Test 6

Question 1

1 NEXT
You are an experienced project manager. You are in the middle of a hybrid project, the duration of which is 2 years. A lot of deliverables are delivered to the customer in the last 7 months. Your team has come up with a new deliverable that they can deliver on time. Once it comes to you what should you do before reaching out to the customer for validation?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

You should call the customer yourself and get the validation done

You should send the deliverable to the quality team

The team should take the deliverable to customer for validation

You should check with the sponsor on what to do next

Answer 1

Correct Option:B

EXPLANATION

According to the project management framework, once the deliverable comes out of execution process, the next step is the internal verification by the quality team. Once the quality team verifies the deliverable, the project manager should take it to the customer for validation.

Question 2

2 NEXT
You are managing a waterfall project. In the middle of the project the customer asks you to revise the scope defined at the beginning of the project. As an experienced project manager what should you do?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Deny the request as the scope of work was frozen during planning

Accept the request and update the project charter

Generate a change request and follow the change control process

Consult with your sponsor on the customer request

Answer 2

Correct Option:D

EXPLANATION

The customer wants to change the scope defined at the beginning of the project. That scope was a part of the project charter, which is the responsibility of the sponsor. Hence, the project manager needs to talk to the sponsor.

Question 3

3 QUALITY
During the quality testing of the new software integration project, the results show performance variance from the quality management plan. Thus, the project manager asked the quality team to investigate the root cause of the variance and resolve it to get back on track. What type of action did the project manager request?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Corrective Action

Preventive Action

Defect Repair

Project Tracking

Answer 3

Correct Option:A

EXPLANATION

Finding the root cause and taking action to bring the project back on track come under Corrective Action.

Question 4

4During test planning, two team members disagree about adding a test case to the UAT. The team is not able to take a decision. As a project manager, what should you do?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Add the test case

Reject the test case

Postpone the discussion for a later stage

Ask the team members to logically explain their opinions

Answer 4

Correct Option:D

EXPLANATION

The project manager cannot decide whether to add or reject a test case without understanding the need. So, they should ask both the team members to come up with a logical conclusion.

Question 5

5 NEXT CLOSING
Your company decided to terminate your 24 months’ project in the 7th month of execution because of insufficient budget. What you should do as a project manager?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

You must meet the top management and convince them to reconsider their decision.

If the management decide to terminate the project, the project manager cannot do anything.

You must submit a report mentioning that you completed the project successfully as you have been delivering the deliverables on time for seven months.

You should transfer the finished and unfinished deliverables to the relevant stakeholders.

Answer 5

Correct Option:D

EXPLANATION

If the project is terminated as a result of insufficient budget, it is most likely a project exit criteria. The project manager should look at the project closing process, which includes handing over the deliverables to the relevant stakeholders.

Question 6

6 AGILE
You joined in as the project manager of an ongoing hybrid project after 6 months of project start date. You heard the team members saying that despite a robust change control system, there are too many changes in the project and the requirements keeps changing. What should you do?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Halt all the changes until you know the reason for the previously done changes

Consider changing the development approach

Update the change management plan

Tell the team that changes are normal in hybrid projects

Answer 6

Correct Option:B

EXPLANATION

If the requirements are changing too rapidly, the project manager should consider changing the development approach from hybrid to agile.

Question 7

7In the middle of a 50-million dollar construction project, a change request is submitted for approval. As per the change management plan the change request could be approved by unanimity voting by 8 board members. In which case will you go ahead with the change?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

7 out of 8 approve the change

All 8 approve the change

5 out of 8 approve the change

All 8 reject the change

Answer 7

Correct Option:B

EXPLANATION

Unanimity voting is when all the voting members approve the change.

Question 8

8During the sprint review of an agile project, the project manager is taking votes around a specific decision. During voting, one of the team members shows a closed fist to the project manager. What does that mean?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

The team member does not want to participate in the voting.

The team member is OK with the decision.

The team member disagrees with the decision.

The project manager has his 100% support.

Answer 8

Correct Option:C

EXPLANATION

Fist of five is an agile technique in which five fingers means full support and fist means disagreement.

Question 9

9 NEXT AGILE
You are the project manager of an ongoing agile software development project and you completed your second release. What should you do to prepare for the next release?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Manage changes to the scope baseline of the previous release

Review the backlog items

Confirm the validity of the project scope statement

Review the resource utilization

Answer 9

Correct Option:B

EXPLANATION

In agile projects, the project manager and product owner need to reprioritize the backlog items based on the work done during a sprint and the release, so after finishing the release, the project manager and product owner should review the backlog.

Question 10

10
During the project management plan review meeting, one of the senior directors raised a concern that one major deliverable was missing in the scope of work. What should you do as a project manager?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Initiate change management process

Tell the director the change can not be added as the scope is already defined

Review the requirement documentation and requirement traceability matrix (RTM)

Change the plan to include missing deliverable

Answer 10

Correct Option:C

EXPLANATION

As a project manager, you should look into the requirement documentation to see if the requirement was captured.

Question 11

11You are an experienced project manager. You are starting a new project and discussing the project charter with the team. One of the team members says, “We all are experienced professionals and we have done many similar projects in the past, shouldn’t we spend this time to plan and start the project early?” The rest of the project team members seems to agree with him. How should you respond to this?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

If everyone agrees, we can move ahead without the project charter.

We can use the team charter of the previous similar project to save time.

We need to define the project charter as this is one of the requirements of the PMO.

We need the project charter as it helps us in understanding the objectives of the project, remove conflicts, and improve efficiency.

Answer 11

Correct Option:D

EXPLANATION

The project charter defines the objectives of the project and helps the team eliminate any confusion or conflict.

Question 12

12The project manager is working on a new project and meets the customer for the first time. At the end of the meeting the customer asked the project manager for a high-level schedule estimate. The project manager checked her last 4 similar project schedules and gave a high-level estimate to the customer. Which technique did the project use for estimation?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Bottom Up Estimation

Parametric Estimation

Analogous Estimation

PERT Estimation

Answer 12

Correct Option:C

EXPLANATION

Historical data analysis comes under Analogous Estimation.

Question 13

13 NEXT CLOSING
You were managing a project to set up a car assembly line. The assembly line is almost ready and you have closed all the procurements, submitted the final report, and also took feedback from all the relevant stakeholders. What should you do next?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Hand over the assembly line to the operations team

Prepare a report to show how the project achieved all the business objectives

Give final payment to all the vendors and contractors

Send out formal notice to close the project

Answer 13

Correct Option:A

EXPLANATION

Once the project finishes, the project manager and the project team need to hand over the project to relevant stakeholders

Question 14

14 NEXT PLANNING
You are about to start the planning of a large and complex project in a very regulated environment. Due to the size and regulatory considerations, the planning becomes really critical. What is the first thing you should do to start the planning process?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Start stakeholder identification so that you can engage the required stakeholders in the planning process

Get the statement of work from the customer and share it with all the stakeholders so that everybody knows what the priorities are

Review the project charter to understand high-level requirements of the project

Conduct a project kick-off meeting with the stakeholders to inform and engage them and to take their commitment

Answer 14

Correct Option:C

EXPLANATION

Project charter gives all the high-level information, and the information becomes the base for detailed planning.

Question 15

15 VZORCE
You are working on a cement plan maintenance project. The total estimated budget for project is $100000. At 40% completion of the actual work, the actual cost spent is $60000. At the same pace, how much more money will it take to complete the project?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

$123,512

$97,889

$122,678

$89,254

Answer 15

Correct Option:D

EXPLANATION

The question says “how much more” money you would need to complete the project. So the question requires us to calculate the ETC. First we will calculate EV by using the formula %completeBAC(40%100000), which would be $40000, then we will derive the CPI by the formula EV/AC (40000/60000), which would be 0.67. We need to use the CPI to calculate EAC by the formula BAC/CPI (100000/0.67), which would be 149254, and finally we need to calculate ETC by the formula EAC-AC (149254-60000) = 89254.

Question 16

16 MONITORING AND CONTROL
Your are managing a large construction project. Currently, you and your team are following the monitor and control project work process. Which of the following activities you and team might carry out during this process?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Accepting or rejecting the change requests

Performing quality control activities on the deliverables

Getting formal acceptance on the deliverables from the customer (customer validation)

Comparing the actual progress against the baseline and the project management plan to keep the project under control

Answer 16

Correct Option:D

EXPLANATION

The question asks about the process of monitor and control project work and not about monitoring and controlling process groups. The process group includes all the options, but the process of monitor and control project work includes comparing the actual progress against the project management plan and making sure the project runs on track.

Question 17

17You are in the middle of a large construction project. There are a lot of unexpected issues and they are threatening the project budget and schedule. What is the best course of action for the project manager to address the issues?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Use the contingency reserves to get the project back on track

Check with the finance department if you could get some more money to cover up the cost variance

Use management reserve

Check how you controlled the cost and the schedule in the last similar project

Answer 17

Correct Option:C

EXPLANATION

Because most of the issues are unexpected, the project manager should utilize the management reserve.

Question 18

18 QUALITY ASSURANCE
You are managing a defect rate reduction project for a manufacturing process. To analyze and improve the process, you and the team are now involved in the quality assurance process. Which of the following could help in improving the process?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Add a zero inventory process to the project

Consult with the quality control department

Make a process improvement plan with a Kanban expert

Consult with a Six Sigma Black Belt consultant

Answer 18

Correct Option:D

EXPLANATION

Six sigma is a lean project management concept, which is centralized around process improvement. The six sigma consultant can help in reducing the error rate.

