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Question 1 - Qid 6113151, Risk Management, 2. Process, 11.7

Monitor Risks
The project management plan specifies that a predictive development approach has been
selected to produce the project deliverables.
Where in the project life cycle will the overall project risk be the lowest?
(Please note that on the real PMP exam you may be asked to provide your answer by
clicking the correct area in the image. But here in the simulator, we are asking you to
select the answer below.)
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Question 2 - Qid 6110002, Cost Management, 3. Business
Environment, 4.1 Develop Project Charter
A company is considering two projects, Alpha and Beta. Project Alpha is expected to result
in a $50 million net profit, while project Beta and is expected to net $45 million. Both
projects could be very lucrative and rewarding. However, the financial controller has
stated that the company can only invest in one of these projects.
If project Alpha is selected, what will be the opportunity cost?
Question 3 - Qid 6110003, Integration Management, 2. Process, 4.1

Develop Project Charter
You are managing a project to build five bridges. The project consists of five sequential
phases with each phase delivering one bridge.
After the first phase of the project is complete, which process group of the second phase
should follow?
Question 4 - Qid 6110005, Stakeholder Management, 2. Process,

13.1 Identify Stakeholders
The project aims to investigate the feasibility of constructing a hydroelectric dam from a
technical, economic, and social point of view. The project charter created by the project
manager on behalf of the project sponsor is now approved.
Which of the following processes should be performed next?
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You are managing a software upgrade project for your company. Your project sponsor has
a great deal of authority regarding project decisions, but you recently discovered that he
doesn't have much interest in your project. To complete the project successfully, you need
your project sponsor's continuous support.
What stakeholder management strategy should you use with your project sponsor?
Question 6 - Qid 6110008, Scope Management, 2. Process, 5.2

Collect Requirements
The project sponsor asks for a copy of the document that contains the description, owner,
source, priority, and status of product requirements.
Which project document is the project sponsor requesting?
Question 7 - Qid 6110011, Schedule Management, 2. Process, 6.2

Define Activities
You are facing problems decomposing the testing work package into the final activities
required to complete the work package. Detailed testing plans and activities cannot be
determined until the system is at least 50% developed and more details become available.
The system development work package will take at least three months to complete.
What is the best way to resolve this problem?
Question 8 - Qid 6110014, Integration Management, 2. Process, 4.2

Develop Project Management Plan
You are about to start planning for a large and complex project. Due to the size of the
project along with the regulatory and environmental considerations, the development of a
detailed project management plan will be critical.
As a starting point for initial project planning, what is the first thing you should do?
Question 9 - Qid 6110020, Resource Management, 2. Process, 9.0

Project Resource Management
As you are monitoring the cost baseline for your project, you notice that project expenses
are higher than expected at this point in the project.
What is the most likely cause of the variance?
Question 10 - Qid 6110029, Resource Management, 1. People, 9.4

Develop Team
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Recently, you promoted your star programmer, Sam, to lead the agile development team.
Sam was a fantastic software coder, and you thought the promotion would mean that he
could now share his expertise with the other development team members. However, you
are surprised to learn that the performance of Sam in his new role is not meeting your
expectations.
Which empirical rule did you forget while considering the promotion of Sam?
Question 11 - Qid 6110032, Communications Management, 2.

Process, 10.3 Monitor Communications
You have just taken over a project in execution. During your first week, you determine
that the project team members spend a lot of time responding to unexpected requests for
information from different project stakeholders. Because of these interruptions, the team
cannot focus on their project activities, and as a result, the project is behind schedule.
What should you do first?

Plan Scope Management
A team member submits a draft of the requirements management plan to the project
manager for a review. The project manager notices that one of the components included
in the plan does not belong there.
Which of the following components did the project manager most likely notice?

Monitor and Control Project Work
While reviewing your project's performance, you discover a significant variance. If the
issue is not fixed before the next customer inspection, your project might be canceled.
However, after a further review conducted by the project team, you are glad to hear that
bringing the project back on track requires only a minor correction to a configuration
element.
Question 14 - Qid 6110039, Integration Management, 2. Process,

4.5 Monitor and Control Project Work
A project manager is leading a process improvement project for a factory operation.
Currently, the project manager and the team are performing the Monitor and Control
Project Work process.
Which of the following activities might be carried out during this process?
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4.6 Perform Integrated Change Control
An organization has a policy that a change control board (CCB) must review all change
requests for every project in the organization, and that the CCB follows the recommended
activities outlined in the PMBOK® Guide. Project managers and the project team do not
serve as members of the CCB.
Based on this scenario, which of the following activities might be performed by members
of the CCB?

