“This agile methodology focuses on frequent cycles and delivering software to the customer when the customer needs it. The core values for this methodology are communication, simplicity, feedback, courage, and respect”. Which methodology does this describe?

Velocity can naturally increase with each sprint of your Scrum project, as the scrum team finds synergy of working together over time, many things become clearer by using progressive elaboration and risk factors get reduced over time. Which of the following actions should be avoided to increase the team velocity?

You were assigned as the project manager for a $7 million project worth 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 managing an infrastructure project of laying a power cable from the regional power plant to a small village nearby. The cost of pulling the power cable is $52/meter, and the scope of work includes laying 4000 meters of cable. It’s scheduled to take eight weeks to complete, with an equal amount of cable laid in each week. It’s currently the end of week 5, the site engineer informed you that the team laid 1,800 meters of cable so far. As per the given information, the schedule performance index is ______.

In predictive project management, the scope baseline can be changed only through formal control procedures and is used as the basis for comparison. The scope baseline is a component of the project management plan. In this context, which of the following makes up the scope baseline? (Choose three.)

Two of your project team members approach you with a conflict that they are having with each other over the technical approach to their work. A team member is very aggressive and tries to get you to make a decision quickly. The other team member is quiet and seems less willing to talk about the issue. The conflict is starting to cause delays, and you need to reach a decision quickly. What’s the best approach to solve this conflict?

You have sent a very important message to your key stakeholders via email. You explained some issues with the technical details in business terms so that the stakeholders could understand the situation. One of them responds to you within minutes of receiving the email with a lengthy email of their own explaining why they are in disagreement with your statements. Which of the following options are true regarding this scenario? (Choose three.)

You are leading an agile team working on a complex software development project, and the team is planning its first iteration. The team is considering using historical values to forecast the team’s velocity on this project. In this situation, which of the following is irrelevant to this consideration?

While managing the stakeholder engagement on your project, you are using tools that set the expected behavior for project team members, as well as other stakeholders, with regard to stakeholder engagement. Which of the following best describes what you are using?

You are the project manager of the largest construction project your company was awarded, and you identified a number of acceptable tolerances as part of your earned value management system. During execution, some “unacceptable” variances occurred. After each “unacceptable” variance occurred, which of the following should you do first?

As you are a senior project manager with your organization, and you have 20+ years of experience in project management. Your CEO contacted you through an official invitation to attend a project selection session for the organization to discuss 2022 proposed projects. During the meeting, you are discussing with potential sponsors to determine which project your company will pursue. Based on the Benefit Cost Ratios (BCR), which of the following four projects should you recommend?

The project team meeting is not going well, many attendees are talking at the same time, there are people who are not participating, and many topics are being discussed at random. Which of the following rules for effective meetings is not being adhered to?

You are working as the Scrum master for an agile software project for your organization. While you are involved in the third sprint, a development team member talked to you that she would like to skip the daily stand-up meeting once a week. As an agile practitioner playing the Scrum master role, what should you do?

You are managing a construction project to install several hundred air conditioner panels in a new office building. Every floor has identical panels. The customer, a construction contracting company, has provided specifications for the installations. The team is using a process to install and verify each panel. As the team completes each panel, your team’s quality control inspector measures it and identifies defects, and the root cause of each defect is identified. You want to identify the ongoing trends of defective installations. Which is the best tool to use for this?

Dima is currently populating her project’s stakeholder register with the names and details of the people identified during the identify stakeholders process. Some of these people are not supporting the project but they can directly influence the project. Which of the following reasons best describes why should Dima add these people to her project’s stakeholder register?

You are in the 21th month of a two years long project and about to deliver the major product of your project. You have already received 80% of the total payment from the client. Your client is a non-governmental organization (NGO). You have just received an official letter from the client representative saying that they are closing their operations from the region because of a change in the government. The new government has decided to close down this NGO because of fraud allegations. You are shocked to receive this news and call your boss to get a confirmation from him. He has also received the same news from other sources and asks you to terminate the project and release the team. What must you do?

Middle path of your project, two of your senior engineers are having a disagreement over which technical solution to use. As the project manager, what’s the first thing that you should do in this situation?

You are an agile practitioner on a five-members team that is currently six days into a two-week sprint. An external stakeholder calls a team member to request an urgent change. What is the best thing for the team member to do?

You are managing a large construction project which started on Oct,2018. The risk manager requested a meeting with you to present the risk analysis results of the project seven threats shown in the table below. The risk manager mentioned in the meeting request that the purpose of this meeting will be determining the required contingency and management reserves of your project. Digging deep into your organization process assets, you find out the company uses the Expected Monetary Value (EMV) for the contingency reserves determination and a guess of 10% of the contingency reserves for the management reserves determination. Based on this information, what are the required cost management reserves of your project?

