You are the project manager of an industrial project. Your organization signed a contract with a supplier to provide your project with 15 computers as per your requirements. After one month the procurement manager called you to inform you that the shipment you requested has arrived containing 18 computers. What should you do?

Barbara is managing a large industrial project. Recently, her company received many complaints due to defects found by the customer in the first deliverable. The customer is not satisfied at all with the first project deliverable. The project sponsor is very angry and told her that the company may lose the contract with the customer if they find defects in the next deliverables. In order to reduce sponsor's stress, she told him that they will compare the product’s quality standards to those of another comparable successful products to identify best practices and increase the probability of customer acceptance. Which tool is she using?

According to this chart, which of the following stages needs the team members to swarm around?

Bernard is the project manager for a large software project. It is the first time for him and his organization to manage a project like this. He and his team have divided the project into three phases. They are creating the project schedule, but they could define the activities needed to perform the first phase only. They are unable to define the activities needed to perform the other two phases due to lack of information about the later phases. What should they do?

A project has just been initiated in an organization. The project team want to assess the degree of complexity within the project in order to tailor methods and practices according to the project needs. Which of the following models can they use?

Which of the following Agile Manifesto values are closely related to work in progress (WIP)?

During weekly project status meeting, the project stakeholders keep asking questions like "what is the current status of the project?", "are we ahead or behind schedule?", "Did we miss this milestone or not?",..etc. What is the most probable reason for these questions?

The daily standup usually takes more than 15 minutes because the product owner takes some time distributing tasks to the team members. Which of the following is the best course of action?

Which of the following documents are most subjected to reviews and approvals?

Laurence has been assigned to manage his first project using a waterfall approach. The project charter has been issued. Laurence and his team are identifying the project stakeholders. A team member asks Laurence why he is checking the agreements documents while they are identifying project stakeholders. Which of the following represents the best answer to the team member's question?

Karim has been hired as a team member in a large construction project. His native language is Arabic and the organization language is English. He is facing troubles in understanding the emails he receives every day. To overcome this problem, he installed an instant translation software on his phone to translate any received email to Arabic to be able to understand these emails. What did he do?

You have been working on a construction project for 5 months. The project is on schedule and budget when one of the functional managers tells you the resources committed to the project are no longer available. They will join another project. The new project isn’t critical, but the project manager is the brother of a board member. What is the best course of action in this situation?

You are managing a new construction project that is budgeted at $3,000,000. Too many activities are being executed underway on your project. You are getting worried about the accuracy of the progress reporting your team members are doing. How could you verify whether there is a problem or not?

Which of the following statements regarding risk is correct?

Diego has just joined a construction project as a design team leader instead of Roberto who has resigned from the organization. The project management plan has been already completed and the project team are currently executing the project work. Diego wants to know the roles and responsibilities of his team members in details. Which of the following techniques is used to provide detailed description of team members responsibilities?

While monitoring the cost performance in a small project which was budgeted for $85,000 over a 9 weeks period. As of today, you’ve spent $42,000 of your budget to complete work that you originally expected would cost $44,000. According to your schedule, you should have spent $50,000 by this point. Based on this situation, what is the status of the project?

The construction manager complains that the project didn’t increase his team’s knowledge of AutoCAD and So, the project is not complete. The customer has formally accepted the project. All stated requirements have been met and there is no evidence that learning AutoCAD was a requirement. The project manager should:

Linda is a project manager for a large tele-communication project. She is planning for risk management with her team. She holds a brainstorming session to discover and evaluate potential project risks. Which of the following methods can they use in prioritizing these risks?

You have just been assigned as a project manager to an industrial project that has been ongoing for three months in traditional environment. The project is going well without schedule delays and within pre-determined budget. A team member requests more time on an activity assigned to him. You discover the only impact to the project will be a delay on a non-critical path activity. The customer has emphasized the importance of completing the project on schedule and budget. What should you do next?

Brian is managing a large construction project. The project is very important for his organization and for the customer as well. The project has a tight budget and many schedule constraints. Some of project team members have been assigned to his project with general availability levels of 50%. In the last status report, they reported to him that cost and schedule variances occurred during project execution. The customer is worried that the project will not be completed within the predetermined cost and schedule constraints. Brian has noted that the team members have been spending less than 50% of their time working on his project. What should he do?

