Project A is critical for the company and must be completed within nine months. The project charter has been signed but the project scope statement has not been prepared. Management asks the project manager to move forward with the project without an approved project scope statement.What should the project manager do next?

Meet with management to explain the potential problems with running a project without a project scope statement

Escalate the issue to the project sponsor and add it to the risk register

Refuse to work on the project because management is not following standard project management practices

Meet with management to explain the potential problems with running a project without a project scope statement

Start the project with inputs from the project charter to save time

A project manager is starting a project using a hybrid approach and notices some team members only have knowledge of predictive approaches.What does the project manager need to do first in order to have good project performance?

Assess the required training per team member.

Coach those team members lacking hybrid knowledge to learn on the job.

Change the team to include hybrid experts.

Assess the required training per team member.

Deliver hybrid training to all team members.

While reviewing prototypes, the quality team found some deviations that do not affect the mam functionality but have the potential to be an issue in the future. To avoid major problems in the future, the team recommends corrective actions that will require additional funds. The project is already struggling to stay on budget and has even used some of the contingency reserves.What should the project manager do?

Evaluate and initiate the change request process with the stakeholders

Ask the product designer why the deviation was not considered in the design phase

Report to the project sponsor that the product is working and the project is struggling with the budget

Evaluate and initiate the change request process with the stakeholders

Ask the quality team to discard the sample and test again with a new sample

A team has been struggling with various issues during the course of an iteration. The project lead facilitates a discussion of the issues and the team forms new team agreements. During the next iteration, some of the same issues appear again.What should the project lead do next?

Post the agreements in a conspicuous place where all of the team members can see them

Notify senior management of the issues, and have them review the importance of agreements with the team

Challenge the team to determine if the issues surfaced again because agreements were not followed

Post the agreements in a conspicuous place where all of the team members can see them

Let the team self-organize and determine the best means to prevent the issues from occurring again

A technical subject matter expert (SME) identifies an occurrence that should be captured in the project's lessons learned. The SME asks the project manager to write, document and include it in the lessons learned register.What should the project manager do?

Take ownership of documenting this information.

Assign the documenting task to a project team member.

Ask the SME to document and capture the occurrence.

Request the SME to wait until the project closure phase.

Take ownership of documenting this information.

During the course of a project, the project manager wants to ensure that the work carried out and the product being created do not deviate from the prescribed business value.What should the project manager pay special attention to in order to achieve this goal?

Monitoring and updating the benefits realization plan

Reviewing and updating the requirements management plan

Carrying out quality audits and failure analyses

Monitoring the work breakdown structure (WBS)

Monitoring and updating the benefits realization plan

The project manager has observed that two team members have been arguing with each other openly at meetings. To push their ideas through, each team member individually spoke with the sponsor directly and made decisions without informing the project manager or other team members.What two actions should project manager take? (Choose two.)

Reiterate ground rules at the next meeting and ensure that all team members are clear about these rules

Address the behavioral issue with each team member

Ask the team members to work it out themselves

Discuss this situation with other project managers and ask for advice

Reiterate ground rules at the next meeting and ensure that all team members are clear about these rules

Address the behavioral issue with each team member

Discuss the behavior directly with their managers and request them to correct the behavior

The project sponsor on an agile project informed the project lead that an executive would like an update on the project's progress.What should the project lead do?

Invite the executive to the project's meeting space to determine if the project information radiators meet their needs

Provide a link to the project's shared drive for the executive to search through for any artifacts that are of interest

Invite the executive to the project's meeting space to determine if the project information radiators meet their needs

Reach out to the project management office (PMO) for status report templates and provide project updates in that format

Ask the project sponsor or product owner to provide an update since the project lead should be trying to keep the team free from impediments

A project manager is leading a meeting with key stakeholders, the project sponsor and the product owner to define the features that will be released after the next iteration. The purpose of the meeting is to review the product backlog prioritization, considering that during the past iteration some deliverables were not completed.Which two items should be taken into account first to review and update the product backlog priorities during the meeting? (Choose two.)

