The third principle of the Agile Manifesto states that: "Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale". Which of the following agile practices and techniques is closely related to this principle?

Which of the following represents a lose-lose negotiation?

Sergio is a newly assigned project manager in a construction firm. He has been assigned to establish a PMO in the organization, to provide the projects' team members with required templates, training, access to information and lessons learned. According the mentioned degree of control, the PMO is considered to be:

All of the following statements describe the focus of the Plan Procurement Management process, except:

Julian is managing a construction project. He has determined that an activity is too risky to be completed internally. So, he hired a contractor to complete the activity. However, the contractor may not complete the work on budget, which may cause an increase in project budget. What is the type of this risk?

A medical devices manufacturer is adopting agile methodology in their current projects. A project team is working to develop a medical product that require a lot of documentation. What should they do?

What do you expect when you are submitting an invitation for bid to sellers?

The product owner wants to know when a user story can be completed. The development team informed him that this user story has been assigned 5 story points. The product owner asks the team if there is any time estimate or there is any relation between the sizing and the time required to complete the user story. Which of the following statements represents the team's best answer?

Rebecca is a scrum master working on a large software project. The product owner assigned to the project is always very busy, as he has some other work assigned to him within the organization. As a result, the product owner spends very little time with the team which causes a lot of troubles. What should Rebecca do?

A new medicine has been released in market by a large pharmaceutical company. A serious side effect has been discovered which may cause a sudden decrease in blood pressure.The company has recalled all products from the market. The incurred cost for recalling the medicine is known as:

The third value of the Agile Manifesto states that: "Agile teams value customer collaboration over contract negotiation". Which of the following agile techniques is closely related to this Agile Manifesto value?

Both teams A and B after the first few iterations have determined their velocity to be 50 story points per iteration. Team A has committed to the planned velocity for the remaining iterations of the project. Team B has constantly exceeded the planned velocity. Which team has higher efficiency?

Jim is managing a large industrial project. His project is halfway done, when he held a meeting with the project team and other stakeholders to identify new risks and reevaluate the current risks. This practice is known as:

During measuring project performance for a product development project against project baselines, you found that the schedule performance index (SPI) of 0.93 and the cost performance index (CPI) of 0.82. Generally, What is the reason behind this?

During project executing, a project manager realizes that he needs to decrease project costs. After analyzing all options, he decides to select one of the following options to decrease project costs. Which one of the following will decrease project costs?

The first principle of the Agile Manifesto states that: "Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software". How can the team ensure that the features or deliverables they create are valuable for the customer?

Samuel is a developer working on a software project. He has prepared a presentation to the customer. Later, the project manager has received a feedback from the customer that the presentation was not good enough. How should the project manager address this situation?

A new project has been initiated in ABC organization using an adaptive approach. The initial project requirements have been determined in the initial planning stages and prioritized by customer and product owner. What should be done to these requirements over the course of the project?

Rights and obligations related to procurement audits should be described in:

What is the correct name of the seller in the following procurements management processes respectively: Plan Procurement Management, Conduct Procurements and Control Procurements?

You are a project manager working on a project to move a call center to a new city. You include a representative from a transportation company as a stakeholder. The transportation company will transfer computers and furniture from the old place to the new one. You include meetings with that representative in the WBS. The sponsor objects to such activities as unnecessary. The best response is to inform the sponsor that:

Noel has been assigned to manage a mega project which is being performed in five countries using virtual teams. The performing organization has assigned a PMO team to help Noel set appropriate measures and create a reporting system. All of the following are likely results for creating effective measures, except:

Based on the chart, while completing the project, a team member tells you the team forgot something during planning. Activity F needs the results of activity G before it can begin. Taking this new dependency into account, what would be the effect on the project?

Samuel has been assigned an industrial project to manage. This is his first project to manage. The project is $100,000 over budget. The project team has completed $500,000 worth of work. The project sponsor is worried about the status of the project, he asks Samuel to provide a quick report about the status of the project. Which of the following statements would he mention in his report?

All of the following are against agile principle number two "Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage", except:

Which of the following is a good metric that can be used to compare two agile teams?

You are managing a product design project. You are identifying risks with your team. You identified a risk that a supplier may not deliver material on time. You consult the lessons learned from previous projects and discover that the supplier has a history of providing material later than the due date. You evaluate the probability and impact of the risk, and find that if it occurs, it will cost the project $5,000 and two weeks delay. You decide to contract another supplier to get the needed material. What type of risks resulting from using the other supplier?

