A product development project has been initiated in XYZ organization, where organization's senior management, project sponsor and project manager attempt to exert project influence in multiple, misaligned directions. Which of the following is most likely to happen?

An IT project has been initiated in XYZ organization. The project is facing high complexity due to linking the organization system to the customer system. The two systems are very complex and the project team can't make accurate predections about the likelihoodof potential outcome. Which of the following might help the project team in this situation?

The project team is undergoing an agile transformation. This requires the team members to maintain their original project plans and project documents in the current management tool, but also enter performance data in the new tool built around agile practices. Which of the following documents the project team members will not map into the new agile tool?

You work as a project manager for a risky construction project. You and your team have identified risks, then performed the qualitative and quantitative risk analysis with the help of experts. During planning risk responses, a new team member asked you about the meaning of a residual risk. What would you tell him?

Pierre is managing a large software project which involves many stakeholders. His organization had a high turnover rate during the last year. To avoid the risks resulting from high turnover rate, he needs to measure the team members satisfaction. He decided to use mood chart. He informed the project team that at the end of each day, project team members can use emojis to indicate their frame of mind. What is a disadvantage of using mood chart that might affect these measures?

You are managing a large tele-communication project. A senior manager has a great deal of authority regarding project decisions, however he does not have much interset in the project. In order to have a successful completion for your project, you will need continuous support from the senior manager in many project decisions. Which of the following engagement strategies should you use with the senior manager to keep him engaged?

Lucas is an agile practicioner leading an agile project. Midway through the project, he and the team discover that they have committed to deliver 50 story points during the current iteration, but actually they will be able to deliver 40 story points only. Which of the following is the best course of action?

Sandra is a project manager for a software project. During project executing a problem has occurred. The problem was not discussed at all during project planning and it was not added to the risk register. The problem will cause one week delay to the project schedule. Which of the following statements is the best response?

The project management team has selected a predictive development approach for the new product development project which has recently been initiated. According to the shown graph for the project life cycle. Which point represents the highest uncertainty?

Scott is the project manager for a large and complex software project in his organization. The organization has only one web developer and he is assigned full time to this project. Maria is the IT manager, she needs to assign some functional work to the same resource. Maria is classified in this project according to the direction of influence as:

The lowest level of the risk breakdown structure can be used as a/an:

The project team is in the design phase of a new car prototype. The team is analyzing which type of motors and wheels would provide a high speed with more safety. Which of the following is the most likely technique would they use to determine these variables?

Which of the following is a risk response strategy that can be used for both opportunities and threats?

Carol is the project manager for a new engineering project. Some of the project work will be contracted to another company. She is discussing with the procurement manager about the appropriate contract type for the contracted work. Which of the following is the most important aspect to consider in determining the contract type?

You are working in the Project Management Office (PMO) for a multinational organization. You are training the new project managers about risk management. You mention that all your agreements should be included during identifying project risks with team members and stakeholders. One of the attendees asks you why agreements are needed during identifying project risks, what would be your answer?

An agile practicioner has been assigned to be a scrum master for a scrum team, what should he do next?

Your agile project has three groups located in three different countries. Unfortunately, each country is in a different time zone and speaks different native language. It was agreed at the beginning of the project that all team members should communicate in English. How can you best coordinate the work?

You are managing a construction project that will cost 2,000,000$ and will last for 14 months. Before finalizing the project management plan, the project sponsor asks you why you scheduled many risk identification meetings throughout the project. He said that risk identification meeting should be scheduled only during project planning and there is no need for all these risk identification meetings throughout the project. How should you answer him?

A project has been initiated within an organization to merge two large departments into one department. There are many side talks between the employees in the two departments affected by the change. Most of them feel anxiety because there will be changes to their usual way of working, working on new systems which they are not familiar with and changing their work locations. Which of the following models can help them understand what they are feeling and enable them to move through change more efficiently?

The project manager says to the team member: "You need to listen to me because I have been put in charge. Perform the work assigned to you". Which power is the project manager using?

Which of the following is considered an advantage of fixed price contracts?

Which of the following is the primary objective of incentive clauses in a contract?

