PMI PMP Project Management Professional Online Training
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The questions for PMP were last updated at Nov 19,2024.
- Exam Code: PMP
- Exam Name: Project Management Professional
- Certification Provider: PMI
- Latest update: Nov 19,2024
An organization is initiating a project that will be using new technology. The complexity of the project requires excellent technical skills. After reviewing the proposed project management plan, the project sponsor asks for options to reduce the labor cost without introducing risk to the project delivery.
What should the project manager do first?
- A . Review the risk register and assign functional managers as resources.
- B . Analyze the resource pool and assign internal resources who participated in past projects.
- C . Perform an analysis of the key cost drivers and present alternatives.
- D . Review the work breakdown structure (WBS) to ensure there are adequate resources.
A company is implementing a project with team members located in different countries and time zones. Individual performance is satisfactory, but the team’s performance as a whole is low, especially in terms of group activities.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Negotiate for new team members.
- B . Review and update the communications management plan.
- C . Review and reassign team assignments.
- D . Facilitate communication and team building.
A project manager is using an agile approach. During the sprint planning meeting, the product owner flagged a backlog item as high business value and easy to implement. However, the other team members identified a high dependency between this item and another item that is flagged as low business value and high complexity.
What should the project manager do to support the backlog prioritization?
- A . Prioritize the item flagged as high business value and low complexity for this sprint.
- B . Support the team to move both items to the next sprint when the team will know more.
- C . Facilitate the discussion until the team reaches an agreement about the two items.
- D . Prioritize the item flagged as a dependency with low business value and high complexity.
Project stakeholders are engaged in a discussion on how to achieve the best user experience in the design of a new application. The agile team is divided on the approach. The conflict is more of a collective disagreement than an outright conflict.
What should the project manager do next?
- A . Apply appropriate conflict resolution techniques to solve the issue.
- B . Call a team meeting to have a formal discussion of the issue.
- C . Allow the team to work through it on their own unless help is needed.
- D . Engage in individual conversation with each team member.
A stressful situation has presented some challenges for the team. The project manager notices stress behavior in some of the team members, and it is beginning to spread across the group. The project manager needs to coach the team to change their mindset in order to be more efficient.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Establish a productive environment where all team members can assist one another with the workload.
- B . Create an environment of respect and fairness so the team can increase their project performance in stressful situations.
- C . Meet with the team to discuss the correct, expected behavior in stressful situations and start practicing it.
- D . Ensure that people care about each other and work effectively together through effective team management
A project manager is tasked with developing a coaching model to support and recognize team members’ growth.
What should the project manager consider when defining their coaching strategy?
- A . Established patterns of communication
- B . Organization’s strategic goals
- C . Individual and personal objectives
- D . Project team’s shared objectives
A project manager has just been appointed to a project that has two major deliverables. Both deliverables have the same level of priority and are to be delivered at the same time. The members of the team are complaining about the lack of information regarding which deliverable needs to be finished first.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Ask key stakeholders to cancel the project due to the difficulty of executing both deliverables at the same time.
- B . Ask the team to start working on the easiest deliverable first so they gain experience to execute the second deliverable.
- C . Meet with the project sponsor and key stakeholders to assess each deliverable’s value to the organization and set execution priorities.
- D . Require that the project team execute both deliverables at the same time, since this was requested and approved in the project charter.
DRAG DROP
A production team will soon begin their first agile project. No one in the team or management has agile knowledge. The training manager can only fund three enrollments.
Match the team role on the left to the correct training course on the right. (Use all three of the team roles.)
A project is on its fifth iteration out of six. One member of the team has left the company unexpectedly.
What should the project manager do next?
- A . Detail the reason for the project delay in the status report.
- B . Invite the stakeholders to discuss a mitigation plan.
- C . Take on some of the necessary work to minimize the impact.
- D . Register an issue and escalate it to the project sponsor.
While a project manager is trying to build the first baseline for a project, a change request is being sent from one of the functional managers.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Discuss this with the functional manager and related parties.
- B . Reject the functional manager’s change request immediately.
- C . Analyze the impact of the change request on the project.
- D . Apply for a formal change control board (CCB) approval.