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Neil is a newly certified PMP. One of his office mates asks Neil about the difference between definable work and high uncertainty work. Which one of the below should be Neil's reply?A.The production domain and processes involved in definable work are usually NOT well understood and the risks are
There is a 2-wheeler rotor making company in Texas, USA which has been growing ever since it was established 3.5 years ago. The company leadership is hoping to double the rotor manufacturing capacity and hence asked your advice on what should be the approach. Which of the following should you
For 1 of the strategic projects where you are working as a project manager, you come to know that the 1 of the vendors has paid a bribe to one of the team members of your project team to get an advantage for the bidder conference event that happened in the past month. However, this vendor team is
The machine learning project is first of its kind for your team and due to the highvariability environment under which it is being developed, the project team expects the project to incur huge volume of changes and uncertainty resulting in higher project risk. Also due to the current economical
The AI start up's new venture became a hit. And the senior leadership of this start up feels the need of adding the people into project, functional and operation management.Which of the following choices currently describe the responsibilities of each of these management roles?A.Functional manager
The website project that allows users to find nearest pubs is almost ready for the public launch. However, you as a project manager joined this project last week, as the earlier project manager left the project due to personal reasons. The project sponsor has asked you to capture the "business
Ramesh is a project manager in one of the MNC working out of Mumbai, India. His company had recently adapted the agile delivery model and decided to deliver projects executed in the next quarter using agile based teams and delivery approach.While forming the team for agile delivery, which of the
You work in a manufacturing company who develops bicycle parts. The new project is about to begin and you and your project team are working on identifying the various enterprise environment factors or EEF. Which of one of the following is true regarding enterprise environment factors or EEF?A.
Despite spending the last 2 weeks discussing and debating, the team is still not sure whether to develop the firmware code needed for the IoT appliance project within the organization or to outsource it and get it delivered by the external team. Which of the following analysis can help the team in
The nano-technology based project is in complete chaos. There seems to be no clarity within the team on project requirements and they don't seem to be reaching a consensus on any topic on how to approach developing deliverables. Since this nanotechnology domain is new for almost all of the project
When you joined your new organization, within a week you realized that there is a lack of focus on project management when executing the project. As a certified PMI PMP -you know the enormous value of proper project management. Your leadership team agrees with you and asked you to bring the
The IoT project on which your team is working is super critical for your organization.The current team size is around 50. When you began to hire the people on "contract"for this project - your hiring request was rejected by the HR Department. When you asked about it to the HR Department - they told
Venkat has resigned and will be leaving his organization in 2-weeks. His organization has hired a new project manager named Arjun, to whom Venkat needs to pass on the key project information. Arjun, the new PM has asked Venkat to share the details of total scope of work. Which project artifacts
After the failure of using traditional project management approaches to deliver the project, the rubber stamp making company in the Asia-Pacific region has decided to try Agile approaches. They hired you as an Agile project manager and asked you to do whatever to have the team start using agile.
Ben is a project manager. Him and Belinda, who is an executive in senior management in the organization are talking over a coffee in a restaurant. This is an unplanned meet but both felt that since they have some free time, they started the project related discussion. It is an example of
Mohammed is a project manager in an oil company in Saudi Arabia. He has just finished one of the initial project meetings for his upcoming project. This meeting lasted for about 50 minutes and at the end of it Mohammed realized that there were quite a few key project stakeholders present in that
Julia is a project manager working on a large, multi-year, high profile project. While there are few good milestones that the project team was able to successfully reach ontime and with good quality, there are few milestones the team missed too. The project sponsor has asked Julia to work with the
Uma is relatively new at her role as a product manager. Ganesh, is an agile project manager working with Uma on the same team from Chennai, India office. After a few days of working Ganesh noticed that Uma is not able to come up with clear product requirements which are aligned to the product
As an experienced project manager, Bill knows that some stakeholders' engagement is key to the project success and that all the stakeholders expect a form of satisfaction from a performing organization. How should Bill go about stakeholder prioritization?A. Bill should focus on treating all the
The Agile team is formed with 8 members each of them has cross-functional skills. This team is supposed to develop complex interpreter design solutions. The top management has a lot of expectations from this team because if this team delivers a successful solution it will open an opportunity for
In the past few months there have been at least 5 instances that needed an escalation that came up during the project execution. The project team seems to be unsure who should act upon these escalations. Since no action is taken on these previous escalations the team is confused and worried about
You are going to fully take over the new project from next week. The previous project manager was a PMP-certified and an experienced project manager and he has rightfully created multiple project artifacts during the planning phase. The one project artifact you are looking for is the 1 in which you
Your organization is about to start a project in the healthcare domain, in the USA.Your role will be that of a project manager. Beside the usual project management work such as scope, cost and schedule management - which of the following is your responsibility as a project manager in this
Brett is working as a servant leader in an Australian shoe making company. This company has highly skilled workers but this company has a limited number of such high-skill workers who are working on Brett's project. Shane is another project manager who has been reaching out to these high-skill
Kiran is a project manager and his team works on agile-based project delivery. Their agile team consists of T-shaped skill people and a few SMEs too. This team works in a product development company who produces mechanical parts for the 2-wheelers which are to be sold in India, and Asia-pacific.
