PMP Certification Exam Page 2(Dumps)

Question No:-11

A project team consisting of four team members will be rolling out a company-wide application to both staff and contractors in a country. To deliver within strict the time lines, a local company skilled in application deployment and change management will need to be contracted.

What should the project manager do to empower the local company?

  1. Manage expectations and agree on the requirements that the contractor will deliver under the supervision of the project manager
  2. Begin to roll out the application by micromanaging the contractor
  3. Set expectations and agree on the requirements that the contractor will deliver with periodic progress reports
  4. Deploy the contractor's staff under the supervision of the project manager

Question No:-12

A project manager is managing a construction project that is facing challenges. There is schedule overrun, cost overrun, and the client is unhappy with the specific scope progress.

What should the project manager do first?

  1. Review the scope and project objectives.
  2. Enforce the penalty clause on the supplier.
  3. Take action to reduce the cost overrun.
  4. Work with the client on the scope completion.

Question No:-13

In a geographically distributed project team, the project team members continue to email status reports and update schedules after their weekly meeting discussions. However, the team is having difficulty tracking the changes and progress made.

What should the project manager do?

  1. Facilitate training on version control and project artifacts.
  2. Maintain separate document control via regions to avoid discrepancies.
  3. Maintain a central repository of artifacts with a version control system.
  4. Develop a document management software for version control.

Question No:-14

A project manager has been assigned to a project where collaboration with the business is a critical key factor. The project manager is not sure about which approach to use. A senior project manager has been assigned to help the project manager.

What advice should the senior project manager provide?

  1. Work with the project manager to develop a new approach that will bring benefits to the project
  2. Suggest using an agile approach since customer and team collaboration is critical for project success
  3. Establish a project management methodology that requires the customer to provide daily updates to the team
  4. Provide a project management template for the project manager to follow as a guide

Question No:-5

A project manager is managing a large project. A stakeholder has just discovered a new risk that has not been identified in earlier stages.

What should the project manager do?

  1. Confirm to the stakeholder that the risk register has been completed and validated by all stakeholders
  2. Perform a risk analysis directly with the stakeholder who raised the risk and update the risk register
  3. Communicate the risk to the steering committee and request a mitigation plan from senior management
  4. Add the risk to the risk register and reevaluate the register with help from the project team and stakeholders

Question No:-16

A Scrum team is analyzing the burndown chart on day four of a 15-day sprint. The burndown chart is shown below.

What should the team do next?

sprint burndownchart

  1. Ask the product owner if some low-priority stories could be cut from the sprint
  2. Continue with the sprint as the progress shows buffers for potential interruptions
  3. Ask the project team to select any additional stories as they have additional capacity than planned
  4. Continue with the sprint work as planned and keep monitoring

Question No:-17

A project manager is closing a project and preparing to hand it over to the operations team. During handover, a delayed invoice was submitted with a higher-than- planned cost against the project work. Consequently, project handover was delayed and the project's reported completion costs were increased.

What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

  1. Notified all vendors about the invoicing and nonpayment deadlines
  2. Reviewed the total committed cost against the cost invoiced at project closing
  3. Involved the finance team and discussed the issue with the vendor
  4. Captured and reviewed all of the project work and related costs regularly

Question No:-18

A project manager is assigned to a critical software development project. The team is using a hybrid approach and has divided development into four sprints. At the end of sprint three, the project manager discovers that the earned value (EV) is US$500,000 and the planned value (PV) is US$550,000.

What should the project manager do?

  1. Fast track the project
  2. Adjust the budget
  3. Introduce a float
  4. Adjust the project time line

Question No:-19

A project manager is working with a co-located agile project team that has worked together long enough to be in the performing phase of team development. An unforeseen event has caused the team to be dispersed and they are now unable to co-locate.

What should the project manager do to keep the team performing as effectively as possible?

  1. Ask the project sponsor and executive stakeholders to encourage the team to maintain their performance
  2. Provide the team with virtual collaboration software and training on the software to minimize disruption
  3. Transition the team from an agile approach to a predictive approach for better performance control
  4. Evaluate project performance and step in if performance decreases to an unacceptable level

Question No:-20

A project manager is reviewing the requirements of a large program.

Which requirements should the project team prioritize to avoid getting fines?

  1. Certifying sustainable products
  2. Establishing company processes
  3. Complying with new regulations
  4. Developing new product lines