2. 2. An agile team is tasked with the development of a robot. The project manager wants to ensure that before the actual robot is built, the team receives early feedback on requirements and adapts the design accordingly. Which of the following should the team use to address the project manager's request?

3. 3. A vendor has been contracted by a buyer to develop a new device. The vendor insisted that the contract thoroughly capture the device specifications. The buyer does not have clear requirements upfront and, therefore, requested that the vendor develop the device using agile. The vendor delivers as per the contract, but the buyer is not satisfied with the outcome. Which Agile Manifesto's value was most likely not appropriately applied?

3. 4. You are managing a construction project for a government agency. Both the client and your project team agrees that a number of change requests are expected during the course of the project. Timely and effective project communications are critical for the success of this project. Which of the following will allow you to communicate all approved and rejected changes to the stakeholders consistently?

5. 5. A project manager creates a procurement statement of work (SOW) from the project scope baseline. The scope of the SOW, however, is not yet well defined, therefore the project manager decides to contract with a vendor to provide an agile team of programmers. The contract is structured with fixed-price increments based on user stories. How might the project manager verify that the vendor has met the contractual obligations?

6. 6. You are leading a complex project with a schedule baseline that cannot be modified due to external constraints. The scope, however, is flexible. The project deliverables are produced by three development teams that work independently from one another. The teams manage their workflow using Kanban.

Which of the following is the most effective tool for you to use to measure the project's progress?

7. 7. The project team has just completed its fourth sprint. As part of the Control Costs process, you determine that the team's average velocity is 25 points per sprint, and the team has earned 1/3 of the total number of story points required to complete the entire project. The average cost per story point is $575.

8. What is the estimate to complete the remaining work?

8. A scheduling error occurred on a construction project that you are managing. The painting contractors arrived as scheduled, but the drywall was not yet finished. As the project manager, you want to know who was responsible for scheduling the contractors and who should be held accountable.

What tool or technique is most helpful in this situation?

9. You are managing a project to build 100 site towers, and you have just completed building the 50th tower. To mark the successful completion of this first significant milestone, you hold a celebration where you share the developments, challenges, and lessons learned so far on the project. In what process will you use this information and knowledge gained so far to improve the future performance of the project?

10. 10. A conflict between the project manager and the team has been going on for a while, negatively impacting the team's morale and jeopardizing the project's goals.

11. To find the appropriate conflict resolution technique, the project manager maps the desire to satisfy the parties' concerns on a chart. Based on the outcome of this mapping exercise, the project manager decides to seek a collaborative solution.

Given the map below, what letter most likely represents the project manager's decision?

( On the actual PMP exam, you will be requested to click the correct area in the image. But here in the simulator, please select the answer below. )

11. You are leading two independent teams working on the same project. The nature of the deliverables requires that one team takes a predictive approach, while the other uses scrum. Due to dependencies between the teams and the variable nature of the outputs from the scrum team, the predictive team needs to confirm their understanding of the scrum team's activities with the shortest feedback loop possible.

What is your best course of action?

10. 12. A project team is using the Stacey Complexity Model to evaluate the degree of uncertainty in the project and select the appropriate project life cycle. The team maps the technical degree of uncertainty on the horizontal axis and requirements' uncertainty on the vertical axis. The resulting mapping suggests that a predictive life cycle would work best for this project. Where on the Stacey Complexity Model did the team most likely map the project?

    ( On the actual PMP exam, you will be requested to click the correct area in the image. But here in the simulator, please select the answer below. )

12. 13. You have been assigned to lead an initiative for which the business case has not been sufficiently made to get approval to initiate a hybrid project. In some of the past projects, teams

    realized too late into project execution that no one in the company had the skills needed to build some of the features, so it was developed by a contractor, resulting in cost overruns.

    What would you do differently in your assignment to avoid cost overruns?

14. You and your team are currently developing the stakeholder engagement plan. A project team member has already created the stakeholder engagement assessment matrix below.

Which answer choice represents the most important element to be included in the stakeholder engagement plan?

15. A project manager is in the process of creating the stakeholder register. He has just completed the stakeholder classifications and needs to update the project roles.

According to the partial stakeholder register below, which individual is most likely to be the project sponsor?

16. You are leading a software development project for a client. The change control board (CCB) has been inundated with change requests from the client throughout the project as the

product has evolved. This situation drives the team crazy and makes controlling the project scope extremely challenging and time-consuming.

Which of the following tailoring considerations might you have missed earlier in the project?

17. A project team will work in a noisy environment requiring hearing protection. To communicate in this type of environment, your employer has a mandatory proprietary

instant messaging mobile phone application that will be installed on the phone of every project team member for the duration of the project.

The requirement to install this messaging application is an example of which of the following?

18. The quality management has been perfect for the project up to this point. Suddenly, the quality assurance (QA) lead who developed and performed most of the quality

activities for the project has been temporarily reassigned to help another project.

What should the project manager do?

19. You are leading a project in a small startup company with decentralized purchasing. A supplier informs you that they have excess inventory that can be purchased at a

reduced price. You review the project's inventory needs and find that most of the excess inventory offered by the supplier can be used for the project.

What is your best course of action?

20. An organization is about to undertake three complex agile projects that will have interdependencies between them. Each project has a team consisting of six members and

is led by a scrum master. The projects are part of a bigger program.

What is the best strategy for the program manager to coordinate the work between the projects?

21. 21. Following is an illustration of a project network activity node that includes some information about activity B.

Assuming that work starts on day one (not day zero) and given the information provided, what is the late start of activity B?