A company has authorized a dedicated change control board (CCB) to review and evaluate
all change requests that are submitted for any project.
If the project sponsor is a member of the CCB, which of the following best describes an
individual or group that can request a change on a project?
Question 17 - Qid 6110055, Procurement Management, 2. Process,

12.3 Control Procurements
One of your contractors is not performing to the agreed-upon standards. You want to
terminate the contract and engage another contractor for the same job. You need to
determine the specific legal procedure for the early termination of the contract.
What should you do?

A project is divided into four sequential phases. The second phase of the project has just
been completed, and the third phase is about to begin.
What should the project manager do first?

An organization has a project management office (PMO) that ensures all relevant project
documents are created, and all project management processes are followed according to
established best practices.
What should the project manager review first to identify stakeholders for a newly started
project?
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Develop Schedule
The following table is an activity list that includes the duration and predecessor for a
series of project activities.
What is the duration of the critical path?

A project manager is in the process of developing the stakeholder register. As the first step
in this process, she needs to create a list of potential stakeholders and decides to use a
data gathering technique called brain writing.
What is the first thing to do when using that technique?

Process, 10.0 Project Communications Management
A project manager does most of her communicating with team members, internal project
stakeholders, and external project stakeholders via email. The project manager
incorporates specific techniques when composing her emails to reduce any
misunderstandings.
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Which of the following is not considered one of these techniques?

Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
As the project manager, you are leading a brainstorming session with key stakeholders to
identify project risks. Once the project risks are determined, you immediately proceed to
nominate different team members as risk owners and assign them the task of developing
individual risk response plans.
Have you properly conducted risk management planning?

You are managing a project to build a database and need to acquire information from the
stakeholders of the project. The team is using brainstorming, focus groups, interviews,
questionnaires, and benchmarking to understand and document the stakeholders' needs.
The methods the team is using are representative of which tool and technique?

Create WBS
The project is in execution, but your project team is unable to stop arguing about the
project milestones and the specific risks associated with them. This on-going conflict puts
the project at risk of running behind schedule.
What would likely have helped avoid this conflict had it been properly created first?

During project execution, the team discovers that some of the buttons on the remote
control developed by the project for a new product do not work according to the
specifications. A change request is submitted and approved to replace the buttons.
Which of the following best describes this change request?

Estimate Activity Durations
A project manager meets with a customer for initial discussions about an upcoming
project. At the end of the meeting, the customer asks the project manager for a rough
estimate of the project duration. Based on her experience with three similar projects, the
project manager provides an estimate of 8-10 months.
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What estimation technique does the project manager use?
Question 28 - Qid 6110079, Quality Management, 2. Process, 8.2

Manage Quality
A project manager is performing quality assurance for a project whose quality standards
are very stringent. In order to meet and exceed the quality requirements, the project
manager uses a set of technical guidelines, which were applied during the design phase of
the project to optimize quality.
What tool or technique is the project manager using in this scenario?

You have compiled a list of potential stakeholders for your project, and now you are
classifying the stakeholders with regard to the direction of their influence. As you work
through your way down the list of stakeholders, you have come to the project sponsor.
How should this stakeholder be classified?

During project planning, the project team rigorously defined the project scope. During
project execution, a senior engineer calls the project manager and suggests a simpler and
more efficient design which could benefit the project.
What should the project manager do next?

Estimate Activity Durations
You are working with a team to estimate how much time is required for each activity. You
are using a document that contains information on the categories of labor, material, and
equipment required to complete the project. You are also interested in the skill levels,
required certifications, and the grade levels for supplies.
Which of the following documents would you primarily refer to for this purpose?

Identify Risks
While performing project work, a team member notices that there is a potential new risk,
which could impact the project's critical path.
What should the team member do immediately?
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12.3 Control Procurements
You are managing a project that is nearing its end and planning to settle all pending
claims with the vendors. In one case, you are not satisfied with the delivery of their final
product. All conversations with the vendor have ended in an impasse.
What should you do in this situation?

