PMI PMP Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 37

A company was awarded a project in a dangerous location that poses several high-level risks for employees. Help is needed to tram the employees on major safety and health factors. The project is ongoing and uses a hybrid approach. The project will be conducted in multiple sites, with several development iterations running in parallel.

How should the project manager handle this situation?

A vendor informed the project manager that a critical resource will be on a long leave of absence.

The project team reviewed the pending vendor deliverables and identified an alternative solution, but the solution will incur an additional cost. The project is currently on schedule and slightly under budget.

What should the project manager do next?

A project manager just started managing agile projects. The project manager realizes that due to the lack of a clear definition of project objectives and definition of done (DoD), their colleague's projects have had many difficulties. Sponsors keep asking for more features and the projects have yet to be completed.

What should the project manager do to avoid these issues?

A member of the board of directors is the sponsor of a project that is important to the organization. This stakeholder has many other priorities and is not currently engaged in the project activities.

How should the stakeholder be engaged in the project?

A marketing team is planning for a multiyear initiative that will include a lot of cross-functional stakeholders. The project manager has been assigned and is now in the project planning phase.

What item(s) should the project manager develop first?

A key project stakeholder showed interest in the beginning of a complex agile project, but has become less involved as the sprint has progressed due to additional responsibilities. A few sprints later, the key stakeholder rejected a feature deliverable. The team is reworking the rejected deliverable for the next sprint.

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

As a member of an organizational change management team, a project manager must pass on any changes to the project team. The project manager needs to avoid any misunderstandings or resistance to help ensure that the project team will support any organizational change.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager is working on a software development project. A team member complains that since the project tasks are very simple, there is no reason to perform quality control. The project manager understands that removing the quality management plan from the project will also help to save money, which is important to the customer.

What should the project manager do?

A marketing team is developing ideas in order to revamp an existing product. The marketing executive reaches out to the project manager to make sure that necessary measures are in place for a successful launch.

On what should the project manager focus?