PMI PMP Project Management Professional Online Training
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The questions for PMP were last updated at Nov 23,2024.
- Exam Code: PMP
- Exam Name: Project Management Professional
- Certification Provider: PMI
- Latest update: Nov 23,2024
An organization is transitioning to agile delivery, and a new team has been assembled. A project is not going well because the variation of the team velocity is very high and every sprint delivers less than committed. A new project lead with a strong technical background has been assigned to the project.
What should the project lead do?
- A . Ask that estimations be provided only by senior developers.
- B . Allocate more time for estimation in the sprint planning.
- C . Review and update the estimations in the daily standup.
- D . Recommend a different estimation method in the retrospective.
A project manager is reviewing a draft of the project charter with key stakeholders. During the meeting, a conflict occurs between the sponsor and the product owner.
How should the project manager deal with the situation?
- A . Postpone the meeting and invite a subject matter expert (SME) to join the next meeting.
- B . Continue the meeting and ask the project sponsor and product owner to take their discussion offline.
- C . Postpone the meeting and ask the project sponsor and product owner to take their discussion offline.
- D . Continue the meeting and use facilitation techniques to improve communication within the team.
A project team has finished its first iteration out of six. The iteration’s delivery performance (velocity) was 50%.
During the iteration retrospective, the team realizes that the complexity of the work was
underestimated.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Update the issue log and escalate it to the project sponsor.
- B . Meet with the team to review internal actions to resolve the situation.
- C . Ask the technical manager to help the team with the issue.
- D . Ask to replace some team members with more experienced ones.
At the end of a project, the project manager was asked to provide a performance rating of the project team members.
What should the project manager mainly make reference to?
- A . Feedback from the project sponsor
- B . Agreed-upon key performance indicators (KPIs)
- C . Input from project stakeholders
- D . Competencies of team members
During a project’s execution phase, two team members are having conflicts with other team members within the team on technical and interpersonal levels.
Which two actions should the project manager take first to address this conflict? (Choose two)
- A . Ask human resources (HR) to intervene before it escalates and affects the team’s performance.
- B . Arrange individual meetings with the team members who cannot work together effectively.
- C . Address the conflict during team meetings for the entire team to participate and find solutions.
- D . Discuss the conflict early among the affected team members using a direct, collaborative approach.
- E . Plan to resolve the team members’ conflicts after the sprint and focus on achieving the goal.
A project manager is working with a Scrum team that is continually missing deadlines. The steering committee is concerned about the project as it is not clear that it will deliver the expected value. After some analysis, the project manager discovers there is a mismatch of competencies in one of the teams.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Provide appropriate training to compensate for the mismatch.
- B . Emphasize to the teams the importance of meeting the agreed deadlines.
- C . Update the project schedule to reflect the delay.
- D . Accept the risk of the project missing deadlines due to the mismatch.
A company is about to start a complex research project. Due to the level of uncertainty, the project manager recommends the use of a hybrid approach; however, the organization only has experience with predictive projects.
How can the project manager strategize the use of a hybrid approach to the organization?
- A . Present the benefits of a hybrid approach to key stakeholders to get their support.
- B . Create a project change request to execute the project using a hybrid approach.
- C . Send a letter to the project management office (PMO) requesting to use a hybrid approach.
- D . Submit a notification to the project team confirming they will be using a hybrid approach on the project.
A project manager is leading a project in an organization that has a functional structure. The project manager has been informed by the team that the tasks related to the purchase of services are taking too long, as the purchasing department has other priorities.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Modify the project schedule to accommodate the delays in the purchase of services.
- B . Request that the purchasing tasks be outsourced through an existing purchasing vendor.
- C . Meet with the purchasing manager to find the source of the delays and agree on a purchasing schedule.
- D . Ask the project team to keep developing other tasks that do not depend on the purchase of services.
A multiyear resource constraint project is midway through the execution phase. During a progress update meeting, it has been determined that there might be a schedule delay to deliver the project. The project manager has observed that all of the team members are working hard and lots of deliverables have already been completed.
What should the project manager do immediately about this situation?
- A . Ask the project planner to identify the critical path and respective delayed activities, and then investigate the reasons for the delay.
- B . Prepare a monthly report by highlighting the completed deliverables and communicate the delay to management.
- C . Register the schedule risk and present the new resources requirement to the change management board for schedule recovery.
- D . Ask the scheduler to update the schedule with the percent of work in progress (WIP) and communicate the results to the team.
A few developers have identified a list of impediments at the daily standup and are asking for the project lead’s assistance in prioritizing them. There are a few complex backlog items, and a new junior tester has identified a few compliance defects. The product owner and a couple of developers will be leaving the project team, and the contract with the test and production support partner will not be renewed.
Which issue should the project lead focus on first?
- A . Developing a new contract for production support.
- B . Finding a new product owner to prioritize the product backlog.
- C . Regulatory compliance issues discussed in the meeting.
- D . Recruiting, onboarding, and training new developers.