Catherine and Ann are two team members in a large industrial project. At the beginning of the project they had many conflicts which affected the work environment. After few weeks, they began to work together and understand each other not to affect their work. Referring to Tuckman ladder, in which team development stage are they now?

During product demonstration, the team presents the product increment to the stakeholders. The customer requests some new features to be added. Which of the following is the best course of action?

You are managing a project to develop a new pharmaceutical compound. The project is very difficult and has a tight schedule. A quality auditor came to you to perform a quality audit on your project. Your team is already under pressure to complete the project. They object to the audit due to the work pressure. You should explain to the team that the purpose of a quality audit is:

You have been assigned as a project manager for a large project to develop an accounting system using predictive life cycle. The project is expected to be finished in 6 months and is budgeted at $100,000. During project executing, you discover that some requirements have not been included in the project scope. Failure to meet these requirements may result in legal actions from the customer of the project against your company. While implementing these requirements may increase the project schedule and budget. What should you do?

Which of the following is the correct matching between agile manifesto values and corresponding actions?

Joseph is an excellent developer. He was promoted to a role of agile coach because he was a fantastic developer and he showed great capabilities. He was promoted as a reward for his great performance and he could share his expertise with the other development team members. Unfortunately, he is having troubles doing the agile coach job and his performance is not meeting the expectations. This is an example of:

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. If risk A didn't happen, what should the project manager do?

For the indicated network activity node (A). What is the total float of activity A?

Antony has joined the development team in a software project. He is being mentored by a Gabriel, senior team member. Gabriel has noticed that Antony can't control his anger, whenever any conversation is getting heated, he does not think before talking and becomes very angry. Which of the following emotional intelligence skills does Gabriel need to develop for Antony?

During the Identify Risks process, a project manager and stakeholders used many methods to identify risks and they identified more than 1000 risks. Then they made sure that all the risks were understood and they identified triggers. Later, in the Plan Risk Responses process, the project manager avoided some identified risks and mitigated others. What has he done wrong?

Prior to the iteration review, after the team has completed all the story points in the iteration backlog, a new industry standard has been released and the performing organization must comply with it. Accordingly, the product increment launch will not be done as planned. Which of the following is the best course of action to realize benefits?

Junior is the project manager for a large construction project. The project is scheduled to be performed in two years and budgeted at 20,000,000 $. He and his team have divided the project into four phases. They planned the first phase in details and defined the needed activities to be performed during this phase, while there is not enough information to define activities to be performed in the later phases. So, they planned the later phases at a higher level until more information becomes available. Which technique are they using?

Nicole is a project manager for a major software project. The project is very important for the customer. She and her team have finalized the project management plan which resulted in a schedule that is too long. She needs to compress the schedule when she analyzed the network diagram, she found that it can’t change. She has extra personnel resources. What is the best thing to do?

Which of the following statements is an example of enhancing an opportunity?

You are the project manager on a project that has a total project float of negative 35. What should you do first?

Which of the following is not related to the fourth Agile Principle : "Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project"?

Which of the following is the most beneficial use of the critical path?

The project team members in a construction project are suffering from some bottlenecks presented in long times waiting for approvals on invoices, change requests, and signing some documents. According to the existing process, only very few persons are authorized to do this. How can this issue be best tackled?

For the shown burndown chart, all of the following are probable reasons for having a flat line at point A, except:

A project team adopts extreme programming method (XP) is working on a software project. XP applies the concept of pair programming where the team members are writing software code together as a pair and reviewing each other's work to determine if the code conforms to the requirements documentation or not. What will be a result of these reviews?

Which of the following approaches can be considered as a hybrid of both agile and waterfall methods?

Which of the following statements best describes risk audits?

Larry is managing a software project that uses agile approach. He is involved in the Control Schedule process. All of the following are concerns of the Control Schedule process when using agile approach except:

Midway through the project, the project team want to measure business value to ensure that the project deliverables are still aligned with the business case and benefits realization plan. Which of the following measures can the project team use?

Kim is assigned to manage a new project to build a new electric substation that is part of an electric utility program to serve a new industrial park. The program management plan states that all changes to any project within the program exceeding 2% of the project budget should be approved by the program manager and other changes less than 2% of the project budget to be approved by change control board. Kim is developing the project management plan with his team, he thinks that most of the change requests affecting the budget may exceed 2% of the project budget. So, most of the changes will need the program manager approval. So, he wants to make the changes exceeding 5% of the project budget to be approved by the program manager, and other changes less than 5% to be approved by change control board. Which of the following statements is correct regarding Kim's opinion?

