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Since the team lacks skills to develop the machine learning models needed for the project, it was decided that these machine learning models are to be developed by the external vendor team. The project manager is working with the procurement department to finalize the contract with the vendor team
Although the team is claiming that they are using the scrum, there is a feeling that the project team is not using the scrum effectively. For example events such as daily stand ups are becoming more like a status meeting. During the sprint planning meeting the team is using that meeting to discuss
The new machine learning project which is to be executed by the project team for the first time has many unclear requirements. Hence, the agile project manager and the project team agreed that using an agile approach for this project will be more beneficial. Now that the decision has been made to
Mustafa and his team are working on developing a risk management plan for their project. The project team has identified 5 risks and their impact on project's time and cost as shown in the table below.All the risks are negative risks or threats and hence Mustafa, who is the PM & the team, needs to
The upcoming project to develop the water purifier using Reverse osmosis(RO)Technology will be a challenging project for your project team. This is because the launch time for the purifier is just over 7 months and due tough competition in the Marketplace the organization do not want to delay the
At the age of almost 50 and with more than two decades of predictive/waterfall style project management experience behind him, Danny is about to work on his first agile project in the coming weeks. Which of the following Danny has to keep in mind when it comes to planning an agile project?A. In
The project team is very new to agile but the team members are experienced in the project's domain which is SAP. Since the team is new to agile, the agile coach was hired and she had a workshop with the project team last week to train the team on agile practices and tools. Now, the team feels they
The PMO within the organization has shared some recommendations around cost management, risk management and schedule management areas last week. The PMO wants all the project managers within the organization to apply these recommendations to their respective projects. One of the recommendations
Flagship project to develop the mixer grinder is currently in the initiation phase.The whole organization is very excited about the project because if successfully completed this project will allow the organization to make an entry into a new category of product development. The project sponsor
The IT admin team who worked on the CRM web application has completed the development of an application on-time and within the expected budget. The application was fully tested and accepted by the business as well as by the end users who participated in the testing phase. However, a few months
Due to the high rate of attrition the senior leadership within the organization is worried about losing the skilled staff. You being the project manager inside this organization is working on a reward & recognition system in order to reduce the attrition. Which of the following is a good strategy
The team is working on a product development - a new pressure cooker for rice which is to be launched in Spain, Portugal and France. The team is using scrum for the product development and so far completed a few sprints and the progress is good.1 new team member joined the scrum team as a
The project team is working on creating a software which can identify personal identification information or PII inside a file saved on PC. The project is currently in the execution phase. Which of the following represents the work performance data?A. Story points completed B. List of stakeholders
Unfortunately, at the very last stage of the project, there is a non-compliance issue raised by the government authority regarding the environmental clearance which the project must pass. According to the government officials, the mobile tower which is built by the project team does not adhere to
Dmytro is a project manager working out of Kiev, Ukraine. Due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that started in 2022, the project work on which Dmytro and his team were working was affected. It is an example of which of the following?A. OPA internal to the organization B. EEF external to
The organization for which Prakash is currently working as a servant leader has the culture of self organizing teams and distributed project management approach.The project team with whom Prakash is working with however seems to be not so autonomous. During the quarterly review, the leadership
As an experienced project manager, you know that the project team goes through different stages before they start performing to their fullest potential. Before the team begins the project work execution, in which sequence do you want your project team to go through so that they reach their fullest
The project team is using scrum for product development. One of the new project team members is not familiar with scrum and asked who is responsible for what in scrum.Which of the following statements correctly explain the role vs. responsibilities in scrum?A. scrum master is responsible for
Rohit's team is new to agile and Scrum. This team has been using a predictive/waterfall development approach in the past. The team size is 5 & the team members are highly skilled in software development work. Some of the team members underwent scrum training 2 weeks ago. This team is going to work
Your team is currently working on the Internet of things project. For some of the embedded system programming work your team does not have the necessary skills and that is the reason why the leadership has decided to take the help from the vendor team to complete the embedded system programming
The last project completed by the project manager and his team was hailed as a success as it finished on time and within the allocated budget. However, some of the key stakeholders from that project don't agree. They think that their expectations were not met. What should a project manager must do
The firmware development team needs to work closely with the hardware design team for the electric cooker product because there are many changes which are happening in the hardware that are affecting the firmware code. Due to such frequent changes, the development team is using agile practices and
While the PMO is happy that your team has been making good progress in capturing the learning during project execution, one of the feedback you received is that your team is not capturing the tacit knowledge. One of the team members in your team, Lee, has not understood the term tacit knowledge.
