Project Management Professional PMI Questions + Answers Part 20

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QUESTION 1758
During the planning stage of a project the project manager realizes that a standard stakeholder engagement approach will not suffice. One of the client representatives, who is not a key decision maker, is extremely opinionated. This client representative could become a roadblock to progress due to their perceived level of authority during meetings.
How should the project manager handle this moving forward?
A. Ask that only key decision makers attend the project meetings.
B. Update the project schedule to cater to this particular stakeholder.
C. Update the risk register to consider the possible project impacts.
D. Allocate time to gain buy-in from the stakeholder prior to key decision meetings.
Correct Answer: A Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1759
A new team member is added to a self-organizing team. The new team member is reluctant to speak and take part in team discussions or decisions. Which two actions should the team take to engage this new team member? (Choose two.)
A. Revisit the team’s discussion on team behaviors and norms.
B. Facilitate an open discussion on all ideas and perspectives.
C. Force the new team member to participate in activities that are considered easy. D. Coach the new team member to improve engagement with the team.
E. Report to the project manager about the new team member’s behavior.



Correct Answer: BD Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1760
The project velocity has recently slipped, and a decision was made to skip testing to increase the momentum and bring the project back on track. What will the project manager need to focus on as a result of this decision?
A. Increased burn rate
B. Increased cost
C. Increased technical debt D. Decreased efficiency
Correct Answer: C Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1761
During the last sprint review, the main stakeholder complained that the product was missing many features they had been expecting. The project team argued that every increment met the acceptance criteria and was approved by the main stakeholder. The cost performance index (CPI) of the project is 1.15 and the schedule performance index (SPI) is 1.43.
What should the project manager do?
A. Ask the stakeholder to submit a change request to increase the budget and time for the modifications requested.
B. Ask the project team to perform the modifications since the project budget and schedule can support them.
C. Explain to the stakeholder that since the acceptance criteria for every increment were met, the project can be closed. D. Analyze the reason for the gap in understanding with both sides and negotiate a solution.
Correct Answer: D Section: Mix Questions Explanation



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QUESTION 1762
A new project manager learns the work assigned to the team has already been decomposed to its lowest level. The project manager reviews the work and feels some additional, useful information is missing.
What should the project manager review?
A. The project charter and scope statement
B. The WBS dictionary
C. The requirements traceability matrix
D. The business requirement documents (BRD)
Correct Answer: A Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1763
A research and development team is finishing up a two year initiative. The project manager is focused on the closing activities for the project. Which activity should be considered as a priority?
A. Release the resources and plan for a project completion celebration.
B. Hold a steering committee meeting to inform them of the project completion.
C. Ensure that knowledge transfer activities are executed as planned.
D. Mark the product backlog completion status and update the communications management plan.
Correct Answer: C Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1764
A company has decided to implement a new archiving system. A data breach occurred during the implementation of the project.


What should the project manager do first?
A. Implement the planned risk response to handle the issue.
B. Update the risk register with the risk and proposed impact.
C. Ask the team to fix the system to resolve the issue.
D. Review possible alternative documentation methods with team.
Correct Answer: A Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1765
A project team with members from many different countries is struggling to cooperate. The project manager accepted these difficulties during the storming phase of team development, but the team has not moved to the next phase. The project is beginning to fall behind schedule.
What can the project manager do to move the team to the norming phase?
A. Show the team the schedule impact of their communication issues and encourage them to put their differences aside. B. Speak with the project sponsor about changing the team composition.
C. Figure out who is behind the issues and apply progressive disciplinary techniques.
D. Plan social activities to help foster stronger interpersonal relationships and identify shared goals.
Correct Answer: D Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1766
A company’s project management office (PMO) has been trying to implement an adaptive approach in the project management framework, and a project manager has been asked to use adaptive tools in their next project. This is not the first time the request has been made, and the previous project failed when adaptive tools were implemented.
What should the project manager do?



