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Question 1191

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The sponsor of a newly formed agile project is struggling to understand the scope and to determine when critical product features will be ready to use. What should the project manager do?

Question 1192

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A risk was raised during the initiation of a project. The supplier discontinued software support for one of the project's required inputs. The project manager planned a reserve budget to allow the p

Question 1193

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A project manager is leading a global team that they have worked with in the past and has a high level of trust with them. The team is located in different countries and time zones and will need dec

Question 1194

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For some time now, doubts have been raised about who is responsible for delivering a key benefit of a project. What should the project manager do next?

Question 1195

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A project manager is assigned to a new project. The project management office (PMO) and the project manager agree that this is the night opportunity to include daily standup meetings. The project te

Question 1196

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A bank is considering building another branch in one of three neighboring cities. The project manager has been tasked with demonstrating the benefits of building a new branch, renting an existing bu

Question 1197

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A project manager receives information in preparation for reporting the project's monthly performance to the project steering committee: Actual progress = 2 units Planned progress = 3 units Actua

Question 1198

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A project manager who takes over halfway through a project determines that the cost performance index (CPI) is 0.65. A detailed audit identifies that the project cost was analogously estimated, and

Question 1199

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A project manager manages multiple information technology (IT) projects in a matrix organization. The project manager schedules a meeting with one of the functional managers to coordinate testing s

Question 1200

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A product owner is invited to a sprint review meeting. At the end of the review, the product owner says that the increment is ready to be delivered to the customer. What conclusion should the proje

Question 1191

The sponsor of a newly formed agile project is struggling to understand the scope and to determine when critical product features will be ready to use. What should the project manager do?

Move the team's kanban board to a more visible place to improve the communication with key stakeholders.

Create a detailed project management plan with all planned releases and the tasks needed to deliver them.

Establish the project vision, break down the mam features backlog, prioritize, and create an overall release plan.

Invite the stakeholder to the project's daily meetings, providing better visibility on what the team is working on.

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A risk was raised during the initiation of a project. The supplier discontinued software support for one of the project's required inputs. The project manager planned a reserve budget to allow the project to continue in the event of this occurrence.

What should the project manager do?

Tell the project team to stop work, as software support will be canceled and the project cannot continue.

Advise the supplier that the sponsor will pay for software support as previously planned.

Ask the supplier to continue providing software support until the end of the project.

Inform the sponsor that the risk has been realized and that a decision has to be made for the project to continue.

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Question 1193

A project manager is leading a global team that they have worked with in the past and has a high level of trust with them. The team is located in different countries and time zones and will need decisions in a timely manner.

In order to ensure that the project runs smoothly across the team, how should the project manager approach delegation?

Delegate certain authorities and share information to allow fair decision-making.

Delegate most authorities and share information to allow fair decision-making.

Delegate most authorities and control the authority by withholding important information.

Delegate certain authorities and control the authority by withholding important information.

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Question 1194

For some time now, doubts have been raised about who is responsible for delivering a key benefit of a project. What should the project manager do next?

Meet with the stakeholders involved to clearly define their roles and responsibilities with regard to the benefit.

Understand the context of the situation and escalate the problem to the steering committee.

Document the risk in the risk register and generate the risk responses and their respective associated plans.

Meet with the customer to obtain consensus with the recipient of the benefit and determine a means to deliver the benefit.

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Question 1195

A project manager is assigned to a new project. The project management office (PMO) and the project manager agree that this is the night opportunity to include daily standup meetings. The project team has never used such tools, and a few members are challenging the decision.

What should the project manager do in this situation?

Update the project schedule to consider a daily standup as part of the project design phase

Engage an external vendor to perform the design phase under an iterative approach

Request that new team members familiar with iterative approaches be assigned to this project

Define the ground rules, responsibilities, and conflict management strategies

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Question 1196

A bank is considering building another branch in one of three neighboring cities. The project manager has been tasked with demonstrating the benefits of building a new branch, renting an existing building, or not expanding at all.

How should the project manager proceed?

Perform a gap analysis on renting in each of the locations.

Calculate the costs for each option in each location and compare the net present value (NPV) for each.

Perform a Kano analysis on building a new branch versus renting in each of the locations.

Calculate the payback period (PBP) for building a new branch in each location versus renting an existing building.

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Question 1197

A project manager receives information in preparation for reporting the project's monthly performance to the project steering committee:

Actual progress = 2 units

Planned progress = 3 units

Actual cost (AC) = 2 units

Budgeted cost = 3 units

What statement should the project manager make to the project steering committee?

The project is currently behind schedule but at a lower cost, and an application for a time and budget extension will be submitted

The project is currently behind schedule with a corresponding cost savings, and no further actions should be taken

The project is currently behind schedule with a corresponding lower cost, and every effort is being made to expedite the delayed activities

The project is currently behind schedule but is under the planned expenditure, and the project manager is pleased to declare a project cost savings

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Question 1198

A project manager who takes over halfway through a project determines that the cost performance index (CPI) is 0.65. A detailed audit identifies that the project cost was analogously estimated, and the audit team thinks that something was missing in the way the estimates were done.

What should have been done to avoid this problem?

Utilized three-point estimates

Validated the schedule performance index (SPI) to evaluate deviation

Included lessons learned from past projects

Used bottom-up estimating

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Question 1199

A project manager manages multiple information technology (IT) projects in a matrix organization.

The project manager schedules a meeting with one of the functional managers to coordinate testing support for two software development projects. Unfortunately, the functional manager is not able to attend the meeting and informs the project manager that there may not be any resources available to test the software.

What should the project manager do?

Discuss the testing requirements with a test engineer and negotiate the best approach to test the newly developed software

Meet with a procurement specialist to negotiate with a company that specializes in software testing to test the software

Meet with the project team to collaboratively determine how the project manager can ensure the needed testing assistance is obtained

Request a meeting with the sponsor to change the scope to allow the development team to conduct testing

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Question 1200

A product owner is invited to a sprint review meeting. At the end of the review, the product owner says that the increment is ready to be delivered to the customer.

What conclusion should the project manager come to with regard to the product owner's statement?

The product owner trusts the team and is marking the product as complete.

The product owner does not have visibility into what the team has done in the product increment.

The product owner will release the product to customers without showing them a demo.

The product owner has evaluated the product against the definition of done (DoD).

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