All Process Task: Deliver Business Value and Communications 2 Flashcards

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In Manage Communications, a tool and technique is influenced by factors including whether the team is co-located, and how the organizational culture affects the way meetings are conducted is referred to as what?

A. Communication methods

B. Communication model

C. Communication technology

D. Communication modes

A

Answer: C
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
Communication technology includes conversations, meetings, written documents, databases, social media and websites. There is no such thing as communication modes.

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You are successfully managing a software project to automate the business processes for one of your clients. A key stakeholder voices a concern to you about the lack of relevant information on the team deliverables in the project status reports, which you have been sending to her. She is worried her team has no visibility in this project and has requested you look into the matter immediately. What should you do first in this situation?

A. Revisit the information distribution process in your project.

B. Have an urgent meeting with the stakeholders to understand what her team is working on.

C. Ask the stakeholder to send the status of her team so you can incorporate them into your report.

D. Review the communications management plan.

A

Answer: D
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
Since the stakeholder is receiving the status reports, there is no issue with the information distribution process (choice A). You should review the communications management plan first to understand the information need, communications requirements, format, method, time frame, and frequency of distribution for the required information for the stakeholder in question. You may want to have a meeting with the stakeholder once you have the facts and details (choice B). Choice C would be incorrect since there is nothing in the question which states the stakeholder is not sending this.

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You are the project manager for an upcoming global release of a new social media platform. As you develop your Communications Management Plan, you want to consider all possible communications methods, technologies, and types that would suit the needs of the many kinds of stakeholders impacted by this product, particularly formal marketing elements such as press releases. All the following statements about communication are accurate except for which one?

A. Informal communications include briefings for project stakeholders

B. Formal communication include project reports

C. External communications could include talking with the customer, media, public etc.

D. Communication with peers is often called horizontal communication

A

Answer: A
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
Briefings held for project stakeholders should be done in a formal manner, whether via a formal written report or a formal verbal presentation. Better examples for informal include emails, social media and websites.

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During the execution of your project, you are aware it is imperative to communicate and work with stakeholders to meet their needs and expectations and foster their involvement. Feedback you have been receiving in the form of formal and informal conversations and meetings leads you to seek advice in understanding stakeholder reaction. The best person or group to assist would be?

A. The project team

B. The project management committee

C. The project management team

D. Steering committee

A

Answer: C
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
The project management team is usually composed of leaders who work with the project manager in planning project activities and stakeholder engagement. The project team are the ones who perform the work of the project. This is not the job of the steering committee. There is no such thing as a project management committee.

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You are a project manager on a high-visibility project. You want to make a good first impression with your sponsor. You understand the key role of communication in project management and are committed to ensuring the communications management plan is followed and updated. You are monitoring communications and have collected work performance data. The purpose of work performance data in Monitor Communications is to present results of comparative analysis to the what?

A. Deliverable status

B. Stakeholder management plan

C. Work performance information

D. Communications management plan

A

Answer: D
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
Work performance data is an input to Monitor Communications. This data is the actual communications implemented. This is compared to the planned communications, listed in the communications management plan. The outcome of this comparison is called work performance information. However, the question is asking what you compare the data to, not the name of the comparison.

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You are mentoring a new project manager in your organization. She has just graduated college and took a few courses on project management as part of her curriculum. She has heard that project management is an iterative process and is still unsure as to what happens in each process group. She is particularly concerned about in which process group project deliverables are created. You give her the following advice:

A. Project deliverables are created during the Executing and Managing and Controlling Process Groups

B. Project deliverables are created in the Executing Process Group

C. Project deliverables are created in the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group, because you need to inspect and validate the deliverables

D. Project deliverables are created in the Closing Process Group, because you need deliverables to be accepted before you can close out a project or phase

A

Answer: B
Process - Task 1 - Deliver Business Value
The Executing process group consists of the processes used to complete the work defined in the project management plan to accomplish the project’s deliverables.

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The project manager has been working on the enterprise learning management system project for 10 months with a fairly large team. Yesterday, the new system was made available to the whole organization with only one glitch. A mass email with incorrect login and password was sent out to all employees. The project team worked on the issue diligently and within four hours sent out the correct email to everyone. The project manager met his sponsor on his way to the office this morning. The sponsor remarked, I am very disappointed. What could be the reason?