You are managing a project to fulfill a new governmental contract. Your project team is assembled, and work has begun. Your government project officer informs you that a supplier that you depend on has lost the contract to supply a critical part. You consult your risk register and discover that you did not plan for this. What’s the best way to handle this situation?

You are leading a complex medical application development project and have added a 5% schedule buffer to mitigate the schedule risk on the project. How should you communicate this to the product owner?

You are managing a mega construction project which your company was awarded three months back. During the past period, you had created a very good relationship with the client representative on site. During the project execution, the client representative asks for changes to be made in the project scope, and with the reasoning that the changes are critical to the success of the project, he asks you to handle them on an informal basis. He argues that if you want to follow the formal change procedures you will lose considerable time. What should you do in this situation?

Middle path of the third sprint on your project, a major issue with the product has surfaced. This would require immediate attention from the team. However, the time required to fix the issue is expected to be more than the time left on the sprint. What should be done now?

While refactoring the code, a senior developer discovered a mistake she did, and it’s going to cause the team to miss an important deadline. Which of the following is an acceptable response for such scenario?

You are an agile practitioner leading an agile team on a complex software development project. In this context, which of the following is not an action that you would take?

You are the Scrum master of a complex ERP implementation project. At the end of the second sprint of the project, and during the sprint retrospective, several members of the team raised serious potential risks to the project. How can this best be managed by the team?

Strategies for management of the team in the Tuckman ladder _______________ stage – facilitating constructing decision making through open dialogue between team members, continuous communication with team members, outbound activities for better bonding among team members, encouraging leadership etc.

You are an agile practitioner working as the product owner for a software development project for your IT firm. Two business stakeholders disagree on important product requirements. How should you handle this situation?

Dealing with risks and issues is critical for a successful implementation of the agile methodology. As an agile practitioner, which of the following would be the best course of action you will recommend to the team to take in order to determine the cause of the defects?

Your real estate company is used to execute projects of less than $100,000,000 for the last twenty years. You are responsible for a project in your company that has budget at completion of $400,000,000. Because of this, many people in your organization are interested in this project. In this context, you realize the importance of which of the following?

Data representation techniques are useful when managing the project quality. While managing your project, you are using __________ with one of the product deliverables to organize potential causes of defects into groups.

You work for a company which executes heavy engineering contracts. While performing risk response planning for your project, you determine a risk that there is a possibility of getting new orders in the future which are beyond the current capacity of your production facilities. What is the best thing to do as the project manager?

You are the project manager, and the operations VP in your organization is a key project stakeholder, and she has expressed concern about the way risk is being managed on the project. She is particularly concerned that the project may fail if even one of several risk events occur. She has called a meeting to discuss this with you. What would be the best document to bring to the meeting?

An agile team is currently working on a new website development project. The team creates an agile model in the form of a sample screen design of the software’s user interface. As an agile practitioner, what is the primary benefit of this model?

Issue resolution is necessary to address obstacles that can prevent the team from achieving its goals. In order to manage and resolve issues that arise during project execution, you develop an issue log and assign each issue to a team member to ensure there is accountability for resolving specific issues by a target date. In this context, the issue log is generated in which stakeholder engagement process?

You are the project manager of a software development project. While working with your project team to develop a network diagram, you notice a series of activities that can be worked in parallel but must finish in a specific sequence. What type of activity sequencing method is required for these activities?

Middle path of your project execution phase, one of the sellers comes to you to discuss some of the items of the RFP. The seller has a series of questions that need to be discussed and want to set up a meeting with you and your project team. You investigate the items and agree that a discussion should happen. What should you say to the seller?

A project has faced major difficulties in the quality of its deliverables, and management now states that quality is the most important project constraint. If another problem with quality were to occur, what would be the best thing for the project manager to do?

During the manage project knowledge process, knowledge can be shared within the team through training’s, seminars, workshops, work shadowing and _____________ that includes a team member watching someone doing a particular job to learn the process easily.

Your company has appointed you as the project manager for its new product line introduction. This is a state of the art product, and all the retail stores across the country need to have new products on the shelves. The product line involves three new products, two of which will be introduced together and a third one that will follow within two years. Product number three will be elaborated in more detail closer to the product’s release date, whereas the first two products will be elaborated in great detail now. Which of the following options are true regarding this situation? (Choose two.)

An agile team wants to outsource part of the project scope to a vendor. Instead of locking the entire procurement scope of work and budget into a single agreement, the team is considering decomposing the scope into fixed-price micro-deliverables. Which of the following can be used as micro-deliverables for the agreement?

Agile took the servant leadership concept and created a groundbreaking role surrounding it—a team coach. In the most widespread Agile framework, Scrum, this leader is called the scrum master and is defined as a servant leader who fosters the context for agility by connecting teams with the organization’s vision. In this context, _______________ is considered as a characteristic of servant-leader leading an agile software development project.