Jacob is a PMI Certified project manager, most of his projects are in healthcare domains in the last few years. His current project too is a healthcare project. He is working on identifying the business value that his new healthcare project has. Which one of the following is LEAST useful to use in
The agile adoption has been 1 of the goals of Skill Valley Inc. and this organization has now fully adapted agile ways of executing the projects from next quarters. Skill Valley Inc. typically works with their clients from countries like South Korea and Japan and the project on which the teams work
The project goes through multiple phases during its life cycle. John, the project sponsor has asked you to share activities done in each phase of the project. Which of the following correctly shows the activities done in each phase of the project that you should share with John?A. Develop a work
The team who worked on a mobile app to book an auto is showing a demo to their customers. There are 5 customers who after seeing every feature in the app are"voting" to decide if the feature is meeting the requirement. And if 3 out of 5 agree that the feature is meeting the requirement - that
You and your team are working in a transport domain where the product is creating windows using Aluminum for 4-wheelers. These 4 wheeler vehicles are used for both public and private transport. You are working as a project manager on this project and you and the project sponsor need to come up with
The IoT-based project has finished its second phase and Trinity, the project manager of the project, wanted to understand the satisfaction level of the project's stakeholders.The stakeholders of this project are both internal and external - spread across multiple geographies and continents and
The road construction project work is lagging behind a schedule. Still 200 meter long road is to be constructed with custom concrete material, and only 10 days are remaining to meet this milestone. Currently, 4 people are working on this road construction project and they, on average, finish a 15
Larry is the project manager and in his team there are 4 members with varying skills and competencies. David is an experienced worker and he has been doing really good in his area of work. Allen is a fresher worker and he too has been doing really well in his area of work. Lina is an experienced
The project to set up an assembly line for shoe making was successfully completed 2 months ago. The stakeholders and customers both were happy with the project delivery. However, there have been many complaints coming from the people who are operating the assembly line during the operations in the
There is an escalation happening from the client in 1 of the projects in your company and the client is clearly not happy with this project team. Client said that this team misunderstood at least 5 or more requirements. You are asked to find the root cause behind this escalation. You found that
During the planning phase, the project team knew that the vendor team with whom they were working with may shut down. The project manager has recorded this in an appropriate project artifact. This week, that vendor team has informed the project manager formally that they are shutting down all their
Mickey is a project manager who will be driving the new chair manufacturing project for his company. He reviewed the project charter of the project and found that 3 people are already identified who will work on the project whose planning itself has not yet started. Is it OK to have identified
James and his team - working on a project of migrating the on-premise machines onto the AWS cloud. The tech lead from the team, Kevin, has informed James that the migration activity is getting over soon. So James is now thinking of releasing the resources (such as tools, software and licenses) used
The agile adoption has been a priority for Graham who is the agile project manager at Skill Valley Inc. - a US based company who works on solar panel manufacturing.Hence, leadership at Skill Valley Inc. decided to use the scrum for their projects. The scrum team in this organization wanted to
You joined a team as an experienced project manager and 1 of the associate junior managers in the new team asks you what are the sources of conflicts. He wanted to know them as part of his own learnings so that he can do better at conflict management. Which of the below is the most accurate
You work as a freelance project manager and 1 of the steel manufacturing organizations in the Middle-east has asked your view on their readiness to adapt agile to deliver their projects. This organization has used traditional/project management approaches for more than a decade but wanted to
The newly formed agile team is working on an iteration planning for the upcoming iteration. You work as an experienced agile project manager for this team. The technology stack on which the team is going to work is fairly novice, and all the team members are going to work on it for the 1st time.