Complexity and the cost of development

Cost of delaying some features against business value

Complexity and the cost of development

Industry trends and the technical approach

Cost of delaying some features against business value

Reusing components from another product

Length of time each feature has been on the backlog

During an iteration of a project, a planned activity becomes more complex. The work should be delivered in the shortest time possible.What approach should be used in this situation?

The cross-functional team member work together to complete the activity

The team facilitator gets support from external team members.

The team members bring in a specialist to help them

The product owner moves it to the product backlog.

The cross-functional team member work together to complete the activity

A multinational company has a plan to expand their business into a new country where they currently have no presence. A project manager is assigned to initiate this project.After reviewing the business case, what should be considered first when developing an appropriate implementation strategy?

Evaluate the environmental and regulatory factors and identify high-level risks and assumptions

Acquire project resources from the new country to mitigate the risk of uncertainty

Evaluate the environmental and regulatory factors and identify high-level risks and assumptions

Identify and monitor the risks closely since the company does not have lessons learned for this country

Ensure that project sponsors are in agreement on the project deliverables and timeline during the project

A project manager is assigned to lead a newly formed agile team. The functional manager has assigned tasks to team members, but the team members do not feel empowered.How can the project manager promote empowerment and accountability among the team?

Give the team autonomy to make their own decisions on how to perform the tasks

Assign the tasks individually based on the role of the team member to ensure expertise on the subject.

Encourage and assign the team to perform demos of their products or software with the customers

Give the team autonomy to make their own decisions on how to perform the tasks

Encourage the team to keep the product owner involved when choosing ways to resolve the given task

A project manager who is managing a critical project in a multinational company is conducting a progress meeting with all team members. During the meeting, one of the team members states that they are facing a critical problem that will prevent them from completing their assigned task.What should the project manager do?

Schedule a meeting with the concerned team member to review and update the issue log together

Ask the team member to follow the approved communications management plan to communicate their issue

Schedule a meeting with the concerned team member to review and update the issue log together

Review the risk register with the team member to find the proper response action for this issue

Ask the team member to raise a change request to assess the issue in detail

During the last sprint review the product owner stated that the product does not deliver any value.The project manager believes that the product meets all the provided specifications. The team is confused by the product owner's statement.What should the project manager do when using a hybrid approach?

Review the project's benefits management plan with the product owner

Escalate the matter to the executive board so they can decide on next steps

Prioritize the project backlog and ask the development team to fix the issues

Review the project's benefits management plan with the product owner

Ask the product owner to terminate the project as it is no longer aligned to the expected benefits

A geographically distributed project team has development issues between the collocated and virtual teams causing productivity to decrease.What should the project manager do to address this issue?

Develop protocols for resolving conflicts between team members

Force the team members to work from one location

Develop protocols for resolving conflicts between team members

Obtain special expertise to advise the team members

Set up face-to-face meetings with project team members

A Scrum team has committed to delivering a specific capability in their first release. Multiple operational issues have prevented the developer from delivering key capabilities. The technical lead has also given notice that they are resigning from the company.What should the project manager have the Scrum team do to recover from these issues?

Review constraints in the ongoing sprint planning and evaluate options for the release plan

Stop the sprint and replan and prioritize the backlog to reduce resource levels

Consult the resource management plan for an appropriate response

Continue with existing sprint plans to ensure some of the scope will be delivered

A project manager is leading a large-scale project that involves 70 stakeholders. The project manager has heard various comments and expectations from the customers, some of which are contradictory. Consequently, some requirements are not clear.What should the project manager do to build consensus regarding the requirements?

Organize a face-to-face meeting with all stakeholders to understand their interests and concerns

Escalate the issue to the management team for their review and guidance

Create a survey template to collect feedback from stakeholders to reach an agreement

Organize a face-to-face meeting with all stakeholders to understand their interests and concerns

Leverage expert judgment to determine the requirements that should be considered

PMI PMP Practice Test 14 - Free Online Exam Questions 521-560

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A project manager is worried that a key stakeholder is not participating in the project and has concluded that the final product is not as good as it could have been if the stakeholder had been more involved. Drag the scenario on the left to the correct risk response strategy on the right.

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