. A key resource has not been available to work on a non-critical activity due to other priorities. This could cause work overload on the other remaining resources. Since cost is a major constraint for this project, what should the project manager do immediately?

A senior manager informs a project manager that the project is not performing as well as other projects. What can the project manager use to improve performance for the next series of iterations?

A project manager is working on a long-term project in a complex environment. The project manager's focus is on maintaining healthy team work and collaboration. What conflict resolution strategy should be used within the project team?

A team has been working for two months and has consistently missed planned user stories. How should the project manager address this issue?

A lengthy, ongoing project exhausts a project team. Due to deadline issues, the project manager cannot extend the project schedule. What should the project manager do next?

A project manager is managing an agile project. The PMO manager is not familiar with agile delivery. Which of the following statements describe the agile approach?

A project manager is leading an agile project. For iterations one through five, the team’s velocity chart displays 18 story points, 30 story points, 22 story points, 23 story points, and 22 story points. What does this information demonstrate about the team's performance?

During a complex project, a stakeholder informs the project manager about a requirement and proposes to call a meeting to inform team members mid-sprint. What should the project manager do first?

A company has an existing contract to maintain and enhance a client's customer database. The company's legal department informs the project manager that a new piece of legislation requiring stricter protection of customer information might soon be signed into law. The law will require additional security features to be implemented into the database the project manager is maintaining. These features are not included in the scope of the current contract. What should the project manager do?

What interpersonal skills do project managers or teams need to monitor stakeholder relationships, evaluate engagement strategies, and modify these approaches as needed?

An application developer took a story card to work that read "Customer can pay using credit card". After the implementation, the functionality was rejected because the application could not accept foreign credit cards. What should the project manager have done to avoid this issue?

You are managing a complex project with a large number of stakeholders. You decided to use the Salience Model to identify and group the most important stakeholders based on their power, urgency and legitimacy. Which of the following aspects is the most important in this instance?

A project manager is working on a complex project. The project includes many stakeholders with conflicting priorities. Which two actions should the project manager take to be prepared for negotiations and gain support from all of the stakeholders? (Choose two)

Which is an essential component for maintaining the support and commitment of all stakeholders?

A project team has been tasked to build a new product. The team builds the demo first and add features to the initial product. This is an example of what technical practice?

In the Project team meeting the team members are complaining of a drop in motivation and that they don't feel that their efforts are appreciated. You decided to build and present the team as a high performance team to the organization. Which of the following attributes of the organizational environment and managerial style will lead to a high performance team? Select 3

A project manager needs to ensure that the products of the organization meet certain government standards and regulations. The project manager's team is developing a business requirements document (BRD) to help in this regard. Which of the following statements are correct about compliance requirements? (Choose 2).

A project manager participates in a focus group that implements project management changes across the organization. The goal is to improve project effectiveness and success. Which process should the project manager suggest for lasting and successful change within projects?

In an industrial plant, the owner has decided to add more capacity to the plant by installing a new machine and updating the software used in production. This capacity enlargement will occur while the plant is still functioning and producing. The software update will be accomplished using an agile approach in order to minimize risk. The machine procurement, installation, and integration will be accomplished using predictive approaches. What types of communications will the project manager have to design into the schedule management plan to ensure the project will be on schedule?

A project team is working on determining the dependencies for activities for an ongoing project. What action should the project team take first to manage dependencies successfully?

A company is using Lean Six Sigma methodology on a project. Midway through the project, an external Lean consultant is invited to conduct an audit to ensure that the methodology is being properly applied. Which process is being employed?

In the middle of a project incremental delivery, due to a change in the technology, a team member informed the project leader that due to a lack of knowledge in the technology the delivery will be delayed and suggests outsourcing services. What should the project manager do?

What are the four team-building leadership styles?

A team member is hosting an event and invites several colleagues through their work calendars. Another team member, who was not invited to the event, is noticeably distracted during several standup meetings. What should the project manager do?

The sponsor notified the product owner that the budget was approved for a project. However, any additional investment for the project would have to wait until the next fiscal year. The product owner is concerned that this will hold up the project. What should the product owner do?

