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Best PMP Exam Prep Guide 2023-2024 1st Edition Dr. Sam Swapn Sinha - Solutions
Functional Manager has made a few significant large changes to the project directly without taking Project Plan and CCB into consideration. He does not consider it necessary to abide by the Project Management Plan. He does not listen to the PM. As a PM how would you fix this?A. Tell the Sponsor to
The project is having trouble due to long requirements that run into pages. Stakeholders decided to use Agile. PM is now working on User Stories for the project. What is the most important part of the user story that she should keep in mind?A. It is in a format: As a user,i want to do certain
The product is a hardware, software combined product. The product is very well received and successful in the market for the last decade. The next release is being planned, not much is expected to change except some look and feel features of the product.The stakeholders want to know what
During a sprint planning meeting the Product owner requests the team that the team is running behind schedule and needs to pick up more stories to be done to stay on track. What should the Project manager do?A. Ask the team to pick up more stories B. Ask the product owner not to push the team as it
This multiple decades old established North American company is struggling to release new products as disruptive technologies such as cloud have threatened their business model. There is Global competition from emerging markets. There are global startups creating new products in their space. How
The Knowledge repositories are all scattered and no way to find out the whole list of items, projects done, data available, not there. The Sponsor wants to do a project on streamlining the storage of knowledge assets so they can be used productively in future projects. As a Project Manager what
The PM is working on quality for his proiect from start to end of the life cycle. What steps should he follow in the correct order?A. Verified Deliverables, Quality Management Plan, Quality metrics, Quality Reports, B. Plan Quality, Manage Quality, Change Quality, Control Quality, C. Quality
The project manager is noticing that the team is not very motivated and engaged in the project. The project has to be delivered using an agile framework. The project is behind schedule and over budget and has not even delivered MVP till now. Team members lack ownership and do not use their
A stakeholder complains that he sent several emails to team members but they did not respond at all. The stakeholder is upset and not supporting the project wholeheartedly. His engagement is necessary to make the project successful. What should the PM do to solve this?A. Ask team members to meet
One influential stakeholder is requesting changes again and again and pushes to get them done. He says he will talk to the sponsor, do not worry about it, but he never gets any approval from the sponsor. What should the PM do?A.Because he is a important stakeholder let it be tell team to work on
A company started doing agile projects recently. Every stakeholder is emailing his requirement to the PM and stating it as the most important one and it must be included with top priority. The project manager decides to have a product backlog to solve the problems. What all characteristics must be
Several changes were requested by stakeholders, a lot of them were approved by CCB. Now on tracking them the PM finds it is taking a lot of time to implement the changes that were approved. This has become an issue that needs to be fixed. What should the PM do?A. Ask team members to work hard &
The team conveys to the Project Manager during the sprint planning meeting that they have no idea how to implement the stories selected for the sprint. What should the PM do?A. Ask team members to work on another part of the product backlog B. Engage a senior person from outside to solve the
The PM for the project has to decide how he will measure Quality on his project. Quality can be checked in many ways. If certain parameters are met quality is achieved. Which one is most difficult to achieve and the PM wold like to avoid that?A. Attribute sampling based on yes-no B. variable scale
There are lots of dependencies between Agile teams and it is creating a problem unless these teams collaborate and work together to understand those issues. The teams need to meet frequently 2-3 times a week at least and resolve impediments. What meeting PM should attend to solve the problem?A.
The PM has to decide how much money he can spend to build the best quality of product as a result of this project. The sponsor says you can have three versions- premium, business, and standard. The PM is evaluating the Quality vs Grade trade off. What should the PM do?A. Lower quality, higher grade
The Agile team has 9 team members. They just finished the last sprint of first release. Last time suddenly people left and the work suffered. In order to solve this problem, the PM has asked them to start thinking about what all they will get done in the sprint starting today for the next release.
A project is starting off and the PM is collecting requirements in an agile project. All stakeholder requirements sent seem to be equally important.The PM decides to meet with the Product owner to get an opinion. The product owners tell him following requirements have to be met for putting them all
The PM is having a tough time getting requirements from relevant stakeholders for this large software project, as it is hard to get access or their attention. The sponsor advises that PM takes them all out at one place like a Hotel conference room and sit the whole day, facilitate the session, and
The Product owner is not able to prioritize stories and asks the team to do it themselves. What should the PM Do?A. Tell the team to work on the ordering of stories B. Tell the Product Owner to make sure he knows stories well and how they provide value C. Project manager can help prioritize the
An important project is going to start and the Charter has been signed off by the Steering committee. The PM is now trying to understand who are key stakeholders, document them, and also write what influence and impact they will have on the project. What should the PM do to name these stakeholders
This is a global large scale project across several countries and spread over 5 years. What additional factors should be considered by the PM in preparing the Budget to be successful?A. Create a Detailed Stakeholder Register B. OPA in addition to previous projects C. Extra EEF for this project D.