Question 19

19Your project sponsor calls you in the middle of the project and asks for a document that explains the description, owner, and status of all the requirements. Which document will you present to the sponsor?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Requirement Traceability Matrix

Requirement Management Plan

Requirement Documentation

Stakeholder Expectation Document

Answer 19

Correct Option:A

EXPLANATION

Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) is a document that contains the description, owner, and status of all the requiremen

Question 20

20During the project review meeting with the team, you identified a significant variance. It is because of an issue in configuration. If the issue is not fixed before the next client inspection, your project might be canceled, However, after further review with the team, you came to know that bringing the project back on track is only a minor correction to the configuration element. What should you do first?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Contact your sponsor

Talk to the customer and inform them about the findings

Raise a change request

Change the configuration element to bring the project back on track

Answer 20

Correct Option:C

EXPLANATION

Because the change is in configuration, the first thing the project manager should do is to raise a change request.

Question 21

21
You are an experienced project manager working on a large software development project. Using a hybrid approach in this project, you are trying to break the work package into activities for scheduling purposes. During the decomposition of the testing work package, you need more information about the project which will come only once the development work is at least 60% complete. Since the development work will take about four months to complete, how you would proceed with the decomposition?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Review the project scope statement to check if there is a possibility to reduce some work from development work package

Review the project management plan to determine how to proceed with the decomposition

Contact the solution architects to see if they could help in decomposition

Breakdown the development work package for now and decompose the testing work package later after getting the required information

Answer 21

Correct Option:D

EXPLANATION

One of the decomposition techniques is Rolling Wave Planning. The project manager decompose the work packages as they move into execution and more information is available. The best option here is to decompose the development work package for now and wait for the required information to decompose the testing work package later.

Question 22

22 DEFINITION
You and the team are trying to estimate the time periods required by each activity. In this process, you are using a document which contains information on categories of labour, material, and equipment resources. To complete the project work, you also want to know the skill set, grade of supplies, and required certifications. Which of the following documents would you primarily refer for this purpose?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Resource management plan

Work breakdown structure

Resource breakdown structure

Project management plan

Answer 22

Correct Option:C

EXPLANATION

The team is in the estimate activity duration process. One of the inputs to that process is the resource breakdown structure, which has information related to labour, material, and equipment resources.

Question 23

23 RESOURCE MAN. PLAN
You are using a rented facility from where the team of developers and testers are working. The weekly renewal of the facility is bound to happen on Monday, next week. The development work is delayed and will take another week. You had a discussion with the landlord to renew the contract for one more week but the landlord informs you that the facility is already booked. What should you do next?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Update this risk in your risk register

Update this issue in the issue log

Update the resource management plan

Update procurement documentation

Answer 23

Correct Option:C

EXPLANATION

Since the issue has already occurred, there is no need to change the facility. The facility is a part of physical resources, the resource management plan needs to be updated with this change.

Question 24

24 RISK
The project management plan explains that the predictive life cycle has been selected to produce the project deliverables. During which of the following areas will the overall project risk be the lowest?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Initiation

Planning

Monitor and control

Closing

Answer 24

Correct Option:D

EXPLANATION

The overall project risk is highest at the beginning of the project and is lowest during the closing.

Question 25

25You are developing the budget for a large scale multinational project which will take 10 years to complete, but before this, you always worked on projects which were less than two years in duration. As a part of the current process, what should you do differently compared to the previous project? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Create stakeholder register Review additional issue logs Focus on creating a robust risk management system Consider additional enterprise environmental factors

Answer 25

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION As this is a big project, there will be a lot of internal and external enterprise environmental factors that can influence the project. As a project manager, you need to have a very keen eye on those factors while planning the project.

Question 26

26The team has been arguing over an issue in a Product Backlog Item (PBI): an unapproved change was made, and no one raised it. Now, the change will impact the schedule. They are unable to agree whether the change was due to the change, the lack of communication, or something else. What do you advise? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER The unapproved change caused the issue, and lack of communication made it worse. The lack of communication caused the issue, and the unapproved change made it worse. The process did not capture such unapproved changes. The PM should have been more involved and caught the unapproved change.

Answer 26

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION This is an agile project, so many decisions are managed by the self-organizing team. People are human, so they make mistakes. Processes must accommodate the fact that these occur, and once exposed, they need to be introduced into formal change control. The root cause was the unapproved change. Lack of communication was a dormant issue but was not a causal factor in this situation.

Question 27

27 A few deliverables in your project demand procurement of goods and services from outside the organization. You have instructed your team to document all individual project risks related to the procurement activities. How should the team proceed with this activity? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Review and update the risk management plan Update the risk register Review procurement documentation Interview the vendors and contractors to identify the risks

Answer 27

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Although the team is performing the identification of the risk process from the risk management knowledge area, the risks are related to procurement. The procurement documents such as bid documents and statement of work can be useful in the identification of the risks. Procurement documentation is also an input to the risk identification process.

Question 28

28 WHICH DOCUMENT The project you are currently managing has five phases. At the phase gate meeting, the management wants to determine if the phase has met the success criteria so they can proceed to the next phase. Along with the project management plan, what is the other document that should be referred? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Business case and Project charter Issue log Risk register Lessons learned register

Answer 28

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION To explain the success criteria, the project manager should refer to the business case and the project charter, along with the project management plan, as these documents contain the business objectives and other high level information about the project.

Question 29

29 CHANGE MAN. As per the organization policy, the Change Control Board (CCB) should review all the changes. They should also follow all the activities which are defined in the PMBOK for the change control. Since the project manager and the team are not the part of the CCB, which of the following activities may the CCB perform? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Submit change request Implement approved changes Update project management plan Terminate project

Answer 29

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION As the CCB is required to follow the change control activities, and the project manager is not part of the CCB, it is responsible for submitting the change request.

Question 30

30 WHICH DOCUMENT You are an experienced project manager working on an automobile project. Before working on one of the work packages to design clutch plates for the new vehicle, you wanted to review the acceptance criteria for the work package. Which document should you refer to? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Project management plan Requirements traceability matrix Project scope statement WBS Dictionary

Answer 30

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION The WBS Dictionary contains work package information such as owners, scheduled activities, and acceptance criteria.

Question 31

31The team is working on a software development project and needs information from the stakeholders. If the team is using prototypes, questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, and so on to get the information, which technique are they using? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Data representation Data analysis Data gathering Group decision making

Answer 31

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION All the tools that the team is using come under the data gathering technique.

Question 32

32Consider that you are attending the project selection meeting, and the management has 2 different projects: Project Alpha with an NPV of $85,000 and Project Bravo with an NPV of $55,000. If the management decides to go ahead with Project Alpha, what is the opportunity cost? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER $85,000 $55,000 $30,000 $30,750

Answer 32

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION The opportunity cost is $55,000, which is the net present value of the second project.

Question 33

33 THEORY According to Tuckman's ladder, in which area would a team experience maximum coordination and synergy? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Performing Norming Forming Adjourning

Answer 33

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION According to Dr. Bruce Tuckman's ladder of team dynamics, a team has maximum coordination and synergy during the performing phase.

Question 34

34The vendor and the project manager have a big dispute in the middle of a four-year construction project. The project manager claims that the vendor did not provide the deliverables per the contract, and the vendor complains that he did not receive the payments on time. How should the project manager resolve this conflict? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER File a contact claim and work with the vendor to resolve the issue Terminate the contract and look for new vendor Update the issue log and inform the senior management Show the vendor the performance of the other vendors and renegotiate the contract terms

Answer 34

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION The project manager should file the claim and work directly with the vendor to resolve the issue.

Question 35

35 VZORCE Your project sponsor wants you to calculate the Expected Monitory Value of two different alternatives available to complete the project per the decision tree. Which of the following formulas will you use to calculate the EMV? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Probability * Impact Positive outcome - Negative outcome Negative outcome - Positive outcome Average of the above options

Answer 35

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION The formula for calculating the EMV is Positive outcome - Negative outcome.

Question 36

36 RISK You are in the process of prioritizing the risks in the project with your team. Which of the following will have the least effect on the prioritization of the risk process? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Reviewing risk register Reviewing stakeholder register Reviewing assumptions log Reviewing the risk report

Answer 36

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION Reviewing the risk report will have the least impact on the prioritization process as the reports are made after the risks are identified and prioritized and the mitigation plans are prepared.

Question 37

37You are leading a planning session for scope, and two team members are holdouts in achieving consensus in the scope statement. One believes requirements have not been identified enough, and the other believes requirements have not been connected with the objective in enough detail. What is your next step? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Manage the conflict through smoothing: take the role of servant leader and find a way that all three opinions can easily come together Negotiate to a fair outcome Use your authority to drive consensus Walk out of the room, breathe to relax, and come back in to see the conflict in a different way

Answer 37

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION As a servant leader, you'll be creating the environment that best solves the problem. In this conflict, it is finding a way to help the fractured team return to one mind. Once that is resolved, the team can focus on the best outcome. Negotiating to a fair outcome and giving yourself a 'time-out' are not bad ideas; however, the best solution in this situation is servant leadership. Using your authority to drive consensus limits options to your opinions and leaves others feeling unengaged. (p. 17, PMBOK 7ed, p. 33 Agile Practice Guide)

Question 38

38 RISK While managing a large and complex project, you followed all the best practices of project management. However, you still identified a lot of critical risks during the project, and so, it was not able to achieve the objectives. What went wrong? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER The risks were not identified properly. The qualitative risk analysis was not done. The quantitative risk analysis was not done. The risk mitigation plans were poorly implemented.

Answer 38

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION Since you followed all the good practices, you must have done the identification and qualitative and quantitative risk analysis,.The only possible reason for the failure of the project could be that the risk response plan was not properly implemented.

