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1- You are managing a project which is due for a design document release next week. You are reviewing the
document, when an influential stakeholder asks you to add a feature to the existing design. Earlier, this
stakeholder tried to bother you with unreasonable demands during the last days of the release. What is the best
you can do in this situation?

• Ask him to raise a written change request form and then follow integrated change control
• As this person is influential, you have no option but to listen to him and add the functionality
• Report his behavior to the senior manager, suggesting why he should no longer be associated to your
project as a stakeholder
• Determine the impact of this change on your schedule and the constraints before taking a decision

2-During the implementation phase, the project manager identifies a new project activity that will not affect the
project end date. What should the project manager do next?

• Ask the sponsor to approve the new activity.

• Update the change log and update the schedule baseline
• Create a change request.
• Update the schedule baseline and begin working on the new task immediately

3- A new government regulation requires financial resources to be added to a project Due to this regulation, A
new key stakeholder request to add another project activity What should the project manager do?

• Update the schedule to include the new activity because it was requested by the key stakeholder.
• Use funding allocated to other activities to execute the key stakeholder's request.
• Execute the new activity because it was requested by the key stakeholder.
• Document the request from the key stakeholder and perform the change request procedure

4-The project sponsor requests that the project be delivered by a specific date in order to meet mandatory
regulatory compliance. Failure to meet this time frame means that the organization risks incurring penalty fees.
During the execution phase, the project manager identifies some additional requirements that would delay the
project's delivery date by a couple of months. What should the project manager do?

• Analyse the impact with the project team to discuss options with the project sponsor.
• Engage the legal team to document a response to reduce the negative impact to the organisation.
• Update the project schedule to include the additional work.
• Reject the additional requirements and stick to the schedule to deliver on time.

5-The product owner meets with the project team members to discuss the user stories for the next iteration. The
product owner points out the user stories that hold the highest value, while the team indicates which user stories
bear the highest risk. By the end of the meeting, the user stories in the iteration backlog are prioritized, and the
team knows how to develop them. What process have the product owner and the team just performed?

• Develop Schedule
• Iteration planning
• Stakeholder analysis
• Backlog refinement
6-The Development Team has chosen, together with the Product Owner, items in the Product Backlog to
develop in the Sprint. Who must determine how the Development Team should go about its work?

• The function managers the Development Team reports to.

• The Development Team
• The Product Owner.
• The ScrumMaster.

7-You are a scrum master leading an agile project team that has been consistently meeting the goals set for each
iteration. However, you feel that one team member is less productive than the others. What is the most
appropriate feedback approach for you to take in this situation?

• Call out the team member's low productivity at the upcoming iteration retrospective
• Allow the project team members to address the issue if they deem necessary
• From the next iteration onward, assign the team member the easiest user stories
• Direct the underperforming team member to work extra hours to bridge the gap

8-As a project manager, you are leading a software development project as a result of observation and
conversation, you notice some of the team members need to improve their skills. What should you do FIRST?

• Update Cost Baseline

• Schedule training sessions for the team member to optimize his performance.
• Acquire new members
• Review the Resource Management Plan

9-Two of your team members have come to you due to a difference of opinion between them. What is the best
way to resolve this situation?

• When one of them backs out due to frustration

• By understanding the needs of both and guiding them towards successful resolution and their full
satisfaction
• By providing your opinion of who is right
• When one of them is very flexible to accept the other person's opinion in front of you

10-The project manager for a virtual team is struggling to track progress and productivity because the team is
spread out over several time zones. What should the project manager do to enhance communication?

• Set up a Kanban board.

• Create and update the issue log.
• Update the lessons learned register.
• Establish an information-sharing portal.

11-A project manager joins a project during it's the initial planning phase. The project involves various local
government institutions. While interviewing the project sponsor, the project manager learns of the importance
of keeping the security officers of two of these institutions satisfied, since project development will be affected
without their involvement. What should the project manager use to record and monitor this information?

• Communication management plan

• Responsibility assignments matrix RAM.
• Risk register.
 • Power /interest grid

12-As part of the Estimate Activity Durations process, the project manager facilitates a sprint planning meeting
with the product owner and Scrum team. The project manager breaks down the user stories into low-level tasks,
estimates the time required in hours, and determines the sprint backlog based on the team's capacity. Despite
meticulous planning, the sprint fails. What might the project manager have done differently?

• Assigned the identified low-level tasks to specific individuals in the project schedule
• Used story points instead of hours while estimating the size of the user stories and tasks
• Empowered the team to determine how many user stories they can complete during the sprint
• Asked the team to prioritize the product backlog before determining the sprint backlog

13-If you want to reduce the number of quality inspections and reduce the cost of quality control for your
project, which technique should you use?