A. Prepare a change request and seek approval from the steering committee regarding the new project framework.
B. Recommend to the PMO that it is not the right time to start implementing adaptive tools in projects.
C. Bring in a third party company to develop and implement a hybrid framework for this specific project.
D. Conduct individual interviews with key stakeholders in order to understand all concerns, then prepare a communications management plan.
Correct Answer: D Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1767
The project manager has learned that the project sponsor is unhappy with the development of the project requirements. In order to realign the project with the sponsor's expectations, what should the project manager do?
A. Perform a stakeholder evaluation.
B. Review the project goal diagram with the team.
C. Confirm which templates the team should be using. D. Review the risk management plan.
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1768
To estimate the costs of a new project that is similar to a project that was implemented last year, the project manager meets with a group of experts from the previous project. The group uses a three-point estimating technique. The project manager submits the estimated budget to the project sponsor for approval. The project sponsor, who is new to the company, is concerned because the budget exceeded their expectations.
What should the project manager do?
A. Review the historical information and lessons learned from last year’s project to justify the new budget estimate.
B. Use soft skills to convince the project sponsor to approve the new budget estimate.
C. Change the budgeting technique to a more accurate, bottom-up cost estimation.
D. Review the organizational process assessment to determine if a contingency reserve was considered in the budget estimate.



Correct Answer: A Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1769
An organization is transitioning to agile and a project has been chosen as a pilot. The assigned project manager only has experience using predictive approaches, but the project manager is now required to use agile approaches with the help of an agile coach. During the retrospective of the fifth sprint, the project team complains that many obstacles exist with the organization that are creating project delays and rework.
What should the project manager do in this situation?
A. Perform a root cause analysis during the standup meetings.
B. Create a dedicated sprint to solve the obstacles with the team. C. Include impediment resolutions during daily standup meetings. D. Promote collaboration to help remove the obstacles for the team.
Correct Answer: D Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1770
Some members of a project team are frustrated by a new team member who previously worked in a Scrum setting. This new team member approaches members of the project team on a daily basis in what appears to be an attempt to engage in individual standup meetings.
What should the project manager do?
A. Tell the rest of the project team to continue discussions with the new team member.
B. Send an email to the project team outlining the communications strategy.
C. Schedule a meeting for the project team to review the communications management plan. D. Mentor the new team member on the methodology the project team is using.
Correct Answer: D Section: Mix Questions



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QUESTION 1771
After a couple of iterations, the project manager decides to present the product to a key stakeholder. The stakeholder’s feedback is that the team missed the mark on many features.
What should the project manager do to avoid this in the future?
A. Schedule adequate sprint demos to gather early feedback from the stakeholders and adapt the plan accordingly.
B. Set up requirements-gathering sessions with all key stakeholders to evaluate the scope once again and reprioritize the backlog based on the sessions. C. Evaluate the team's skills to look for someone with experience in product design and assign that person the task of rebuilding the product interface.
D. Incorporate design thinking practices into the project life cycle to better understand the product's personas and be more effective to match their needs.
Correct Answer: A Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1772
The project manager is having difficulty obtaining approval of the project requirements because there is disagreement among the project stakeholders. This issue is putting the project schedule at risk.
What should the project manager do first to facilitate the approval of project requirements?
A. Identify the source of the disagreement. B. Hold a team-building event.
C. Perform a stakeholder analysis.
D. Review the project charter.
Correct Answer: A Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1773
An agile project is running its fifth iteration out of eight. After the last iteration planning, the team was informed that there is a new competitor in the market, and it is necessary to move faster to ensure market share is not missed.
What should the project manager do?
A. Add the competitor’s functionalities to the product backlog to improve the product. B. Help the team to find a new approach to launch the product as soon as possible. C. Ask the team to increase the velocity to launch the product as soon as possible. D. Ask the sponsor to add more people to the team.
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1774
An external project manager is managing the construction of new corporate offices for a large company. The project management plan states that it is necessary to contract a highly trained external resource to revise and validate an important project component. The client has rejected hiring the external resource because of the high cost, even though it is within the project budget.
What should the project manager do to resolve this issue?
A. Ask the client for a meeting and explain that the task will not be performed.
B. Evaluate the consequences and meet with the client to explain the possible scenarios. C. Try to accomplish the task internally by leveling resources from other projects.
D. Hire the resource in order to achieve the project objectives.
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1775
During the implementation phase of a construction project, the customer asked a key subcontractor to deliver a work package ahead of time. The subcontractor was


