A project team member does not submit the project status report on time. The team member is frustrated about being required to complete the report. The team member believes that the report does not reflect the reality of the project, has too many pages, and will not be read by stakeholders.What should the project manager do?

Review the requirements of the report with the team member to redefine its purpose.

Instruct the team member to provide the report and document this in the performance review.

Reassign the report to another team member to prepare and submit it as requested.

Escalate to the team member's functional manager that the report was not submitted as requested.

A project manager has been assigned to a new project. There is one team member who never says anything during meetings. After meetings, however, the team member sends detailed emails with very good suggestions that help with project execution.How should the project manager guide the team members?

Motivate the team members to speak freely in the meeting.

Remind the team members to follow the team charter.

Arrange a team-building activity to involve all team members.

Motivate the team members to speak freely in the meeting.

Review the communications management plan with the team members.

The project manager of a high-risk project is concerned about a delay in the schedule that might force the project to move its go-live date. What should the project manager do next?

Capture the risk in the risk register and monitor it to prevent it from becoming an issue by taking the proper response action.

Raise a change request to the change control board (CCB) to ask for funds to onboard new resources to expedite the project.

Ensure that the project meets the committed time lines as this is the core objective and purpose of the project.

Ask the sponsor to start a new project to support the existing project and help it meet the original time line.

A new privacy law will go into effect at the beginning of the next calendar year. The project manager realizes the project needs to be compliant with the new law.What should the project manager do next?

Inform the project steering committee of this constraint.

Inform the legal department that the project scope will be updated.

Inform the product owner that the project will continue as planned.

Inform the project steering committee of this constraint.

Inform the project team and create a spike for the next iteration.

A key customer stakeholder asks the project team to include new tasks in the backlog and begin analyzing new requests. The customer expects results as soon as possible and pressures the team to attend noncritical meetings. The team is frustrated by this situation.How should the project manager approach this situation?

Ask the customer to work with the product owner to prioritize all requests.

Work with the team to receive customer directions and improve the process.

Ask the customer to work with the product owner to prioritize all requests.

Call for an internal team retrospective and create an improvement action plan.

Understand the customer's perspective and provide mentoring on agile mindsets.

In a marine construction project, the project manager is informed by the marine authority that the work permit will not be issued until certain environmental reinforcement work has been completed. After reviewing the project management plan, the reinforcement work is not included in the project scope.What should the project manager do?

Start the organization's change control process via a change request.

Raise this issue, and review and update the progress report for the next monthly project meeting.

Communicate with an officer in the environmental protection department to check if it is necessary.

Organize a meeting with the team and update the work breakdown structure (WBS).

Start the organization's change control process via a change request.

An organization is undergoing an agile transformation. The executive leadership team is concerned that they will lose control over the scope of the project.What should the project manager, who is responsible for this project, do to mitigate this risk?

Propose a governance model that empowers the teams while providing the necessary oversight to the executive leadership team.

Propose a multilayered gate system based on risks and financial expenditures, involving the executive leadership team as needed.

Assure the executive leadership team that the current governance model will not be affected by the agile approach.

Ensure that the executive leadership team approves all scope that is being proposed by the multiple agile teams to avoid misalignment.

Propose a governance model that empowers the teams while providing the necessary oversight to the executive leadership team.

The project sponsor recently requested that a vendor begins working toward adopting a hybrid approach. In response, the vendor hired a project manager experienced in agile for the project.What does that project manager need to do to make the team work in a collaborative way?

Allocate time to mentor the team.

Request the project management office (PMO) for a team of mentors.

A project manager is assigned to a multiyear enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution project.During planning, the business sponsor emphasizes the importance of demonstrating value along the way, while maintaining the integrity of the final product.How should the project manager establish the delivery model for this project?

Organize the project into multiple subsets based on business functions and deliver each subset as a component of the final product.

Communicate the latest status to the steering committee and provide a demo of the features completed.

Reestablish the project as a program with multiple small projects, as each project will be delivered as a product of its own.

Schedule routine demos on features completed and deliver a single product once all features are completed.

Organize the project into multiple subsets based on business functions and deliver each subset as a component of the final product.

At a recent steering committee meeting, the project sponsor asked the project team to add a major feature to the final product. After consulting with the project team, it is determined that the change will cause significant impacts to the original project delivery date and budget.What should the project manager do to assess the priorities and meet the new objective?

Communicate the results and negotiate the needed resources and time with the stakeholder.

Submit a change order request with the new project objective to the project management office (PMO).