Question 39

39 COMMUNICATION You are managing a construction project. In the process of defining the communication management plan, you want to understand the communication needs of all the stakeholders, especially related to the type and format of the communication. Which of the following options is the best way to get this information? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Review the stakeholder register Review the requirement documentation Conduct communication requirement analysis Review the stakeholder engagement plan

Answer 39

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION You should perform a communication requirement analysis with all the stakeholders.This exercise will help you to identify the type and format of the communication needed by the stakeholders.

Question 40

40 RISK In order to respond to a risk, the project team has two different option. The first option has four criteria to meet and costs $10,000. the second option has only two criteria to meet but costs $3,000. Which of the following actions is the team least likely to opt for? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Running a Monte Carlo analysis Performing alternative analysis Using multicriteria decision analysis Performing cost benefit analysis

Answer 40

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION The Monte Carlo analysis is a technique for identification of the risk.

Question 41

41 PROCUREMENT You are managing a pipeline expansion project in Canada and want to outsource some work to local contractor. In a process of preparing bid package for the contractor, which of the following documents is not required? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Procurement statement of work Request for proposal Independent cost estimates Bid documents

Answer 41

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Independent cost estimates are internal documents that the buying organization uses for benchmarking the procurement processes. They are not shared with the vendors or contractors.

Question 42

42You are managing a software development project. In the process of onboarding the resources, you want to check the availability of the resources. Which document can you refer to check the availability of resources? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Resource breakdown structure Resource calendar Resource requirement documentation Project management plan

Answer 42

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION The availability and nonavailability can be checked by reviewing the resource calendar.

Question 43

43 RESOUCES One of the projects you are managing requires hazardous chemicals to be transferred from one location to the other location. This task requires very specific skills and experience, and there is a debate among the team members on the quantity and type of resources required for this task. As a project manager, what should you do first? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Take any available resource to complete the work Select the resources after the voting process based on majority Research the specific skill set and experience required and search for resources which fulfill the requirements Use resource management plan

Answer 43

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION The first thing you should do is research the required skill set and experience.

Question 44

44During the bidder conference, one of the vendors points out that a document is missing from the bid documents.On checking, you realize that the document is actually missing. Upon receiving the bids from all the vendors, you realise that a lot of vendors missed that document and provided no response. How should you deal with this situation? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Reschedule the bidder conference to explain the vendors about the importance of the missed document Go ahead with the vendor selection process and ask the selected vendors to submit the document at a later stage Resend the bid documents to all the vendors and allow them to resubmit the proposal with the missing document Look into the bid documents to see how important the missing document is and move ahead if it is not very important

Answer 44

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION The best option would be to resend the updated bid documents to the vendors and allow them to resubmit the proposal.

Question 45

45 AGILE Your organization is moving from a traditional project management approach to an adaptive one, and you are given the responsibility to lead that transition, During the project, you realize that you need to update a lot of templates to be used in adaptive projects, and one such template is for the schedule management plan. Which of the following things are you most likely to update in the template? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER The schedule model, iteration and release lengths, and reporting formats Schedule maintenance and level of accuracy Units of measurements and Ops charts Summary milestones and key deliverables

Answer 45

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION As the questions reflect that the organization is moving from predictive to agile project management, the schedule management plan needs to be updated with the iteration and release planning.

Question 46

46 COMMUNICATION A few stakeholders are complaining about a team member who is not performing well in the project. As a project manager, how should you handle this situation with the team member? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Meet the functional manager and ask for replacement Use formal written communication with the team member Use formal verbal communication with the team member Discuss the issue with the team member

Answer 46

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION The best choice should be to go and talk to the team member about the issue.

Question 47

47While performing the slab casting activity of a construction project for a private client, the client asks if you could also do the false ceiling. You analyze the change against the schedule and conclude that this will have no impact on the schedule.What is the first thing you should do to proceed with the change? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Begin the construction as it doesn't have any impact on schedule Analyse the change request against other project constraints Consult the PMO on how to proceed with the change Consult the CCB on how to proceed with the change

Answer 47

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION The first thing to do is to analyze the impact of the change on other project constraints.

Question 48

48 A lot of key stakeholders' responsibilities are disrupted because of the organizational restructuring, and it is becoming difficult for you to keep the stakeholders engaged in the project in a positive manner. What should you not do to manage the engagement? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Use your interpersonal and team skills to manage the engagement Develop the approaches to engage the stakeholders based on their needs, expectations, interests, and potential impact Use communication management plan to engage stakeholders Engage stakeholders at appropriate project stages to obtain, confirm, and maintain their commitment toward the success of the project

Answer 48

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION All the other options are for stakeholder engagement, and since this option is for the identification of the stakeholders, it is not an action to be taken.

Question 49

49 CHANGE - MONITOR AND CONTROL During an inspection, you detect a defect which was already identified in one of the previous inspections and a change request was also raised to correct it. You are wondering how the defect resurfaced. After a discussion with the team, you come to know that the team never implemented the change. What could have prevented this situation? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Using an requirement traceability matrix Updating the defect into issue log and risk register Holding an approved change request review Performing root cause analysis

Answer 49

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Approved change request review is a part of the monitor and control process. This includes reviewing all the change requests that are approved by the CCB to see the status of their implementation.

Question 50

50 You are managing a big multiphase project. The phases are planned in a sequential manner. After the second phase of the project, which process group of the third phase should start? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Planning Executing Initiating Closing

Answer 50

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION In a sequential life cycle, when the closing process group ends, it starts the initiation process group of the next phase.

Question 51

51 While performing the slab casting activity of a construction project for a private client, the client asks if you could also do the false ceiling. You analyze the change against the schedule and conclude that this will have no impact on the schedule.What is the first thing you should do to proceed with the change? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Project schedule management Project quality management Project tracking Project change control management

Answer 51

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION All the terms mentioned in the question point out that the project is an agile project. All of these activities are the part of managing the schedule in an agile environment.

Question 52

52You ask one of the team members to draft the requirement management plan. When the team member gives you the draft, you notice that one of the components does not belong there. Which of the following is the most likely component that you notice? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER The process of prioritizing the requirements The rationale of the requirements The process of preparing the project scope statement The process of tracking the requirements throughout the project

Answer 52

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION The process of preparing the project scope statement is a part of the scope management plan and not of the requirement management plan.

Question 53

53During a project review, the project manager notices a major problem and discusses it with the team. The team suggests that they need to make the changes in the core architecture. What is the first thing that the project manager should do? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Consult the sponsor Consult the PMO Implement the corrective action Submit a change request

Answer 53

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION Although this is a major change and the project manager is required to consult the sponsor, the first thing would be to submit the change request, after which, the impact analysis and rest of the processes will take place.

Question 54

54You joined the project midway as the project manager and realized that the team members are mostly involved in responding to the unexpected information requests from a lot of stakeholders.This results in project delay as the team members are not able to focus on the project work. What is the first thing you should do as a project manager? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Ask the team members to forward all the requests to you so that the team could focus on their work Ask the team members to ignore all the information requests and focus on the project work Ask the team to respond to all the information requests and work overtime to complete the project on time Review the communication management plan to understand the reason behind the stakeholders raising multiple information requests

Answer 54

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION As a project manager, review the communication management plan to understand the reason behind the stakeholders raising multiple information requests.

Question 55

55Two engineers are arguing as you walk in. One talks to the other, while the other is standing with crossed arms. It is obvious that they won't progress until they work their problem out. What is your next step? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Assist the two in finding a way to overcome their conflict Tell the two to put aside their grievances and get back to work Discover the issue and resolve it Help the two by finding something they agree on

Answer 55

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION Collaboration is the most appropriate way to resolve conflicts. A conflict must be addressed and should not be ignored. It is best when conflict is managed so the issues can easily be resolved. Smoothing or finding something to agree on is a reasonable conflict management strategy. However, collaboration leads to a longer-lasting, more satisfying outcome. P. 29, 168 Guide to the PMBOK 7ed

Question 56

56 The project that you are managing is going well, and there is a high-performing team whose contribution you want to recognize. Which of the following options can be used as a guide to the process? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Organizational Process Assets Quality Matrix Team Performance Assessment Enterprise Environmental Factors

Answer 56

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION The process you are managing is 'Manage Team' from resource management. One of the inputs to that process is the Organizational Process Assets.

Question 57

57 AGILE Which of the following is the difference between iterative and adaptive development life cycle? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER In iterative life cycle, the iterations are repeated until we get the desired results. In adaptive life cycle, the iterations are repeated until we get desired results. In iterative life cycle, the scope of the project is defined in the first iteration. In adaptive life cycle, the project management plan is defined during project planning.

Answer 57

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION According to PMPBOK- 6, the definition of iterative life cycle is that the iteration runs until it is deemed true.

Question 58

58 AGILE In the course of managing an agile project, the team conducts a sprint review with the customer representative(s) at the end of the second sprint. After the customer suggests many changes, the team documents the changes, what should the team do next? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Conduct retrospective meeting and reprioritize the backlog Put the customer-suggested changes to the next iteration Start the next iteration as per the previous plan Consult product owner to see if the changes are viable

Answer 58

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION Since the team just concluded the sprint review, the next step should be to conduct a retrospective, mark the areas of improvement by putting all the customer requirements and improvements back into the backlog, and reprioritize the backlog to plan the next iteration.

Question 59

59You are managing a hybrid project. During the project, you planned for the risk and prioritized the risks as per qualitative risk analysis. However, executing the project, one of the unidentified risks occurred and threatened the schedule and cost of the project. What should you do first? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Consult the sponsor as the risk is unplanned Review the risk register Inform the customer about the risk Plan a work around

Answer 59

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION As the question suggests, the unidentified risk has occurred. Since it is no more a risk but an issue, the first step for the project manager should be to plan the work around.