A more experienced certified-PMP project manager tells the project manager of the new project to compile lessons learned in the lessons learned register and make them available for future projects. What is included in lessons learned register?

Your sponsor wants to know the Estimate at Completion for your project. The project was budgeted at $30,000, and to date you have spent $20,000 but only completed $10,000 worth of work. You are sure that the future work will be accomplished at the planned rate.

Your organization is a bidder in a new office building project and you are assigned to prepare the bidding documents for this project. Your organization will provide furniture for the buyer. You need to know more details about the specifications of the needed furniture because the statement of work which the buyer sent is not detailed enough. Which document will you send to the buyer in this situation?

Which form of communication is appropriate for a project manager to report the final status of the closed contract to the stakeholders?

Phillip is managing a research and development project. The scope of the project is not clear, he decided to outsource the project work to another company. He agreed with the procurement manager to use the cost plus incentive fee (CPIF) contract. All of the following are true about this type of contract except:

During executing a construction project, a team member informs you that he added extra features to the work package assigned to him without affecting the project cost or schedule. What should be done as a result of this change?

You are managing an industrial project which had a lower priority in your organization than other running projects. During risk identification sessions, you and your team identified more than 180 risks for your project. You are afraid that evaluating each of these risks quantitatively will cost you a huge amount of time and money, while most of them are not important enough . What should you do next?

According to this diagram, which point is in project closing?

A RACI chart is an example of:

Many project team members requested from the project manager to send them the training material.The project manager has uploaded all the training material on the company's intranet to be accessible to all team members. This is an example of:

Midway through the project you are managing, a functional manager has pulled four resources from your project to be assigned to another more important project in the organization. This action has affected your project badly, as it is behind schedule due to the delayed tasks assigned to those resources. After negotiation, you reach an agreement that the functional manager will assign two resources for your project and another two resources will be assigned later after hiring process is complete. Which conflict resolution technique did you use in this situation?

According to this Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) , the component with ID (2) is a/an:

A project is being initiated in a lean start-up. Which of the following documents can be used as a summary document to describe the high level information about the project?

Bill is managing a new railroad construction project. He is developing the project schedule with his team. They created WBS and defined project activities, and assigned staff members to activities, estimated durations and scheduled their project. Bill then created the following resource histogram for his staff. Which of the following statements is correct?

A customer inspection will be done within one week for a project deliverable. The project manager and the team notice a significant variance in one of the project deliverables which might lead to missing a key milestone and the customer might apply financial penalties. A project team member has recognized the root cause of the variance and it will need a minor correction to a configuration element. If this correction is done, the project will be back on track. What should the project manager do first?

An organization is leading an agile transformation. They hired an experienced agile coach. He was assigned with a development team to the first project using adaptive approach. Which of the following is the best course of action for the agile coach to collaborate with the team and stakeholders?

Physical resource management is concentrated in all of the following except:

Your manager calls you into her office to informally discuss a new potential project for your organization. The project involves moving a call center to a new building 30 km away, installing new equipment and devices and implement a new monitoring software, and giving the staff five days of intensive, product specific training. She asks your opinion of this work. How should you respond?

What is the difference between risk audit and risk reviews?

Which of the following statements represents guilt-based power?

You are managing a construction project to build a new factory. You are partway through the project, and your team has just delivered the design of the factory . Your team makes a presentation to the project sponsor and key stakeholders. Later, the sponsor informs you that there is an important representative from the government who must approve the design to give you the license to the new factory, and whose requirements are not being met. As a result, you must now make a large and expensive change to accommodate that representative's requirements. What is the best explanation for this?

The cost baseline is the approved version of the time-phased project budget, excluding any management reserves. It is used as a basis for comparison to actual results. It is displayed in the form of:

A project manager facilitates a discussion with the team about experimenting with some agile practices in their plan-driven project. The team has been working on traditional projects for years and have never used any agile practices before. The project manager suggests using product reviews. One of the team members asks him about iteration reviews "is it similar to any traditional process?". Which process should the project manager mention in his answer?

A project manager of a manufacturing project is analyzing activities that doesn’t add value to the project and wastes company resources and time. A team member informed him that a process is not understood and another one informed him that two processes he works on, he thinks they are not needed. The project manager must be leading which of the following?

