The PMP Exam: How To Pass On Your First Try (Test Prep Series) 6th Edition Andy Crowe - Solutions

Two project managers are having a discussion about hiring resources. One favors hiring people who can do each other’s job, a term she refers to as “generalizing specialists.” What is reasonable to infer from her preference?A. She does not have an overly technical project.B. She is managing a
The project charter provides useful information regarding a new project. Which of the following statements is false regarding the project charter?A. The project charter justifies why the project is being undertaken -the document explains the business case.B. The project charter assigns a person to
Your agile team is building a case for the use of virtual teaming as they develop the staffing plan for the project. Which of the following 4 justifications is not valid?A. The use of virtual teams will allow use of team members who work from home offices and those may be vital resources with
Read the following descriptions and choose the one that best describes the purpose for the process called Plan Risk Management.A. Defines how to identify, rank, and react to risk events in an organization.B. Defines how to identify, qualify, and quantify risk threats in your project.C. Defines the
The agile team asks the coach for an opinion: “We need a skill in writing queries for the customer’s database, but no one on the team has that experience. What should we do?” What is your best response?A. “Use a group decision-making technique that takes into account the pros and cons of
As a project manager is developing, managing, and leading the team, that PM should be aware of Tuckman’s model. According to this model, how many stages are there, and what factors would most likely affect the duration of each stage?A. 4 stages and the duration can be influenced by the team size,
During iteration planning, the team works to craft a goal—an iteration commitment. What is the correct sequence and best approach?A. Review the stories, use Planning Poker to assign a value, groom the backlog, pick the top stories that can be performed in the iteration, and assign the iteration
Which of the following best describes when a project has been successfully completed?A. All quality metrics have been validated and accepted.B. Contracts are closed.C. The team has delivered product, service, or results to a customer and avoided legal actions, including arbitration.D. The team
As the team begins to look at the question of “How to perform stories?” during iteration planning, discussion about one story makes it clear that not everyone on the team comprehends its meaning. What is the first step to take?A. Have the team explain to the product owner the nature of the
You could make the argument that the process of Develop Project Management Plan is the most important process belonging to the Planning process group. Of the following choices, which choice would not be considered a Planning process?A. Develop project management plan.B. Identify risks.C. Identify
The team is several iterations into the project, and the burndown charts reflect that the committed stories are never delivered within the iteration. What are two approaches to remedying this situation?A. First, meet with the team tracker to ensure the burndown charting is being done correctly;
You have a problem with Ted. The project you are leading has high visibility as this is the first phase of a multi-year engagement with a new customer. The contract was negotiated such that the customer can elect to extend the agreement into the next phase upon completion of the prior phase. You
During story card development and backlog grooming, the team including the product owner evaluates and considers the effort, the acceptance criteria, and what other value-driving aspect?A. The uncertainties of threats or opportunities and the effect on the value prior to prioritization.B. The
Robert has a crisis on his hands. It is relatively early in the project schedule; Robert has 3 team members in his office all talking at once. Gene, Maria, and Anshul are very upset about their assignments on the project. They contend that they are responsible for more work than they can manage.
In preparing for iteration review, the team and the product owner collaborate to preview the acceptance. If the team considers a feature to be “Done,” but the product owner does not, then what is the next step?A. Appeal the product owner’s opinion to the project sponsor for higher-level
The PM has many responsibilities described for the knowledge area of Integration. Of the following four choices, what would you consider the most important function of the project manager during project integration?A. Taking action to make sure the team is unified and on the same page.B. Allocating
Now that the delivery organization has become about 50% agile in its approach, the criteria for the annual Project Manager of the Year Award and associated bonus has come under review based on criticism from the agile community. How would the best performer of the year best be handled in view of
The Monitor Communications process is a fairly straight-forward yet important process related to this area of Communications Management. In this process, who is responsible for ensuring that the data that is collected, analyzed, and distributed is accurate and timely?A. All members of the team.B.
