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Graded A
A project team is working in a remote location, and its operability is threatened due to
severe supply chain disruption. This risk was listed in the risk register, but the severity
of the disruption was not accounted for, so guidance on the response is minimal. -
ANSWER>>Seek expert judgment on the matter and revise the risk response
A tech startup has four projects authorized and running:1. Customer experience (CX)
app development with executive stakeholders2. Third-party app development with new
vendors3. Project with global team members who speak six languages4. Game
development using experimental technology Which statement about risk and quality is
correct? - ANSWER>>These projects all contain inherent risk and require unique
quality metrics.
A company is losing market share to disruptive competitors with new business
models. A cross-functional agile team has been formed to recommend ways to
recover market share. How can the team increase its chance of producing successful
recommendations? - ANSWER>>Focus on understanding the value consumers seek
and the value competitors offer.
A PMO in a large manufacturing company has been working diligently to retrain project
managers and standardize software and templates across all projects so that every
project in the company will produce compliant artifacts. Which type of PMO is being
described? - ANSWER>>Controlling
A project manager in an organization that uses traditional project management is
assigned to an ongoing project. Recently, the organization has started to use agile
methodologies for projects. The project manager hears that some team members think
key subject matter expertise is missing and that the team does NOT collaborate
enough. How should the project manager respond to these team members' concerns?
- ANSWER>>Add cross-functional internal resources and explain their value to the
team.
,A government is ready to announce a new tax on sugary products to fund a healthcare
program. The team is working on the first set of goals to secure buy-in from the
industry stakeholders and launch a strong public campaign to support the mandate.In
which three ways can the project build a shared understanding of the project goals
with public stakeholders? (Choose three) - ANSWER>>A. Create partnerships between
the government and industry stakeholders so that the industry is prepared to support
the change.
C. Announce the tax along with an advertising campaign to educate the country and
individuals about the benefit.
E. Use an incremental approach by taxing products with the highest sugar content only
and explain how this will improve health results over a period of time.
A project manager joins an organization with departments to manage donations,
construction, marketing, volunteers, and finance. The company also has a manager of
project management to oversee all of the ongoing projects. The project manager
reports directly to the project management department but shares staff with other
departments.What type of organizational structure does this describe? -
ANSWER>>Matrix
A project to upgrade a local bridge while removing some of the protected environment
has been approved by the county municipality. The project sponsor met the project
manager and wanted specifically to identify, monitor, and correct based on PESTLE
factors.What impacts should the project manager consider as a result of this decision?
Choose two: - ANSWER>>A. Political
C. Economic
A product owner has created a lot of epics and has started breaking them down into
user stories. These high-priority user stories fulfill the definition of ready. At the
iteration planning meeting, the product owner leaves after 2 hours.What should
happen next? - ANSWER>>The team should decompose the user stories into tasks.
A project manager is interviewing to join a company that is complex with all
organization structure included. What organizational structure should the project
manager expect? - ANSWER>>Composite
,A project manager leading a diesel engine development project has been asked to join
the PMO. The PMO is supportive in nature. Several junior and new project managers
are struggling with how to implement stakeholder engagement and how to structure
the project management plan document. How should the project manager approach
this situation? - ANSWER>>Supply templates, best practices, and train the new project
managers.
Company P's IT transformation project has three (3) deliverables, and they have the
following characteristics, according to the project team:- Deliverable 2 has strictly
scheduled milestones, with no expected variation in the timeline.- Requirements for
deliverables 1 and 3 will change quickly during development. Which project life cycle
should the project manager use for this project? - ANSWER>>Select a hybrid project
model; position deliverable 2 as a single waterfall phase embedded in an overall agile
project.
A company is struggling to define the scope of a new project that has multiple phases
with a high level of dependency between the phases. How should the project manager
approach this challenge? - ANSWER>>Work with project stakeholders to recommend
an iterative approach that will then help to define the project's scope.
Which of the following is not a PESTLE factor? - ANSWER>>Effectiveness
An emergency vaccine roll-out project should be deployed to vaccination centers as
soon as confirmed locations are booked. Factors such as delayed batch shipments,
safety protocols, and target age groups may block the deployment at the last minute.
