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product development team has team members located in four different countries. A senior manager is assigned the task of recruiting a project manager to manage this project and the virtual team.
Which skill is required for a project manager to successfully manage this team?
- A . Speaks several languages and has lived in different countries
- B . Possesses strong interpersonal skills to drive high-performing virtual teams
- C . Plans and controls every aspect of the team’s deliverables to avoid surprises
- D . Implements the organization’s standards and processes for the project
Midway through the execution of an agile project, there is a shift in the strategic objectives at the organization level to promote digital transformation.
What should the project manager do next?
- A . Prepare a user story to handle the change and assign it to the next iteration.
- B . Escalate to the product owner and cancel the upcoming iterations.
- C . Update the risk-prioritized backlog with the strategic change.
- D . Schedule a meeting with the team to assess the impact of the change.
An unforeseen event has shut down public works projects for 4 weeks. Activities on the critical path will fall behind based on the project schedule.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Add 4 additional weeks to the schedule and request additional resources.
- B . Ask the sponsor to obtain a special work permit to continue work.
- C . Review the project management plan to see the impact of the possible delay.
- D . Crash the resource management plan to keep the schedule on track.
A project team member is sick and will not be able to return to the project for a few weeks.
During the daily meeting, the team shares their concerns as the sick team member was the only one skilled in the component they were developing.
What should the project manager have done to prevent this?
- A . Requested robust documentation for the component’s build.
- B . Outsourced development of the specific component to another team.
- C . Acquired more than one resource skilled in each component.
- D . Facilitated cross-functional knowledge transfer during the project.
A project manager is assigned to work on a complex and innovative project. The technology being used and developed is new and complicated, and most of the stakeholders are unfamiliar with it.
Which approach should the project manager use as a servant leader?
- A . Ask stakeholders to find and self-fund education about this new technology.
- B . Allocate resources to provide training about the new technology to the stakeholders.
- C . Contact the project sponsor to get those stakeholders removed from the project.
- D . Escalate the issue with upper management to find a novel solution for this situation.
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.
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 state-of-the-art product was delivered at the end of a project life cycle. However, the customer claims the product was not designed to specifications.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this issue?
- A . The customer’s requirements should have been captured in order to meet the customer’s standards.
- B . The iteration review planning meeting should have been planned accordingly.
- C . The sprint retrospective meeting should have included necessary stakeholders.
- D . The customer’s requirements should have been captured and modified to meet the supplier’s standards.
By the end of the first sprint, a project lead notices that one of the team members is not performing very well.
Which form of communication should the project lead use to handle the situation?
- A . Informal written communication, such as a friendly reminder
- B . Formal written communication, such as an email with a copy sent to the manager
- C . Informal verbal communication, such as a conversation
- D . Formal verbal communication, such as a conversation at the end of the sprint retrospective
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.