22. To engage the newly identified stakeholders in the project at the earliest opportunity, the scrum master suggests inviting them to the upcoming sprint review meeting to

demonstrate to the stakeholders that the team is moving in the right direction and get feedback from the stakeholders about what the team has accomplished.

Which of the following is another reason for inviting the stakeholders to this meeting?

23. A project manager has just calculated the project performance measurements, and the project's current cost performance index (CPI) is 0.9 while the schedule performance index (SPI) is 1.1.

Which of the following is correct regarding the project's performance status?

24. To better use existing knowledge and to create new knowledge for a project, the project manager is looking for ways to identify any knowledge gaps.

Which of the following would help the project manager the most to complete this process?

25. A project manager is leading an agile research and development project. The project team is using a diagram, which breaks down the causes of an identified problem into

discrete branches to determine the main cause of the problem.

Which diagram might the project team be using in this situation?

26. As you execute the quality management plan for a project to develop a new autopilot feature for a vehicle, you have created the diagram below, which compares the vehicle speed with

uncommanded lane departures.

What can be said about this diagram?

27. While performing monitoring and controlling activities, the project manager discovers inconsistencies between the project management plan and the project's actual

performance. She now needs to determine corrective actions to minimize the impact of the inconsistencies on the project.

In what project document would she have documented the inconsistencies and would look at to review them?

28. Two days before the end of the last iteration of the project, an agile coach has noticed that the performance of one of the developers significantly degraded, risking the

iteration goal. The coach and the developer have a one-on-one coaching meeting scheduled a day after the iteration’s end date.

What is the best course of action for the agile coach to take in this situation?

29. A project manager is assigned to an agile software development project for a large banking corporation. With the project just getting underway, the project manager has

learned about new hacking tactics that present a potential threat to regulatory compliance for the project.

What should the project manager do next?

30. While monitoring project work, the project manager notices an increase in actual costs that have not been accounted for in the original budget. To understand whether a change request to update the cost baseline should be submitted, the project manager gathers raw observations and measurements of all of the costs that have been authorized, incurred, invoiced, and paid.

What has the project manager gathered?

31. A project manager is estimating the length of time the project will take. The project manager worked on a comparable project two years ago that installed 10 miles of

guardrails at a rate of one mile a day in similar weather conditions, using the same size crew on the same type of highway.

What estimating technique would be the appropriate option for the project manager to use for his duration estimate?.

32. You are an Agile process analyst and are assigned to work for Anu who is leading a complex Student Services Design project for a university. Anu insists that the team create highly detailed project plans before commencing the work. What should you do?

33. A project manager has been communicating with 10 stakeholders regularly. Last week 2 more stakeholders were identified and added to the communications management plan.

What is the number of potential communication channels?

34. Your project is running behind schedule. To bring the timeline back into alignment with the project management plan, you need some of your project team members to work

extra hours. In order to motivate your team, you offer each team member two tickets to a popular sporting event if they work a weekend shift.

What type of power are you using in this situation?

35. You are leading a project that was supposed to be managed using agile methods. Every week, however, the product owner holds a five-hour backlog refinement meeting with the project team where she presents the project scope broken down to the work package level. After three iterations, the project team's velocity is slower than expected. What is your best course of action?

36. The agile project team members are all working in an open office space arrangement. There are many conversations happening concurrently throughout the day.

Which of the following is the best option for the project manager?

37. During an initial project planning meeting, the project team decides to save a portion of cost estimates in the work package to offset the potential risk of advances in technology, which would make their current equipment obsolete.

What is the best course of action for the project manager?

38. A new smartphone will be developed by two teams: a hardware team that will use a predictive project management approach and a software team that will use an agile framework. Each team is colocated but resides in two different parts of the country. The teams will need to coordinate their activities very closely, but bringing them together in one location is not an option.

What should the project manager do to create the most collaborative environment?

39. You have recently setup a daily team stand-up. For the first few days, the stand-ups were flowing smoothly, until today when a number of issues have been reported by the team.

What should be done next?

40. A software development project will use an iterative and incremental approach to produce project deliverables.

What planning strategy would work best for this project?

41. Up until now, your project team has allowed the use of flextime where project team members may take time off during regular business hours and make up the time during the evening hours or weekends. Recently, excessive use of flextime has become a roadblock as some team members are not available when needed. The team feels they should set a standard that flextime is only to be used for personal emergencies.

How should you handle this situation?

42. An organization is transitioning from predictive project management to agile. As a project manager, your upcoming project will require compliance reporting that will need to

be submitted to internal auditors due to regulatory oversight.

How might you address the need for compliance reporting in this hybrid environment?

43. You are a scrum master leading an agile project team that has been consistently meeting the goals set for each iteration. The product owner is pleased with the team's

progress, and the performance measurement baseline shows no deviations. However, you feel that one team member is less productive than the others.

What is the most appropriate feedback approach for you to take in this situation?

44. For the third consecutive time, at the end of each iteration, a software application developed by the team fails during the Control Quality process conducted by the quality

assurance department. This situation causes rework for the product and a delay in the project schedule. The project manager wants to reduce the feedback loop to the

shortest possible interval.

What is the best course of action for the project manager?

45 You are leading a project to develop a product that will be sold through an existing nationwide dealer network. The product will be built incrementally by a virtual team, while the

dealer training and product rollout processes will be well-defined upfront. You want the dealers to provide the team with regular feedback throughout product development.

What is the best strategy to achieve your goal?.