• Pareto Chart
• Histogram
• Defect Repair Review
• Statistical Sampling

14-An agile team is using a Kanban board to track their work. Which of the following is considered an example
of WIP?

• User stories that have yet to be prioritized by the product owner

• User stories that contain code that is waiting for customer feedback
• User stories that are awaiting selection by the team
• Deployed user stories that contain code that has already been integrated

15-A stakeholder requests John the Scrum Master, to show him the latest weekly status report to check the
project's health and the remaining amount of work in the project. Instead, John takes the stakeholder to the team
wall where a few pertinent updates are posted continuously. To address the stakeholder's query, John
specifically points out to

• Velocity trend
• Burndown chart
• Kanban board
• Sprint backlog

16-You have developed a shortlist of vendors that have submitted bids for a project you are managing. One
vendor has quoted USD $3.5 million, another vendor has quoted USD $4.2 million, and the final vendor has
quoted USD $5.1 million. What is the most important thing to consider when selecting the winning bid?

• Incentive payments such as early completion bonuses and late performance penalties
• Price
• How well the vendor meets the selection criteria and project requirements
• Vendor experience

17-As a project manager for a large construction project, the project management plan states that it is necessary
to contract a highly trained external resource to revise and validate an important project component. The client
has rejected hiring the external resource because of the high cost even though it is within the project budget.
What should you do to resolve this issue?

• Try to accomplish the task internally by levelling resources from other projects.
• Evaluate the consequences and meet with the client to explain the possible scenarios.
• Ask the client for a meeting and explain that the tasks will not be performed.
• Hire the resource in order to achieve the project objectives.

18-An agile project is running its fifth iteration out of eight. A stakeholder is not happy with the progress the
team made so far. The stakeholder approaches the team and requests that from now on the team informs her
about the status of their work on an ongoing basis. How should a servant leader respond?

• Explain to the stakeholder that agile projects discourage progress monitoring

• Provide the stakeholder with the performance measurement baseline.
• Invite the stakeholder to the daily standups, iteration reviews, and retrospectives
• Suggest that the stakeholder periodically reviews the information radiators.

19-A project manager has been asked to manage a new project that the organization is about to undertake.
Which of the following tasks should the project manager do first?

• Start developing the project management plan

• Meet with the customer to gather detailed requirements
• Talk to the functional managers to secure resources
• Obtain approval for the project charter from the sponsor

20-The project deliverables will be developed incrementally over the course of NINE 3-week iterations. Some
of the stakeholders are wondering about the approach used to accept the deliverables. How should the project
manager respond?

• The deliverables will be reviewed and accepted incrementally throughout the project.
• The deliverables will be tested and accepted as part of iteration retrospectives.
• The deliverables will be reviewed and accepted as part of the project closure activities.
• The deliverables will be accepted by end-users at the end of the project.

21-In your project, there is confusion amongst the project stakeholders on where to find materials and
information for the project. What is the best response to address this issue?

• Distribute all the project documents, materials, and updates to each stakeholder
• Set up an information management system to store, share, and codify the project's knowledge and
content
• Assign one project team member to retain and distribute all the project materials and information to have
a single point of contact.
• Require all stakeholders to attend every meeting to ensure everyone receives the handouts and
information

23-You are managing a project. During the project, you noticed that the actual invoice payment received have
been late and were outside of the contracted payment schedule. Recent invoices have only been partially paid by
the client. As a project manager, what should you do?

• Hold a meeting with the client to address the issue.

 • Add non-payment to the issue log and keep tracking payments.
• Conduct a meeting with the project team to update the procurement management plan.
• Review the lessons learned from past projects

24-During iteration planning, the Agile team comes across a story that has an iteration length that is almost 90%
of the velocity of the team. What is the best suggestion that you can give to the team in this situation?

• Reject the story since it is not small enough.

• Split the story
• It is not advisable to compare estimates of a story with the team's velocity.
• Extend the iteration length.

25-The sponsor of an Agile project approaches the Scrum Master and asks him about the burn rate of the team
per sprint. The team consists of 6 members each of whose billing rate is $50 per hour. Assuming a 40 hour
week and an iteration length of 2 weeks, what is the burn rate per sprint?

• $36,000
• $30,000
• $20,000
• $24,000

26-The Agile team has just completed the sprint review and the feedback on the product increment was mostly
positive, but a few new features have been called out. What do you think the team should do first after the
review meeting?

• Complete stories that were left out in the sprint.

• Spend time to reflect on currently used processes and how they can be improved in the retrospective
meeting.
• Start implementation for the new features requested
• Update the backlog and estimate for the new features requested.

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28-The project manager has determined that the team's velocity has been 50 points for each of the first five
sprints with an SPI of 0.83 over the same time period. How should the project manager respond to the team's
performance?

