01. You estimate an activity’s cost by using actual cost information from a previous, very similar project as a direct comparison. Which estimating technique are you using?
a) Analogous estimating
b) Parametric estimating
c) Bottom-up estimating
d) Three-point estimating
02. A project manager schedules virtual daily standup meetings for a project, but half of the team members regularly join late or miss the meeting all together. What should the project manager do?
a) Agree on a new time and reschedule the daily standups.
b) Discuss ground rules with the team that will include daily meetings.
c) Ask senior management for coaching regarding this situation.
d) Use one-to-one virtual meetings because they are more efficient.
03. A project team member, who is inexperienced in system development work is not performing well. Currently, there are no other staff members available who are qualified to complete the work. What should the project manager do?
a) Seek approval from the project sponsor to use some of the project budget reserve to hire a new resource.
b) Request a substitute for the team member with a new resource who is more skilled in system development work.
c) Work with the functional manager to determine an incentive for the team member to complete the project.
d) Assess the team member's development requirements and arrange for the team member to receive training.
04. An organization is evaluating the use of agile delivery approaches. A newly appointed PMO manager, based on a previous negative experience with Scrum, recommends that the project board replace the current Scrum approach with a fully predictive (waterfall) approach for an ongoing project.
As the project manager, what should you do NEXT?
a) Assess the impact of changing the delivery approach and process the change through the project’s governance and change control mechanisms.
b) Immediately define a detailed project management plan based on the predictive approach.
c) Review the benefits realization plan to account only for the cost of changing the delivery approach.
d) Update the communications management plan to include new stakeholder expectations.
05. An agile project started 6 months ago Since the Beginning of the project, there have been disagreements among team members regarding daily meetings since some of the team members are not available at the same time. The project manager is convinced an agile team should be self-organizing, and that meeting times should be worked out by the team.
What should the project manager do?
a) Assign a team leader.
b) Recognize the team's contributions.
c) Establish a project schedule.
d) Establish a team charter.
06. A business transformation project has a four-phase delivery plan. The project team has successfully delivered one phase of the project. To further enhance team performance and empower team members, which two actions should the project manager take?
(Choose two.)
a) Encourage team members to cross-check decisions with the project manager.
b) Allow team members to make limited decisions.
c) Support team members to make decisions in their areas of strength.
d) Vet all of the decisions before execution.
e) Organize and assign team members to tasks where they have strengths.
07. A critical project milestone was missed because one of the team members did not complete their tasks on time. This resulted in a heated discussion during a demonstration for the end users. What should the project manager do next?
a) Review the human resources (HR) policies for relevant corrective actions.
b) Ask the team member to justify the delay during a team meeting.
c) Escalate the performance issue to the team member's functional manager.
d) Discuss the issue with the team member in a one-on-one meeting.
08. A project manager is managing a large project. During a review meeting, the project manager discovers that one of the team members who use to be a high performer was not able to complete their work on time. What should the project manager do?
a) Talk to the team member to determine why their performance changed.
b) Talk to the team member's manager to provide more training.
c) Talk to the team member and a human resources (HR) representative.
d) Talk to the project lead and ask them to allocate less demanding tasks.
09. At the end of a project, the project manager was asked to provide a performance rating of the project team members. What should the project manager mainly make reference to?
a) Competencies of team members
b) Input from project stakeholders
c) Feedback from the project sponsor
d) Agreed-upon key performance indicators (KPIs)
10. 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) Outsourced development of the specific component to another team.
b) Facilitated cross-functional knowledge transfer during the project.
c) Acquired more than one resource skilled in each component.
d) Requested robust documentation for the component's build.