You are a project manager for a large construction project to build a large shopping mall. All the design work will be outsourced to other companies. Your team developed the procurement statement of work (SOW). The procurement team send request for proposal to potential sellers, but the prices they offered are very high. You and the procurement manager agreed that there must be some negotiation with the potential sellers to get fair and reasonable price. Typically, who leads procurement negotiation?

During developing the project management plan for your project, a team member asks you about the level of details in the project management plan for your project. How should you determine the level of detail to be included in the plan?

Catherine is managing a project to author a book about using earned value management in construction projects. She asked Maria, a technical writer, to help her in this project. Maria advised her to pay attentions to the following points: using correct grammar and spelling, using concise expressions and eliminating excess words, having clear purpose, using markers such as introduction and summaries of the ideas, and controlling flow of words and ideas using graphics. Which techniques did Maria advised Catherine to use?

Which of the following represents a win-win negotiation?

Ben is the project manager of the new construction project in his organization. He is currently performing the Quantitative Risk Analysis process. He is using a software where the project schedule is computed many times with the input values chosen at random for each iteration to create a probability distribution from the iterations. What technique is Ben using?

Jason is managing a large tele-communication project. He has some problems with the team members attitudes. People are talking over the phone during team meetings. They take vacations without notifying him or anyone. They go to work very late and take more than one break per day. What is root cause of the problem?

Carol is a project manager for a large software project. She and her team have defined project scope and created WBS and WBS dictionary. The project seems to be risky, the project team has begun working on identifying risks. The sponsor needs the risk register to be issued. The project has a budget of $,1000,000 and is taking place in 4 countries using 25 human resources from 6 different countries. It is the first time for Carol to manage this type of projects. What should she do next?

You are managing a project to design a high-efficiency solar cell using a predictive development approach. Midway through the project, several issues have occurred and now the project schedule and budget are in jeopardy. What is the best course of action to address these issues?

You are an agile practicioner assigned to a new project. The project team is globally distributed. Which of the following is the most appropriate approach to deal with the project team at the beginning of the project?

Which of the following charts can be used to represent risks by their impact, probability and proximity?

While testing the stability of the electronic board used in your project, you discover that it becomes unstable when it works in high temperature which doesn’t meet your company’s quality standards. You are sure that it will function as it is with the customer, and you don’t think the board needs to meet the quality level specified. What should you do?

Which of the following is the best interpretation for the Agile Manifesto value "working software over comprehensive documentation"?

You are a project manager for electronic boards manufacturing project. Your team has identified a risk with some of the electronic components you are using on your project. Some of these electronic components may be defected, based on past projects, you’ve figured out that there’s a high probability that about 18% of the electronic components may be faulty. You decide to buy an extra 20% of the electronic components so that you will be prepared for those defects and your project won’t be delayed. Which response strategy are you using?

According to this Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) , the component with ID (4.1.2.1) is a/an:

You are an agile practicioner to be assigned to a new project. There are two teams in the organization who can work on this project. Team A has John a business analyst, Mark a UI designer, Steve a coder and Smith a system tester. They are all experts in their fields. Team B has Mathew and Ann who can both work as business analyst and UI designer as well and Chris and Sandra who can both work as coder and system tester as well. Which team will you prefer to work with and why?

Rayan is assigned to manage a large software project to build a new website for online shopping. The project budget is very limited and the project has a tight schedule. He and his team have completed the project management plan and they need to hire the needed resources to complete the project work. One of his team members suggested to hire virtual teams. Which of the following is considered a disadvantage of using virtual teams?

Which of the following is among the scrum master's roles during the daily scrum?

The sponsor asks the developers in a scrum team to add a very important item to the current sprint. What should they do?

A problem occurs on an activity with free float and the project manager has extended its duration. What is most likely to be affected?

A new organization has implemented few projects and outcomes were successfully delivered to the customers. The organization's PMO wants to evaluate the degree of customers' satisfaction with the products and the projects and whether those customers are willing to recommend a product or service to others. Which of the following metrics can they use?

In order to have effective measures, they should follow SMART criteria. "S" in SMART acronym stands for:

Chris is managing a product development project. He receives a call from a team member informing him that they have found the same defect which has been identified before during a previous inspection. Chris is confused how this could have happened. He has raised a change request before to repair this defect and the change was approved. After investigation, he learnes that the team did not implement the approved change. This situation indicates a gap in which process?

What is meant by self-organizing teams?