If your organization is using Kaizen and and Just-In-Time (JIT) methods, you must take them into consideration when you manage your projects because they will mostly affect on:

Midway through the project and after many clashes between the team members, it has been noticed that the team members started to adjust their work habits and behaviors and a sense of cohesion and unity has started to emerge between team members. At this stage, what is the most appropriate leadership style?

During executing a large construction project. The customer required a change to a major work package. You evaluate the impact of the change on all the project constrains and tell the customer that the change will cost $10,000 and will add three more weeks to the project duration. But the customer says that he doesn’t have the time or budget to allow the change. What’s the best way for you to handle this situation?

You are managing a project with global virtual team. Recently, the team has experienced some communication difficulties which has impacted the project as some information has been missed and not communicated properly. It has lead to missing a milestone. Which of the following should you do to tackle the communication issue?

The procurement claims are monitored and managed throughout the contract life cycle in accordance with:

You’re managing a construction project when your customer required to finish the project earlier than planned due to external circumstances. A team member heard that in a situation like this, you can use schedule compression by either crashing or fast-tracking the schedule, but he’s not sure which one to use. What do you tell him?

Sam is managing a large IT project. Some work of this project will be outsourced to other companies. To solicit proposals from prospective sellers, all of the following documents should be shared with the potential sellers, except:

While analyzing the last year performance of the company, it was found that the company has lost many customers especially who used the products of the company during last year. The CEO informed all the project managers to pay more attention to quality management. He focused not just on giving customers products without any defects by keeping the defective ones out of the customer hands , but keeping errors out of the process of producing deliverables. Keeping errors out of the process is known as:

Tony and Maxim are two project managers in two different organizations. Tony is usually involved in evaluation and analysis activities prior to project initiation which includes consulting with executive and business unit leaders on ideas for advancing strategic objectives and improving organizational performance. While Maxim is always assigned to manage projects in his organization after the project charter is signed. Which of the following statements best describes this situation?

What is wrong with this chart?

According to the shown burndown chart for project XYZ iteration 1. What is the status of the project at point A?

During an industrial project, two team members are in conflict because of difference in opinions concerning the correct order of steps to test the final product of the project. Who is initially responsible for resolving this conflict?

Smith is managing a large product development project. The customer of the project has very tight quality tolerance and will not accept any defected product. He has set strict quality control measures and feedback verification loops from a similar previous project. However during scope validation, the customer has rejected a high percentage of the products due to defects found. Which of the following is the best course of action?

Gary is managing a large tele-communications project. The installation work will be outsources to another company. After the prospective sellers have been identified and received the procurement documents, Gary invites the sellers to attend a bidder conference. What should he do?

A project manager is concerned about sending progress reports. Another project manager advised him that he should also watch what is going on in his project, ask about problems, and help team members. Which of the following is the biggest disadvantage of progress reports as compared to watching what is going on in a project, asking questions, and assisting team members?

Thomas is the finance manager in the organization and he is known to be an unsupportive stakeholder. He is a key stakeholder in the new IT project. Harold has been assigned as a project manager for this project. He held a meeting with Thomas to identify the preferred communication method, format, and content for planned communication activities. Which skill did Harold use?

Adam has been assigned as a project manager for a software project as a replacement for another project manager. The project team consists of 12 members with different skills and experience and each has an action plan for personal development. He wants to adapt his leadership style to support team members according to their action plans for personal development. Which of the following models can help him in this situation?

The project team meeting is not going well. Attendees are talking at the same time. There are many side talks. Some attendees are not participating. Topics are being discussed randomly. Which of the following rules for effective meetings is not being followed?

What could be a PMO role in agile transformation?

The project manager of a product development project in a lean system has been informed by the PMO that the process efficiency of one of its processes is lower than before. What might be the reason behind this?

Midway during a sprint, the customer representative keeps calling the development team asking them to add a key feature to the current sprint. Which of the following is the best course of action?

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

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

You are a project manager for a large software project to develop a mobile application. Your project team consists of 25 persons located in the same office. In the middle of the project, you noticed that conflicts arise between two project team members on both technical and interpersonal levels. What should you do to handle these conflicts?