Question 60

60 BUDGET You are managing a large scale construction project. You have 230 resources working on the project in which a lot of material is also used. During the execution, the rate of cement has risen significantly due to economic growth of the country. How would you manage the risk involved? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Use contingency reserve Use management reserve Ask the finance department for more funds Contact your sponsor

Answer 60

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION As the price escalation of the cement is due to economic growth, ideally it is already identified as a risk. So the project manager should use the contingency reserve planned for the particular risk.

Question 61

61 CONFLICT During a sprint in a hybrid project, two of the senior team members have a conflict. One team member is complaining that the other team member is keeping the testing tool busy for almost the entire time and thus, the former is not able to perform the test cases. The project manager convinced both of them to adjust their work timings so that both can use the testing tool. Which conflict resolution technique did the project manager use? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Smoothening Problem solving Compromising Avoiding

Answer 61

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION The project manager used a compromising technique as both of the team members adjusted their timings. It is partial satisfaction to both the parties involved.

Question 62

62 PROJECT CHARTER You are in the process of defining the project charter for an industrial infrastructure project and keen to determine how business objectives are related to the project. What should you do? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Refer to the business case to check the business objectives, update it, and submit to the sponsor Identify how the project is related to the business objectives from the business case Go through the agreements related to the project Review business cases of similar past projects

Answer 62

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION The business case documents the business needs and objectives related to the project.

Question 63

63 NEXT When planning for management of project resources, you have used your expert judgment, prepared hierarchy charting of the project organization, and held related meetings while acknowledging organizational theories. These have resulted in the creation of a good quality resource management plan. However, another item has not been created yet. What is it? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Project team assignments Resource requirements A team charter with operating guidelines for the team, their values, and agreements. Resource calendars

Answer 63

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION The team charter and the resource management plan are the two key outcomes of the planning resource management process.

Question 64

64You are managing a project, and once you enter the execution phase, you realize that you need to procure one additional server to fulfill the project requirements. Given the purchase value is small, you prepare a unilateral contract. What is this also known as? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Purchase order SOW Contract RFP

Answer 64

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION A purchase order (PO) is a commercial document issued by a buyer to a seller. It is normally a unilateral contract and is mostly used for low value purchases.

Question 65

65During the initiation process of a high-value highway project, you are working on the identification of the stakeholders. Which of the following components from the organizational process assets could be most useful? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Issue logs from previous projects Process documentation from previous projects Stakeholder registers from previous projects Procurement documentation from previous projects

Answer 65

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Although one needs to use all the documents mentioned given in the other options, the most important one is the stakeholder register. It contains all the identified stakeholders, both internal and external.

Question 66

66 During a water dam construction project, a lot of villagers came up and started opposing the construction, they demand very high compensation that would adversely impact the budget and the schedule of the project, which of the following process would have helped in preventing this problem from occurring? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Developing the Schedule Determining the Budget Identify Stakeholders Identify Risk

Answer 66

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION The identification of the stakeholder process is a part of initiation which helps in identifying both positive and negative stakeholders and to plan the strategy to handle the stakeholders.

Question 67

67 When mapping the characteristics of the stakeholders, the project manager is in the process of selecting the representation tool to be used. He is deciding on using either the stakeholder cure or the bubble chart. What is common between these two representation tools? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Bubble chart is used for risk analysis. Stakeholder cube is used to depict multidimensional characteristics of stakeholders. Both can deal with more than two dimensions. Both are stakeholder identification techniques.

Answer 67

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Usually, three dimensions are depicted in these charts. In case of the stakeholder cube, it is about the stakeholders, and in case of bubble chart, it is about the risks.

Question 68

68 You are managing an agile project of which four sprints of two weeks each are remaining. This is the last release and your product owner informs you that a multimillion dollar project is about to start in the next three months. What is the first thing you should do? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Review your project resource requirements Try to wrap-up the current project as quickly as possible so that the resources are available to work on the big project. Ask the management how the new project impacts your current project Look into the skill set document and see how you can leverage the skills of your resources to work on the big project

Answer 68

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION The first thing the project manager should do is analyze how the new project impacts the current project.

Question 69

69 During an hybrid project, you realize that for producing a few deliverables, you would need external resources, and so, you start preparing a contract SOW (statement of work). Which of the following will not help you in this process? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER The project scope statement The WBS Dictionary The WBS of the project The cost of the work required

Answer 69

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION The contract statement of work only requires information about the scope of work to be completed and not the cost of the work.

Question 70

70 CONTRACTS During a large scale oil and gas project, you wanted to outsource a part of the project work which contains high amount of risk. Due to the risk involved in the work, not many contractors are interested to take up the work. What type of contract you would suggest to attract the vendors and contractors? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Cost plus fixed fee Cost plus award fee Fixed price incentive fee Firm fixed price contract

Answer 70

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION Due to the nature of the work, if the contractors are not interested to take up the job, the project manager can suggest to go for a cost plus award fee contract as it gives extra award to the contractor who is willing to take up the job.

Question 71

71 You and the team are working on selecting the project management approach for the project. The team is in a discussion about the various priorities of different project management approaches. As an experienced project manager, what would you suggest is the highest priority of an agile project management approach? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Working software over comprehensive documentation Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Customer satisfaction through delivery of valuable products Responding to change and progressive elaboration of plans

Answer 71

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Although all the options are from the agile manifesto, this option most closely resembles the highest priority according to the Agile Manifesto, which states, "Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software."

Question 72

72 QUALITY AGILE You are delivering a software product to the customer using an agile methodology. During the sprint review, the customer reverted with a few defects.The team was unable to identify and resolve these defects in any of the quality processes. According to agile, what are these defects called? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Undetected defects Escaped defects Primary defects Secondary defects

Answer 72

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION Escaped defects are those defects that have escaped all software quality processe. These are usually pointed out by the customer during the iteration review meeting.

Question 73

73During some projects, there is an undocumented knowledge with a few stakeholders, which they keep to themselves. What is this knowledge called? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Common knowledge Shared knowledge Explicit knowledge Tacit knowledge

Answer 73

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION The undocumented knowledge which is difficult to share and elaborate is called tacit knowledge.The manage project knowledge process from PMBOK talks about it in detail.

Question 74

74 AGILE CEREMONY You are organizing a meeting with all the agile team members to synchronize their activities and ensure they are all working toward a common iteration goal. What this meeting is called? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Sprint review Sprint planning Daily stand-up Sprint retrospective

Answer 74

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Daily stand-up meetings are scheduled to help synchronize the team's activities and ensure alignment.

Question 75

75 AGILE During an agile project, you have just completed the development of a potentially shippable product increment. What is the time taken by the team to create this increment called? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Cycle time Throughput time Velocity Actual time

Answer 75

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION Cycle time refers to the time it takes (from beginning to end) to complete the creation of a potentially shippable product increment.

Question 76

76 AGILE In predictive life cycle projects, the project manager uses WBS to define the deliverables, work packages, and activities.Which breakdown structure is used in the agile project management for this purpose? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Sprint breakdown structure Product breakdown structure Feature breakdown structure Activity breakdown structure

Answer 76

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION A feature breakdown structure is an agile artifact that displays the backlog of features for each of the releases on an agile project.

Question 77

77 AGILE You are in a discussion with the product owner, who is explaining how the product will be built and delivered incrementally over time. Which document will the PO use for this purpose? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Product vision statement Product roadmap Product theme Product backlog

Answer 77

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION A product roadmap is an agile artifact that describes the incremental nature of how a product will be built and delivered over time, along with the important factors that drive each individual release.

Question 78

78 AGILE In a traditional waterfall model, the project sponsor provides the project charter to the project manager. In an agile project, a different document is used by the product owner to explain incremental development of product. What is this document used by called? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Product roadmap Product development document Product stream mapping document Product breakdown structure

Answer 78

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION According to the definition in agile project management, the product roadmap has details about incremental delivery of the product.

Question 79

79During the execution of the project, the project manager is informed by the quality team that an auditor will be visiting the project site to review the implementation of the relevant ISO 9001/2000 processes. What work will the auditor perform? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Quality assurance Quality control Quality review Quality performance

Answer 79

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION Process audit is one of the tools and techniques of the manage quality process. Thus, the auditor will perform the quality assurance or managing quality process audit.

Question 80

80 During a stakeholder analysis of a hybrid project, the project manager is trying to classify the stakeholders per their current and desired engagement level. Which of the following is NOT a classification of stakeholders? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Neutral Leading Aware Resistant

Answer 80

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION There are five different classifications of stakeholders which are Unaware, Neutral, Resistant, Supportive, and Leaders. However, Aware is not a classification.

Question 81

81You are managing a traditional waterfall project and you need to update the communication management plan. Currently, nine team members are reporting to you, and you decide to add three more resources to the team. With the new resources, how many new channels of communication should be added to the existing ones? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER 39 33 78 45

Answer 81

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION The current team size is 10 (Nine resources plus you). For 10 new people, the formula is n* (n-1)/2, which will return 45. With three new members, the team size will increase to 13, and the formula will return 78. Thus the difference will be 78-45 = 33.

Question 82

82 You are an experienced project manager who joined a project midway through execution. The stakeholders are not happy with the project as there are many hurdles, and you start reviewing the documents to understand the project better. While reviewing the project charter document, you realize that many stakeholders have signed it. Which of the following options should be the most concerning? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Identification of the stakeholders Updating the communication management plan Spending time on communication requirements analysis Updating the risk register

Answer 82

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION As a large number of stakeholders signed the project charter, the areas concerned with this project are many. As a project manager, your priority should be to understand the competing needs of the stakeholders and analyze communications requirements.