Initiate a crashing routine to gain extra time for the added feature.

Ask the project team to work overtime in order to accommodate the new changes.

Two team members are arguing about which technology they should use when implementing iteration tasks. The predictive approach was broken into several iterations that need to be completed on time so as not to jeopardize the project's timely completion.What should the project manager do to resolve this issue and help the team move on to the next iteration?

Call for an open dialogue which the team will arrive at through consensus.

Allow the team to decide since the teams should be autonomous.

Suggest their own approach to solve the issue and ask the team to follow it.

Call for an open dialogue which the team will arrive at through consensus.

Postpone the selection of the technology used until more information is gathered.

A junior project manager was recently hired to lead a complex project scheduled to kick off in 2 weeks. The junior project manager was introduced to another project manager for mentoring.Which two benefits will the junior project manager realize by being assigned to a mentor?(Choose two.)

The mentor can provide past project documentation with early warning indicators that potential problems could occur.

The junior project manager can discuss certain problems with their mentor without fear of retribution.

The mentor will be involved in the decision-making processes implemented by the junior project manager.

The mentor can provide past project documentation with early warning indicators that potential problems could occur.

The mentor will be immediately available to take over the project if there are problems or project delays.

The junior project manager reports administratively to their mentor so that human resource (HR) questions can be answered quickly.

The junior project manager can discuss certain problems with their mentor without fear of retribution.

A complex project is in the execution phase. A key stakeholder who is new to the project has not been approving project deliverables, which could impact the overall progress.What should the project manager do next?

Meet with the stakeholder to understand what is causing the delays.

Capture this in the issue log and escalate it to the project sponsor.

Discuss the need to influence this stakeholder with the sponsor.

Meet with the stakeholder to understand what is causing the delays.

Facilitate a brainstorming session to find potential workarounds.

During regular project progress review meetings, one team member shares bad news that has a significant impact on the project schedule. How should the project manager react to ensure the project remains successful?

Focus the discussion on recovery and ways to get back on track.

Thank the team member for raising this issue, log it, and move on to the next topic.

Punish the team member for providing negative data that will affect the team's morale.

Focus the discussion on recovery and ways to get back on track.

Act in a way to highlight the criticality of the situation.

At the end of a workshop to review project deliverables, a number of follow-up action items were generated. What should the project manager do next?

Prioritize the actions with the team, assign individuals who will be responsible for completion, and monitor progress.

Defer all actions until the next workshop to keep the team focused on other higher priorities.

Prioritize the actions with the team, assign individuals who will be responsible for completion, and monitor progress.

Review the critical path and update the project schedule with the newly identified tasks.

Follow up on each item as soon as possible to ensure timely completion and report the status to management.

A project manager is assigned to a global project where, during the planning process, team members from different regions are not agreeing to collaborate with each other. What should the project manager do?

Coordinate a meeting to understand the situation and resolve any conflicts.

Review the organizational culture, structure, and governance.

Coordinate a meeting with regional managers to ask for support.

Review lessons learned from previous projects that used the same team.

Coordinate a meeting to understand the situation and resolve any conflicts.

During the development of a project in a dynamic market environment, new unforeseen legal requirements have come into effect. The project manager is not sure if some of the project deliverables will be fully compliant with the new requirements.What should the project manager do?

Evaluate the consequences of noncompliance with relevant stakeholders and update the risk register with agreed actions.

Agree with the project team that the new requirements will be applied to the next project, not the one already under development.

Evaluate the consequences of noncompliance with relevant stakeholders and update the risk register with agreed actions.

Request the project management office (PMO) to assign a dedicated resource to monitor the external environment to enable more reaction time.

Stop the project until someone in the organization can identify all the new requirements and how they impact the project.

During the initiation stage of a multimedia exhibition-design project, the project manager is developing the project management plan. What should the project manager do to complete this task?

Clarify the high-level business requirements with the event organizer as a basis for forming the deliverables list.

Initiate a survey to solicit end-customer opinions and prioritize exhibition contents.

Initiate an additional services agreement in case the key deliverables list was not clearly stated in the contract.

Benchmark other similar exhibitions' deliverable lists and final outcomes.

Clarify the high-level business requirements with the event organizer as a basis for forming the deliverables list.

A system migration project is in its closing stage. The project manager is being pressured to close the project. The project manager communicated to all stakeholders; however, the last department to migrate indicated that they have not received the notification.What should the project manager do?

Log the issue and assign it to the project team member(s).

Close out the project and tell the manager to open a service desk ticket.