The project team discovers unexpected problem that the safety stock level of a needed component for the project is not enough. Which project document should be updated with the description of the situation along with its progress and resolution?

Your company now faces some financial problems, so the company management are reducing all projects' budgets by 10%. Your manager requested that you reduce the budget for the project which you are currently initiating by 10%. Which of the following statements best describes what this will mean for your project?

The sixth principle of the Agile Manifesto states that: "The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation". Which of the following agile practices and techniques is closely related to this principle?

Gary is a project manager for a large mechanical project. He is documenting the roles, responsibilities, required skills and reporting relationships for the needed resources. Where should he document this information?

Why would the project manager be involved in procurement negotiation?

Frank is a project manager for a large construction project. During project execution, he faces shortage in some raw material which is urgently needed, as the project might face delays if these material are not available within one week. This might lead to missing important milestones and the project will be subjected to financial penalties. Following the internal procurement process will take more time. A supplier has submitted an offer to provide the needed raw material and reimburse the cost later, however the cost is very high. Which of the following should Frank do?

The project manager assigned Mark to send a weekly email to the project key stakeholders to explain the status of the project. Some stakeholders informed the project manager that they don't receive this email. The project manager wants to know if this email is delivered to these stakeholders or not. He asked Mark to use the option of requesting a delivery receipt from the email software which they use. Mark did what was requested from him and received notifications with who received this email. What did Mark receive?

Luis is a project manager in an electronics firm. He has been assigned to manage a new project to develop a faster, cheaper, and smaller laptop. He is analyzing the defects found in the product by graphical representation of this numerical data. The graph shows the ranking of the cause of defects and the number of defects found per deliverable. Which data representation technique is he using?

During project executing which adopts predictive life cycle, the customer has requested a change to the project scope which may affect other constraints. The project manager called for a meeting for the project team to discuss how to make this change. This is an example of:

A project manager for a hardware design project and his team are using cause and effect diagram, trying to determine how various factors might have contributed to project problems. The project manager is involved in which part of the quality management process?

Stephen is managing a mechanical project. Part of his project needs to be performed by Autocad specialists. When he needs to get staff from the manager of the design department, he suggests a few designers with performance problems for the project. Which is the best response of the project manager to this situation?

You are a project manager for a major construction project. The customer is very angry because there is a deliverable due date within two weeks and he believes that your team will not complete the deliverable before the due date. You meet with the customer to reduce his stress and you show him the earned value calculations. They show your cost performance index (CPI) is 1.25, your actual cost (AC) is $400 million, and your planned value (PV) is $490 million. Should your customer be comfortable?

You are managing a four phases construction project to build a new industrial park. The project is very large and involves more than four hundreds stakeholders and four subcontractors. A team member who has never worked before in large projects like this one ask you about when the project kick-off meeting will be held. What would be your answer?

Julian is a assigned as a team member in a small product development project. The project has low budget and scheduled to be completed within 20 days. The project includes another team member and Albert, the project manager. They are all co-located in the same room. After they finalized the project management plan, Julian asked Albert why the project management plan doesn't include stakeholder engagement plan and communication management plan. How should Albert answer him?

During a retrospective the team discusses the low velocity of the team during last iteration. After investigating the root cause, it was found that the reason is due to a junior team member who does not have enough experience to complete the assigned user stories to him in their estimated time. What is the best course of action?

You are working with potential sponsors to determine which project your company will select from the following projects. Based on the benefit-to-cost (BCR) ratios Project A has a BCR of 5:2, Project B has a BCR of 5:3 , Project C has a BCR of 3:1, and Project D has a BCR of 2:1. Which of the four projects should you recommend?

Julian is managing a large construction project with a total budget of $450,000. According to the schedule, his team should have completed 45% of the work by now. But at the latest status report, the team only reported that 40% of the work has actually been completed. The team has spent $165,000 till now on the project. How would he best describe the status of the project?

In which procurement management process is the source selection criteria used in your project?