Victor is a project manager working from the New York Office, USA. Victor's team is global, and includes 2 vendor teams, one works from Vietnam, and other works from South Korea. After their recent meeting on one of the topics, Victor sent minutes of the meeting to the project sponsor, senior
The customer support team received feedback from the beta users who are testing that the new Bluetooth device is not able to connect with mobile phones if the distance is more than 15 meters. Customer support team wanted to communicate this feedback to the project team so that this finding can be
George has been working in a managerial position for more than a decade now. George has a technical background in software development. Project development team with whom George is working on his recent project is fairly mature and this project team is working together for more than 18 months now.
Gokul works from an office in Hyderabad, India. He is the project manager. The company where Gokul works has a very centralized approach to project management.In an Organization with such a centralized approach to the project management, who is usually held accountable for the outcome of the
The project work to develop the new lightning system inside the refrigerator has been going on for a few months but looks like many of the requirements are completed now and the team is working on project closure activity. Catlin is the project manager working from the Somerville, NJ USA office, on
You joined a project team last week and this team had a lot of conflicts in the past few weeks. You learned that these conflicts are happening in the team. Which one of the below a project manager should ensure to avoid more conflicts?A. Focus on the people & their behavior, not on issues.B. Keep
2 of the key project stakeholders had a heated debate in one of the project meetings last week. Curtly, who is a chief security officer, is not ok with the current security implementation in a heart monitoring product developed by the team, because according to him and his team's assessments, the
Few members of the team are from Taiwan and rest of the team members are from the USA. There is a big gap in time zone between these 2 countries and hence some of the meetings are very difficult to attend for the people from Taiwan when the meetings are held at the US time & vice-versa. However, a
The new project on which the team is going to work will involve a lot of physical resources because it is an engineering project. That is the reason why the project manager and a few of the project team members are closely working on the physical resource planning for this project. Which one of the
Rahul is a project manager working from Bangalore office, India. He is currently working on an IT project for which he is currently doing the resource planning.Rahul's project sponsor told him that for this IT project, some of the software licenses needed later in the project are already pre
Ken is a part of the PMO within his organization. The project management office in his organization has the responsibility of helping all the projects run smoothly and follows a set of standard practices to be used in all the projects across the organization. One of Ken's colleagues is managing at
For the past 3-weeks, the agile project team is not able to complete the IT admin testing for the payment module. This is because the IT admin team members are not available to support the IT admin testing for the payment module. This IT admin testing for the payment module cannot be completed by
For the upcoming engineering project, the project team has to do a lot of physical resource purchasing. These physical resources are required at the different stages of the project during the project execution. The performing organization had ample space to keep these materials in their warehouse.
You have recently joined a project team as a project manager and you came across the document which contains below details,● We should treat each other with respect.● We should join every project meeting on time.● During the meeting only one person will be speaking at a time.● We will
Musa is a new project manager. For the upcoming project, which involves erecting over 1000+ mobile towers in Africa, Musa has been asked to start on the project planning.During his academic curriculum, Musa has learnt about the project management topics such as scope, cost, schedule etc. But he is
During the last 3 spirits the team is missing to write the appropriate comment when they are commiting the code into the repository. The technical architect is unhappy with this. This mistake is getting repeated again and again Sprint after Sprint. Which of the following can help the team resolve
The project work to build the steering wheels for a 7-seater car is going to start soon.Adolf is a project manager who will be working on this project. Adolf's sponsor gave the list of activities which he expect Adolf to complete and the list contains below items,● Recommend the project execution
The project risk that the raw material needed to build the plastic shield on top of the kid's scroller won't be delivered on-time has materialized. The impact of this is around$2000 on the overall project budget. Which of the following project artifacts is most likely to be updated by the project
Last week the team meeting was arranged and the purpose was to understand different practices followed by the different project teams across the organization.In this team meeting, you heard the team members from another team saying their team is working on software development for embedded systems.
