A project manager decided to use a highly adaptive approach to manage a large-scale project. In this project, there are many iterative tasks that utilize highly specialized experts. The project manager would like to create practical plans with high levels of buy-in from the team members.What should the project manager do next?

Explain the higher-level objectives to be assigned to the team.

Assign critical tasks to the most experienced team members.

Explain the higher-level objectives to be assigned to the team.

Review the budget with the team for the needed resources.

Review lessons learned from similar projects with the team.

In a software development project, some of the deliverables do not meet specific performance requirements.What action should the project manager take?

Review the issues with the project team to address the issues.

Review the requirements traceability matrix at the next meeting.

Report issues to key stakeholders and discuss follow up actions.

Ensure compliance with the quality management plan.

An experienced, high-performing team has two new team members. After several iterations with the new team members, the project manager noticed that the team's performance has decreased.What should the project manager do?

Provide the team with a coaching session.

Evaluate the two new team members.

Replace the two new team members.

Provide the team with a coaching session.

Allow the teams to organize themselves.

During a product demo with key stakeholders, the team identifies that one of the functionalities failed to perform as expected.What should the project manager have the project team do first to address the issue?

Update the issue log and document the change

Review the product specification requirements.

Submit a change request for corrective action.

An agile project manager has just been given a sizeable software development project to implement. Early in the initiation stage, the project sponsor requests an indication of time lines for delivery of the initial release.What tools should the agile project manager use to do these estimates?

Product backlog, budget, resource management plan

Budget, minimum viable product (MVP), retrospective notes

Resource management plan, retrospective notes, backlog grooming

Backlog grooming, product backlog, minimum viable product (MVP)

A project manager has experience working with a specific provider that has been requested for an upcoming project. This provider often fails to meet deliverable dates; however, it is the only company with the specific experience required for the project.What should the project manager do during the planning phase?

Add penalty clauses to the contract and update the risk register.

Hire resources to obtain knowledge about the provider's specific capabilities.

Add penalty clauses to the contract and update the risk register.

Encourage the provider to work overtime with no additional costs to the project.

Contract another provider with less experience and give them a chance to provide the deliverables.

An agile leader notices that one team member consistently fails to complete the deliverables on time. The agile leader suspects that this team member does not have the proper training.What should the agile leader do?

Reassign the task to another team member and require the team member to complete training

Use the retrospective meeting to remind the entire team that they must complete all deliverables in each sprint

Review the definition of done (DoD) with the team so that everyone understands what the team must deliver in this sprint.

Speak directly with the team member about improvements and commit to an agreed-upon time frame.

A company has assigned a project manager to the initial task of determining the resources required for a new project.What should the project manager consult?

Company's resource management plan

Company's historical organizational project artifacts

Company's project responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)

Company's resource management plan

A project manager works at an organization that is transitioning to agile. The development team has recommended using a burndown chart to provide visibility on project progress to all stakeholders.What should the project manager do to ensure effective communication throughout the project?

Advise the project management office (PMO) to use the burndown chart as the single communication channel.

Develop a communications management plan for each category in the stakeholder register.

Include the burndown chart in a monthly report that is distributed to all stakeholders.

Postpone the recommendation since the organization does not currently have a defined agile methodology.

A project manager leads a software development project in a hybrid environment. During project planning, the project manager identified a risk where a technical resource for a critical path item may not be available when needed. One week before the resource is needed, the technical engineer had a personal emergency and had to take a leave.What should the project manager do next?

Consult the risk register for an appropriate planned risk response and implement.

Revise the project management plan and move the task to a time when the technical resource will be available.

Review the business requirement with stakeholders and exclude the task assigned to the technical resource.

Update the lessons learned report and the risk log to reflect that this risk has materialized.

A team has just adopted an agile approach. During daily standup meetings, the team expressed concerns about task delays. The project leader worked with the product owner to get clarity on the features. The project leader asked the team to fast-track all product features to ensure delivery. Sprints are being completed but with either fewer features or low quality.What should the project leader have done to ensure success?