A. The sponsor had received regular updates from the project manager on the preventive measures being taken to ensure email goes out smoothly to the whole organization but a preventable defect occurred.

B. The project manager did not go through Integrated Change Control process to fix the issue.

C. The project manager did not mention the name of the sponsor in the email sent out to the whole organization thanking the team for hard work.

D. The project manager did not ask permission from the sponsor if the problem should be fixed or not.

A

Answer: A
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
Thanking the sponsor in the email which is about the performance of the project team seems flattering and out of context. Fixing project problems especially when it is impacting the whole organization does not require permission of the sponsor - it is the responsibility of the project manager. Emergency issues such as a mistake in communications do not need to go through integrated change control process. The purpose of integrated change control process is to ensure changes are controlled. By using the process of elimination, you can get to the correct answer.

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Managing communications effectively in an Agile setting when the sprint team is geographically disbursed is essential. Which of the following techniques address this issue the least?

A. Remote paring

B. Fishbowl window

C. Document sharing

D. Project reporting

A

Answer: D
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
Includes all but project reporting. While it is a communications technique to manage communications. And it may be performed for Agile projects; it refers to the collection and distribution of work performance reports for stakeholders, and does not address overall team communication effectiveness. Agile Practice Guide: Page 46.

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You are working with your team and the Product Owner. The product owner is prioritizing the user stories, and the team determines which user stories to include in the next sprint to create a functional deliverable. What does this refer to?

A. Minimum Business Increment

B. Minimum Viable Product

C. Minimum Marketable Feature

D. MoSCoW

A

Answer: B
Process - Task 1 - Deliver Business Value
The MVP is the smallest collection of features that can be included to be functional, which is what the scenario is describing. The MMF would be the minimum feature that would be acceptable by the customer. Although the team may deliver a functional product, it may not meet the MMF. MBI is the smallest amount of value that can be added that would benefit the business.

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What is the most important agile project practice for the agile team?

A. Retrospectives

B. Daily stand-up meeting

C. Earned value metrics

D. Sprint planning meeting

A

Answer: A
Process - Task 1 - Deliver Business Value
Option A is correct. The Agile Practice Guide indicates that the most important practice for the agile team is the retrospective because it allows the team to learn about, improve and adapt its process. See page 50 of the Agile Practice Guide for more details.

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A shared drive is created for your Agile team for team members to share documentation and to ensure all the latest versions of project documentation is available to stakeholders. What communication method does this describe?

A. Formal Written

B. Interactive

C. Pull

D. Informal Written

A

Answer: C
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
This is a Pull Communication since the documents are saved in a central repository where people can retrieve it when they need to. Note that Formal Written and Informal Written are not communication methods.

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You are a Team Facilitator responsible for 9 other people but 3 more are added. How many additional communication channels are there?

A. 33

B. 30

C. 3

D. 78

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Answer: A
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
Formula to use: n(n-1) / 2. There are 10 people altogether (you plus 9 others): Initially: 10(9) / 2 = 45 Add 3 more people: 13(12) / 2 = 78 Channels added: 78 - 45 = 33

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The project team is in the process of developing an appropriate approach and plan for project communications based on stakeholder needs and requirements. This process yields which of the following results?

A. Communication Skills, Scope Statement

B. Communications Management Plan

C. Communication models

D. Communications technology

A

Answer: B
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
The Plan Communications Management process develops the appropriate approach and plan for project communications based on stakeholder needs and requirements. The Communications Management Plan is the output from the Plan Communications Management process.

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You are creating a Communications Management Plan for your project. Which of the following items is not a relevant consideration from an information-distribution standpoint?

A. Timing of communications

B. Total project investment

C. Level of detail included

D. The recipient’s need for such information

A

Answer: B
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
A, C and D are all important considerations when outlining a communications approach, while the level of investment for the project should generally not impact the communications approach.

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You are the project manager of a very important software development project in your organization. As you are closely monitoring and managing your project, you are happy the project is progressing as per your plan. You reviewed the status of all the deliverables with your team members prior to having a project status update meeting with the stakeholders. Your team has developed a prototype and it is ready to be presented to the stakeholders for interface and feedback. This will be an iterative process and the prototype may be modified numerous times to incorporate the feedback until the requirements have been finalized for the product. Which of the following will you do in your status meeting?