A project manager engaged in the delivery of a global project is in the process of recruiting a project team. After the team is formed, what should the project manager do?

An agile team has been struggling to keep up with the planned pace, which is frequently resulting in sprint failures. What should the project manager do to help avoid this situation in the future?

A multinational company is locally developing a digital product using a new technology platform. The only expert on this platform is located in the company's headquarters, and they are responsible for providing support to different countries. How can the local project manager ensure the involvement of this expert?

A team member approaches the project manager immediately after the end of the project meeting about his need for help to complete a late-due-date task. What should the project manager do?

A project manager decided to involve a third party to manage project risk given that they had more experience than the current project team. What kind of response strategy did the project manager apply to address overall project risk?

A project manager wants to motivate their team members and improve project performance. Which approach is most likely to be effective?

A project manager is helping an organization transition from traditional methods to agile. The infrastructure, data warehousing, and enterprise architecture teams operate very differently than the application development teams. How should the project manager implement agile in this organization?

During project execution, a project manager learns that a team member's functional manager wants to remove them from a project because they believe they should not execute a certain task due to conflicting priorities. What should the project manager do first?

Which of the following steps gives special attention to the group decision making processes?

A project manager is working on a complex project with many stakeholders that have conflicting priorities. Senior management asked the project manager to avoid "noise" because this is a highly political project. The project manager opted to use expert opinion from well known industry profiles. What did the project manager do to satisfy senior management's request?

During a project's initiation phase, the project manager reviews the business case and finds that information is incomplete. What should the project manager do?

All quality controls have passed, and a project deliverable is ready to be released to the customer. However, a change request to add new quality criteria has been approved. What should the project manager do first?

The steering committee has asked a project manager experienced in agile to provide an indication of the time remaining on a medium-sized project. What tools can be used to provide this information?

At which stage in the Tuckman team development model should the project manager put the most focus on increasing team motivation?

A project manager is assigned to a very complex and technical project. The project manager is currently working on the resources plan, and intends to recommend to the project sponsor that external resources should be used instead. What risks can be mitigated using one or more vendors to deliver components of the project? (Choose 3).

A new project has high uncertainty in the cost required for completion. What approach should the project manager use to determine the expected costs?

A transportation company is transforming its operational processes and the main system this company uses to move freight. The scope statement is in place. An iterative delivery approach has been agreed by all stakeholders. What does the project manager need to do next to help the team understand the work that needs to be done?

After an organization trained and implemented a new mandatory project management software application for all project staff, the project manager noticed that several team members show low levels of commitment to the new software. What is the cause for this?

A project manager is managing a project involving a few vendors. The project sponsor asks how the project will acquire goods and external services. Where should this information be documented?

A team lead is assigned to an ongoing project. The team members have been working together for a while. How should the team lead start building relationships?

A project manager is leading a project team composed of members from different departments, including engineering, marketing, and sales. During the development process, a conflict arises between the engineering and marketing teams. The engineering team is focused on delivering the product on time and within budget, while the marketing team is focused on ensuring that the product meets the needs of the target market. What should the project manager do?

A project is set to install three MRI units in a hospital; one unit has passed acceptance testing and two are under construction. The client requests a change order to add a fourth unit with slightly different requirements. What should the project manager do to accurately estimate the additional unit's delivery?

A project manager planning a strategic predictive project has suddenly fallen ill. The project baseline must be submitted to the customer within 3 days, and the project management office (PMO) director must find someone to finish the planning. The choices are: Project manager A: highly experienced in Scrum projects only, available immediately for 2 days only Project manager B: moderately experienced mainly in construction projects, available the next day for 1 week Which project manager should the PMO director choose and on what basis?

An experienced project manager is managing a multi-million dollar agile project. The project manager communicates the ground rules to the team, but after 12 iterations, the project manager starts noticing that some team members are not following the ground rules. What should the project manager do first to ensure team adherence to the ground rules?

What tool should a project manager incorporate to better identify and respond to common stakeholder resistance to change challenges?

During the planning of a project with incremental deliveries, the team realizes that they will need specific expertise for one of the deliverables towards the end of the project. What should the project manager do next?

