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A project manager has been assigned to a high-visibility project that has been identified as having medium complexity, based on previous similar projects. The project needs to be delivered to the customer as a ready-to-use product.
Based on this scenario, what should the project manager focus on throughout the project life cycle?
Stakeholder engagement and lessons learned
Resource management and lessons learned
Time management and stakeholder engagement
Cost management and risk management
An organization imports many of the materials for a product build. Due to global shipping delays, some of the essential materials have yet to arrive, resulting in the inability to finish building the product for the upcoming release. The project manager is meeting with stakeholders to discuss options.
What should the project manager recommend?
Request marketing to launch an advertising campaign for the product that is currently in stock.
Update the project management plan, factoring in furloughs of the assembly team to reduce expenses.
Meet with the engineering team to manufacture the materials in-house.
Explore if the materials could be supplied locally and obtained on time.
During the first project meeting with a new project manager, a stakeholder complains about not receiving periodic reports. What should the project manager do first?
Update the project management plan with the new information and inform all of the relevant stakeholders.
Meet with the stakeholder to better understand their expectations and update the stakeholder engagement plan.
Invite the stakeholder to all future project review meetings and update the project management plan.
Add the stakeholder details into the periodic reports and update the project management plan.
A project manager arranged a team-building activity to build and maintain teamwork, trust, and commitment due to internal team conflicts. Two months after completing the training, another situation is causing new delays in the project.
What should the project manager do to address this concern?
Ask human resources (HR) to coordinate another activity.
Inform HR about the situation and ask for support.
Meet with the team to explain that conflicts must be addressed and solved.
Reassess the team situation and provide a proper solution.
A project manager has been managing an agile project for 6 months. Over the last two iterations, the team velocity has decreased due to a new technology that was needed for the product.
What should the project manager do to continue with the delivery plan and return to the expected velocity?
Seek sponsor approval for additional funding to hire new team members, increasing the capacity of the team and compensating for the productivity lost with the new technology.
Replace poorly performing team members with more experienced members, setting an example of accountability for the team.
Use retrospectives to better understand the new technology's impact on the schedule, map the skill gaps, and adjust the team accordingly.
Reevaluate the backlog by looking for high-value/low-effort items, and negotiate a new minimum viable product (MVP) strategy with key stakeholders.
During the execution of a project to develop a prototype, the customer asks the project manager to stop the prototype line and purge a specific component based on recent reliability tests that have deemed the component to be deficient. The project manager checked the quality management plan and there is no reference to this component.
What should the project manager do next?
Call a technical meeting with the customer to agree on a specification for the component and document it in the quality management plan.
Keep running the manufacturing line because there are no quality specifications for this component.
Inform the project sponsor of the situation and wait for the sponsor to provide further directions.
Submit a change request to proceed with the replacement of the component and wait for further customer instructions.
During the setup of an agile project, the product owner expressed clear interest in having features released during product development over having the product completed in one year. What should the project manager do?
Facilitate sprint planning sessions with a focus on defining the minimum viable product (MVP).
Design a set of metrics including velocity, which is a good measure of value delivered.
Promote a productive environment where everybody can work without interruptions from the rest of the team members.
Create a reward system recognizing group contributions to get people motivated and improve performance.
During a meeting to define project scope a stakeholder tells the project manager that the main requested feature in the contract is not applicable, and this is documented in the lessons learned.
What should the project manager do?
Ask the sponsor to close the project and pay the contracted penalty.
Meet with the sponsor to ask for their support.
Check with the team to learn what can be done, and consult an expert.
Check that this information was documented correctly.
A lead project manager for an agile project needs to prioritize requirements, define the scope of the initial product, and deliver the approved scope in a series of multiple versions. What should the project manager do next?
Determine the expected benefits of each requirement to maximize the overall business value.
Ask the lead developer to run a meeting with the stakeholders to agree on an ordered list.
Work with the product owner to evaluate and prioritize the requirements.
Prioritize the requirements based on the hierarchical level of the requesting stakeholders.
A defect is identified during user acceptance testing that could significantly impact the system's performance. The project team has advised that this defect puts the delivery date at risk.
Which risk management process should be performed?
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis, to assess the extent of the system performance impact
Monitor Risks, to install system performance monitoring tools and update the risk register
Plan Risk Responses, to outline the possible options to bypass the system performance issue
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis, to outline the details of the system performance issues
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