Smith has just been assigned as the manager of a project to build an electric sub-station that is part of a major electric power distribution system in a new city. The company management decided to run the project two weeks before his assignment and without his involvement. Some basic decisions on deliverables, staffing, budgeting and completion date have already been made as well. Which of the following best describes what he should do first?

You are the project manager for a construction project. The project is ahead of schedule and over budget and there are 45 human resources working in the project. The sponsor pulls the plug and cancels the project. What should you do?

Frank is managing a major construction project valued at $ 30,000,000. The project SPI is 1.01and CPI is 0.99. The sponsor called him to express concern about the project. He is worried because the project end date is after two weeks. He doesn’t know the status of the project. Frank informed him that his team sends a weekly status report by email. He told him that he doesn't prefer emails because he receives more than 500 emails per day. He doesn't check all emails and he prefers verbal updates. This situation indicates a problem in which project management process?

Fatima is a scrum master for a software project. During the first sprint, she notices that some developers are not engaged during the daily scrum. The developers usually don't participate and sometimes they check their cell phones during the daily scrum. How can she address this issue?

You are an agile practitioner working on an agile project to create a customer facing website for an electronic devices shop. The team has developed a working prototype that you and the product owner are delighted with. However, when you show it to the sponsor, the sponsor complains that the website doesn't look as professional as the other competitors' websites. How should you respond?

Mary has been assigned to manage a new project. In order to measure the project complexity, she decides to use Stacey matrix. Which two dimensions will she use to determine the relative complexity of her project?

A project manager for a product development project was informed by a team member that a defect was found in a deliverable that must be delivered to customer tomorrow according to the project schedule. The project manager knows that the customer doesn’t have the technical understanding to notice the defect. The deliverable meets the contract requirements, but it doesn’t meet the project manager’s quality standard. What is the best course of action for the project manager?

Alberto is managing a large industrial project that is budgeted at 9,000,000$ and scheduled to be completed in 9 months. After 5 months during project executing, he reviews a weekly work performance report from his team. He planned with his team a contingency plan with a predetermined risk trigger for a cost performance index CPI of 0.9. He finds that the earned value measurements are PV = 5,500,000$, EV = 4,850,000$ and AC = 5,250,000$. What should he do first?

According to Barry Boehm model, the sweet spot is:

During discussing the project status with some stakeholders in the weekly project status meeting, the project manager realizes that he should add two new risks to the risk register, four new requirements to the requirements documentation and requirements traceability matrix and three new stakeholders to the stakeholder register. Does he need formal approval from the sponsor or others to change these?

The main difference between explicit and tacit knowledge is that:

Monica is a project manager on a large software project. The customer required a change to a major work package. She evaluates the impact of the change and informs the customer with the impact on project schedule and budget. But the customer won’t allow any change to the schedule and won’t pay anything more for implementing the change. Monica explains that the proposed change is outside the documented scope of the original work. The customer tells Monica that he doesn’t care what was in the original scope and that she needs to implement the change with no impact to schedule or budget. What conflict resolution technique is the customer using?

You are a project manager for a software development project. You have completed project planning and started project executing. You discover that a stakeholder always comes to the project team office and asks the team members many questions about the project. What should you do with him?

You are an agile practicioner working on a product development project using agile approach. The organization you are working on has a long history of managing projects using waterfall approach and has recently adopted agile approach for some projects. The development team for your project has been holding product demos at the end of each iteration and you are pleased with their progress. However, you hear that the project sponsor has told another stakeholder that "nothing is getting done using that agile approach." What should you do?

Which of the following statements best describe the purpose of the agile charter?

Richard is a project manager for a very large software project. He is an experienced project manager, it is his fourth project managing virtual teams. His team consists of 245 persons located in three countries. So, he created a communication management plan and all the team members are strictly following the plan. During project executing, some team members need to know the current risk status, what are the current risks, closed risks and accepted risks. Which communication method would he use in this situation?

All of the following are examples of cost of quality 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 accomodate all unknown unknowns?

Johnson is managing a construction project. He mentors a new team member who has never worked on projects before. He noticed that the new team member rarely talks with anyone in the project and he doesn't build any working relationships with others. He noticed also that he doesn't know his own goals, strengths and weaknesses. Which of the following emotional intelligence skills does Johnson need to develop for the new team member?

A government agency contracts with ABC company for development of a new software. The development team consists of project team members from both organizations. The project team members have assumptions, ways of working, and mental models related to how they function within their home organization. In this new project system, which combines the cultures of ABC company and the government agency, what can the project team do to engage, contribute effectively and help to increase the probability that the project system works?

