A project is in the planning phase. The project manager notices that the available engineers do not have the required skills. Since outsourcing is not an option for this project, the project manager asks human resources (HR) to hire or assign engineers with the required skills.However, the company cannot afford this at the moment.What should the project manager do first?

Add extra time for training during the course of the project.

Introduce a mentoring program to facilitate knowledge sharing.

Change the scope to include only the work that the team is qualified to do.

Add extra time for training during the course of the project.

Use the management reserve to obtain the needed resources.

During a project status meeting with senior managers, the project manager gives an update about the status of a deliverable. Some of the senior managers claim not to know about the deliverable.What should the project manager do next?

Meet with these stakeholders to review the project charter.

Check if these stakeholders attend regular project meetings.

Meet with these stakeholders to review the project charter.

Review the project charter to validate this claim

Validate if the project charter changed from the original one.

A project manager is assigned to an agile project that has an aggressive time line and a fixed budget. Currently, the majority of the items are in the backlog and only a few are in process or completed.What should the project manager do?

Prioritize which backlog activities should be kept.

Work on the backlog activities with fewer story points.

Ask for more resources to clear the backlog activities.

Prioritize which backlog activities should be kept.

Assign an owner for each backlog activity and track progress

Team members of a new scrum team are skilled and excited about the project, despite never having worked together before. The project leader requested an offsite team building activity to talk about the project and get familiar with each other, but the activity was not approved by the sponsor who is trying to save money. The project leader believes it is important to hold a team building activity to bring the team together.What should the project leader do?

Use the office facilities and support to organize an interactive event for the team members inhouse

Tell the team that the event will be handled at the end of the project due to current financial constraints

Bypass the event because the team members' seniority is enough to engage without further activities

Explain the financial constraint and ask each team member to pay their own share for the event

Use the office facilities and support to organize an interactive event for the team members inhouse

A project manager held a meeting and framed the project schedule. A critical stakeholder, who was not consulted at the time of the schedule discussion, complained that the published dates are not agreeable due to a prescheduled task for another assignment.What should the project manager do first?

Organize a new schedule framing meeting with the critical stakeholder to obtain input.

Discuss with the project sponsor and create a new project schedule.

Analyze the root cause of the issue and update the communications management plan.

Reach out to the project sponsor and request additional resources.

A hybrid project is experiencing several issues with both the agile delivery of the product as well as the predictive development of a marketing strategy. What should the project manager do to receive feedback from stakeholders located in different time zones?

Refer to the communications management plan.

Send an email to all stakeholders.

Refer to the stakeholder engagement plan.

Set up a conference call for all stakeholders.

Refer to the communications management plan.

A project team is in the planning phase of a product migration project. The project manager schedules a meeting with the project team, telecommunications team, and the department leaders with group product accounts. The purpose of the meeting is to determine the project timeline based on how much content needs to be transferred to or created in the new system and the processing procedures and time frames.Who should the project manager also invite to the meeting?

Representative from the network team

Representative from the provisioning team

Representative from the network team

Representative from the reimbursement team

Representative from the service desk team

A project sponsor is promoting the use of a new technology that has not yet been approved. The technology guarantees cost savings and a delivery ahead of schedule. However, the operational support at project completion is uncertain as the service organization expressed an inability to provide support without approval of the new technology.What should the project manager do to resolve the conflict?

Acknowledge the lack of approval and focus on a resolution that will benefit the customer.

Seek to understand the project stakeholders' needs in an effort to support the new technology.

Communicate the project's progress to the stakeholders and promote the new technology.

Maintain and adhere to project plans to ensure the project delivers successful outcomes.

Acknowledge the lack of approval and focus on a resolution that will benefit the customer.

A project manager has been hired to lead a governance consulting project that is in the initial phase. The project manager has been assigned to evaluate the supplier search activity. There are many interested candidates, including former suppliers and suppliers recommended by the sponsor.What should the project manager do in this situation?

Evaluate the suppliers based on their experience and skills in similar projects

Evaluate suppliers who have worked successfully with the company before

Request the contracting area take charge of the supplier evaluation process

Prioritize evaluation of the suppliers recommended by the sponsor

Evaluate the suppliers based on their experience and skills in similar projects

A transportation company is developing a new tool to improve their delivery process. As project development for sprint two began, the executive steering committee made a request to include a new capability to perform a what-if analysis in the tool based on the customer demand and forecast.What should the project manager do next?