During every retrospective meeting, the project team discusses the multiple issues in the process such as bottlenecks for the verification team towards the end of every iteration. The servant leader notes down these retrospective items in the Google spreadsheet which is available for everyone in
John's company received a contract last week in which John and his team will work as consultants whose major focus is to reduce the number of defects in their client's ERP system. There are no periodic releases needed for this system and each time when a defect is fixed, this fix/change should be
Alex has recently joined as lab assistant in the chemical lab which is working on producing cough remedies for the US, Europe and Middle-east region. You are working as a project manager on this project in which Alex has joined and this project uses agile methodology. After joining the team, Alex
Ben is project manager of a team consisting of skilled engineers with varying degrees of experience. Some team members are freshers but some of them are highly experienced. One of the team members is a girl named Julie who is not expressing herself during many of the project meetings & seems to be
Below are the characteristics of the project which your organization is about to start.● project requirements are fixed and stable● project don't need multiple deliveries Based on the above , which project methodology/method is appropriate?A. Iterative B. Agile C. Incremental D. Predictive
Risk identification is happening right now for a project whose goal is to launch digital books on travel and monuments in Europe. Which of the following correctly describes the right approach about this "risk identification" in a project?A. Project manager should identify both positive and negative
Keith is a project manager and he is working for a large coffee shop company, from Atlanta, Georgia. His employer is soon launching a new project that will help further expand the coffee shops across the other states in USA as the demand for coffee shops is increasing post covid-90 restrictions are
Anil has just been informed by his project sponsor that from next week a new project for rocket propulsion component development is going to start and Anil will be the PM for this project. Being a government project, it is expected to have a large number of stakeholders associated with the project.
Due to conflict in Europe in the year 2022, the Skill Valley Inc. project team has to prepone the delivery of their drones by at least 3-months. However, due to the above mentioned delivery pressure in the last few iterations, the team has found that technical debt for drone software is increasing
Andrew, a member of the PMO Department in his organization, is responsible for defining and upholding project management standards across the organization. He has been tasked with creating a list of activities that project managers should and should not engage in during a project. Under the
The laptop memory chip making company is working using a traditional, waterfall approach to the project execution. Also, there are very strict expectations in terms of quality standards that these memory chips need to adhere to. As a project manager for such a project, what strategy should you
Steve is a PMI PMP certified project manager and he has recently joined a new firm, this firm works on manufacturing electric starters needed for electrical machines.He has been asked by his new employer to manage the ongoing production of these electric starters. However, Steve is not happy. Steve
Thomas is a project manager in a healthcare domain company. His company has a vision to work on producing health products based on Ayurveda. There are people in this company who have the requisite skills to work on health products based on Ayurveda. This company has received the order to produce
Dinesh is the project manager working on automation script development work for a mobile gaming company. The team is newly formed and started the work only a few weeks ago. One of the team members, Musa, works remotely. He is an I-shaped skilled person with expertise in developing the coding work
A food chain company in India after its launch became very popular due to its on-time delivery and varieties in food items. Ajay has been working in this food company for the past 6 months as an agile project manager and now his company has recently decided to deliver all the future projects using
Jazz is working on stakeholder engagement strategies for his upcoming construction project. He wanted to identify the stakeholders and then have a strategy to deal with them based on their power and interest. Which of the following stakeholders categories should Jazz use/focus on to develop his
As an experienced project manager Carl knows the importance of stakeholder engagement in the project. Carl's project sponsor sent him an email this week and told Carl that a new project is most likely to start next week. Carl is thinking of starting with identifying the stakeholders for the
There seems to be a disagreement in deciding the stakeholders of a project in Julia's project. Her team is working on installing mobile towers near a residential area in Birmingham in the UK. There are like 2 groups now in her project team with 2 different opinions. First group of the project team
Tom works from Alabama, USA. and he is working in a company who just received the order to develop a project whose deliverable is to develop a mobile application using Flutter - a cross platform to develop mobile apps that run on both android and iOS platforms. The customer’s requirements are
