During a sponsor meeting, a PM is assigned to manage a new external project for an IT consultant. The sponsor wants the PM to establish an agreement regarding the exchange of money between both parties. Which of the following documents would the PM most likely create?
Two team members have a minor disagreement on how a task should be performed. The project manager plans to meet with the team members to discuss the matter. Which of the following techniques should the project manager use to emphasize the areas of agreement and downplay the opposing views?
A project team is working remotely from different locations across the country. As part of a lessons-learned exercise, the project manager would like to
identify the level of engagement among project team members. Which of the following would be the best tool for the project manager to use?
While managing a project, a PM is assigned to work on a second project. The second project becomes more complex and monopolizes the PM's time. The PM learns that a similarly time-consuming project was executed previously in the organization. Which of the following actions should the PM take?
A project manager and team are currently in the planning phase of a project. Which of the following should the team do during this phase?
While in the closing phase of a project, the project manager gathers feedback from stakeholders. Which of the following best describes a benefit of this feedback?
During a quality analysis review, the causes of several issues have been highlighted. Which of the following should the project manager use to identify the MOST important causes?
A project coordinator has started a new project and is reviewing the following characteristics provided by the customer:
• Two developers
• High uncertainty about existing systems
• Risk of frequent requirement changes
• Tight deadlines
Which of the following project methodologies would be best to use in this situation?
A PM is working on the preliminary scope statement and identifies that this project has the same approach as another project that was completed last year. Which of the following actions would the PM most likely perform?
Which of the following BEST illustrates how team members with different roles should interact on the team?
Due to budgetary and time constraints, a PM scheduled a meeting with all stakeholders during the planning phase to review the requirements and come to an agreement on the minimum viable product that would be acceptable. Which of the following would be used to document this input?
A project manager is monitoring team performance by comparing committed versus completed work. The project manager creates the following:
Which of the following most likely represents the number of items in the backlog?
A project team is working on a document to precisely describe the success criteria that should be fulfilled by a product. Which of the following documents is the team preparing?
Given the following network diagram:
Which of the following is the critical path?
Two developers are discussing the design solution for a particular feature. The meeting is taking longer than expected, and the parties have been unable to reach an agreement. The project manager decides to take a break and continue the meeting on another day. Which of the following techniques is the project manager using?
A project sponsor asked the PM to provide a summary of the current financial status. The PM uses the following burn up chart for the analysis:
Based on the chart, which of the following is the current status of the project?
A project is running over budget, and due to new legislation in the country, the company needs to release all its contractors on the project or hire them as full-time employees. Which of the following should the PM do next to comply with the new legislation?
A project manager was not part of a contract negotiation. The project manager is concerned that stakeholders will expect the project to achieve deliverables requested in the RFP Which of the following documents should the project manager produce FIRST to start communication about the boundaries of the project?
An IT intern was assigned to set up workstations as part of a project. The IT intern was very careful to do the task well and initially referred to notes while performing the task. By the end of the two-week rotation, the IT intern no longer needed the notes and completed more set-ups in less time. Which of the following MOST likely represents the observed relationship in this scenario?
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During the execution phase, a new PM was assigned to a project. The PM received a request to add new functionality to the system that is being developed. While the PM was conducting a preliminary review with the team, the technical lead highlighted that this functionality request was rejected during the planning phase. Which of the following documents is the best source for the PM to use to confirm this assertion?
A project manager is leading the implementation of a new service for a well-known, global company for which brand image is most important. The project will rely on contracted services. As part of the request for proposal process, the project team has identified a short list of vendors to submit proposals. Which of the following items should the project team consider as a primary factor to remove a vendor from consideration?
During a brainstorming session, a project team is elaborating on what caused the unexpected crash of the website that the team was developing. Given the following:
Which of the following was the initial cause of the issue?
A PM is working with stakeholders in the discovery phase and comparing the cost of the project to the cost savings the project will produce when it is complete. The output of this exercise will produce the:
A project manager is reviewing a signed legal document pertaining to the hiring of a vendor who will develop an experimental solution. The vendor could not provide accurate estimates at this time because the requirements will probably be changing. The document also contains information about the resources involved and the rates the vendor will charge for the work. Which of the following best describes the legal document the project manager is reviewing?
A project manager has been scheduling and facilitating project meetings, scribing the minutes, distributing the minutes, and sending agendas prior to upcoming meetings. However, the project manager is frustrated because action items are not being completed. Which of the following should the project manager do to alleviate these concerns?
A project manager is coordinating multiple teams of six people that will each provide feedback for a new product. The teams are recording their opinions, which may be used to define the final product that is sent to mass production. Which of the following best describes this technique?
A PM has identified all the resources involved in a project. The next step is to identify which resources are responsible for which tasks. Which of the following should be used to document this information?
The project team determines that software installation can only begin after the desktops have been installed and can be powered on. Which of the following dependencies does this represent?
A project manager has decided to outsource portions of a project and will conduct a separate procurement. In which of the following phases does this task occur?
A project manager and team are reviewing a task that is supposed to take nine days to complete and cost $3,000. There is a 20% chance that an associated risk related to changing requirements could occur, resulting in rework that would add an additional five days and $1,000 in costs. Which of the following represents the total amount that should be budgeted for the task?