Diana and her team are working on the digital smart watch development project.During the inspection or the testing phase of the project, few team members are saying that the test unit devices needed to test these digital watches are at least 20 short. They raised this to Diana who is the PM of this
Consider the below roles & people assigned with those roles in an electric furnace manufacturing project.David - Project sponsor Tom - Project manager Bill - Business Analyst Mike - Steering committee head Paul - Solution Architect Olga - QA manager There is a need to conduct business analysis &
With her organization fully embracing agile mindset and practices, Melissa, who works in this organization as a project manager, also wanted to experiment with few of the agile ways of doing things. She wants to try out servant leadership on her upcoming project. Which of the following is/are not
For the traffic monitoring mobile app development, scrum framework is currently used by the team. The development team is not happy with the large number of defects found during the testing of the mobile app. The team acknowledges these shortcomings and wants to improve their development process.
In the past 3 years more than 12 projects were executed by the organization & the organization expects that this number will go up further in the coming months and year and hence they formed a PMO to look after all the future projects. The PMO has recommended that knowledge management in the
Because the project work was lagging behind the schedule, the project manager after getting the approval from the project sponsor, has decided to add 3 team members into the project team. Luckily all the 3 project team members have the requisite skills to complete the pending work and they will not
Andrew is conducting a risk workshop, which is essentially a meeting which he arranged with project stakeholders and the goal of the risk workshop is to identify and categorize project risks. Andrew and the project team during the risk workshop are going through below areas,● Identify and list
George has joined a new project team. George has previously worked with multiple teams within the same organization but project team with whom he is now going to work, he has never worked with them before. Because he is joining the new team, he wanted to understand the project's team culture so
The project team has been giving feedback to a project manager that they don't have the clarity of what is the project vision. The team hence is not feeling a sense of direction & the project manager wants to help the team to stay on course. Which project role is best suited to help the team better
The project team is using scrum for the automation test suite development work. The team had a dedicated scrum master, product owner and development team whose all members are 100% dedicated to this project. Both the product owner and the development team are new to scrum. At least 3 user stories
Fill in the blanks in the below paragraph. Andrea works as a project manager in a software development company in Rome, Italy. He is currently working on knowledge management planning of his project. Andrea is an experienced project manager and he knows that only __________ knowledge can be shared
The team velocity of the development team is 30 story points per iteration. The team is working on ERP software development. The team follows a 3-week long iteration.There was a change in the leadership in the last month and a new delivery lead has joined the team. There is an ambition set by the
The project is in an advanced stage of exploration, the project team has spent considerable time understanding the project requirement. The project team has a good understanding of the business requirements of the project. These business requirements are fairly stable and are not expected to change
The project team is working on risk management planning. The project aims to develop a cement road between 2 cities in Egypt. The project manager and the team knows that the project is fairly long and would have many sources of project risks, both positive and negative. Hence, the project team is
The project team is working on developing the software for the aeronautics system.This kind of software work is never done by the project team before & it is one of the most critical projects for the performing organization and there is a lot of focus from the senior management on the successful
Govindan is a project manager, who is working from the Singapore office. His project team is spread across the globe, and most of the team members work in a different time zone. Govindan and the project team members work on multiple project artifacts and many of the team members have edit access to
Deepak is a project manager working from Delhi office, for his company who works on IT projects mostly. The project on which Deepak and team is a small team with 7 stakeholders. Deepak's project sponsor has asked Deepak to share the number of potential communication channels on his project. What
Your team is an experienced agile delivery team and they have extensively used Agile delivery practices and have delivered more than 10 projects in the last few years with stakeholder satisfaction. The team uses scrum & put to use many of the scrum events such as daily standup, sprint planning and
Shaun is about to start work on an agile project. He will be working as an agile project manager. The project plans to use an iteration based delivery approach. The project's goal is to develop a set of third party software libraries and these libraries will later be open sourced to be used in