You are a project manager for a construction project when you discover that the local city council is about to install sewage systems. The project manager of the neighboring building adjacent to you also needs to install sewage system for his project. He discusses with you the possibility to build a sewage system for both projects together and combine the sewage system to save time and cost for both projects because you can use the same resources. Which risk response strategy will he use?

The project manager has analyzed the project stakeholders and added them to the power/interest grid shown here. Who of these stakeholders needs to be managed closely by the project team?

Which of the following is the highest richness communication channels that a project team can use to transfer a broad spectrum of information and why?

The second value of the Agile Manifesto states that: "Agile teams value working software over comprehensive documentation". Which of the following agile techniques is closely realted to this Agile Manifesto value?

Sergio is the sponsor of a large software project. The project includes 1250 stakeholders located in three different countries. He assigned Michael as a project manager for this project. Mario, a business analyst with a good experience, is assigned to this project to conduct business analysis. Who is responsible for requirements related activities in this project?

You are a project manager for an industrial project. You are analyzing with the sponsor and project team members whether to do part of the project by your company or outsource this part to another company. Finally you all agree to do the work by your company because:

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

Samuel is managing a product development project that is bugeted at 1,550,000$. The project is supposed to be completed by today, but it is now 76% complete only. The incurred cost to reach this point is 1,315,000$. What is the cost performance index (CPI) at this point?

What is the focus of the Control Resources process?

You have been assigned as a project manager for a new construction project. The sponsor has issued the charter and you have compiled a list of potential stakeholders. You are classifying them with regard to the direction of their influence. The project sponsor is classified as:

Midway through the iteration, a major organization change is about to take place and the team members don't have a clear vision about the future direction of the product. The team members feel that the iteration should be placed on hold till more clarity about the future of the product emerges. Who should take this decision?

Phillip is a project manager for a large industrial project. A project team member has suggested to his team leader a change to the activity sequence. The original sequence was to purchase a needed equipment before producing the first deliverable. The team member suggested that the equipment is not needed before producing the first deliverable and if the project team postponed purchasing the equipment two months later than planned, its price will be less. The team leader agreed with the team member, while Phillip asked them to continue with the existing project plan as the expected cost reduction is not high. What conflict resolution technique did Phillip use?

The eighth principle of the Agile Manifesto states that: "Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely". Which of the following agile practices and techniques is closely related to this principle?

In the shown Gantt chart, what does point A refer to?

The testing team members always complain that they are overloaded and they are always requested to do more work than they can handle. What is the best way to handle this issue?

The following figure indicates the effect of two factors on the project over the life cycle of the project. What do curves A and B represent?

A change has been made to the project which is being implemented in predictive environment. What should you do next?

Diana is a project manager for a new IT project. She is working with project key stakeholders to analyze and prioritize requirements. She pays more attention to customer satisfaction because one of the project requirements is to achieve a high-level of customer satisfaction for the product of the project. What is the risk here in project requirements?

A sub-contractor in your project went out of business and you need to start construction tomorrow to meet the next milestone date. Which type of contract would you sign with the new sub-contractor?

A scrum team has committed to deliver 40 story points during the sprint. Midway through the sprint one team member becomes sick and must have rest for the remaining time of the sprint. How can the scrum master address this situation?

You are managing a software project. One of your team members informed you that he has added an extra functionality in the work package assigned to him which will help make the usage of the product easier for the customer. The customer didn't require to add this functionality, but it seems that it will make the usage of the product easier. The team member added this functionality to exceed customer expectation. What should you do first in this situation?

The project team have finalized risk identification and qualitative risk analysis with the project manager. They recorded all the identified risks in the risk register shown here. They are now involved in the Plan Risk Responses process, which of the mentioned risks need an immediate response?

After the newly formed project team has gone through many conflicts between the team members, the project team starts to function as a collective body. Team members know their places on the team and how they relate to and interface with all the other members. They are starting to work together. What is the best leadership style to lead a team at this stage?

Which of the following Agile Manifesto principles is the most related to team empowerment?

If a risk event has a 80% chance of occurring, and the consequences will be a $100,000 loss, what does $80,000 represent?