The product owner solicits the team to help groom the backlog every iteration because:A. Value to the customer may vary based on timing such as windows of opportunity and variable market demand.B. The risk assessment of outstanding stories may be different based on current knowledge, thus affecting
Quality audits are considered an important tool in the quality management knowledge area. Which of the 4 statements best describes the impact a quality audit is most likely to have on the cost of quality?A. Quality audits should result in an increased cost of quality as the performing organization
As team facilitator, you are being asked by the product owner, who is new to the organization, to help him identify the types of stakeholders that will be related to the project. You help by:A. Reviewing the organization chart and explaining who’s who.B. Using historical information from another
Which of the following is the best description of the project plan?A. A formal, approved document that consolidates all subsidiary management plans and baselines from planning processes.B. The formal, approved document that integrates planning processes and tells how the project measurement
The agile team is meeting with a new member to quickly orient him to the project. He asks, “What do you do when you are near the end of an iteration and the burndown chart doesn’t reflect the targeted progress?” The team best responds:A. We press on with the work at hand, trying to complete
There are 49 Processes, and most of them result in more than one output. One of the outputs of the Direct and Manage Project Work process is:A. The deliverables.B. The work authorization system.C. Approved change requests.D. The key performance information.
The agile team has identified an issue with the way the acceptance criteria is defined on the back of the story card. With whom should the developers collaborate to approach resolving the issue?A. Project sponsor.B. Product owner.C. Team facilitator.D. Primary stakeholders.
The team is getting slightly behind on the project schedule, so Francine has moved team members Joseph and Sally from their prior assignments to new tasks. Rick is thrilled because he had been working nights and weekends in an effort to complete the task -now, he has help! What process is being
The project charter has just been signed, approving you as the agile team facilitator for the Reporting Task Force. The project sponsor is the product owner, and you are meeting with her to determine who you both desire to perform on the agile team. How do you describe to functional managers what
The project team, including those members who work remotely, are all meeting together for the week in order to test, document, and finalize delivery of the first major project deliverable. What is this practice called that a project manager may use from time to time to help develop the project
Roger has brought an estimate for network connections and webcam equipment to facilitate his home office as a remote team member of your agile team. As coach, you have prepared senior management for the concept of virtual teaming to get the right contributors together for a high performance, agile
You are the project manager for a project, and the Customer just asked for a cost estimate for a group of tasks the team will perform.What type of estimate would you prefer that the Customer request from you?A. Control.B. Definitive.C. ROM.D. Parenthetical.
The resource management plan may contain:A. The escalation flowchart.B. How to develop the Resource Management Plan.C. The project organizational chart.D. The work authorization system.
In a strong matrix organization that delivers agile as well as waterfall projects:A. More power is given to the functional manager.B. More power is given to the project manager.C. More power is given to the project expeditor.D. More power is given to the project coordinator.
The agile project delivers a product, service, or result during which project event?A. The iteration-H review and subsequent project closure.B. The final step of the iteration retrospective.C. Incrementally by iteration review or demonstration.D. Incrementally by the completion of work breakdown
The most important factor in project integration is:A. A clearly defined scope.B. Timely corrective action.C. Team buy-in on the project plan.D. Effective communication.
The Otter Company has just absorbed one of its former outsourcers, the CDE Group. Jolene, formerly of CDE, is now on your Otter agile team, but is not planning to move to your local office, two states away. To facilitate her integration with the team, what should be considered first?A. What
The system that supports all aspects of the project management processes from initiating through closing is:A. Information technology.B. The information distribution system.C. The project management information system.D. The work authorization system.
Jamal is the agile team facilitator for the Rhino Project, with an estimated nine iterations. At the end of the third iteration, the team has completed half the project backlog. Jamal gets called into an emergency meeting with the product owner and the project sponsor. The sponsor breaks the news
Which of the following statements is not true regarding the collection of project requirements?A. The requirements documentation produced from this process becomes an input to other processes.B. The project team or a subset of the team makes use of the project charter, the stakeholder register, and
The project team is busy performing quality assurance for the current phase of the project. Why is the team most interested in the quality control measurements?A. These measurements are compared against the plan to see if the deliverables are of acceptable quality.B. These measurements are the
Your company has limited resources and must choose between two projects for the next period. Project Green has a present value of$11,000,000. Project Orange has a present value of $7,500,000.What is the opportunity cost of choosing Project Green?A. $7.5 Million.B. $3.5 Million.C. $11 Million.D. $1
Your agile team is in Iteration-H and faces project closure very soon. What will be one of the team’s concerns for the customer value to be realized?A. Confirmation that the product owner correctly disaggregated the epics into stories.B. Validation that the transfer of the deliverable ownership
As a hybrid project manager, you have already learned that an agile sub-project can continue on past the scheduled completion date of the parent project. To keep current with the agile component, you should:A. Schedule weekly meetings with the product owner and the team coach to get a status
You are in a meeting with the sponsor to review project status, but someone spilled coffee on the one copy of your report, and your laptop is back in the office. You can barely make out some of the numbers. The report shows that schedule variance for the project is$15,000. Planned value = $105,000,
Which of the following processes is not in the Planning process group?A. Create WBS.B. Determine Budget.C. Develop Project Charter.D. Collect Requirements.
