A project team consists of members based in country A and subject matter experts (SMEs) based in country B with a 12-hour time difference. What can the project manager do to improve interactions between the team members in both countries?

Identify virtual communication methods and arrange for regular team meetings accordingly.

Plan for frequent face-to-face meetings.

Explore the opportunity to have both teams collocated.

Ensure full participation of both the product owner and business SMEs in scope planning sessions.

A project team is working hard to reach a milestone. The team morale is low because of the extended hours worked to meet the deadline. Adding to this tension is the fact that the team works remotely, and there has been little time to build relationships or get to know team members beyond the tasks that everyone performs.What should the project manager do to address the remote team's morale?

Offer opportunities for coworkers to interact beyond tasks, and model this behavior to create a safe space

Evaluate the challenges and capture them with the team as part of the lessons learned

Plan a party to celebrate everyone's accomplishments after reaching the milestone

Offer opportunities for coworkers to interact beyond tasks, and model this behavior to create a safe space

Invite the team to a work retreat to allow the team to build relationships in person and reach the milestone as planned

A construction project for a nuclear power plant will reduce the region's energy dependence on external electricity supplies. The project manager has received support for the project from several leaders in the region. However, some people from the government want to stop this project to focus on developing renewable energy sources.Which stakeholders should the project manager include in the stakeholder engagement plan?

Stakeholders who have been identified and who have needs and a potential impact on the project.

Stakeholders who disagree with the project so as to proactively manage their expectations.

Stakeholders who have been identified and who have needs and a potential impact on the project.

Stakeholders who are supporting the project in order to obtain additional resources.

Stakeholders who are selected by the project sponsor who have a potential impact on the project.

A project manager is working on an agile project. The organization decided to implement the Scrum framework. The project manager organized a workshop to explain the differences between traditional project artifacts and the Scrum approach. The most frequent question raised is what artifact will replace the project schedule.What should be the project manager's response?

Product backlog and scrum board

Product roadmap and sprint backlog

Sprint plan and product roadmap

Product backlog and scrum board

A project manager has been assigned to a global project involving regulatory bodies, government agencies, internal company leaders, the project team, and end users.What should the project manager do to engage them all effectively?

Check lessons learned from past projects.

Remove any bias that exists on the team.

A project is in the final stages, and a key stakeholder demands a change to a product feature that will add 2 weeks to the critical path. What should the project manager do?

Perform a detailed assessment to analyze the impact.

Initiate a risk response strategy from the risk register.

Perform a detailed assessment to analyze the impact.

Reject the changes as the project is in the final stages.

Use schedule compression methods to alter the critical path.

A project manager is newly assigned to the second phase of an ongoing project. During the implementation, a defect occurred and no one knows how to fix it, as the former engineering team has moved to another project. The customer warns that previously. this defect negatively affected the project schedule.What should the project manager do first?

Acquire knowledgeable resources.

Check the organizational process assets (OPAs).

Update the risk management plan.

Acquire knowledgeable resources.

Extend the timeline of the project.

A project manager has taken over an agile project. There have been several issues during product development due to unclear product requirements.How should the project manager resolve this issue?

Review issues and identify opportunities for improvement that add value to the product.

Assist the team in estimating project tasks such as milestones and story points.

Gather the project team and product owner to find a solution design.

Review issues and identify opportunities for improvement that add value to the product.

Ask the team to rework the definition of done (DoD) before items can be pulled into the backlog.

A project manager has just been assigned to a new project. The project manager's first task is to present the project benefits to the stakeholders.Which three items should form part of the presentation? (Choose three.)

Risks associated with achieving the target benefits

Metrics to measure benefits throughout the project

Risks associated with achieving the target benefits

Metrics to measure benefits throughout the project

A project has been running successfully for 2 months. At a regular project meeting, the team raises several potential obstacles to future progress. The obstacles include vendor delivery performance, technical performance of a subsystem, and conflict with another division of the organization.What should the project manager do next?

Work with the team and others in the network to assess and prioritize the obstacles.

Escalate the obstacles to the project sponsor for assistance with resolution.

Engage with the external stakeholders and the other division of the organization to resolve the issues.

Work with the team and others in the network to assess and prioritize the obstacles.

Determine a change response to identify and resolve the obstacles to move the project forward.

A project team was asked to resume development activities on a project that was suspended for a few months due to the fast-changing environment and conditions. What should the project lead do?

Review the items remaining in the backlog with the project team

Ask the project team to approve all of the remaining backlog items

Ask the program manager to approve the backlog with the client

Review the items remaining in the backlog with the project sponsor

During project execution, a project manager discovers that the budget at completion has shifted significantly and is higher than expected. What should the project manager do?

Perform a root cause analysis of the project performance.

Adjust the original budget estimates with the current cost variance.

Review the activity duration to reforecast the project completion date.

Negotiate the project changes and adjust stakeholder expectations.