A new warehouse facility is under construction. The project manager implements team development efforts such as training that will result in a lower defect ratio. What should the project manager do next?

A project requires the services of a specialized vendor to install a very complex and expensive piece of equipment. The project manager sent an email a week ago to a partner to request a specialist come on-site. Unfortunately, the vendor has not replied to confirm. What communication method was used in this case?

A project manager is working with a Scrum team that is continually missing deadlines. The steering committee is concerned about the project as it is not clear that it will deliver the expected value. After some analysis, the project manager discovers there is a mismatch of competencies in one of the teams. What should the project manager do?

An agile coach is counseling a large software organization that has been using waterfall methodology and now plans to start using agile or hybrid methodology. What would be a project manager's suggestion?

After stakeholder data and information collection is complete, an analysis of the collected data begins. The power/interest scores are plotted for each stakeholder on a set of the axis to provide a visualization of stakeholder power and interest. There are three stakeholders that have low power and low interest. What are the actions for them?

A project manager for a large government organization decides to save money by changing the local implementation partner, and is considering using offshore resources instead. What are the main risks associated with using offshore resources? (Choose 3).

Which of the following is different to the other options for managing external stakeholders in mega projects?

In two months, there will be a delivery of project machines from a factory. The project team is in the process of performing a follow-up meeting to review the commitments and dependencies regarding these machines. Which actions should the project team take to ensure that the deliveries are properly performed by the factory? (Choose 2).

There is a variety of communication styles along a continuum that includes passive at one end – expressive in the middle – aggressive at the other end. As a project manager, which is the best style for success in communications with stakeholders

A project manager is on a mega industrial project. The project team is distributed throughout six different countries and time zones. During a review meeting, it was noticed that important baselined milestone dates were missed. What is the most likely reason for the missed deadlines?

A project manager in an organization is considering implementing an agile project delivery. The organization has a strong project management office (PMO) and a well-defined change control process. What key aspect of agile project delivery should the project manager emphasize as the most compelling argument for its adoption?

A project team recently completed a long-term project using a predictive approach. The team then started a new project with the same project manager, but now they are using an agile approach. After the initial sprint, the team waits for the project manager to make decisions on behalf of the team, as has been done in previous projects. What should the project manager do?

A product team is using a prototyping approach to deliver a multiyear business initiative. The project manager notices that a few user stories are taking longer to be delivered. What should the project manager do?

Which one of the following is not a Resource-Based Power in relation to mega projects?

During the weekly meeting, team members are reviewing the tasks assigned by the Project Manager. A few team members are complaining that there is not enough information to estimate how long it will take to complete the work. What is the most likely cause for this issue?

The project team members are dispersed across different countries. Suddenly, travel restrictions do not allow team members to collocate. When analyzing project risks, which risk analysis tools should the project manager use? (Choose two).

A project manager has engaged the sponsor and discussed concerns regarding noncompliance. The project manager understands that this could be a potential audit situation. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is leading an agile project. The product owner complains that the project team is constantly completing fewer story points than the Scrum team working on another project. What should the project manager do to address this issue?

You are the project manager in an organization that is implementing agile delivery. You have experience as a scrum master and will perform this role in addition to the project management responsibilities. One of the team members wants to know what the main focus of a servant leader is. What will be your response?

An approved project charter stated that an agile approach must be used. During a lessons learned session, the client indicates that the team was unable to provide reliable cost estimates for the project, and that more time should be allocated to define the scope during the first iteration. What lesson should be captured in the lessons learned repository?

After an annual staff review, discussing project management and soft skills knowledge, the company made a decision to train all staff members to face new challenges. The method to train all staff members will be on a website where all content, exams, templates, and other organizational assets are available. What method is being used for training purposes?

A project is in the execution phase. Equipment and devices must be transported from the vendor's warehouse to the project site through five towns. Which stakeholders should the project manager involve in planning and executing a safe transport? (Choose 3).

A customer's requested design change is approved by the change control board (CCB). The project manager then discovers that the change will cause a three-month project delay. What should the project manager have done to avoid this?

