An agile project started 6 months ago. Since the beginning of the project, there have been disagreements among team members regarding daily meetings since some of the team members are not available at the same time. The project manager is convinced an agile team should be self-organizing, and that meeting times should be worked out by the team.What should the project manager do?

Recognize the team's contributions.

A team has been working for some time on a project with incremental deliveries. The project manager noticed that one of the team members is less engaged in team meetings, yet delivers promptly. While discussing the source of demotivation, the team member informed the project manager that this is due to a feeling of lack of skills in dealing with new tasks.How should the project manager address the issue?

Discuss growth and development needs with the team member and provide learning opportunities accordingly.

Replace the team member with a resource from another team who already has the requisite training and skills needed.

Review which tasks the team member would feel more motivated to work on, then assign those tasks to the team member.

Discuss growth and development needs with the team member and provide learning opportunities accordingly.

Create a self-paced learning plan with the team member during working hours, with checkpoints on learning progress.

In a hybrid project, the customer has issued a contract that specifies the deliverables for each quarter. The customer wants to show their stakeholders a tangible outcome in the first quarter and wants to move the second milestone to the first quarter. The project manager explains to the customer that it is not feasible unless the requirements for the second milestone are changed.Which two actions should the project manager take? (Choose two.)

Ask the customer for their priorities regarding the requirements for the second milestone.

Go back to the development team and discuss which second milestone requirements can be performed in the first quarter.

Ask the customer for their priorities regarding the requirements for the second milestone.

Escalate the issue to upper management to resolve the problem, and suggest a plan.

Convince the customer to leave the second milestone in place and not change it.

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

Go back to the development team and discuss which second milestone requirements can be performed in the first quarter.

A project team is conducting sprint planning. At the end of the sprint, the product increment must be deployed on a customer's site. The product owner received an email from the account manager that the customer may not be ready to install the new version of the product.What should the project manager do?

Contact the customer's project manager.

Ask the sales team to inform the customer.

Contact the customer's project manager.

Ask the product owner to inform the customer.

Contact the customer's technical lead.

A project development team is located in different areas around the world. Last week, a very important release was delayed because one of the developers did not respond on time to an email that was sent to everyone. The developer seems to have missed reading the email.What should the project manager do to avoid these situations?

Review the communications management plan.

Review the stakeholder engagement plan.

Review the resource management plan.

Review the risk management plan.

Review the communications management plan.

During a sprint, one of the team members found an issue. According to the team member and the product owner, the issue has a higher level of importance than the other features of the sprint, but is not a roadblock to completing it.What should the project lead ask the project team do?

Follow the sprint plan by delivering the features established for the sprint and prioritize the issue in the backlog.

Avoid the temptation to make any changes and address the issue in the next sprint.

Submit the issue to the change control board (CCB) to evaluate and formally approve a plan to address it.

Address this issue only as it has a higher priority than the remaining features of the same sprint.

Follow the sprint plan by delivering the features established for the sprint and prioritize the issue in the backlog.

An external project manager is managing the construction of new corporate offices for a large company. The project management plan states that it is necessary to contract a highly trained external resource to revise and validate an important project component. The client has rejected hiring the external resource because of the high cost, even though it is within the project budget.What should the project manager do to resolve this issue?

Evaluate the consequences and meet with the client to explain the possible scenarios.

Try to accomplish the task internally by leveling resources from other projects.

Ask the client for a meeting and explain that the task will not be performed.

Evaluate the consequences and meet with the client to explain the possible scenarios.

Hire the resource in order to achieve the project objectives.

The project team is experiencing schedule delays due to issues arising with suppliers. Some of the tasks are on the critical path.What should the project manager do in this situation?

Discuss the critical path issues with the purchasing department.

Review the critical path with the stakeholders to define next steps.

Review the work breakdown structure (WBS) with the suppliers.

Escalate the supplier-related issues to the sponsor for resolution.

In a daily standup meeting, a project manager notices that a team member's reports include incomplete tasks with no impediments. A colleague informs the project manager that this team member is experiencing a personal issue.What should the project manager do?