Empowered the team to improve their processes, tools, and interactions to be more effective in delivery and removing impediments

Asked the team to create an impediment log and keep it updated for use in the next sprint planning

Directed teams to possible solutions that help in removing the impediments and contribute to a timely delivery

Suggested to the team to add impediments as work items in the product backlog to be fixed in the next sprints

Empowered the team to improve their processes, tools, and interactions to be more effective in delivery and removing impediments

A team is delivering features to a customer at every iteration. After completing each iteration, the customer is invited for a review. However, the customer is frequently not available and the review is often delayed, which results in increased rework for the team.What should the project manager do?

Plan ahead and define the best way to review the deliverables with the customer

Include the customer in daily project activities to gain the required guidance

Plan ahead and define the best way to review the deliverables with the customer

Request the customer to clarify all requirements at the start of each iteration

Ask the customer to review the deliverables in each iteration based on their availability

A project manager is part of a team that is launching a series of features to comply with a new regulation. The team has only 6 weeks to release the features to the legacy applications. During the standup meeting, a software engineer indicated that the development of an important feature is on hold until the assigned designer completes a specific task. This delay is a serious road block to meeting the release date.What should the project manager do?

Meet with the designer to share the current status and develop a solution to complete the task

Meet with the design team manager to inform them of the current status and request an additional designer

Ask the software engineer to move forward without completing the important feature

Contact the design team manager and ask to reconsider the priority list based on the latest situation

Meet with the designer to share the current status and develop a solution to complete the task

A project manager is working with a customer's team on a new project. Some product definitions and requirements are still not clear, but the customer wants to start activities as soon as possible.The organization is also expecting product delivery for a specific date due to a regulatory requirement. Due to the nature of the project, the project manager has decided to use a hybrid approach.Why did the project manager choose a hybrid approach?

A hybrid approach will allow for management of the requirement uncertainties as well as the date restriction

A hybrid approach will enable project activities to start immediately and allow for a plan for the requirements definitions

A hybrid approach will allow the project manager to revise the product specifications

A hybrid approach will allow for management of the requirement uncertainties as well as the date restriction

A hybrid approach will ensure the delivery date is accomplished and will eliminate product uncertainties

A project team has expressed concern that certain remote team members are not able to collaborate with the larger project team due to their work schedule. The project manager is confused since the entire team is located in the same time zone and believes there are other factors at play.What should the project manager do next?

Examine the team's virtual needs

A company is implementing a project with team members located in different countries and time zones. Individual performance is satisfactory, but the team's performance as a whole is low, especially in terms of group activities.What should the project manager do?

Facilitate communication and team building

Review and reassign team assignments

Facilitate communication and team building

Review and update the communications management plan

During the third iteration of a project, the product owner requests another mandatory feature. This also happened in the previous two sprints, which resulted in failure and caused frustration within the team.What should the project manager do next?

Ask the product owner to prioritize the backlog with the project team

Request the scrum team to prioritize the product backlog

Ask the product owner to prioritize the backlog with the project team

Call for an internal meeting to discuss the changes and their value

Incorporate the changes in the last sprint before the first release

Five agile teams working together on a product recently performed release planning. Midway through the project, each team showed that their progress was on track. When all of the teams integrated at the product level, many integration issues were observed. The overall product release progress declined with predictions showing the committed content will not be able to be accomplished.What should the project manager have done differently?

Ensured frequent and continuous integration of work to obtain early feedback and continuous learning

Performed a Scrum of Scrums on a regular basis to help the teams remove impediments

Formed a separate quality assurance team to test all items coming from each team at the end of each sprint

Arranged an online session on the integration concept and suggested tools to the teams

Ensured frequent and continuous integration of work to obtain early feedback and continuous learning

A project team member is having difficulty delivering assigned tasks for a project that is at risk of being delayed. The main issue is that the team member does not understand a new system that was recently implemented.What should the project manager do?

Assign an experienced resource to support the team member.