46. A new app is planned to be completed in 11 iterations. After the fifth iteration, a beta version of the app is released to the market to get early feedback. The project leader

wants to engage with the customers to measure overall satisfaction with the product and gauge the customer's loyalty to the brand.

What is the project leader's best course of action?

47. You have just been assigned to an upcoming agile project. As part of pre-project work, you review all of the organization's policies and procedures regarding compliance.

You realize that only some of them may be applicable to your project.

What should you do first?

48. A new program consists of five projects, each performed by a scrum team. Throughout the program life cycle, various deliverables from each of the scrum teams will serve

as inputs to other teams.

What is the best strategy for each of the scrum masters to navigate this complexity?

49. Near the end of an iteration, the project team is ready to lead a product review with the product manager.

What is the objective of the review?

50. Your project team functions as a well-organized unit. The team members are interdependent and work through issues smoothly and effectively.

What is your best course of action?

51. You are managing a virtual project team across multiple time zones. As the project progresses, the team members learn to trust one another and adjust their work routines

to accommodate the different time zones, work habits, and culture.

What stage of team development is being demonstrated in this situation?

52. A project manager is developing a quality management plan for a project to design a medical device. Given the nature of the product, quality will play a vital role.

Additionally, the acceptance criteria for the project deliverables will have a direct impact on quality standards. The project manager wants to gain an understanding of the

acceptance criteria.

What document should the project manager review for this purpose?

53. It has been decided that the project will be managed using waterfall. However, due to ambiguous requirements, the software will be developed in short iterations using

Scrum. After acquiring a team from within the organization, the project manager realizes that the organization lacks technical expertise in several key areas and will require

external resources from a vendor. The organization, however, wants to preserve its strategic discretion on the work performed.

What is the best contracting technique for the project manager to maximize collaboration with the vendor?

54. You are creating the schedule to deploy a new ERP software in your company. The company is currently undergoing an agile transformation, so it was decided to develop the new ERP iteratively. The first release of the ERP should be rolled out in four months, and you know that another project, a company-wide operating system upgrade, is scheduled in three months. With the upgrade project affecting your schedule, an impact on which of the following should you assess to determine the number of iterations until rollout?

55. A project manager has been asked to create a document that formally authorizes a project to use ground-penetrating radar to map geological conditions along a proposed

crude oil pipeline route. The performing organization has a written formal agreement in place to share the data with a local university. The project manager has reviewed

the business documents and considered any relevant external environmental factors to create the requested document.

What might the project manager do next?

56. A project manager is developing the communications management plan. She has determined which stakeholders need what information and how often she will distribute the various reports.

What else should the project manager do as part of this process?

57. 57. A project manager is executing the quality management plan of a project to develop a prototype medical device. Given the nature of the project, the quality standards are

very stringent. With no known cause, it becomes apparent that the product quality does not meet project requirements.

What is the best course of action for the project manager to take in this situation?

58. You are a senior project manager who is mentoring a newly promoted project manager. Your mentee states that she has recurring arguments with her project team and is

having difficulty controlling her own temper. This situation has created a toxic environment for the project team and threatens the successful completion of the project.

What is the best advice for your mentee?

59. You are acquiring the necessary resources for your project. The organization where you are employed is an international company with locations in several countries. With

personnel located around the globe, you will be forming your project team as a virtual team, and the team members will be allowed to work from their home offices.

What special considerations do you need to take into account while working with your team?

60. You are leading a hybrid project with an agile team developing the web application and a traditional engineering team designing the servers that will host the application. You want to

determine what your company says about the use of social media tools to communicate and work with the stakeholders to meet their needs and expectations.

What is your best course of action?

61. An organization wants to undertake its first agile project that will incorporate scrum methods. An agile consultant is advising the organization on how to transition from a predictive framework to

scrum. The recently hired developers are all well-versed with agile practices, but the broader internal stakeholder community is unfamiliar with scrum.

How might the agile consultant address this knowledge gap?

62. With the seventh sprint completed and three more to go, the performing organization establishes a new policy that all project changes must be approved by at least one

member of the change control board (CCB). A scrum master finds that compliance with the policy will create an impediment to the project's progress.

What is the scrum master's best course of action?

63. A project manager is explaining the roles and responsibilities for the quality assurance process with the project team.

Who will play a role in this process?

64. The plan for the first iteration was to complete 80 story points. However, the team was only able to complete 60. Each story point earns $1,000 for the project. The actual cost of the iteration was $70,000. As the iteration retrospective approaches, the scrum master requests that the team prepares all the data required to calculate the various earned value metrics.

At the retrospective, the team determines that the schedule performance index (SPI) of the iteration was ________.

(On the actual PMP exam, you will be requested to fill in the blank with the letter representing the correct answer. But here in the simulator, please select the answer below.)

65. A change request has been approved and is currently being implemented by the project team.

According to the project life cycle shown on the chart below, which of the following is true about project costs and risks associated with the process group described in this scenario?

66. A project manager is reviewing a document where information about problems impacting project performance is recorded and monitored. According to the document, a

new problem that was logged yesterday by a project team member indicates that delays have just exceeded the established schedule variance threshold and corrective

action is required. No additional details about the new problem are provided in the document.

What should the project manager do immediately?

67. The PMBOK Guide defines project charter as a document that "formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities."

Developing project charters on agile projects:

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68. You are leading a software development project for a client. Due to unstable requirements, you have elected to use a change-driven life cycle. You are currently facilitating

an iteration planning meeting with the product owner and the development team.

What should you do as part of the meeting?