Understand the team member's personal issue and offer them support.

Ask the human resources (HR) manager to speak with this team member.

Coach the team member on how to keep work and personal issues separate.

Reallocate this team member's tasks to others for the immediate future.

Understand the team member's personal issue and offer them support.

During sprint planning, the product owner wants to prioritize items with high business value.However, the project team is concerned about technical debt and infrastructure dependencies to deliver the expected value.How should the project manager handle this issue?

Support a voting exercise so all team members can express their opinion and the reason behind their vote.

Support the project sponsor so the decision is made top-down and the team follows the provided direction.

Support the product owner so only items with high business value are included in the next sprint.

Support the project team so technical debt and infrastructure dependencies are included in the next sprint.

In a project, one team member has been asking for directions and what actions to take on many tasks. As a result, the team member has performed slowly in project delivery.What should the project manager do to help this team member?

Assign another senior team member to coach the team member.

Address the team member's performance accordingly.

Empower the team member to make decisions.

Mentor the team member on a regular basis.

A project manager has noticed that a critical team member is consistently arguing with a client.This has started to have a negative effect on the meetings.How should the project manager address this?

Explain the impact of the scenario to the project team member.

Talk to the client privately to highlight the situation.

Explain the impact of the scenario to the project team member.

Remove the project team member from all future meetings.

Recommend a performance improvement plan to the project team member.

A company plans to initiate a project involving a new technology. Approval for the project is required.What should the project manager do?

Analyze the cost and identify the project benefits.

Review the cost and schedule baselines for execution.

Define change management for the new technology.

Identify the risks in implementing the new technology.

Analyze the cost and identify the project benefits.

A project manager is performing the role of scrum master for a team of developers. There is a conflict among the developers, generated by differences in how a feature can be delivered. The project manager organized a few spikes to resolve this conflict.What should the project manager do next?

Allow the team to decide on their own which option should be implemented.

Organize a multivoting event to achieve consensus of the whole team.

Allow the team to decide on their own which option should be implemented.

Organize more spike events until consensus of the team is reached.

Ask the project sponsor to decide which option should be implemented.

In the middle of a software development project, the lead design programmer accepted an offer from a competitor. The project manager needs to find a replacement to meet an upcoming milestone.What should the project manager do?

Consult the risk response plan.

Issue a request to the change control board (CCB).

Assign the tasks to another team member.

A project manager notices a conflict in the team on both technical and interpersonal levels during the execution phase of a project.What should the project manager do?

Hold a team meeting to understand and address the conflict.

Schedule a monthly meeting to handle all project conflicts.

Address the conflicts during the lessons learned session.

Hire an external consultant to lead an organizational intervention.

In an agile project, the team decided to have a rotating group of facilitators for the daily scrum.Overall, most of the facilitators have grown and done well in this role; however, a few of them tend to run inefficient daily scrums.What should the project manager do next?

Praise the team for self-organizing and growing, then work one-on-one with the facilitators, as needed.

Return to using the scrum master as the facilitator for the daily scrums now that the trial period is over.

Ask the facilitators who are doing well to continue and recommend that the others stop facilitating.

Retrain all team members on daily scrum facilitation to ensure there is consistency in the approach.

A project manager discovers that the project team is spending a large amount of time delivering several reporting formats for the same project updates to multiple stakeholders.What should the project manager do to reduce the time spent on these activities?

Segment the types of communications to be delivered to different stakeholders.

Update the communications management plan to remove less influential stakeholders.

Delegate all of the stakeholder communications activities to a project team member.

Segment the types of communications to be delivered to different stakeholders.

Hold biweekly status meetings to deliver information to all stakeholders at once.

A project manager has been transferred to another country to work on a key project. The project manager successfully completed the planning phase and has started the execution phase, reporting good progress. During the last meeting with the project sponsor, the project manager was told that some stakeholders have complained that the project manager's emails are very harsh.What should the project manager do to solve this situation?

Adjust the communications management plan to gain stakeholder trust.

Determine the level of influence of the stakeholders who are complaining.