Log the issue and assign it to the project team member(s).

Escalate the issue to the project sponsor and upper management.

Report the issue during the next status meeting at the end of the week.

A project manager is implementing an enterprise-wide software project. The project has a great business impact and is fully supported by senior management. However, the project manager is facing difficulties getting the support of several key departments.What should the project manager do?

Understand the user concerns and revisit the stakeholder engagement plan.

Ask senior management to communicate with these departments.

Understand the user concerns and revisit the stakeholder engagement plan.

Hire a project management consultant to help resolve the issue.

Convince senior management to introduce rewards to resisting departments.

During a project to develop a new pharmaceutical product, the project manager was informed that there has been a change in government regulations regarding the materials of the project. What should the project manager do?

Study the new regulations with the team and evaluate if there is any impact on the project variables.

Update the contingency plan to take this issue into account.

Meet with the stakeholders to update the risk register and risk management plan.

Study the new regulations with the team and evaluate if there is any impact on the project variables.

Review the procurement documentation and modify requirements as needed.

A globally distributed project team is running behind schedule due to the lack of team commitment and low morale. In order to bring the schedule back on track, what should the project manager do first?

Set up a meeting to perform a root cause analysis.

Permanently colocate the team for better performance.

Update the issue log and communicate it to the team.

Seek the sponsor's approval to extend the project schedule.

A company has transitioned and is now delivering projects using a hybrid approach instead of a predictive approach. The distributed project team's knowledge of agile is varied. The project manager feels this new methodology will impact the timely delivery of the project.What should the project manager do?

Plan for training on agile tools and techniques used in the defined hybrid methodology for consistent application by all team members.

Use the predictive approach for team members who are not knowledgeable in agile project delivery practices.

Ask to execute the project with a predictive approach since there is a budget and schedule risk.

Use crashing to reduce the critical path to ensure enough buffer to include the impact of the agile methodology update.

Plan for training on agile tools and techniques used in the defined hybrid methodology for consistent application by all team members.

A new relevant project stakeholder suggested a change to some of the project parameters midway through execution. What should the project manager do next?

Evaluate the proposed change with integrated change controls and discuss the change with the project sponsor.

Reject the change because it is contrary to what was agreed to during earlier phases of the project.

Transfer the change to the steering committee for them to evaluate and decide the appropriate next steps.

Evaluate the proposed change with integrated change controls and discuss the change with the project sponsor.

Accept the change and use contingency funds to implement this change with minimal schedule impacts.

A project manager just finished a meeting to identify the main stakeholders of the project. What should the project manager do next?

Keep all stakeholders informed.

In a functional organization, a product analyst is assigned to a short-duration application development effort. The analyst expresses concerns about the task and asks the project manager to provide the support of a peer with expertise in this domain.What should the project manager do?

Make sure the analyst has regular pairing meetings with the other team member throughout task execution.

Enroll the analyst in a capacity-building program, and keep this analyst assigned to the task.

Recognize the analyst's concerns and reassign the task to another team member.

Ask the analyst to use skills to develop the tool, then move development to another team member.

Make sure the analyst has regular pairing meetings with the other team member throughout task execution.

A project manager works in an organization that wants to implement agile methods. Traditionally, the project progress was communicated via a weekly email to stakeholders. The development team uses a burndown chart and a kanban board to visualize progress.What should the project manager do?

Use the burndown chart and the kanban board as an auxiliary communication channel.

Provide access to the burndown chart and kanban board and ask stakeholders to use them.

Organize training for all stakeholders on the burndown chart and kanban board.

Continue using only the traditional communication channels with external stakeholders.

A customer requests additional changes 1 day before the planned change date. How should the project manager respond to the change request?

Review the additional changes and perform integrated change control.

Reject the changes as the lead time is too short.

Check if the changes are covered in the statement of work (SOW).

Determine whether the project team is capable of making the changes.

Review the additional changes and perform integrated change control.

A company is transitioning from a predictive approach to an agile approach. A project manager is assigned to the first pilot with an inexperienced team. Due to an unexpected event, the whole team is asked to work remotely. During the second sprint, the project manager starts to notice a lack of commitment from the team members.What should the project manager do in this situation as a servant leader?

Coach team members to increase their engagement and collaboration.

Request an exception to allow the team to return to work on-site.

Force the team to attend the daily standups to gather the project status.

Allow the team to address the problem as a self-organized team.

An agile team has been assigned to a project that mandates the implementation of changes to key government products. The team has been given 6 months to fulfill this mandate.What should the team lead do next?

