A key project stakeholder who was a big supporter and motivator for the project team is leaving the organization. The project team is experiencing low morale and poor teamwork.What should the project manager do to improve morale?

Identify the wants and aspirations of the team

Build team connections and emotional bonds

Forge consensus through team participation

Set goals and push the team to achieve the goals

A project manager is appointed for the deployment of a new solution. The solution will be integrated into the environment by a third-party vendor. This vendor just announced a delay in delivering a key component, which will impact the project schedule.What should the project manager do?

Ensure that relevant stakeholders and expectations are identified and assess the component delay

Ask for expedited delivery of the component to mitigate the risk of schedule delays

Ensure that relevant stakeholders and expectations are identified and assess the component delay

Perform a detailed analysis of the release content for each component of the solution

Propose a new design of the solution maw the external component with an internal one

A project manager and protect team are developing a strategic approach to engage the internal and external stakeholders.Which approach should be followed?

Analyze both internal and external stakeholders and develop a customized engagement strategy for each stakeholder

Schedule status meetings with all stakeholders to allow their participation in all project discussions and reports

Classify all high-risk stakeholders and request that the protect sponsor communicate directly with them

Involve only the internal stakeholders as the external stakeholders should not have access to confidential information

A distributed protect team wants to use the common ground principle to ensure that they have a common understanding of the scope. The team asks the protect lead to set up a workshop.What should the project lead do?

Provide the participants with specific instructions and sot the expectations

Ask the senior members of the development team to elaborate on the scope in detail

Invite participants to the workshop with sufficient lead time to prepare

Reduce the number of participants to ensure that consensus is reached easier

Provide the participants with specific instructions and sot the expectations

A client mentioned that in the past 2 months, they have not been invoiced for completed work.The client has communicated that they will release the funds for other activities it the invoices are not sent.What should the project manager do next?

Review the previous billing information and prepare a corrective action plan

Work with the client and agree on a schedule to provide them with the invoices

Reach out to the billing team and instruct them to issue the invoices immediately

Review the previous billing information and prepare a corrective action plan

Communicate and inform the client to go ahead and release the funds

Midway through the execution of an agile protect there is a shift in the strategic objectives at the organization level to promote digital transformation.What should the project manager do next?

Schedule a meeting with the team to assess the impact of the change

Escalate to the product owner and cancel the upcoming iterations

Prepare a user story to handle the change and assign it to the next iteration

Update the risk-prioritized backlog with the strategic change

A project manager is assigned to a project that will improve the business operations for a trading firm. The project team has just completed the discovery phase and needs to make a presentation to the business team in 4 weeks to showcase the feasibility of the solution.How should the project manager advise the team to proceed?

Develop a conceptual framework.

Develop a request for proposal (RFP).

Develop a minimum viable product (MVP).

A project manager is initiating an agile project for which some external components will be delivered by vendors. One of the vendors, however, will be unable to deliver its component in an incremental, collaborative way.How should the project manager handle this situation?

Have the vendor deliver the component using another approach, then integrate it into the project without changing the overall agile approach.

Submit a request to the project sponsor to have the vendor replaced with a vendor who can work following an agile approach.

Ask the project management office (PMO) to abandon using an agile approach on the project to accommodate the vendor.

Have the vendor deliver the component using another approach, then integrate it into the project without changing the overall agile approach.

Ask the product owner to move the component to the product backlog to be addressed after the work using an agile approach has been completed.

A project manager is leading a team that is geographically dispersed. The team needs to collaborate and finalize the monthly reports. Occasionally, meetings occur during the weekends due to the time differences. Team members have expressed that they do not want to work on the weekends.What should the project manager do?

Remind the team members of their governance responsibilities documented in the team charter.

Take over the activity and deliver the reports whenever work is required on a weekend.

Avoid reporting during the months that team members would need to work on the weekend.

Remind the team members of their governance responsibilities documented in the team charter.

Communicate to the project stakeholders that the reports will be delayed certain months of the year.

A critical deliverable for the current iteration is giving the team difficulties. Functionality and quality issues are constantly emerging and delaying iteration progress.The project manager listens to the team's concerns and discovered that the work is not being well coordinated among the team members.Which two actions should the project manager take to handle this situation? (Choose two.)

