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Question #: 601

A geographically distributed project team has development issues between the collocated and virtual
teams causing productivity to decrease.

What should the project manager do to address this issue?

A. Force the team members to work from one location

B. Develop protocols for resolving conflicts between team members Most Voted

C. Obtain special expertise to advise the team members

D. Set up face-to-face meetings with project team members

Question #: 629

A project sponsor insists that the project scope for a new product launch should include two
geographical locations. However, after the project scoping session was done, a project charter was
completed and approved with one location only. What should the project manager do?

A. Ask the sponsor to increase the budget and schedule of the project to accommodate the additional
scope.

B. Assess the impact to the scope and submit a change request for approval of the two locations before
including them in the scope of the project.

C. Discuss with the sponsor that the project scope is approved and it is not possible to include two
locations as it will affect the budget.

D. Encourage the sponsor to start another project for the additional location so that the current project
is not impacted.
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Question #: 568

A project manager for a large multiyear industrial project has a project with diversified stakeholders
from various geographical areas. Recently, the project manager encountered an issue with stakeholder
engagement. Which two tools should the project manager use to determine the underlying reason for
why engagement is not having the planned effect? (Choose two.)

A. Five whys

B. Communications management plan

C. Ishikawa diagrams

D. Issue log

E. Open-space meetings

Question #: 1061

You are managing a project that will use a virtual team with team members on three different
continents. Your company is looking to use the virtual team to provide a lower cost product by using
resources in countries that have a favorable exchange rate to that of your country. To assist in this
process as you estimate resource requirements, it is helpful to consider______________

A. Bottom-up estimating

B. Published estimating data

C. Analogous estimating

D. Reserve analysis

Question #: 275

A new project is being executed with a team working locations. What should the project manager first
consider when leading a geographically dispersed team?

A. Project team size

B. Time zones

C. Project goals

D. Cultural differences
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Question #: 669

Travel restrictions are suddenly imposed during a project's execution. The team members reside in
different geographic locations. What should the project manager do next to address this issue?

A. Obtain and implement the sponsor's recommendations for a solution.

B. Ask the team members to proceed independently while examining needs and alternatives.

C. Place a hold on activities until the team can resume the work on-site.

D. Halt all processes until procurement and implementation of solutions are completed.

Question #: 483

During daily calls team members share task progress. One team member does not usually communicate
many details and has critical tasks to be completed. All team members are located in different countries
and critical work is about to start. Which two options will help the project manager in this situation?
(Choose two.)

A. Encourage all team members to use a virtual workspace Most Voted

B. Ask the team to send emails with detailed task progress

C. Talk to the team member about their engagement and take appropriate action. Most Voted

D. Reassign the work to a resource who participates in the daily calls

E. Report the team member's poor performance to the functional manager

Question #: 13

In a geographically distributed project team, the project team members continue to email status reports
and update schedules after their weekly meeting discussions. However, the team is having difficulty
tracking the changes and progress made.

What should the project manager do?

A. Facilitate training on version control and project artifacts.

B. Maintain separate document control via regions to avoid discrepancies.

C. Maintain a central repository of artifacts with a version control system. Most Voted

D. Develop document management software for version control.

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Question #: 905

A project manager for a large, multiyear, industrial project has a project with diversified stakeholders
from various geographical areas. Recently, the project manager encountered an issue with stakeholder
engagement. Which two tools should the project manager use to determine the underlying reason for
why engagement is not having the planned effect? (Choose two.)

A. Open-space meetings

B. Issue log

C. Ishikawa diagrams

D. Five whys

E. Communications management plan

Question #: 88

A project manager has team members around the world in many different time zones. Project work
frequently stalls because people in one office need to wait until another office is awake to have
questions answered.

What should the project manager have done to avoid this?

A. Ensured that the project would be the highest priority for all team members

B. Planned and scheduled tasks and work packages to overcome geographical and time zone challenges

C. Learned more about how each team member prefers to communicate before assigning project work

D. Used communication tools, such as video conferencing, so different offices could communicate

Question #: 19

A project manager is working with a co-located agile project team that has worked together long
enough to be in the performing phase of team development. An unforeseen event has caused the team
to be dispersed and they are now unable to co-locate.

What should the project manager do to keep the team performing as effectively as possible?

A. Ask the project sponsor and executive stakeholders to encourage the team to maintain their
performance

B. Provide the team with virtual collaboration software and training on the software to minimize
disruption Most Voted
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C. Transition the team from an agile approach to a predictive approach for better performance control

D. Evaluate project performance and step in if performance decreases to an unacceptable level Most
Voted

Question #: 383

Assume you are managing an international project. Your team is located in Atlanta, Georgia, US; Berlin,
Germany; and Melbourne, Australia. You and your sponsor are located in Paris, France, and your
customer is located in Athens, Greece. Recognizing the different locations of the stakeholders in your
project in its initial stages, a best practice to follow in terms of working toward project success is
to______________

A. Determine who decides the project is a success

B. Aligning the personal inputs of different project participants with a vision focused on success

C. Establishing the project culture during the initiating stage of the project

D. Identifying basic cultural characteristics and selecting one to follow

Question #: 101

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?

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

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

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

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

Question #: 333

A project manager with a geographically distributed team has created a project management plan based
on an approved project charter that was created by the project sponsor. What should the project
manager do next?

A. Conduct a meeting with the full team to communicate the content of the project management plan.
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B. Send the relevant parts of the project management plan to the applicable team members affected by
those parts.

C. Seek approval of the project management plan before communicating it to the team.

D. Send the project management plan to all team members and ask for their approval.

Question #: 726

A project manager is finalizing detailed requirements for a project with virtual teams. What should the
project manager do to ensure confidence in the data gathered?

A. Develop and distribute an issues log.

B. Validate scope on a regular basis.

C. Update the project management plan.

D. Conduct face-to-face or online interviews.