Smith is a project manager for a large software implementation project. The project includes a large number of stakeholders. He is an experienced project manager and knows that stakeholder engagement is a key factor to project success. After identifying all stakeholders, he needs to categorize them according to their power, interest and influence. Which of the following categorization models is the most appropriate to use?

Which of the following represents the main purpose of the daily standup?

A project team is working on a software project which follows an adaptive approach. The team established some measures to monitor the project performance throughout the project. During the previous iteration which has just been completed, the project team measures the lead time of some chunk of work entering the backlog to the end of the iteration and finds that it is less than the lead time In the first few iterations. What does it indicate?

Phil has been assigned to manage a new network installation project. The project team is formed from highly competent and engaged staff within the organization. Which of the following is the best leadership style to use in this situation?

A three phases project adopts a hybrid development approach. The first phase is hardware development adopts a traditional approach. The second phase is software development adopts an adaptive approach. The third phase is systems integration adopts an adaptive approach. The first phase has come to an end. The project manager and the project team are ready to start the second phase. Accordingly some roles and responsibilities will change. Which of the following responsibilities will be changed for the project manager?

A project team is working on a software project using an adaptive approach. Midway through the project, a key stakeholder asked the project team about the features which have been completed over time, features which are still in development, and those that are still in the backlog. To which of the following artifacts can the project team guide him?

Laura is the project manager of a new construction project. The project is to build a new hospital in a city during the hurricane season. A stakeholder identified a risk that the hurricane might damage the project deliverables and it may have consequences on project schedule and cost. Laura and her team go on planning as if the risk is not likely to occur. What is the risk response strategy used in this situation?

Preliminary risk responses may be identified and recorded as part of the _______ process and will be reviewed and confirmed as part of the _______ process.

John is managing a product development project. He and his team decide to outsource part of the project work to another company. They have completed the procurement statement of work. Technical details of the outsourced work are set precisely in addition to the required quality levels. The procurement team want to select the contract type. Which contract type is the most appropriate in this situation?

The project team has created the first project deliverable. It has been inspected and passed all the quality control tests. The project team needs to have this deliverable accepted by the customer. To obtain the deliverable acceptance, the project team might need all of the following, except:

All of the following are among the objectives of the project kick-off meeting except:

You are a project manager for an industrial project. Your project is being audited by the company’s quality assurance department. They have found that your team has implemented the process inefficiently, which lead to defects in your product. What’s the next thing that should happen on your project?

A scrum team is working on a large project which requires 5 scrum sub-teams working in parallel. How many product backlogs should they work on?

All of the following are stakeholders satisfaction measures, except:

Victor is a project manager for a software project. Two team members Kevin and Tom are having a conflict. Kevin explains his opinion, and presents a possible solution. But before Tom starts to explain his opinion, the project manager says, “It is OK, I’ve heard enough, and I’ve decided to go with the solutionof Kevin.” This is an example of:

Which the following is the correct matching for projects with their appropriate delivery approaches?

Which of the following is the correct order from highest level to lowest level?

During a retrospective, the project team discusses the high rate of scrap during the last iteration. The team has investigated the root cause behind this issue. It was because a mistake in the design of the product which lead to many defective products that cannot be repaired. There is a great deal of unhealthy tension between the project manager and the designer who made the design mistake. The project manager has had several outbursts which lead to postpone the retrospective. What should the project manager do first?

During weekly project status meeting, the project manager demonstrates the project progress and status to the key stakeholders. The finanical manager asks him whether the next deliverable will be delivered on time in order not to miss the next milestone payment, he answered him "all the project team are doing their best". This situation indicates:

A Scrum Master is working on a critical task when a team member approached him for help. What should the Scrum Master do?

Your team has made great achievements during your project, and you want to reward them for their great performance. Which of the following contains the bonus plan for your project?

During a major construction project in predictive environment, a team member came to the project manager, with a change request. The change has a very good idea and will be useful to the project. The project manager asked him to write a report describing the benefits of the change. What is the most appropriate advice for this situation?

Martin is a project manager for a large construction project. He is having difficulties in keeping the project schedule on track. The project is budgeted at $3,000,000 and has 310 human resources. The project duration is three months and has 380 activities. There are 90 activities on the critical path. The project SPI is 0.78 and CPI is 1.09. Under these circumstances. What should the monthly status report contain?