Change the communication mode from emails to meetings to reduce stakeholders complaints.

Adjust the communications management plan to gain stakeholder trust.

Explain to the sponsor that the communication model being used is from company headquarters.

When trying to track project benefits, a project manager realizes that some key performance indicators (KPIs) are not yet defined.What should the project manager do?

Coordinate with the benefit owner to track and collect the missing data and build the KPIs.

Forward the issue to the benefit owner and ask them to collect the missing data and build the KPIs.

Coordinate with the benefit owner to track and collect the missing data and build the KPIs.

Work with the business analysts to track and collect the missing data and build the KPIs.

Ask the program manager to track and collect the missing data and work to build the KPIs.

A project manager is assigned to work on a complex and innovative project. The technology being used and developed is new and complicated, and most of the stakeholders are unfamiliar with it.Which approach should the project manager use as a servant leader?

Allocate resources to provide training about the new technology to the stakeholders.

Escalate the issue with upper management to find a novel solution for this situation.

Contact the project sponsor to get those stakeholders removed from the project.

Allocate resources to provide training about the new technology to the stakeholders.

Ask stakeholders to find and self-fund education about this new technology.

A project is in the start-up phase of the project life cycle. The project team consists of 20 people from five different countries. The project team is scheduled to have quarterly face-to-face meetings. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, no face-to-face meetings can occur. The project manager is concerned that the team may not be able to fulfill their individual roles without face-to-face meetings.What should the project manager do in this situation?

Utilize virtual teams for meetings and deliverables.

Use the contingency reserve and subcontract the work.

Review the risk register for this unforeseen circumstance.

Ask for an extension of time on the project deliverables.

A key project stakeholder does not attend any of the project meetings and is providing false information that the project team is not delivering on time.What should the project manager do to address this situation?

Discuss communication needs with the key stakeholder.

Email the latest status report to the key stakeholder.

Discuss communication needs with the key stakeholder.

Create a new communication artifact for the key stakeholder.

Share the meeting recordings with the key stakeholder.

A project manager encounters a governance issue during the project execution phase. One of the team members complains about receiving assignments from multiple people and states they are not able to work effectively.What should the project manager establish first in the project governance structure?

Clear responsible, accountable, consult, and inform (RACI) matrix

Clear project work breakdown structure (WBS) and timeline

Resource management and conflict resolution plan

Risk management and issues resolution plan

Clear responsible, accountable, consult, and inform (RACI) matrix

A project manager has been asked to participate in the procurement process for a software application that allows customers to buy online e-learning courses.The project manager will take over the project once the supplier has been sourced.What should the project manager do before the project starts?

Ask the project sponsor to involve the legal department in the negotiation for the project agreement.

Notify the project sponsor that the project manager cannot be involved in the agreement negotiation process.

Inform the project sponsor that once the agreement has been signed, there cannot be any changes to the scope of the project.

Ensure that the requirements for the project are understood and that the objectives are verified before approval of an agreement.

A company is about to start a complex research project. Due to the level of uncertainty, the project manager recommends the use of a hybrid approach; however, the organization only has experience with predictive projects.How can the project manager strategize the use of a hybrid approach to the organization?

Present the benefits of a hybrid approach to key stakeholders to get their support.

Submit a notification to the project team confirming they will be using a hybrid approach on the project.

Send a letter to the project management office (PMO) requesting to use a hybrid approach.

Create a project change request to execute the project using a hybrid approach.

Present the benefits of a hybrid approach to key stakeholders to get their support.

During project implementation, one team finds out that a key project deliverable was not budgeted.What should the project manager do first?

Meet with the team to discuss alternatives.

Escalate the issue to the project sponsor for resolution.

Hold the team accountable and ask for an immediate solution.

Meet with the team to discuss alternatives.

Remove the deliverable from the project scope.

During the final stage of the launch for a new design, team members are having a conflict about some features of the design.What should the project manager do?

Call a stakeholder meeting along with team members and seek consensus.

Ask stakeholders to reduce the scope in order to meet project deadlines.