A risk with high detectability means that:

Tony is a project manager for a complex software project. The project is very large and is very important to the customer. He has finished the software system, and obtained acceptance from customer, but few days later, the software system was found to give unexpected results. The customer is very angry and he needs a solution for this problem. Which of the following best describes what should he do first?

Which of the following is the correct matching between the following actions with their corresponding roles?

A new project has been initiated in ABC organization. The project is risky as it will be delivered in a new market for the organization and the project team doesn't have experience with the product of the project. Some of the project team members want to spend more time to plan up front to reduce uncertainty, oversights, and rework. While some other team members find that the longer the time spent planning, the longer it takes to get a return on investment and the more market share could be lost. Which of the following represents the optimum amount of planning required for this project?

You are managing a railroad construction project using traditional approach. One of the stakeholders has discovered a problem in the design, and as a result you have requested a change. The change will cost the project extra two weeks and $10,000 added cost, but without it there will be problems with the final product of the project. What should you do next?

Which of the following is the best thing to do at bidder conference?

What does the Agile Manifesto value "responding to change over following a plan" mean?

You are a project manager for a large infrastructure project. Your project includes civil, electric and mechanical work. Your organization doesn't have the adequate experience in all these fields, so you will need to outsource some work to more experienced companies. So you need to start with your team planning for procurement management. When during the project life cycle of the project you perform the Plan Procurement Management process?

Mark is a project manager for a tele-communications project in his organization. Tom is his sponsor and he is working with David, the risk manager in the organization to determine the effectiveness of the risk responses. Tom and David are concerned that some of the risks assigned to Frederick, a project team member to implement the planned risk responses may not be addresses to the depth they would like. In this scenario, who is responsible for ensuring that this process is performed at an appropriate frequency?

During planning your project, you are balancing project constraints scope, time, cost, quality,..The customer required that quality of this project must be as high as possible. This type of projects is relatively new to your organization. What is the best thing to do in this situation?

All of the following are examples of non-verbal communication except:

Andy is a project manager for a software project. The scope of the project was approved by the customer and key stakeholders at the beginning of the project, but whenever the customer validates deliverables, he comes up with new requirements that he would like to add into the product. Andy is working with the customer to find what requirements were missed in the planning stages of the project and how to plan better in the future. What is the best description of his project’s current situation?

During a network rollout project. The project team members are confused and need guidance for a technical issue. They ask each other: "Shall we use the same bandwidth for the network connection or upgrade to higher bandwidth to accommodate the expected increased traffic?". What would be a good way to tackle this issue?

You have just been promoted to a project manager position. You are assigned to manage your first project. You want to report your project schedule. You asked a more experienced project manager about the best method to report your schedule. He told you there are several methods to report your schedule like network diagrams, milestone chart and Gantt chart. Under which circumstances is it best to use a network diagram rather than a Gantt chart?

A project team has been formed to work on a software project which has just been initiated. It is the first time for this team to work together. Which of the following is the best way to lead this team in this stage of the project?

The fourth value of the Agile Manifesto states that: "Agile teams value responding to change over following a plan". Which of the following agile techniques is closely related to this Agile Manifesto value?

There was a meeting between IT manager and spare parts manager to discuss a major scope change. Your boss is the IT manager. After the meeting your manager contacts you to complete the paper work needed to make the change. This is an example of:

Which of the following is the correct matching between these charts and their contents?

You are the project manager of an industrial design project that has teams distributed in four countries Spain, India, France and Germany. You want all team members get the right message, so you translate the project plan into Spanish, Hindi, French, and German. Which of the following best describes what you do when you have your communications translated?

During a weekly project status meeting, you ask one of the stakeholders if he reviewed the document you sent him last week. He said: “I’m not sure, I don’t know what you are talking about”. Which engagement level is this stakeholder displaying?

All of the following statements about bidder conference are true except:

Using the shown earned value graph, at which point will Schedule Performance Index (SPI) be the highest?

You are managing a project which was budgeted at 1,250,000$ and scheduled to be completed within six months. During project executing, the sponsor asked you about the status of the project. You collected the needed data to calculate earned value measurements. You found that the project is 35% complete although it should be 40% complete. You have already spent 550,000 $ to reach this point in the project. What would you tell the sponsor?