Schedule an iteration backlog refinement meeting to understand the issues.

Prioritize the issues, focusing on the ones affecting the iteration goal.

Develop a team performance report to discuss in the next retrospective meeting.

Provide dear instructions on how the work should flow among the team members.

Schedule an iteration backlog refinement meeting to understand the issues.

Set up one-on-one meetings to provide feedback to the team members.

Prioritize the issues, focusing on the ones affecting the iteration goal.

A project manager is managing a large project. During a review meeting, the project manager discovers that one of the team members who use to be a high performer was not able to complete their work on time.What should the project manager do?

Talk to the team member to determine why their performance changed.

Talk to the team member's manager to provide more training.

Talk to the team member and a human resources (HR) representative.

Talk to the project lead and ask them to allocate less demanding tasks.

An organization is initiating a project that will be using new technology. The complexity of the project requires excellent technical skills. After reviewing the proposed project management plan, the project sponsor asks for options to reduce the labor cost without introducing risk to the project delivery.What should the project manager do first?

Perform an analysis of the key cost drivers and present alternatives.

Review the risk register and assign functional managers as resources.

Perform an analysis of the key cost drivers and present alternatives.

Analyze the resource pool and assign internal resources who participated in past projects.

Review the work breakdown structure (WBS) to ensure there are adequate resources.

A project manager is using an agile approach. During the sprint planning meeting, the product owner flagged a backlog item as high business value and easy to implement. However, the other team members identified a high dependency between this item and another item that is flagged as low business value and high complexity.What should the project manager do to support the backlog prioritization?

Facilitate the discussion until the team reaches an agreement about the two items.

Support the team to move both items to the next sprint when the team will know more.

Prioritize the item flagged as high business value and low complexity for this sprint.

Facilitate the discussion until the team reaches an agreement about the two items.

Prioritize the item flagged as a dependency with low business value and high complexity.

A project sponsor insists that the project scope for a new product launch should include two geographical locations. However, after the project scoping session was done, a project charter was completed and approved with one location only.What should the project manager do?

Assess the impact to the scope and submit a change request for approval of the two locations before including them in the scope of the project.

Ask the sponsor to increase the budget and schedule of the project to accommodate the additional scope.

Assess the impact to the scope and submit a change request for approval of the two locations before including them in the scope of the project.

Discuss with the sponsor that the project scope is approved and it is not possible to include two locations as it will affect the budget.

Encourage the sponsor to start another project for the additional location so that the current project is not impacted.

A project is on its fifth iteration out of six. One member of the team has left the company unexpectedly.What should the project manager do next?

Invite the stakeholders to discuss a mitigation plan.

Take on some of the necessary work to minimize the impact.

Invite the stakeholders to discuss a mitigation plan.

Detail the reason for the project delay in the status report.

Register an issue and escalate it to the project sponsor.

A construction company is executing a building contract that includes firm milestones for replacing certain components of the building. During execution, the client complains that the new components do not meet the requirements.What should the project manager have done to prevent this from happening?

Defined acceptance criteria in a quality checklist agreed upon before starting the build phase

Continuously communicated the changes in the work plan and the agreement to the client

Defined acceptance criteria in a quality checklist agreed upon before starting the build phase

Provided compensation for issues due to the variance in the agreed-upon requirements

Approved a detailed change management process before starting the build phase

An agile team is in the early phases of the development cycle for a project; however, they have already begun to deliver functionality to the customer. The team has identified risks to the project and are working on developing the mitigation strategy.What should the project manager do next?

Incorporate and prioritize the risks in the risk register according to impact.

Escalate the risk to the project sponsor and steering committee.

Implement the risk mitigation strategy according to the highest impact.

Incorporate and prioritize the risks in the risk register according to impact.

Determine if any of the new risks have any financial impact.

A project stakeholder complained that they did not receive an important delivery that was stated in the schedule. The team member responsible for this deliverable explained that they sent an email to the stakeholder, advising them that the deliverable would not be delivered on time.What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

Confirmed that the stakeholder was made aware of the delivery delay.