69. A company is experiencing exponential growth and will soon run out of space in their current production facility. A needs assessment has been completed to evaluate

alternatives. One of the options to support future growth is to build an expansion on to their existing production facility.

What should the company do next?

70. During project planning, the project manager creates the project schedule using a Gantt chart. Three Scrum teams will develop the project deliverables. Due to dependencies, the teams will be required to coordinate their work twice a week using extended standup meetings.

What should the project manager do next?

71. A PMO steeped in traditional waterfall project management has hired you, as an agile practitioner, to guide the organization's transformation to agile. After completing an

initial assessment of the organizational culture, you have realized that many of the stakeholders are resistant to the change.

What is your best course of action?

72. To develop the product, the project will use new and evolving technology. The work items in the backlog have been estimated and prioritized. After completing several sprints, the

team has been asked to re-estimate the remaining items in the backlog.

How will the range, accuracy, and confidence of the estimates change?

73. You are leading a project with two dispersed development teams. One team is using traditional waterfall methods, and the other is using XP for product development.

Budgetary constraints prevent any of the team members from being colocated.

What should you prioritize for team collaboration?

74. A project manager has compiled a list of key deliverables, which include the working software, employee training materials, user manuals, etc.

When is the first time that these key deliverables would have been identified?

75. A senior executive suggests initiating a project to replace a significant portion of the company's labor force with an automated production line. Other company executives are skeptical that this approach is the best way to increase profit margins and wonder if they are ready to sponsor such an effort.

What is the first thing that should be done in this scenario?

76.The first phase of a software development project that was conducted using a predictive project management approach is over. The project enters its second phase which will require the project

team to utilize an eXtreme Programming (XP) method to develop the rest of the product.

How might the team ground rules need to be updated?

77. To comply with the customer's contract, the project must use a certified agile practitioner to lead and coach the project team. However, the only certified agile practitioner employed by the company was just assigned to another project. The project manager must now hire an independent contractor to serve as the agile coach, which delays the start of project execution.

Which of the following may have helped to avoid the delay in executing the project?

78. A project manager is analyzing the communication needs of stakeholders in order to develop the communications management plan for a project that will use a hybrid project management framework. The project manager understands that the plan should accommodate the needs of both predictive and agile aspects of the project.

How should the plan accommodate the agile aspects of this project?

79. A project manager is considering to change the Control Costs process currently used on her project. Instead of submitting budget change requests to the CCB, she wants to invite stakeholders to the parking lot portion of the daily standups and discuss requested changes there. The project manager meets with the stakeholders to propose the process change.

Which of the following arguments would least likely to convince the stakeholders of the benefits of the new process?

80. You are new to the organization and have been given a few weeks to get yourself settled before starting your project in a role of a project manager. During this period, you realize that you have no authority over resources, the staff members are grouped by specialty, the budget is under the full control of those group's managers, and you as a project manager are only required to dedicate part of your time to perform the project work.

What type of an organization are you working in?

81. A project manager invited several vendors to a pre-bid conference. After a private conversation with one of the vendors who had an inquiry about a new mandatory government requirement, the project manager sent an email to the vendor to address the question. The project manager realizes that the requirement should have been included in the project scope baseline and the statement of work (SOW).

What should the project manager do in this situation?

82. Two project team members have had frequent clashes, which have at times resulted in shouting matches during team meetings. The project manager has intervened, asked them to resolve their differences, and even facilitated a meeting between them, but things have gotten worse. The project manager is concerned that the situation is negatively affecting team cohesion and is placing the successful completion of the project at risk.

What should the project manager do next?

83. As the project manager, you are in the process of developing a draft of a document that authorizes a new software development project. You have reviewed the agreements and both business documents.

What else should be done as part of this process?.

84. A project has been experiencing many challenges and obstacles that have resulted in schedule delays and cost overruns. During the sprint retrospective, the project team members are looking for ways to improve project performance from the next sprint onward. The team wants to be able to absorb negative impacts and recover from them quicker.

What might the project leader suggest to the team?

85. A scrum master is working with stakeholders to develop the project vision for inclusion in the project charter and wants to ensure that regulatory compliance measures are incorporated into the project requirements.

How might the scrum master analyze the consequences of non-compliance?

86. A project manager is drafting a charter for a software development project. In support of this process, the project manager has scheduled a brainstorming meeting to gather relevant information.

Which of the following activities is the project manager least likely to conduct?

87. Your company has been contracted by a client for a software development project. The project will use agile methods to deliver product increments. For the client, however, this project will be their first experience with agile. You want to make sure that the client gains the full benefit of early and continuous delivery of software.

What is your best course of action?

88. As a scrum master, you are facilitating a retrospective for a sprint that failed to meet all of its objectives. Members of the development team and the product owner are arguing over who is responsible for the failure. After performing a root cause analysis, you uncover the source of the conflict.

Of the following, what did you most likely discover?

89. Planning is underway for a project to develop a new online collaboration tool. The team will use the eXtreme Programming (XP) method to develop the tool, while the deployment to the customers will be managed using a waterfall approach. The agile coach wants to gather early customer feedback on a working tool to ensure it's aligned with the product vision.

What is the best course of action?

90. A project produces a functional deliverable at the end of each iteration. The team holds an iteration review where the deliverable is demonstrated to the relevant stakeholders. After the demonstration, the product owner, in collaboration with the team, prioritizes the items in the project backlog for the next iteration.

What development approach is described in the scenario and what, if any, step is missing?

91. After a few iterations, new features have been requested and added to the project backlog. Senior leadership has provided additional funding and approved a new project timeline. However, a team member

mentions that the project charter is no longer in alignment with the updated project backlog.