Project Risk Management
Your company was awarded a contract that includes a 10% bonus payment if the project is
completed two months early. You consider several options to exploit this opportunity.
What is the best course of action for you to increase the chances of receiving the bonus?

Manage Quality
The quality management plan specifies the use of a data representation technique to show
the strength of relationships between four factors.
Which of the following tools or techniques should be used to comply with the plan?

You have just taken over a project in which some of the deliverables will be produced by
external vendors. You want to familiarize yourself with those who are involved in the
project from the sellers' side.
Where would you look to obtain this information?

13.0 Project Stakeholder Management
Your project has been plagued with numerous change requests.
What is the most likely reason?

Control Quality
In the design phase, external experts verified that the team's blueprints for a new crane
complied with requirements. During the build phase, the customer performed a
walkthrough and found that some welding joints on the crane were defective. The crane
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needs to be reworked to ensure it can be operated safely.
How could this situation have been avoided?
Question 39 - Qid 6112028, Integration Management, 3. Business

Environment, 1.2 Foundational Elements
For an upcoming project, a needs assessment and business case have been completed, and
the project management office (PMO) is reviewing a draft of the benefits management
plan. The PMO highlights an element of the benefits management plan and requests that
the element be removed before the document is finalized.
Which of the following was most likely the element the PMO requested to remove?

Develop Team
You have been requested to fill in for a project manager who has called in sick midway
into project execution. As you get yourself familiar with the project team, you are
impressed to see how well the team members collaborate and work through issues
smoothly and effectively.
Based on your observations, where is the team on the Tuckman ladder?
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Define Scope
To define the product that will be produced by the project, the project team is using a
product analysis technique that helps with breaking down the high-level requirements
into the level of detail needed to design the product.
Which of the following is the product analysis technique used by the team?

Environment, 4.7 Close Project or Phase
A three-phase project to build a prototype is underway. The first phase entails design. In
the second phase, the manufacturing team would produce the parts from the design
specifications. In the third phase, the production team would assemble the parts to
construct the prototype. The project is now at the end of the first phase.
What should be done with the phase's deliverables?

4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
A project is nearing its end when the project manager receives an approved change
request to replace a defective unit.

A technician has just tested a piece of equipment and found a defect. The technician has
informed the project manager and submitted a change request to repair the defect,
indicating that the repair will require significant rework.

4.0 Project Integration Management
At the end of a design project, a competitor has gained market share with a new
technology that has rendered the project?s deliverable obsolete. The project sponsor is
pleased with the work of the project team who finished within budget and on time but
thinks that the project should have been terminated much sooner.
What might have the manager of the project done differently in this situation?
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Project Schedule Management
A project is underway to construct a wind farm in an area with no communication
infrastructure. The plan is to monitor progress and coordinate the scheduling of the
project activities using project management software and provide daily status updates to
the project sponsor at the home office. Two project teams will work and reside onsite in
rotating seven-day tours.
Which of the following is the most likely challenge the teams will face while controlling
the schedule?

Manage Team
A project is behind schedule because department managers reassigned project team
members to work on other assignments. After negotiations with the managers, you agreed
to a temporary solution where a core group of project resources is dedicated to
performing the project work until more resources are approved.
What conflict resolution technique did you most likely employ in this situation?

Control Scope
During a daily stand-up meeting, one of the programmers mentions that she had some
extra time and added functionality, which was not included in the original design. She
believes the customer will appreciate the added functionality.
What is your best course of action?

Manage Quality
The project manager is managing the research and development of a new cancer
screening test. The project manager would like to determine whether the processes
currently in use in the project are effective in meeting the quality requirements specified
by the customer.
What does the project manager need to obtain first to make this determination?

Control Quality
During an inspection of a project deliverable, the team detects the same defect in the
deliverable that has already been identified during a previous inspection. The project
manager is confused about how this could have happened since a change request was
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approved to repair the defect. After discussing the issue with the team, the project
manager learns that the team never implemented the approved change request.
What could have helped prevent this situation?

Plan Quality Management
The team has just reported to you that they have completed the Plan Quality Management
process. You review their work and see that they have produced the quality management
plan, and made the necessary updates to the project management plan and project
documents.
What did they forget?

