PMP Exam 1 Simulation - Study Mode (60 Questions)

The project manager for a global software application roll-out has discovered a conflict situation amongst team members. This conflict has occurred due to differences of opinion with respect to schedule durations. The project manager organizes an online meeting to resolve the situation. What conflict resolution technique did the project manager use?

A final deliverable from the project will not be completed on time. This may delay closing of the project. What should the project manager do next?

As project manager you have delegated to a team member the work of creating a RACI Chart. On checking the Chart you discover errors on some of the Activities. Which of the Activities is correct?

A project manager is leading a team to develop a stock management application for a client. However, the first release contained a lot of bugs. The client demands that the work for the next release – planned for the 3rd Quarter – is more transparent. The client also wishes to see the team’s results on a more regular basis and without long development intervals. Which of the following could the project team introduce to better comply with the client’s demands? (Choose Four)

You have been appointed as the project manager to lead and direct a high profile project in the organization. One month into the project you are conscious of team development and dynamics. Researching this you come across Tuckman’s Ladder model with 5 stages of team development. Select the final 3 stages from the following:

A person is writing a document identifying the business need for a project and is including a description of the product created by the project. She includes a list of assumptions and high-level risks. What is the role of this person on the project?

Which of the following would be the most appropriate thing to do when starting a new project?

As part of a business critical project for an organization, the project manager has established the requirement to outsource part of the scope. In carrying out the Conduct Procurements process the project management team has applied a weighting system to break down the initial 30 vendor responses to a group of 5 for further analysis. The project manager discovers that a friend is a director in one of these five organisations. What’s the best thing to do?

You are negotiating with a seller for improved delivery times and price. Time is of the essence and you have a limited budget. What is your best negotiating strategy under these circumstances?

A project manager is performing an audit on a deliverable when she hears that the team member who did the work is complaining to everyone that he is being picked on by having his activity audited. You know this is not true. What lesson learned could you take to future projects which you will manage?

The project has a business critical deliverable that requires certain expertise to complete. The person who was going to complete the activity has left the company and there is no one in the organization with the skills to take their place. For this reason the project manager needs to acquire the services of a consultant as soon as possible. To do this the project manager should:

The project manager is having a very difficult time keeping the schedule on track. The project requires 220 people to complete it. All of the project problems have been identified to the project manager’s satisfaction. The schedule performance index (SPI) is currently 0.67, the cost performance index (CPI) is 1.26, there are 65 activities on the critical path and the project duration is 26 months. Under these circumstances, the monthly performance report should state:

You take over a project that is in lot of trouble. There are apparently problems with the team dynamics, project scope, sponsor and timeline. The project has a cost performance index (CPI) of 0.75 and schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.2. The first action you should take is to:

In the design phase for a road construction project the project team undertook a cost-benefit analysis based on material costs at that time. They also identified the risk of price fluctuation and inflation and negotiated for a contingency. However in the construction phase additional materials have been specified with the evaluated cost consequences being considerably more than the contingency reserve. As a result the project may no longer be viable. What should the project manager do?

Which of the following is the most beneficial result of the project manager knowing the critical path?

The project manager is managing a two-year project involving staff from several departments. The project is on schedule and within budget. A key member leaves without notice for a four-week vacation without completing a highly specialized activity assigned to her (activity A). The project team cannot begin activity B or activity F (a critical path activity) until activity A is completed. Activity A has 3 days float and is not on the critical path. Two team members and a vendor work overtime to complete activity A within its float. The project manager needs to reimburse the vendor for the additional work. What action should be taken?

You are a project manager leading a $350,000 engineering project. To date you’ve been managing the other 11 people who comprise the overall project team. Lately you’ve noticed that you are spread too thin and the schedule is being negatively impacted. Because the project is date constrained you convinced senior management to accept a cost variance and add a senior quality assurance analyst to the project team. This new resource will work directly with the project team members who comprise the testing sub-team. How many more communication channels will there be on the project team?

The network vendor has contacted the project manager to inform him that the recent flooding will impact the delivery of critical components. The project team meets to determine the impact on the overall project and determines that staffing will not be affected, but that changes will need to be made in the areas of risk and schedule management. It is too soon to tell if the cost baseline will be affected by this schedule change. What is the project team involved in here?

During risk identification you have delegated David, a team member, to make a list of risks identified by all the stakeholders using various methods. Working with the stakeholders he then made sure that all the risks were understood and scored, and that triggers had been identified. Later, in planning risk responses, he took all the risks identified by the stakeholders and he then determined ways to respond to them. You recognize the need to mentor David on Risk Management. What has David done wrong?