• Submit a change request to revise the project schedule baseline

• Assign the team 60 story points for each sprint going forward
• Suggest that the team set more realistic goals during sprint planning
• Crash the schedule in order to get productivity back on track

29-You are managing a highly complex drug manufacturing project, and your sponsor is highly motivated and
influential. You are optimistic about the outcome of the project; however, you are unsure about the project
approval requirements that measure the project's success. You would like to document the name of the person
who signs off on the project and the criteria that constitute the project's success. Which of the following
documents should you use first to incorporate project approval requirements?

• The approval requirement plan

• The Project Charter
 • The scope document
• The project management plan

30-An influential functional leader has removed a key team resource from a project. The activities on the
critical path will be negatively affected by this action. What should the project manager do?

• Engage the sponsor to discuss the importance of the resource with the functional leader.
• Negotiate with and influence the functional leader to reverse their decision.
• Analyse the impact to the project management plan and submit a change request.
• Acquire a replacement resource by following the resource management plan.

31-As a project manager, what should you do FIRST if the project sponsor makes several small changes to the
project scope without consulting you?

• Identify this as a risk and implement risk response strategies

• Update the project management plan to involve the changes.
• Assess the impact of the change in the project scope.
• Negotiate with the project sponsor to make the changes in the next phase of the project

32-Choose the title in the kanban board below that require additional resources to relieve the bottleneck

• Code
• Specification
• Done
• Document
• New
• Test

33-The project manager started a new project and must ensure that the team members and stakeholders are
adequately trained. After an interview with the team, the project manager discovers that all resources have
experience in different agile methodologies What should the project manager do?

• Ensure the team has a common understanding of agile

• Make sure the project team is aware of all agile techniques
• Teach one agile methodology fully and completely
• Skip the training because the team already understands agile

34-The project manager had learned that the project sponsor is unhappy with the development of the project
requirements. In order to realign the project with the sponsor's expectations, what should the project manager
do?

• Review the project goal with the team.

• Review the risk management plan.
• Confirm which templates the team should be using.
• Perform a stakeholder evaluation.
35-A company's CEO has just returned from a conference on the use of artificial intelligence Al and would like
the project manager to implement this technology in the organization. What should the project manager do first?

• Start developing a business case.

• Engage stakeholders and allocate resources.
• Gather requirements from stakeholders.
• Start a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. SWOT

36-A project for a new product launch is in a very initial stage and the requirements are evolving Due to stiff
competition in the market, the customer would like to launch the product keeping the scope flexible. The project
team intends to start the work based on the forecast of a similar project delivered last year Which project
approach suits the scenario?

• Execute it as a project with stage gates

• Execute it using the same approach as the reference project
• Execute it as a Scrum project
• Execute it as a predictive project

37-During project execution, the risk owner is monitoring the critical speed rate of a power engine to eventually
trigger the defined risk-response strategy. During the risk analysis and management process phase, it was
defined that the power engine has the following characteristics 1,600 pm (rate-per-minute) -> stops working and
crashes the system 1.500 rpm (rate-per-minute) -> warns of max rate allowed 1.400pm (rate-per-minute) -
reduces the power and brakes the engine Which of the following statements is correct?

• 1600 pm is a project issue; 1,500 rpm is a project risk; and 1,400 rpm is an event that triggers a response
strategy
• 1,600 pm is a project risk, 1,500 pm is an event that triggers a response strategy and 1,400 pm is a
project issue.
• 1.600 rpm is an event that triggers a response strategy. 1,500 pm is a project issue and 1,400 pm is a
project risk.
• 1,600 pm is a project issue, 1,500 pm is an event that triggers a response strategy and 1,400 pm is a
project risk

38-A project manager finished reviewing the project deliverables for the current iteration with the customer A
new key stakeholder who just joined the customer's team, complains that the results do not provide the
capabilities the business anticipated What should the project manager do to address this issue?

• Update the project management plan and lessons learned

• Update the stakeholder list and fix the deliverables
• Create a change request and update the scope management plan
• Conduct stakeholder identification and a project objectives review session

39-A team has been working on a project for several months, but the completion date is unclear because the
scope is changing frequently as new knowledge is gained. Some deliverables have already been completed, but
when new stakeholders join the team, they complain that project outcomes are not meeting business goals. How
can the project manager prevent this situation from happening in the future?

• Create a prioritized backlog and define iteration review sessions with stakeholders
• Create a detailed work breakdown structure (WBS) and milestone schedule approved by all stakeholders
• Schedule a daily meeting to review team performance and impediments
 • Schedule a kick-off meeting for every project phase to share the project management plan with all
stakeholders

40-After a meeting with the customer, the project manager receives special recognition because the project is
always on schedule Later that day, the project manager attends a regular project team meeting to follow up on
the status of the deliverables. What should the project manager do in the project team meeting?