not prepared for it and asked the project manager for additional budget. What should the project manager do first?
A. Submit a change request to accelerate the project as requested.
B. Ask upper management for more funds, and update the project budget. C. Update the risk register and project log, and manage the budget closely. D. Revise the project scope accordingly to cope with the budget changes.
Correct Answer: C Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1776
A project manager has been assigned to a project and receives the project charter from the project management office (PMO). The document is very clear about customer requests. During Project Scope Management, some requirements seem to be different from the ones specified within the project charter.
What should the project manager do?
A. Register the changes in the configuration management plan and send it to the change control board (CCB). B. Explain to the sponsor that these requests could endanger the schedule and cost of the project.
C. Use a focus group and brainstorming sessions to gather more details about the project scope.
D. Modify the baseline of the project for minor impact changes to the project scope.
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1777
After gathering all the requirements for a project with dependencies on external stakeholders, the project team is finishing the second iteration. At this point, the project manager learns about a possible change in regulations that would prevent the product launch.
What should the project manager do to realize benefits?



A. Implement the changes.
B. Improve the team’s velocity. C. Add an entry in the risk log. D. Review target benefits.
Correct Answer: C Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1778
A company’s project management office (PMO) has started to implement iterative tools. A project manager is starting a new project and has identified an opportunity to use the iterative tools. One of the senior managers is concerned about this modified framework as it is fairly new to the company.
What should the project manager do first?
A. Send documentation to the senior manager about the advantages of the new framework.
B. Escalate the senior manager’s concern to the project sponsor and distribute the status to the team.
C. Look for external training on the new framework to eliminate the risk of low engagement from stakeholders. D. Organize individual sessions with the stakeholders to build awareness and trust in the new framework.
Correct Answer: D Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1779
After completion of a project with specific users in various countries, the project manager’s supervisor asks if the project users are satisfied with the way the project was run. What two actions should the project manager take? (Choose two.)
A. Send a questionnaire to the project participants and seek their feedback.
B. Prepare the lessons learned from the project phase.
C. Deliver the project materials to the users and see if they have any comments. D. Obtain official approval on the new process from the various countries.
E. Refer to the communications management plan.



Correct Answer: AE Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1780
During a retrospective meeting, a project manager hears that stakeholders have been constantly complaining at iteration demos about product features not being delivered as requested. What advice should the project manager give to the product owner to ensure that product features are always delivered as requested?
A. Validate acceptance criteria with stakeholders prior to backlog refinement. B. Avoid including stakeholders in iteration reviews.
C. Include stakeholders during daily standup meetings to monitor progress. D. Create a requirements traceability matrix and distribute it accordingly.
Correct Answer: A Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1781
A project manager is responsible for building a bridge. The high-level elements of the project are handled using a predictive approach. The software responsible for retracting the bridge has been developed based on agile principles. During software development, the workflow is often interrupted by various delays or impediments due to lack of information.
How should the project manager handle this situation?
A. Apply lean manufacturing to limit the team’s work. B. Make work visible using kanban boards.
C. Incorporate small batches of work into the project. D. Increase retrospectives to deliver results fast.
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation



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QUESTION 1782
A team has been working on a project for several months, but the completion date is unclear because the scope is changing frequently as new knowledge is gained. Some deliverables have already been completed, but when new stakeholders join the team, they complain that project outcomes are not meeting business goals.
How can the project manager prevent this situation from happening in the future?
A. Schedule a kick-off meeting for every project phase to share the project management plan with all stakeholders. B. Create a detailed work breakdown structure (WBS) and milestone schedule approved by all stakeholders.
C. Create a prioritized backlog and define iteration review sessions with stakeholders.
D. Schedule a daily meeting to review team performance and impediments.
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1783
During initiation of a new product improvement project, a project manager finds historical data showing that a similar project resulted in customers complaining of an even worse user experience compared to the previous product version. How can the project manager prevent this outcome in the new project?
A. Hire a consultant to perform a benefit analysis as an input to the project charter.
B. Define a high-level risk and plan mitigation after completing the work breakdown structure (WBS). C. Define a user focus group as external stakeholders with a high influence on outcomes.
D. Hire a team of external users to perform acceptance testing on the product.
Correct Answer: C Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1784
A team has different ideas on how to address a feature of a product under construction and, although the sprint began two days ago, they have still not reached a consensus. What should the project manager do?



A. Schedule a session to give everyone the chance to express their opinions about each idea, then vote and decide. B. Offer an opinion about the pros and cons of each idea and try to reach a consensus in a facilitated meeting.
C. Ask the product owner, who is the key stakeholder, to choose among the different ideas.
D. Propose ideas to the group, ask everyone to vote, and then choose the most popular idea.
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1785
During the execution of a project, the project manager notices that only one team member has one of the technical skills needed to build the product. The project manager is afraid this might have a future impact on the quality and schedule, because most of the upcoming activities will require at least three people with this specific skill.
What two actions should the project manager take to prevent the team from being unqualified? (Choose two.)
A. Teach the entire team the new skill.
B. Encourage working in pairs and knowledge sharing.
C. Increase the time estimates on the activities that require such abilities. D. Facilitate a training event with an external trainer.
E. Exclude the activities from the roadmap.
Correct Answer: BC Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1786
During the daily meetings with the team, the project manager notices that a new team member is not making the expected progress on an assigned task. What should the project manager do?
A. Ask an experienced team member to coach the new team member. B. Ask the new team member to follow the team ground rules.



C. Ask an experienced team member to identify a replacement. D. Ask the new team member to reassess their own capabilities.
Correct Answer: A Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1787
After a meeting with the customer, the project manager receives special recognition because the project is always on schedule. Later that day, the project manager attends a regular project team meeting to follow up on the status of the deliverables.
What should the project manager do in the project team meeting?
A. Follow the meeting agenda and make a list of the next deliverables. B. Share the customer feedback with the project team.
C. Document this feedback in the meeting minutes.
D. Start planning how to improve the dates of next deliverables.
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1788
The team is working on a critical project deliverable and the project manager is concerned about meeting the deadline. There have been complaints from some stakeholders about some of the team members’ performance. The project manager wants to understand the situation and provide feedback to the team as soon as possible.
What three actions should the project manager take to address this situation? (Choose three.)
A. Implement daily team meetings. B. Define team ground rules.
C. Perform a retrospective session. D. Conduct an annual review.
E. Request a manager performance review.



Correct Answer: ABC Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1789
A new project has been kicked off following a planning session. The project is under direct oversight of an executive in the organization. After a review meeting, the project manager overhears an executive request a dashboard from one of the team members to show the overall project status.
What should the project manager do?
A. Update the communications management plan to include informal requests. B. Ask the team member to develop a dashboard to fulfill the request.
C. Update the stakeholder engagement assessment matrix.
D. Tell the team member to route the request through the project manager.
Correct Answer: D Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1790
A project manager works with a global virtual team. The team is facing difficulty in communicating with each other and often misses important messages. This difficulty leads to missed deadlines.
What should the project manager do to enhance project team effectiveness?
A. Implement team colocation to improve communication. B. Identify the root cause of communication issues.
C. Initiate daily communication of project progress.
D. Schedule a communications control board meeting.
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation



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QUESTION 1791
The project manager just started leading a project team from which the previous project manager resigned. After a quick evaluation of the project, it is apparent that team morale is low due to continuous disagreement about how to complete tasks. Tasks are taking longer than forecasted and the project is off schedule.
What should the project manager do?
A. Inform the stakeholders that the project will be delayed due to previous team management.
B. Crash the project timeline to ensure the project is back on schedule.
C. Conduct a meeting with the project team to discuss and address the sources of disagreement. D. Issue a change request to extend the project schedule based on identified delays.
Correct Answer: C Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1792
Team members are having a discussion with the project manager. In the last retrospective meeting, the team realized that the obsolete equipment could affect the next iteration of the project. The team recommends buying new equipment because it is critical to the success of the final deliverable.
What should the project manager do next?
A. Submit a change request to increase the budget and buy new equipment.
B. Review the cost management plan to determine how to address this issue.
C. Tell the team members that more equipment is not part of the project’s scope. D. Check the project budget to verify if there is enough contingency reserve.
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1793
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. Communications management plan B. Stakeholder engagement plan
C. Stakeholder register
D. Project management plan
Correct Answer: A Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1794
A project team has recently completed the initial sprint for developing an automated payroll system for a company. The project manager has scheduled a sprint planning meeting with the product owner and team members to discuss which features should be worked on next.
Which two pieces of information does the project manager need in order to make this meeting productive and effective? (Choose two.)
A. Sprint goal
B. Product backlog
C. Company mission and vision D. Burndown chart
E. Sprint charter
Correct Answer: AB Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1795
The CEO has authorized the development of a complex financial product for a company to provide greater future benefits. The budget has been acquired through financing with global investors who expect all risks to be identified as soon as possible.



What should the project manager use to identify the risks?
A. A risk value assessment
B. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis C. Expert judgment
D. An analysis of shared risks between parties
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1796
The project manager of an agile project has been asked to reduce the budget by 30%. Since this is a small project team, the budget is primarily allocated to resources.
What strategy should the project manager use in order to keep delivering value in a restricted environment?
A. Restrict the project scope only to basic critical features, and run the project with the current staffing level until all of the budget is consumed.
B. Reduce the project staff and adjust the scope and timelines accordingly in support of the budget reduction.
C. Balance the project team in order to accommodate the budget challenges, and provide training to mitigate the risk of low performance.
D. Prioritize the product backlog looking for high business value and low effort, and adjust the project budget and staffing to account for those items.
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1797
A project for a new product launch is in a very initial stage and the requirements are evolving. Due to stiff competition in the market, the customer would like to launch the product keeping the scope flexible. The project team intends to start the work based on the forecast of a similar project delivered last year.
Which project approach suits the scenario? A. Execute it as a Scrum project.



B. Execute it using the same approach as the reference project. C. Execute it as a project with stage gates.
D. Execute it as a predictive project.
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1798
A company’s CEO has just returned from a conference on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and would like the project manager to implement this technology in the organization. What should the project manager do first?
A. Start a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT). B. Engage stakeholders and allocate resources.
C. Start developing a business case.
D. Gather requirements from stakeholders.
Correct Answer: C Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1799
A team member misses a project meeting without it being approved and has been penalized as defined in the ground rules. This team member, as well as other team members, insist that it is the first time they have seen this rule regarding the project, and they do not agree with the penalty.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?
A. Distributed the project charter to all team members.
B. Ensured the team charter was developed by the team members. C. Used a charismatic leadership style.
D. Ensured the team members are fully supportive of all decisions.
Correct Answer: B



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QUESTION 1800
An organization is introducing agile to its projects. During an informal discussion, the project manager learned that team members who are currently working on different teams are discussing how they would like to be together on the same team.
What should the project manager do?
A. The project manager should not allow resources to choose teams because the project manager assigns the resources based upon project needs.
B. The project manager should allow the resources to periodically choose on which team they would like to work.
C. The project manager should not allow resources to choose on which team they would like to work because they will always choose their favorite team. D. The project manager should indicate that the team members have already been assigned to a team through workforce optimization.
Correct Answer: D Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1801
A project manager is managing a project which has a very complex and long execution period. Although the project is mostly predictive, the team was able to break the design and execution into smaller packages using a hybrid framework. The business wants to keep track of the value delivered by this framework application, but there is no defined set of measurable items for the framework.
What should the project manager do first?
A. Use the same benefits tracking process from the last predictive project and add this to the monthly status report.
B. Create a report based on the work breakdown structure (WBS) and update it on a regular basis.
C. Work with the stakeholders to determine which measurable benefits can be tracked and assign an accountable person to monitor and report them. D. Research which templates of reports were used the most for this framework and incorporate them into the project.
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation



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QUESTION 1802
A junior staff member was recently assigned to the team. The new team member tells the project manager that they are confused because they are not familiar with what is expected of them on the project.
What should the project manager do to assist the new team member?
A. Instruct the new team member to review the responsible, accountable, consult, and inform (RACI) matrix before asking for help. B. Advise the new team member to review the project charter and stakeholder engagement plan.
C. Advise the new team member to enroll in project management training.
D. Review the resource management plan and provide mentoring to the new team member if necessary.
Correct Answer: D Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1803
A project manager has two projects that are being executed at the same time. The duration of the critical project must be reduced, but the project manager does not have enough resources to achieve this goal. In addition, the schedule does not have activities that can be overlapped.
What should the project manager do?
A. Analyze both projects to determine the most effective use of common resources.
B. Provide schedule optimization training to the project teams to improve their skills.
C. Use resource optimization to justify requesting more resources for the critical project. D. Apply fast-tracking techniques to compress the schedule of the critical project.
Correct Answer: A Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1804



Early in the execution phase, a project manager discovers that recent changes in enterprise environmental factors (EEFs) will severely reduce the implementation cost and shorten the project schedule. How should the project manager address this situation?
A. Meet with the project team to decide how the remaining budget will be spent. B. Follow the project escalation policy and communications management plan. C. Keep the extra budget as management reserve until project closeout.
D. Give the team extra time to finish tasks within the original timeline.
Correct Answer: C Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1805
A project manager realizes that a project is becoming delayed because some key decisions are affected by contradicting views between the organization’s senior management and external stakeholders. What should the project manager do?
A. Review the remaining scope and rebaseline the project’s schedule to take into account delays in decision making.
B. Review the stakeholder register and ensure that communications are being followed in line with the communications management plan. C. Isolate the project team from external factors such as senior management and stakeholders so that decisions can be made more quickly. D. Review the adequacy of the project’s governance and ensure that an appropriate structure is in place.
Correct Answer: A Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1806
During an inspection, the production phase was stopped because the inspector claimed that regulatory labels were missing. What should the project manager do?
A. Review the risk management plan.
B. Update the lessons learned register.
C. Review the quality management plan. D. Conduct an expert judgment evaluation.



Correct Answer: C Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1807
A project manager has received an updated earned value analysis report.
The following are the key findings from the report: Budget at completion = US$1 million
Earned value = US$0.7 million
Actual cost = US$0.75 million
Cost performance index = 0.933
Based on this information, what should the project manager conclude about project performance?
A. The project will be completed exactly as planned. B. The project will be easier to complete than planned. C. The project will be difficult to complete as planned. D. The project will not be completed as planned.
Correct Answer: C Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1808
A project just kicked off and management’s expectation is to ensure that the deliverable of the first iteration helps the marketing team present the product prototype to potential customers. What should the project manager do?
A. Increase the details of the work breakdown structure (WBS) to minimize errors and delays. B. Split the backlog into phases to ensure that the key features are delivered first.
C. Identify the minimum functionality required for the product.
D. Ask the sponsor to prioritize some functionalities of the product.
Correct Answer: D