Communicated with the stakeholder directly regarding the delivery delay.

Told the team member to send the unfinished deliverable to the stakeholder and finalize it later.

Ensured that the team member did not communicate directly with the project stakeholder.

After sending an on-site meeting invitation to seven people for the kick-off meeting of a project, a key stakeholder declines because they will be at another location for the rest of the month.What should the project manager do?

Make arrangements for the stakeholder to join the kick-off meeting virtually.

Change the kick-off meeting to a virtual meeting so all can attend at the same time.

Hold the kick-off meeting with the rest of the stakeholders to avoid a delay in the project.

Reschedule the kick-off meeting for the following month so all can attend on-site.

Make arrangements for the stakeholder to join the kick-off meeting virtually.

At the end of a project, the project manager was asked to provide a performance rating of the project team members.What should the project manager mainly make reference to?

Agreed-upon key performance indicators (KPIs)

Input from project stakeholders

Feedback from the project sponsor

Agreed-upon key performance indicators (KPIs)

A project manager prepared a project benefits management plan.Which of the following should be included in this document?

Target benefits, strategic alignment, time frame for realizing benefits

Strategic alignment, benefits owner, risk register

Target benefits, benefits owner, lessons learned

Project requirements, target benefits, issue log, metrics

Target benefits, strategic alignment, time frame for realizing benefits

In a global project, the main definitions were developed in country A, and the delivery of the project will be completed in phases in countries B, C, and D. Country B discovers that one of the legal requirements was not addressed.What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

Identified the regulatory differences among the countries.

Managed risk mitigation strategies specific to each country.

Asked procurement to assign resources located in each country.

Selected countries that had similar regulatory requirements.

Identified the regulatory differences among the countries.

In a frequently changing project, the project manager discovers a customer requirement change during a daily meeting. What should the project manager do?

Validate the requirement change with the product owner and development team before redefining the scope.

Escalate to management for approval since the change was not included in the original requirements.

Tell the customer that the requirement change will be put into the next project phase if management approves.

Give the change to the scrum master to investigate how much additional effort the change will require.

Validate the requirement change with the product owner and development team before redefining the scope.

A customer is concerned with the quality of the product delivery, as the production deployment is approaching. What should the project manager do next to ensure acceptance of the deliverables?

Evaluate the quality checklist for product compliance.

Verify the production budget before advancing the product.

Evaluate the quality checklist for product compliance.

Review the approved exit criteria for the product.

Test product integration in accordance with the requirements.

A hybrid project has just deployed, and the project manager is planning project closure with lessons learned workshops. A key stakeholder informs the project manager that having the Scrum team in the workshops is a waste of time because the project was delivered successfully.What should the project manager do?

Ask the Scrum team members to share retrospectives.

Invite the Scrum team members as optional participants.

Ask the Scrum team members to share retrospectives.

Invite the Scrum team members as mandatory participants.

Ask the scrum master to attend the workshops.

An agile project for a database migration impacts nearly all business units of the corporation.Every effort has been made to complete the migration before the end-of-support date for the database platform. A new impediment now implies the need to continue use of the old platform another year at a higher support price.What should the product owner do about this situation?

Remove low-value items from the backlog to compensate for the higher cost.

Reprioritize the backlog based on value and cost of delay divided by duration.

Switch to a predictive approach to prevent any further delays to completion.

Reprioritize the backlog based on story size and competence availability.

Remove low-value items from the backlog to compensate for the higher cost.

A project manager is leading a product feature rollout that will gain more subscribers for a video- streaming application. During the backlog grooming phase. the business stakeholders were unable to understand the feature integration with the product and raised concerns.What can the project manager do to demonstrate the feature integration?

Include the business stakeholders in the iteration review.

Involve business stakeholders in the iteration retrospective.

Create a task for the iteration review and add it to the backlog.

Review the backlog in detail with the business stakeholders.

A company is launching a new product that has to be ready before the summer season begins.After the discovery process, the team realizes that the requirements are very uncertain.What should the project manager do?

Assist the team in proposing a minimum viable product (MVP).