Frank is managing a major mechanical project using predictive approach. The customer requested a change to the schedule baseline. Frank has determined the effect on the scope and cost, performed integrated change control, and adjusted the project baselines, the project management plan and project documents. What should he do next?

Bill is managing an industrial project. He requested from his team to organize potential causes of quality problems into groups to know which causes they should focus on. Which tool should the team use in this situation?

Sarah is managing a construction project. During risk identification, a team member identified a risk that previous projects were exposed to thefts, some thieves have stolen cement and building material from the work location. The team agrees that it’s unlikely that theives can steal material from working location. Even if thefts occur,the project will not lose a significant amount of material, because they depend on material delivery as per the daily needs. She decides to monitor the risk from time to time to be sure that it continues to have a low probability and consequences. Where does she record the risk so that she doesn’t lose track of it?

Two team members are arguing about the design of new network they are building. One has experience from a prior project and argues for a wireless design; the other is concerned about the business risk and wants a more sophisticated wired design. The second team member asks you to resolve the disagreement, implying that the other team member doesn't have enough experience to create the more complex wired network design. As the project manager, how should you approach this conflict?

Charles is the risk manager in the organization and at the same time he is the project sponsor for the new project. Laurence is the project manager of this project. In a critical risk, Laurence reaches out to Charles for guidance. This request is considered as:

George is responsible for managing the spare parts in a large tele-communication project. He monitors the spare parts usage in a timely manner. He always informs the project manager if any spare part has shortage or surplus and takes the needed actions to adjust spare parts usage. Which process is he involved in?

Martha is a scrum master for a product development project. Midway during a sprint, the customer representative has approached her to add a new, complex and urgent safety-related requirement to the current sprint. The new requirement can't be postponed to another sprint. What is Martha's best response?

Based on the chart, there was a problem with resources, so activity H will be performed in parallel with activity G instead of after it. What will be the effect on the project?

Peter is currently managing a large software project. His project is currently facing chaos. He decides to use directive leadership. What would be the reason behind using this leadership style?

During executing a large industrial project, you notice that the some of your team members have low performance, while others are doing a good job. What should you do first to bring the team as a whole back to performance?

Albert is a project manager for a large project to develop electronic tickets for railroad stations instead of paper tickets. He is being mentored by Jim, an experienced project manager. Albert is discussing with Jim that the project is very large and he needs to delgate some work to specialists. Jim advised him that he can delgate some work to specialists but the accountability of ______ can't be delegated or transferred.

In the previous iterations, the team velocity was 30, 35, 36, 40 and 39 respectively. There are 260 story points remaining in the product backlog. How many more iterations will be needed to complete the product backlog?

After a great deal of effort, finally the project manager has made a change to the scope baseline. What should he do next?

Which of the following describes the contents of a resources management plan?

A timeboxed event means that:

Which of the following is a strategy artifact?

Which of the following is the correct matching for these motivation theories?

The same project may be assigned to two different teams, Team A has estimated 420 story points and 30 points velocity per two weeks iteration. Team B estimated 280 story points and 20 points velocity per two weeks iteration. Which of the following statements is correct?

Robert is a project manager for a software project using predictive approach. The project team consists of 35 team members and there are eight key stakeholders. Two team members identify a severe problem in a process in the project. Addressing that problem will require changes to the project management plan and its subsidiary plans. The sponsor previously indicated that any delays are unacceptable, the project team members told the project manager that the change will cause the project team to miss only one milestone. What is the best way to deal with this situation?

You are a project manager for a product development project. You are now evaluating whether to buy or lease an equipment. The daily lease cost is $120, while the cost of purchasing is $7200 investment cost with $30 daily cost. How long will it take the lease cost to equal the purchase cost?

Two teams are working on a software one team is following agile approach and the other is following waterfall approach. During software integration, they faced some issues, what is the best solution?

Samuel is managing a project to develop a new pharmaceutical compound. He noticed that the packing process has many problems, so he held a meeting with his team to examine problems and non-value-added activities that occur during packing process. They also identified many opportunities to improve the process. Which process are they involved in and which tool are they using?

Luis is assigned as a project manager for a new tele-communication network to swap the old mobile phone network in a city to a new network. He is collecting everything to initiate the new project. He collects historical information, high level requirements from key stakeholders, what is included in the project, high level schedule and high level budget. Which of the following should not be taken into consideration during this stage of the project?