A. Do not mention anything about the prototype.

B. Demo the prototype to your stakeholders and obtain their final approval.

C. Report on the progress of your prototype and point out it is a completed task.

D. Review the technical documentation of the prototype and obtain formal approval.

A

Answer: C
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
Per PMI, mixing meeting types is not considered a best practice. Usually the project manager reports on the progress of a project in a status meeting rather than demonstrating any prototype or reviewing any technical documentation.

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The process of exchanging information, intended or involuntary, between individuals and/or groups is known as:

A. Communications

B. Interactive communication

C. Communication

D. Communication model

A

Answer: C
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
Project Communications Management addresses both the process of communication, as well as management of communications activities and artifacts. It is important to be able to differentiate between the two. Communication is the process of exchanging information, intended or involuntary, between individuals and/or groups. While communications describes how information can be sent or received, for example via meetings, emails or reports.

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Your agile project team has hit a roadblock and doesn’t know how to proceed. The software they are making is not complete but questions and concerns from the team about the use of the software by the customer and how they will interact with certain features must be known to add business value to the software. How should you proceed?

A. Ask your Product Owner to track this situation as a project risk in the Risk Register

B. Release a prototype of the software or MVP to a subset of users to gather the needed information

C. Meet with the team members and discuss the need to add value

D. Tell the team to focus on completion of the software business value is subjective

A

Answer: B
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
One key differentiator of the agile team is to deliver business value often. This can be achieved through the use of prototypes or customer interaction see p 23 in the Agile Practice Guide

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You have created a communications management plan to identify, analyze and document the needs and expectations of stakeholders. This communications management plan is:

A. Plan Stakeholder Management process

B. An output of the Manage Communications process

C. A subsidiary of the project management plan

D. A subsidiary of the strategic management plan

A

Answer: C
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
The stakeholders’ needs and expectations are identified, analyzed and documented in the communications management plan, which is a subsidiary of the project management plan.

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As you are working with key stakeholders, you remind them that it is important to clearly define project success measures. You advise them that success should be measured not only in terms of time, cost, and scope but also in terms of stakeholder satisfaction. You will document the three questions about successful completion, which are all of the following except?

A. What does success look like for this project?

B. How will success be measured?

C. What would be the impact of project failure?

D. What factors may impact success?

A

Answer: C
Process - Task 1 - Deliver Business Value
While it would be interesting and perhaps useful to know what the impact of project failure would be, it is not one of the three questions noted in the PMBOK Guide.

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You are the project manager for a major airline. You have just replaced a project manager who left for a competitor. You are reviewing project plans and documentation and notice some areas of concern. The proper implementation of approved change requests, corrective actions, preventive actions, and defect repairs are confirmed using which tool and technique of Manage Quality?

A. Plan Quality Management tools and techniques

B. Process analysis

C. Inspection

D. Audits

A

Answer: D
Process - Task 1 - Deliver Business Value
Audits can confirm the implementation of approved change requests, including corrective actions, defect repairs and preventive actions.

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As the project manager, you collect metrics and then compile work performance reports each week (and sometimes more frequently as the occasion demands). What is the difference between project reporting and work performance reports?

A. Both mean the same thing.

B. Project reports are meant for customers while work performance reports are meant for review within the team.

C. Project reports describe the overall project status and any issues encountered, while work performance reports assess variances from project objectives.

D. Project reports are on a weekly frequency and work performance reports are event driven.

A

Answer: C
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
Project reporting is the act of collecting and distributing project information, which is distributed to many groups of stakeholders and should be adapted to provide information at an appropriate level, format, and detail for each type of stakeholder. Work performance reports include variance or trend analysis, and predict future project performance with reference to the planned objectives.

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Projects are dynamic and include many moving parts and stakeholders. As a project manager you should know how various factors influence your project. Which of the following statements is true?

A. Cost and Staffing level are low at the beginning of the project and continue the same trend until closure.

B. Stakeholders influences, risks, and uncertainty are greatest at the end of the project.

C. Cost of changes is high at the beginning of the project and low at the end of the project.

D. Stakeholders influences and risks are highest at the start of the project

A

Answer: D
Process - Task 1 - Deliver Business Value
Stakeholders influences and risks (uncertainty) are highest at the start of the project. These factors decrease over the life of the project. Changes are also more expensive as time passes on a project.