What action should the agile leader take to resolve the issue?

92. A robotic arm will be developed in 12 one-month sprints, with each sprint adding a new movement capability. The materials for the arm are rare and in low global supply; therefore, the company wants to ensure that scrap and waste are minimized.

What should the project manager do before the first sprint starts?

93. A project manager is implementing the quality management plan for a project to construct a natural gas pipeline. During this process, an internal audit discovers that while the project meets all applicable government regulations, there is a discrepancy with ISO 9000 criteria.

Which tailoring consideration did the project manager most likely neglect earlier in the project?

94. You are drafting a stakeholder engagement plan for a software development project. The product will be built using a scrum framework. You want to ensure that the stakeholders' level of influence on product development is analyzed and categorized.

What is your best course of action?

95. A project manager is currently in the process of determining, documenting, and managing stakeholder needs and requirements. Due to the sensitive nature of the project, there is a concern that some stakeholders will not provide candid feedback unless confidentiality is maintained.

What is the project manager's best course of action?

96. You are managing a project, and members of your project team are at odds about the tasks they are assigned. Disagreements between the team members have escalated

and have created a reduction in performance across the project.

What tool or technique will you use to address the team's issues and get the project back on track?

97. An agile project to develop a new application has just finished its first iteration. To better assess marketing and support needs, the company's management has requested

that the scrum master provide a date for when the application can be launched.

What is the best course of action for the scrum master?

98. The development team completed 24 of the planned 28 story points for the sprint. During the sprint review, the customer approves the completed deliverables, but he admonishes the team as

being lazy and incompetent for failing to complete the entire sprint backlog.

How should the scrum master respond?

99. Two project team members are having a disagreement over how to approach a minor technical detail. The project manager has little experience working with them, and her technical knowledge is limited.

What is the best action for the project manager to take?

100. During the development of the stakeholder engagement plan, the project manager realizes that a key stakeholder is resistant to the project. Without the support of this stakeholder, the project may fail.

What is the best course of action for the project manager to identify the reason for the stakeholder being resistant?

101. A software development project operates in an uncertain and rapidly changing environment. Competitors are constantly releasing new products with features more advanced than those developed by the team. To keep up with the market, the sprint plans are continuously updated. The project manager is concerned that the project is in danger due to "done drift".

What decision will the project manager have to make under these circumstances?

102. A project manager has just received a signed formalized document as an output from one of the initiation processes in her project. This document was prepared by someone external to the project and will be utilized as a catalyst for the project to move forward.

Which of the following describes this document?

103. An agile software development project consists of four releases, with features incrementally added with each release. Due to an excessive number of defects found by users after the first release, the risk response plan was implemented, which involved more rigorous testing by the project team. After the second release, the client has reported two bugs.

What must first be done to determine the effectiveness of the implemented risk response?

104. On their first day with the company, the new scrum master joins the project that has completed several sprints. At the daily scrum, the team spends over an hour arguing about how much unit testing should be completed prior to the start of integration.

How should the scrum master address the issue?

105. You are preparing for an upcoming software development project. The project will be initiated and planned using a predictive approach, while the development team will use Kanban. A budget has been established for training, and you need to determine how to allocate those funds.

What is your best course of action?

106. Monthly audits were performed to determine if project activities comply with corporate policies, procedures, and best practices. Throughout the project, the results of the monthly audits indicated that the team was in compliance. However, at the end of the project, it was determined that some of the project activities did not comply with organizational policies.

What most likely caused these compliance gaps to be missed during the audits?

107. You meet with your team to determine the life cycle for your project. After analyzing the best way to define and manage requirements, develop deliverables, handle

changes, control risk and cost, and engage key stakeholders, the decision is made to select a hybrid life cycle.

With the project life cycle selected, how will the requirements be managed on your project?

108. The project you are leading is supposed to upgrade the application developed by your company on desktop computers and mobile devices. Last week, a major supplier of electronics unexpectedly released a new mobile device. You realize that your application, with a little bit of modification, can run much faster and more securely on the new device.

What should you do next in regards to this opportunity?

109. A scrum master is conducting a daily standup. Each member of the development team states that their work has been stalled due to various blockers. As a result, the entire development team has been idled, and the schedule baseline is in jeopardy.

What should the scrum master do first?

110. First, a project manager assisted with the development of the project charter which has been approved. Second, he completed the development of the stakeholder register.

What should the project manager do next?

111. You are a project manager conducting a meeting with your project team. The goal of the meeting is to improve the overall team environment to enhance project performance. The meeting becomes contentious with team members interrupting each other and being disrespectful to each other's suggestions. You attempt to return civility to the meeting by establishing ground rules for acceptable behavior, but working relationships may already be damaged.

What might you have missed that could have prevented this situation?

112. You are the project manager for a project that is in its early stages. During a meeting, your boss informs you that senior management would like you to include a particular staff member on your project team because of their necessary expertise. You have not recruited any other team members, and the project has not even been formally authorized yet.

How should you handle senior management's request?

113. A project requires ongoing stakeholder engagement and needs to respond to high levels of change. The project manager selects a hybrid life cycle for the project and prioritizes the work items in a backlog. At the beginning of each iteration, the team determines how many backlog items they can deliver.

Which project management process(es) will the project team need to repeat with each iteration?

114. While the first phase of a construction project was a success, one of the two lead architects suddenly had to resign from her position due to a conflict of interest within the company.

What should the project manager do immediately to manage the team composition?