You are managing a project to build a house for a private client. A few weeks before the
project's planned completion date, the client calls and asks to add an outdoor sauna to the
property. You analyze the project schedule and determine that this change would be fairly
easy to implement without having an impact on the completion date.

4.1 Develop Project Charter
You have been asked to lead a product development project which will use an agile
framework. Currently, you are in the process of drafting the project charter, and you want
to bring together stakeholders and subject matter experts to discuss perceived project
risk, success criteria, and other topics.
What is the best way for you to accomplish this objective?

4.7 Close Project or Phase
A multi-phase project has reached a phase gate. The key project stakeholders want to
determine if the phase has met its success criteria and if the project should proceed to the
next phase.
In addition to the project management plan, which documents will be required?

4.4 Manage Project Knowledge
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You are in the process of establishing a knowledge management system for your project.
Which of the following actions will be the least beneficial in this process?

13.3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement
You are leading a large project that involves many stakeholders. You want to get two new
team members up to speed with the overall dynamics of the project and engage effectively
with the project stakeholders.
What should you do?

Plan Resource Management
You are facilitating a meeting with your project team to develop the team charter. At the
start of the meeting, a team member states, "I don't understand the importance of this
meeting. We are all professionals, and this isn't our first project working together.
Wouldn't our time be better spent getting an early start on project execution?" The body
language of the other team members suggests that they agree with the comments.
How should you respond to the team member?

12.1 Plan Procurement Management
You are leading a project to build an oil pipeline in a foreign country. You want to
outsource some of the construction work to local contractors and are in the process of
preparing the bid package for prospective sellers.
Which of the following documents would you leave out of the package?

Process, 10.1 Plan Communications Management
You are developing the communications management plan for a construction project. You
want to determine the information needs of the project stakeholders, specifically focusing
on the type and the format of information that will be required to communicate with the
stakeholders.
What is your best course of action?
Question 60 - Qid 6125134, Cost Management, 2. Process, 7.4

Control Costs
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The following Gantt chart displays the schedule for a software upgrade project. The
system analysis was completed on August 12th, but the system design and development
activities are still in process as of October 3rd. Once the product is developed, the project
team will need to test and deploy it, which must be completed by October 17th. The
method used to determine the earned value is based on percent complete.
What is the cost variance as of October 3rd?

A servant leader has just been assigned to an upcoming product development project and
believes that the project is well-suited to Kanban. However, the development team is
unfamiliar with this approach.
What is the servant leader's best course of action?

Define Scope
You are developing the project scope statement. You have specified the deliverables for
the project, included the requirements under which the deliverables will be accepted, and
explicitly stated what is out of project scope.
What else should you include in the project scope statement?

Acquire Resources
A project manager is in the process of obtaining team members. She wants to understand
the availability of the team members required to complete project work.
What should the project manager do to find this information?

Manage Quality
A project to reduce the defect rate of the manufacturing process is underway. To analyze
and improve the process, the project team is now carrying out the quality assurance
activities.
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Which of the following would be the most beneficial for this project?

Implement Risk Responses
During project planning of a large, complex project, project management best practices
were rigorously and thoroughly followed. During project execution, the project
experienced several critical risks, which were foreseen and previously identified. Despite
the meticulous planning, the project failed to achieve the established objectives due to
these realized risks.
What may have gone wrong in this scenario?

People, 10.2 Manage Communications
A team member volunteered to provide the project status update in a weekly presentation
to the key stakeholders. After the first meeting has taken place, feedback from the
stakeholders suggests that the presentation was not very engaging.
What is the best way for the project manager to address this situation with the team
member?

13.3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement
A corporate restructuring project is in execution. The job responsibilities of many key
stakeholders are being disrupted, which has caused challenges in keeping the
stakeholders engaged in a positive manner.
Which of the following actions is the project manager least likely to perform in this
situation?

Control Resources
You are leading a software development project where the developers are colocated within
rented office space. Writing the code is taking longer than anticipated, and you have
contacted the landlord requesting to rent the office for another week. Unfortunately, the
landlord tells you that the office is already booked. You capture the problem in the project
documents.
What should you do next?