The team facilitator counsels the team that the information radiator should be set up in or near the team space. What is the focus of this radiator?A. To keep a scoreboard of who is doing what on the project team so that the team is always on the same page.B. To ensure that the temperature
Theresa took over for another PM after about half of the project was completed. She is looking for guidance for how she might reward team members for excellent performance. What document is the best source for finding that specific information?A. Staffing management plan.B. Resource management
The team is meeting with vendors today to pick a supplier of an automated testing system for the agile project underway. The team met yesterday to discuss:A. How far they expect the potential vendor to go in trying to win favor with the team and garner the contract.B. How to get the best deal from
Which of the following statements is least accurate in describing the process of stakeholder identification that a project manager should carry out in a project?A. This process should identify stakeholders who may be impacted negatively by the project result or work.B. This process should identify
In initial review of the project backlog, the product owner and the rest of the team meet to determine a realistic release plan with minimal viable product releases. The goal is to:A. Estimate how many iterations will be involved so that the Finance Department can understand the burn rate for cash
Throughout the life of a project, there can be a great deal of pressure on the PM to meet the expectations of stakeholders and communicate with them appropriately. Read the following 4 descriptions and choose the one that best describes what this process entails:A. Clarifying and resolving issues
As manager of the project, you decide to add an agile component to be delivered by a software development company. Which statement about contracting is the most accurate of these four?A. Buyer must ensure that Seller abides by the terms of the contract and that deliverables are of acceptable
Jonas is performing a number of administrative tasks as the contract work is nearly complete for this project. Assume only one contract and one vendor was used on this project. In what order would Jonas and the team perform these processes?A. Conduct Procurements, Create WBS, Validate Scope,
As team facilitator, you challenge your team’s agile training by asking: “Following agile principles, which of the following would most align?” What is the best response that allows you to rate the training as effective?A. Being lean by minimizing any project work that is not essential.B.
A project team member may have a strong preference to being led by a project manager who practices either Theory X or Theory Y leadership and motivation styles. Who is attributed with development of the Theory X and Theory Y motivational descriptions?A. McDonald.B. Maslow.C. McGregor.D. McClelland.
As team facilitator working closely with the product owner (PO), you have picked up on signals that the PO may have a desire to move into agile team coaching. You take the initial step by:A. Recommending to the PO that they get some training in agile and learn more about servant-leadership.B.
Accepted deliverables are an input to the process of closing the project or phase carried out in Integration Management. What process produces those accepted deliverables?A. Perform Integrated Change Control.B. Monitor Project Execution.C. Validate Scope.D. Monitor and Control Project Work.
Hybrid Project HIJ has identified stakeholders and created a stakeholder register. Which of the following statements is not true about a stakeholder register?A. No processes use it as a tool.B. Only one process creates or generates this list of stakeholders.C. It contains the communication
Which of these statements about a work breakdown structure is not accurate?A. Once the scope baseline is established, the WBS should represent all the official scope of the project.B. The number of levels in a WBS will vary.C. The goal with decomposing the WBS is to keep going until you don’t
At the daily stand-up meeting, as coach you took a few seconds to recognize that a team member had completed a critical training experience and that she can share what she learned with the team in approaching a solution to a high-value story this iteration. This is an example of:A. Building
Which of the following is the best explanation of the differences between the Validate Scope and Manage Quality processes?A. They may be performed in parallel, but Validate Scope should be finished last.B. Manage Quality is all about correctness, while Validate Scope is all about completeness.C.