A project team uses the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) occasionally to select the project projected to be most beneficial to the company. On one such occasion the IRR figures for the four projects were: Project A = 5%, Project B = 0%, Project C = 3% , Project D = 10%. Which of these projects should be selected based on these IRR figures provided?

A project manager is facing a delay in a project due to a decision made by the functional manager to provide onsite support for another project without consulting other parties impacted by this decision. What should the project manager do first?

A project manager is on a project that is part of a business transformation initiative impacting most of the 10,000 employees in the company. The scope of the project is the improvement of collaboration between teams by implementing a new cloud platform that will replace a 20-year-old communication tool. What will be the most critical success factor?

A project manager seeks to alleviate the IT department's workload while empowering the business to initiate new implementations and lay the groundwork for future solutions. How should the project manager facilitate this transition?

When managing a strategic project for their organization, what four tools should a project manager use for risk analysis? (Choose four)

A project manager is creating a software project's quality management plan. While reviewing lessons learned from past, similar projects, the project manager discovers that rework due to quality issues resulted in cost overruns. What should the project manager do to ensure that quality is addressed throughout the software development life cycle?

After consultation with executive stakeholders, it was decided that the project manager would replace a vendor while the project is in the execution phase. The new vendor simply has more domain knowledge and was not identified earlier, but is probably the right vendor candidate now. Which of the following documents would contain the best information for the new vendor?

A project manager is working on a complex project that has a very high environmental impact. The project was approved by the organization's PMO and is now in the planning phase. The project sponsor provided the project manager with a list of all project stakeholders. What will be the next activity in the Stakeholder Management Plan?

Project manager B has been assigned to take over a project from Project Manager A. Project Manager A informs Project Manager B that the project is on schedule, only because Project Manager A constantly pushes the team to perform. What is the first action Project Manager B should take as the new project manager?

A project manager is working on requirement management in a pharmaceutical company. Which improvement is something the project manager's organization should expect as an outcome of the project?

A project manager is working on a large business transformation project. All of the build deliverables were signed off and the project manager is managing the transition to BAU (Business as Usual). Which of the following are important operational readiness considerations that the project manager needs to consider? (Choose 2).

A project manager is assessing two investment opportunities. Project A is expected to generate cash flows of $100,000 per year for five years, with an initial investment of $350,000. Project B is expected to generate cash flows of $80,000 per year for five years, with an initial investment of $250,000. The company's required rate of return is 10%. What is the Net Present Value (NPV) for each project, and which one should the project manager recommend?

A project team is faced with deciding on the next steps to take in order to address recently identified tasks schedule delays. The project manager expects team members to make the appropriate decisions for their respectively assigned tasks and proceed to implement them. Which type of leadership style is the project manager using in this instance?

A new project manager is attempting to enable shared leadership within their virtual team. Which of the following options should the project manager avoid?

Which of the following project artifacts do not utilize the WBS as an input?

A project is being audited to ensure compliance with organizational policies. What process is being conducted?

A project manager has just completed the initiation phase of a project and needs to identify and analyze the stakeholders. The project charter focused on scope and budget approval only. What should the project manager do to identify stakeholders?

What is the difference between risks and issues? (Choose two).

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?

A project team is working on a complex high-priority project. The project manager is informed that there is a superficial disagreement between a project sponsor and a project team member. This conflict could negatively impact the project timeline and must be resolved immediately. The team member desires to maintain a good relationship with the project sponsor and asks the project manager how they should approach the situation. What conflict resolution approach should the project manager suggest?

A project manager is managing a project with a hybrid approach and has requested a senior team member to perform a quantitative risk analysis. The team member responds that they do not have the knowledge to perform such an analysis. What should the project manager do?

A project team decides to document new aspects of a regulation as additional elements in the work breakdown structure (WBS). Which of the following are potential downsides to this approach? (Choose 2).

A project manager works for a global company and understands the importance of the requirement management plan. When should the requirement management plan be implemented?

During an important project, one of the contractors complains that the approval process is difficult to handle and may delay the project schedule. What should the project manager do first?

A project manager discovers a significant flaw in a major project deliverable. Which project management process is being performed?

A newly formed team has become accustomed to agile practices. The project lead has noticed that while they are performing according to expectations, there is boredom with daily team practices among many of the team members. What should the project lead do in this situation?