During staffing the project, the project manager is selecting one resource from four available resources to perform some project activities. The available resources are as follows: David always works overtime. Eric works very hard. Steve meets the project requirements. Willey is very enthusiastic about the project and will work overtime if necessary. Who is the most appropriate resource for this project?

A large electronics organization has initiated a project to develop a new gaming device. The initial schedule to develop the new device with a set of pre-defined features is 6 months. Another competitor has launched a similar product with the same features. The project team has increased the number of features to stay relevant with the market. This pushes the launch date two more months. This is known as:

A project has been initiated in an organization to produce a new electric device. Midway through the project, a global shortage for one of the electric components used in the device has occurred. The project team has investigated many approaches to resolve this issue and came up with three possible options. They want to select the best option. This situation represents:

During executing a hardware design project. A team member informed the project manager that they didn't identify Ann, the new procurement specialist, as a stakeholder. The team member asks the project manager to submit a change request to add Ann to the stakeholder register. What should the project manager do first?

Mathew is managing a software project to develop a website for a new press agency. The project is very large and involves 350 stakeholders located in 9 countries speaking 5 different languages. Recently, he noticed that misunderstanding occurred between many stakeholders when using the instant messenger software available in the organization's intranet. He asked the IT department to add emotional faces to the instant messenger software. How can these emotional faces help the sender?

Who is responsible to ensure that all procurements meet the needs of the project?

Bill is the project manager for a software project. He and his team have identified risks, performed qualitative risk analysis and planned responses for top risks. During project executing, an identified risk occured, they have implemented the contingency plan, but it was not effective. What type of plans should they create for implementation, if the selected risk response strategy fails to be effective?

In which stage of team development the team members start to working together and modify their working behavior and attitude to support the team, and the team member learn to trust each other to build strong relationships?

Helen is managing a product development project using traditional approach. A change has occurred on her project. She has documented the change, submitted a change request on the change control system, and submitted that request to the change control board. What’s the next thing that must happen on the project?

A new software project has been initiated in an organization which will adopt adaptive approach. The new project team members are distributed in four different countries. Which of the following tools can be used to enhance collaboration between distributed team members?

Matt is a project manager for a large tele-communication project. He and his team are now determining the types, quantities and skills of the needed resources for each project activity. They will need to store their spare parts in a warehouse as it will be needed for all the project duration. They are now evaluating whether to buy a warehouse and hire employees to manage it or to outsource the warehousing activities to another company. Which process are they involved in and which tool are they using?

Which of the following is not a question to be asked during the daily standup?

Which of the following Agile Manifesto principles is more related to value driven delivery?

XYZ organization executives have assigned Harry to form a project team to deliver a software to a client. Harry has formed the project team and motivated them towards achieving the project goal and influenced them to align their individual interests in favor of collective effort, and achieve success as a project team rather than as individuals. The organization used ______ while Harry used ________.

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

The development team of an agile project has not completed any new features during the last iteration. They are going to hold a product demonstration with the customer representative and stakeholders. What should they do?

According to this diagram, what is the status of the project at point B?

Which of the following statements is correct regarding inspection and audit during the Control Procurement process?

Which of the following is the correct matching for these contract types and the corresponding services?

Bill has just been promoted to a project manager position. It is the first time he manages a project. He is being mentored by Helena, an experienced project manager. Helena advised him that his team members should be involved in developing project schedule and they should approve the final project schedule. Which of the following best describes why he needs the team to approve the final project schedule?

The main difference between stakeholders and key stakeholders is that the key stakeholders are:

You have just been authorized as a project manager for a small project, identified project stakeholders and are moving into project planning. A project stakeholder asks you for the project’s budget and cost baseline. What should you tell him?

An organization has contracted with the government to build three railroad stations. The project will be implemented using waterfall approach with three sequential phases with each phase delivering one station. After the first phase of the project is complete, what should happen next?

You are a project manager for a $30 million power generator project. The project is highly visible in your organization and has tight date constraints. The project has fallen two weeks behind schedule when you know that it is not a significant slippage. The project finish date is still six months out and you think you can recover the time over the next month or so. How would you describe the schedule performance in the weekly status report?

You are managing a construction project to build a new school. You are working with your team to develop the network diagram. A team member suggests that the quality of work could be improved if you start the electricity work before starting the plumbing work. But if it leads to increasing the schedule duration, they both can be done in parallel. What type of dependency is he referring to?

Which of the following points may indicate that there is a bottleneck in cumulative flow diagram (CFD)?