Question 83

83 AGILE While managing an agile project, you are discussing user stories for the product with your team. Which of the following is NOT a correct statement related to user stories? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER User stories are kept in product and sprint backlog User stories should be written by client or client representatives User stories are the base for creating project and product requirements User stories represent the smallest unit of work in an agile project

Answer 83

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION User stories are broken down into tasks which are the smallest work units in agile project management.

Question 84

84One of the senior project stakeholders has a high interest and impact on your project's outcome. What should your strategy to manage this stakeholder be? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Keep informed Manage closely Keep satisfied Monitor closely

Answer 84

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION According to the impact/interest grid of the PMBOK, if a stakeholder has high impact and interest in the project, the project manager should manage the stakeholder very closely.

Question 85

85Your agile team has produced a potentially shippable product. During which agile meeting would you show this product increment to all the stakeholders? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Iteration planning meeting Iteration review meeting Iteration retrospective meeting Iteration acceptance meeting

Answer 85

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION The iteration review meeting occurs at the end of the iteration where the development team presents the potentially shippable product component, developed during the current iteration, to all interested stakeholders.

Question 86

86 QUALITY When the quality auditor audits the project, he checks various parameters for different purposes. Which of the following is not a purpose of the quality audit? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Determination of whether project activities comply with organizational policies Creation of quality matrixes Confirmation of the implementation of approved change requests Process improvement to improve productivity

Answer 86

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION Quality matrixes are the outputs of the Plan Quality Management process, whereas quality audits are performed during quality assurance or management.

Question 87

87 AGILE During the project methodology selection discussion, it was decided to go ahead with the agile methodology. Which of the following is NOT considered an agile method? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Adaptive software development Test driven development Feature driven development Lean software development

Answer 87

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION Adaptive software development, feature-driven development, and lean software development are all considered agile methods. Test Driven development is considered an Agile tool, not a method.

Question 88

88 AGILE You are managing an agile software development project. During the sprint review, the product owner rejects a feature out of the features demonstrated by the development team. What should the project team do with the user story of the rejected feature? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Put the user story to the backlog of next sprint Delete the user story from backlog and drop the feature Rewrite the user story to address the reasons for which they were rejected Put the user story to the product backlog to reprioritize later

Answer 88

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION If a feature is rejected, it is most often due to a gap in the team's understanding of the expectations of the business or the customer. This misunderstanding can arise due to missed acceptance criteria or a poorly written user story, which served as a basis for the feature. The first step is to correct or rewrite the user story. Then, it can be placed into the backlog and reprioritized.

Question 89

89 RESOURCES You are planning how to manage the resources for your project. You used organizational charts, expert judgement, held meetings and a good quality resource management plan. However, you are still working on another item from the same process. What is that item you are working on? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Resource calendar Resource breakdown structure Team charter Resource requirement

Answer 89

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION The team charter and the resource management plan are the two key outcomes of planning resource management.

Question 90

90While managing an agile project, the agile team finished coding for the iteration. Which of the following continuous improvement meetings should they attend? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Iteration demo Iteration retrospective meeting Release planning meeting Iteration planning meeting

Answer 90

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION The iteration retrospective meeting is an example of a continuous process improvement ceremony on an agile project.

Question 91

91Which of the following is not included in Scope Management Plan? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER WBS and its approval process Scope statement change control process Project scope statement development process Requirements prioritization process

Answer 91

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION Requirements prioritization process is a part of a requirements management plan.

Question 92

92During the requirements gathering, the project manager decides to hold workshops with the cross-functional team in an interactive manner, focusing on trust, relationship building, reconciliations, and open communications to build consensus on requirements. What is this approach known as? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Focus groups Facilitation Nominal group technique Observation or conversation

Answer 92

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION This approach in which the project manager holds workshops with cross-functional teams to build consensus on requirements is known as facilitation.

Question 93

93 AGILE Midway through the release iteration, an agile team working on a software development project realized that they will not be able to meet the release deadline based on velocity. What should the team do ? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Increase the developers to complete the work on time Decrease the user stories to improve velocity Meet the product owner to reprioritize the backlog Discuss new release date with product owner

Answer 93

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Unless stated differently, the cost and the schedule of the agile projects are fixed while the scope is flexible. Therefore, meeting with the product owner to discuss the scope reduction or re-prioritize the backlog is the best option among the choices provided.

Question 94

94 SCOPE You and your team are working on a large multistorey building project, and you want to ensure that no extra work is done on the project. Which of the following is the most helpful option? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Documented exclusions Documented constraints Documented assumptions Documented requirements

Answer 94

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION Documented exclusions identify what is excluded from the project. Explicitly stating what is out of scope in the project scope statement helps a project manager to manage the stakeholders' expectations.

Question 95

95 A very experienced team leader and subject matter expert of the project wants to engage with the team to solve a problem. How can the team leader best engage the team in solving the problem? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Engage the team in documenting the pros and cons of different solutions Engage the team to agree with his solution Engage the team in all project decisions Encourage the team to experiment with different potential solutions

Answer 95

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION To engage the team in solving problems, the team leader should create an open and safe environment, where the team members can experiment with different options without any fear of being punished for mistakes they may make in the process.

Question 96

96 SCHEDULE A project manager is creating a project schedule network diagram only for the procurement section of the project they are managing. What is this an example of? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Arrow diagramming method Fragment network Precedence diagramming method Activity on node

Answer 96

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION It is not clear which activity sequencing technique is the project manager using. However, since they are developing a schedule network diagram only for a part of the project and not the entire project, it is an example of fragment network.

Question 97

97You are managing a hybrid project. For activity duration estimation process, you need to estimate the duration for handover of the final product to the customer. In the past, you experienced a lot of delays and errors identified at the last moment for a similar project. You are confident that the handover will be completed in 12 days, with a most optimistic estimate being six days and the worst case scenario being extension upto 24 days. What must be the three point estimate for entire handover effort? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER 19 days 18 days 11 days 13 days

Answer 97

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION Since no other details are mentioned, we use beta distribution method for 3 point estimating, which is (4 ML+Pe) 6. Using this formula, 3 point estimate is 13 days.

Question 98

98 AGILE During an agile project, the stakeholders want to understand what progress the agile team has made in the last sprint. Which of the following document will be most useful? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Project Spike Data Team's velocity chart Product backlog Cycle time

Answer 98

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION A velocity chart shows the amount of value delivered in each iteration which allows the stakeholders to understand what progress the team has made during the iteration. A spike is a user story for which the team cannot estimate the effort needed.

Question 99

99 COMMUNICATION During a pan state construction project, you are managing multiple teams at multiple locations. During a review, you realise that the performance of one of the team members is inadequate. What is the best communication approach for handling this problem? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Formal verbal Formal written Informal verbal Informal written

Answer 99

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION An informal verbal communication is most efficient as it is a two-way communication where the team members can talk about issues or challenges impacting their performance.

Question 100

100 AGILE A new agile team is aiming to improve its process for the next project. As an experienced project manager, what approach will you suggest them? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Focus on work not done and reflection Consult with the project sponsor and SME Adopt the process used by the most successful team in the organization Tailor their own process for the next project

Answer 100

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION Simplicity and reflection are core agile project management practices. Simplicity, the art of maximizing the amount of work not done, is one of the Agile Manifesto principles. Reflection is in the centre of iteration retrospectives aimed to improve the team's process and performance. Focusing on reflection and simplicity will most likely help the team improve its process.

Question 101

101 You are managing a global project, where the team members come from diverse geographies who are not familiar with each other. To make sure that all the team members experience good collaboration, you are considering to train them on certain aspects. Which of the following should you definitely consider? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Language training Social media training Cultural training Communication training

Answer 101

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Cultural aspects are important in a setting where people from diverse cultures work together. Proper mutual understanding ensures better collaboration. Thus, cultural training should be definitely considered.

Question 102

102 AGILE In an agile project, if the team members are not 100% available for the project, what are they called? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Partially assigned Minimally assigned Fractionally assigned Functionally assigned

Answer 102

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION If an Agile project team member is not 100% fully dedicated to one project, the team member is said to be fractionally assigned. Fractional assignment is particularly common in organizations where an individual is assigned to one or more projects simultaneously.

Question 103

103 SCOPE Which of the following is NOT true regarding scope process definition? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER It is reviewed and accepted by all key stakeholders. It allows the customer to verify what was built against the requirements. It provides a common understanding of the project scope among project stakeholders. It needs to be approved by project sponsor and customer as part of WBS process.

Answer 103

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION Define Scope provides a Project Scope Statement which elaborates customer requirements. It is used as an input to customer to verify what was built against the requirements, but it is done in Validate Scope process.

Question 104

104While comparing the WBS process of decomposing requirement in an agile project, what is the artifact that contains release plans as the first level of decomposition? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Product roadmap Product backlog Sprint backlog Release backlog

Answer 104

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION Product roadmap is an agile artifact which has a visual summary of the entire product development. During the release planning, the same document is used as the first level of decomposition and progressively elaborated.

Question 105

105A RESOURSE Resource Breakdown Structure or RBS in a predictive life cycle is an example of which of the following options? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Text-oriented format Functional chart Organizational chart Common understanding of the project scope among project stakeholders

Answer 105

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Resource Breakdown Structure is an example of Hierarchical-type Organizational Chart.

Question 106

106 AGILE In a daily stand-up of an agile software development project, the development team raised an impediment that one of the developers was pulled back by his line manager, and as a result, the team is not able to complete the work committed for the current sprint. What should have been done differently to avoid this impediment? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER The team should have added buffers to each user story to account for the unknown risks. The team should have worked faster during the sprint before the developer was withdrawn. The team should have considered human resources availability while planning the sprint. The line manager should not have allowed the developer to work on the agile project in the first place.

