PMI PgMP Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 33

A component project manager escalates an issue regarding a key stakeholder to the program manager. The key stakeholder does not respond to emails or phone calls, and the project manager believes this key stakeholder is exhibiting a negative attitude toward the work. The key stakeholder has a significant influence over the component project, which could impact other components if delays occur. The program manager's attempts to reach the stakeholder via email also fail.

What should the program manager do next?

After new private equity owners acquire an enterprise, they want to improve its value by reducing costs. A new program will restructure the enterprise, including an aging headquarters campus where the main data center is housed. A strategic component project presents significant risk to organizational objectives due to its complexity and dependencies on external parties. After a series of board meetings, the enterprise's investment committee approves a budget to implement this component project, which will move the old data center from the aging headquarters campus into a new colocation facility. Implementation of this component project may now begin, but is already one month behind schedule. The program manager now perceives significantly more risk to the larger program due to this delay.

What should the program manager do to address this risk with the program sponsor and governance board?

Company A acquires company B, which leads to a two-year program to integrate the processes and systems. Company B uses a different project management process, and the company's staff is unhappy about the acquisition. As a result, company B's project team fails to provide status and cost data in a format that conforms to the program standards.

What should the program manager do first?

An organization initiates an innovation program to deliver exceptional performance and benefits. After the program transition plan is in place and the implementation of a benefits sustainment plan starts, the program manager discovers the program may be shut down due to lack of funding.

To ensure continued funding for the program, what should the program manager do next?

A program management team is invited to a company's annual strategy planning session. The CEO discusses the mission and vision of the organization, and how the strategic plan will create opportunities to fulfill them.

How can the program manager use the company's vision to establish a program?

Several issues are identified on one component project in a program. During a meeting with that component's project manager, the program manager offers several suggested resolutions. Two weeks later, they meet again to review progress. The project manager had reviewed the issues and suggested resolutions, but delayed a decision. This two-week delay in taking action caused delays in the project schedule.

What should the program manager do?

A program manager for an electronic gaming manufacturer is managing a new virtual reality program. An international trade agreement in the final stages of renegotiation will reduce supply-chain costs and delivery intervals. A materials supplier informs the program manager that when this agreement is finalized, it will shorten the product's delivery time.

What should the program manager update first?

A program manager building the world's largest cruise ship is resolving the conflict between the two main sponsors who cannot agree on the number of food and beverage outlets to have onboard. What should the program manager do?

A program with six projects has been running for three years. The company's procurement and contracts department has compiled a qualified seller list. The program manager determines that one of the projects must be outsourced.

The program manager will use the qualified seller list to do which of the following?