Who should know the most about the progress toward a business objective or a release in a scrum team?

The organization's CEO is highly concerned about one of the agile projects being implemented in his organization. He wants to know the progress of the project. What is the best demonstration of progress that the team can come up with?

Which of the following is the correct matching between contract types and the corresponding payment criteria?

Mark compares his team velocity which is 40 story points per iteration to another team's velocity in the same organization with the same size working on similar project and found their velocity to be 55 story points per iteration. What should Mark do?

An organization adopts agile transformation. Some project managers roles will be switched to team facilitators according to the new structure. They will need to enhance servant leadership skills. Which of the following is an example of servant leadership?

What does the Agile Manifesto value "customer collaboration over contract negotiation" mean?

Phillip is leading a large software project using adaptive approach. He has been approached by the project sponsor to know the expected project completion date. Phillip has informed him that the likely completion date is after 6 months, because:

You are a project manager for a data center upgrade project. The data center uses old systems and your project was to upgrade to a new system. The project was planned to be in winter were heavy rains are likely to happen. The heavy rains caused power outages just when the project was near completion. When the power was restored, all of the project customer’s data were lost with no way of retrieving them. What should have been done to prevent this problem?

Paul is managing an industrial project. In the middle of the project, a project team member noticed that there is a sudden increase in the usage of fuel in a machine. The machine normally consumes 3 litres per day, and its consumption became 5 litres per day with the same level of effort. The team member informed Paul about the problem. In order to control the usage of fuel, Paul asked the team member to cooperate with the technical support team to investigate the problem. They found a defect in a component in the machine which caused the abnormal usage when it is fixed the machine worked normally with the original consumption rate. Which process are they involved in?

All of the following are not “hygiene factors” under Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene Theory except:

You are managing a complex construction project that resulted in a schedule that is too long and has too many activities. Alex is a scheduling professional expert in your organization, he is auditing your project schedule network diagram. The expert tells you to focus more on nodes with "path convergence". What does he mean?

The PMO in XYZ organization has created a dashboard to measure the progress of all the projects that are being implemented. One of the measures in the dashboard is to measure the number of completed activities by each team member and reward the top three team members. The teams members in all projects tried to complete as much activities as they can in order to be rewarded. However, most of the completed activities were not on the critical paths of the existing projects, which lead to many projects being behind schedule. What is the root cause of this issue?

You are a project manager in a large organization. Recently, your organization is facing a financial crisis, and there was a mass layoff for many employees in the organization. Many projects were affected because of this layoff. Your project is one of the affected projects, because almost 30% of the project resources were released due to the layoff. To deal with the limited number of resources, you adjust the start and finish dates to balance between the demand and available supply of resources. What is the technique you used?

The project team is working on a large software project. They adopt an adaptive approach. After the first iteration review, the customer has accepted the product increment. The team wants to track the accepted deliverables over time for the next iterations. Which of the following artficats can they use?

The project manager is holding a risk reassessment meeting with the project team and the project sponsor, the sponsor is looking at the latest list of top risks in the project report. A new risk has been identified and assessed. That risk ranking was lower than all of the previously identified risks. Three fallback plans have been adjusted based on the severity of previous risk impacts. Which of the following has the project manager forgotten to do?

Which of the following relationships is the least used in Precedence Diagramming Method?

You are managing a risky construction project. Your organization has a bad history of dealing with risky projects and none of your team members has experience in working with this type of projects. You decide to acquire a risk management expert to help you reduce the overall project risk to be below the acceptable risk threshold. Which type of contract is most appropriate for your organization to sign with the expert?

You are a project manager for a new construction project. Your project is to build a new housing compound which contains 10,000 houses. The houses are substantially similar. What must you do?

What is the purpose of effective communication?

Caroline is a project manager for a multi-national project which involves 350 stakeholders from 6 countries. She belives that stakeholder engagement is a key factor for successful projects, so she pays more attention to stakeholder engagement. She is creating a document to help her and her team find the communication gaps with project stakeholders. This document is known as:

Which of the following statements is true regarding project resources management?