Kevin is managing his first project in the organization. The project is a risky one. Kevin is reporting to Charles who is the project sponsor. He consulted Charles because he is certified PMI-RMP risk consultant in the organization to help him in risk planning for the project. How would you categorize Kevin's request?

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

Project team members are estimating the costs of the activities that will be performed during the project. They are using three point estimating. The expected cost of the activity based on weighted average distribution equals 500$ .The cost of the activity, based on realistic effort assessment for the required work and any predicted expenses equals 480$. The cost based on analysis of the best-case scenario for the activity equals 420$. What is The cost based on analysis of the worst-case scenario for the activity?

A cost performance index (CPI) of 0.98 means:

What is wrong in this diagram?

During break time, the customer meets a project team member and they talk about the project, its status, progress,..etc. The team member informs that customer that the project will face some delays and two milestones will be missed due to changing project requirements. The project manager hears about this conversation from the customer. What should the project manager do?

A project manager on an industrial project decided to insure against fire. This is an example of:

For which of the following can a stakeholder engagement assessment matrix be used?

You are leading a project team for the fourth project they work on together. As the team members have worked together before on many projects, consensus and cooperation have been well-established and the team is mature, organized, and well-functioning. What is the most appropriate leadership style you can use?

You are managing a construction project to build a new hospital in another country. You and your team are creating the project schedule. You identified project requirements, defined project scope and defined project activities. One of your team members informed you that before starting digging work, you must get a permission from city council. Which type of dependency is mentioned here between the activity of getting permission from city council and the activity of digging work?

You are a project manager for a four phases mechanical project. You finally produced the deliverable of the first phase and have just delivered it to your customer for acceptance. The customer called you to inform you that some features they were expecting are missing. What’s the first thing you should do?

Tom is a newly assigned project manager in agriculture engineering company. He is assigned by Frank, the project sponsor, to manage a new project to produce new organic soil fertilizer. Ronald, the PMO manager, met with both Tom and Frank to discuss the project business documents. Ronald clarified the importance of alignment between the project business documents, project management plan and project charter. Who is responsible for providing recommendations and oversight to keep the project business case, project management plan, project charter and project benefits management plan success measures in alignment with one another?

A small project has been initiated in ABC organization which is known to be working on mega projects. The organization adopts waterfall approach for all projects and has strict project management processes. The new project team consists of four colocated team members. The project manager decides not to create some artifacts like communication management plan, meeting minutes, stakeholders engagement plan and quality management plan. Which of the following best describes what the project manager is doing?

Which of the following Agile Manifesto principles is closely related to backlog refinement?

Andy is a project manager for a large construction project. All the project work will be outsourced to other subcontractors. Andy is just starting the procurement process. Which of the following should be done last?

A project team has created a software as a project deliverable for a customer. The customer has initiated the project and requested a software solution because they think that the solution resolves the business need for higher productivity. The software which is the output of the project does not enable the productivity outcome that is intended. The project stakeholders feel that the project has failed. Which of the following best represents the root cause of this issue?

Dennis is a project manager for a four phases sequential industrial project. He has scheduled a meeting with concerned stakeholders to hand-off phase product and to evaluate the project performance compared to the project and business documents. This activity can be referred to all the following terms except:

Which of the following projects needs to communicate evolving and emerging details more frequently and quickly than other projects?

Which of the following emotional intelligence pairing is correct?

The eleventh principle of the Agile Manifesto states that: "The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams". Which of the following agile practices and techniques is closely related to this principle?

You are managing a large software project. The project team has just calculated the critical path, you received a call from the PMO manager telling you that one of the web developers will be taken from your project to join another more important project, that of course will cause a resource limitation problem. In light of this, which technique should you use to recalculate project schedule?

Michael is managing a software project which is a part of a program. During risk identification, a team member has identified an opportunity that he will learn a different programming language to perform a part of this project which may be useful for other parts. Michael noticed that this opportunity will be useful for other projects in the program, but it will not be useful in his project. So, he informed the program manager about this opportunity. Which risk response strategy did Michael use in this situation?

A project team member asks you about who is responsible to distribute the risk status to project stakeholders. Where should he look to know who is responsible for this task?

