PMI PMP Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 138

Multiple agile teams are working on a product deliverable. During the last few iterations, one of the teams received several unplanned, nonproduction support requests from other teams. This affected the velocity of the team and the planned deliverable.

What should the project manager do in this situation?

A project manager determines that a critical path activity is going to be delayed. The team proposes a fallback plan that could get the project back on track; however, the plan would require an additional cost to an already tight budget.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager has taken over an existing project. According to the previous project manager, the project is on track and within budget. However, stakeholders are unhappy with the recent progress report since the metrics show that the project is delayed and the cost is higher than expected.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager is leading a project that has been in execution for 1 year. An experienced team member is performing well, but often disagrees with the project manager and refuses to implement their decisions. Part of the team supports the team member's defiance, while the other team members do not.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager is working on a large project in another country and realizes that only a few people from the project team are working on all of the releases. What should the project manager do to prevent this in the future?

During the executing phase, a project manager is reviewing the issue log and finds there are outstanding high-priority issues that are still open. Most of the open issues require effort from external domain experts who are not on the project team.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager in one country is reporting to a lead project manager for a new software development project in another country. The lead project manager constantly requests updates from the project manager, often demanding information via multiple communication channels if the project manager does not respond within a few minutes of a request. Both of them are equal in seniority and both report to the same functional manager.

How should the project manager proceed?

A project manager and project team have brought a project back on track after mapping and removing impediments. During the current sprint, the team reported that an impediment that previously caused major delays has appeared again. The team tried implementing the same mitigation tasks that worked previously. However, the tasks are not having the same result with the impediment.

What should the project manager do?

Within a project, senior management is requesting project information so they can analyze the data to make project decisions. What information should the project manager provide so that senior management can get a broader view of the project?