115. Midway into project execution, a key stakeholder leaves the company. A new stakeholder fills in the vacant role. The project manager understands that the stakeholder engagement plan should be updated

to reflect the strategies and actions required to involve the new stakeholder in the project. The project manager meets with the new stakeholder for an interview.

Which of the following questions would be the most helpful for the project manager in updating the plan? (Choose four.)

116. You are leading an off-grid housing construction project. Each of the ten homes in the development will have solar shingles to generate energy and a novel energy storage system. The performing organization is highly experienced with traditional construction methods, but this is their first project to incorporate energy generation and storage.

How might you best support continuous improvement efforts throughout the project?

117. Late in a project, a key team member leaves the company. The project manager realizes that he does not have enough team members to meet the hard deadline. At a weekly status meeting, the project manager discusses several options with his project team, including authorizing additional overtime, hiring subcontractors, or bringing in additional resources from another project team within the company.

Which resource management technique does the project manager use?

118. Gold plating had been an issue with your current software development project. However, you found that ever since instituting daily stand-up meetings, no more features orfunctionalities that the customer did not request have been introduced into the project.

What is your best course of action to prevent gold plating for the remainder of the current project and on future projects?

119. The deliverables of a two-year-long project have just been accepted. It is four months late, but the customer is pleased to have it. The project manager is glad to be done

with the deliverables but is concerned about the cost and schedule overruns. He decides to re-run the initial cost-benefit analysis using the actual project costs.

Where should the project manager obtain the initial cost-benefit analysis?

120. A project to develop a critical safety system requires that there are no escaped defects. The system will be developed over the course of several iterations, and the project leader wants defects to be caught proactively and fixed as the code is being written.

What is the project leader's best course of action?

121. You are leading a software development project, which requires knowledge of several programming languages. During project execution, one of the developers has been pulled out of the project by her functional manager. The manager provided you with another developer instead.

What should you do first?

122. A project manager and team are in the process of finalizing all project activities. They have obtained final acceptance and transferred ownership of deliverables, collated lessons learned, archived all project documents, and obtained feedback from relevant stakeholders. Finally, the project manager and team have been released and reassigned to other assignments.

Based on the information provided, what might have been forgotten?

123. To ensure that lessons learned are captured and documented throughout the project life cycle, the project manager creates the lessons learned register.

What project management process is being performed?

124. The project team reports that they have finished creating the requirements management plan, the requirements documentation, and the requirements traceability matrix.

The team informs that they are going to start working on the project work breakdown structure (WBS) next.

What has the project team forgotten to do?

125. A project manager has developed the following earned value analysis chart for a software development project.

Based on the current trend, what action should the project manager take immediately?

126. The project manager and a stakeholder get into a heated debate about the stakeholder's idea requiring a scope change to the project. The project manager says the change will not be implemented and that the stakeholder must drop the idea. The project manager emphasizes that she is the project manager and the decision is final.

Should the project manager have responded differently to resolve the conflict?

127. You have been assigned to lead a drug development project for a small pharmaceutical company. The drug development aspect of the project is characterized by a high degree of uncertainty, complexity, and risk. The governmental approval process, on the other hand, is highly structured and well defined.

What project management approach would you recommend for this project?

128. You are leading a meeting with the project sponsor and key stakeholders to review the recently completed project management plan. The goal of the meeting is to establish a common understanding of the plan, answer any questions or concerns, and gain formal approval of the project management plan.

Which of the following interpersonal and team skills is the least beneficial to the project manager to use to achieve the meeting’s goal?

129. In their first iteration, an agile team completed only half of the planned work. It turns out that before the current project began, the team members were requested to provide ongoing support for the prior release. Angry project stakeholders meet with the scrum master and complain that supporting prior releases should have never been included in the project plans.

How should the scrum master respond?

130. You are leading a software development project, which is utilizing an agile framework. While monitoring the progress of the project, it is apparent that velocity is trending down, and you are aware of some setbacks that have been encountered by the development team. You want to capture and analyze lessons learned so far during the project to improve the process going forward.

What is the best way to achieve this goal?

131. You are the project manager for the initial design phase of a new ergonomic pen. You have conducted multiple interviews with pen users and have tested various design concepts. Your most recent design has been verified and accepted by key stakeholders. The pen design is ready to transition to the team managing the next phase.

Which of the following should you consult to find out who will take ownership of the pen design?

132. After an agile team completes three iterations, the project manager determines that the average velocity of the team for these three iterations was 30 story points. There

are 292 more story points to complete the remaining portion of the project.

How many additional iterations will it take for the team to complete the project?

133. A project manager has taken over a project that has been in execution for a few months. He ran into problems right away. He has had difficulty getting sign off on decisions; he doesn't have the authority to acquire the equipment necessary for the project; the stakeholders and the project team have differing opinions about the objectives and the outcome of the project.

What is the most likely source of these problems?

134. You are leading a construction project that involves a vendor. A team member tells you that based on the rough assessment of the vendor's current work in progress, she suspectsthat the vendor will be unable to complete their work on time. You share your concerns with the vendor, but they claim that they are progressing as planned.

What is your best course of action to ensure a mutual understanding of the work in progress?

135. A new developer joins the project. However, her productivity is limited since she lacks the competency in one of the programming languages. This language is not only used on this project but will also be required on future projects. Training costs were not included in the project budget, and the project CPI is 0.75.

What is the best course of action for the project manager?

136 A client completed a walkthrough of the deliverables and formally accepted the work. The next day, the project manager returns to the project site to pick up company equipment and

make arrangements for final payment.