In a project using a hybrid approach, the performance of the team was consistently excellent during the predictive stages. When the iterations began, however, the team members started to show signs of low commitment, conflicts, and confusion, resulting in low morale.What should the project manager do to handle this situation?

Perform team-building activities and enhance collaboration.

Coach the team members on agile processes and knowledge.

Perform team-building activities and enhance collaboration.

Identify the team members who are impacting low morale.

Give team members more authority to make decisions.

During the daily standup meeting that is assessing progress against the current sprint, a team member reports some delays due to a component managed by an external vendor. How should the project manager address the team member's concern?

Ask the team member to provide details to address the issue with the vendor.

Implement fast tracking to reduce the impact of the delay on the sprint.

Ask the team member to provide details to address the issue with the vendor.

Ask the team member to resolve the issue independently to minimize further delays.

Update the communications management plan to prevent future reoccurrence.

During the last iteration of a hybrid project., one of the key members of the team wants to leave the project. What should the project manager do to address this concern?

Have a meeting with the resource to understand the issue.

Update the burndown chart to reflect this resource's absence.

Keep activities as planned regardless of the resource change.

Have a meeting with the resource to understand the issue.

Request an additional resource to finish the project.

After 35 years of service, a company's CEO has retired. The new CEO is planning to digitally transform the company and has assigned a new project manager to assist in this endeavor. The initial backlog has been created and agreed upon, and the team members have been assigned.What should the project manager do before the project kick-off meeting?

Review the project's environment to understand the organizational culture.

Perform integration management activities to consolidate the plans.

Compare the team's expertise against the project requirements.

Conduct a backlog refinement and identify the key activity to start with.

Review the project's environment to understand the organizational culture.

A company is starting a new agile project with a team that has expertise working on these kinds of projects. During the backlog refinement meeting, the team realizes that they are not completing the estimations because some key information is missing.What should the project manager do?

Review the project backlog with the product owner before estimating the stories.

Ask to postpone the iteration planning because the estimation is not complete.

Ask the product owner to review the stories with stakeholders prior to planning.

Review the project backlog with the product owner before estimating the stories.

Review the previous project estimations and assign them to the stories.

A project manager is involved with a project to remodel a long-used product. There are no proper records for the original design and execution of the original product. The stakeholders doubt that the remodel can be accomplished without this information and are hesitant to provide support for the project.What should the project manager do?

Acknowledge the stakeholders' concerns with open dialogues and realign the project with stakeholder requirements and past lessons learned

Create a plan to inform stakeholders on the progress so they are able to see that the project can succeed

Share the threats of not updating old solutions and ask stakeholders to be patient with any inconveniences

Solicit a larger reserve for cost and time and manage the stakeholders' expectations

A project is starting its third iteration out of six. During planning, the team realized that all of the requirements were not defined clearly enough to start working.What should the project manager do?

Meet with the product owner to review the project backlog.

Review and replace the unclear requirements with ones that are clear.

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

Meet with the product owner to review the project backlog.

Invite key users to the next daily meeting to get requirement clarification.

A project team is working to deliver a solution to manage nationwide crisis relief operations. The project team is spending most of its time in meetings with end users. The meetings have been slowing down project progress.What should the project manager do to keep the deployment on track while obtaining stakeholder approval?

Put all of the requirements, priorities, and progress on a visible board, share it with all entities, and decrease the number of meetings.

Inform the stakeholders that a daily meeting will take place at a specific time and ask them to share their feedback during this time.

Stop attending meetings, start development with what was collected so far. and define a date for the first delivery of the solution.

Ask the project sponsor to attend the meetings on behalf of the team while the team is working on the development.

Put all of the requirements, priorities, and progress on a visible board, share it with all entities, and decrease the number of meetings.

A new team member inquires about how much they need to learn about the organizational process assets (OPAs) residing on the company intranet. Another team member states they only need to know the basics. However, the project manager believes the team member should know everything regarding the OPAs.What should the project manager do?

Clarify the relevance of reviewing the documentation on the intranet.

Create a training schedule for the new team member to follow over the next few weeks.

Escalate the inquiry to the team member's functional manager.

Clarify the relevance of reviewing the documentation on the intranet.

Ask a senior team member to help the new team member navigate through all the documentation.

A project manager has access to risk management tools but chooses to use a quantitative method to evaluate the project risks. During project execution, the project sponsor asks for an updated risk matrix.What should the project manager do next?

Add new risks and send the risk matrix to leadership for approval.

Use integrated risk management software to evaluate the risks.

Trust in the quantitative method already chosen as it is a precise method.

Add new risks and send the risk matrix to leadership for approval.

Use their own professional knowledge to reassess the risks.

In a highly politicized organizational environment, the stakeholders are driven by their own operational or business goals, which results in conflicting interests regarding the project. What should the project manager do to steer the stakeholders toward the collective project goal?

Promote, inspire, and follow the stakeholder engagement process

Anticipate, alert, and follow the risk management process.