Perform an impact analysis on the schedule and budget based on the additional scope.

Revise the project schedule and budget based on the additional scope, and review with the team.

Include the new capability to the product backlog and continue activities based on the current plan.

Perform an impact analysis on the schedule and budget based on the additional scope.

Analyze and negotiate with the executive steering committee regarding this new request.

A company initiated a project to introduce a new product to the market. The product must undergo the industry's regulatory process prior to approval and launch. However, the company sees a great demand for this product and wants it to launch as soon as possible.What should the project manager do to realize this opportunity?

Comply with the regulatory requirements and work to compress the project schedule.

Communicate with the industry's regulatory authority to grant the company an exception.

Hire a third party who is an expert on the industry's regulations to work out the details.

Escalate the issue to the company's CEO who has experience with the regulations.

Comply with the regulatory requirements and work to compress the project schedule.

Product implementation portions of a project are nearing completion. The project manager schedules a series of meetings to meet with the marketing management team. During the meeting, the marketing manager tells the project manager that some key members of the department will not be available to work on the implementation for the next 3 months.What should the project manager do?

Consult the resource management plan and escalate to the sponsor.

Shift those key members and assign them to another project.

Cancel the meeting series until the marketing team provides a solution.

Consult the project team and discuss the key team members' availability.

Consult the resource management plan and escalate to the sponsor.

At a daily standup on the second day of the sprint, the product owner asks one of the developers to add more functionality to a product backlog item that was committed to in the sprint planning. The product owner explains that the change is based on a discussion they had with a user, is critical, and should be delivered in the next release.What should the project manager do?

Organize a workshop after the standup to assess the impact.

Ask the product owner to provide more details in the standup.

Organize a workshop after the standup to assess the impact.

Prepare a budget change request for additional resources.

Create a new product backlog item for the next sprint planning.

A product owner is trying to understand how many of the user stones have been completed within a 2-week sprint. How should the project manager approach this situation?

Share the burndown chart with the product owner.

Use retrospectives to deliver the finished products.

Invite the product owner to regular standup meetings.

Have a face-to-face conversation with the product owner.

Share the burndown chart with the product owner.

A project manager is part of a cross-functional agile team. Throughout the project, it has become obvious that team members from different functional units have different perspectives of what the outcome should be.What should the project manager do to resolve this?

Check to ensure the project outcome aligns with the project charter and statement of work (SOW).

Invite the project sponsor to the sprint review to provide clarity on the sprint outcome.

Ask the product owner to address the concerns about the project outcome during the sprint retrospective.

Schedule a meeting with the stakeholders to determine a consensus regarding the outcome.

A project presently in the testing stage is nearing the closing phase, which will transition the completed project to the company's operations support team. However, many new members have just been added to the operations support team who are not familiar with the project and the project's acceptance is now at risk.What should the project manager do to mitigate this transition risk?

Request the steering committee to authorize an early project deployment (i.e., a "beta" transition release) and engage the operations support team in the early release.

Request the steering committee to reevaluate the feasibility of transitioning and closing the project given the personnel changes on the operations support team.

Request the steering committee to train only the selected operations team members who are familiar with the project and then train the new team members separately.

Request the steering committee to exclude the new team members during the transition and train the new members after the planned transition is completed

Request the steering committee to authorize an early project deployment (i.e., a "beta" transition release) and engage the operations support team in the early release.

A project manager is working on a project to scale an operation globally. This endeavor required multiple interviews with various stakeholders. During the user story creation phase, the product owner met with multiple stakeholders who had different opinions about the requirements.How should the project manager address this situation?

Use a voting system for stakeholders.

Ask the product owner to create the backlog.

Use a voting system for stakeholders.

Perform a stakeholder identification analysis.

Limit the participation from stakeholders.

A project team consists of eight resources working on a complex project. The chief technical designer prefers to work alone and seldom talks in meetings, but produces good designs. The technical lead is always energetic, has lots of opinions about the project, and constantly clarifies their thoughts in discussions.What should the project manager do to improve overall team performance?

Encourage the chief technical designer to engage more with the team.

Ask the chief technical designer to provide their feedback by email.

Let the team dynamics continue as is since the current team mix works well.

Encourage the chief technical designer to engage more with the team.

Ask the technical lead to drive the project s technical discussions.

