PMI PMP Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 110

A project manager has been hired to lead a governance consulting project that is in the initial phase. The project manager has been assigned to evaluate the supplier search activity. There are many interested candidates, including former suppliers and suppliers recommended by the sponsor.

What should the project manager do in this situation?

A transportation company is developing a new tool to improve their delivery process. As project development for sprint two began, the executive steering committee made a request to include a new capability to perform a what-if analysis in the tool based on the customer demand and forecast.

What should the project manager do next?

A company initiated a project to introduce a new product to the market. The product must undergo the industry's regulatory process prior to approval and launch. However, the company sees a great demand for this product and wants it to launch as soon as possible.

What should the project manager do to realize this opportunity?

Product implementation portions of a project are nearing completion. The project manager schedules a series of meetings to meet with the marketing management team. During the meeting, the marketing manager tells the project manager that some key members of the department will not be available to work on the implementation for the next 3 months.

What should the project manager do?

At a daily standup on the second day of the sprint, the product owner asks one of the developers to add more functionality to a product backlog item that was committed to in the sprint planning. The product owner explains that the change is based on a discussion they had with a user, is critical, and should be delivered in the next release.

What should the project manager do?

A product owner is trying to understand how many of the user stones have been completed within a 2-week sprint. How should the project manager approach this situation?

A project manager is part of a cross-functional agile team. Throughout the project, it has become obvious that team members from different functional units have different perspectives of what the outcome should be.

What should the project manager do to resolve this?

A project presently in the testing stage is nearing the closing phase, which will transition the completed project to the company's operations support team. However, many new members have just been added to the operations support team who are not familiar with the project and the project's acceptance is now at risk.

What should the project manager do to mitigate this transition risk?

A project manager is working on a project to scale an operation globally. This endeavor required multiple interviews with various stakeholders. During the user story creation phase, the product owner met with multiple stakeholders who had different opinions about the requirements.

How should the project manager address this situation?