Answer 106

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION To avoid the impediment, the line manager should not have allowed the developer to work on the agile project in the first place.

Question 107

107 AGILE In an agile project, which role is referred as the voice of the customer? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER The project manager The scrum master The product owner The development team lead

Answer 107

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION The product owner is responsible for bridging the gaps between the customer, the business stakeholders, and the development team. So, they are sometimes referred to as the voice of the customer.

Question 108

108 As a project manager, which of the following is NOT a challenge while planning engagement with virtual teams? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Technical skills Face-to-face time Time zone difference Long distance

Answer 108

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION Technical skills are not a challenge as they are already taken care of in the HR management plan.

Question 109

109 AGILE Agile teams working on a project often use a collection of values, principles, and practices to help them in agile software development project. What is this collection known as? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Agile modeling Agile prototyping Agile analysis Agile manifesto

Answer 109

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION Agile Modeling is a tool often used by Agile project teams to create models for Agile software development. It is a collection of values, principles, and practices.

Question 110

110You are managing a large oil and gas project. Along with the technical team, you are finding it difficult to develop estimates for the project. What could be the most likely reason? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Assumptions are not documented properly Schedule constraints are not documented properly Scope not properly defined at initial stage Finance planning was not done properly

Answer 110

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION In order to do the estimation, the scope must be defined properly. Scope baseline is one of the inputs to various estimating processes. The team must be facing difficulties in estimating because the scope is not defined properly in the initial stage.

Question 111

111 AGILE You are managing an agile software development project and want to take feedback from agile project team on sprint planning. Which of the following is NOT considered a method of receiving feedback from the agile team? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Team evaluation Individual evaluation Prototyping Process tailoring

Answer 111

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Team evaluation, individual evaluation, and process tailoring are the methods of soliciting feedback from your Agile project team members. Prototyping is a form of product feedback, not a form of project team feedback.

Question 112

112Your project sponsor is interested in finding all the information about your project. The WBS can be used to show which of the following options? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER The procurement decisions All the work to be done on the project The resources needed for each deliverable Duration of carrying out each deliverable

Answer 112

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION WBS shows all the work to be done on the project. Detailed activities and resource requirements will be available in the WBS dictionary and the project schedule, while the procurement decisions will be a part of the procurement management plan.

Question 113

113While getting the project deliverables validated by a customer, which of the following is true about validating scope? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Controlling changes to the scope of the project Validating that the project quality requirements have been met Obtaining the stakeholder's formal acceptance of the project deliverables Validating all the deliverables at the end of the project

Answer 113

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Validating scope is the process of obtaining the stakeholders' formal acceptance of project deliverables. Quality requirements are validated in the control quality process. Scope changes are controlled in the control scope process, and validation of all the project objectives is done in closing the project or phase process.

Question 114

114 AGILE The team is in a process to selecting agile methods for a software development project. Which of the following is NOT an agile method? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Test driven development Lean software development Feature driven development Adaptive software development

Answer 114

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION Test driven development is a tool and not a method in agile project management. All the other options are the agile methods.

Question 115

115 A project that you are managing is in execution. During the cost benefit analysis,you realise that an additional round of testing will cost the project $12,000 worth of resource time. You expect very few errors to be found in this additional testing, and even if a few errors comes up, you should be able to manage those within $2,000. How should you proceed ? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Conduct the tests as planned Consider it a risk Continue testing as long as you find even a single defect Pause as the cost benefit analysis does not favour the additional round of testing

Answer 115

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION The cost of quality is $12000 which is much higher than the cost of nonconformance to the quality. Hence, you should not proceed as the benefits in return may outweigh the cost of quality.

Question 116

116The team is involved in finding ideas to resolve a problem. Which of the following is considered most effective when used as a method to generate ideas for solving problems? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Fist of five Roman voting Brainstorming Mind map

Answer 116

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Brainstorming is considered as the most effective technique for idea generation.

Question 117

117 When planning for quality, you are reviewing the business data, such as the supplier's contributions to the organizational performance, and some of these are in the form of visual charts. You are focusing on any mention of quality-related statements or visuals. What is this called? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Multicriteria decision analysis Expert judgment Matrix diagram Logical data model

Answer 117

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION A logical data model is a visual of an organization's data which can help solve quality issues.

Question 118

118 AGILE During an agile project, the stakeholders are not very happy with the performance of a vendor, and they want to terminate the contract as they see no value addition. What type of agile contract allows the organization to do this? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Agile time and materials contract Agile iteration contract Agile master service agreement Agile phased development contract

Answer 118

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION An agile time and materials contract allows the customer to terminate the contract at any time if no added value is seen.

Question 119

119 AGILE The project manager scheduled a meeting to prioritize the sprint backlog and determine which user stories will be committed in the iteration. In the discussion, breakdown of stories, estimation, and their achievability based on team capacity are reviewed. On which day of the iteration is this meeting held? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Throughout the iteration or whenever required Only at the start of the first iteration of each release Usually at the start of the iteration Just before the end of the previous iteration

Answer 119

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION This is called the iteration planning meeting which is held at the start of each sprint.

Question 120

120During the execution of the project, you are trying to reallocate resources from noncritical activities to critical activities. This activity is an example of which of the following options? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER What-if analysis Critical path adjustment Project crashing Resource leveling

Answer 120

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION Resource leveling is used to check resource allocation and resolve possible conflict arising from overallocation by reallocating them from noncritical to critical activities.

Question 121

121 AGILE During an agile project, what type of planning describes the technique of applying incremental delivery cycles to perform the work on an agile project? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Incremental planning Rolling wave planning Adaptive planning Progressive planning

Answer 121

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Adaptive planning is a technique that employs iterative development cycles to produce an incremental product.

Question 122

122 COMMUNICATION During a predictive project, you overhear two senior stakeholders of the project. Their messages are clear, and the information is useful for the project. However, influencing results in a lot of disagreements, and there is no productive outcome . What is missing here? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Competence in relationship development Ability to seek feedback Nonverbal ability Informal verbal communication

Answer 122

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION Effective relationship is a key competence in communication, which has other aspects like clarity, leadership and information sharing. There is no indication of nonverbal or feedback issues here.

Question 123

123 AGILE In an agile project, you are trying to understand the number of story points completed by the team. What is the term used to indicate the number of story points that an agile team completes in an iteration? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Cadence Relativity Velocity Affinity

Answer 123

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Velocity refers to the number of story points an Agile team completes in an iteration. Cadence is also a term used in Agile to describe the 'rhythm' of average work performed by the team in a sprint, but it is not specifically measured in story points.

Question 124

124 COMMUNICATION While performing Monitor Communications process in a project, you are now in a position to check the required information that was presented to relevant stakeholders in a timely and agreed manner. Which of the following is NOT an outcome of this exercise? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Work performance information Project performance report Change requests Project plan updates

Answer 124

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION The question states that you are performing Monitor Communications process from which you will get all the mentioned outputs except project performance reports.

Question 125

125 COMMUNICATION The project that you are managing has mostly colocated team members, out of whom only two are working virtually. During the daily stand-up meeting, the virtual team members join through virtual conference. What is considered the most effective method of communication on an agile project? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Virtual communication Osmotic communication Face-to-face communication Electronic communication

Answer 125

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Face-to-face communication is the verbal exchange of the information by senders and receivers in real time. It is considered the most effective form of communication in both agile project management and traditional project management. Colocation helps make face-to-face communication a reality for an agile project team.

Question 126

126 AGILE After the last sprint the agile team is demonstrating a recently developed product, who determines when the product is complete? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER The sponsor The product owner The development team lead The Agile coach

Answer 126

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION The product owner accepts the completed product increment in the iteration review meeting after reviewing the acceptance criteria and verifying the functionality.

Question 127

127 ORGANIZATION You are managing a project where the resources mostly report to their managers. As a project manager, your authority over the selection of members of the team is low to moderate. Which type of organizational structure does the organization follow? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Functional Weak matrix Balanced matrix Strong matrix

Answer 127

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Authority of the project manager and dual reporting of team members are the indicators that the organization structure is balanced matrix.

Question 128

128 An experienced agile team has done projects together in past. In the last project, the biggest criticism received was about wrong estimates. While preparing for the current project, what should an experienced project manager suggest them to do differently? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Fine tune but do not put too much effort to gain the maximum benefit from estimating Lock down the budget, schedule, and scope to improve the accuracy Deliberate extensively to completely eliminate uncertainty from the estimate Give primary responsibility for owning the estimate to one team member

Answer 128

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION With estimating, there is a point of diminishing returns, where additional effort put into estimation yields a minimal improvement in accuracy. Therefore, the team can fine tune but should not put in too much time or effort in estimating.

Question 129

129 ORGANIZATION Consider that you are working on a critical project for a projectized organization. which of the following options is NOT the advantage of this projectized structure? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER More effective communication between the team members Loyalty of the project team toward the project Teamwork on the projects Efficient project organization

Answer 129

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION After the project gets over, the team is disbanded, and the team members get aligned to multiple projects.

Question 130

130You are working on a project where the team members rely mostly on technology to collaborate with each other and the new contracts are established through known colleagues and partners. What type of organization is this? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Functional organization, as they do technical work Hybrid organization, as this has a mix of various organization types Virtual organization as it includes a network of professionals working together with the help of technology like software collaboration tools Project oriented organizations as they use a lot of technology

Answer 130

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Virtual organizations include a network of professionals who effectively work with each other with the help of technology like software collaboration tools.