The project management office (PMO) assigns a project manager who specializes in hybrid approaches to a predictive project that is off track from both the cost and schedule perspectives.The project runs into further delays as the project manager is ramping up on the project. The stakeholders are unhappy and ask senior management to replace the project manager.How should the project manager approach this situation?

Meet with the stakeholders to understand their concerns and define an action plan to resolve issues.

Escalate the stakeholder issue to the management team and ask for help with resolving the conflict.

Socialize with the stakeholders to better understand their needs and reset expectations.

Continue to work on the project until the stakeholders and management come to a decision.

A project manager has been assigned to a new project. The project schedule is extremely short. During an iteration review meeting. the key stakeholder mentions that they are experiencing some inefficiencies in their work processes.What should the project manager do?

Ask the team to evaluate their process

Perform a schedule impact analysis with the team.

Ask the team to evaluate their process

Review deliverables with the key stakeholder.

Seek support from the project sponsor.

At a project status meeting, different activities were agreed upon for the following weeks. At the end of the first week. the project team realizes that the activities were executed in the wrong way because each team member had a different understanding. These misunderstandings have caused a delay in the project.Which of the following actions should the project manager take to avoid this situation in the future?

Use a common communication terminology.

Conduct reviews prior to performing activities.

Monitor the team's performance metrics.

Document the agreement in the meeting minutes.

Use a common communication terminology.

A project manager is leading an agile project in an organization that has not executed this type of project before. In order to ensure the project is following the compliance requirements, what should the project manager do?

Meet with the project management office (PMO)/compliance entity to work on process tailoring to ensure that the agile deliverables support the compliance requirements of the organization.

Use the risk register to document all of the compliance vulnerabilities generated by the project so that all decisions are well documented and approved by stakeholders.

Meet with the project management office (PMO)/compliance entity to work on process tailoring to ensure that the agile deliverables support the compliance requirements of the organization.

Follow the organization's process and deliverables for predictive projects, even if they compromise the agility and performance of the project.

Coach upper management on agile practices, explaining that an agile project is concerned with value delivery, and negotiate a way out of the compliance requirements.

A project lead is managing a project in the execution phase. A new product owner was assigned and the project lead had their first meeting with the new product owner. During the meeting, the new product owner indicated the scope of the first release needs to be changed.What should the project lead ask the product owner to do first?

Review the priorities of the existing backlog items included in the release.

Create new backlog items and discuss them in the next sprint retrospective.

Create new backlog items and discuss them in the next sprint planning.

Review the new backlog items and discuss them in the next standup.

Review the priorities of the existing backlog items included in the release.

A project manager is working on an international effort that involves a project team located on four different continents. The project team is extremely proud of the progress they have made on a recent iteration of the project. However, senior stakeholders unfamiliar with the project's progress are concerned that the project may be unsuccessful.What should the project manager do to help mitigate the stakeholders' concerns?

Setup a virtual meeting with the stakeholders to discuss concerns and provide regular progress updates every 2 weeks.

Create and send out a high-level progress summary to all stakeholders that has been approved by the program manager.

Setup an in-person status meeting so stakeholders can speak with the project team about their project concerns.

Setup a virtual meeting with the stakeholders to discuss concerns and provide regular progress updates every 2 weeks.

Ask key developers to identify the most important risks and what the project team is doing to address those risks for the stakeholders.

During user acceptance testing, a project sponsor asks the project manager to add a couple of features. To meet the firm go-live date, the project team will need to work overtime.What should the project manager do?

Consult with the project team and provide options to the sponsor.

Submit an emergency change request and assign tasks to the team.

Request approval for overtime and a bonus to deliver on time.

Inform the sponsor that the project team cannot commit to more work.

Consult with the project team and provide options to the sponsor.

In a daily standup, the project lead notices that one of the senior developers is reassigning some of the easy backlog items to other team members, arguing that it is more efficient for the senior developers to work on complex items. What should the project lead do?

Include this practice in the next sprint retrospective and discuss it with all of the team members.

Include this practice in the next sprint review and discuss it with all of the team members.

Ask the senior developer to stop assigning tasks because that's the scrum master's job.

Support the senior developer's action and their authority over other team members.

Include this practice in the next sprint retrospective and discuss it with all of the team members.

A project team is working remotely on a project with tight deadlines. In the middle of the project, a team member is replaced with an individual who is new to the company. The document repository is available to review, but since the project is quite complex it could take time to understand the details related to the new team member's responsibilities.What should the project manager do?

