A team needs to follow defined cybersecurity compliance that is mandatory for a customer project. What should the project manager do to monitor compliance in the project?

Schedule regular project audits.

One team member is complaining about an agreement made during the last meeting. That team member was present at the meeting and participated in the decisions registered in the meeting minutes.What should the project manager do next?

Meet with the team member and search for the root cause of their behavior.

Schedule a new meeting to evaluate the agreement and negotiate a new one.

Meet with the team member and search for the root cause of their behavior.

Arrange an additional meeting with the team to communicate the agreement made during the last meeting.

Talk with the team member and explain that once the meeting ended, the agreement must be respected.

Just as a team reaches a mutual consensus on a preferred design, a stakeholder submits a request to add new features that enhance the company's competitive advantage. What should the project manager do?

Start the process to include the new features of the product on the next iteration.

Allow all requested changes and bypass the company's change control process.

Reject all requested changes and bypass the company's change control process.

Encourage the project team to add premium features to impress the client.

A project sponsor asks the project team to add an enhancement to the project. How should the project manager address this request?

Validate the proposed change's impact on the project.

Accept the request because it came from the project sponsor.

Refuse the project sponsor's request because it is out of scope.

Check if the budget can cover the enhancement.

Validate the proposed change's impact on the project.

A project manager is assigned to an organizational transformation project. The company typically defines individual performance plans at the beginning of the year, and functional managers conduct feedback reviews at the end of the year. The transformation project team members are concerned that the work they are doing for this project is not aligned with the work included in their individual performance plan for the year.What should the project manager do?

Meet with the functional managers to align the expected frequency and results reporting for the team members.

Provide performance feedback to the team members' functional managers at the end of the year.

Assure team members that this project is a high priority for the company and they will be evaluated accordingly.

Request to be made responsible for the performance plans of those on this project team.

During a meeting with project stakeholders, a stakeholder who is known for causing problems, questions the project manager's authority to implement new processes for functional managers.What should the project manager do?

Refer the stakeholder to the approved project charter.

Refer to the change management plan and review the documented process changes.

Meet with the stakeholder individually.

Refer the stakeholder to the approved project charter.

Explain that the potential risks will be addressed in the risk management plan.

A project manager working in a matrix organization manages an internal software development project that is intended to reduce conflicts in the company's internal tracking system. Developers placed the software application in production, and it is currently achieving some benefits.However, the full benefits will not be realized for some time.What should the project manager do?

Coordinate with the project's functional leads to validate its readiness for transition.

Continue to manage the project until all project benefits are realized.

Coordinate with the project's functional leads to validate its readiness for transition.

Request a new project be initiated to monitor and report achievement of the benefits.

Make updates, mark all project documents as final, and close the project.

A bridge construction project has been paused due to a political change in the local government.After almost 5 years, the new government would like to resume the project, and a project manager is assigned.What should the project manager do first?

Meet the new stakeholders and understand their expectations.

Prepare an estimate of the time and cost to complete this project.

Study the project's lessons learned to understand why it was paused.

Meet the new stakeholders and understand their expectations.

Examine the project's business case in order to resume the project.

The stakeholders in an agile project are upset because some of the final products do not meet their expectations. When the project manager asks the team about the stakeholders' expectations, the team only mentions the project's objective.In addition to reminding the team about the importance of stakeholder expectations, interest, and influence in the project, how should the project manager improve this situation?

Teach the team how to use the user persona technique.

Motivate the team to create and use an agile project charter.

Encourage the team to use an information radiator to analyze expectations.

Teach the team how to use the user persona technique.

Remind the team that face-to-face communication is the best method.

During the execution phase of a project, a new project manager is assigned to replace the previous project manager. As the project manager starts managing the project, they discover that team performance is significantly decreasing, which is impacting the project's key performance indicators (KPIs). This team has delivered good performance on similar projects in the past.What should the project manager do next to improve this situation?

Call for a team meeting to identify the root cause for the declining performance.

Review the resource management plan and organizational assets.

Estimate the baseline impacts and submit a change request.