Bill joined the project last week as a PM. Bill has observed that at many places in the project, especially for the cost estimates, there are rounded up figures. For example, for 1 of the work items, the cost estimate of $995.59 was rounded up to $1000. In which of the following documents can Bill
Daniel is working in one of the startups in the bay area. He is responsible not only for the execution of the project but also because this team is newly formed and most of the team members are very young in their careers Daniel is also working on the overall team performance management of his team
The new mobile app to order the food has to be launched in the next 3 months Due to such a tight deadline, the leadership in the organization has decided to make sure the business team and the mobile software development team work together daily and follow agile practices. Which of the following is
Jean works for a French multinational consulting company. This consulting company has a reputation of delivering the projects successfully, on-time. For the upcoming project which is related to healthcare domain, there are couple of key points which Jean's project sponsor has asked him to pay
John is a scrum master working from the London office, UK. John's team is working on a 3-week sprint. Few of the team members in the team are not aware or know very little about the product's vision. John wants to help the team better understand the product's vision. Which of the following can help
After the Covid-19 pandemic the organization is still recovering and wanted to implement a set of changes to adjust to the new business realities. However, the organization fears that these changes may not go well with many people within the organization and there will be a lot of resistance to
Looks like the road construction work undertaken by the project team will cause traffic congestion. This traffic congestion will affect the life of the people living in the nearby area. The road construction project is about to end in a few days and so far the project is on-time, on-schedule and
The project team is currently working on defining the overall scope of the project work for the development of the new shaving trimmer product which the company is planning to launch in the next 6 months in the North America region. But it looks like there is a disagreement on what is the product
Julia heard many good things about applying the servant leadership in the project context, from many of her colleagues in the PMO and folks in her network. Julia herself learned about applying servant leadership in the project context during an agile workshop which was arranged by her organization.
The upcoming game development project for Xbox console is the first project on which few of the team members in the company are going to work on. The development team is skilled in doing the application development work but has no prior experience of game development. What should the project
The project to develop employee leave applications is in the execution phase. The application build is failing on the windows operating system. This issue is already logged into the issue log document by Thameem who is one of the engineers working on the application. The target resolution date of
The project team has decided to use the 3-point estimation for upcoming projects. The team knows there are 3 estimate,● most likely denoted by M● optimistic denoted by O● pessimistic denoted by P Team to use beta distribution. In order to calculate the expected cost denoted by E, which of the
After trying & failing to deliver a few projects using the predictive management approach in the digital transformation domain the Skill Valley Inc. has now decided to give it a try to the agile project management approach and they decided to use the most common development methodology which is
The PMO has organized the project management workshop to refresh concepts, tips and tricks, and practices in project management. Few junior members of the team found it very confusing to understand the difference between enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets. One of the
You will soon be attending a meeting next week in which you and the other folks from your organization will be speaking with the people from the vendor team who will be doing some of the auxiliary work in your project if the negotiations with the vendor are successful. The vendor team has the
The healthcare startup company in California has a very tight budget in which they have to execute the project. The decision is to use an agile based project management approach. If the budget is going to be very strict, which are the other parameters of the project that the project team can adjust
The data engineering project is something which Mathew's team is doing for the first time. Mathew, being an experienced project manager understands that his team will need a technical training on the core knowledge of the data engineering field to successfully complete the data engineering project
Due to the failure in multiple projects in the last quarter using the predictive approach organizational leadership has decided to use agile based project delivery and follow the principles and recommendations of the agile delivery. Although the project team is relatively new to agile delivery, the
There is a conflict with regards to the delivery between the performing organization which is based in UAE and the vendor whose team is based in Vietnam. The buyerand-seller were engaged in a contractual relationship using cost reimbursable contract type. The project manager of a buyer organization
Your team is working on developing the components for 2 wheeler vehicles and The practices followed by the team are inspired from Lean manufacturing. They are using the Kanban method. 2 team members who are more senior than the rest of the team are frequently interrupting other members in the team.