Create the epics at a high level for the requirements and begin grooming sessions.

Create the project charter and statement of work (SOW) to estimate the changes and the scope of the change.

Create all of the stories just for the next sprint and skip the epics until the next sprint.

Create all of the stories needed to fulfill this change, document them in the backlog, and prioritize them according to business value.

Create the epics at a high level for the requirements and begin grooming sessions.

A project manager has been assigned to a hybrid project. The project manager needs to ensure all team members are collaborating and are aware of the project's ongoing changes.What should the project manager do?

Encourage collaboration on a daily basis, facilitating different communication channels.

Distribute a project newsletter that includes any project changes and required project information.

Meet daily with the project team and include a monthly report on the risks and issues.

Send out daily emails with the project status and task lists to all team members.

A project leader is assigned to a new project and is asked to assemble an effective five-member agile team. If the project leader has no restrictions, which team should they choose?

A team whose members have more general aptitudes and can collaborate on different tasks

A team whose members work independently and are the best subject matter experts (SMES)

A team whose members have more general aptitudes but like to work individually

A team whose members have different skill sets and are spread out geographically

A project manager is leading the first agile project for the organization. During the kick-off meeting, the project manager notices that the team does not have the same understanding about agile approaches. The project manager is concerned about the impact of that confusion.What should the project manager do to address this situation?

Mentor the team to explain agile principles and create a shared understanding.

Evaluate the possibility of managing this project using a predictive approach.

Mentor the team to explain agile principles and create a shared understanding.

Hire a functional manager who is familiar with agile methodologies.

Submit a change request for a new team that has agile experience.

A project manager is working on a project with three virtual teams. Team A is in a different time zone than teams B and C. The project was going well, but recently team A has started feeling left out. Information reaches team A late or is sometimes missed, and teams B and C give preference to each other's problems over team A. The project manager has already set project guidelines, but realizes they need to be improved.Which two things should the project manager do to help the teams collaborate better? (Choose two.)

Update the communications management plan and encourage the teams to review it promptly and proactively.

Schedule weekly progress meetings with all three teams and have them take turns as key players.

Update the communications management plan and encourage the teams to review it promptly and proactively.

Schedule weekly progress meetings with all three teams and have them take turns as key players.

Create a status reporting template and share it with all team members before the day ends.

Plan for team members to temporarily work at each other's locations to better provide a sense of community.

Schedule daily meetings with each team to understand their progress and concerns in detail.

The project manager's firm is executing a construction project. The project is stalled due to reemerging conflicts and misunderstandings among stakeholders.What should the project manager do to ensure a smooth start and completion of the project?

Determine the root cause of the misunderstandings, get all parties to reach a consensus, and help to implement the outcome.

Invite all the stakeholders to a change control board (CCB) meeting, share feedback and facts, and come to a consensus.

Advise the firm to cancel the project due to misunderstandings among the stakeholders and the associated risks.

Conduct an on-site survey, start the project to avoid any undue delays, and ensure costs are under control.

Determine the root cause of the misunderstandings, get all parties to reach a consensus, and help to implement the outcome.

A project manager has been assigned to take over an existing software project. The project manager inherited a lean team comprised of key stakeholders, subject matter experts (SMEs), and senior developers. While reviewing the project status with the team, the project manager observes that the team seems to lack direction and enthusiasm.What should the new project manager do?

Encourage participation in decision making and empower the team.

Ensure everyone performs their assigned tasks as planned.

Meet with the project sponsor and propose a corrective action for the project.

Organize frequent team building sessions and update the risk register.

A project manager implementing a hybrid project is dealing with multiple stakeholders in a rapidly changing business environment. How should the project manager ensure that the needs of stakeholders are consistently met?

Use iterative life cycles involving stakeholders to enable the team to improve the product end result through successive prototypes.

Add more iterative techniques to improve stakeholder learning.

Use iterative life cycles involving stakeholders to enable the team to improve the product end result through successive prototypes.

Identify all the critical stakeholders during project initiation.

Assign one team member to one stakeholder to ensure that the responsible team member is conversant with the needs of the stakeholder.

In an agile environment, a project is running iteration four out of six. A team member leaves the company with no replacement.What should the project manager do?

Update the issue log and refer to the resource management plan to address the situation.

Ask the sponsor for an experienced team member in the company to help the project team.

Reduce the scope of the project and inform stakeholders.

Ask the team for extra work to fulfill the project commitment.

Update the issue log and refer to the resource management plan to address the situation.

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