PMI PgMP Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 42

A program manager is concerned because several change requests in a component project are causing delays to the program's work package milestones. There are insufficient skilled resources within the component project to complete both the change requests and the milestone tasks.

What should the program manager do next to address this risk?

A program with 10 components is in the planning phase. Project managers who oversee the component projects request detailed schedules. These schedules will be merged into one document to create a master schedule.

What should the program manager do to ensure that the overall program life cycle will meet stakeholder needs and deliver planned benefits?

Near the end of an ongoing project, the program manager is terminated due to underperformance and a new program manager joins the team. The program's last component project will go live in one week.

What must the new program manager do before program closure?

A company's marketing department fails an internal compliance audit. To comply with the auditor's remediation plan, the legal department mandates that a content management system (CMS) be implemented. After initiating the program for CMS implementation, the program manager discovers that the marketing department has already preselected which CMS technology will be implemented.

What should the program manager do to ensure the success of the program?

A software company's program manager is conducting closing procedures for a program. At the last steering committee meeting, realized benefits were presented to the program governance board.

What should the program manager do next?

The program selection committee presents several programs for approval:

Program A is estimated to cost US$250,000, and has an annual cash inflow of US$75,000. Program B is estimated to cost US$150,000, and has an annual cash inflow of US$55,000.

Program C is estimated to cost US$100,000, and has an annual cash inflow of US$45,000.

Program D is estimated to cost US$200,000, and has an annual cash inflow of US$35,000.

Which program was selected based solely on a three-year return on investment?

After meeting with the program sponsor and stakeholders, the program manager is asked by the sponsor to accelerate the program to replace two legacy financial systems. The legacy systems are at risk of premature failure.

What should the program manager do next?

The program manager has a global program with five component projects. The program sponsor wants the management plans, processes/procedures, and technology to be uniform across the program. The requirements will create issues and result in increased costs The program sponsor is new and has imposed these new requirements six months into a three-year program.

What should the program manager do next?

The program manager leads a medical billing system integration program for company A, a health services provider. Company A acquires smaller company X, which delivers health services strategically aligned with company A.

Company X uses a different billing approach than companyA. Company A's chief information officer (CIO) seeks counsel on which solution would be the better option moving forward, requesting the program manager's assistance.

How should the program manager respond to the CIO's request?