Ask the team member to learn the new system as on-the-job training.

Issue a change request to extend the project schedule.

Escalate the team member's performance to the project sponsor.

Assign an experienced resource to support the team member.

A project team consisting of four team members will be rolling out a company-wide application to both staff and contractors in a country. To deliver within strict the time lines, a local company skilled in application deployment and change management will need to be contracted.What should the project manager do to empower the local company?

Manage expectations and agree on the requirements that the contractor will deliver under the supervision of the project manager

Begin to roll out the application by micromanaging the contractor

Set expectations and agree on the requirements that the contractor will deliver with periodic progress reports

Deploy the contractor's staff under the supervision of the project manager

A project manager is managing a construction project that is facing challenges. There is schedule overrun, cost overrun, and the client is unhappy with the specific scope progress.What should the project manager do first?

Review the scope and project objectives.

Enforce the penalty clause on the supplier.

Take action to reduce the cost overrun.

Work with the client on the scope completion.

A company is implementing a growth strategy by constructing a new production facility, which will soon move into the operation phase. Although a governance policy was already in place, the company must comply with new financial regulations that have been recently implemented.Compliance with the regulations will cause a major change in project scope.How should the project manager respond to this requirement?

Perform an analysis to assess the Impact on the project.

Proceed with the existing company governance policy.

Escalate the issue to upper management and let them decide.

Directly comply with the financial regulations.

A project manager has been assigned to an emergency project that must be completed within the next few weeks. The project manager realizes this will have an impact on the local community. As the work is near a school, the project manager has engaged with them to understand their needs.How should the project manager ensure the work continues smoothly?

Liaise with the school to include nonworking project hours during school start and finish times

Postpone the required work on the project until school holidays begin

Continue the work as planned and inform the school when the project team arrives on-site

Advise the school to close for the duration of the project work

Liaise with the school to include nonworking project hours during school start and finish times

It is late at night on a weekend when a team member calls the project manager on the telephone.The team member is crying about the pressures of an upcoming deadline.What should the project manager do?

Empathize with the team member and discuss next steps.

Review the organization's human resources (HR) policy.

Empathize with the team member and discuss next steps.

Ask the team member to send their concerns in writing.

Schedule a meeting with the team member for the next work day.

A team is having a hard time completing work due to unclear requirements. They have not been able to complete an iteration successfully in several months.In order to help the team, what should the project leader do?

Recommend that the product owner reviews the backlog refinement processes.

Recommend that the team reviews the length of the iteration with the stakeholders.

Recommend that the product owner reviews the backlog refinement processes.

Recommend limiting the work in progress to improve the team's focus.

Recommend a review of the team members' individual performances.

A project manager for an agile project is concerned that the team has been losing momentum over the last iterations.Which two tools should the project manager use to analyze team performance? (Choose two.)

Cumulative flow diagram of completed features

A project manager is working with the team to deliver a project in a company that uses different delivery methods. The project manager is concerned about the communication channels currently suggested by the project management office (PMO) because some information is taking too much time to reach the team members, causing negative consequences for delivery.How should the project manager avoid this situation in the future?

Agree with the project team on a suitable collaboration and make sure information is shared at all times.

Use the same methods until the end of the current delivery and suggest new ones during the retrospective.

Refer to the policies and frameworks used at the company enterprise level and inform the project team members.

Tell the sponsor that the project manager will use their own communication model to ensure on- time delivery.

A company must implement a new regulation. The government has specified the date when the regulation will be enforced but has only provided high-level information on the regulation's requirements. Therefore, changes in definitions are to be expected due to uncertainty.Which life cycle should the project manager use for this project?

A predictive execution strategy

An iterative execution strategy

A project manager is managing a project that has a new sponsor who is cutting the budget.As a servant leader, how should the project manager handle the budget cuts with the team?

Collaborate with the team to assess the impact of the change on the project and recommend an updated project plan.

Notify the project sponsor that the budget reduction will require a schedule slip and scope reduction.