Question 131

131 You are a part of a very experienced agile team which is working together for long and has delivered many projects successfully. The team decides to improve their best practices for the upcoming project. What is the best approach to accomplish this objective? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Apply the same practices that have been used by the team in their previous projects Consult with the scrum master, the product owner, and the project stakeholders Design a new set of best practices that is tailored to the upcoming project Select the best practices used by the most successful agile team in the organization

Answer 131

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION The process can and should always be analysed for any improvements, for example, during retrospective meetings. However, if a set of practices used by a team has proven to be effective, using the same practices in the next project would be the best option.

Question 132

132 CHANGE During the execution of a mechanical project, one of the stakeholders raised a change request which requires a lot of changes in the base architecture.The stakeholder insists on this change, but you have already escalated this matter to the project sponsor. Which level of stakeholder engagement you must show to handle this situation? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Neutral Supportive Resistant Leading

Answer 132

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Project manager must be resistant at this stage. If the stakeholder needs change, they must go through CCB, and additional time and cost must be sought for.

Question 133

133 QUALITY During quality testing of the product, the quality team found a defect. The team wants to understand the root cause of the defect and decides to draw a fishbone diagram. They write the problem at the fish's head and label the bones with categories. What is the next step? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Decide what to do about the categories Label the fish's tail with a category for the solution Look for items appearing in more than one category Brainstorm factors within each category

Answer 133

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION After the problem is written at the fish's head and the bones of the fish are labelled with categories, the next step is to brainstorm factors within each category.

Question 134

134 AGILE During a sprint review, the agile team reported that they were not able to complete all the user stories committed for the sprint because they worked overtime and eventually got burned out. What is wrong with the team's approach? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER The team approach is wrong.The team should fulfil their commitment and be held accountable for their actions. Nothing is wrong. To maintain good working relationships with the team, the product owner should not hold the team accountable. Nothing is wrong. Maintaining a constant pace indefinitely is more important than missing a sprint goal. The team approach is wrong. Maintaining a constant pace indefinitely has a different meaning, which is not applicable in this scenario.

Answer 134

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION The Agile Manifesto should not be used as an excuse for not completing the committed sprint goal. The team should be held accountable for their work.

Question 135

135 You are distributing the project status of the project with the stakeholders. Which document shows the stakeholder's concerns about the cost of the project? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Work performance report Issue log Risk register Stakeholder engagement plan

Answer 135

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION Among all, an issue log is used to document and record key concerns of the stakeholders.

Question 136

136 You are working on managing stakeholder engagement for your project and finding it challenging to handle power centres and power relationship related to project. Which area should you focus on or have the sponsor guide you? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Power management skills Stakeholder engagement skills Political awareness Negotiations

Answer 136

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Political awareness is about understanding power relationships and organization strategies, the willingness to operate, and the ability to communicate in power environments.

Question 137

137After the failure of one of the sprints of your agile project, the emotions of team members ran high and they started blaming each other during the retrospective. As an experience project manager, what is the first thing you should do to handle this situation? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Wait and observe the discussion for sometime Pitch in immediately to avoid further harm Start a mentoring session with team members Call HR department

Answer 137

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION The first thing to do is to sit back and observe the team members. This may be interpreted as a lack of action, but it is important for an experienced agile project manager to sufficiently observe the situation.

Question 138

138During the project execution phase, you realised that there is a requirement of an additional server to fulfill project requirements. As this is a small purchase, you prepared a unilateral contract. What is this contract known as? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Cost reimbursable contract Purchase order Statement of work RFQ

Answer 138

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION Purchase order (PO) is a commercial document issued by a buyer to a seller. Normally, PO is a unilateral contract, which is used for low value purchases.

Question 139

139 CONTRACTS You are preparing a contract statement of work for one of the vendors. From which of the following documents will you not take inputs? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER WBS WBS Dictionary Cost of work required Project scope statement

Answer 139

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Contract statement of work only contains information about the scope required to be completed. Thus, cost of work will not be required.

Question 140

140 AGILE During the planning of a workshop of an agile project, the product owner prioritized features by business value and shared it with development team. What should be the team's next logical step ? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Start planning and estimating Start development work Decompose the features into stories Set up a customer review meeting to capture more details

Answer 140

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Decomposing the features into stories is the best choice. The next step for the team is to continue analysis by decomposing features into stories. Such decomposition is a part of adaptive planning.

Question 141

141 During the execution phase of a project, the project manager noticed that the team members do not collaborate with each other or take responsibility of their actions. What could be the most likely reason for this behaviour? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Lack of leadership Avoidance of accountability Fear of conflict Absence of job security

Answer 141

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Fear of conflict is one of the main reasons for team members to avoid taking responsibility, be afraid to ask questions, and not collaborate with each other.

Question 142

142 The project manager is having a hard time understanding their sponsor's point of view on a particular user story. What attributes can they rely on to get better understand the sponsor's point of view? [Select all that apply] SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER(S) Active listening Empathy Using a whiteboard to map out what your sponsor is thinking Apply nominal group technique and flow-charts to find clarity

Answer 142

Correct Option:A, B EXPLANATION Active listening, which refers to effective collection of information with emotional intelligence, and empathy, which allows one to understand others emotions and even feel them, will help the PM better understand the sponsor's point of view.

Question 143

143 During a predictive life cycle project, you estimated the duration of a few activities before you onboarded a few resources. In the middle of the execution, you realized that the competency level of resources is much lower than what you assumed, resulting in a delay on critical path activities. What you should do next ? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Crash the project to meet the delay Ask the team members to work overtime Raise a change request for schedule and duration Inform the customer about the delay

Answer 143

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION All the options are potential answers but the first thing you should do as a project manager is perform impact analysis and raise a change request.

Question 144

144 AGILE As a project manager of an agile project, which of the following statements best describes your concerns related to schedule control ? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Determining the rate at which deliverables are produced Comparing planned and actual schedule of activities Using schedule reserves Reviewing progress with suppliers

Answer 144

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION Agile uses a term 'velocity' for determining the rate at which the deliverables are produced.

Question 145

145 AGILE You are facilitating a planning poker to estimate the duration of user stories in a sprint. After all the members read a user story, you ask them to choose a card with estimate and reveal the card. If the estimates differ widely, you immediately ask the team members to do a re-estimation until all the estimates converge. What did you do wrong? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Cards were revealed when the process should have been anonymous. Participants re-estimated immediately after everyone revealed their cards. Participants used ideal days as the unit for the estimates. You did nothing wrong and played by the rules.

Answer 145

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION By immediately re-estimating, the team misses out on the benefit of discussing the estimates and the reason behind their decisions.

Question 146

146 SCHEDULE When managing the schedule of the project, you are using finalized project schedule which includes duration, dependencies and other planning information. Which of the following elements of project schedule are you referring to? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Schedule estimates Schedule data Schedule compression Schedule model

Answer 146

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION Schedule model is a representation of the plan for executing the projects' activities which include duration, dependencies, and other planning information used to produce a project schedule along with other scheduling artefacts.

Question 147

147 AGILE During the management of an agile project, you need to use a lot of artifacts. Which of the following is NOT an artifact in the agile project management for managing sprints? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Sprint backlog Sprint plan Sprint vision statement Sprint burnup chart

Answer 147

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Although a vision statement is an agile project artifact, it is for the product and not for the sprint.

Question 148

148In general, when you start your first agile project in an organization, the historical records of the previous projects are not available to determine the velocity of the first sprint. So, this velocity is mostly based on guesses than analysis. What is this type of velocity called? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Estimated velocity Forecasted velocity Cycle velocity Terminal velocity

Answer 148

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION Forecasted velocity is an estimate of agile project team velocity, which is used when it is impossible or impractical to determine how many story points will be needed to complete an iteration. This is commonly used on a new Agile project's first iteration since there is no historical data available to help estimate this velocity.

Question 149

149 While managing the performance of a noncooperative team member, you identify that certain group sentiments are impacting this individual. Taking this into account, you advise this individual and obtain a performance improvement commitment from them. Which technique have you used? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Conflict management Problem solving Emotional intelligence Leadership

Answer 149

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION You may have used elements of leadership, influence, and conflict handling. However, since individual and group emotions are in play, emotional intelligence has been primarily used.

Question 150

150 You are trying to manage communication in your project. Which of the following best defines efficient communication? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Providing only the information that is needed Providing all the information to all stakeholders Providing information to the senior management and sponsor Providing information only when asked

Answer 150

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION Efficient communication is providing what is needed. The project manager can achieve this by performing stakeholder communication requirement analysis.

Question 151

151 AGILE While managing an agile software development project, the team integrates new and updated software code frequently. What is this method called? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Constant integration Continuous integration Consistent integration Code integration update

Answer 151

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION Continuous Integration is an Extreme Programming technique, dictating all updates to the application's source code base to be integrated and tested at least once per day.

Question 152

152 You've completed the Monitor Communication Process and are now in a position to determine if the required information was delivered on time to key stakeholders. Your exercise will result in all of the following, except: SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Project performance report Change request Project documents update Work performance information

Answer 152

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION According to the question, you are performing the Monitor Communications procedure, which will result in all of the above outputs except the project performance report.

Question 153

153A project manager will make use of various organizational theories to manage the project's team and resources. Which of the following is an example of Theory X? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Self-led project teams Dictatorship Democratic decision making Micromanagement

Answer 153

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION According to Theory X, the average worker dislikes work and tries to avoid it whenever possible, requiring constant supervision and micromanagement.