You are managing a project for establishing guidelines for handling toxic material. One of the key stakeholders required to change the duration of an activity on the critical path, which will change the schedule baseline. The change is submitted to the change control board and the change was approved. You need to update the schedule baseline to reflect the change. Where can you find the most updated version of the Schedule Baseline?

In an agile project, in which of the following documents can you find team values, working agreements, ground rules, and group norms?

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

Sam has just taken over a project which is being executed using predictive approach. He has noticed that the project team members waste much time in responding to stakeholders questions and inquiries. Stakeholders usually interrupt the team members anywhere anytime which makes the team members unable to focus on project work. Which of the following should Sam do first?

An advantage and a disadvantage of using checklists in risk identification:

You are the project manager for a software project. The project sponsor has asked you for a forecast for the cost of project completion. Which of the following is the best metric to use for forecasting?

A project manager wants to follow Herzberg's theory of motivation, all of the following are motivating agents that she should follow except:

The finance manager has contacted the project manager asking him that the billing process of the project has not been triggered yet. As per the organization policy, once the customer accepts the deliverables, the project should be closed on the organization internal tools and billing process starts. The project manager has responded that this project has been completed and he is now assigned to another project. Which of the following might be the root cause for this situation?

Quality audits should be

You are the CEO of a cars maintenance center and desire to improve project management practices in your company. What is the best thing to do in order to manage the maintenance of each car?

An industrial organization is going to perform an infrastructure project. The project is very large and involves rigorous safety requirements. Which of the following approaches will most fit this project?

An agile team is involved in a network installation project using scrum methodology. A network migration activity must be done during downtime and a team member must be assigned to this task. None of the team members wants to sign up for this task. How should this situation be addressed?

You are a project manager for a product development project. You have a tight budget and the project is behind schedule. One of your team members presents a new software that will help automate some of the project work. By using the new software, the project work will be done faster than planned. The new software will cost 10,000$ and it will help you save 45,000$ in total costs, it will also save 45 days from the total project duration. You decide to purchase the new software and change the project management plan accordingly after the approval of CCB. Which risk response strategy is used in this situation?

You monitor the earned value measurements in a weekly basis until the data date at the end of the sixth week. What is the status of this project at this date?

You are managing a network upgrade project. Your project schedule performance index is 0.79. You need to take a corrective action to bring the project back on track. Which response would you choose that will affect the resources management plan?

Bill is the project manager for a construction project that is building a new branch for his company. When the project first started, he met with the stakeholders to define the scope. The CEO of the company will attend the ceremony to open the new branch. Bill was informed by his manager that he has a deadline to finish the new branch in ten months. This deadline is considered as a:

You are leading an agile team working on a software project to develop a mobile application. You and the team have completed the last iteration and are going to demonstrate the completed product increment to the stakeholders during the sprint review. What is the most valuable feedback of the product demo?

During performing stakeholder analysis and collecting their expectations about the project, you should pay more attention to documenting quantifiable expectations. Which of the following expectations is quantifiable?

You are a project manager for a large software project in a multinational organizaion. Your project consists of 370 stakeholders located in three countries. In the middle of the project, the customer has requested a change to the project scope. You have evaluated the impacts of the change and found that it will add one week to the project critical path and 3,000$ to the project budget. You want to document the impacts of the change. Which communications method would you use in this situation?

Sam is leading a large project within the organization to switch the manual way of handling customer requests to an automated way. The project is associated with huge changes to organizations systems, employees behaviors and the organization culture as a whole, so it is expected to face a huge resistance from many stakeholders. Which of the following models can he use to transition from the current to the future desired state?

Robert is managing a large manufacturing project. Dave is the project sponsor and at the same time he is the direct manager of Robert. Dave wants to know about the earned value calculations. Robert provided him with this data the project total budget is 120,000$, the total amount spent till now is 70,000$ and the team has actually completed 50% worth of work. If the future project work will be accomplished at the planned rate, what should the Estimate at Completion (EAC) be?

A Value Delivery Office (VDO) most probably exists in which of the following organizations?

For which of the following can a work breakdown structure be used?

A project manager who is managing a project using plan-driven approach has incorporated some agile practices to his project. Due to adopting this hybrid approach, the team members complain that they have to update both the plan-driven tools like Gantt chart, requirements documentation, activity attributes,..etc. and the agile tools as well like Kanban board, burndown chart, burnup chart,.etc. They feel that the new hybrid approach has added much workload on them. Which of the following should the project manager do?