Skill Valley Inc. is using an agile approach to deliver their home appliance products.The company leadership has given freedom to the project delivery team to provide the estimates for the iterations. The entire team is working on estimation. However, the team is providing inaccurate estimates
Earned value analysis is a popular tool within an e-commerce company's project team.The project team has used it in the past and the PMO of the organization also has asked the project teams to use it whenever applicable. Brett's sponsor has asked if the project is on schedule or not to him. Can
Charlotte has been working in traditional project management projects for the past 6+years. She has been requesting her boss to allow her a new assignment in an agile methodology. Finally Charlotte is getting an opportunity to work in an agile project.She has an agile certification with her and she
The daily standup happens at 9:30 am each day for Rasool and his team, who work out of a Saudi Arabia location. The project this team is working on is a mobile app that keeps track of OPEC oil price changes in real-time. Rasool is the scrum master of this project team and he facilitates and ensures
Sophia has just finished her education in project management from an international university. Your HR Department told you that she will be joining your PMO from next week. You being an experienced project manager should encourage Sophia to acquire which of the skills for a successful career as a
James is worried. He has been asked by the top management of his organization to complete the project requirement gathering in a 2-days time. This is because the project if not finished in strict timelines may result in hefty penalties to James's organization. The challenge for James is although he
Stuart works as a project sponsor and Ian works as a project manager in a baseball manufacturing company in California, USA. Their company is in an early stage of development to launch a baseball with few changes from their existing baseballs to make it more suitable for current and future changes.
Your team is working on "tailoring" the processes and the outcome from this exercise is to be used by other project teams. Which one of the following represent the correct sequence for "tailoring" the processes which your team should follow?A. 1. Select initial development approach 2. Tailor for a
A Famous bakery making company in France has one agile team working with their client's customer support department team and together they are working for the development of a new bakery product. The client has allocated one business executive who works with the bakery's development team to help
You are an experienced agile practitioner who worked on multiple agile projects in the past. You have joined a new organization who is looking for an agile framework which is most suitable for single and small, co-located & cross-functional teams. Which of the following is NOT the right choice?A.
Your organization is a well-established firm with a sound track record of delivering complex civil engineering projects over the years. Your team is working on a dam construction project in a geopolitically violent country. The project is already started and the SPI and CPI both are 1 as on date,
The project charter has authorized Thomas, a project manager, to do the estimation with his project team for the new project which is in a planning phase right now.The project's objective is to launch an incandescent lamp in the next 18 to 24 months.Which of the following should Thomas and his
The last project your company did with Magentour travel agency was a failure. And the client complained that there was a lack of transparency from the development team. Your team is working with Magentour travel agency but on a different project.As an agile project manager one of the key
As a project team, one can say that the electric lamp manufacturing team at Sterling Inc. is in an advanced stage of the development. The team is a mix of SMEs and highly motivated individuals who are skilled and thoroughly professional. This project team believes in "shared ownership". Which
Skill Valley Inc. is a huge project management consultancy company. The major business objective of the company is to execute the projects across multiple countries, geographies and time zones. Because the company executes many projects and some of them are similar sometimes, the senior management
For upcoming mobile app development work, an organization in the UK is planning to form a development team. The team is going to use agile for the delivery of the mobile app using an incremental approach. Which of the following are NOT the desired for such an agile team?A. The team size should be
Next week, you are about to begin the project planning for your next project. The direction from the client is to use the traditional/waterfall approach as the project requirements are more or less stable. You have invited the members of the project team to the planning meeting next week, however
Lot of defects are logged by the testing team who is testing the functionalities of the newly developed cloud-based solution. There is an observation that about 80% of the defects are from 2 areas - storage module and authentication module. As a project manager, you wanted to know the root cause of
George works as a project manager who is assisted by Charles who works as a business analyst. These 2 folks work with Julia who is the project sponsor. The project team consists of solution architect - John and project team members include Jason, Johnny and Joe. This group of folks are working on
Last week, there was a risk workshop session in the London, UK office for Tim and his team. The project management office was responsible for conducting a week-long session about the risks and how to deal with them across the projects. You have attended this workshop & got a good knowledge of