Ask the new team member to review the repository and schedule a meeting to provide details and tasks.

Assign tasks and provide contacts so the new team member can contact the appropriate resources for support.

Ask the new team member to review the repository and schedule a meeting to provide details and tasks.

Organize a social event to introduce the new team member to key stakeholders and the project team.

Introduce the new team member to the project team and provide an explanation of the key themes.

A project manager is managing a project in a fast-paced environment. The project manager needs to empower the team to collaborate toward an expected outcome and enable high-team performance. The CEO has suggested that the project manager apply a servant leadership style.What should the project manager do to demonstrate the capabilities of a servant leader?

Define the project's objectives and create an environment where all team members can succeed in achieving them.

Create an environment where all team members compete to achieve the desired results.

Encourage all team members to develop the perfect plan to achieve the desired results.

Assess the business case and define the project priorities to motivate all team members.

Define the project's objectives and create an environment where all team members can succeed in achieving them.

There is an upcoming merger between a functional organization and an agile organization. The merger has necessitated that team members from both organizations brainstorm the effect this merger will have on critical compliance standards and the previous regulations for a project.What should the project manager do in order to achieve this objective?

Hold a joint meeting with both organizations, determine an engagement method, and then brainstorm.

Schedule separate breakaway sessions for each organization to brainstorm and share ideas.

Hold separate meetings for each organization, determine an engagement method, and then brainstorm.

Bring a team of experts to brainstorm and agree on the next course of action for the organizations.

A project manager is leading a project in which the product requirements have not been fully met due to several uncertainties about customer acceptance. What should the project manager do?

Gather enough requirements to produce a minimum viable product (MVP) with which to evaluate customer acceptance.

Gather a reduced number of approved requirements and add some extra features to fulfill the product specifications.

Gather enough requirements to produce a minimum viable product (MVP) with which to evaluate customer acceptance.

Stop all project activities until all requirements are set up front by the project sponsor and the key stakeholders.

Ask team members to research and collect data about the best features offered by similar products in the market.

An organization is using a hybrid delivery approach for a complex project. In the iteration review, a subject matter expert (SME) informed the team that new legislation will be published in a few months.What should the project manager do?

Discuss the change in the next sprint planning.

Ask the SME to provide details after the retrospective.

Discuss the change in the next sprint planning.

Discuss the change in the next release planning.

Ask the SME to provide details in the next daily standup.

A key project team member had an accident and will be in the hospital for at least two months.The backlog items the team member was working on have been delayed since the team member was the only person who knew how to complete them.What could the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

Developed a knowledge transfer plan

Identified this risk and defined a risk response plan

Assigned the backlog items to at least two of the team members

Developed a knowledge transfer plan

Reserved a contingency budget for external consultants

A development team member learned that one of the product features delivered in the last sprint would have greater business value if a small enhancement was made to the feature.What should the project manager do next?

Discuss this feature in the next sprint planning meeting.

Conduct another sprint planning meeting and add the necessary story.

Discuss this feature in the next sprint planning meeting.

Discuss this feature during the upcoming retrospective meeting.

Advise the team member to better prepare before sprint planning.

Based on a new company policy, an aviation software project has been structured to use an agile approach. The project is subject to industry regulations, which require detailed tracking and archival of product changes.What should the project manager use to understand the impact of compliance on this project?

Product backlog and definition of done (DoD)

Scope of work and product backlog

Sprint retrospective and release plan

A project manager is leading a program execution and has challenges, because a project team waits for every decision to be made by the project manager. The progress of the team is slow because the project manager is the bottleneck. Upon assessing the situation, the project manager realized that the team members can handle the work on their own.What should the project manager do?

Revise the roles and responsibilities and empower the team to make their own decisions.

Raise a resource request to get complimentary training for the project manager and team members.

Escalate the situation to the resource manager to ensure the team makes their own decisions.

Gather feedback from all team members and define a process to handle the team requests.

Revise the roles and responsibilities and empower the team to make their own decisions.

PMI PMP Practice Test 28 - Free Online Exam Questions 1081-1120

A project manager is using a hybrid approach for a project. The project team created and reviewed the risk log with the stakeholders at the beginning of the project. However, midway through the project, the project team and stakeholders became misaligned with the risks and mitigation strategies.

When should the risks be reviewed to ensure alignment between the project team and the stakeholders?

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