You are a project manager for a new software project to develop a website for a customer. The customer wants the project to be completed in 40 days. The project is going well and the cost performance index CPI = 1.07 and the project is being performed with four team members, the project critical path duration is 38 days with a standard deviation of two days. What is the maximum project float?

The intrinsic motivators include all of the following, except:

A new team member asks the project manager about the correct order of actions that will be taken during the Close Project or Phase process. What would be his answer?

You are a project manager for a tele-communication project. Your project is to extend cables for a landline phone network. The total cost of the project is $52/ meter to lay 4 km of cable under ground. It’s scheduled to take 8 weeks to complete, with an equal amount of cable laid in each week. It’s currently week 5, and your team has laid 1,800 meters of cable so far. What is the SPI of your project?

All of the following are included in the project communications management plan, except:

James is a project team member. He is attending a project weekly status meeting. The project manager is explaining the project status to all the attendees in the meeting. James is moving his head to express his understanding to what the project manager said. What did James do?

Which of the following is the correct matching for cost of quality (COQ)?

To support value realization from projects, project teams should most focus on:

George is managing a three-phase sequential project to clean up a hazardous waste site. The three phases are facility decommissioning, waste removal, and landscaping. The transition from waste removal to landscaping is typically marked by:

Carol is an experienced project manager in her organization. She is managing an IT project using agile approach. A team member asks Carol about the quality control activities when and by whom they will be performed. Which of the following would be her answer?

Which of the following is the correct matching?

A risk owner is allocated to each individual project risk as part of which risk management process?

Catherine is a procurement specialist. She always prefers to work in a centralized contracting environment than working in a decentralized contracting environment. Which of the following statements best describes the reason behind this?

Which of the following is an example of a reward system?

Christian is a scrum master for a software project in his organization. He is going on a leave for 3 weeks. What should happen to the daily scrum during his absence?

A project manager is executing a construction project. He is working with the quality assurance team to ensure that the project will satisfy the quality standards and metrics. Which of the following must they have before they start this process?

A prompt list is a predetermined list of:

A risk owner will be responsible for:

A project team is having a weekly meeting. This team meeting during project executing is the best format to :

Matt is an agile practitioner working on a software project. Midway through the project, the team tells him that they need feedback from some key subject matter experts who aren't assigned to the project. How should Matt respond?

You are trying to decide whether to contract out a construction job or do it within your company. To do it within your company, you will have to hire an engineer for $35,000 and pay a construction team $15,000 per week. A contractor will cost you a price of $19,000 per week, and your expert agrees that you won’t find a lower price than that. The job will take 16 weeks. What’s the best way to proceed?

Catherine is a project manager for a new product development project. After the product of the project has been released, it was found to have numerous features more than any other similar product in the market, but obvious defects have been found by the users of the product. The product is categorized as:

Joris is managing a construction project to build a new building. Midway through the project, the court decided to stop all building activities till a new design is released and approved by the city council, because the initial design had some violations. The project was placed onhold. Joris and his team immediately worked on changing the design, having it approved from the city council and made the needed amedments to the project artifacts to off-hold the project. This team is characterized as:

Sergio is the project manager for an IT project. He receives a phone call from Harold, a risk owner, who informed him that an identified threat has occurred. Harold implemented the contingency plan but it was inadequate. Which of the following is the best response for Sergio?

You are in the middle of a major tele-communications project that is performed in 3 different cities using 25 human resources. The resources promised at the beginning of the project are not available. They are assigned to other projects. What is the best thing to do here?

You are a project manager for a $10,000,000 construction project. A part of the project work will be outsourced to subcontractors. The procurement department is now contacting subcontractors to obtain bids and proposals. Which of the following techniques would help you save time because you know that it is a time-consuming procedure to ensure that the sellers get a clear and common understanding of the procurement process and of the needs of your project?

A project manager is leading a large project for electrical system implementation. The project has a large team consisting of people from many functional areas of the company. What is the best power to get cooperation of the team?

Which of the following risk response strategies indicate that the project management plan will not be changed?

Which of the following statements best describes the purpose of the following diagram?

The organization has recently signed a contract with the government of two countries to build a very large bridge linking the two countries crossing a sea. The required work is very large and complex, it is budgeted at 2 billions $ and scheduled to be completed within 3 years. The required work can be best described as: