PMP Mock Exam - 1. Shadi is working as a project manager of a s...

PMP Mock Exam

GRADED A+ (ACTUAL EXAM ) Questions and Answers (Solved)

• Shadi is working as a project manager of a software development project. The

project is following a Scrum methodology. In the daily scrum meeting, the development team always comes to meetings late. Which of the following is most likely to be the cause of this problem?

• The team resents the work that they're doing.
• The team is in the storming phase of team development.

*C. The project manager was late to meetings himself, and this influenced the team.*

• The project manager needs to schedule meetings later in the day.

• Sami was assigned as the project manager for the highest priority project within

the organization. A constraint of the project is that the budget is very tight, and the senior management wants to monitor the project cash out closely. Due to this constraint, and after the first couple of months, Sami real- ized it takes an extra two weeks to get approvals on any purchase order over

$10,000. Out of the listed options, which should be Sami's best action?:

• Ignore the situation; Sami is not responsible for the approval of purchase orders.
• Record the information in the project records.

*C. Document the information in your Lessons Learned.*

• Adjust the purchasing practices to keep all purchases under $10,000.

• A project manager working in your organization has just finished a critical

construction project that has not gone well. Apart from cost overruns and schedule overruns, there have been a lot of quality defects and the project required a lot of senior management intervention to finally reach completion. Among the listed

options, what should be the project manager's action?:

• Mask bad data and only present good data since his performance appraisal will

otherwise be impacted.

• Focus on presenting the data in positive light while ensuring that the reasons for

the delays and problems are appropriately documented.*C. Document lessons learned from the project and update the lessons learned knowledge database.*

• Focus on closing the project and moving on to the next one. Lessons learned is not 1 / 4

applicable to this project since it has gone badly.

• You are the project manager for your organization. Management has asked you to

document the national holidays, weekends, and other corporate work- ing hours, which will supersede the project timings for your schedule. Which calendar will communicate to the project stakeholders, when the *project work* will take place

within the organization?:

• Company calendar

*B. Project calendar*

• Resource calendar
• Organizational calendar

• As a recently assigned project manager for the most critical project for your

organization, you are aware of the importance of *common understand- ing* of the key deliverables, milestones, and their roles and responsibilities for the project

success. Which of the following activities can be done to ensure this?:

• Obtain project charter approval from the sponsor.
• Identify key deliverables based on the business requirements.
• Perform project assessment based upon available information, lessons learned from

previous projects, and meetings with relevant stakeholders.*D. Inform stakeholders of the approved project charter.*

• You were assigned as a project manager for a $7 million project which your

contracting company was awarded one week ago. You started your efforts through identifying high level risks, assumptions, and constraints based on the current environment, organizational factors, historical data, and expert judgment. The project sponsor approached you to know why you are performing these activities. Which of

the following should be your best reply?:

• You are performing these activities in order to align expectations and gain

support for the project.

• You are performing these activities in order to manage customer expectations and

direct the achievement of project goals.

• You are performing these activities in order to validate project alignment with

organizational strategy and expected business value.*D. You are performing these activities in order to propose an implementation 2 / 4

strategy.*

• The project manager has just determined that four functional managers with a

high interest in the project hold a particularly high degree of influence in the allocation of enterprise resources. *Where is the project manager likely to document this

information?*:

• Stakeholder analysis

*B. Stakeholder register*

• Stakeholder engagement plan
• Resource management plan

• You are responsible for a project in your organization that has multiple internal

customers. Because many people in your organization are interested in this project, you decide to prepare a stakeholder management strategy.

*Before preparing this strategy,* which of the following should be done?:

*A. Conduct a stakeholder analysis to assess information needs*

• Determine the potential impact that each stakeholder may generate
• Determine a production schedule to show when each stakeholder needs each type

of information produced

• Prioritize each stakeholder's level of interest and influence

• Yara is the project manager of an event management project, she is addressing

risks or potential concerns related to stakeholder management and is anticipating future issues that may be raised by stakeholders. What

*process* is she performing?:

• Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
• Manage Communications
• Monitor Communications

*D. Manage Stakeholder Engagement*

• In your project, as part of the manage communications process, you have

created an information retrieval system, which helps team members and stakeholders

to share information. What will you do next?:

• Create a communications management plan. 3 / 4

• Determine methods of assessing information for scheduled communications.
• Identify and document the approach to communicate effectively with the stake-

holders.*D. Conduct regular status review meetings to exchange information on the pro- ject.*

• Dima has recently been asked to manage the deployment of an enterprise resource

planning system for her real estate development organization. Dima has sent her project sponsor a meeting request to discuss her project's stakeholder management plan. The sponsor believes that the stakeholder management planning is not relevant for such internal projects. The sponsor believes that only the scope, schedule and cost management plans are sufficient for such projects. The sponsor has asked Dima to describe the objective of the meeting. Which of the following is the best response of

the sponsor question?:

• The objective of the meeting is to conform to the PMBOK standards.
• The objective of the meeting is to develop the project stakeholder register.

*C. The objective of the meeting is to develop strategies to effectively keep the project stakeholders engaged and committed to the project.*

• The objective of the meeting is to identify and classify project stakeholders.

• As a project manager of a mega construction project that contains more than 82

team members, you realize that there is a continuous conflict be- tween two of the

project team members. What is the best approach to handle these conflicts?:

*A. The best approach is to address the conflicts immediately and in a direct way involving both members, but preferably in private.*

• The best approach is to ignore conflicts because they are common and unavoid- able

in all of the projects.

• Conflicts are harmful to the project's progress, therefore you need to smooth them

when they happen.

• It's suggested to handle conflicts in the team meetings so that everybody in the

project team learns from them.

• You have a team of 8 software engineers working on your project. Two of the

engineers have frequent disagreements. You ask them to resolve their differences through a discussion. However, that does not yield any results. Subsequently, you get involved and based on an analysis of the situation, suggest some changes in the way they work with each other. This still does not yield results and you find that the project schedule is beginning to suffer. As the project manager, what is your next

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