Implement compression techniques to bring the project back on track.

Call for a team meeting to identify the root cause for the declining performance.

A project manager is facilitating a project steering committee meeting where the prioritization of work items in the backlog is being discussed. The engineering executive wants to prioritize features based on level of effort, completing the smallest items first. The quality executive wants to complete the most complex tasks first to have adequate time to ensure a quality product is delivered. The compliance officer wants to complete items with associated regulatory components as they are essential items.How should the project manager prioritize the work items?

Ensure that the team assesses opportunities to deliver the highest business value items incrementally.

Ensure that the project value is within the quality guidelines by prioritizing and completing intricate tasks earlier in the project.

Complete tasks associated with regulatory components as the team cannot deliver business value that does not adhere to compliance regulations.

Ensure that the team assesses opportunities to deliver the highest business value items incrementally.

Complete the smaller tasks first to allow the team opportunities to prototype and evaluate development processes.

One of the team members is consistently absent in team meetings, but always completes their assigned tasks on time. Other team members think this member should attend the meetings.What should the project manager do?

Understand the reason for the team member's absence and encourage them to attend future meetings.

Review and update the project ground rules to make meeting attendance mandatory.

Assign this member to facilitate the next meeting to ensure project team collaboration.

Understand the reason for the team member's absence and encourage them to attend future meetings.

Allow each team member to submit their required tasks on time and reduce the number of scheduled meetings.

A project manager is working on a product development project. When the product is delivered, there are major issues that require rework and delay new feature development.Which action should the project manager take to resolve the quality issues?

Plan for continuous validation of the product.

Discuss adding business scenario tests with the customer.

Discuss adding additional test cases with the product owner.

Add more test scenarios based on the issues found.

Plan for continuous validation of the product.

A project sponsor asks the project manager to explore a hybrid approach for a new project. The product manager for this project has already prepared a detailed specification for the product.What should the project manager do to proceed with the project management plan?

Explore with the product manager to determine if there are viable opportunities to deliver value incrementally and increase business value.

Recommend to the project sponsor that a predictive approach is appropriate for the project due to the stable product requirements.

Explore with the product manager to determine if there are viable opportunities to deliver value incrementally and increase business value.

Ask the product manager whether they are prepared to act as product owner for the project in order to participate in iterative planning and reviews.

Ask the team to assess whether the product specification can be expressed in user stories to enable a Scrum or Kanban approach.

A global company is executing a strategic project to upgrade a legacy enterprise system. The company uses a hybrid approach to project management and has just completed the first sprint.A team member provided ideas to improve the testing process during the sprint retrospective.What is the next step for the project manager?

Document the lessons learned and implement improvements in the next sprint.

Request that all team members think of ideas to improve processes.

Facilitate a daily standup with the team to track the implementation of changes.

Organize a demonstration of the changes in the enterprise system.

A project manager brings in a new team member from an agile environment to work in a predictive environment. The project manager expects to leverage the new team member's agile experience with the existing team members.What should the project manager do to integrate the new team member effectively?

Set expectations with the new team member and explain what is needed.

Acknowledge that hiring this new employee is a risk to the existing team.

Train the new team member in the predictive project management approach.

Meet with all team members and explain the new employee's position.

Upon analyzing the report requirements to create a functional design, the project team finds that the information source is not correct and needs to be adjusted. What should the project manager do?

Consult with subject matter experts (SMEs).

Initiate a change request procedure.

Build a prototype to verify the information.

Consult with subject matter experts (SMEs).

Review the statement of work (SOW).

The project sponsor requested technical specifications for a project-related component. The project sponsor does not have the authorization to see the specifications, but insists on seeing them.What should the project manager do first in this situation?

Meet with the project sponsor as soon as possible to discuss the matter further.

Provide the specifications to the project sponsor with some information removed.

Update the issue log to make the project team aware and to develop a strategy.

Create a stakeholder engagement plan to help the team formulate a response.

Meet with the project sponsor as soon as possible to discuss the matter further.

