Test 6.1 Flashcards by Peter Voronak

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

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.

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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

Correct Option:A

EXPLANATION

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

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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.

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.

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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

Correct Option:B

EXPLANATION

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

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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

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.

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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

Correct Option:C

EXPLANATION

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

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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

Correct Option:A

EXPLANATION

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

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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

Correct Option:C

EXPLANATION

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

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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

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.

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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

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.

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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

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.

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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

Correct Option:C

EXPLANATION

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

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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

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.

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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

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.

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23
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

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.

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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

Correct Option:D

EXPLANATION

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

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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

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.

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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

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.

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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

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.

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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

Correct Option:D

EXPLANATION

The WBS Dictionary contains work package information such as owners, scheduled activities, and acceptance criteria.

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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

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.

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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

Correct Option:B

EXPLANATION

The formula for calculating the EMV is Positive outcome - Negative outcome.

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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

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.

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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.

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.

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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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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."

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

124 MONITOR COMMUNICATION (110) 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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

152 MONITOR COMMUNICATION (87) 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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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%

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.