You are managing a software project in an agile development environment. After the first round of risk identification, a team member who has never worked in agile environment asks you when the qualitative risk analysis is performed. What would be your answer?

During executing a major motor design project, two team members are having disagreement about choosing the type of a component that will be used in the project. The project manager has offered to help. The project manager suggests a compromise, and the team members want to solve the problem. Who should decide on the best course of action?

An activity has an early start (ES) of day 2, and a late finish (LF) of day 18. The activity duration is 5 days. What is the activity’s float?

In scrum of scrums daily meeting, the representative of each team should answer an extra question more than the questions asked in the daily scrum. What is this question?

The finance department in ABC organization measures the profit and loss for all the projects that are being implemented in the organization. They measured the cost-benefit ratio of one of the projects over several months and find it always greater than 1. They communicated these measures to the project steering committee. Which of the following is not a correct decision for steering committee?

Adam is a project manager for an electronic board design project. The project has a 50% chance of making cost saving for the company $215,000 over the next year. It has a 30% chance of costing the company $120,000. What’s the project’s expected monetary value?

Ivan is the project manager for a new project to develop electronic tickets instead of paper tickets. He identified all stakeholders of the project and is analyzing the current and desired level of engagement for each stakeholder. Piere is the leader of the printing team, he is aware of the project and thinks that he may be released from the organization after the project is completed becuase there will be no more need for paper tickets. Piere is trying to put obstacles in the way of project completion in order not to be fired from the organization. How should Ivan classify the engagement level of Piere?

Which of the following is the correct matching for stages of team development?

Richard is a product owner for an agile project. He is known to be very pushy as he always pushes the team to accept more work during each iteration. This will cause a team burnout. Which of the following represents the best course of action?

You are managing a large construction project which includes a large number of stakeholders. After identifying stakeholders and analyzing their impact on your project to properly manage their engagement throughout the project life cycle, you noticed more communication need to be done with key stakeholders. According to the shown stakeholders engagement assessment matrix, which stakeholder won't you need to increase the level of communication with him without affecting the engagement level?

Midway through the project and after many clashes between the team members, it has been noticed that the team members started to adjust their work habits and behaviors and a sense of cohesion and unity has started to emerge between team members. At this stage, what is the most appropriate leadership style?

You are managing a project for a customer. The customer has stated in the contracted that there will be a 5% of the project budget as a bonus if the project team delivers the project one month earlier than the planned project completion date. Which of the following can you do to exploit this opportunity?

Based on the network diagram shown, what is the float of the critical path?

During developing the communication management plan for your software project, a team member asks you whether social media can be included as a communication tool to the project communication strategy. What would be your answer?

Peter is the project manager for a large project to build a bridge that links two cities crossing a river. The project has a high risk score. He is working with his team to plan the risk responses for the project to decrease the project risks. He feels that the team successfully completed the risk response planning. Which of the following risk processes is repeated after the plan risk responses to determine if the overall project risk has been satisfactory decreased?

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". Which of the following agile practices and techniques is closely related to this principle?

Derek is managing an industrial project. During product inspection he noticed that some products of one machine has 1 mm increase in one of the dimensions of the products, while all products of other machines don't have this increase in their dimensions. This 1 mm increase is within the control limits so the products conform with the requirements, but he escalated the problem to the maintenance team to check the machine in order not to face product nonconformity in the future. What Derek did is an example of:

Who is responsible to ensure that organizational procurement policies are followed?

Following the shown burnup chart, what happened at point A?

Thomas is a project manager for a large software project. He and his team are creating the project schedule. The project sponsor requested from Thomas to create a chart to use in reporting the project schedule to him. This chart should identify the scheduled start or completion of major deliverables and key external interfaces. What should he create?

Which of the following is the corect matching between agile technique/event with the corresponding agile principle?

During measuring the project performance against the project management plan, you discover that the project is running behind schedule and the final deliverable will be delayed by one month after the required date by the customer. What should the project manager do?

For the shown burndown chart, what is the status of the project?

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 B occurred, what should the project manager do?