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QUESTION 1809
Which three of the following scenarios are impediments to which a scrum master should pay attention? (Choose three.)
A. A technology that blocks agile capabilities
B. A lack of team empowerment and an inability to self-organize
C. A review of the backlog at daily standup meetings
D. A team member talking about a user story that is on the Scrum board
E. A team member talking about a user story that is not on the Scrum board
Correct Answer: ABE Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1810
A project manager presented the project schedule to the main stakeholders. They have requested that the project be completed two months earlier than the scheduled date.
What should the project manager do?
A. Hold a stakeholder meeting to align timelines and scope expectations.
B. Crash the schedule to shorten the timeline while keeping the scope unchanged.
C. Update the cost management plan to allocate more resources to the project to finish the scope earlier. D. Reduce the scope of the project by removing activities and shortening the timeline.
Correct Answer: A Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1811
A project in the execution phase is behind schedule and is missing some materials. The contractor submits an offer to supply the missing materials and reimburse the cost since the internal procurement process will cause more delay. The project manager does not agree with the costs submitted by the contractor for the missing materials.
What should the project manager do next?
A. Update the procurement strategy and negotiate with the contractor.
B. Update the procurement management plan and negotiate with the contractor. C. Ask the contractor to review the offer and reduce the costs.
D. Ask the project sponsor to allocate more budget to cover the costs.
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1812
A team is working on implementing a communications system when the client says that they are considering closing the project. The project manager schedules an urgent meeting with the client to understand why the project is at risk.
Which two tools or techniques can the project manager use to influence the client's decision to keep the project active? (Choose two.)
A. Alternatives analysis
B. Cost-benefit analysis
C. Voting
D. Autocratic decision making E. Multi-criteria decision making
Correct Answer: BE Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1813
A group has been working together for one month. During daily meetings, a team member continues to express issues in completing their tasks.


What should the project manager do?
A. Start a discussion with all team members to help resolve the issues.
B. Wait for the team to identify and solve the problem independently.
C. Move the team member to another task that is more skill appropriate.
D. Have a confidential discussion with the team member to identify the root cause.
Correct Answer: D Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1814
During the implementation phase of a project, a new regulation affects the project, and a critical status meeting discussing the scope changes is required. The project manager discovers that a key stakeholder cannot attend the scheduled meeting.
What should the project manager do?
A. Update the communications management plan and implement the change.
B. Meet with the project sponsor to discuss how to address the situation.
C. Meet with the stakeholder prior to the meeting to obtain their opinion.
D. Call for a change control board (CCB) meeting, and inform the stakeholder about the outcome.
Correct Answer: C Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1815
A project to develop a large hydropower plant is in the implementation phase and is managed using a hybrid approach. What should the project manager do to ensure full compliance of quality requirements during the execution phase?
A. Continually survey the quality of the deliverable. B. Set up quality policies and procedures.



C. Plan quality management.
D. Analyze the quality requirements.
Correct Answer: C Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1816
An organization is embarking on the deployment of a new digital solution that will revolutionize purchasing services. The project manager has created all the necessary plans and activities to ensure a successful integration and solution launch. There is a risk of a partner’s system being unavailable which could impact the project negatively.
What key activity is needed to ensure the project's success?
A. Continuously monitor the risk of the partner system’s unavailability, and put the proper resolution plans in place in case the risk materializes into an actual issue. B. Communicate to the project stakeholders that full integration may not be possible and that the project will potentially be delayed as a result.
C. Eliminate the risk by mandating the partner to change the system settings to facilitate an easier integration with the new solution.
D. Mitigate the risk by developing alternative plans to make the solution ready and available without full integration capabilities.
Correct Answer: A Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1817
The project manager has observed that two team members have been arguing with each other openly at meetings. To push their ideas through, each team member individually spoke with the sponsor directly and made decisions without informing the project manager or other team members.
What two actions should project manager take? (Choose two.)
A. Discuss the behavior directly with their managers and request them to correct the behavior. B. Address the behavioral issue with each team member.
C. Ask the team members to work it out themselves.
D. Discuss this situation with other project managers and ask for advice.
E. Reiterate ground rules at the next meeting and ensure that all team members are clear about these rules.