12.2 Conduct Procurements
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During a bidder conference, a supplier asks why a section is missing from the request for
quotation (RFQ). Upon realizing that the section is indeed missing, the project manager
becomes flustered and stumbles through a brief reply. When the seller responses were
received, all but three prospective suppliers fail to address the missing section.
What is the best course of action?

Control Schedule
You are leading a project to develop a new web application. Together with your project
team you reprioritize the product backlog, determine velocity for the past iterations, and
adapt your work plans accordingly. Additionally, you facilitate retrospectives every two
weeks.
Which of the following processes describes the work you are performing?

Plan Schedule Management
You are part of a cross-functional development team piloting an adaptive approach to
project management in an organization that has traditionally used a predictive approach.
You realize that you have to tailor the template of the schedule management plan.
Which of the following components of the template are you likely to tailor the most?

Monitor Risks
A project team performs monthly risk audits for a project, where a large number of
identified risks have been realized. So far, the risk responses have been appropriate, and
the reserves sufficient. An executive for the requesting organization criticizes the project
manager improper risk audits, stating that only independent, external resources should
perform risk audits.
How should the project manager respond?

Plan Risk Management
You are developing the risk management plan for your project. In support of this process,
you need to determine the acceptable level of overall project risk exposure.

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You meet with your team to determine the life cycle for your project. After analyzing the
best way to define and manage requirements, develop deliverables, handle changes,
control risk and cost, and engage key stakeholders, the decision is made to select a hybrid
life cycle.
With the project life cycle selected, how will the product be delivered?

Estimate Activity Resources
As a project manager, you are in the process of estimating the team resources that will be
required for your project. The challenge you are having is that, due to the nature of the
project and the selected development approach, only a few of the top levels of the WBS
have been identified with the remainder to be progressively elaborated throughout the
project.
What is the best approach to determine the team resource requirements for the project?

Create WBS
You are part of a project team designing a new type of a vehicle. You are about to begin
work on a work package for the braking system of the vehicle and want to review the
acceptance criteria before starting the work.
Where can you find this information?

A project to construct an assembly line is nearly complete. The project manager closes
procurements, shares the final project report, updates the lessons learned repository, and
obtains feedback from the relevant stakeholders.

Plan Risk Responses
A project team is mulling over two risk responses for inclusion in the risk register. The
first risk response has two criteria that must be met and costs $5,000. The second risk
response has four criteria that must be met, but only costs $2,000.
What action is the project team least likely to take in selecting the best risk response?
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Acquire Resources
To acquire resources for the project, the project manager consults the resource
management plan. The plan calls for the scrum master to be assigned to the team.
However, the only individual in the company qualified to serve as a scrum master has
already started working on another project, and her functional manager does not
cooperate on a potential resolution.
How could this situation have been prevented?

1.2 Foundational Elements
A project team is using the Stacey Complexity Model to map the degree of uncertainty in
the project and select the appropriate project life cycle. As the meeting progresses, it
becomes evident that while the requirements are well-known, the team is unfamiliar with
the technology required to implement them. As a result, the team selects an adaptive
project life cycle.
Where on the Stacey Complexity Model did the team most likely map the project?
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Control Quality
Your project team members are writing software code together as a pair and reviewing
each other's work to determine if the code conforms to the requirements documentation.
Which of the following will be a result of these reviews?

Manage Team
As part of the Direct and Manage Project Work process, the project manager conducts an
iteration planning meeting. The meeting is dominated by the most senior developer who
frequently and sharply interrupts the other team members. The project manager wants to
ensure that during the next iteration planning meeting all voices are heard.
What is the project manager's best course of action?
Question 83 - Qid 6113070, Scope Management, 1. People, 5.0

Project Scope Management
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The scrum master, business analyst, programmers, and testers have been assigned to a
product development project. The performing organization is well-versed with the
traditional waterfall framework but will incorporate scrum for the software development
phase of the project.
What is the best strategy to ensure that all of the scrum roles and responsibilities are
served in the project?

Process, 10.2 Manage Communications
The construction project has many people and specialized teams at the worksite every
day. Frequent communication between the team leads is critical for safety and efficiency.
Which agile ceremony can this project incorporate to increase timely cross-functional
communication?