Project teams tailor the appropriate framework that will enable the flexibility to consistently produce positive outcomes within the context of the life cycle of the project. All of the following should be “just enough”, except:

After the completion of the first iteration, the product owner holds a meeting with the team. The product owner moves some features to top of the product backlog to be added to the next iteration, because those features will provide higher value for the customer. This is closely related to which Agile Manifesto value?

A large project is being initiated in an organization. The project will be associated with large changes which will impact many departments within the organization. All of the following models can be used by the project manager to transition from the current to the future desired state, except:

A project team is using the Stacey Complexity Model to map the degree of uncertainty in the project and select the appropriate project development approach. The project team agrees that there are many projects within the organization similar to this one and the project team is aware about the technology that will be used in the project and has implemented it before successfully in previous projects. Accordingly, the team agrees on selecting a predictive development approach for this project. Where on this chart should the team most likely map the project?

Adam is managing an industrial project when one of the project team members informed him that the dimensions of one of the project deliverables are diiferent than the planned dimensions and thus it will be unable to operate with the machine. Adam asked the team member to determine the basic underlying reasons that cause this variance and also to determine whether these reasons might cause other variances in other project deliverables. Which tool should the team member use in this situation?

Two team members are working on an agile project in two different countries. As per the communication management plan, they should hold a daily standup through video conference. How can the agile coach best monitor the effectiveness of their communication and coordination?

Which of the following is the correct matching between risks and risk categories?

Which of the following is not part of emotional intelligence?

A company is moving to a new location and at the same time is adopting transformation from waterfall to agile. What is the most suitable design for team space?

An agile team has committed to deliver 50 story points during the running iteration. Midway through the iteration one team member becomes sick and must have rest for the remaining time of the iteration. A team member suggests that the team can work overtime to complete the committed story points in the iteration. The team leader should inform him that his suggestion contradicts with which agile principle?

You have been promoted to a project manager position in an organization which has a history of handling risks badly. The previous projects didn’t follow the risk management procedures in your organization. Your new project is very important and highly visible in your organization. You have been asked by top management to analyze the project risks and prepare response strategies for them as soon as possible. The project’s first milestone is in three weeks. In preparing the risk response plan, input from which of the following is generally least important?

You are the project manager for a large manufacturing project. During estimating activity costs for your project using three-point estimates, a team member asks you that he needs to add 5% to each activity cost to account for unidentified risks. What should you tell him?

ABC Organization has decided to initiate a new project to develop an infrastructure solution which includes power systems that are energy efficient, high availability, and scalable. The solution involves high degree of innovation. Which of the following development approaches will most fit this project?

Adam recently joined a leading software organization to initiate a project management office. The PMO should have control on all the projects running in the organization and the project managers should report directly to the PMO because the new PMO will be accountable for project success in the organization. Which type of PMO is being initiated here?

Alfrid is attending a project management training session. He is watching the speaker to pick up physical gestures and facial expressions. He confirms he is listening, expresses agreement or disagreement and summarizing what he says. Which communication skill does he have?

A project manager for a construction project is meeting with the project team when they informed him that the political climate in their country is not stable and a curfew may be applied which will shorten the working hours by 2 hours daily. This may delay the project by one month. They hold a brainstorming session to try to minimize the impact of the curfew but they found no useful way. Which risk response strategy did they use?

All of the following are examples of motivation models that can be used by the project manager to understanding what motivates project team members and other stakeholders, except:

You are the project manager of the new electro-mechanical project for your company. You identified risks with project stakeholders and performed qualitative and quantitative risk analysis. You planned risk responses for all top risks. The sponsor asked you to document how and when risk audits will be performed in the project. Where should you document the risk audits policy?

You are working on a software project using adaptive approach when a key stakeholder has informs you that he needs to give feature E a higher priority than other features and implement it in the next iteration. What should you do?

During executing a project to produce a new pharmaceutical compound, an industry standard has been issued by the government which takes an immediate effect. The new standard may require audits on the project to ensure project compliance. The audit may be performed at any time throught the project. The audit might have a negative impact on the project like re-work, auditors might find inconsistencies and disrupting the project management plan. What is the best way to handle these audits?

Sarah is leading a project team on a software project using adaptive development approach. The project team is distributed in three countries. Which of the following is most likely to face when leading a distributed project team?

