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Initiating
The initiation phase of the project encompasses a total of 8 tasks including the following:
- Informing the stakeholders of the accepted project charter to create a common understanding of the key deliverables, milestones, and their responsibilities.
- Participating in the development of the project charter, which involves analyzing and compiling the existing information to ensure project stakeholders approve its elements;
- Completing stakeholder analysis using the right tools and techniques to support projects;
- Performing project assessment based on the existing lessons and information obtained from the previous projects;
- Identifying the major deliverables depending on the business needs;
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NEW QUESTION # 158
Quality control charts show a characteristic of the product or service against:
- A. control limits based on three standard deviations in each direction
- B. control limits based on six standard deviations in each direction
- C. the specification limits
- D. customer requirements
- E. Both 1) the specification limits, and 2) control limits based on six standard deviations in each direction
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION # 159
A project manager has recently been asked to take over an existing project. The project manager would like to determine how the project has been progressing by tracking features that are in progress. completed. or scheduled to be worked on.
Which of the following can help the project manager assess the state of the project?
- A. Pareto diagram
- B. Burndown chart
- C. Burnup chart
- D. Cumulative flow diagram
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 160
During the last sprint review the product owner stated that the product does not deliver any value.
The project manager believes that the product meets all the provided specifications. The team is confused by the product owner's statement.
What should the project manager do when using a hybrid approach?
- A. Ask the product owner to terminate the project as it is no longer aligned to the expected benefits
- B. Review the project's benefits management plan with the product owner
- C. Escalate the matter to the executive board so they can decide on next steps
- D. Prioritize the project backlog and ask the development team to fix the issues
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 161
A project manager is leading a project with several stakeholders in other functional areas of the company One of these stakeholders has just been promoted to lead another functional area, and remains a stakeholder for this project What should the project manager have the project team update to ensure proper communications to stakeholders?
- A. Project management plan
- B. Communications management plan
- C. Stakeholder engagement plan
- D. Stakeholder register
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION # 162
You are in the early stages of a project to manufacture disposable medical devices. You need a number of engineers including ones with specialties in mechanical, environmental, and systems engineering. In the early stages of this project, your resource pool includes a large number of both junior and senior engineers in the various specialty areas. However, as the project progresses______________
- A. Fewer systems engineers will be needed
- B. The resource pool can be limited to those people who are knowledgeable about the project
- C. You will only need junior level engineers as the senior level people can be used early in the project to mentor and train them
- D. To complete the project on time, you will continue to require access to a large number of engineers in their specialty areas
Answer: B
Explanation:
Section: Mix Questions
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Resource calendars are an input to the estimate activity resource process and to the estimate activity durations process. They are used to estimate resource use. Early in a project, the resource pool might include people at different levels of expertise in large numbers, but as the project progresses, the resource pool then can be limited to those people who are knowledgeable about the project because of their work on it.
NEW QUESTION # 163
In a control chart, three measurement points in a process are below the mean and within control limits. Four measurement points are above the mean and outside the control limits.
How is this process performing?
- A. The process is writhing specification limits.
- B. The process is under the seven-point rule.
- C. The process is under control
- D. The process is out of control
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 164
At appropriate times during your project, you issue task orders that describe what work is to be done, who is to do it, and when it is to be done. This is an example of:
- A. Project scheduling
- B. A work authorization system
- C. Project planning
- D. Overall change control
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 165
A primary function of a project management office is to support project managers in a variety of ways, including which of the following?
- A. Resolving issues and change management within a shared governance structure
- B. Acting as the project sponsor by providing financial resources to the project
- C. Aligning organizational/strategic direction that affects project and program goals
- D. Developing and managing project policies, procedures, templates, and other shared documentation
Answer: D
Explanation:
Section: Initiation
NEW QUESTION # 166
A project manager is in the middle or handling a major upgrade to an existing product. The project manager learns that the resources initially promised as part or the project are being moved to another priority project.
What should the project manager do?
- A. Adopt a resource leveling procedure to level the resources
- B. Retrieve the documentation that shows the resource allocation
- C. Examine ways of modifying the scope of the project.
- D. Perform an impact analysis to see the effect on the project
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 167
You are using earned value progress reporting for your current project in an effort to teach your software developers the benefits of earned value. You plan to display project results on the cafeteria bulletin board so that the team knows how the project is progressing.
PV = $2,200
EV = $2,000
AC = $2,500
BAC = $10,000
The CV for this project is______________
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. -$500
- D. -$300
Answer: C
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
CV is calculated as EV - AC (in this case, $2,000 - $2,500). A negative CV means that accomplishing work on the project is costing more than was budgeted.
NEW QUESTION # 168
As project manager, you identified a number of acceptable tolerances as part of your earned value management system. During execution, some "unacceptable" variances occurred. After each "unacceptable" variance occurred, you did which one of the following first?
- A. Updated the budget
- B. Adjusted the project plan
- C. Prepared a revised cost estimate
- D. Documented lessons learned
Answer: D
Explanation:
Section: Mix Questions
Explanation:
Lessons learned but not documented are "lessons lost." The lessons learned knowledge database will help current project members, as well as people on future projects, make better decisions. Accordingly, the reasons for the variance, the rationale supporting the corrective action, and other related information must be documented. They require updates as part of updates to organizational process assets as an output of control costs in terms of corrective actions taken and why they were selected.