• Document this feedback in the meeting minutes.

• Start planning how to improve the dates of next deliverables
• Share the customer feedback with the project team
• Follow the meeting agenda and make a list of the next deliverables

41-A project manager at a company is considering a high-performing junior member of the organization to be
the new project manager for a current project. What should the project manager do to prepare for a
recommendation to senior management?

• Ask the team member to write a short biography listing their qualifications
• Compile key highlights featuring the team member from the meeting minutes
• Calculate the health of the projects on which the team member has worked
• Gather project artifacts that demonstrate the team member's high performance

42-A company recently used desktop research for a feasibility study, which showed that the project is behind
schedule. The project team also has concerns about the impact of scope changes on the project schedule. What
should the project manager do to keep the project on the schedule while still meeting project objectives?

• Submit a change request to the CCB and update the schedule.

• Update the scope and add more resources to the project.
• Update the scope and move on to the next project milestone.
• Collaborate with the change control board CCB to review the scope and submit any change requests.

43-The project team follows a hybrid framework for its delivery. During the execution of a project, the team
learns of a new compliance requirement that has to be delivered before any other requirements. How should the
project manager address this situation?

• Collaborate with the compliance team member to review and prioritize the requirements delivery.
• Ask the team to include the compliance requirement In the current sprint and deliver it.
• Include the compliance lead in the stakeholders list and wait for the next status meeting.
• Add the new compliance requirement to the backlog as the technical team doesn't have any capacity.

44-A project manager has been managing a highly complex project. The project manager has ensured that all of
the required tasks have been completed. During a recent external audit. The project manager was informed of a
heavy penalty being levied on the project for the latest module that was implemented What should the project
manager have done to ensure that there were no liabilities arising from the recent implementation?

• Ensured that all the required approvals were received per the organizational procedures
• Ensured that all of the required tasks identified in the scope were completed successfully
• Ensured that all documentation was completed post implementation before closing the project
• Ensured that all defects identified during testing were resolved before implementation
45-The project manager of an agile project has been asked to reduce the budget by 30%. Since this is a small
project team, the budget is primarily allocated to resources. What strategy should the project manager use in
order to keep delivering value in a restricted environment?

• Reduce the project staff and adjust the scope and timelines accordingly in support of the budget
reduction.
• Prioritize the product backlog looking for high business value and low effort, and adjust the project
budget and staffing to account for those items.
• Restrict the project scope only to basic critical features and run the project with the current staffing level
until all of the budget is consumed
• Balance the project team in order to accommodate the budget challenges and provide training to mitigate
the risk of low performance.

46-A project manager is leading a meeting with key stakeholders, the project sponsor and the product owner to
define the features that will be released after the next iteration. The purpose of the meeting is to review the
product backlog prioritization, considering that during the past iteration some deliverables were not completed
Which two items should be taken into account first to review and update the product backlog priorities during
the meeting? (Choose two

• Cost of delaying some features against business value.

• Length of time each feature has been on the backlog.
• Complexity and the cost of development.
• Industry trends and the technical approach
• Reusing components from another product.

47-A team member misses a project meeting without it being approved and has been penalized as defined in the
ground rules. This team member, as well as other team members, insist that it is the first time they have seen
this rule regarding the project and they do not agree with the penalty What should the project manager have
done to avoid this situation?

• Used a charismatic leadership style

• Ensured the team members are fully supportive of all decisions
• Distributed the project charter to all team members
• Ensured the team charter was developed by the team members

48-A project manager led the implementation of an electronic invoicing project that has just been completed.
The financial manager communicated that the team discovered three invoices with errors. Which two
documents should the project manager update as soon as possible? (Choose two

• Issue log
• Stakeholder register
• Change log
• Backlog register
• Risk register

49-You are a project manager tor an important project. Ine project is delayed due to the high amount of major
changes requested by different stakeholders at different stages of the project. If the project continues on the
same path, it will consume twice the time and budget planned. What two actions can the project manager take to
be more cost-effective? (Choose two)
 • Conduct a stakeholder analysis
• Update project management plan with the new timeline
• Leverage work between team
• adopt an incremental approach
• reinforce team communication

50-An experienced project manager is managing a multi-million dollar agile project. The project manager
communicates the ground rules to the team but after 12 iterations, the project manager starts noticing that some
team members are not following the ground rules. What should the project manager do first to ensure team
adherence to the ground rules?

• Contact human resources to request a written warning letter be sent to team members not following the
ground rules
• Ask the functional manager to replace team members not following the ground rules
• Schedule a meeting with the project team to reinforce the ground rules.
• Notify the project sponsor about this behavior and ask the sponsor to take disciplinary action