Ask the project sponsor to make the decision about the design features.

Review the design with the team members and propose a new launch date.

An agile team is developing a new content management system. Some of the team members are struggling to deliver certain features since they have never worked on this type of solution.What should the project manager do?

Encourage the team to hold a knowledge-sharing session in each iteration.

Ask the team to read through all of the available system documents.

Encourage the team to hold a knowledge-sharing session in each iteration.

Encourage the team members to make changes directly in the system.

Replace the members with new members who understand the system.

Key decision makers are meeting to define the objectives of a new database migration project.There are many disagreements about scope and time lines among the leaders of various company departments.How should the project manager impartially prioritize the requirements to be integrated?

Rank the requirements with the highest benefit-cost ratio as more important.

Retain only requirements that result in profitable revenue growth.

Ensure the CEO selects the requirements from all department leaders.

Give each department a fixed budget that will cover ten requirements.

Rank the requirements with the highest benefit-cost ratio as more important.

An agile team is required to address a technical, complex requirement that has no visual deliverable to show the customer.What guidance should the product manager provide to improve the requirement development?

Discuss this with the team and reprioritize the backlog to deliver maximum value by including a portion of the complex work.

Reprioritize the product backlog by lowering the priority of the complex activity, so it will be worked on later in the project.

Allow the team to focus and complete the complex work because it will reduce the risk of finding issues later in the project.

Discuss this with the team and reprioritize the backlog to deliver maximum value by including a portion of the complex work.

Inform the customer that there will not be any deliverable due to the complexity involved in the requirement.

A project manager is leading an electrical project that spans five towns. The project manager is informed by the team that one of the towns is not allowing the team to work there even though the town was included in stakeholder engagements before the start of the project.What should the project manager do?

Engage with the town's authorities to discuss the reason for the change in commitment and agree on a solution.

Instruct the team to move to the next town and continue the project to avoid further delays.

Change the project scope and seek approval to exclude this town from the overall project.

Retrieve all minutes of stakeholder engagements and send to the town as a reminder of their commitment to the project.

A government agency is developing a new connectivity policy. The assigned project manager is a famous economist with international recognition. The team is eager to work with the project manager, but feels intimidated. The project manager realizes that a junior economist, whose tasks are behind schedule, is especially intimidated by the situation.What should the project manager do first?

Consider organizing paired work sessions for the junior and senior economists.

Reassign some of the junior economist's tasks to other economists.

Evaluate the performance of the junior economist in the upcoming months.

Request to replace the junior economist with a more experienced economist.

A project is halfway through its execution phase. The quality specifications for the project deliverables are formally accepted. However, a key stakeholder is dissatisfied, stating that the deliverables do not meet the quality specifications.What should the project manager do in this situation?

Review the requirements traceability matrix and conduct inspections.

Inform the project sponsor of the stakeholder's dissatisfaction.

Review the requirements traceability matrix and conduct inspections.

Document the issue in the issue log and send a report to management.

Notify the stakeholder that arbitration procedures will be followed.

A team is finishing the third release to present to the stakeholder as part of a demonstration. The company that subcontracts the developers has communicated that there is a cash flow problem and the company will not be able to provide the same resources for the next iterations.What should the project manager do next?

Analyze the impact against the release plan if the blocker is not addressed.

Create a risk register to track the risks and request additional budget.

Escalate the situation to the project sponsor for a possible resolution.

Work with the project owner to prioritize the product backlog.

An organization is transitioning from a predictive to an agile approach.What should the project manager do to ensure that the agile approaches will bring about significant change?

Conduct agile training for the team members

Identify the organization's key clients

Learn as much as possible about the organization

Conduct agile training for the team members

PMI PMP Practice Test 7 - Free Online Exam Questions 241-280

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In the middle of the execution phase for a big project, a new stakeholder who was unfamiliar with the project joined the board of directors and is influencing the decisions made in the project. This change is impacting the project's progress.

What should the project manager do first?

Inform the client about the change.

Update the risk register with a new risk.

Present the project to the stakeholder.

Revise the project schedule.

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