Catherine is a new project manager in a construction firm. She is attending a project management webinar about the importance of strategic and business management skills for a project manager. The trainer indicated many reasons for the project manager to be knowledgeable enough about the business, which of the following can't be one of them?

Joseph is managing a large industrial project. He and his team decide to outsource the installation work to a more experienced company, because the installation work is very risky. Only one company has submitted a proposal. They organizational policies for selecting a seller states that there must be at least two potential sellers to start bidding process. Which technique should the project manager use to help him expand the potential sellers list?

A key stakeholder has approached the project team who are working on a software project using an adaptive approach with a concern. The stakeholder can't find the features that at intermediate states, such as features designed but not yet constructed, those in quality assurance, or those in testing in any of the project artifacts. To which of the following artifacts can the project team guide him?

Simplicity - the art of maximizing the work not done - is essential. What does this principle mean?

Which of the following Agile Manifesto values are closely related to backlog grooming?

One of the important activities to be done in project closing is archiving project documents. Why should the project documents be archived?

The project manager with the project team are completing WBS for the new construction project. There are more than 300 persons in the meeting representing 5 departments. Too many people are talking about later issues while earlier issues are being discussed. The session is hard to manage. What best describes the real problem?

According to this diagram, which project status is the best?

You are a project manager for a large construction project. You are searching for a supplier to provide some raw material for your project. You asked your team to prepare all the needed information on the types, quantities and specifications of the needed raw material. When will you send him a RFQ?

Which of the following is the correct matching between leadership styles and team building stages?

The project team is discussing the goals for the next iteration with the customer and product owner, then they will select the user stories they will commit to deliver as part of the next iteration. This behavior does comply with which agile principle?

You are a project manager of a software project when a previously unidentified risk is discovered. Your project is near completion and this risk may delay project completion date. What should you do next?

During which risk management processes are most of the project risks identified?

A project team is working on a mechanical project. It is the fifth project that this team is working on. The team members have developed a synergy due to working together on many projects, the best leadership style to lead this team is to:

An organization has started a project to move a data center from one city to another one. The project team decides to adopt predective approach for the physical building construction of the new data center, use iterative approach for establishing the computing and network capabilities and use a predective approach for network migration and shutting down the old network. Which of the following statements best describes this situation?

The value of the daily standup is for:

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

You are a project manager for a project which is facing the following risks: 20% chance a supplier will not deliver the needed spare parts on time, creating an additional cost of $30,000; 10% chance product may need rework adding a cost of $12,000; 25% chance the project will finish earlier than planned, so saving lease cost of $8,000. What is the expected monetary value of these risks?

Michael is chatting with Vicky through an instant messenger software. Michael is worried that Vicky might misunderstand him and think that he is angry. So, he added a smiley emotion to clarify that he is not angry. What did Michael do?

Victor is a project manager working on a project to create a mobile application for a customer. The project team consists of 10 experienced developers who thrive on autonomy. The team has low morale and feel demotivated. What can Victor do to tackle this issue?

You are working for a major pipeline project. The project is very important and highly visible for your organization. It is performed using 32 human resources. As you review the project results, you notice that the value of the work accomplished is $1,200,000 at the last reporting point. You know the schedule performance is good, since your SPI is 1.2 while you have spent $1,050,000 to this point, what are the CPI, and the schedule and cost variances?

Which of the following statements best describes a risk owner?

You are a project manager for a construction project that will install glass walls for a new company. The contract between your company and the customer is a time and material contract which stated that your company will get $11 per meter, and your company is doing all the work. The new company has 4 equal sides of 125 meter, and requires the installation of a six-meter diameter banner on one side. Glass walls should be installed at a rate of 100 meter per day. The banner installation will cost $500 and take one day to complete. The banner must be installed before work can begin on that side of the wall. After three days of work, one side is completed, another has 75 meter installed, and the banner is completely installed. So far, $2,700 of the total project budget has been used. What is the current status of the project?

You are the project manager performing intranet project for your company. During planning the project with your team , you divide up all of the work into work packages and create a WBS. For each one of the work packages, you write down details such as initial estimates, assumptions, predecessor and successor work packages. Where do you store all of that information?