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Your project requires changes to the project charter. Who has the primary responsibility to decide if these changes are necessary, and to oversee their implementation?

A. Project manager

B. Project team

C. Project Sponsor

D. Stakeholders

A

Answer: C
Process - Task 1 - Deliver Business Value
The project sponsor issues the project charter and should help the project manager control changes to the charter.

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You are in the planning process group of a complex project involving many stakeholders. Your objective is to map out the procedures for making needed information available to the stakeholders. On which document are you working?

A. Communications management plan

B. Stakeholder Management Strategy

C. Risk management plan

D. Scope management plan

A

Answer: A
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
The communications management plan sets forth how communications will be planned, structured, implemented, and monitored for effectiveness.

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In order to speed up a project, you made a decision to fast-track a phase currently performed with five team members and another one which was planned to begin in four weeks time with another five team members. Which of the following activities should you do first?

A. Make sure that all exit criteria of the consecutive phase have been met to ensure the flow of communications in a team situation which is more complex by a factor of 2.

B. Make sure that all entry criteria of the previous phase have been met by planning and performing a phase gate meeting to assess technical aptness.

C. Make sure that all exit criteria of the previous phase have been met by planning and performing a phase gate meeting to assess technical performance.

D. Re-structure your team and delegate tasks in order to ensure the efficient flow of communications, given that more people are now involved in the simultaneous performance of the two tasks.

A

Answer: D
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
The number of communication lines has increased drastically with the combination of the two phases and the people working on them, and you must therefore take steps to ensure the team continues to communicate efficiently.

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You are a project manager for a small non-profit education company. You are currently managing a project to provide communication resources to educators in Guam. Communication is critically important to your overall project success. Communication technology and communication requirements analysis are best described as which of the following?

A. Tools and Technique of Plan Communications Management

B. Outputs from Plan Communications Management

C. Inputs to Manage Communications

D. Inputs to Identify Stakeholders

A

Answer: A
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
Communication requirements analysis, communication technology, communication models, communication methods, and meetings are tools and technique of the Plan Communications Management process.

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You are working with your project team to determine who has influence on your project. The amount of influence each stakeholder has may impact your project either positively or negatively. In order to understand this comprehensively, it will be important for you to consider influence in a number of directions including:

A. Upward, downward and outward

B. Upward, external, downstream and sideways

C. Upward, downward, outward and sideways

D. Upward, outward, upstream and downstream

A

Answer: C
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
Stakeholders can be classified according to their influence on the work of the project or the project team itself. The directions of influence are upward, downward, outward, and sideways. Upward includes senior management; downward includes the project team or specialists; outward includes those outside the project group such as suppliers; sideways includes peers such as other project managers.

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As part of your communications planning for your project, you determine the information needs of your stakeholders. These are defined by combining the type and format of information needed along with an analysis of the value of that information. Your next move should be to gather together all of the following information except?

A. Stakeholder information and communication requirements

B. Number of potential communication channels

C. Legal requirements

D. Resource management plan

A

Answer: D
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
The specific technique you are using here is called communication requirements analysis. All but D are listed as important sources of information.

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Analyzing which of the following will determine the information needs of the project stakeholders?

A. Organizational policies

B. Communication requirements

C. HR policies

D. Application area of the project

A

Answer: B
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
Analysis of communication requirements determines the information needs of the project stakeholders. These requirements are defined by assessing their desire along with the value of the information.

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Company policy dictates all projects require a high-level estimate in order to get the charter approved but maintains the expectation a bottom-up estimate will be completed by all PMs. Your charter has already been approved and the project is one your team has experience with. One of the management team members approaches you and suggests you review a similar project, apply quick updates and start to begin execution. This would allow your team to deliver earlier than expected and increase the chances of getting bonuses just before Christmas. How do you respond?