The Agile team has 9 team members. They just finished the last sprint of first release. Last time suddenly people left and the work suffered In order to solve this problem the PM has asked them to start thinking about what all they will get done in the sprint starting today for the next
The PM is working on a project and just finalizing planning. The sponsor has requested a meeting and wants to look at ‘Performance Measurement Baseline’. What should the PM carry with him to the meeting so that he can present and answer any questions that sponsor and stakeholders might have?A.
Last two sprints the project could not achieve desired goals. On closer examination the Project Manager realized that the team did not select stories to be completed and went ahead with the Product Owner request of trying to finish everything requested by him. How can the PM solve this problem?A.
The development team has defined stories only to a higher level and in generic terms as development, testing,etc. The PM should have a ‘good story’which is not high level. What should the PM do?A. As a user,i want to,so that i can.I know this will be done when.To implement this-Tasks.B. As a
A Project Manager is responsible for collecting requirements to design the system. While some requirements define behavior of the system others define performance, stability, security,etc for the system. The sponsor has asked the PM to come up with requirements that tell what features the system
The Agile project has a problem that the requirements are ambiguous, large, have a lot of dependencies and not able to figure out the value it will provide to users. The stakeholders advice the PM to use the INVEST criteria to invest time and resources in good stories. What stories does the PM
The PM for the project is getting requirements elicited from the stakeholders,there are many techniques of doing it, the PM is working with Business Analyst to create a system interaction chart where a user or an actor will give input to the system and the system will move to a new state as an
The project manager did a detailed analysis of costs involved in the project with the team and stakeholders but the project went significantly over budget. The finance team informed the PM that many other costs were not added in the project budget.How can PM solve the problem?A. Direct and indirect
A company is moving from a predictive life cycle approach to Agile approach.The Project manager will be working as a Scrum Master performing following responsibilities, except?A. Act as a Facilitator and a servant leader B. Shield team from outside interference and remove impediments C. Help team
In the last few projects too much planning made the company lose time and money in their last release. The project manager wants to adapt agile and wants to convince the sponsor to fund it. What should the PM do to explain to sponsor to agree?A. Planning is done in sprint refinement meeting in
The project came under budget but operations had a hard time integrating it with overall platform which increased the cost of the product in the market making it very expensive and unviable as compared to the competitors. How could have PM solved this problem?A. Projects costs do not include
A project manager is meeting with his management and requesting to start using agile in projects. The management wants to know why they should use agile just because it looks fancy and modern to do it or there are some advantages. What should the PM do?A. Products made using agile are cheaper than
The PM is busy preparing a list of all important stakeholders in consultation with sponsor, PMO, steering committee, experts, SVP’s in the company and using various strategies to get them all there so he does not miss out important ones. What outcome should the PM create next, once he is done
Deliverables have been created by the team and the PM wants to get confirmed. What should the PM do as the most important cause and purpose for the finished deliverables?A. Verification and then validation B. Verification testing and then validation for scope C. Correctness and completeness test D.