Process, 10.3 Monitor Communications
At times over a project life cycle, the team must adopt a few agile ceremonies. The aim is
to communicate quicker in times of tight deadlines. Unfortunately, team members are not
getting the information needed during the ceremonies.
What is the best option to confirm that the information is received and understood?
Question 86 - Qid 6113096, Integration Management, 1. People, 4.0

Project Integration Management
A project manager is wrapping up the hardware development phase of a product
development project. The project will now transition to the software development phase.
How might the project manager's role change with respect to integration management?

Develop Team
You are conducting a sprint retrospective in accordance with the communications
management plan. The development team members want to try pair programming as they
believe it will improve productivity by reducing rework. Even though you are very
skeptical, you agree to implement the practice as you want to empower the team to be a
self-managing unit.
What should you do next?
Question 88 - Qid 6113123, Integration Management, 1. People, 4.3

Direct and Manage Project Work
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A project manager is leading a daily standup meeting with a scrum team as part of the
Direct and Manage Project Work process. A developer raises an impediment stating that
he is struggling with the software code necessary to authenticate users on the sign-in
page. The developer indicates that the impediment could result in a schedule delay to the
current sprint.

Collecting requirements for the project and creating the WBS has been a daunting task
because stakeholders' needs are vague and are only expressed in the most general terms
due to the nature of the project. As a result of this uncertainty, the project manager is
concerned about excessive changes, wasted work, and rework anticipated during project
execution.

A project manager is implementing the requirements management plan for a software
upgrade project that will incorporate some agile elements. The project manager needs to
quickly define cross-functional requirements and reconcile stakeholder differences to
build a consensus among the relevant stakeholders.

Environment, 2.4 Organizational Systems
The organization?s leadership wants projects to include more agile methodologies.
Before mandating any agile methods to be used in a project, what should be done first?

Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
You are establishing the relative priorities of individual risks identified in the project.
Which of the following tasks is the least likely to impact this prioritization?

Environment, 1.2 Foundational Elements
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Team members are frequently changing during the long timeline of a multi-phase project.
The project manager is questioning whether to include agile practices to accommodate the
changes.
What should the project manager do prior to moving to a hybrid approach?
Question 94 - Qid 6113136, Schedule Management, 3. Business

Environment, 6.1 Plan Schedule Management
Midway into project execution, new cybersecurity laws take an immediate effect and
require audits of the system. The project has a well thought out project management plan.
The audits may come at any time throughout the system?s development.
What is the best way for the project manager and team to address the risk of audits
disrupting the project plans?

A plan-driven project has many deliverables planned to be released at the end of the
phase. The project manager wants to ensure that the deliverables are completed as
expected.
Which agile practices can the project manager recommend to the team to make certain
that the deliverables are completed and delivered as expected?

Manage Team
A project manager facilitates a discussion with the team about experimenting with some
agile practices in their plan-driven project. A suggestion of incorporating daily standups is
on the table. The team members, however, are unsure of what is expected of them.
What can the project manager suggest the project team members do prior to the daily
standup?

Implement Risk Responses
The project team is undergoing an agile transformation. This requires the team members
to maintain their original project plans in the current management tool, but also enter
performance data in the new tool built around agile practices. The team identifies that the
information in the two tools is out of sync. This risk has been identified earlier in project
planning.
What is the best course of action for the project manager?
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2.4 Organizational Systems
Projects in a program are using various project management approaches, such as plan-
driven, agile, hybrid. The project teams are complaining that because of that, the team
members must enter the same work, hours, risks, and other data in multiple tools. The
redundant work is impeding on their productivity time.
What is the best course of action for the program manager?

1.2 Foundational Elements
An organization is to undertake a multi-phased project. The sponsor wants to pursue the
project objectives as they have been planned but also wants to accommodate and adjust to
new information and changes in the environment as the project progresses.
Which project management approach should the project manager select for this project?
Question 100 - Qid 6150814, Risk Management, 3. Business

Environment, 11.4 Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Your sponsor has committed to building a high-speed rail from one major inland city,
Azules, to the coast. You have two possible routes, either Brazos or Corazon.
Given the costs, odds, and rewards of high demand and low demand of each route in this
decision tree, what is the expected monetary value of the route to Brazos?