Correct Answer: BE Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1818
During project execution, a project manager is informed that most of the project team members have enrolled in the newly implemented work-from-home company policy. How should the project manager reflect this change in the project?
A. Update the stakeholder engagement plan to include the emergency contact information for enrolled team members. B. Update the resource calendar for enrolled team members in the resource management plan.
C. Update the communication styles for enrolled team members in the communications management plan.
D. Update roles and responsibilities for enrolled team members in the responsibility assignment matrix (RAM).
Correct Answer: C Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1819
A new team member has joined an agile project, replacing a team member who recently left. The project team needs the new team member to speed up their ability to contribute effectively to the project.
What should the project manager do to help in this situation?
A. Assign the new team member the same tasks that were assigned to the previous team member who they replaced. B. Schedule knowledge transfer sessions and assign less complex tasks to the new team member.
C. Send technical documentation to the new team member and schedule training for the next iteration.
D. Have the new team member complete all of the company’s mandatory training.
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1820
A project manager at a company is considering a high-performing junior member of the organization to be the new project manager for a current project. What should the project manager do to prepare for a recommendation to senior management?
A. Compile key highlights featuring the team member from the meeting minutes. B. Calculate the health of the projects on which the team member has worked.
C. Ask the team member to write a short biography listing their qualifications.
D. Gather project artifacts that demonstrate the team member’s high performance.
Correct Answer: D Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1821
During the implementation of a project, the project team discovered a new opportunity. After an internal review, the project team agreed that the opportunity is outside of the project scope. The project manager decided to update the risk register and escalate the opportunity to a higher level.
What should the project manager do next with this opportunity?
A. Establish a contingency reserve to support the opportunity. B. No more action is required.
C. Further monitor the opportunity.
D. Share this opportunity with another project.
Correct Answer: A Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1822
A project manager finished reviewing the project deliverables for the current iteration with the customer. A new key stakeholder, who just joined the customer’s team, complains that the results do not provide the capabilities the business anticipated.



What should the project manager do to address this issue?
A. Update the stakeholder list and fix the deliverables.
B. Create a change request and update the scope management plan.
C. Update the project management plan and lessons learned.
D. Conduct stakeholder identification and a project objectives review session.
Correct Answer: D Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1823
A project manager accepts a delivery at the project site but the items are of a poor quality. The project manager gets the local vendor to fix the items but more deliveries from this vendor are expected.
What should the project manager do going forward?
A. Have the vendor issue the quality documentation prior to the next delivery.
B. Allocate extra time to inspect deliveries for quality assurance upon arrival at the site.
C. Review the contract requirements and ask for the applicable evidence for quality assurance. D. Call the vendor and have them verbally guarantee the quality of the next site delivery.
Correct Answer: C Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1824
During a project’s third iteration, two of the existing team members were replaced. As the project entered the next iteration, the team velocity dropped and the performance started to slip.
What should the project manager do?
A. Discuss the decrease in productivity with human resources. B. Escalate the issue to the project sponsor.



C. Guide the team to revert back to the forming and storming stages.
D. Convene a team building event to address key performance indicators (KPIs).
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1825
A project manager has been asked to lead a project. The performing organization does not have a project management office (PMO) or formal governance policies, procedures, and guidelines for this type of project.
What should the project manager do first to determine a governance approach for the project?
A. Choose either a predictive or agile framework best suited to the nature of the project, and use this framework as the basis for project governance policies, procedures, and guidelines.
B. Consult with team members and stakeholders to determine whether the organization has any informal governance policies, procedures, and guidelines.
C. Coach the self-managing team to produce tailored governance policies, procedures, and guidelines for the project.
D. Consult a subject matter expert (SME) as to the best governance policies, procedures, and guidelines to be used by the project.
Correct Answer: B Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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QUESTION 1826
During the course of a project, the project manager wants to ensure that the work carried out and the product being created do not deviate from the prescribed business value. What should the project manager pay special attention to in order to achieve this goal?
A. Monitoring the work breakdown structure (WBS)
B. Monitoring and updating the benefits realization plan
C. Carrying out quality audits and failure analyses
D. Reviewing and updating the requirements management plan
Correct Answer: C Section: Mix Questions



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QUESTION 1827
A key project stakeholder who was a big supporter and motivator for the project team is leaving the organization. The project team is experiencing low morale and poor teamwork.
What should the project manager do to improve morale?
A. Forge consensus through team participation.
B. Set goals and push the team to achieve the goals. C. Build team connections and emotional bonds.
D. Identify the wants and aspirations of the team.
Correct Answer: D Section: Mix Questions Explanation
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