A. Reprimand the employee for attempting to go against company policies and expectations

B. Take this opportunity to educate the team member on the importance of the WBS

C. Listen to the team member and use analogous estimating to finish your planning

D. Follow OPAs and identify positive risks complimented by the experience of the team

A

Answer: D
Process - Task 1 - Deliver Business Value
PMs are expected to be professional at all times. You must follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), but the employee has identified potentially positive risks which should be investigated. Reprimanding the employee may cause a break down in future communications. Using analogous estimating violates company policy of creating WBS and bottom up estimating.

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During the execution of a project, the project manager understands the value in ensuring the information needs of the project and its stakeholders are met by monitoring communications. As part of the efforts of the project manager in accomplishing this, he or she consults certain plans or documents to help in this endeavor. The plans or documents to be consulted include which of the following?

A. Resource management plan, communications management plan

B. Resource register, risk register, communications management plan

C. Stakeholder register, resource management plan

D. Resource management plan, communications management plan, stakeholder engagement plan

A

Answer: D
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
When you see the words consult or refer to, this is typically referring to inputs. In this case Answer D is the only one containing the three inputs to Monitor Communications. There is no such document as the resource register.

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A project manager is: -conducting a risk analysis based on a high-level scope, and -using expert judgment to prepare a document. What is the project manager doing, based on the description of the activity?

A. Creating a project charter

B. Preparing a project scope statement

C. Creating the project management plan

D. Preparing a risk management plan

A

Answer: A
Process - Task 1 - Deliver Business Value
The other options require a more detailed project scope. PMBOK Guide Sixth Edition (2017) PMI/PMI/4.1/113

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You are creating, collecting, and distributing information in this process. With whom are you communicating when you are managing the communications process?

A. Senior management

B. Project team

C. Stakeholders

D. Project sponsor

A

Answer: C
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
Managing communications goes beyond the distribution of relevant information and seeks to ensure that information being communicated to project stakeholders has been appropriately generated, as well as received and understood by all project stakeholders.

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Which of the following communication methods is email considered to be?

A. Push

B. Pull

C. Interactive

D. Electronic

A

Answer: A
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
Email is a push communication.

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According to the PMBOK Guide which of the following is not a part of the Executing process group?

A. Coordinating people and resources

B. Developing and managing the project team

C. Managing stakeholder expectations

D. Integrating and performing the activities of the project as defined and outlined in the project charter

A

Answer: D
Process - Task 1 - Deliver Business Value
Choice D is the correct answer. As per the PMBOK Guide, the processes in the Executing Process Group are direct and manage project work, manage project knowledge, manage quality, acquire resources, develop team, manage team, manage communications, implement risk responses, manage stakeholder engagement, and conduct procurements. Choice D, is not a part of the Executing process group.

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Manage Communications ensures timely and appropriate collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, monitoring and ultimate disposition of project information. The key benefit of this process is:

A. It is a documented approach to effectively and efficiently engage stakeholders by presenting relevant information in a timely manner.

B. It provides the optimal information flow as defined in the communications management plan and the stakeholder engagement plan.

C. It enables an efficient and effective information flow between the team and stakeholders.

D. It provides the optimal information flow as defined in the communications management plan and the stakeholder communications plan.

A

Answer: C
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
Answer A is the key benefit of Plan Communications and Answer B is the key benefit of Monitor Communications. D is very close to C but be careful. There is no such thing as the stakeholder communications plan.

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You are the project manager of an agile team updating an annual benefits enrollment system for your company’s employees. Rather than build the entire system before deploying it, the team will release functionality with multiple sprints–health, dental, and vision insurance, followed by life insurance, then retirement savings plan options which will be the last sprint and the end of the project. This is an example of what kind of delivery?

A. Iterative

B. Incremental

C. Predictive

D. Hybrid

A

Answer: B
Process - Task 1 - Deliver Business Value
This is classic incremental delivery, which uses an iterative approach. When the last iteration or sprint is completed–in this case, the retirement plan enrollment–the project is complete.

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You are planning your newest project and just published the document that describes who will receive copies of future project information, how it should be distributed, and who will prepare it. Which of the following plans does this describe?

A. Scope management plan

B. Communications management plan

C. Communication register

D. Project charter

A

Answer: B
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
The communication management plan documents what information will be distributed, how it will be distributed, to whom, by whom, and the timing of the distribution. Answer A is incorrect because the question is not talking about scope. Answer choice C is not correct because that is a made-up term. Answer choice D is not correct because the question states we are in the planning phase, and in any event, the Charter would not contain such information.