You are managing a large construction project which involves four contracts with four different sellers. You are about to finish your project, so you are preparing to close all the contracts and trying to settle all disputes. A dispute with one seller can't be settled by negotiation. What should you do?

Tim is managing a construction project. During planning his project, one of his team members presented the following diagram that depicts a cumulative probability distribution for the duration of a project. What is the conclusion he can get from this graph?

You work for a construction firm which has a long history in construction projects. Your company is bidding on a contract with the government to build a new bridge. Which of the following contract types has the most risk for your company?

Which of the following activities is closely related to agile principle 2 "Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage"?

Catherine is closing her first project, she is collecting lessons learned with project team members and stakeholders. Many stakeholders were not satisfied about the project and they complained that their needs were not fully met. Her boss asks her about the steps she took on her project to improve customer satisfaction. Which subsidiary plan would she consult to determine this information?

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

The project team are having issues regarding resources allocation. The project manager has analyzed these issues and suggested a solution to the project team to solve these issues. He displayed the resource histogram before and after implementing the solution as shown here. What is the suggested solution by the project manager?

Mark is a project manager in a construction company. He is managing a construction project to build a hospital in a new city. He was informed that a new water line is being installed in the neighborhood beside the hospital under construction. Organizational policy requires that some forms for city environmental changes need to be filled out before his team can continue work on the project. This is an example of:

A new cell phone has been released in markets as a product of a project in a multi-national organization. It seems that some defects has been noticed by customers in the new cell phone. The organization decided to make a survey in all shops to collect data about the defects. The cost regarding defects identified in the surveys may be considered as:

Which of the following would not be appropriate to mention during daily scrum?

Which of the following is the correct matching?

Which of the following can be a result of not engaging stakeholders effectively?

Which of the following is a minimum viable product (MVP)?

The project manager for the new project notices that the meeting room seats and air conditioner are not good. She turns her attention to influencing the organization to improve the team’s working conditions. Which motivational theory is she following?

Andrew is an accountant who has recently joined XYZ organization which has a long history of managing projects using agile approach. Andrew has a good experience in traditional projects, but he has never worked on agile projects before. He asks an agile coach how costs and returns are monitored and tracked on agile projects. Which of the following is a correct answer to Andrew's question?

Michael is a project manager for a product development project. He and his team members are holding a weekly project status meeting. A team member asked the project manager that they will need additional resources to perform a critical path activity which has been delayed. The project manager told him that he forgot to do something before adding resources. What might the team member forget to do?

What is the purpose of this chart?

Francis is managing a construction project. He and his team have developed the project management plan. The project has been going well. One of the suppliers informed him that a shipment he needs in his project will be delayed three days as he warned Francis during project planning. At the same time, a team member informed him that a critical path activity assigned to him will be delayed and will take longer than planned. What is the best thing to do?

Which of the following is the correct matching for these roles?

Your software project is halfway done, when one of the key stakeholders submitted a change request to add a major work package. You evaluated the impacts of the change and found that the change will need to add 10,000$ to the cost baseline and two more weeks to the critical path, or you can crash the extra two weeks by hiring two web developers to perform the added work with extra cost of 5,000$. The change is submitted to the change control board and finally approved to add the extra work without increasing the project duration. You need to hire the two web developers immediately, which type of contracts is most appropriate in this situation?

A project team is working on a product development project. They need to narrow down the gulf of execution. Which of the following can help them?

In high-performing projects, who should exhibit effective leadership skills?

You are a project manager of a software project in predictive environment. The customer required a change to a major work package. After many meetings and discussions, finally the project team members determined the specifications of the change. What should you do first?

Frank is managing a pipeline installation project. He and his team have finished the design of the pipeline system. The design was the first deliverable in the project. He is holding a weekly status meeting. One of the team members indicated that they need to get a permit from the city council before they start digging. The team member feels that there is a risk that a city council representative will ask them for a permit for digging. And they will need to request a change for the project management plan to add the extra time and cost needed for that permit. And if they request that change, there is a high probability that the change control board would approve the change. What is the best action to take next?

Antony is managing a large product development project. He and his team have finalized the first round of risk identification with project key stakeholders. They identified hundreds of individual project risks, recommended potential risk owners and risk responses. They also identified sources of overall project risk. Where should sources of overall project risk be documented?

The project manager has called for a meeting for the project team to discuss the high level plan of the project and to start developing the subsidiary plans. Most of the project team members are having disagreements on how work will be done as this is the first time for them to work together, referring to Tuckman ladder, this phase is known as:

You are managing an industrial project. You performed till now work valued at $15,000, which was planned to cost $12,000. You actually paid $11,000. What is the status of this project?