Collaborate with the team to assess the impact of the change on the project and recommend an updated project plan.

Inform each team member that they must release a portion of their budget but must remain on schedule with no change to the scope.

Meet with the schedule coordinator and financial analyst to tell them which budget lines to reduce and where to release slack.

A project manager has completed an assessment of the project team's performance. Some team members have performed poorly on their assigned tasks.What should the project manager do?

Develop different approaches based on team members' motivation and ability

Create a new standard performance measure based on project requirements

Develop different approaches based on team members' motivation and ability

Develop a standard approach to provide feedback to all team members

Provide intensive oversight to the team members who performed poorly

An agile team has released the second version of its product, but the feedback is that the software has many bugs that compromise the user experience.What should the project manager do?

Facilitate the next retrospective meeting, focusing the team on analyzing root causes and proposing solutions

Hire an external consultancy firm to focus on testing and quality control to avoid the issue in the future

Propose an internal program that offers incentives for the team members who find and fix bugs

Closely evaluate the skill set of the team, looking for technical gaps that need to be filed in order to improve quality

Facilitate the next retrospective meeting, focusing the team on analyzing root causes and proposing solutions

During the setup of an agile project, the product owner expressed clear interest in having features released during product development over having the product completed in one year. What should the project manager do?

Facilitate sprint planning sessions with a focus on defining the minimum viable product (MVP)

Design a set of metrics including velocity, which is a good measure of value delivered.

Facilitate sprint planning sessions with a focus on defining the minimum viable product (MVP)

Promote a productive environment where everybody can work without interruptions from the rest of the team members

Create a reward system recognizing group contributions to get people motivated and improve performance

A project manager is leading a progress review meeting when some stakeholders who are new to the project express concerns about not having access to previously shared deliverables. What should the project manager do?

Document the new stakeholders' concerns in the meeting minutes.

Schedule an ad hoc meeting with the new stakeholders to discuss concerns.

Use social media environments to share the project information

Use the project management information system (PMIS) to share information.

A project team is identifying project risks for a bridge to be built across a river. The team needs to send out invitations for a risk workshop to better understand the risks involved. Which distribution list should the project manager use when sending out invitations?

Team members, engineers, and weather experts

Functional managers, team members, and external consultants with experience in the field

Team members, engineers, and weather experts

Team members, consultants from outside the project with experience in the field, and the customer

Weather experts, functional managers, and team members

A junior project manager is excited to start working on their first project with a telecommunications company. A senior project manager has decided to educate the junior project manager on the challenges of project management and how to achieve success.Which three artifacts should the senior project manager tell the junior project manager to utilize to ensure project success? (Choose three)

Lesson learned registers from past projects

Organizational process assets (OPAs)

Lesson learned registers from past projects

A project manager is defining the sprint goals with the team. A team member who is responsible for acceptance testing starts criticizing the goals and cannot come to an agreement with the other team members.How should the project manager handle this situation?

Request to meet with the team member and ask that any issues be escalated separately.

Reprimand the team member and provide immediate coaching on goal alignment.

Proceed with defining the goals with the team members given the majority approval from the team.

Approach the team member with empathy and obtain agreement through collaboration.

A new building project is in the middle of its life cycle. The municipality informs the project manager that due to new regulations, the parking lot around the project has to accommodate twice the number of cars than was initially planned.What should the project manager do next?

Assess the impact of the required change and consult with the executive sponsors to determine the best course of action.

Request the project sponsor to fund this change as it is a new regulation, then order the materials in order to start working.

Assess the impact of the required change and consult with the executive sponsors to determine the best course of action.

Ask the designers to start designing a solution for this new requirement while the project is running and determine the funding for this change.

Have the company's lawyers write to the municipality and reject the change as it was not part of the scope approved by the municipality.

PMI PMP Practice Test 19 - Free Online Exam Questions 721-760

As part of a company's planning effort for team capacity building, the project manager was asked to provide management with a list of required trainings for the project team.

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