4.4 Manage Project Knowledge
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Senior leadership has returned from a conference where they have learned about the agile
practice of retrospectives. Even though the organization does not manage any projects in
an agile manner, they mandate that from now on this ceremony is included in all projects.
How should the outputs from the retrospectives be stored and managed?

The resource management plan for an international project calls for a scrum team to be
colocated during the regular workweek. However, after five sprints were completed, the
project manager got a change request approved to cut costs by transitioning the team to a
virtual environment working remotely from their homes with the start of the sixth sprint.
After the team begins working remotely, what will be the best method to understand the
impact of the change on the team's productivity?

Plan Resource Management
As part of the Plan Resource Management process, project team members hold a
brainstorming session to charter working agreements. The team identifies 37 agreements
that include communication guidelines, decision-making and conflict resolution
processes, core hours, a definition of a story point, how and when user stories will move
through the Kanban board, etc.

Manage Team
A project manager implements the project management plan meticulously but is
struggling with leading the project team effectively. There is a great deal of unhealthy
tension between the project team members as well as with the project manager. The
project manager has had several outbursts during sprint retrospectives, which has caused
the meeting to be abruptly adjourned.

13.2 Plan Stakeholder Engagement
A project is six months into its nine-month projected duration. The project manager
reports that the project is at least three months behind schedule because certain key
stakeholders were resistant to consequential changes due to the project.
What might have been done differently during project planning to avoid this situation?
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Question 106 - Qid 6113623, Schedule Management, 2. Process,
6.3 Sequence Activities
Two team members are arguing over how to organize the work packages in the work
breakdown structure (WBS). One says the work packages should be arranged in the order
the work is planned to be carried out, while the other insists the order of the work
packages in the WBS does not matter. The two ask the project manager for advice.
What is the project manager's best response?
Question 107 - Qid 6113718, Resource Management, 2. Process,

9.3 Acquire Resources
You are leading a project to design a high-efficiency solar cell. The project needs copper,
silver, and silicon among other materials. You have ordered custom-built manufacturing
equipment, secured permission to install a solar array on the roof for testing, and reserved
a conference room for daily stand-up meetings.
What is the result of your efforts?

Determine Budget
During project execution, several unexpected issues have developed and are now
threatening the project schedule and budget.
What is the best course of action for the project manager to address the issues?

Identify Risks
To produce the deliverables, the project will procure goods and services from outside the
organization. The project manager has instructed the team to develop a comprehensive
list of individual project risks related to those procurements.
What is the best course of action for the project team?

Control Costs
You are managing a renovation project of a house which is to be completed at a budget of
$100,000. Earned value analysis shows that so far you have completed 40% of the work
and spent $60,000.
How much more will it cost to complete the project if the cost performance remains
unchanged?
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Question 111 - Qid 6125212, Procurement Management, 2.
Process, 12.3 Control Procurements
A major dispute arises with a vendor on a project. The project manager claims that the
vendor has failed to perform its contractual obligations, while the vendor complains that
the project is behind on payments.
What is the best course of action for the project manager in this situation?

Manage Team
You want to recognize the contributions of some of the high-performing team members so
far in the project.
Which of the following do you need to guide you through this process?

6.2 Define Activities
You are managing a project to construct a bridge at a location that is highly regulated by
multiple levels of government. You are in the process of developing a plan that will
establish the criteria and the activities for developing, monitoring, and controlling the
schedule.
Which of the following should you gather to complete this process?
Question 114 - Qid 6151376, Resource Management, 2. Process,

9.2 Estimate Activity Resources
One of the project activities requires that a search of a large area is conducted to find
debris from an explosion of a failed prototype. The project is now in planning, and there is
a debate among the team members on the type and quantity of resources needed to
complete this activity.

Plan Cost Management
A project manager is developing a cost management plan and needs to determine the best
source of funding for a project that is dictated by a legal requirement. The cost of capital is
estimated at 9.7% for non-dividend paying equity, 6.7% for debt, and 5.1% for self-
funding. The NPV of the project is $500,000, and the opportunity cost is $750,000.
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Question 116 - Qid 6151383, Cost Management, 3. Business
Environment, 7.2 Estimate Costs
You are in the process of developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed
to complete project work for a large-scale multinational project which will take at least
seven years to complete. Your previous projects have all been domestic with short
timeframes.
As part of the process you are currently performing, what might you need to do differently
compared with your past projects?

