PMI PMP Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 38

A product company is transforming the way it develops and releases products in the market.

Executives believe that this is a high-risk initiative, and this initiative must be successful.

What should the project manager do in this scenario?

Two weeks after the approval of the project management plan for a global project, the project manager noticed that it was approved based on a different level of understanding by international stakeholders and is not what the project manager presented for approval.

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

The rollout of a new finance system is in the execution phase. A number of issues have surfaced in the last month that are slowing the project down. A new project sponsor has recently started with the company but has not had time to meet the project manager. The project is at the point where the issues are significantly impacting delivery of the project.

How should the project manager alert the new project sponsor about these concerns?

A project manager is acting as a scrum master in a hybrid project and is dealing with a conflict between team members.

What strategy should be used to handle this conflict?

A new agile team is forming and the project manager notices that the team is struggling in many areas. The team is experiencing both the inability to meet iteration commitments and team member conflicts.

What should the project manager do next?

The resource management plan is already done, and the team is located in different countries around the world. Team members are in multiple time zones, and they use different languages for communication. The project manager needs to keep the team organized and avoid misunderstandings and miscommunication that may produce a negative impact to the project.

What should the project manager do to reduce negative impacts to the project?

During the design phase, a project manager realizes that the project will benefit from using adaptive tools. The effectiveness of this approach has been proven in past projects inside the organization.

What should the project manager do first?

A project manager is leading a project which shows a trend to exceed the cost baseline.

What should the project manager do first to manage the budget?

Two functional managers disagree on key features of one deliverable during the planning of a project. The project manager discovers that each manager included requirements that contradict each other. The functional managers do not want to meet with each other to find a solution. This situation has been escalated to the sponsor who requests a meeting with them.

What strategy should the project manager use to resolve this conflict in the meeting?