An agile project is said to be doing well by the team. Stories along with their estimates are being put on the kanban board and tracked from- to do, being done, and completed. This way work is being tracked and the progress measured. The PM notices there is too much wok showing ‘in progress’,
The Sponsor has asked the PM to submit the document that will show all the requirements, their source, origin, decision, priority, and current status, as a PM what document will you present to the sponsor?A. BRD- Business Requirements Documentation B. Requirements Management Plan C. Requirements
The PM is working hard to deliver project in given constraints by sponsor. For the Construction project the BAC is $1 Million, EV=50K, AC=80k, EAC=$1.1 Million. What is the To Complete Performance Index within Budget and with revised Estimate.A. TCPI (BAC) in Budget- 83%, TCPI (EAC) In Revised
Customer is very unhappy as the key resource with specialized skills working on the agile project from the supplier side has left the project to work on some other project. What should the PM do?A. Ask management to approve additional budget to get more resources B. Ask HR for immediate replacement
The PM just got information that the project Budget has just been approved by the Steering committee and periodic expenditure has to be done for each quarter. What should be done next by the PM?A. Funding limit reconciliation B. Cost Baseline C. Funding Requirements D. Create Budget
The project is not progressing well. Stakeholders feel they are being ignored. The stakeholders are not only impacted by this project’s outcome but also want to give constant inputs into the project as it moves from start to finish at every stage. What is the most important thing the PM should do
The Project Manager has been asked by PMO to present the status and progress of the project as contained in the Scope Plan and make sure that we are sticking to the signed off scope, and not drifting apart. What should be doing?A. Control Scope B. Validate Scope C. Scope Baseline D. Scope
An agile project is going on and one of the senior developers completed his tasks and wants to move to develop the next story, the PM asks him to help out with testing so work can be finished for sprint but he does not seem agreeable. What is the problem, what should the PM should do to solve the
The Deliverables were created by the team, then the QC department did their internal checks, now the customer is examining them, what is the next thing PM will get done?A. Validate scope B. Verified deliverable C. Inspection D. Accepted deliverables
New developer has joined the team. The senior developer is worried and informs the PM that he does not think the new person should do the coding as he is not that experienced and there can be more defects. What is the problem and how should the PM should solve the problem?A. New people are good as
The team is facing impediments to work on some stories shown in product backlog.The product owner wants them to be done but there are challenges and roadblocks. What should the project manager do next to solve the problem?A. Begin to remove impediments one by one starting from the easiest low
The PM is having a hard time to estimate the cost for activities for his new project that is going to start soon. The project work is completely new, not well understood, and not defined completely. What kind of estimates will help the PM solve the problem?A. Definitive Estimates B. ROM Estimates
A company suddenly decided to move all its projects from predictive to Agile framework. This Big bang led to major failures and setbacks. There was Rushed team onboarding,poorer adoption, unhappy people, rhythm could not be established, little time for training and coaching teams. What should the
The project manager has to discuss the status of the project schedule with different sets of people such as - stakeholders, sponsor, and the team.Which will help the most, mentioned in order, based on the above set of audience?A. Project Schedule Network Diagram,Milestone Chart, Bar or Gantt Chart,
The PM has a meeting with the PMO to explain the Schedule from the planning, execution, and controlling- from the start to the end for the whole project. What plan will help?A. Schedule Management Plan B. Project Management Plan C. Project Integration Plan D. Schedule Baseline Plan
An Agile project is sprinting and a Sprint burndown chart is being prepared. The team sees the trend line moves sometimes upwards, sometimes downwards, or is sometimes on target for the current project. How should the PM resolve this problem?A. Faster is good as team can complete work before time,
An important deliverable is expected to be delivered late impacting the schedule and release date. The Project Manager decides to crash the work on the deliverable. What might be the result of this?A. Decrease cost increase risk B. Increase cost decrease risk C. Decrease cost decrease risk D.
The iteration is getting behind, and a senior developer who finished coding is sitting idle waiting for everyone to finish their work. The PM asks him to help with testing but he refuses to test. What is the problem and how should the PM solve it?A. Agile believes in Collective code ownership B. In
The Company is applying Agile across the entire enterprise and scaling it from project level to program level to finally portfolio level. A project manager dealing with multiple teams at program level is facing a lot of challenges. What should the PM avoid?A. Work with Independent team units with a
A project manager is experiencing delays on the project. The delays are not captured on the risk register and cannot be paid from buffer reserves in the contingency funds. The sponsor is not willing to use any additional management reserves. The project manager decides to use techniques available