A project manager for a large manufacturing concern is working on a project that calls for a new building to be constructed to house a ‘clean system’ manufacturing process. Construction is not a core competency of the organisation. The project team has the ability to create a detailed procurement statement of work with liquidated damages if specific work packages are not supplied on time. The project manager is working through the Plan Procurement Management process, evaluating which contract type would be suitable. Which of the following is the best type of contract for this situation?

What is the duration of the near-critical path based on the chart?

An agile project to develop online purchasing for an existing brochure web site is underway. The project manager is using Earned Value Management to budget and measure performance. Following the 6th Sprint the Earned Value Graph has been updated and will be presented to the Product Owner. What action should the project manager recommend?

Match each Project Stakeholder Management process with its associated Process Group. (Drag the process to the destination opposite the correct Process Group)

When electronic component designers want to optimize the redesign of a vehicle airbag system to improve its safety characteristics what method are they utilizing:

A manufacturing project undertaken with a hybrid approach has a schedule performance index (SPI) of 0.89 and a cost performance index (CPI) of 0.91. Generally, what is the best explanation for why this occurred?

A hybrid project is just starting and consists of people from 14 different business units. The project charter was signed by the sponsor and contains 5 major requirements that must be met on the project. The project manager has just joined the organization and the sponsor has informed her that the SPI must be kept between 0.95 and 1.1. It has been agreed that the development phase will be undertaken using adaptive techniques. A total of 34 stakeholders have been identified and the schedule objectives on the project are constrained. Which of the following types of project management power will best help the project manager gain the cooperation of others?

You are managing a project to set up a Call Center to provide support for your organizations customers on a specific product line. The product owner has requested the use of control charts to record call durations during testing. The first control chart published shows seven data points in a row on one side of the mean. What should be done?

As a senior project manager you are coaching a junior colleague on the investment in Emotional Intelligence (EI) to improve inbound (e.g. self-management and awareness) and outbound (e.g. relationship management) competencies. In support you use the following diagram. What skills should be referenced in the top right hand quadrant?

During the daily stand up, two team members begin arguing about what needs to be done to complete a task. If the project manager wants to understand the root cause of a misunderstanding, she should pay most attention to:

The project coach has been working with a development team to create a customer satisfaction page on the organizations existing web site. The data recorded will produce on-demand reports for C Level Management. The project coach discovers that the minimum viable product agreed for demonstration at the next iteration review will not be ready as a team members manager removed him from the iteration to attend to some functional work. Which of the following will assist the project coach in dealing with this situation and minimize the likelihood of it happening in the future (select two):

Preparing for a Product Review at the end of a 2 week Iteration, the team are considering the specific requirements of the End User group of stakeholders. Which of the following would the team focus on during their product demonstration (choose two):

Recently appointed as Scrum Master for a project to create a new website for your organization you have attended a training event to support your new role. Encountering the concept of ‘servant leader’ you have learned that your role will involve the following (choose all that apply):

At the daily standup an impediment is raised by one of the development team based on a subroutine in code being written. Another team member suggests a solution and a discussion develops amongst the group. What should the scrum master do next?

You are the Project Manager for I/O Productions. You have asked one of the project team members to create a Pareto Chart to show which causes of errors are producing the most problems for the printed corporate materials of one of your clients. The following Table has been completed by the project team member. What is the next step in creating the Pareto Chart?

At a recent management meeting significant misunderstandings emerged based on the concept and terminology of the agile/adaptive approach to project management. A senior project manager has volunteered to facilitate a communications session to introduce agile/adaptive concepts and explain some of the terms and phrases associated with this approach. Drag and Drop the sort element terms below to match them with the correct explanation.

You have just completed the initiating processes of a small predictive life cycle project and are moving on to the planning processes when a project stakeholder asks you for the project’s schedule and cost baselines. What should you tell her?

What is the best heuristic to follow to resolve any conflicts that may arise between stakeholders?

The Product Owner and the team have discussed the Product Backlog – which the team have distilled to Iteration Backlogs. Six features have been developed and accepted over four 2 week Iterations. Which technique provides a high level summary timeline to deliver value to the organization?

You have been assigned as project manager to a new agile project to develop a production output reporting system. You’ve discovered in the first iteration that your team don’t have all the required skills. What’s the best thing to do?

Your project is in the planning/design stage and you and your resources are paid every fortnight for the work done during that fortnight. You have been informed by the project sponsor that there has been a review of projects within your company and your project will no longer be funded. In this case, you should:

A client continually submits requests for new features and functionality changes for an existing product. The project manager has just communicated the completed scope definition for the product’s next release to the stakeholders. What should the project manager do next?