NEW QUESTION # 169
A company is using a predictive approach for the development of a particular component as defined in the scope management plan Due to regularly changing regulatory requirements, the development team has requested to utilize agile approaches What should the project manager do about the development team's request"?
- A. Analyze the requirements that will need to be addressed under the requested method
- B. Forward the request to the project management office (PMO) to amend the organizational process assets
- C. Ask the project sponsor to obtain approval for implementation of the new approach
- D. Escalate the request for additional financial resources
Answer: A
Explanation:
According to the PMBOK Guide, the project manager should consider the project delivery approach (predictive, agile, or hybrid) based on the project characteristics, such as complexity, uncertainty, stability, and adaptability. The project manager should also evaluate the impact of any changes to the project delivery approach on the project scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and stakeholder satisfaction. Therefore, the project manager should analyze the requirements that will need to be addressed under the agile approach and determine the feasibility, benefits, and drawbacks of switching from the predictive approach. This will help the project manager to make an informed decision and communicate it to the relevant stakeholders. References:
PMBOK Guide, 6th edition, pages 19-20, 141-142.
NEW QUESTION # 170
An organization is producing a product using a hybrid approach with several phases. Some of the phases are planned to be executed in predictive and some in agile. During the agile phase, the project manager notices that the team members sometimes unknowingly work on the same task.
What should the project manager do?
- A. Communicate the task assignments to the team members in a clear manner.
- B. Verify that the product owner has made the task assignments clear.
- C. Verify that the team members have made the task assignments clear.
- D. Confirm that the agile coach has made the task assignments clear.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION # 171
During a meeting with a customer, it was determined that participants of the meeting had different draft versions of an important design document. What should the project manager do first to ensure that this does not happen again?
- A. Ensure only the approved version is shared.
- B. Revisit the communication process control.
- C. Ensure only the latest version is shared.
- D. Investigate how draft versions were shared.
Answer: B
Explanation:
According to the PMBOKGuide, communication process control is the process of monitoring and controlling communications throughout the entire project life cycle to ensure the information needs of the project stakeholders are met1. It involves ensuring that the communication management plan is effective and updated as needed, managing the flow of information, resolving communication issues, and implementing approved changes to the communication methods or tools1.
In this scenario, the project manager should first revisit the communication process control to identify and address the root cause of why different draft versions of the design document were distributed to the meeting participants. This could involve reviewing the communication management plan, the configuration management plan, the change management plan, and the project documents updates to ensure that the communication process is aligned with the project objectives and stakeholder expectations. The project manager should also implement corrective actions to prevent the recurrence of such communication errors and improve the quality and consistency of the project information.
Options B, C, and D are possible actions that the project manager could take after revisiting the communication process control, but they are not the first step to ensure that this does not happen again. Option B is a preventive action that could help avoid confusion and ambiguity among the stakeholders, but it does not address the underlying issue of how different draft versions were shared in the first place. Option C is a detective action that could help identify the source of the problem, but it does not provide a solution or improvement to the communication process. Option D is a corrective action that could help resolve the current situation, but it does not prevent future occurrences of the same problem. References: 1 PMBOKGuide, 6th edition, page 377-378.
NEW QUESTION # 172
A complete set of concepts, terms, and activities that make up an area of specialization is known as:
- A. program management
- B. portfolio management
- C. a Knowledge Area
- D. a Process Group
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION # 173
You are the project manager within an information technology department of a large retailer. In order to allow for better real-time tracking, inventory control, and supply chain management, your company is financing a project to install and deploy RFID tags on all items of merchandise. As a project manger, you've just completed the Select Sellers process, and selected a vendor to perform the RFID installation and deployment.
After the contract is assigned with the vendor, the account manager from the vendor calls for thank you for selecting them. As a thank-you gift, they would like to give you and your project team tickets to a free dinner convention, where the vendor will be providing a demo if their latest RFID systems. How should you respond?
- A. You should not accept the gift, as it may have an appearance of impropriety
- B. Since the previous project manager had accepted the gift, the precedent has already been established within the organization. Hence, you can freely accept the gift.
- C. You should not accept the gift, unless the vendor is willing to extend this gift to other members of the project team
- D. You can freely accept the gift, since you were not aware of the gift during the selection process. The gift will not influence your decisions, and hence, there is no impropriety
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION # 174
You are managing a software project. During a walkthrough of newly implemented functionality, your team shows you a new feature that they have added to help make the work flow in the product easier for your client. The client didn't ask for the feature, but it does look like it will make the product easier to use. The team developed it on their own time because they wanted to make the client happy. You know this change would never have made it through change control. What is this an example of?
- A. Gold plating
- B. Scope creep
- C. Schedule Variance
- D. Alternatives Analysis
Answer: A
Explanation:
Gold plating is when you or your team add more work to the project that was not requested by the sponsor or client. It is always a bad idea to gold plate a project because the impact is sometimes not immediately known. Sometimes, a feature that might seem really useful to your team is actually a detriment to the client. Gold plated features can also introduce bugs that slow down later development.
NEW QUESTION # 175
You are the project manager. Which of the following would be required to ascertain what impact a change would have on the project in a situation where a customer requests a scope change in the project? Note: you already have the work breakdown structure, change request and scope management plan.
- A. A histogram
- B. A Pareto diagram
- C. A Monte Carlo simulation.
- D. Performance reports.
- E. A responsibility matrix.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 176
An output of the Create WBS process is:
- A. Accepted deliverables.
- B. Scope baseline.
- C. Change requests.
- D. Variance analysis.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 177
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