A team just finished an iteration and is going into Retrospectives the first time. The PM is consulting experts on which techniques he can use for getting team feedback and feelings. What techniques should he not apply?A. Team Radar, Morale Barometer B. Mad-Sad-Glad feelings, start- stop- keep
The project manager is planning the project schedule based on requirements baselined. After doing activity sequencing and estimating durations for all the activities, the project manager has finally created a project timeline with the help of some key team members. Out of the following, which one
A project is in progress and the PM is trying to understand the team’s progress on the burndown chart. The Burndown seems to be trending slower than expected, what could be the reason the PM should be least worried about?A. Slower is not good as it shows sometimes team is inexperienced and not
The project is having a problem as items are defined at a high level only making it difficult to estimate duration and cost for each activity. The team will be helping the project manager break down larger pieces of requirements into smaller and manageable chunks. How should the PM solve the
This is a high budget prestigious and high visibility project that will create flagship product for the company in the marketplace. The Sponsor has very carefully selected the PM who is highly experienced and adept in handling critical stakeholders. In order to list down all the stakeholders the PM
The Project is being implemented by a team and led by a Project Manager. Team updates the kanban board regularly to track the progress. The current board shows- Too many stories in ‘done’ but less work shows ‘in progress’ on the kanban chart. There are too many stories on the ‘to do’
A company undergoing agile transformation was delivering as per release plan. After two sprints they realized that stories as planned for iteration 1 and 2 could not be delivered. The PM gets concerned as it might delay the project. What should the PM do?A. Not to worry as release plans are dynamic
Activity Durations can be calculated following techniques, sponsor likes to look at different scenarios in this case, which one will you present?A. Parametric B. Analogous C. Bottoms up D. Three Point
A project manager is leading a Construction project in a faraway foreign land, and got a mail on site requesting details from the Environment and Pollution Board in the local Mandarin language. The PM then realized that they forgot to add an important foreign stakeholder at the beginning as they
The team is working on a project. The sponsor wants to know when basic features will be released? The PM wants to calculate the Release plan or how many sprints it will take to get the first version product released. The team has by now the velocity of 20 story points. There are a total of 240
The culture in the team is very restrictive and team members just work in their cubicles and rarely interact with one another. The management pushes the team to get done more and the team is demoralized. The PM wants to introduce Agile. What should the PM not do?A. Motivated people must be there
A new team has been formed to deliver a product by applying the agile approach. The PM and stakeholders are having a meeting to figure out what changes need to be made in company processes to move forward. The PM is educating them on Agile principles and shares all of the following information, one
The sponsor wants the new PM to ‘go agile’ but on conducting research the PM finds out that the leadership is very autocratic and the team members seldom open up. Everyone is scared of losing their job and no one opens their mouth as long as they get their paycheck every two weeks. The Agile PM
A senior developer left the project for another opportunity outside of the team. The HR substituted the role with an intern. The PM paired him up with another senior developer to come up to speed. Recently PM got the report that the project has been flagged red by PMO as it is falling behind in all
The culture of the company is driven by following the rules to the letter, no creativity is allowed, anytime there is any deviation, it is seriously viewed. The company's revenue is declining and they want to launch a complete new line of products. The Agile PM states we need an open environment as
The team on an Agile project just finished their Sprint review meeting with PO and stakeholders and is getting ready for the sprint retrospective.During the retrospective the key stakeholder states that it is a waste of time to hold these meetings and can be instead used to focus on issues and
An Agile team is missing release dates for the last many sprints. The Agile PM is concerned and should do the followingA. Put more work on the plate and add on Kanban Board- ‘To Do list’B. Move some items on the Kanban Board from ‘Being Done to‘Done Status.C. Ensure team improves its
The third sprint is going to start for the current release due next month.The customer has requested to the PM that the team must make some non functional changes on the technical side before working on the next piece.What should the PM do?A. Look for a Change Request via CCB.B. Request Stakeholder
The team is using Kanban board during the daily stand up meetings and it is updated daily as team members present their work.The board displays visually as an information radiator the progress of the work and status of the work.The most important aspect of Kanban board isA. Kanban board is Low Tech
A team just completed the release and the work of all the six sprints is waiting for approval in the security and compliance. The DevOps and security team observes that the team made decisions that may not have been compliant with the release policy and SVP Security believes this could pose a
Last two sprints have failed to deliver anything even though expectations were very high. Sponsor is worried & calls a meeting with the PM and stakeholders.What should the PM avoid?A. Technical debt should not be there B. Focus only on limited scope to get first thing out then learn from it C.