Discuss, educate, and follow the communications management process

Detect, track, and follow the issue management process

Promote, inspire, and follow the stakeholder engagement process

An agile project is running its second iteration out of six. A marketing director, who is a key stakeholder, contacts the project lead for a high-level report of the project.What should the project lead do?

Develop the requested report based on the iteration information.

Ask the product owner to develop the new report based on the iteration information.

Develop the requested report based on the iteration information.

Explain to the stakeholder that the key indicators are by iteration.

Tell the stakeholder that a new report will be produced at the end of the iteration.

A project manager has recently moved to an organization to lead a key project. The project manager notices that team performance is below the target, and the tasks assigned are not delivered on time. Team commitment is also not as appropriate as it should be.What should the project manager do?

Study and determine the appropriate leadership style suitable for the team.

Schedule a meeting and communicate the performance concern to the team.

Hire a project team leader who can influence the project team members.

Apply an agile approach to help improve team performance.

Study and determine the appropriate leadership style suitable for the team.

A project manager has commissioned a design study from a consulting firm to investigate a number of alternatives. The project manager has a strict policy on the cost of the study and has established a number of cost triggers and trend analyses.Which tool is the project manager using?

Time and materials (T&M) contract

A project using a hybrid approach to migrate from a current system to a new and enhanced system is underway. The plan is to migrate the system in stages. However, the operations team is complaining that they are not ready to start supporting the new system.How should the project manager effectively approach this situation?

Include knowledge transfer sessions between the project and operations teams at every stage.

Prepare detailed documentation to be shared with the operations team during project closure.

Change the project management plan to add a final stage for product handoff to the operations team.

Create a lessons learned register to include operations team training for future projects.

A project manager is assigned to a project to develop a mobile app. The sponsor explains that the application should do better than their closest competitor's app. The sponsor's expectation is that the team can be put together and start work immediately.What should the project manager do?

Review the competitor's app to understand the functionalities that the project scope should consider

Define the project scope with the stakeholders and determine how formal acceptance will be obtained

Start working on the resource management plan in order to identify the best team for the project.

Utilize expert judgment and organizational process assets (OPAs) to estimate the effort and budget

Review the competitor's app to understand the functionalities that the project scope should consider

A senior project manager is assigned to lead a team of project managers to run a large initiative. One of the key stakeholders often bypasses the senior project manager and girves instructions to the other project managers directly.What should the senior project manager do?

Evaluate the stakeholder analysis to identify the stakeholder's influence.

Tell the project managers to document the stakeholder's instructions.

Evaluate the stakeholder analysis to identify the stakeholder's influence.

Review the benefits realization plan with the sponsor and the stakeholder.

Escalate to the project sponsors and the manager of this stakeholder.

Halfway through project execution, stakeholders ask for equipment that was expected to be procured. The project manager explains that the equipment was purchased, but differs from what the stakeholders are currently asking for. This is because the initial requirements were changed during a previous meeting.What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

Ensured that communications were sent to all stakeholders when requirements change

Ensured project requirements were validated and communicated with the procurement team

Ensured changing stakeholder needs and requests were properly monitored

Ensured procurement contracts were able be canceled when situations like this arise

Ensured that communications were sent to all stakeholders when requirements change

A project manager noticed that a team member has been struggling with some tasks, which may ultimately impact the completion date. Team morale is low because they will not get the expected bonus if they do not finish on time.What should the project manager do next?

Acknowledge the team for their accomplishments, encourage them, and offer assistance to avoid future delays.

Update the project schedule and budget estimates.

Ask the client to approve a delay in the project schedule.

Acknowledge the team for their accomplishments, encourage them, and offer assistance to avoid future delays.

Ask the human resources (HR) department to replace the team member and add an additional resource.

One of the key stakeholders on the project team reaches out with an additional requirement that may impact the overall schedule. A discussion with another stakeholder suggests that this might just be a small task.What should the project manager do?

Request further clarification of the requirement.

Perform a qualitative risk analysis.

Coordinate design document preparation.

Request further clarification of the requirement.

Manage the engagement of this stakeholder.

A project manager is in the middle or handling a major upgrade to an existing product. The project manager learns that the resources initially promised as part or the project are being moved to another priority project.What should the project manager do?

Perform an impact analysis to see the effect on the project

Examine ways of modifying the scope of the project.

Adopt a resource leveling procedure to level the resources

Retrieve the documentation that shows the resource allocation

Company A has a culture of adhering to policies and procedures. A project manager is applying an agile approach to their in-house software development project, but even with training, they are still unable to deliver efficiently.What should the project manager do first to improve this situation?

Empower and coach the team members to focus on project delivery results.

Identify key team members who can influence others to contribute efficiently.

Follow company procedures and retrain team members on the agile approach.

Ask company management to delay the project and grant it additional time.

PMI PMP Practice Test 27 - Free Online Exam Questions 1041-1080

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