Using the chart, if the duration of activity G changes to 6, what would you need to include in your performance report?

Which of the following is an example of the agile principle "Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility"?

A project manager on a hardware design project using plan-driven approach has decided to incorporate some agile principles and tools to his project. He asks the team to use iteration demos. What would be a likely result if the team uses iteration demos?

You are a project manager for a new project and you need to estimate the cost of activities. You asked another more experienced project manager about the most suitable cost estimating technique for your project. The experienced project manager recommended analogous estimating as it is most suitable for your project. What is the benefit of analogous estimating?

During creating the quality management plan, two team members are arguing about which technique to use in testing the products of the project. One of them suggests that they should test only a sample of the product, because the population would be too much to be tested. The other team member objects to this opinion and suggests to test all the products because the quality should be as high as possible. If the project manager tells the team, "We will schedule this discussion for our team meeting next week", the project manager is:

If the project is facing chaos, which of the following leadership styles is most appropriate in this case?

Which of the following is not true about projects and systems thinking?

Amit is the project manager of a software project to create a mobile application that is scheduled to be completed in four months. The project charter is signed and Amit is working now to collect requirements from project stakeholders. The customer requested that the design of the project should be completed after one month. In which document should this condition be documented?

According to this diagram, which RACI matrix is wrong?

A project has been initiated using a waterfall approach. The project manager decides to outsource a part of the project work. He is now creating the procurement SOW. The engineering manager wants to describe only the functional characteristics, while the technical support manager wants to add some other items to the procurement SOW. Which of the following best represents what the project manager should do?

What is the purpose of a risk workshop?

All of the following statements describe the focus of the contract review and approval process, except:

Thomas is managing a large project to produce a new pharmaceutical drug. The project is very important for his company and quality has a top priority. Strict quality standards have been put in place and they must be followed. In order to achieve the required quality standard, Thomas approved on a business trip for two team members to have training on the new quality standards. The cost of team members training is an example of:

An organization is going to undertake a project for regulatory compliance using agile approach which doesn’t have an easily determined monetary value. What can the organization do to assess the value of the project?

You have been assigned as a project manager for a new network roll-out project. You are in the process of creating the project charter. You meet with the key stakeholders to solicit their inputs. You meet with the IT manager to know the cost of the IT activities in your project. He informs you that it is impossible to provide a cost estimate without knowing the specific resources who will be assigned to the project. You explain that:

The tenth principle of the Agile Manifesto states that: "Simplicity—the art of maximizing the amount of work not done is essential". Which of the following agile practices and techniques is closely related to this principle?

Dennis is managing a large and complex product development project. The project is very risky, however he could use the best practices in risk identification and has succesfully identified most of the project risks with the project team. The project has overall intensive planning. However, during project executing, the project has experienced several risks, which were already identified. Unfortunately, the project failed to achieve its objectives due to these realized risks. What has gone wrong?

You are managing a construction project. Two team members come to you with a conflict. One of them has identified an important project risk that the cement supplier may not deliver the needed quantity of cement on time. The other team member doesn’t believe that the risk is likely to happen; however, you consult the lessons learned from previous projects and discover that the supplier failed to deliver the needed quantity of cement on three previous projects. You decide that the risk is a major one; you terminate the contract with the supplier, and instead you agreed with other suppliers to deliver the needed quantity. Both team members agree that this has eliminated the risk. Which of the following best describes your risk response strategy?

Your project team members are located in four countries India, China, Spain and Algeria. The project team members speak different languages and have different cultures. The project sponsor warned you that he is worried of communication blocker like language and culture difference. What is the most likely result of communication blockers?

Two team members are having a disagreement over order of activities in your project. A team member thinks that you should document everything before starting work, while the other thinks you can do the work while you finish the documentation. You meet with both of them and listen to their argument. Then you decide that you will document most of it first but will start doing the work when you are 80% done with the documentation. What conflict resolution technique are you using?

Communication barriers can cause miscommunications, it may influence communication when sending or receiving information. Which of the following is not a barrier?

You are managing an industrial project. The project team has successfully produced the first release of the project deliverables. The deliverables are being inspected by the quality control department in the organization. What should be done next?