There is a discussion going on about how to operate the projects within the organization. This is because the organization received many offers to execute multiple projects. Some of them are from a single client, and a few of them are interrelated projects. Some of them are from a single client,
The customer support team received the feedback from the beta users who are testing the new weighing machine that the machine does not provide the accurate weight when the object is wet. Customer support team wanted to communicate this feedback to the project team so that this finding can be
Robert is working with one of the project teams and the team members of this team are inexperienced in the use of agile and scrum. Robert realized it and he arranged a training program for the team members in the fundamentals of mindset and principles of agile and scrum. The project team has
2 team members, Carl and Courtney, are the developers working on the software development project. The team is using scrum. During the daily stand up and in a few other project meetings you have observed that Carl and Courtney are not speaking with each other. You are working in a servant
A new project sponsor who joined last week has asked the project manager about the details such below,● What is the length of each iteration?● Which scheduling tool is used by the team?The project is using an adaptive project life cycle. To answer the above questions from the new project
Because of the improper format for the API sent by the back end developers, all the front end code is broken and because of this there is a conflict between backend developers and frontend developers. This is badly affecting the overall project delivery now. As a project manager, you want to
Umesh recently joined as a project manager in one of the product based companies.The previous project manager was PMP certified and when Umesh was going through the various project management documents the previous manager had developed, he found that the previous project manager had done extensive
Akinyemi is a project manager working from the Nigerian office for his organization, who received the order from one of their existing customers and the delivery team is given a task to choose the delivery approach for this new work. The work involves developing a similar product which Akinyemi's
Over the years, Skill Valley Inc. has been using predictive or waterfall style of project management approaches to deliver the projects, and they have been quite successful at it. However, the organization now decided to use agile practices, specially for all the digital projects within the
The project is using the scrum framework for the development of an account software tool. During one of the daily standup meetings few project team members complaint that they are not able to download the project technical design document from a shared drive and this is preventing them to work in a
After spending 2 weeks on identifying the list of activities which they need to do on the project, the project team is happy that they now have a clear understanding of the kind of work that needs to be done on the upcoming project. The team along with the project manager has created an activity
In the year 2022, the conflict started between Ukraine and Russia. This conflict had an effect on project teams & team members working from these 2 countries. As a project manager, what should you do to minimize the impact of changes in an external business environment on your project?Select all
Wei works as a project manager in a PMO, from the company's office in Rome, Italy.Her organization has been facing a lot of competition from the other companies in the last few quarters and hence the leadership team in your organization has decided to introduce gradual changes and transition the
You found that 2 team members are gossiping about the product manager of their team and are doing it outside the workspace. You are junior to these team members in the organization hierarchy. What should you do in this scenario?A. Tolerate the behavior B. Join their conversation and share your
The project team is working on a software development project for the defense system and the team is using the scrum framework. This is a USA government project. During one of the daily stand up meeting few team members informed that they are getting the invites from other department within the
You work as an agile project manager in a software/IT company. For the upcoming artificial intelligence software development project on which your project team is about to start the work, the business requirements are not very clear as of now. The Organizational leadership wants the project team to
David, who is the PM for TV set-top box, has been asked to provide rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimates for the new set-top box development work. As not much information was available, David gave an estimate in the range of -25% to +75%. After the technical review by the architect teams, now
For the upcoming ceiling fan development project, you and your team are working on project artifacts development. The project is still in the planning phase. There are many project artifacts which are needed to be developed for the successful and smooth project execution. Select all the matching
There is an ambiguity about what needs to be done to develop the backend code for the website project. This is because the current project team doesn't have the skills to develop the backend code for the website. While some team members have shown the willingness to learn the skill that can help

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