During developing the resources management plan you identified that your team members are not sufficiently qualified to perform their tasks, which may negatively affect your work quality. Which of the following may be an appropriate solution to this problem?

Which of the following statements best describes how stakeholders are involved on a project?

An external customer has requested from XYZ organization to develop a new mobile application. This customer has worked three times before with the organization on three different previous projects. He is known that his requirements evolve throughout the project and might end up with a totally different product than which was originally required. In light of this, which of the following approaches will most fit this project?

The project team has identified a top risk that ranked higher than the previously identified risks. They cannot identify a suitable response to the new identified risk, which risk response strategy would they apply?

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 the requirements are well-known, however the team is unfamiliar with the technology required to implement the those requirements. As a result, the team selects an adaptive development approach. Where on this chart should the team most likely map the project?

Sam has just been promoted to a project manager position and he is managing his first major network rollout project. His sponsor is worried about the status of the project . In order to reduce the boss's stress he calculated the earned value management calculations and offered to the sponsor. The project has a total budget of $80,000 and CPI of 0.95. The project has spent $25,000 of its budget so far. The sponsor needs to know how much more money does Sam plan to spend on the project?

An organization has started a project to produce a wireless headset for a customer. The project was planned to be completed within 6 months using an adaptive approach. Midway through the project the customer has added three more features due to changes in the market to remain competitive. The new added features will extend the project two more months. Prior the product release another competitor has released a similar headset with exactly the same features. The customer has requested adding four more features which has ended up with a product totally different than the agreed one at the beginning of the project. This project has high:

At the beginning of the project a team member asks you, the project manager, when we should identify risks. Which of the following statements best describes your answer?

Which of the following is the correct matching for risk response strategies and the mentioned threats?

Sam is a project manager for a project to design a car parking sensor. He has a limited scope definition and he wants to protect his company from financial risk. The design work will be outsourced to another company. Which type of contract should he choose for his project?

You are managing a four-phase construction project. The customer has formally accepted the deliverable of the first phase and the first phase gate has been reached. You and the key stakeholders want to make sure that the phase has met its success criteria and whether you can proceed to the next phase or not. What are the required documents in this situation?

Which of the following statements represents a fixed price incentive fee (FPIF) contract?

Dan is managing a large engineering project containing 450 stakeholders located in 3 countries. He is classifying project stakeholders according to their level of authority, need for immediate attention and whether their involvement is appropriate. Which stakeholder classification model is he using?

You are a project manager for a complex software project. You need to assign a web developer to your project to perform some complex activities. The needed developer should have great experience to perform the needed activities. You asked the resource manager to assign Steve, who is known that he is an excellent web developer in the organization and he has great experience. The resource manager rejected because Steve is assigned full time to another higher priority project in the organization. You have a conflict with the resource manager because assigning any other developer to perform these activities has great risk to your project, because all other developers within the organization have little experience. Which process are you involved in?

A new product development project is currently being implemented using adaptive approach. The customer has agreed with the performing organization on delivery milestones to deliver specific features on each milestone. Midway through the project, the customer wants to show a tangible deliverable of the project with some specific features to his stakeholders as soon as possible which will require shifting some milestones to earlier dates. Which of the following is the best course of action?

Carol is managing a network installation project for a customer that is part of a program. The new network should be installed in 50 different sites located in the same country. She provides a weekly report containing the RAG status of each site to the customer. The customer has drilled through the details of each site behind marked as red or amber and finds that for the same reasons some sites are marked as red and some are marked as amber. Which of the following best describes the issue and the resolution?

Documenting the questions and answers in a bidder conference and sending them to all bidders is an example of which kind of communication?

Which of the following statements best describes the difference between Validate Scope and Control Quality?

A project team in a maintenance center is working on repairing computers, but they are having difficulty creating a project charter. What is the best description of the problem?

You are managing a software project. The project budget seems to be inaccurate. The SPI is 1.15. Two project team members resigned last week and The team has had negative deviation from the activity attributes. What is the best thing for the project manager to do?

Why does Agile Manifesto value individuals and interactions over processes and tools?

Midway through the project, three team members have resigned from the organization. This may delay the activities assigned to them. This risk was already addressed during project planning. No action has been taken after their resignation. What should the project manager do?

Using the shown earned value graph, at which point will Schedule Performance Index (SPI) be equal to Cost Performance Index (CPI)?