Dokyu Lee is from South Korea and he works as an agile project manager in a South Korean company who makes mobile handsets. Dokyu Lee is about to compose or form a project team for his upcoming project to build a geolocation mobile app for his company's flagship mobile phone. Which of the below
Haruto is a project manager working in an e-commerce company in Tokyo, Japan. He is working on the scope management part of the overall project management plan for the new project that began a few days ago. Which of the following should Haruto's scope management plan focus on?A. Scope management
The year 2020 saw the covid-19 pandemic affecting multiple projects and teams across the globe. Your team was no exception. The team was working on a software development project with a total 10 members. Which one of the following aspects of the team would have been most severely affected by the
Kevin's team is working on a cloud computing project. They are using a traditional/waterfall approach to execute the project. Kevin being a project manager of the team is working on a plan for project changes which may occur in future. Kevin wants to understand who should/can approve the project
Alen is a project manager going to work on a road construction project for his company. The project is expected to be quite big with 200+ people, spanning multiple years and involves working with many vendors and external stakeholders. Alen's project sponsor, Carl, asked Alen if he needed
An automobile company is working on a new product which is to be launched 20 months from now. The direction from the company leadership to the project team is to use a project management approach as depicted in the below diagram.Which project development approach the above image represents?A.
There is constant underutilization happening of the team's capacity since the past 4 iterations now. This team is building a single page application or SPA using React JS.There are 6 team members with skills in react JS development but the number of product backlog items selected for the iteration
For the new shoe, which uses a specially customized leather, to be successful, the marketing team has determined that the organization must launch this product in the next 7-weeks as another competitor is very close to launching a similar product in the market very soon. Beside this a
Jim is a software developer with 3 years of experience. He works with another developer, Mark who has 5 years of experience. Both of these developers are going to work with you on your new project. You, being their project manager, want them to succeed in the project. Which one of the following
Uma is a project manager and she is working on her project whose objective is to create ceiling fans under $100. These fans are to be sold in developing countries.She is finalizing her approach on stakeholder engagement. Which one of the following should she adopt?A. Stakeholder engagement
Sadaf works as an agile project manager and his team uses many of the practices from XP to deliver the embedded software which his team develops for set top box in USA and Canada. Sadaf's project team is fairly big in size - about 25+ people. Sadaf wanted to ensure that there should be collective
Skill Valley Inc. is a large conglomerate with employees spread all over the world across time zones, cultures and countries. The employees are a mix of I-shaped and Tshaped skills and include people with diverse experience ranging from freshers to 20+years of experience overall. Atul is working as
Katrina is a project manager and she works in a PMO department of her organization.Her organization through their PMO is planning to develop a roadmap to ensure the employees working in the organization have a high motivation level, specially for the long-term projects that span more than 24
The new mobile app project which Tina is a PM for is very similar to the recently launched mobile app by another team in Tina's organization. This app is not as strategically significant as the earlier app and hence there will be resource scarcity for Tina for this new app. The PMO of Tina's
Samir is a PMP certified project manager part of a PMO Office. He is allocated to a civil construction project and this project is using a waterfall/traditional project management approach. Samir has observed that most of the team members trust each other. Which stage of the development stage as
Your team has delivered the 1st iteration, as per the scope defined & agreed in the sprint backlog during sprint planning, of the mobile app to book movie tickets to a client- this client is working on agile based iterative deliveries for the very 1st time.For the iteration demo, only 2 folks from
Alexis is a new project manager who joined the Munich office of 1 of the most reputed German banks. Since he is new and still learning the details of the project after joining, he decided to take a look at stakeholders of this project. He came to know that the stakeholder register seems to be
Since the total scope of upcoming artificial intelligence software is unclear, Achala, who is a skilled project manager with experience in both agile and waterfall projects and her team decided to use a "rolling wave" planning approach to their project. Which of the following correctly describe the
Skill Valley Inc. corporation’s team is using SCRUM methodology and their SCRUM team is working on the final sprint of their product. The sprint is well planned and the whole team is occupied with their tasks and there is not much capacity available.During one of the daily standup calls, the

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