What should the project manager do when meeting the client as part of project closure?

137. During project execution, the new state-of-the-art technology that is used on the project to produce the deliverables is unstable, which puts the whole project at risk of failure. Your

sponsor is on vacation and cannot be reached. To get immediate attention to the issue, you want to know what is the escalation procedure.

What should you do next?

138. You are managing a project with stakeholders from many different departments including marketing, engineering, and information technology. As you are monitoring stakeholder engagement, it

becomes clear to you that stakeholders from the marketing department who used to be supportive appear to be neutral. After researching the reasons for the gap, you discover the marketing

department views the project communications to be too technical, leading them to lose interest in the project.

What might be your next step?

139. You are leading a project with a critical time constraint and cannot afford any delays. An argument between two project team members over a minor formatting issue in a report they use to document their testing results turns into a shouting match. The team members draw you into their argument. You realize that resolving the conflict would delay the project timeline.

What is your best course of action?

140. You are in the initiation stage of a project that aims to deploy and then maintain the robotics for an automated production line for a returning client. In the project charter,

you need to include the agreed mean time to recover (MTTR) in the event of a breakdown.

What should you do to find this information?

141. You are planning a kick-off meeting for your new project. The meeting will communicate the start of the project, key milestones, and other relevant information.

Which of the following best describes the objective of this meeting?

142. An organization has established a controlling project management office (PMO). The first task of the PMO is to update the guidelines for project compliance in the organization.

Which of the following could the PMO enforce? (Choose three.)

143. You are attempting to coordinate activities between your project, another related project, and operations, all of which are being managed as a group. A conflict has arisen over control of a key resource that is vital to both projects as well as operations. The conflict has reached an impasse and needs to be resolved by a higher authority.

What is your best course of action?

144. You and the project management team have been vigilant about observing different aspects of the project to ensure the project is progressing as planned. Currently, youare using performance data generated during project execution to determine if the status of overall project risk has changed, if the project assumptions are still valid, ifcontingency reserves for cost or schedule require modification, and if project strategy remains valid.

What process are you performing?

145. You have been requested to fill in for a project manager who has called in sick. As you get yourself familiar with the project team, you notice that the team members do not collaborate well, and there are a lot of disagreements and conflicts going on. You feel that the overall environment is counterproductive.

Based on your observations, where is the team on the Tuckman ladder?

(On the actual PMP exam, you will be requested to click the correct area in the image. But here in the simulator, please select the answer below.)

146. An agile team is trying to determine the ideal iteration length. The team members are having a long and intense argument about it, but no one is willing to compromise.

The scrum master is called in to help resolve the conflict.

What is the best course of action for a scrum master?

147. A company operating in a high-tech industry with new technologies emerging every few months charters a project that is expected to have unstable requirements for its whole duration. A project manager is assigned, and the sponsor requests the project manager to suggest a strategy that best supports the adaptability and resiliency of the project in this environment.

Which of the following capabilities should the project leader leverage for this strategy?

148. A project manager is determining the budget for a software development project where the product will be built incrementally. Since the project is subject to a strict budget, the project manager has to ensure

that scope and schedule baselines stay within cost constraints. The project manager includes budgetary requirements in the release plan.

How can the information in the release plan help the project manager with determining the project budget?

149. In order to take advantage of the best talent available, a project manager recruits developers internationally rather than just locally. She is delighted to have acquired such highly skilled individuals but now needs to develop them into a cohesive team. Ideally, the project manager would like to bring everyone together at the home office, but the project budget does not allow for travel expenses.

What is the best tool or technique for the project manager to use in this situation?

150. You are managing a critical project for your organization. The board of directors has asked for a quick presentation on the project and has asked you to show the anticipated sequence of project deliverables over time. What should you present to the board?

151. You are managing a project that is nearing its end. You have been reviewing the project management plan to ensure that all the project work is completed and that theproject has met its objectives. The next thing you need to do before moving on to the next project is to complete the administrative closure of the project.

Which of the following activities will not be performed as part of this process?

152. A team of generalizing specialists with expertise in adaptive organizational change is assigned to a project that will change the organizational structure from a weak matrix to a project-oriented organizational type. The product owner is concerned that the broad impact of the change will cause significant resistance by those affected by the change.

What is the best strategy for the project team to assist with change adoption?

153. The project manager is 6 months into a multi-million-dollar project. The latest analysis shows a CPI of 1.5 and an SPI of 0.6.

What should she do?

154. The project charter has just been approved, and a scrum team has been assigned to the project. The agile leader wants to ensure the appropriate quality of the project deliverables.

Of the following, which should the agile leader do first?

155. As a project manager, you recently completed a project team performance appraisal, and a previously unknown competency gap in technical skills was uncovered, which needs to be addressed.

What should you do next?

156. Midway into an iteration, an agile team faces a minor technical issue. One of the team members recalls that the agile coach is an expert in the field from her past experience as a senior developer. The team requests that the coach help resolve the issue.

What should the agile coach do first?

157. Four vendors have responded to a bid request on your project.

Which of the following vendors should you select based on the expected monetary value (EMV)?

158. Development team members argue with the product owner who rejected a deliverable the team developed during the recent iteration. The project manager schedules a meeting with the team, product owner, and other relevant stakeholders to break down the situation and identify the root cause of a misunderstanding.

Which of the following will be considered an antipattern if used during the meeting?

159. As a project manager, you are leading a colocated project team that will create deliverables in an agile fashion, followed by a rollout phase that will use a predictive approach. You are concerned that the transition from agile to waterfall may cause friction within the project team.

