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Question 51

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A project manager has been assigned to manage multiple agile project teams. The project manager wants to empower the teams and make them self-organizing. What should the project manager do to creat

Question 52

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An agile coach and technical writer for a globally distributed agile team are in a country with a 9- hour time zone difference from the agile team. The agile coach and project lead disagree on the t

Question 53

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A project manager receives a suggestion from a team member for improving the product attributes without impacting the schedule or cost. This will add value to the project and the customer. What sho

Question 54

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During the third iteration of a project, the main sponsor retired from the company, and a new sponsor was appointed. The new sponsor is not familiar with the agile approach for project delivery, whi

Question 55

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A medium-sized company has been exploring new marketing tactics with regard to launching a new product. New product creation is no small task. In the end, it was too big of an expenditure for the co

Question 56

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A project manager is managing a few innovation projects with a high level of uncertainty. The project manager is experiencing challenges with the large number of change requests issued due to the na

Question 57

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A project manager is starting a new project, and the project team is located in different countries. The team was going to use a specific tool to hold virtual meetings. However, that tool is not av

Question 58

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Halfway through a project, the project sponsor is replaced by another peer who was not previously engaged in the project. The new project sponsor has rejected most of the project artifacts, and the

Question 59

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A regulatory branch of an environmental government agency has recently placed a ban on the manufacturing of a specified thickness of plastic packaging products. This ban will take effect in 12 month

Question 60

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A project manager is part of a balanced matrix project organization. The project manager will receive all work performance updates directly from the new sourcing department head who has no time to s

Question 51

A project manager has been assigned to manage multiple agile project teams. The project manager wants to empower the teams and make them self-organizing.

What should the project manager do to create a positive environment?

Help the teams in establishing and adhering to their ground rules and revisit after regular intervals

Copy the ground rules established by another project and provide them to the teams

Establish the team ground rules and share them with the team for strict adherence

Extract the organization's policies and processes, customize them, and give them to the teams to adhere to

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An agile coach and technical writer for a globally distributed agile team are in a country with a 9- hour time zone difference from the agile team. The agile coach and project lead disagree on the timing for the daily standup. The project lead thinks the standup should be at 10:00 am local time, but the agile coach and technical writer feel that is an inconvenient time for them.

How does the project lead ensure adherence to agile practices?

Inform the agile coach that the daily standup will be at 10:00 am local time and ensure all parties can attend

Escalate to management that the agile process is not going to work and ask them to speak to the agile coach

Have a discussion with the team on the approach and come to a decision on when the daily standups should be

Have two separate daily standups, one for the agile coach and technical writer and one for the agile development team

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Question 53

A project manager receives a suggestion from a team member for improving the product attributes without impacting the schedule or cost. This will add value to the project and the customer.

What should the project manager do?

Reject the suggestion and ask the team member to focus on executing the plan

Ask the team member to submit a formal change request

Accept the suggestion as it has no impact on the project

Ask another team member to validate the impacts of the suggestion

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Question 54

During the third iteration of a project, the main sponsor retired from the company, and a new sponsor was appointed. The new sponsor is not familiar with the agile approach for project delivery, which leads them to request more control over the project team.

What should the project manager do?

Schedule a meeting with the new sponsor in order to explain the agile approach and how teams are supposed to be self-organized

Review the sponsor's request with the project team during the next daily review meeting in order to provide the requested control

Schedule an emergency meeting with the project team so they fulfill every request that comes from the sponsor

Review the sponsor's request with the project team during the next iteration review meeting in order to obtain a team decision

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Question 55

A medium-sized company has been exploring new marketing tactics with regard to launching a new product. New product creation is no small task. In the end, it was too big of an expenditure for the company to undertake.

What should the project manager do in the future when working on new product projects?

Make use of kanban boards so all stakeholders have a clear view of the project and provide their help accordingly

Train the team to first find the minimum viable product (MVP) that will deliver value to the customer

Increase the contingency reserve and prepare the team for applying fast-failing techniques when the estimates veer from the initial plan

Adopt a chain management approach, developing products based on the same platform and infrastructure

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Question 56

A project manager is managing a few innovation projects with a high level of uncertainty. The project manager is experiencing challenges with the large number of change requests issued due to the nature of the project.

What should the project manager do?

Reduce the number of approvers required to implement a change request

Request sponsor approval for all change requests to reduce the number of changes

Initiate the number of iterations to reduce the number of change requests

Add a fixed number of change requests allowed by the client on the project baseline

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Question 57

A project manager is starting a new project, and the project team is located in different countries.

The team was going to use a specific tool to hold virtual meetings. However, that tool is not available in one team member's country.

How should the project manager deal with this situation?

Contact the project sponsor to have the team member removed from the project

Ask the team member to move to another location where the tool is available

Investigate alternative tools for virtual meetings that are available to all team members

Start the project and use email to communicate with the team member until the tool is available

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Question 58

Halfway through a project, the project sponsor is replaced by another peer who was not previously engaged in the project. The new project sponsor has rejected most of the project artifacts, and the team did not get the latest increment approved on the current iteration.

Stakeholders are not feeling confident about the project outcome.

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

Performed a stakeholder analysis when the sponsor joined the project

Held a governance meeting to review the project increment

Escalated the issue to ensure the increment would be approved

Conducted a product iteration review with the new project sponsor

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Question 59

A regulatory branch of an environmental government agency has recently placed a ban on the manufacturing of a specified thickness of plastic packaging products. This ban will take effect in 12 months. The project manager for a startup firm working in alternative packaging has been monitoring the progress of this law for a while and, as part of the risk management, has identified new products that can support a growing customer base.

What should the project manager do next?

Begin a marketing campaign to sell alternative packaging after the 12-month period ends

Organize a meeting with all stakeholders and review the stakeholder engagement plan

Continue production processes and plan to discuss changes at the next annual target review meeting

Inform management of the new law as an opportunity to expand market share and share the proposed products

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Question 60

A project manager is part of a balanced matrix project organization. The project manager will receive all work performance updates directly from the new sourcing department head who has no time to spare to give the project manager the information.

What should the project manager do?

Discuss the situation with the company project sponsor for advice

Request information directly from the sourcing department team members

Work out a resolution in consultation with the sourcing department head

Present the situation to the manager of the sourcing department head

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