During executing a major telecommunication project, A hardware seller has released a major upgrade for some of the equipment being installed. The upgrade would provide the customer with functionality they requested at the beginning of the project, which was not available at that time. What should you do?

Which of the following statements is true?

Chris and Anne are two key stakeholders in a software project. They expressed their concern to the project manager that they are not updated with project changes. During last week change control board approved two change requests to the scope baseline and they were not updated. The project manager apologized to them and solved the problem by sending an automated notification email from the organization's change control system whenever a change request is approved to the concerned stakeholders. Which document should be updated accordingly?

The PMO is trying to select one of the potential projects to implement within the organization. They are preparing some financial information to calculate the potential benefits of the candidate projects. They want to calculate how much money each candidate project will return. Which of the following financial metrics should they use?

During project closure, a project manager performs activities related to satisfy completion of project or phase and activities related to the completion of contract or agreement. Which of the following are involved in both activities?

Based on the chart, the resource assigned to perform activity C has joined a heath and safety training course in the organization and therefore activity C will be performed in 8 weeks. What is the effect on the project?

Which of the following Agile Manifesto principles is more related to Working Collaboratively?

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 ensuring that requirements-related work is accounted for in the project management plan and that requirements-related activities are performed on time and within budget?

Product scope management involves the requirements that relate to the product of the project. Project scope management involves:

Which of the following events is least likely be used as a source for identifying threats?

You are managing a project with 34 team members and 7 key stakeholders. One team member identifies a problem with the current approach. To solve that problem you need to make changes to the project plan and its subsidiary plans. The project is time sensitive and the customer previously indicated that any delays are unacceptable, and your team members tell you that the change may cause the team to miss at least one critical deadline. What is the best way to deal with this situation?

During project planning, a mechanical engineer informed the project manager that the life cycle cost of the new machine is higher than the life cycle cost of another machine. In light of this, what should the project manager do?

Which of the following is the best definition of WIP limits?

Mike has been asked to replace James who is currently on a sick leave. He is managing a project that is midway in execution. Mike observes the team members attitudes and finds that the environment is counterproductive. The team members are not collaborative or open to differing ideas and perspectives. He is usually called by team members to resolve conflicts between them on minor issues. Based on Mike's observations, where is the team on the Tuckman ladder?

You are a project manager of a seven-month construction project. The project is very important to the customer and your organization. You have held weekly meetings with your project customer and key stakeholders. After six months of work, the project is on schedule and budget, but the customer is not satisfied with the project deliverables. This situation may delay the project completion date by two months. Which of the following is the most important process that could have prevented this situation?

A new project manager has just been assigned a construction project that is ongoing and is three weeks behind schedule. The team members are about to be distributed to another new project based on the original time estimates by the functional manager. What type of organization is the new project manager in?

George is the project manager for a construction project. He is currently reviewing the latest work performance report from his team. The report contains the earned value measurements to this point, forecasts and variances. Which of the following values contribute to the greatest risk in the project?

Which of the following situations entails high volatility?

The buyer's and the seller's project managers are meeting together to discuss the seller's performance to date on this important product development project. There have been three changes to the project caused by a change in laws in the country were the project is being performed and four errors by the seller that are being discussed. What is the best output of such a meeting?

Luke is a project manager in a construction company. He was assigned to manage a construction project to build a new shopping center. During performing the strength tests, he found severe failure in the strength tests. He assigned Steve to investigate this problem. Steve started tracking the problem to determine and solve the main reasons behind it. Which tool should Steve use to track the problem?

Which of the following best describes an opportunity on a project?

A project manager for a software project is planning his project in a matrix organization, the project manager determines that he needs two additional programmers to perform some activities in his project. From whom would he request these programmers?

You are a project manager for a construction project. While analyzing risks that may impact your project, you discovered that, there’s a 40% probability that a hurricane season will cause two weeks delay, costing $10,000. There’s also a 30% chance that the price an equipment needed in your project will drop, which will save $5,000. What’s the total EMV these risks?