An Agile project is going on and during a Daily stand up meeting a team member suggests using the latest AI technology and change some features to capitalize on the opportunity. The other senior member does not agree and says this will impact the UI/UX design. What should Project Manager do?A. Ask
There are two teams working simultaneously on an Agile project. One team is doing fine consistently but the other one is not able to achieve milestones for the last three sprints. What should the PM do to solve the problem?A. Ask the sponsor for replacing inexperienced team member with more
An important stakeholder has asked the Project Manager to share the details of how the remaining time will be spent on the project and come prepared with his relevant documents or charts. What should the PM take with him before he goes to the meeting?A. Sprint Review Meeting minutes B. Story Point
An Agile Project is getting behind schedule and not adding much value, the PM has organized a meeting with the team and the stakeholders to address the issue. This could have been avoided if the project manager did the following:A. Prioritized the work so that most important work could have been
The Agile project on AI that is going on for sometime has a leadership change, the PM is being moved to the PMO and a new PM is being appointed. A key stakeholder left the company and new stakeholder is taking over his place. What should the PM do?A. Organize a meeting between the sponsor and the
The Agile Project team is having a tough time in self organizing and becoming independent.The sponsor wants the Project Manager to apply Servant leadership,what should the PM not focus on?A. Promote self awareness, Listening, and promoting energy of team B. Safety, respect, trust, and promoting
A team member is not present for the daily stand up meeting. The PM asks him why he was not there, the team member informed that he was helping another SVP from a different team, on some work. What is the problem that the PM needs to address?A. The team is dedicated to agile and works only on
First release for the product just got over and the PM delivered the MVP. There was a celebration party that followed last week. The new release work started today and a stand up meeting is going on after sprint planning for a two week sprint. you notice that one team member who did not show up for
A company has been working on predictive waterfall projects since the beginning for the last decade. Recently the company decided to move to Agile Framework for managing projects. The first release is getting over and five sprints were done. The PM observes team members keep asking her what they
The team does stand up meetings when you are there but the last three times when you were not in office, when you enquired you came to know that the team did not have the meeting at all. What is the problem that the PM needs to address?A. They are not committed to the project B. They do not see
A sprint just came to an end in an Agile project. A team member informed the PM that one major task that was planned to be completed, agreed in sprint planning, was not done as issues around it could not be resolved. The Project Manager decided to discuss this in the upcoming retrospective.Did PM
The team does not like the idea of standing up like kids in school and sharing report card of their performance. After all these are adult professionals with several years of real life experience and often have a Masters degree. So team members decide they will send the details for the three
Some parts of this large project are very well understood and not much is expected to change but this other part is completely unknown and the company or team has no experience in it. The team is depending on learning and collaborating to figure out solutions as they go. What development framework
A PM is comparing two teams for their performance and wants to know which one did better so that they can be rewarded and appreciated suitably.One team Ninja completed 120 story points and the other team Notorious completed 80 points. The PM decided to reward the Ninja team. Did the PM do the right
A daily stand up meeting is going on and when asked the three questions, a team member replies- “ i am not sure what i worked on or will work on today, so no idea what will be blocking me, will keep you posted”.The Project Manager is concerned about this as this impacts other team members and
People show up late for Daily stand up meetings. As a PM you have noticed this frequently happening. You want to know and fix this problem as it will impact the project work. It violates the Agile philosophy of organizing work due to following reasons, except:A. Agile is built around motivated
The milestones are getting behind so the Product Owner decides to have the first release of the product even though it does even meet the MVP criteria. A key stakeholder has expressed concerns and complained about this to the sponsor. What should the PM do?A. Let the Product owner decide as he owns
The company has never worked on this project and no one knows how to do it. The product will be a complete new product and a lot of learning will take place. There will be many eureka moments. The stakeholders want to know which development approach should be applied by the PM? What should the PM
The sprint review meeting is coming up and the team has prepared a powerpoint presentation of the features completed. The sponsor and other key stakeholders are going to be attending the meeting. The Product owner will accept the work. What should the PM do and tell the team?A. Powerpoint
The problem is that stakeholders are not interested in the project and feel that team and PM is ignoring them. The project manager decides to effectively utilize his communication skills, what is the most effective technique to be followedA. Conducting structured and regular meetings with
the stakeholders in the project are not happy and do not come for meetings, reply to emails, or phone calls. The project manager has to utilize his interpersonal and team skills to solve this problem. What is the most important thing to do for the project manager?A. Understand Stakeholder cultural
The project is having problems with structure and processes and everyone seems to be doing what they want to do. The project manager decides to set the ground rules to solve this problem. What is the most important thing the PM should focus on?A. Having a team charter of team would work throughout
There are multiple stakeholders in the Project and have different levels of interest and impact on the project. The PM is in the process of building the plan before work starts. Where should he document how much information to be shared with which stakeholder and in how much detail?A. Identify
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