A key stakeholder who is frustrated by the lack of transparency of IT projects declines an invitation to participate in the new project meetings. What should the agile project manager do to engage the stakeholder in the project?

Build trust with the stakeholder by keeping project commitments and use demo sessions to gather feedback and realign goals.

Introduce the stakeholder to the project team and invite them to the next iteration review meeting with the IT team.

Use stakeholder mapping to document the level of influence and interest for the next iteration planning meeting.

Present the project management plan to the stakeholder and reassure them that they will receive regular project updates.

Build trust with the stakeholder by keeping project commitments and use demo sessions to gather feedback and realign goals.

A project manager is assigned to lead a hybrid innovation project. During a meeting with the sponsor and major stakeholders, the project manager realizes that the requirements are unclear.What should the project manager do in this situation?

Help the sponsor and major stakeholders to craft the product vision.

Request that the sponsor meet with the product owner to address the issue.

Help the sponsor and major stakeholders to craft the product vision.

Add this to the risk register and monitor the risk until this becomes an issue.

Review lessons learned to see how sponsors deal with issues about unclear requirements.

During the last two iterations of a project, one of the team members had low performance. The project manager conducted two feedback sessions with the team member and escalated the issue to the resource manager and project sponsor, but there has been no improvement.What should the project manager do next?

Request a new resource to execute the activities.

Review this obstacle during the daily standup meeting.

Escalate the situation again to the project sponsor.

Provide feedback to the resource at the sprint review.

A project manager was recently assigned to a project that is in the execution phase and is experiencing roadblocks. During a review of the processes and procedures, the project manager notices similarities to a previous project that experienced similar roadblocks. The project manager reviews the task schedule and finds that certain tasks are well behind expectations. In speaking with the project team, the project manager confirms that the team is following the processes exactly.What should the project manager do?

Review and amend the processes to ensure only value-adding activities are present.

Review the resources allocated to the project and change accordingly.

Update the schedule to account for the unexpected delays in the project tasks.

Update the variation register to account for the extended project time.

A new project manager is initiating a project and realizes the team members are all very rigid, unwilling to change, and constantly state that they have been running projects successfully for years. The project manager realizes that the project will be at risk if the team does not adopt an agile approach.What should the project manager do?

Engage with the team to explain the risks of using the old approach and gain support for the agile process.

Realize the team is in the forming stage and that, as the team moves toward the performing stage, it will become agile.

Schedule a meeting with the project sponsor to request that management support the team's adoption of agile.

Recognize the team is historically successful and decide to allow the team to continue as they have for years.

Engage with the team to explain the risks of using the old approach and gain support for the agile process.

The customer wants to show their stakeholders a tangible outcome faster. This requires advancing a milestone.Which two actions should the project manager do? (Choose two.)

Review the customer's priorities regarding the desired requirements for the milestones.

Discuss which requirements can be delivered faster with the project team.

Review the customer's priorities regarding the desired requirements for the milestones.

Convince the customer to keep the requirements as is and not move the milestone.

Discuss which requirements can be delivered faster with the project team.

Inform the customer that moving the milestone has a very high impact on project cost.

Escalate the issue to senior management so they can impose a solution on the customer.

An agile team recently started working on a project for a financial institution. The project sponsor is concerned that an agile approach will not provide enough support for the organization's compliance standards.In order to mitigate this risk and avoid problems, what should the project manager do?

Meet with the compliance team and make sure that their requirements are covered in the definition of done (DoD) for each story.

Ensure that the peer review process also covers compliance requirements, creating a second layer of security for the project.

Meet with the compliance team and make sure that their requirements are covered in the definition of done (DoD) for each story.

Liaison with the compliance group, making them responsible for understanding the requirements and keeping them prioritized in the backlog.

Propose using a compliance review board that will be responsible for approving all product features prior to their release to the public.

A project manager has been assigned to a new digital product line, which the company hopes will boost their revenue. The product is complex and requires customer feedback to continually refine the product. The project is being handled by a cross-functional agile team.What should the project manager do to ensure value is delivered quickly?