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You are a Business Analyst and your Director calls you in for an important meeting to describe a new project she wants you to lead. You are very excited because it is a strategically significant assignment and will enhance your skill set. As the Director is discussing the new assignment you wonder if this is an actual project. Which of the following is not applicable to a project?

A. Definite starting date

B. You do not transition the project deliverables once completed

C. Creates a unique product, service, or result

D. Definite ending point

A

Answer: B
Process - Task 1 - Deliver Business Value
A project must have a definite start and end date, and will produce a unique outcome. Operations on the other hand are ongoing, and produce repetitive results.

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Even though you are still finalizing your overall project plan and baselines, you realize that work must take place using the material at hand. As such, you have begun several processes within the Executing process group. Which of the following is not a part of the Executing process group?

A. Develop Project Team

B. Manage Team

C. Conduct Procurement

D. Validate Scope

A

Answer: D
Process - Task 1 - Deliver Business Value
Validate Scope is a part of the Monitoring and Controlling process group (where the deliverables are accepted or rejected based on conformance to requirements) and not part of the Executing process group.

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Which of the following are outputs of Manage Communications?

A. Project communications, Project documents updates and OPA updates

B. Communication technology, communication skills and project documents updates

C. Project Management Plan updates, Project documents updates and project reporting

D. Project communications, communication technology and communication skills

A

Answer: A
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
The outputs of manage communication are project communications, project management plan updates, project documents updates and Organizational Process Assets updates. Technology, communications skills and reporting are all tools and techniques of Manage Communications.

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According to PMI’s Agile Practice Guide, which of the following is not a benefit you would receive when concentrating on optimizing the flow of value?

A. Increased collaboration

B. Increased work in process, which ensures team members stay active

C. Reduced wasted time due to reduction of multitasking

D. Increased throughput of valuable work

A

Answer: B
Process - Task 1 - Deliver Business Value
Option B is correct. Part of the agile philosophy is minimizing work in process (WIP) and setting WIP limits. This is because high levels of WIP slow down throughput to done. See page 39 of the Agile Practice Guide for more details.

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You have just taken over a project from another project manager who has gone on a trip before briefing you on the project. You know, however, there is excellent documentation in your repository. The first thing you need to do is understand at a high level that the stakeholders understand the key deliverables, the milestones, and roles and responsibilities of everyone on the project. What document should you first read?

A. Stakeholder register

B. Project scope statement

C. Project Management Plan

D. Project charter

A

Answer: D
Process - Task 1 - Deliver Business Value
You should always look for keywords or phrases in the question. The keyword phrase is high level. The only document here which is both high level and fits the question is the project charter.

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Your agile project team has exposed a prototype of software to a subset of users to gather the needed information for the next iteration of planning and work. How does this help the agile team?

A. Creating a bandaid that doesn’t fix the problem but will buy your team the time needed to complete the final deliverable sometimes referred to as an agile tourniquet.

B. The use of a prototype helps them understand business value from the customers perspective.

C. By allowing your team downtime during the testing of the resultant MVP to improve the team’s velocity in the next sprint.

D. The MPV will remind the customer about the concepts of frequent delivery and the agile mindset.

A

Answer: B
Process - Task 1 - Deliver Business Value
One key differentiator of the agile team is to deliver business value in increments. This can be achieved through the use of prototypes or customer interaction. See the boxed note on p. 23 in the Agile Practice Guide.

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As you consider which communication technologies to leverage for your project, you want to ensure you conform to the standards set forth by your company while ensuring effective communications. Which of the following means that communication has occurred?

A. The transfer of knowledge from one person to another

B. The outputting of knowledge

C. The acquisition of knowledge

D. The transmission of words

A

Answer: A
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
The transfer of knowledge from one person (or group) to another person (or group) is evidence that communication has occurred. Appropriate communications methods should be chosen in order to ensure that knowledge is effectively and efficiently transferred throughout a project.

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Who should attend status meetings?

A. The project team

B. The people designated in the communication management plan

C. The people designated in the stakeholder register

D. Stakeholders

A

Answer: B
Process - Task 2 - Manage Communications
Answer B is correct. The people listed in the communication management plan will attend status meetings.