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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 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?
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 who is new to an organization is given data that include information related to both project team members and stakeholders. Among other items, this information includes each stakeholder's current role, previous and current projects in which they participated, and their level of organizational influence.
In what type of analysis should the project manager use this information?
Qualitative risk analysis
Regression analysis
Stakeholder analysis
Decision tree analysis
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?
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?
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 is working on a software development project. The project manager and the project team identified the project risks. As the project progressed one of the risks materialized and the project manager referred to the risk management plan to determine how to manage the risk. Once the risk management strategy was chosen and implemented the risk was closed.
At what point did the project manager move the risk from the risk register to the issue log?
Risk occurred
Risk monitored
Risk managed
Risk identified
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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