David has been assigned as an agile coach to a software project in the organization. This is the first project in the organization that adopts adaptive development approach. He discusses with the team about the importance of using agile tools like burndown chart and burnup chart in order to track the completed and remaining work in each iteration. However, the development team is unfamiliar with these tools. Which of the following is the best course of action?

A software project has been initiated in ABC organization which follows an adaptive approach. According to the team size and capabilities, the project team has set a limit for the number of backlog items that are in progress not to exceed 40 items. If the items that are in progress exceeds this limit, a risk should be raised and addressed. This limit (40 items) is classified as:

A project manager wants to incorporate some agile practices into his plan-driven project. He suggests for the team to attend a daily standup. What might be needed from the team prior to attending a daily standup in a plan-driven project?

Over the course of the project, the progress line on a burnup chart will:

A project has been initiated in an organization to automate the reporting process within the organization. A stakeholder who did this task manually feels that he might lose his job as a result of the project because, all the manual work he is doing, will be done automatically. He always tries to delay the project activities as much as he can which lead the project to be three months behind schedule. What might have been done differently during project planning to avoid this situation?

James is the project manager of a software project. Midway through his project, he realizes that there’s a problem with a part of the software code and his team members are going to redo this part of the code. One of his team members suggests that the problem is not severe enough to cause all of that re-work. James says that he’s worked on a project that made the same mistake before and they ended up having to redo the work when inspectors discovered it. He convinces the team member that it’s probably better to fix it now than later. What kind of power is he using to make the decision in this situation?

Costs of testing and inspections are examples of:

A team member informs the project manager that he has added an extra functionality to the work package assigned to him which was not included in the design. The new functionality did not add any extra cost and he created it during his weekend. The team member believes that it will satisfy the customer and he will appreciate it. What should the project manager do?

During a retrospective, the project team discusses the high rate of scrap during the last iteration. This rate is the highest all over the project. Which of the following should the project team use to tackle this issue?

You have just been authorized to manage a new software project for your company. Which of the following statements best describes your first action?

Mark is managing a large software project. The project is very large, it consists of 75 team members and is planned to take two years. At the end of each quarter, he performs an assessment for each team member to know the areas of strengths and weaknesses for each one. Which process is he involved in?

The project team in a software project are facing some difficulties in their project.The project is facing some issues like ambiguity and complexity in project requirements. Things are not going well between stakeholders. Conversations are always getting heated and meetings turn into arguments instead of exchanging information. What might help the project team overcome these issues?

The project manager in an industrial firm is reporting the project performance during the bi-weekly progress evaluation meeting with the key stakeholders. The planned budget for completing the project to date is 10000000$ , the project mangers' calculations shows that the actual work done by the project is 1.2 the planned cost, while the work done is 0.89 the planned work to be done to date, in light of these info the project is considered:

Project deliverables are produced during the _______ process, verified during the ________ process and formally accepted during the ______ process.

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 CPI is expected to be the same for the remainder of the project, what should the Estimate at Completion (EAC) be?

Referring to Tuckman ladder, during which team development stage team members work as a well-organized unit and work through issues smoothly and effectively?

Fredric is a project manager in a multinational company. He is having a phone call with Fernando, a team member working on his project. The English accent of Fernando is very difficult to be understood by Fredric. Fernando's accent is considered as:

This chart is used for all of the following except:

A software organization is moving towards agile approach in managing its projects. This approach is new to the organization, and the project manager's role with these new teams hasn't been clearly defined. Ann is a project manager in this organization. She decides to attend her team's user story writing workshops. Why does she think these sessions are a good use of her limited time?

Everybody in the company does what Paul says, because they all know that he is a close friend to the CEO of the company. What kind of power does he hold over the team?

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

The hardware design phase has reached its end. This phase is a part of a three-phase sequential project. All of the following actions should be performed before announcing that the design phase has been formally closed except:

During planning your project, you completed the initial project schedule with the network diagram shown. You know that there is an imposed date from the customer for completing the project which is before the project's scheduled completion date. You need to compress the schedule to meet the imposed date from the customer. What is your best course of action?