With the development phase complete, how might the team's working agreements need to change in this situation?

160. As project execution begins, the project manager acquires the project team and, based on project needs, decides that the team will use Scrum to develop the product of the project.

After conducting an assessment of the project team's Scrum skillset, the project manager realizes that according to the Shu-Ha-Ri model, the team is at the Shu level.

What should the project manager recommend to the team?

161. You are leading a project to replace an aging bridge spanning a river in a heavily populated area. The new bridge would include a pedestrian pathway, that is not a feature of the existing bridge. The bridge is well under construction when residents learn the pathway would allow strangers to enter their neighborhood at all times. The residents demand the elimination of the pathway.

What would have been the best course of action to avoid this situation?

162. During project execution of a high priority project, a previously identified risk is realized. The project manager sends an email to the risk owner and receives an automated response indicating that this individual will be out of the country on vacation for the next two weeks. The risk owner did not disclose a backup contact to use during the interim.

What should the project manager do first?

163. You review the WBS of your project and realize that due to the lack of in-house expertise, some of the deliverables will need to be outsourced to a vendor. However, the requirements for these deliverables are not well-understood at the moment. Therefore, you decide that the outsourced portion of work will need to be managed using an agile framework.

What is your best approach in negotiating an agreement with the vendor?

164. A project has to procure goods and services from a seller. Some aspects of the procurement are well-defined up-front while others will be known only after initial deliverables are validated and accepted.

What contracting technique would work best for this procurement?

165. A project manager is facilitating a retrospective for his first agile project. The team members are frustrated that despite the fact they worked individually and diligently on the tasks assigned to them by the project manager, the project has been completed late and over budget. The team realizes that excessive rework caused the project to miss its objectives.

What might the project manager have done differently to deliver the project on time and budget?

166. You are managing a project team that has recently been expanded by new team members working remotely from another country. Their roles have been outlined to form a preliminary team charter.

Nevertheless, you have noticed a considerable lack of acceptance of cultural differences in the team, resulting in frequent conflicts.

Which of the following techniques could help you in this situation? (Choose three.)

167. During the current sprint, the product owner's availability has been limited due to other commitments. At the daily standup, the team members complain that they cannot get answers from the product owner, and, as a result, the development of the product increment is delayed.

What is the best course of action for the scrum master?

168. For the last few iterations, a stakeholder has been approaching the scrum master with a suggestion to modify the way the team carries out its development work.

According to the stakeholder, the change will save time without affecting the project backlog.

What action should be taken by the scrum master?

169. As your project progresses, a team member suggests a minor modification to one of the project deliverables, saying that the modification will improve the overall performance of the final product. You believe that the modification constitutes a minor change to the project scope, schedule, and budget, and should be approved without going to the change control board.

What should you do next?

170. During a sprint retrospective, the team members complain that the business analyst has been unresponsive to clarify the work package to be developed in the sprint. As a result, the work package has not been accepted by the customer. The scrum master reaches out to the business analyst and requests them to collaborate with the team during the upcoming sprints.

What else should the scrum master do?

171. An agile coach has been nurturing and growing team members through and beyond their current roles. This helped several team members to develop their personal and professional skills to the level where they felt that they outgrew their roles. Eventually, some of them left the team to pursue new opportunities within the organization and outside of it.

Was the agile coach right in her approach?

172. You have joined a project in which requirements are elaborated at several intervals during delivery, and the delivery is divided into subsets of the overall product. Change is incorporated at periodic intervals, and risk and cost are controlled by progressively elaborating the plans with new information. Key stakeholders are regularly involved.

What development approach is used on your project?

173. An agile coach joined a team that has been working on a project for the last few months. The coach noticed that the team members were struggling to remove impediments, did not have a discipline around time-boxed events, and were not using information radiators to display the project status.

What is the best course of action for the agile coach to take?

174. A project manager is leading a product development project, which will use an agile framework. The project team and other stakeholders are co-located at the company's corporate office.

What is the best way for the project manager to communicate the project status and promote transparency?

175. Which leadership behavior is emphasized in an agile environment compared to projects carried out using a traditional project management approach?

176. The latest software released to the customer in the first project phase is full of defects. The customer is angry and demands that the development of the new release, which is planned to be delivered in the second phase, is much more transparent. The customer wants to see the team’s results more regularly and without very long development intervals in-between.

Which of the following could the project team introduce in the second phase to better comply with the customer's demand? (Choose four.)

177. A project manager is facilitating a sprint retrospective meeting where the team members discuss customer dissatisfaction from the product increment they delivered during the sprint. The discussion reveals some issues with the remote team members who were primarily using email to communicate with the rest of the team.

What was the most likely cause the product increment did not meet customer expectations?

178. A project team that is experienced in the waterfall project management approach has been assigned to their first agile project. To make the transition easier, it has been decided to keep some elements of the waterfall approach in place. During the iteration review, it was realized that a misunderstanding among the development team has led to a duplication of efforts.

How might the project manager address this issue?

179. You have been provided a list of concerns some stakeholders have with your project. You meet with them to address the concerns in hopes of gaining their support and cooperation. You pay close attention by actively and effectively listening. You focus on each person's input to ensure you are aware of and are taking all perspectives into consideration. You then clearly articulate your point and your position and ask for their support.

Which tool or technique best describes the skills you are using?

180. The project management plan and the performance measurement baseline have been approved. As you monitor the project's progress, you realize the approved budget is limiting the project and will affect the targeted completion date. This constraint could affect the company's success in the new venture.

What is your best course of action?