Ask to include some business subject matter experts (SMEs) in the team.

Register a risk and define a contingency plan to finish the project on time.

Assist the team in proposing a minimum viable product (MVP).

Invite stakeholders to discuss project requirements prioritization.

A project team has finished its first iteration out of six. The iteration's delivery performance (velocity) was 50%. During the iteration retrospective, the team realizes that the complexity of the work was underestimated.What should the project manager do?

Meet with the team to review internal actions to resolve the situation.

Update the issue log and escalate it to the project sponsor.

Ask the technical manager to help the team with the issue.

Meet with the team to review internal actions to resolve the situation.

Ask to replace some team members with more experienced ones.

A project manager is reviewing a draft of the project charter with key stakeholders. During the meeting, a conflict occurs between the sponsor and the product owner.How should the project manager deal with the situation?

Continue the meeting and use facilitation techniques to improve communication within the team.

Continue the meeting and ask the project sponsor and product owner to take their discussion offline.

Continue the meeting and use facilitation techniques to improve communication within the team.

Postpone the meeting and invite a subject matter expert (SME) to join the next meeting.

Postpone the meeting and ask the project sponsor and product owner to take their discussion offline.

In a daily standup meeting, a developer indicates that a backlog item will not be delivered because they need to take an unexpected leave for the next couple of days. The backlog item is a prerequisite for a feature expected by users in the next sprint review.What should the project lead do?

Work with the product owner to change the priorities in the sprint backlog.

Work with the product owner to inform the users that the feature is delayed.

Ask the development manager to provide a replacement for a couple of days.

Ask the developer to postpone the leave until the backlog item is delivered.

An organization is transitioning to agile delivery, and a new team has been assembled. A project is not going well because the variation of the team velocity is very high and every sprint delivers less than committed. A new project lead with a strong technical background has been assigned to the project.What should the project lead do?

Recommend a different estimation method in the retrospective.

Ask that estimations be provided only by senior developers.

Recommend a different estimation method in the retrospective.

Allocate more time for estimation in the sprint planning.

Review and update the estimations in the daily standup.

A project team member just informed the project manager that the license for the software that the team uses to perform calculations has just expired. As a result, the team cannot continue with their project tasks.What should the project manager do first?

Ask the team to fast-track the project and perform tasks that do not require calculations.

Issue a formal complaint to the project sponsor claiming a lack of proper tools.

Ask the team members to find an alternative way to perform calculations.

Ask the team to fast-track the project and perform tasks that do not require calculations.

Meet with the IT team to evaluate how fast the software license can be renewed.

During a monthly review meeting, a high-performing team member raised a concern about the quality feedback mechanism. The team member expressed that they are not able to deliver high- quality output.What should the project manager do first?

Assign the work based on the skill sets of team members.

Request feedback from stakeholders about the quality delivery.

Assign the work in consultation with the functional manager.

Discuss this with the team and review the quality process.

Assign the work based on the skill sets of team members.

A member of the project team always extends discussion topics, taking more time than necessary during project team meetings. Other team members feel this member is not being considerate of their time.What should the project manager do?

Explain to the team that open discussions are needed but remind the team to follow the ground rules.

Ask this member to only discuss the current topic to achieve team efficiency.

Ask the team to accept the input from this particular member as their input may be useful.

Allow the self-organized team to discuss the situation among themselves and come to a resolution.

A company recently adopted agile to develop innovation projects. The project manager is experiencing problems with some team members who consider some agile ceremonies to be unnecessary.What should the project manager have done before the beginning of the project?

Prepared an inception deck and clearly explained the purpose of agile ceremonies and their benefits to the project.

Discussed with the project sponsor about convincing the team to adopt the agile ceremonies as part of their routine.

Discussed with the product owner and requested assistance by requiring the adoption of agile ceremonies.

Conducted a survey to determine if the team was willing to adopt agile ceremonies on the current project.

PMI PMP Practice Test 15 - Free Online Exam Questions 561-600

A project manager has been asked to lead a project. The performing organization does not have a project management office (PMO) or formal governance policies procedures, and guidelines for this type of project.

What should the project manager do first to determine a governance approach for the project?

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