However, the deployment process does NOT vary after passing the tollgate to begin
setup at a new location.Which project approach would best support the goal of
maximizing the number of centers deployed? - ANSWER>>A set of predictive
deployment sequences embedded in a set of agile processes.
Early in the establishment of the project, the project manager spends time looking for
historical data that might be helpful in planning the new project. She is looking for
examples of project documents in similar projects that have been completed that she
might be able to use as templates for the new project. She is also looking for
information about established processes and procedures that will help the project run
more smoothly.What is the term used to define these? - ANSWER>>OPAs
, A project manager experienced in predictive methods is taking on an agile project for
the first time. To help in making a successful transition, the project manager makes a
list of situations that may arise from inadequate action as a servant leader.Which three
situations would be on this list? (Choose THREE.) - ANSWER>>A. Team members avoid
taking on challenging tasks.
B. Team members avoid direct communication with other departments.
E. Project stakeholders' express skepticism of agile methods.
On an agile project, minor impediments may interfere with or slow down day-to-day
progress. Which tool or practice can be used to bring attention to those impediments
on a regular basis? - ANSWER>>Daily standups
A company executive who is not a key project stakeholder of a project has expressed
continued interest and opinions directly to the project team. The key stakeholders are
becoming annoyed and perceive the executive to be interfering and causing unwanted
noise, but the project team finds the executive's inputs helpful.What should the team
do first? - ANSWER>>Discuss what should happen at the next retrospective.
A company is using a predictive approach for the development of a particular
component as defined in the scope management plan. Due to regularly changing
regulatory requirements, the development team has requested to utilize agile
approaches.What should the project manager do about the development team's
request? - ANSWER>>Analyze the requirements that will need to be addressed under
the requested method
A project manager implemented an approved change to manage a risk. Three (3)
months after the implemented change, the project manager learns that the change did
NOT produce the desired result, instead producing negative consequences.How can the
project manager avoid this problem in future projects? - ANSWER>>Update the list on
the risk register with the risk.
A project manager is an aggressive project manager known for producing results. The
project manager aims to pick an organizational structure where the authority of the
Graded A
A project team is working in a remote location, and its operability is threatened due to
severe supply chain disruption. This risk was listed in the risk register, but the severity
of the disruption was not accounted for, so guidance on the response is minimal. -
ANSWER>>Seek expert judgment on the matter and revise the risk response
A tech startup has four projects authorized and running:1. Customer experience (CX)
app development with executive stakeholders2. Third-party app development with new
vendors3. Project with global team members who speak six languages4. Game
development using experimental technology Which statement about risk and quality is
correct? - ANSWER>>These projects all contain inherent risk and require unique
quality metrics.
A company is losing market share to disruptive competitors with new business
models. A cross-functional agile team has been formed to recommend ways to
recover market share. How can the team increase its chance of producing successful
recommendations? - ANSWER>>Focus on understanding the value consumers seek
and the value competitors offer.
A PMO in a large manufacturing company has been working diligently to retrain project
managers and standardize software and templates across all projects so that every
project in the company will produce compliant artifacts. Which type of PMO is being
described? - ANSWER>>Controlling
A project manager in an organization that uses traditional project management is
assigned to an ongoing project. Recently, the organization has started to use agile
methodologies for projects. The project manager hears that some team members think
key subject matter expertise is missing and that the team does NOT collaborate
enough. How should the project manager respond to these team members' concerns?
- ANSWER>>Add cross-functional internal resources and explain their value to the
team.
,A government is ready to announce a new tax on sugary products to fund a healthcare
program. The team is working on the first set of goals to secure buy-in from the
industry stakeholders and launch a strong public campaign to support the mandate.In
which three ways can the project build a shared understanding of the project goals
with public stakeholders? (Choose three) - ANSWER>>A. Create partnerships between
the government and industry stakeholders so that the industry is prepared to support
the change.
C. Announce the tax along with an advertising campaign to educate the country and
individuals about the benefit.
E. Use an incremental approach by taxing products with the highest sugar content only
and explain how this will improve health results over a period of time.