You are advising a project manager who is behind schedule on his project. His project sponsor is very unhappy with the way the project is progressing and threatening to cancel it. The sponsor has accepted a revised due date from the project manager but didn’t allow any increased spending. Which of the following would represent the best advice for the project manager in this case?

You are managing the design development project of the new down town in your city. You are working with more than 35 team members, and the project senior architect met with an accident and will not be available for the next 4 months. You had not planned for this in risk planning, what should you do next?

You have been assigned to lead an agile project, and you were asked to deliver features in increments so that necessary changes can be made as early as possible. You have also been asked to select team members in a way that the project team can perform independently. How should you select your team?

During a status update meeting, a problem arise and the team discussed it. The day after the meeting, Osama approached you and explained that the problem was not truly solved, after thinking about it, he felt that his concerns were still valid and should be addressed. What conflict resolution technique was likely used at the status meeting?

Unfinished items of the previous Sprint are returned to the product backlog. Development team members believe that these items should be selected for the next Sprint, so that they can keep focused on them and finish them as soon as possible. However, the product owner believes that some other items are more important now. What should the team do?

Your project team consists of 12 people in the same building you’re located in, 4 people from Canada office, 2 people from Dubai office, and 6 people from London office. Your office works different hours than all the other offices. Additionally, not all of the resources in your building are available at the same times during the day. Three of the 12 team members work swing shift hours. You use tools like web conferencing and have stablished videoconferencing links in every location where team members are located (even in different offices of the same building). Team members are required to log on to the web conference as soon as they begin their workday. Which of the following are true? (Choose three.)

You are an agile practitioner working as the Scrum master of financial software development project. While the development team is holding a sprint retrospective, which of the following best describes your primary responsibility?

The finance department requires that you keep them updated on the cost being spent on the capital project you are leading. You were required to submit a funding plan, and monthly forecasts are necessary so that any changes to the funding plan can be requested in advance and evaluated. Exceeding the budget limit is unacceptable, as it will impact the stock value. You have successfully implemented processes and practices to anticipate funding changes, and you evaluate them to minimize problems and increase the efficient use of funds. You have employed a variety of reporting and analysis techniques to meet the finance department requirements. One of them is Estimate at Completion (EAC), which is a periodic evaluation of what?

During a status meeting, the project sponsor expresses concern in ensuring that the team complete the project according to plan. He stresses that it is important that the team remain within the $55,000 budget. The sponsor then asks the project manager for a measure of cost performance that would be required in order for the team to meet his goal, assuming that current performance continues. In addition to the budget, the project manager already knows that the cumulative earned value is $30,000 and that they have spent $35,000 to date. What value will the project manager communicate to the sponsor?

As a project manager, you are interested in the personal activities of team members, other than working with you on the project. The team members love to go out with you for lunch or play on occasional game of golf. The power that you have over the team members is __________.

In waterfall project management, risks are identified and analyzed from the planning stage itself also risks are identified as either positive or negative to the project outcomes. In this context, how the risks are managed in agile projects?

While you are away in your annual vacation, the project sponsor took over the leadership of your Agile project. In your absence, the sponsor asked for a detailed project schedule and the team developed a detailed task-level, resource loaded Gantt chart. What should be your next step now?

You are a project manager for ABC software consulting services. You’re working with a major retailer that offers its products online. The company is interested in knowing customer characteristics, the amounts of first-time orders, and similar information. You are using agile techniques to better manage quality on this project. Which of the following are true regarding the agile methodologies and their impact on quality? (Choose three.)

An agile team is working on a complex software development project; the team includes some distributed members who use a physical task board. They share the photos of the board with every other member of the team at least once a day. Which of the following actions should the team take in this situation?

You are in the build phase of Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) project, which has run into several unanticipated problems. Several risks have surfaced which you had not anticipated earlier, and the project is over-budget and significantly behind schedule. What should you do?

You were assigned a month back to manage a mega construction project that will take 36 months to be completed. You created the project charter and the sponsor authorized it, also you and your team were done with the stakeholder’s analysis and developed a detailed stakeholder register. Now you and the team started the planning phase of the project by reviewing and assessing detailed project requirements, constraints, and assumptions with stakeholders based on the project charter, lessons learned, and by using requirements gathering techniques. Which of the following reasons best describes the purpose of these efforts?

The requirements of many stakeholders were not approved for inclusion in your project. Therefore, you had a difficult time gaining formal approval of the project management plan. The stakeholders argued and held up the project while they held meeting after meeting about their requirements. The project was finally approved and work began six months ago. All of the following would be good preventive actions to implement except which one?

You are the Agile expert hired by a software development firm that is working on transformation process from traditional into Agile life cycles. You are forming the first Agile team in your company that will deliver a complex resources management system. Which of the following should be your top most challenge?