PMI PMP Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 22

A project manager is working as a servant leader for a pilot project to adopt agile practices. After three sprints, the team demos the product to the main stakeholders, but receives negative feedback about the product's features. The team feels that all the features met the acceptance criteria defined by the product owner and does not understand what went wrong.

How should the project manager mitigate the product rejection?

A project team has installed software for the client, passed the knowledge to operations, sent the final report, and celebrated. Then 1 week later, the client sends a list of requirements that have not been met. The client is requesting to fix the issues quickly and within the initial budget.

What should the project manager have done to prevent this from happening?

A project that is using an incremental approach has colocated team members and is using a kanban board to visualize the work in progress (WIP). A key external stakeholder requests that all project activities be placed on hold until a status report is distributed.

What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

A high-performing team is involved in a project with a new domain. The team is unable to deliver as expected.

What should the project manager do?

During a project meeting, the project manager expressed the importance of delivering reports on time. These individual reports will be consolidated into a single report. One of the team member's reports was not delivered on time and therefore the report could not be integrated with the other reports. This demonstrates a lack of teamwork and impacts project success.

What should the project manager do to resolve this issue?

A project is starting its second iteration out of six. During the daily meeting, a team member asks for help. In order to finish a deliverable, an approval from the design department will be needed.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager has been assigned to lead an IT project to store information on sold lottery tickets. During the project execution, a failure in the system caused 10 numbers to be sold two times. This happened during the month of greatest demand because the prize was the highest of the year. The project team is concerned that one of those tickets could be the winner.

What should the project manager do first?

A project manager is working on an agile project in a changing business environment. The project sponsor is worried about benefits realization and asks the project manager to pay attention to changes that can affect the project.

Which action should the project manager take to identify changes that may affect the product?

A project manager is working on a major construction project. Part of the agreed-upon plan was to use a cloud-based system with a server that runs on high- speed internet service since most of the team members work virtually. The company needs to reduce operating costs as much as possible and management insists that the project will now use a system running on a conventional dial-up service.

What should the project manager do next?