A project manager has noticed apparent interpersonal conflict between some team members during the initiation of a project. When should the project manager address this problem?

A group of stakeholders at a financial institution are conducting a project closure review. Some of the stakeholders are concerned that the project deliverables do not satisfy the established closure criteria. What is the first thing that the project manager should do to address this issue?

One in two dispersed teams fails to reach objectives due to:

An educational institution raises a complaint after placing an order for a software module from a company using agile practices. The complaint claims that billing for payment of a partial delivery violates the Agile Manifesto if the customer was not involved in progress meetings. The customer's claim is supported by which of the Four Values of the Agile Manifesto?

A project manager is leading a project with a scope partially delivered by a vendor. The vendor's processes and tools differ from the project team's, which may pose a risk. How should the project manager mitigate this risk?

Which of the following is a tactic that a project manager can employ to effectively monitor the impact of the risk on the project while monitoring risks?

In a program, several groups are identifying problem solving techniques and each group presents a proposal. Among those listed, which is valid?

A project vendor has informed a project manager that an outsourced project deliverable will be available 6 months later than the agreed project schedule. The vendor stated that they are focusing on other project deliverables with priority dependencies, and this particular deliverable had no stated dependencies. What should the project manager do to avoid schedule delays in future?

During a project steering committee meeting, the project manager reports that a formerly supportive key team member has become resistant to and negative about changes. Where should this information be captured?

A project manager considers compliance to be part of the organization's process assets. The project team, however, has decided to include compliance as inputs to the relevant processes rather than document these rules as requirements. What is the project manager's compliance responsibility?

Due to a recent incident, a dissatisfied stakeholder files a complaint about a project that has been closed. What can the project manager do to help resolve this?

A product owner has requested to incorporate embedded functionality for the patient portal in the next sprint. The team decided to perform an Affinity Estimation session to define how much value will be delivered. Which role is responsible to facilitate the session?

A project manager recently joined a new organization. The project sponsor is a subject matter expert and wants to manage scope by delivering in small increments and changing the scope based on feedback. Which of the following approaches should be the recommended option?

A project is being executed. The project's life cycle is defined as predictive; however, a major deliverable will be handed over incrementally to the customer. The assigned resources are experienced and reliable and are willing to make decisions that the project manager used to make after each incremental delivery on other projects. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is working on a new compliance project that is different from regular projects as it will involve multinational partners and several government departments. The project will result in the adoption of new standards and procedures. What must the project manager do from the onset?

During a retrospective meeting, the project team confirmed that all deliverables were completed according to the specifications provided in the product backlog. However, the number of errors found during testing increased dramatically. What should the project manager do?

Some team members assigned to a new technology project expressed their lack of knowledge about the technology and the challenges they will face during implementation. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is working with a team to develop work packages. The project manager noticed a gap in the requirements gathering where important points were missing, which would impact the project timeline. What should the project manager do?

A project team just completed an environmental scan and have uncovered a lot of related hindrances that could potentially affect the project delivery negatively. The project manager is working with the team to understand the details of each identified hindrance and how the hindrances relate to each other, in order to understand the overall complexity of the project. This will enable the team to arrive at a plan that addresses the challenges identified. Which of the following techniques has the project manager used in this instance?

A project manager was just given a new project to handle. She is working on the project documents and, after reading the Project Charter, is compiling the risks as she sees them. Once she completes the list, when should it be reviewed?

During project implementation, an issue arises that requires the execution of the project's contingency plan, which will impact the project schedule. What should the project manager do?

Select three ways to improve and practice leadership skills. (Choose 3)

An experienced project manager is preparing a kick-off meeting for a new service assessment. A high-level description of the service has been provided. What should the project manager do first?

A company is considering adopting the agile methodology for future projects. The project manager is leading a discussion focused on the benefits associated with the agile methodology. Which of the following points should the project manager highlight?

During a team meeting, team members asked the project manager to advise them on project dependencies. What should the project manager ask the team to do for internal dependencies?

An executive stakeholder has crucial decision power on the execution and success of a project. How should this stakeholder's importance be reflected in the stakeholder engagement plan?