The project manager is embarking on a new project using a hybrid of agile and predictive frameworks. The team have very little experience of agile and will require some training on structure, processes and tools. Where would the project manager document the training needs and strategies for the team members?

A project manager has been hired to lead a project team in an organization that has not yet undertaken an agile approach to project work. The new project will use Scrumban for the development of new product deliveries. Which of the following training activities presented by the project manager will be key success factors for the project? (Choose three)

A project to implement a new Invoice Payment system has been completed. Training employees on the new system was a key deliverable identified and incorporated into the scope baseline. Training was provided via an online session but proved inefficient as the Accounts payable staff were overwhelmed with Purchase Order mismatches and incorrect payment details. What might the project manager have done differently to prevent these problems?

The project manager has recruited additional staff for a 6 month business process re-engineering venture using an agile approach. The first iteration is scheduled for next week. To facilitate onboarding and knowledge transfer she has organized a meeting with experienced team members to discuss organizational culture, structure, a team charter and stakeholder engagement. However, the meeting was not a success with few questions being raised and little information being imparted. What is the most likely reason for this?

A Customer Relationship Management application project is in the planning phase. Both the startup and planning phases have been structured in a predictive framework but the development phase – to include code writing, testing and product release – will be undertaken incrementally. The project manager uses a resource breakdown structure (RBS) to identify staffing, facilities, work assignments and training required. In terms of structure, Level 1 in the RBS is designated for individuals in a leading role.

How should the project manager map the resource types to the RBS’s categories? (Drag and Drop elements from the Resource Types at the top to the Categories at the bottom)

A project manager is analyzing the communication requirements of stakeholders to develop the Communications Management Plan. The project will use a Agile/Hybrid project management framework with a virtual team to deliver the goal. The project manager understands that the plan should accommodate the needs of both predictive and Agile/Hybrid aspects of project management. What steps should be taken to accommodate the Agile/Hybrid aspects of the project?

When defining an iteration length what details should the team be guided by (choose three)?

The team have completed the third iteration. At the Retrospective Meeting a heated discussion develops based on personality clashes. Some junior team members have raised the issue of colleagues being overbearing and demanding in terms of story point completion. What will assist the project manager in improving team performance?

An organization is about to start an agile project to create an Asset Management Database. The appointed Project Coach has organized a workshop to introduce the team to agile concepts and processes. An element of the workshop is to illustrate ownership and responsibility for various items. Drag and Drop the Sort Elements to match them with the Responsibilities listed below.

The Project Manager schedules an Iteration Review and learns that a number of key stakeholders do not approve of how a feature has been developed. What should the project manager do first to address this issue?

At a weekly project status meeting a key team member expresses concerns about the overall approach documented within the project management plan. The Project Manager is surprised because the team is in the process of executing an important component of the project and the concern has not been raised before. What steps should the Project Manager take?

The Project Manager shifts to an agile approach for a project with an aggressive timeline. The Project Manager needs to revise the stakeholder engagement plan so that it follows agile principles. What should the Project Manager do first to meet this need?

During an Agile iteration a Task cannot be completed on time due to unexpected challenges. Another team within the project is depending on the timely completion of this Task to fulfil their part of the project. How should the Project Manager resolve this issue?

During a meeting a Project Manager learns that a business result needs to be delivered in four weeks – although the original plan was 10 weeks. The Project Manager also knows that there is no available technical resource to join the team. The Project Manager knows the Technical Resource Manager because they worked together on a previous project. What is the first thing the Project Manager should do?

A team concludes that an agile approach best fits the next phase in their project. Unfortunately there are team members who have not had the appropriate agile training. How should the Project Manager respond to the lack of agile training?

A new Project Manager joins the project’s daily standups to discover that the team spends too much time discussing ways to deal with obstructions. Because of these discussions the Project Manager learns that standups often last well over 1 hour. What should be used to deal with this issue?

A team of 15 people have been assembled for a Finance project based in London. Two of of the project’s new team members were recruited from a French competitor organization. They speak to each other in French – even in team meeting and workshop situations. Other team members tell the Project Manager that this is effecting the team dynamic. How should the Project Manager approach this situation?

To help determine required competencies, the Project Manager introduces the concept of the Critical Path Method to the team members and is using diagrams to explain the two main approaches based on starting the project at Day 0 or at Day 1. What is the value for Total Float (TF)?

A senior Project Manager is mentoring a recently recruited junior Project Manager and is discussing the importance of assessing and delivering project benefits as an underlying project management responsibility. Which of the following would assist with this responsibility (select two):