Testing the stability of one of the electronic chips manufactured by your company to determine if it meets your quality standards is an example of:

A risk has remained even after you implement all of your risk response strategies. What kind of risk is this and what should you do about it?

The stages of the Tuckman ladder model of team development are:

Andrew is a project manager for a construction project. He is identifying risks for a new construction project with his team members and stakeholders. They discovered that the wall painting material they are using on the building cannot be used in rainy conditions. They will use these paints during the time when most of the rainfall happens in this part of the country. The project can’t be delayed after the rainy season and he needs to make sure the building is painted. He decides that his team will just have to allow enough time in the schedule for non-worked rain days. This is an example of which risk response strategy?

There are over 40 stakeholders on a new Java training project, and no one can agree on project objectives. One stakeholder believes the project can achieve a 30% improvement in team’s knowledge of Java while another believes a 40% improvement is possible. The project manager believes a 20% improvement is more realistic. What is the best course of action?

A project team has just been formed to work on a new software project. Which of the following is the most appropriate leadership style for the project manager at this stage in the project?

You are managing a multi-million dollars product development project which includes 350 stakeholders located in four countries. You are identifying stakeholders and analyzing their impact on your project to properly manage their engagement throughout the project life cycle. You noticed that there is a gap between current and desired engagement levels of a key stakeholder in the project. What is the best course of action in this situation?

Alexander is a project manager for a major software project. He is interviewing the members of a project team to test their understanding of the assigned risk responses as risk owners. He is working with the risk management department in the organization to evaluate the risk responses to determine their effectiveness in the project. What project management technique is he performing?

An activity has an early start (ES) of day 2, and a late finish (LF) of day 18. The activity duration is 5 days. Which of the following statements is true regarding this activity?

You are a project manager on a power station design project. Your team is busy executing the project and creating the deliverables, but there have been several changes requested by stakeholders in the last month. Each time you got one of these changes, you called a meeting with your team and the stakeholders to discuss it. Why did you do this?

Which of the following is the top priority for an agile project?

Which of the following is the correct matching?

You are managing a project with a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.03 and a cost performance index (CPI) of 0.96. How would you best describe this project?

What is meant by cost risk?

Which of the following is not an example of the definition of "done" in an agile project?

Following the shown diagram, what does line A represent?

What is the purpose of the questions asked during the daily standup?

You finished the project management plan that resulted in a schedule that is too long. You need to compress the schedule by fast tracking the project. Based on the chart, which activity(s) would you fast track?

An organization is performing agile transformation. They have hired an agile coach to mentor the project teams. He is coaching them about incremental delivery in agile projects. Which of the following is a likely result for incremental delivery?

You are a project manager for a hardware design project. The project is going well until the research and development manager discovered that two of his staff members were working on different versions of the software driver of the hardware, a product of your project. Which of the following best describes what needs the attention of the project manager on this project?

The project manager assigned Mark to send a weekly email update to the project key stakeholders to explain the status of the project. Which communication method does this email update represent?

Those who act responsibly to carry out activities with integrity, care, and trustworthiness while maintaining compliance with internal and external guidelines are known as:

The project sponsor wants to know what will the project deliver in each release and when these releases will be completed. Which agile artifact would address his needs?

During a construction project, the project manager asked the contractor for a walkthrough of the work site by both of them to ensure a mutual understanding of the work in progress. They are involved in:

Samuel has just been assigned as a project manager for an ongoing tele-communications project instead of Gary who has recently resigned from the company. The project is very large and has a budget of 5,000,000$. The project is being performed in two cities using 75 team members. There was a problem regarding the testing activities that Samuel doesn't know who is responsible to perform these activities. What should he do?

The fourth principle of the Agile Manifesto states that: "Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project". Which of the following agile practices and techniques is closely related to this principle?

Gary is a project manager for a complex software project. The project is very large and is being performed by 35 team members. Gary is facing troubles with the team members attitudes in project team meetings, they don't attend on time. Many team members have disagreements between each other on both technical and personal levels. Most of the team conflicts are escalated to the project sponsor, functional managers and human resources department. A team charter and resources management plan have already been created during project planning. What is the most probable cause of the problem?

Mathew and Henry are two team members in a large industrial project. Once the project work started, their conflicts also started. They are always in a conflict on both technical and personal levels. Their conflicts affect the work environment badly and the environment became counterproductive. In which stage of team development are they involved?