You have a project with the following activities: Activity A takes 5 days and should happen after the project starts. Activity B takes 8 days and should happen after Activity A. Activity C must happen after the project starts and takes 4 days. Activity D must happen after activities C and takes 6 days. Activity E must take place after activities B and D and takes 6 days. Activity F takes place after activity D and takes 3 days. Activity G takes place after activity E and takes 10 days. Activities F and G are the last activities of the project. Which of the following is true if activity F actually takes 6 days?

You are managing a construction project. You are in the process of Monitor Risks. You are searching for new risks and making sure that implemented risk responses are effective. You find that a lower-priority risk has suddenly become more likely. Where do you record low-priority risks?

After analyzing the status of your project, you determine the earned value (EV) = 500,000 $ and the planned value (PV) = 550,000 $. What should you expect at the end of the project as a result if this trend continues?

A project team is working on his first project using adaptive approach. The team facilitator is coaching them about using Kanban board and the importance of limiting work in progress (WIP). All of the following are advantages of limiting WIP on agile projects, except:

David is managing a software project. He wants to find the strength of relationships among different factors. He asked John a more experienced project manager, John told him there is a tool that can give him information about the relationship, such as its strength, the roles played by various individuals or measurements. What is the tool which John refers to?

A project has been initiated in ABC organization to develop a new HR system for a customer. The project team will adopt an adaptive approach for this project. The project team wants to clarify and organize the customer requirements for the new system. The project team is working with the customer to clarify all possible sequences of interactions between the system and the users the particular goals to achieve. Which of the following artifacts can the project team and customer use in this situation?

You are a project manager for a minor software project which is being developed using waterfall approach. Your customer is requiring a minor change in project scope and expects you to do this without delays and additional costs. You believe that you have adequate authorization to make the decision by yourself, but you are not quite sure. What should be your next steps?

Michael is managing an accounting software project. He finds that bringing all of his team members together into a single room to work increases their communication, and decreases misunderstandings. This is referred to as a:

All of the following are stakeholders except:

An organization wants to adopt agile transformation. The organization management board need to include more agile methodologies in the organization's projects. What should be done prior to including agile methodologies in the organization's projects?

Which of the following is the correct matching for these metrics?

Following the shown cumulative flow diagram, what happened at point A?

Which of the following is considered an obstacle to team building activities in a matrix organization?

Brian has just joined a large construction company as a project manager. He has been assigned to manage his first project in the company. Midway through the project, he noticed that the customer is getting frequent change requests implemented by informally approaching the team members. This has resulted in work disruption and discontent among team members. What should be his first priority to remedy the situation?

When you add more risks to the risk register, all of the following will happen except:

Martin is managing a project for exploring for oil in a city in another country. Two weeks after starting the project work, he was informed that a police officer went to the work location and forced the workers to stop their work. He said that they received many compaints from the neighbors because of the noise and pollution resulting from using the drilling machines. In light of this situation what is the most probable cause of this problem?

ABC is a large organization which has a long history of managing projects in predictive environment. Recently, there is an initiative for switching to hybrid environment as there is a high demand on projects that require agile and hybrid development approaches. Which of the following transition strategies is the most appropriate?

Sam is a project manager for a product development project. He is managing his first project. He has finalized the schedule of his project and added all working and non-working days and team vacations on it. He realized that there will be overlapping vacations between his team and the quality control team who will test the product of the project. There will be no one to test the product. Which type of constraints that causes the problem here?

One of the suppliers you are working with is not performing well. The material he delivered does not comply with the agreed-upon standards. The material are always delivered later than the agreed-upon dates. You need to terminate the contract with this supplier and sign another contract with another supplier. Where can you find the legal procedures for early termination?

According to Alistair Cockburn's Communication Effectiveness model, which of the following is the correct order from highest to lowest for richness of communication channels?

A project team is working on a project to build a part of a nuclear reactor using waterfall development approach. The project team wants to tailor some processes related to reporting and communication by removing some activities which seem to be not necessary. The performing organization senior management object to this tailoring approach and added additional approval layer for the project team before changing any process. Which of the following is the best course of action?

During a PMO meeting, the PMO manager suggests to pay more attention to knowledge management, because skills, expertise and experience gained during prior projects are not used effectively in current and future projects. A senior project manager indicated that most of this knowledge resides in the minds of team members and stakeholders. They can't be forced to share what is in their minds. What is the most important way that can be used to effectively manage this type of knowledge?

Match each project task with its associated responsible person (s).Which of the following is the correct matching?

