PMI PMP Project Management Professional Online Training
PMI PMP Online Training
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
Acompany recently adopted agile to develop innovation projects. The project manager is experiencing problems with some team members who consider some agile ceremonies to be unnecessary.
What should the project manager have done before the beginning of the project?
- A . Conducted a survey to determine if the team was willing to adopt agile ceremonies on the current project.
- B . Prepared an inception deck and clearly explained the purpose of agile ceremonies and their benefits to the project.
- C . Discussed with the product owner and requested assistance by requiring the adoption of agile ceremonies.
- D . Discussed with the project sponsor about convincing the team to adopt the agile ceremonies as part of their routine.
An agile project for a database migration impacts nearly all business units of the corporation. Every effort has been made to complete the migration before the end-of support date for the database platform. Anew impediment now implies the need to continue use of the old platform another year at a higher support price.
What should the product owner do about this situation?
- A . Reprioritize the backlog based on value and cost of delay divided by duration.
- B . Reprioritize the backlog based on story size and competence availability.
- C . Remove low-value items from the backlog to compensate for the higher cost.
- D . Switch to a predictive approach to prevent any further delays to completion.
A hybrid project has just deployed, and the project manager is planning project closure with lessons learned workshops. A key stakeholder informs the project manager that having the Scrum team in the workshops is a waste of time because the project was delivered successfully.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Ask the Scrum team members to share retrospectives.
- B . Ask the scrum master to attend the workshops.
- C . Invite the Scrum team members as optional participants.
- D . Invite the Scrum team members as mandatory participants.
During the closing process, the project manager learns that one deliverable is not meeting customer expectations.
How should the project manager proceed?
- A . Contact the project sponsor and ask for help in negotiating the closing of the project with the customer.
- B . Ask the customer to issue a change request with the information to analyze and provide a solution.
- C . Review the deliverable requirements, check the customer approval criteria, and proceed accordingly.
- D . Meet with the customer to reach agreement on the scope of the deliverable that will satisfy both parties.
A project team is trying to meet the milestone target dates in order to receive a bonus promised by the project sponsor. Unforeseen challenges and poor communication among the team members resulted in mistakes and delays. Tensions are high, and the sponsor is concerned.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Schedule a team-building activity to boost the team’s morale.
- B . Discuss with the team how the project objectives can be met.
- C . Organize a team meeting to remind the team of the ground rules.
- D . Request that the sponsor increase the bonus for high performers.
A distributed project team has communication issues because of their collaboration tools.
The team feels that efficiency could be improved by changing the collaboration platform.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Discuss this with the project team and select the appropriate tools.
- B . Inform the project team to continue using the current tools.
- C . Implement the communication tools used by other project teams.
- D . Escalate the issue to the sponsor and ask them to decide.
A project manager is managing a large project. During a review meeting, the project manager discovers that one of the team members who use to be a high performer was not able to complete their work on time.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Talk to the team member to determine why their performance changed.
- B . Talk to the team member and a human resources (HR) representative.
- C . Talk to the team member’s manager to provide more training.
- D . Talk to the project lead and ask them to allocate less demanding tasks.
A project manager just completed a successful deployment and is preparing to transition the project to an operational state before starting closeout actions.
What should the project manager do to ensure that the project is ready to move to an operational state?
- A . Meet with the project team to review the work breakdown structure (WBS) and confirm deliverables have been delivered.
- B . Develop a plan to repay the technical debt incurred during the project and ensure that the project sponsor agrees with the plan.
- C . Review the project approval requirements in the project charter and confirm who will be approving the project.
- D . Refer to the project’s work in progress (WIP) reports to ensure that there is no additional work in the backlog.
A project manager is assigned to a multiyear project. During project execution, the customer delegates a new representative who contacts the project manager directly with a concern about their participation in status meetings. The representative wants to contact team members directly.
What should the project manager do next?
- A . Send the new representative the approved project management and communications management plans.
- B . Reach out to the customer directly for assistance in incorporating the new representative into the project management plan.
- C . Meet with the project sponsor to discuss how to incorporate the new representative in the project.
- D . Meet with the new representative to determine their understanding of the project and address their concerns.
A project team is conducting sprint planning. Based on the estimated effort, only 95% of the items included in the sprint may be delivered. The product owner asks the project manager for advice on how to prioritize the backlog items.
What should be used to prioritize the backlog items?
- A . Risk to delivery
- B . Technical complexity
- C . Business value
- D . Estimation accuracy