While developing the stakeholder management plan for a large project, a project manager organizes a workshop to identify and assess stakeholder power and influence. Due to time constraints, the workshop can only be one day long. What should the project manager do to achieve this goal within the workshop timeframe?

A project manager is leading a project that is vital to their organization and the local environmental and energy authority. During a team meeting to discuss project risks , the team raised a high risk that an important senior manager is not currently involved with project. What should the project manager do to mitigate this risk?

A new graduate recently joined a mature agile R&D team. A mentor, assigned to work with the graduate, is overwhelmed by the extra workload. Team performance and motivation are dropping. How can the project manager help with this situation?

A complex construction project entails the meeting of several regulations throughout project execution. The project team is brainstorming how to implement an effective method to ensure compliance throughout the term of the project. Which compliance review process is suitable for this situation?

A project manager is working on a complex project that has high interest from senior management. There are many stakeholders with competing priorities, which requires significant negotiation skills to overcome rising conflicts. Which two principles should the project manager follow when developing the negotiation strategy? (Choose two).

A large corporation is transforming itself from a predictive to agile approach. A project team with knowledge of agile practices is experiencing significant conflicts with the executives regarding the processes to be followed. How should these conflicts be resolved?

A project manager wants to establish an incentive and rewards strategy for the project team. What approach should be taken?

A project team recently experienced delays due to noncompliance which have made the project schedule less flexible and increased risk to cost and poor quality. The team is brainstorming about ways to avoid this in future. What is most far-reaching implication for the organization if this noncompliance is not resolved?

An operational support project is running smoothly, but a customer consistently complains about a lack of visibility into the quality of the support work. How should the project manager address this customer concern?

During the team meeting, two of the team members who worked on the same tasks are arguing about who is at fault for the task being late. None of them want to be perceived as the one who caused the delay. What is the most likely cause of this issue?

A project team has successfully completed a project. The same team and three new people start another project led by a new scrum master. How will the new scrum master lead?

A pharmaceutical project in the initiation phase is likely to be impacted by new market regulations. Which stakeholder categories should the project manager assign to the relevant regulatory body?

A large infrastructure organization is reviewing and standardizing project tools and techniques. Regarding the question “When should the decision be made to take corrective action?”, which process group can this question come from?

During project closure, the project manager finds it difficult to obtain successful project completion feedback. Some stakeholders disagree with the project's success criteria and have been frustrated with the project from the beginning. To what should the project manager refer to address these concerns?

A project manager has made compliance-related changes by adopting a new project delivery approach. During external validation, an audit revealed that some of the component work did not conform to the organization's standards. What should the project manager have done?

A project manager is leading a project with 34 team members from six countries. The scope of the project is to modernize a process used for almost 40 years in the organization. What criteria should the project manager consider while developing the communication plan? (Choose 3).

A demanding project stakeholder insists that an additional feature be added to a project product without changing the scope, budget, or schedule. The project manager allows this feature to be included since it adds great value to the end product. However, the project manager discovers that adding this feature has lengthened the project schedule and increased project costs. Which process should the project manager have followed before including the additional product feature?

In an agile development environment, when should a risk analysis be performed?

A project manager is leading a project that is being implemented simultaneously in two countries with an 11-hour time zone difference. The project manager needs to determine a mutually convenient time to provide stakeholders with information on the project's schedule, cost, and performance progress. What should the project manager do?

While working on a project, the project team realizes that recent data center upgrades could impact the project's outcome. Certain modules of the project deliverable are incompatible with the new environment. The team identifies the appropriate steps to address the issue. What is the next step for the project manager?

A project manager is leading a team on a new development project. The team is made up of a diverse group of people with different personalities and work styles. The project manager is committed to creating a cohesive and productive team, so they decided to introduce the DISC behavior model to help team members understand each other better. Based on the DISC behavior model, which of the following characteristics best describes the Influence style?

A company is kicking off a new hybrid project to be in compliance with new government regulations. The team has established a reliable velocity of 40 story points per iteration. Every iteration lasts 2 weeks. The sponsor wants to know when the project will be done if there are 800 story points remaining.