PMP Exam Questions [Process Domain]

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You manage a construction project which is currently in the execution phase. A new governmental regulation affecting your project has been issued. To ensure that this regulation will be followed by your project, what should you do first?

Issue site instruction to the team to follow the regulation

Perform change control process

Seek senior management direction

Inform the customer of the new approach to adopt in the project

A project sponsor asks the Project Manager to change production materials because these materials could cause health problems to consumers. What is an appropriate step for the Project Manager to take?

Follow the perform integrated change control process and thoroughly investigate the matter.

Immediately implement the change and submit a change request for formal documentation.

End the current work and enact the change control process.

Reject the change because the request is outside of scope.

Georgette is a stakeholder in an agile project. During a planning meeting, she asked the team members why there is no formal documentation involved in this project, to which they answered that:

The documentation is kept to a bare minimum to only respond to regulatory requirements

Agile projects do not require any documentation as they only focus on delivering added value

Documentation in agile projects is only carried out for completed functionalities

Agile requires sophisticated documentation that they are lagging behind to produce

Six months into a strategic agile project, company exectives are closely monitoring its progress. The COO expresses his frustration that the last weekly burn-down charts show the projected completion date significantly moving back and forward several times. How can the project manager forecast the completion date with more accuracy and stability?

Ensure upcoming backlog items are elaborated in more detail with the team.

Educate the executive committee on the flexible nature of agile planning.

Plan for variable-size iterations according to story complexity and load.

Reduce frequency of the progress reports sent to senior stakeholders.

Tony is managing a marketing project for a political party. During a phone call with the party representative, the latter requested adding social media advertisements to the project. Tony informed the representative that he’s willing to include the service for an additional $8,000 to which the latter agreed. However, when Tony sent the invoice including the requested service, the representative refused to pay the additional cost. What could have been done differently to avoid this situation?

Tony should have chosen a more appropriate communication channel

The scope could have been cut to balance the cost of the additional service

Tony should have requested a lower price for the additional service

Nothing could have been done differently

A project sponsor is risk averse and is therefore concerned about negative impacts on the project. To help with this concern, the project team identifies four project risks and then evaluates both the probability of occurrence and the impact of the risk if it occurs. The team uses a 1-5 scale, 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest. Risk ProbabilityImpact A 4 4 B 2 5 C 2 3 D 3 4 Based on the table, in what order should the Project Manager rank these risks for risk management purposes?

B, A, D, C

B, C, A, D

A, D, B, C

C, D, A, B

You are a quality manager for a continuous improvement project. You would want to identify a sampling strategy for a population on basis of 3 categories of standard of living (high, medium low). Which type of sampling strategy would you be using here?

Attribute sampling

Variable sampling

Control sampling

Category sampling

Taylor is the project manager of a gaming equipment development project. The project team holds monthly status review meetings with the product owner to review deliverables produced post-iteration. Following the demo, the product owner dedicates part of the meeting to facilitate a general status review for the project. A good status review meeting uses __________ communication.

Interactive

Formal

Pull

Push

You are a project manager for a large project and your team just completed the risk audit process. The project sponsor informed you that the audit process failed miserably. What was missed by the project manager before?

Understanding individual and overall project risks

Periodically reviewing risk register and risk report

Defining risk audit format and effectiveness

Implementing all risk responses and seeking feedback from risk owners

A project team is examining the activities in the network daigram and adding the durations of the activities. They are determining the ---------

rescource requirements

critical path

costs

risks

Which of the following estimation techniques is not usually used in Agile?

Planning poker

Affinity estimating

Bottom-up estimating

Expert judgment

Assuming you are the new project manager of the latest technology aircraft project and you joined the project in the initial stages of the project. Your sponsor assures you that sufficient funds are available to manage this high profile project, but, you are concerned about upcoming threats and feel that it can cause roadblocks for the project’s success. What will the project manager do first?

Request the sponsor for management reserve to overcome these threats

Identify and assess these upcoming threats

Create risk responses for these upcoming threats

Monitor these upcoming threats and plan accordingly

Review the following project characteristics:-The project is in initiation.-Due to lack of funding, the project gets terminated.-The Project Manager must close the project.What is the first action the Project Manager should take?

Rely on the communications management plan to properly inform all stakeholders.

Examine the organization's project closure guidelines.

Determine the potential impact of terminating the project by performing a risk analysis.

Close all project procurement processes.

For this situation, the project manager will refer to the procurement statement of work (or SOW) to understand the project scope to be covered for the project. The procurement statement of work is a formal document that defines the entire scope of the work involved for a vendor and clarifies deliverables, costs, and timeline. The procurement documentation, Bid Documents, and Request for information do not provide information about the projects scope of work and hence these options will not be useful for the given scenario.

Procurement documentation

Bid documents

Procurement statement of work

Request for information

A project manager is in the Direct and Manage Project Work process and making sure that team is completing the work defined in the Project Management Plan to satisfy the project specifications and objectives. All of the following are executed in this process EXCEPT:

Implementing Changes that have been approved by CCB

Setting up a change control system

Managing team members and keeping them involved in the Project

Identifying required changes in the Project

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