A project manager joins an organization with departments to manage donations,
construction, marketing, volunteers, and finance. The company also has a manager of
project management to oversee all of the ongoing projects. The project manager
reports directly to the project management department but shares staff with other
departments.What type of organizational structure does this describe? -
ANSWER>>Matrix
A project to upgrade a local bridge while removing some of the protected environment
has been approved by the county municipality. The project sponsor met the project
manager and wanted specifically to identify, monitor, and correct based on PESTLE
factors.What impacts should the project manager consider as a result of this decision?
Choose two: - ANSWER>>A. Political
C. Economic
A product owner has created a lot of epics and has started breaking them down into
user stories. These high-priority user stories fulfill the definition of ready. At the
iteration planning meeting, the product owner leaves after 2 hours.What should
happen next? - ANSWER>>The team should decompose the user stories into tasks.
A project manager is interviewing to join a company that is complex with all
organization structure included. What organizational structure should the project
manager expect? - ANSWER>>Composite
,A project manager leading a diesel engine development project has been asked to join
the PMO. The PMO is supportive in nature. Several junior and new project managers
are struggling with how to implement stakeholder engagement and how to structure
the project management plan document. How should the project manager approach
this situation? - ANSWER>>Supply templates, best practices, and train the new project
managers.
Company P's IT transformation project has three (3) deliverables, and they have the
following characteristics, according to the project team:- Deliverable 2 has strictly
scheduled milestones, with no expected variation in the timeline.- Requirements for
deliverables 1 and 3 will change quickly during development. Which project life cycle
should the project manager use for this project? - ANSWER>>Select a hybrid project
model; position deliverable 2 as a single waterfall phase embedded in an overall agile
project.
A company is struggling to define the scope of a new project that has multiple phases
with a high level of dependency between the phases. How should the project manager
approach this challenge? - ANSWER>>Work with project stakeholders to recommend
an iterative approach that will then help to define the project's scope.
Which of the following is not a PESTLE factor? - ANSWER>>Effectiveness
An emergency vaccine roll-out project should be deployed to vaccination centers as
soon as confirmed locations are booked. Factors such as delayed batch shipments,
safety protocols, and target age groups may block the deployment at the last minute.
However, the deployment process does NOT vary after passing the tollgate to begin
setup at a new location.Which project approach would best support the goal of
maximizing the number of centers deployed? - ANSWER>>A set of predictive
deployment sequences embedded in a set of agile processes.
Early in the establishment of the project, the project manager spends time looking for
historical data that might be helpful in planning the new project. She is looking for
examples of project documents in similar projects that have been completed that she
might be able to use as templates for the new project. She is also looking for
information about established processes and procedures that will help the project run
more smoothly.What is the term used to define these? - ANSWER>>OPAs
, A project manager experienced in predictive methods is taking on an agile project for
the first time. To help in making a successful transition, the project manager makes a
list of situations that may arise from inadequate action as a servant leader.Which three
situations would be on this list? (Choose THREE.) - ANSWER>>A. Team members avoid
taking on challenging tasks.
B. Team members avoid direct communication with other departments.
E. Project stakeholders' express skepticism of agile methods.
On an agile project, minor impediments may interfere with or slow down day-to-day
progress. Which tool or practice can be used to bring attention to those impediments
on a regular basis? - ANSWER>>Daily standups
A company executive who is not a key project stakeholder of a project has expressed
continued interest and opinions directly to the project team. The key stakeholders are
becoming annoyed and perceive the executive to be interfering and causing unwanted
noise, but the project team finds the executive's inputs helpful.What should the team
do first? - ANSWER>>Discuss what should happen at the next retrospective.
A company is using a predictive approach for the development of a particular
component as defined in the scope management plan. Due to regularly changing
regulatory requirements, the development team has requested to utilize agile
approaches.What should the project manager do about the development team's
request? - ANSWER>>Analyze the requirements that will need to be addressed under
the requested method
A project manager implemented an approved change to manage a risk. Three (3)
months after the implemented change, the project manager learns that the change did
NOT produce the desired result, instead producing negative consequences.How can the
project manager avoid this problem in future projects? - ANSWER>>Update the list on
the risk register with the risk.
A project manager is an aggressive project manager known for producing results. The
project manager aims to pick an organizational structure where the authority of the