Mark is a project manager for an industrial project. He is involved in a fixed-price (FP) contract with a supplier, which of the following might not be an output of the Control Procurement process?

A project has been initiated in XYZ organization which is known to have a tight schedule. In order to track the project schedule progress, the project team has created a dashboard that displays the planned start date and end date of each activity versus the actual start and end date. A senior manager has indicated that the dashboard doesn't provide project insights. What is the root cause behind this issue?

Peter is the project manager for an industrial project. The design work of his project is outsourced to another company under a contract. When can he use formal written correspondence with this company?

A new project has started in an organization using adaptive approach. Few weeks later, It has been noticed that team performance has decreased because team energy is put into unproductive activities like unnecessary conflicts, many disagreements, clashes and harsh dialogues between team members. Which of the following is the best leadership style for the team coach at this stage?

Stephen and Ann are two stakeholders are discussing about the impact of the project on their departments. They both were not satisfied with the impacts. Stephen asked Ann if the project is on budget. Ann informed him that CPI is 1.03. Stephen and Ann agreed that they are not sure that the project manager knows their concerns. The project manager heard this conversation between them. What is the best thing he can do?

Which of the following statements best describes the team charter?

The organization has 4 projects to select one of them for implementation. Project A has NPV $50,000 and payback period of 2 years. Project B has NPV of $30,000 and payback period of 6 months. Project C has NPV of $40,000 and payback period of 1 year. Project D has NPV of 35000$ and payback period of 18 months. Based on this data which project will the organization select to implement, if they want to achieve profit in the shortest time period?

To determine how accurate and well understood the risk information on the project is, it must be analyzed. And also you need to determine whether more research is needed before a qualitative assessment can be done. It is most important to complete which of the following?

You are a project manager for a large construction project. The project is to build a new hotel. The project is divided into five phases and it is highly visible in your organization. To ensure formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables, you decided to validate scope with the customer to ensure that the project is on track from the customer point of view. When should the Validate Scope process be performed?

Which of the following is an example of noise?

You are managing a construction project in your organization budgeted at 4,000,000$ and scheduled to be completed in 10 months. During project executing, the customer complains that the project is running behind schedule. The sponsor is holding a meeting with you and the customer. The sponsor asked you about the reason of this delay, you answered him that you send a weekly report which contains the earned value measurements of the project. The last report shows that SPI = 1.05 which means that the project is running ahead of schedule not behind schedule. The customer insists that a critical deliverable due date is missed. What is the main problem in this situation?

Seller A and Seller B believe that their chance of winning work from a buyer will be enhanced if they join forces for one procurement, so, they sign a teaming agreement with each other to address the legal and business aspects of the agreement. Which risk response strategy best describes a teaming agreement?

A project team has been formed to work on a product development project. It is the first time for this team to work together. After few weeks, while the team members figure out how to work together, some conflict and struggle happened between the team members. Which of the following is the best leadership style to lead a team in this stage of the project?

The organization is going to undertake a multi-phase IT project. The requirements of the first phase which is the design phase are well-known, however the organization is unfamiliar with the technology required to implement the those requirements. The second phase which is the deployment phase is similar to previous projects within the organization. Which development approach should be selected for this project?

Rayan is a junior developer who has just joined an agile team. He has never worked before in agile environment. He asks the agile coach about how to calculate the project schedule in agile projects. Which of the following represents the best agile coach answer?

A team member comes to work late and leaves early, and it is affecting the project. He always completes the activities assigned to him later than the planned finish date. The project manager decides that the team member must be reprimanded. Which of the following is the best way to handle this situation?

A project manager is assigned to new project chartered to build a bridge between two islands. This type of project has never been done before in his organization. The project manager has decided to build a basic project schedule and to detail the work of each part as the current part nears completion. What best describes what the project manager is doing?

You are invited to give a training session for the new project team members in your organization on how to use earned value management. You teach them how to calculate schedule performance index and cost performance index and how to use them to assess project performance to project baselines. A new team members asks you at the end of the project what should be the value of SPI. What should you answer him?

Midway through a sprint, a functional manager has withdrawn a developer form the agile team to complete some previously committed tasks from another project. So, the team will not be able to meet their sprint goal. What should have been done to avoid this issue?

A team member has moved from a team that adopts traditional approach for their projects to another team that adopts agile approach. He has difficulties to understand what incremental delivery means. What should his team leader tell him?

A project team member sent a confidential information to a third party by mistake. The project manager is very angry and he insists on punishing the team member. What could have prevented this situation?