An agile team may use all of the following items or events in support of the project budget EXCEPT:A. Refactoring.B. Release planning.C. Burn rate.D. Velocity.
Consider the following four lists related to the process of monitoring and controlling risks. Which list is most accurate, if you start with the output, then list the tool or technique, and finally the input related to this process?A. Work performance measurements, Trend analysis, Work performance
The team has a challenge to consensus based on two different methods of structuring a solution to a software issue discovered in this iteration. They decide to perform two spikes together to arrive at a unified solution. The conflict of the two approaches is being resolved with what technique?A.
Margaret is gathering information from the last month of project activity as she prepares to meet with key stakeholders, make sure they are getting the data they need, and respond to any issues.Margaret is looking for all supporting data related to a recent request to modify the shipping
The project life cycle includes regular and frequent retrospectives to gauge how the project work is being performed—to build in opportunities to: improve the process, deliver completed features, and gain team consensus for the project adjustments. The project is said to be:A. Predictive and
Members of the team have provided data from their respective areas to Chafik. Now, he can analyze the summarized data, draw conclusions, and share them with key stakeholders. Chafik is puzzled because Lisa is in charge of the project schedule and reports a cumulative SPI of .87 while Ankit reports
While bidding on a project, you recognize part of the deliverable is very well understood with little contention over requirements, and that another component is not well-defined. The less understood component may be a source of complexity in the project with a need for evolutionary understanding.
Which process is best described as the process of communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and address issues?A. Direct and Manage Project Communication.B. Perform Integrated Change Control.C. Manage Stakeholder Engagement.D. Manage Communications.
Which answer best completes the following statement: “The project charter of a hybrid project is …”A. Developed before the business case and after the project plan is deemed to be hybrid.B. Developed after the business case and before the project plan.C. Developed before the contract and
Manage Communications is a process that is all about executing the plans that have been made and responding to requests for information as they arise. Which of the following techniques is not considered as relevant to this process as the others?A. Communication Style Assessment.B. Conflict
While planning the JKL Project, you bring together the software development team coaches as well as the control account managers to create the consolidated plan of the entire hybrid project. The coaches are bringing their release plans and backlogs to the meeting; what will the control account
Raj, the project manager, is meeting with Sue, the Customer, at the working assembly line to compare the product modifications to the specification. Raj and Sue are most interested in the results of the modifications. The goal of the project is to increase efficiency on this section of the line by
George, a developer on your agile project, approaches you as team coach and asks for your approval to take 5 days of vacation in the next iteration. You reply:A. “Let’s look at the backlog to see if that is a bad time before I approve it.”B. “Based on the sustainable pace, we can only spare
How would you categorize or describe the work results of the project?A. Projects produce products.B. Projects result in services, results, or products.C. Outputs of projects must pass acceptance criteria.D. Change control boards have the ultimate say over those specifications of the final work
Camille is the program manager, and in her weekly meetings, she reviews results with her predictive and agile project facilitators, Charles and Jose, respectively. Both of them are expressing the need for more resources, so Camille has asked to see the details of their schedules and activity lists.
Kim comes to you with an idea for an easy improvement to the product your project is building. The change will take very little time and add no additional cost. The enhancement was not included in this project but may be needed during the next build.What should you do?A. Build to the project scope
The product owner facilitates each of the team’s iteration planning meetings to groom and update the project backlog. She provides the estimation of the customer value, but wants the team to discuss the uncertainties related to each story to assess how the backlog priority might be affected. This
Zebra Gear provides equipment, clothing, and apparel to referees and sports officials in the US. The CEO wants to expand slowly into the UK market. One of her concerns is with shipping and order fulfillment in the new market. Your company was hired to perform a gap assessment and produce a series
As the agile XYZ team, a component of the hybrid Project PQR, completes its final iteration, the core PQR team owns collecting the necessary information about XYZ to provide support and integration for the remainder of the PQR Project. The PQR guidelines for this knowledge transfer would most
Rochelle is reviewing risk analysis performed by fellow team members. She views a report that shows decision nodes, costs associated with the nodes, chance nodes, rewards associated with these nodes, and a final net path value for each possible path. What process are Rochelle and the team engaged
While estimating efforts required to complete Story-17, the team determines it is more effort than Story-4 and less effort than Story-11.This represents what approach in estimating?A. The delta technique B. Planning poker C. Affinity estimating D. Triangulating, or relative sizing.
A normal part of projects involves repairing broken software code, fixing defective products, or revamping the results so that they meet acceptable quality standards. In which process would the team make these types of repairs, fixes, or take corrective action?A. Direct and Manage Project Work.B.
The iterative, incremental development seems to be nearing the bottom of the project backlog. Though there are a few features remaining in the uncommitted backlog, the sponsor has met with the product owner to consider the current iteration being the last.This is probably due to:A. The sponsor had
Johnson accepted an offer from another company, and Isabel has inherited the project to manage to completion. Johnson cannot be reached, so Isabel is forced to search project documents to get what she needs. She found the contracts to be very helpful, but Isabel wants to make sure she has a full
The agile team’s definition of “Done” included verifying that the delivered utilities met all of the customer’s response time enhancement requests. The team’s approach to fast delivery of working software was best exhibited by:A. Using test-focused development tools with dynamic response
When a functional manager approaches you as project manager to include management of specific on-going support desk efforts for her department, which of the following statements would you share with her about projects to reject her request?A. A project can involve even a single person, but a
While facilitating your agile team’s interface with the parent waterfall project, you are approached by the project manager to complete the high-level work breakdown structure components associated with the agile team’s contribution. Which of the following would comprise your best response to
One of the tools used for estimating the duration of an activity is the three-point estimate. What is the other name of this estimate, and which accompanying statement is accurate?A. GERT and M should be less than P but greater than O.B. Triangular Distribution and M should be less than O but
You are managing a hybrid project—a predictive focus with an agile sub-project component. The agile team coach has pushed back for her team about the high volume of reporting requirements that you are requesting. The coach, in proper agile fashion, suggests which of the following alternatives?A.
This question offers a familiar scenario: you work for a pharmaceutical company that has grown fast and is aggressive in bringing new products to market. The current project you are leading is not that exciting - it involves an upgrade to the customer management system used by the company. When the
As the project manager of the UVW Project, you pick up on the fact that the finance manager isn’t happy about the fuzzy forecasting of the current project’s costs, due to the agile subproject components.What is your best course of action?A. Meet with the project sponsor to make sure she is
Assume that your project budget follows a familiar S-curve over time. This is common to most projects. If the S-curve represents the cost baseline, which of the following statements is most accurate?A. Project funding requirements are derived from the cost baseline but they probably will not result
As team coach, you have received news of the re-organization of the functional departments related to software development. To shield the team from distractions or re-assignments due to the new organizations, your role would be to:A. Meet with each functional manager to explain how agile teams
The process of Estimate Activity Resources is closely coordinated with another process from a separate Knowledge Area. What is that process and why?A. Collect Requirements because you need to have the right people on the project team who are familiar with the work to be performed to properly
During the iteration retrospective meeting, the team might be reviewing:A. How well issues are being exhibited to the stakeholders’satisfaction on the information radiator.B. Good techniques for virtual team communications.C. The definition of done.D. How agile approaches differ from predictive
Your project team has completed identifying risks that might impact the new project. Some time and effort have gone into performing qualitative risk analysis, and the risk register has been updated with the results. The project team members have all suggested next steps to help quantify each risk.
During an iteration planning session, as facilitator you recognize that most of the development team is not being included. What would be a good technique to use in this case?A. Call a break to the meeting and meet individually with team members to determine why they are not sharing their opinions
At what point in project planning would you decide to change the project scope in order to avoid certain high-risk activities?A. Identify Risks.B. Qualify Risks.C. Control Risks.D. Plan Risk Responses.
A parent project manager meets with you as coach of an agile subproject to ask that a decision be made regarding which team member should own a particular task, based on skill-set. As you decline and describe your role, you define which term for the PM’s understanding?A. Consultant B. Servant
Bob is managing a project that is in month 14 of a 24-month project. The team has just entered the phase that has the greatest uncertainty and was the most difficult to estimate when building the budget for the sponsor. Bob was given numbers this morning that indicate the overall project TCPI has

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