During the project execution phase, Ann, a project manager, received an email from the project sponsor asking for an additional work package to be added to the project scope due to new legislation.
INSTRUCTIONS
Review the email with the latest updates sent by the project sponsor and respond in
the following order:
1. Select the best tool for tracking the server migration progress.
2. Select the new critical path.
3. Select the correct number of engineers required for the server migration phase.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click
the Reset All button.
Select the Appropriate Tool:
Select the new critical path.
Option A
Option B
Option C
An software engineer is applying new updates to a program in a sandbox environment. Which of the following risk strategies best describes this practice?
A project manager is overseeing the implementation of a major upgrade to a critical ERP system. The project sponsor is requiring that the upgrade should not exceed more than three hours of downtime for the implementation and validation in production. During cutover, the team runs into a validation issue after 2.5 hours, and the process is only 70% through the validation steps Which of the following actions should the project manager take?
A PM wants to provide a visual representation of how a project is organized into tasks and how the tasks relate to each other. Which of the following can the PM use?
Because the project team lacks hands-on experience, the project manager has decided to involve a third-party vendor to complete the development of a product. Which of the following documents should the project manager expedite first?
A project manager identifies stakeholders who will be impacted when a new product is delivered to the company. The project manager notices that more stakeholders will be positively impacted than negatively impacted. Which of the following actions should the project manager take?
A key stakeholder recommends to a senior developer that a new feature be added. The new feature is not part of the current requirement documentation. Which of the following is MOST likely happening?
Which of the following should be the PRIMARY basis for establishing metrics that measure the effectiveness of an information security program?
Two team members have a minor disagreement on how a task should be performed. The project manager plans to meet with the team members to discuss the matter. Which of the following techniques should the project manager use to emphasize the areas of agreement and downplay the opposing views?
While working in a collaborative, online brainstorming session, team members send private messages to the facilitator about challenges understanding others when they are speaking due to accents and background noises. Which of the following should the facilitator do to overcome the challenges?
A stakeholder raises a concern with a project manager because of the number of emails that have been received before a coding release. Which of the following actions should the project manager take next?
A contractor attended a project meeting that was exclusively for company employees. Which of the following actions should the PM take?
A project manager buys an extended warranty for a set of servers. Which of the following risk management strategies is the manager using?
During a staff meeting, a project manager voices a concern about the client billing rate for a particular engineer. Which of the following documents would the project manager need in order to find this information?
An organization was fined due to an audit finding that revealed a third-party vendor was able to see secured project information in a recently implemented system. Which of the following was the cause of this situation?
To gather requirements from stakeholders, the project manager sits down with them and allows them to discuss freely. Which a following technique is the project manager utilizing?
During a kickoff call, a project was rejected by the legal department due to the risk of violating new legislation. Which of the following was applied?
A company is implementing a new radar system from July to September. The project manager knows these months are the peak hurricane season for this region. Which of the following should the project manager develop to mitigate the risk to the project?
A developer focused on a single story during an entire sprint. The story was underestimated and, therefore, was not completed. Which of the following steps should the Scrum team take next?
After a migration was completed and a financial system was deployed, users have been unable to issue payment orders. Which of the following should be implemented?
For an upcoming project kickoff. a PM is looking for a way to illustrate roles for major project activities. Which of the following would be the MOST useful option?
Which of the following would be best to utilize when managing communications for project teams across multiple time zones?
A customer requests some changes to a product, and those changes are approved by the CCB. Which of the following should be changed first?
Which of the following provides a layered approach to logging in to systems that contain an organization's most valuable intellectual property?
A risk management team for a software project decided to outsource the development of a specific portion of a system due to a lack of internal resources. Which of the following risk responses does this demonstrate?
Which of the following should occur when implementing an IT infrastructure change that takes risks into consideration?
A project team gathers weekly to review its progress. Which of the following is the project manager MOST likely to have prepared to ensure team members who are absent remain informed about assignments?
A project manager has decided to wait until all requirements are developed to initiate testing. Which of the following relationship dependencies is the project manager using?
One of the key steps in controlling changes lo software is obtaining approval. Which of the following statements best describes the reason for this key objective?
Someone claiming to be from a tax agency sent an email to a team member asking for access to the project repository. Which of the following BEST describes this scenario?
Which of the following aspects are true of agile as compared to waterfall? (Select two).
Which of the following can a project manager infer from the following velocity chart?
A new project team started work three months ago. The team members are increasing their work productivity and are comfortable asking for help with tasks. Which of the following describes the current stage of the project team?
Although a project was successfully released into production a month ago, a project manager continues to receive project-related work. Which of the following is the reason for this issue?
A global franchise requests that a company provide a solution to unify its operation worldwide. Additionally, the company would like the solution to provide operation reports in real time without asking the country franchise manager for these reports. Which of the following cloud models would the company suggest to the global franchise?
A critical piece of equipment that is needed for the installation of a point-of-sale solution is delayed from the manufacturer. The delay will cause the project to be significantly behind schedule. The project manager decides to buy the item at a higher cost from another vendor who can supply it immediately. Which of the following risk management approaches has the project manager taken?