Question 154

154During project monitoring and controlling, you realize the project will miss a few deadlines as the skill set required is not accessible within the team. You considered training a few resources, but finances are not available in the project budget. You discussed it with the project sponsor, who decided to bring it to the attention of top management. Although you updated the risk register, you are not actively monitoring it. What risk response strategy is this? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Sharing risk Avoiding risk Escalating risk Mitigating risk

Answer 154

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION In escalation, the risk is from outside the project scope or beyond the project team's authority. Once escalated, it is the responsibility of the upper management to take action or advice the project team. The Project Manager won't be able to formally monitor this risk and will check the status with upper management periodically.

Question 155

155 AGILE You are mentoring your team on agile project management and making them familiar with the terms. During this exercise, you explained agile values from the agile manifesto to the team. Which of the following is NOT a value? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Customer communication over contract negotiation Working software over comprehensive documentation Responding to change over following a plan Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Answer 155

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION The value is Customer "Collaboration" over contract negotiation and not Customer "Communication."

Question 156

156A senior director came up with an opportunity during project execution about starting a new line of business. You did a SWOT and concluded that the opportunity is worth pursuing, but the company doesn't have any experience in the new line of business. You decided to partner with another organization that is an expert in this line. This strategy is called ____________________. SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Accepting risk Avoiding risk Mitigating risk Sharing risk

Answer 156

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION Your organization identified an opportunity (positive risk) and decided to share it with another organization by forming a partnership. Hence, this is an example of sharing a positive risk.

Question 157

157During an interactive communication project, the sender and receiver share information. Which of the following is the primary responsibility of the sender? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Providing information as per the schedule Providing information as per format defined in the communication management plan Ensuring the receiver agrees with the message Confirming the message is understood

Answer 157

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION The primary responsibility of a sender is to confirm the message received is well understood.

Question 158

158 AGILE What is the name of the risk management activity that occurs in an agile project management environment by implementing Agile best practices such as iterative planning and review activities? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Inherent risk management Overt risk management Organic risk management Agile risk management

Answer 158

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION In Agile projects, organic risk management occurs by following Agile best practices such as iterative planning and review activities.

Question 159

159 BUDGET During the project, the project manager and team identified a lot of risks. One of the risks has a probability of 40%, and the impact is $10,000. Per this data, how much management reserve do you need to keep? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER $4,000 $5,000 $0 $10,000

Answer 159

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION You do not need a management reserve as it is solely for unforeseen risks, not identified risks.

Question 160

160 You want to keep your team highly productive throughout the project. Which of the following motivational theories are most useful? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Theory Y and Maslow's Hierarchy Herzberg's Hygiene Factors and Expectancy Theory Y, Expectancy Theory and Herzberg's Hygiene Factors Expectancy Theory, Theory X and Maslow's Hierarchy

Answer 160

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION All these theories are widely accepted in today's environment and ensure high motivation of team members, resulting in higher productivity.

Question 161

161During project execution, you find your influence on project team members is dwindling. What project management power should you NOT use if you want to maintain influence? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Referent Expert Penalty Formal

Answer 161

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Penalty is the least effective form of influence, and it's used as a last resort in extreme cases.

Question 162

162 AGILE During an agile sprint, a team will attend numerous meetings for a variety of reasons. Some are process-oriented, while others are not. Which of the following sprint meetings is process-oriented? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Sprint planning Sprint review Sprint retrospective Sprint demo

Answer 162

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION The Sprint retrospective is a process-oriented Agile project team meeting held at the end of each iteration. Its purpose is to explicitly reflect on the most significant events that occurred during the current iteration to make decisions on process improvement during the next iteration.

Question 163

163Which of the following artifact will describe the incremental nature of how a product will be built and delivered overtime in an agile project? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Product roadmap Product backlog Sprint vision statement Sprint backlog

Answer 163

Correct Option:A EXPLANATION Product roadmap is an Agile artifact that describes the incremental nature of how a product will be built and delivered over time, along with the important factors that drive each release.

Question 164

164 ORGANIZATION Which organizational structure makes team building difficult for a group of people working together to deliver a product/service/result? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Cross functional Projectized Balance matrix Weak matrix

Answer 164

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION Weak matrix makes team building difficult for a group of people working together to deliver a product/service/result.

Question 165

165 A customer wants you to perform a quantitative risk analysis of the identified risks. Which of the following is NOT useful? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Expected monetary value Decision tree Influence diagram Sensitivity analysis

Answer 165

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Influence diagrams are used in risk identification and not in quantitative risk analysis.

Question 166

166 AGILE You want to ensure an agile team's project work is directed toward a common product goal. Which of the following is useful? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Product review meeting Backlog prioritization meeting Daily stand-up meeting Risk analysis meeting

Answer 166

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION The purpose of doing daily stand-up is to ensure the team members are working towards achieving a common goal.

Question 167

167 AGILE Which pull-based methods focus on maximizing the throughput of a team by limiting work in progress? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Lean Scrum Crystal Kanban

Answer 167

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION Kanban is a pull-based planning and execution method. Instead of planning work items upfront and pushing them into a team's work queue, the team signals when they are ready for more work and pulls it into their queue.

Question 168

168For ease of information sharing, you use big dashboards and place them in public locations for visibility. What is this tool is known as? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Status information board Blackboard Information radiator Project description

Answer 168

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Information radiators are huge dashboards placed at public locations, also known as whiteboards.

Question 169

169 RISK During risk management, you identified a risk with a probability of 80% with a negative impact of $50,000. There is no positive opportunity in that risk. Which of the following is the risk that can give only a negative outcome called? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Management risk Business risk Insurable risk Variable risk

Answer 169

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION The risk with a negative outcome is called pure risk or insurable risk. Buying insurance is a common response plan for such risks.

Question 170

170 The payback period for Project A is 9 months and for Project B is 7 months. The capital required for Project A is $55,000 and for Project B it is $95,000. Which is a better project? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Project A Project B Whichever project requires higher capital Whichever project requires least capital

Answer 170

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION The rule with payback period is "Lesser the payback period, better the project" regardless to capital required.

Question 171

171During an agile project, your team is involved in prioritizing features of a software product. The team decided to use MoSCoW analysis. In the MoSCoW analysis, what C stands for? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Cancel Can't do Can do Could have

Answer 171

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION MoSCoW is a prioritization technique. Skipping the O's, the terms used for prioritization are, M, S, C, and W. M stands for must haves, S stands for should haves, C stands for could haves, and W stands for won't and would haves.

Question 172

172 AGILE During sprint execution, who is responsible for managing and tracking the total remaining work in the sprint backlog to achieve the sprint objectives? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Project manager Product owner Project team Quality team

Answer 172

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Teams in agile are self-organizing teams and take most of the decisions. They are also responsible for tracking the remaining work in the sprint backlog, where the project manager makes sure there are no impediments and blockers for the team.

Question 173

173 You presented earned value analysis to your sponsor, and after reviewing the data, the sponsor inquired about the significance of an SPI value of 0.85. What does an SPI of 0.85 represent? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Project is moving at a rate of 15% of the original plan Project is behind schedule by 15% Project is moving at a rate of 85% of the original plan Project is moving ahead of schedule by 85%

Answer 173

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION The concept of SPI is that any SPI value less than 1 means the project is not performing as per the plan. An SPI of 0.85 means the project is progressing at a rate of 85% of the original plan.

Question 174

174A senior stakeholder returned from an industry conference and wants to make a change to the project. He believes the change will give the organization an edge over competition. How should you proceed with this change? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Consult the PMO to check if they agree with senior stakeholder Consult the project sponsor and ask for guidance Raise a change request and follow the change control process Tell the senior member that you can't accept change as the scope baseline is already defined

Answer 174

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION As this is a formal request by the senior member, the project manager should raise a change request and follow the change control process.

Question 175

175You are explaining the core values of PMI's code of ethics and professional conduct to a new team member. Which of the following is NOT a core value of PMI's code of ethics and professional conduct? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Responsibility Analysis Fairness Honesty

Answer 175

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION Analysis is not a core value; the core value is respect.

Question 176

176Which of the following project management papers is not the responsibility of the project manager? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Team charter Project management plan Project charter Risk register

Answer 176

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION Project Charter is the responsibility of the project sponsor and not the project manager.

Question 177

177 This is the first time you've decided to send project material by road, and you want to estimate the transit time from one project location to another. If you don't have any historical data to refer to, which is the best technique to estimate the duration of this task? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Bottom-up analysis Analogous estimation Parametric estimation PERT analysis

Answer 177

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION As we do not have any historical data, we cannot go analogous estimation. Parametric estimation is not possible without a dataset, and bottom up estimation is used for estimating work packages and rolling the estimates to level above. Thus, the best choice is to go ahead with PERT analysis.

Question 178

178During qualitative risk analysis, one of the risks has an 80% probability, and the impact is $10,000. What does $8,000 represent here? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Risk value Percent value Contingency value Expected monetary value

Answer 178

Correct Option:D EXPLANATION Expected monetary value is calculated as probability multiplied by the impact amount.

Question 179

179 A project manager is required to use his interpersonal and team skills throughout the project. He should use his interpersonal skills for all of the following except: SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER To accomplish tasks through relevant stakeholders Focus on senior managers and other key stakeholders to ensure the project is a success Focus on improving the efforts of project teams working to achieve a common objective To build high levels of respect and trust

Answer 179

Correct Option:B EXPLANATION While focusing on senior managers and other key stakeholders is a skill of the project manager, it is not the primary focus.

Question 180

180A project has a risk that has a 30% chance of occurring in any given month. The project has been running for 18 months, with 10 months already completed. What is the probability of encountering that risk in the 11th month? SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER >45% <45% 30% <10%

Answer 180

Correct Option:C EXPLANATION If the probability of occurrence is 30% in any month, the probability of occurrence in the 11th month also remains at 30%.