Contingency reserves are often viewed as the part of the budget intended to address:

You are identifying stakeholders at the beginning of your project. You need to classify them in order to perform stakeholder analysis. You grouped the stakeholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the project’s planning or execution. Which classification model did you use?

You are managing a large construction project. Part of the project work will be outsourced to a subcontractor. A team member asks you about your role as a project manager regarding any procurement in your project. What should you tell him?

Helena is a team member who has recently joined a running construction project. She noticed that there is a difference between leadership styles of Kevin, the project manager of the current project and Andrea the project manager of her previous project. Kevin always focuses on goals and achievements, while Andrea focuses on team members learning, development and relationships. What leadership styles do they adopt?

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 plan for risk responses may not be addresses to the depth they would like. In this scenario, what is the role of Frederick regarding risk management?

You are a project manager for a construction project. You are in planning process group and estimating with team members the costs needed to perform the project. The cost of the material pessimistically $120,000, most likely $110,000, and optimistically $100,000. The cost of labor is pessimistically $100,000, most likely $90,000, and optimistically $85,000. The cost of equipment is pessimistically $60,000, optimistically $40,000 and most likely $50,000. The cost for management fees is pessimistically $50,000, most likely $40,000, and optimistically $30,000. What is the probability of the project coming in under $280,000?

Mike is a procurement specialist who has worked before for a construction firm performing plan-driven projects. He has recently joined ABC organization which has a long history of performing change-driven projects. He asks an agile practicioner about the main differences between change-driven and plan-driven contracts. How should the agile practicioner answer his question?

You are managing a project to develop a new IT system for your organization. The IT system includes systems for warehouse, billing, payroll, and employee performance appraisal. A team member identified a major risk that during switching between old and new warehouse systems business may be affected. To mitigate the risk, you need the new warehouse system to start before the old system can be shut down. What is the relationship between starting the new system and shutting down the old one?

Robert has been promoted to a project manager position in his organization. He will be assigned to manage the next project. The human resources policy in the organization states that the maximum number of human resources to work on any project should not exceed ten human resources. He must comply with this policy while developing the project schedule. This is an example of:

Resource management plan is concerned with planning for all the following resources except:

Stakeholders are any people or organizations whose interests may be positively or negatively impacted by the project or product. When do they have the most influence on a project?

A change request has been approved by change control board to change the scope baseline. Which of the following documents is updated first?

You are a project manager of a high-risk electronics project which has a lot of new technologies. You created a risk management plan, identified 225 risks, and documented them in a risk register and documented sources of overall project risk, together with summary information on identified individual project risks in a risk report. Then, the risks were analyzed and responses were planned. During risk control meetings. It gets obvious to everyone that the documents you created are not helpful. What have you probably done wrong?

All of a sudden, the inflation rate in the country where the project is performed went very high within few days. So the sponsor decided to terminate the ongoing project in this country. What sould the project manager do first?

During an iteration review, after the team has demonstrated the product increment, the project stakeholders have expressed their concern about the product increment being demonstrated as it presents some low priority features and it does not represent their expectations. What is most likely the cause of this situation?

Remon is managing a project to design more fuel-efficient cars. During product inspection, it was found that there is leakage in freon system. The leakage was due to installing a screw larger than the correct one. Remon submitted a change request to solve this problem. The change control board approved on changing the defected parts with other ones to conform with the planned requirements. This is known as:

The project sponsor has asked the project team to increase the frequency of sending the project status report instead of weekly to be daily. Moreover, he has asked also to send a daily report for the progress of outstanding tasks. The team objects to the sponsor's request because preparing such report takes much time. Which of the following is the best course of action for the project manager?

You have been assigned to manage a software project that should be completed within three months. A project charter has been created. You met with the customer, sponsor and key stakeholders to collect requirements and developed a project scope statement. A project management plan has been developed and approved by key stakeholders. You met with the actual user who will use the product of the project to demonstrate how the product of the project will work and discovered that the user's requirements are different from the ones you were initially given and approved by key stakeholders. What should you do?

Manuel is managing a mega project similar to the project he has just completed. He used most of the processes and artifacts from the previous project. Midway through the project, he notices that some team members are stuck in their work. They are unsure how to proceed or undertake their work. However, he did not face the same issue in the previous project. Which of the following is the best course of action?

The first value of the Agile Manifesto states that: "Agile teams value individuals and interactions over processes and tools". Which of the following agile techniques is closely realted to this Agile Manifesto value?