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
A project manager analyzes the cumulative flow chart and identifies a bottleneck in the testing activities from a self-organizing team. After discussing it with the team, a gap related to testing skills is identified.
What should the project manager do to address the issue?
- A . Onboard a new project team member who has testing skills.
- B . Provide training to the entire team so they all will be able to perform tests.
- C . Support the team to identify an approach to resolve the problem.
- D . Ask the development team to slow down so the testers can catch up.
During a monthly review meeting, a high-performing team member raised a concern about the quality feedback mechanism. The team member expressed that they are not able to deliver high-quality output.
What should the project manager do first?
- A . Assign the work based on the skill sets of team members.
- B . Request feedback from stakeholders about the quality delivery.
- C . Assign the work in consultation with the functional manager.
- D . Discuss this with the team and review the quality process.
A project charter has been approved and the project manager has been assigned to the project. The project manager is currently working with the project team to subdivide the project work packages.
What is the project manager doing?
- A . Network diagram
- B . Decomposition
- C . Work breakdown structure (WBS)
- D . Resource leveling
A project manager was recently assigned to rescue a high-priority project for an Olympic facility. The project is behind schedule, with a heavy contractual penalty. The former project manager had numerous conflicts with the project team members and a few stakeholders.
What should the project manager do first?
- A . Review the project schedule and ask for the contingency reserve to crash the project.
- B . Meet the project team and stakeholders to identify the root cause of the issue and develop a solution.
- C . Review the lessons learned register with the former project manager in a private meeting.
- D . Meet the project team to assert authority and reassign the project tasks for a timely delivery.
A project manager is leading a cross-departmental project that involves many stakeholders. During the project, the project manager observes that the stakeholders are diverse and have different expectations about how the project should be handled. This leads to frequent confusion and misunderstandings among the stakeholders.
What should the project manager do to integrate the diverse stakeholder groups?
- A . Advise the team members to focus on project work and avoid getting distracted by the stakeholders’ disagreements.
- B . Hold separate meetings with the individual stakeholders and escalate their concerns to the project sponsor.
- C . Develop a joint quality policy for the project and seek a commitment by all of the departments.
- D . Analyze the probability and impact of the risks linked with the situation and implement the proper response plan.
A project team is completing a design, while another team in a different country is performing implementation.
How should the project manager communicate the design to the implementation team?
- A . Send a detailed email with the completed design document.
- B . Conduct a workshop with all of the stakeholders.
- C . Conduct a workshop with both of the teams.
- D . Upload the design documents into the project repository.
A project is being executed. The project’s life cycle is defined as predictive; however, a major deliverable will be handed over incrementally to the customer. The assigned resources are experienced and reliable and are willing to make decisions that the project manager used to make after each incremental delivery on other projects.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Support the decisions of the team and transfer the decision making responsibility to them.
- B . Consult the product owner about letting the resources make decisions.
- C . Schedule a steering committee meeting and obtain their approval on the request.
- D . Inform the team that although this is a hybrid environment, the project manager must still be responsible for making decisions.
A large matrix organization is adopting a new communications approach. This is necessary because their projects often require the resourcing of expert knowledge in the form of specialists from various departments and divisions.
What should the project manager do to set up effective communications?
- A . Plan on transmitting the information in an easily understandable manner.
- B . Focus on the recipients’ needs and not the information itself.
- C . Use the highest possible technical language and avoid using metaphors.
- D . Ensure that messages sent to the recipients are delivered.
An agile team is brainstorming and prioritizing all of the risks according to severity.
What should the team do about the identified risks?
- A . Mitigate the risks that are applicable to the current and following iterations.
- B . Focus on the project deliverables rather than the documented risks.
- C . Agree that any issue can be handled when it becomes a problem.
- D . Acknowledge that the risks will be handled in the corresponding iteration.
A project team is prioritizing the creation of project artifacts and enforcing it rigidly, while they face issues with delays in deliverables.
How should the project manager respond?
- A . Facilitate the implementation of an automated tool for the team to manage project artifacts.
- B . Implement stricter controls so that project artifact creation is given the utmost importance.
- C . Recognize the team’s efforts for documenting artifacts and motivate them with an incentive mechanism.
- D . Advise the team that solely focusing on artifacts will not produce successful project deliverables.