An advantage of the burnup chart is that:

Net Promoter Score can be used to measure:

A project has been initiated in ABC organization to develop a new electronic device. The project entails high uncertainty because this is the first time to develop this device. Which of the following is the best course of action?

Prior to project completion and while you are trying to settle all open claims with the vendors. You find that there are two open claims with two different suppliers. Both did not deliver the contracted service with the agreed-upon standards that's why their services were not accepted. You have held several meetings and conversations to resolve those claims but could not reach an agreement with either of them. What should you do in this situation?

You are the project manager for an electronic boards manufacturing project. This project is implemented in a country where both temperature and humidity are high. The boards you manufacture have some components that are sensitive to humidity. If the humidity exceeds 70% , it may damage some humidity sensitive components, which may delay the project by two weeks till you purchase other components, and also will cost the project about 2,000$. So, the humidity degree inside the lab which you use to manufacture electronic boards should not exceed 70%. You work with your project team to develop a response to deal with the humidity problem. What is called the 70% humidity degree?

All of the following may be included in project business case, except:

Angela is a project manager of a construction project using waterfall approach. Three months after the start of the project, the project team members found that they had not estimated enough time and cost for some of the testing work they needed to do. She requested that the new work be added to the scope statement and that the time and cost to do the work be added to the schedule and cost baselines. The change control board approved her change. What’s her next step?

You have been assigned as a team facilitator for an agile team workig on a software project. This is the fourth project for this team to work on together.You are facilitating a meeting with the team to develop the team charter. The team objects to spending time creating a team charter because they have been working together for years. What should you do in this situation?

Which of the following statements best describes an "issue"?

You are a project manager for a new project in a weak matrix organization. The project team formally don’t report to you and you don’t have authority to reward them for their performance. The project is very difficult and has aggressive schedule and tight date constraints. The project requires a high quality standard. Based on these circumstances, what is the most effective power for the project manager will be likely to use?

Cost variance can be classified as:

Patrick is a project manager who had previous agile experience. His organization - which adopts traditional approach - has contracted with ABC company to develop a website and assigned Patrick as a project manager from the organization's side. The ABC company is using agile approach to develop the website. How can Patrick assess their progress?

Which of the following statements best describes when stakeholders identification is performed during the project?

The graph displays the resource histogram at two given points during the project. What is the action that has been done for the project to change the resource histogram as shown between the two points?

You are managing a construction project. Four sellers have sent proposals as a response to the RFP that the procurement department in your organization sent. You need to gain a more objective understanding of sellers’ capabilities in order to rank their proposals and select the best one. Which technique may best help avoid bias and subjective decisions?

Bruce is a project manager for an industrial project. This is the first project he manages. He expects to face some difficulties with team members and stakeholders because he usually accepts others for what and who they are and always shows open concern. He is worried that his personality characteristics may affect managing the team members and achieving project objectives. What is his personality trait?

Pedro has just been promoted to a project manager position in his organization and he is getting ready to manage his first project. He has been given approved project charter. What is the first thing he should do?

Steve is managing a large construction project which is budgeted at $20,000,000 and will be completed in 2 years. The project is on track with no major issues. Recently, the city council has announced for some new regulations related to the construction projects in the city that will take effect within two years. The new regulations will have an effect on the project budget, however there is low probability that the new regulations will take effect before the project delivery date. What should Steve do?

An organization has signed a contract with the customer to develop a new mobile application. The customer has stated in the contract that there are milestones to be approved by the customer like creating the project charter, approving the project management plan, approving the demo version,..etc. The project team assigned from the performing organization need to use iterative approach because it is more tailored to the project needs, which may lead to missing some of these milestones. Which of the following is the best course of action?

An organization adopts agile transformation. They hired an agile coach to train the teams about agile methodologies. A team member asks the agile coach: "I have the impression that agile teams do not plan upfront for their projects. Is this true?" . The agile coach explains the difference between planning in predictive and adaptive environments. He can mention all of the following, except:

You are the project manager for a software project. You created a Risk Management Plan, identified number of risks with project team and stakeholders. The following figure shows the probability and impact matrix you created. What is the needed reserve to accommodate all top risks?