Plan the project to deliver value incrementally with regular releases

Ask the project sponsor to provide additional resources to fast track the project

Plan the project to deliver value incrementally with regular releases

Request a budget increase to pay the subject matter experts (SMEs) more overtime

Identify tasks that can run in parallel to deliver the project faster

A project is designed to provide local community members with health facilities that will support improved sanitation practices. What should the project manager do to ensure the community members are up to date on project progress?

Share project updates through regular community meetings

Share the annual reports virtually and in the local newspapers

Share project updates when requested by the stakeholders

Share project updates through regular community meetings

Share the project reports with the sponsor to inform community members

A project manager is assigned to a major system integration project that is currently in the execution phase. The project relies heavily on the presence and availability of certain products and services, which are provided at various periods throughout the project phases by selected third-party vendors.What should the project manager do to ensure the successful execution of the project?

Perform procurement control checks throughout the project.

Oversee the selection process for the vendor to procure the needed products and services.

Ask the procurement department to select the vendor using established processes.

Activate the mitigation plan for the procurement risks.

Perform procurement control checks throughout the project.

A project manager who is new to a matrix organization has just been assigned to an internal software development project that is intended to reduce conflicts in the company's internal tracking system. With over 1,000 people in the company who will benefit from the software, the project manager wants to ensure everyone is aware of the great progress the team is making.The project manager meets with the project team to decide upon the most effective way to communicate progress.What should the project manager do?

Set up an intranet site and allow stakeholders to access the relevant project information

Divide up the organization among the project team to provide direct project updates

Ask the project sponsor to disseminate project progress across the organization's stakeholders.

Send weekly emails to each stakeholder providing them with the project's progress

A project manager is managing the development of a dental wire bending machine. The machine is compatible with the three most popular dental wires in the market, which covers 90% of the market. The prototype is now under testing for certification. The manufacturer of one of the three wires announced they will be producing a different wire that will be incompatible with the machine. This will result in a 25% loss of market coverage from the initially predicted 90%coverage.What should the project manager do?

Investigate the impact of this issue with the team and survey the market for alternative wires with similar characteristics

Meet with the sales and marketing representatives and ask them to convince the wire manufacturer to reconsider

Meet with the wire manufacturer to secure enough of the existing stock for the machine

Investigate the impact of this issue with the team and survey the market for alternative wires with similar characteristics

Stop the project and kick off another project to apply alternative wires for the machine

A project manager has been assigned to a hybrid project that must receive approval from a government regulator. During the daily standups, one member reported an impediment that requires collaboration from an expert who is assigned to another project.What should the project manager do first in this situation?

Check the expert's availability within the organization on an as-needed basis

Review the project's key performance indicators (KPIs) to determine the impact of this assignment

Ask the project sponsor to assign a new resource with the necessary expertise to the team

Develop the team member's capacities through mentoring and training

A project manager joins an existing project. One project stakeholder is unhappy with the frequency and types of project updates received and has made a request for more information to be shared.What should the project manager do next?

Schedule a meeting with the stakeholder to better understand their request.

Consult the scope baseline document to track project updates.

Update the project communications management plan immediately.

Inform the stakeholder to wait for the annual stakeholder review meeting.

Schedule a meeting with the stakeholder to better understand their request.

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?

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

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

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 hybrid project team is working on an upgraded version of software for their product owner. The team is also responsible for supporting the existing product and customers. For the last three sprints, the team had to stop their project work and focus on major support items for the product owner. The testers are struggling to cope with the constant changes to the plan, which has resulted in a number of emotional outbursts.How should the project manager proceed?

Schedule a session with the team to discuss the issues and work with them to define a plan to manage the sprints going forward

Schedule a session with the product owner to explain that no support items can be taken into the sprints going forward

Ask human resources (HR) to send the team members to a change management workshop

Request a replacement for those team members who are unhappy with this way of working

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A client comes to the company asking to copy a project that was executed 2 years ago in the same city, with the expectation that the new project will have the same cost and duration. While finalizing the project management plan, the project manager realizes that the baseline costs are much higher than the original project.

What could the project manager have done to avoid this?

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