Validate Scope
You are assigned to a software development project, and you are conducting a product
review with an important client. Although the deliverables were previously verified, the
client detects a defect and rejects one of the deliverables.
What should you do?
Question 118 - Qid 6151393, Integration Management, 1. People,

Not all team members are properly checking out resources used in the project.
What is the best option for the project manager?

Control Scope
In a pharmaceutical project, human trials have been started. The CEO is thrilled about the
success of the trials up to this point. She announces that the size of the patient pool for the
trials should double from the one originally planned and results tracked in the new
system launching this week.

6.5 Develop Schedule
Following is an illustration of a project network activity node that includes some
information about activity D.
Given the information provided, what is the total float of activity D?
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Question 1 - Qid 6113151, Risk Management, 2. Process, 11.7

If project Alpha is selected, what will be the opportunity cost?

Question 3 - Qid 6110003, Integration Management, 2. Process, 4.1

Question 4 - Qid 6110005, Stakeholder Management, 2. Process,

Which of the following processes should be performed next?

Question 6 - Qid 6110008, Scope Management, 2. Process, 5.2

Which project document is the project sponsor requesting?

Question 7 - Qid 6110011, Schedule Management, 2. Process, 6.2

What is the best way to resolve this problem?

Question 8 - Qid 6110014, Integration Management, 2. Process, 4.2

Question 9 - Qid 6110020, Resource Management, 2. Process, 9.0

What is the most likely cause of the variance?

Question 10 - Qid 6110029, Resource Management, 1. People, 9.4

Question 11 - Qid 6110032, Communications Management, 2.

What should you do first?

Question 12 - Qid 6110034, Scope Management, 2. Process, 5.1

Question 13 - Qid 6110038, Scope Management, 2. Process, 4.5

What should you do first?

Question 14 - Qid 6110039, Integration Management, 2. Process,

Question 16 - Qid 6110041, Integration Management, 2. Process,

Question 17 - Qid 6110055, Procurement Management, 2. Process,

What should you do?

Question 18 - Qid 6110058, Stakeholder Management, 2. Process,

What should the project manager do first?

Question 19 - Qid 6110061, Stakeholder Management, 2. Process,

What is the duration of the critical path?

Question 21 - Qid 6110065, Stakeholder Management, 2. Process,

What is the first thing to do when using that technique?

Question 22 - Qid 6110066, Communications Management, 2.

Question 23 - Qid 6110070, Risk Management, 2. Process, 11.3

Have you properly conducted risk management planning?

Question 24 - Qid 6110072, Scope Management, 2. Process, 5.2

Question 25 - Qid 6110074, Scope Management, 2. Process, 5.4

Question 26 - Qid 6110075, Scope Management, 2. Process, 4.5

Which of the following best describes this change request?

Question 27 - Qid 6110076, Schedule Management, 2. Process, 6.4

Question 28 - Qid 6110079, Quality Management, 2. Process, 8.2

What tool or technique is the project manager using in this scenario?

Question 29 - Qid 6110081, Stakeholder Management, 2. Process,

How should this stakeholder be classified?

Question 30 - Qid 6110083, Scope Management, 2. Process, 4.5

What should the project manager do next?

Question 31 - Qid 6110087, Schedule Management, 2. Process, 6.4

Question 32 - Qid 6110090, Risk Management, 2. Process, 11.2

What should the team member do immediately?

What should you do in this situation?

Question 34 - Qid 6112009, Risk Management, 2. Process, 11.0

Question 35 - Qid 6112010, Quality Management, 2. Process, 8.2

Question 36 - Qid 6112012, Stakeholder Management, 2. Process,

Where would you look to obtain this information?

Question 37 - Qid 6112018, Stakeholder Management, 2. Process,

What is the most likely reason?

Question 38 - Qid 6112019, Quality Management, 2. Process, 8.3

How could this situation have been avoided?

Question 39 - Qid 6112028, Integration Management, 3. Business

Question 40 - Qid 6113170, Resource Management, 1. People, 9.4

Based on your observations, where is the team on the Tuckman ladder?

Question 42 - Qid 6112054, Integration Management, 3. Business

What should be done with the phase's deliverables?

Question 43 - Qid 6112056, Integration Management, 2. Process,