You are managing a project to install a new intra-network for a customer. The project work has been completed and the deliverables were handed over to the customer. You have closed all open claims, shared the final project report, updated the lessons learned repository, closed all procurements and obtained a final acceptance from the customer for the project deliverables. What should you do next?

The seventh principle of the Agile Manifesto states that: "Working software is the primary measure of progress". Which of the following agile practices and techniques is closely related to this principle?

Philip is the managing director of a famous fast food restaurants chain. He is facing troubles with delaying customer orders. During the last three months, his company received more than 200 complains from customers due to delayed orders. In order to improve the customers' orders management, he decided to treat each order as a project. The project manager will be responsible for handling customers' orders, ensuring order delivery within pre-determined time, resolving customer issues. The project manager is not required to prepare a plan for each order rather than preparing a daily report for all orders. How would you describe this situation?

The project manager has just communicated the responsibility assignment matrix to the project team. A team member who has just been assigned to the project finds that he is involved with three team members in a procurement audit. He asks the project manager about the purpose of the procurement audit. The project manager told him that the purpose of the procurement audit is to:

What is the status of the project when the earned value of the project is higher than both the actual costs and planned value?

Joseph is a project manager for a hardware design project. The project is about to be completed when the customer refused to sign one of the last invoices saying that a user manual for the hardware must be delivered. Joseph is surprised because the user manual shouldn't be completed by his company, this happened most likely because:

Which of the following is the correct matching?

Which of the following indicates what is meant by risk propinquity?

A company is adopting transformation from waterfall to agile. Catherine is a project manager in this organization who has been assigned an agile coach role. Which of the following tasks will not be one of her tasks in the new position?

A major software project with five sub-projects is being performed in your organization. Each of the sub-project managers has developed a risk management plan, identified many risks, analyzed them and planned for risk response. It is now three months later. What should you not do?

What’s the difference between management reserves and contingency reserves?

A petroleum company is investing in a series of initiatives to look for petroleum in many countries so that the company can be competitive in 5 years. The initiatives are tracked and managed together because this goal is very important to the success of the company. This is an example of:

Which of the following is not a way to transfer perilingual cues?

You have been assigned as a project manager for a large construction project to build a new housing compound. The project is very large and very important to your organization. You are planning the project with the project team when a key stakeholder suggests a different type of trees to be used for landscaping. The suggested type of trees is different from the one specified in the project scope. You and the project team agree that the suggested type is better and cheaper than the previous type as it will not affect project schedule, but it will save 30,000 $ from project costs. You decide to use the new type of trees. What should you do first?

Two team members of your project team are discussing together about the correct order of the Monitoring and Controlling processes for Scope Management .One of them said that the Validate Scope process should be performed first, while the other member said that the Control Scope process should be performed first. Which of the following is the correct order of Monitoring and Controlling processes for Scope Management?

Midway during a sprint, one of the developers determines that the scrum team will not be able to complete the items in the sprint backlog. Who should be present to review and adjust the product backlog accordingly?

Linda is managing a large construction project to build a new housing compound. A large part of the project will be outsourced to a sub-contractor. The subcontractor requested from Linda to provide funding at each milestone. Linda is worried that releasing invoices at each milestone will be a very large amount which may negatively impact her organization. She decided to put limits on each invoice. Which technique is she using?

What is the purpose of procurement negotiation?

The project is currently facing a high turnover rate especially for the skilled staff. During the last two weeks three skilled team members have resigned. This high turnover rate negatively impacts the project as it might miss the next milestone date. Which of the following should the project manager do to avoid more turnover?

Jerry is managing a software project. He calls for a meeting with the project team to discuss the current variances. He receives a weekly report from the project team which includes earned value measurements for the project at this point. Which of the following variances contributes to the least risk in the project?

Which of the following statements is true regarding managing project knowledge?

Which of the following statements best describes the difference between a project charter and a contract?

During which process the request for quotation (RFQ) is sent to potential sellers?

Miley and Elena are two team members of a tele-communication project. They are both reporting to Henry who is their functional manager. Sandy is assigned as the project manager for this project. The two team members are now in a conflict about which type of power supply units they will use in the project. Miley wants to use type A because it was used before in similar projects, while Elena wants to use type B because it has better performance than A. The conflict didn't affect the project schedule till now, but the issues are going more and more complex. Who should initialy solve the conflict between the two team members?

Which of the following are included in the responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)?

A project team has been assigned to perform a product development project. The project team members have never worked on this type of projects before and they lack understanding and awareness about the product of the project. This project is characterized as:

During the execution of your new product development project, a new quality standard is issued and your project team is holding a meeting with the quality department to determine how the standard will apply to the running project. This is part of which quality management process?

Lisa is managing a construction project. The project is to build a new office building and it is very important to the customer. The project team has just calculated the critical path duration and informed the customer that the project will take one year. The customer informed Lisa that the project duration is too long and the building should be opened with an official ceremony after ten months. What should she do?

Risk owners for individual project risks may be nominated as part of the ________ process, and will be confirmed during the __________ process.

A large project is being implemented within an organization which entails large organizations changes. Employees in the organization feel confusion, anxiety and frustration. Which of the following models can be used to deal with them psychologically?

During iteration planning meeting, the development team has selected 50 story points to be implemented in the next iteration according to the team's velocity. The product owner has requested from them to add two more story points to the next iteration. What should the development team do?

During iteration planning for an agile project, the team has committed to 50 story points for the coming iteration. However, the product owner wants the team to deliver five more story points which will deliver more value to the customer. The team is uncomfortable committing more as it hasn't understood the stories well. The agile coach is trying to solve the problem, what should she do?

Sarah has been assigned as a project manager for a software project. She developed the shown chart to determine the number of resources required to implement the project in each month to know when she will have a spike in using resources. What is the name of this diagram?

Why will you need to update the WBS after you complete the risk response planning with your team?

An agile team is involved in a software project. Team members are in a conflict about the design approach of the user interface. Four team members have selected design approach A, while five team members have selected design approach B. How to arrive at a conclusion?

During executing a mechanical project using waterfall approach, an experienced engineer calls the project manager in private and informs him that there is a simpler design which is more fuel-efficient and it could achieve great cost saving. What should the project manager do?

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 is the best course of action from the project team?

All of the following are among the value delivery office (VDO) roles, except:

During developing the risk management plan for your project, you need to determine the acceptable level of the overall project risk exposure for your project. What should you do first?

You are a project manager for a tele-communication project, the project is to swap the old network for 2 cities with a new network. You have been asked by top management to cut the project costs by 10% after you submitted them. The top management expect 25% improvement in drop calls as a result of the project. There are 35 stakeholders in the project and the scope of the project is unclear. What is your best course of action?

Which of the following leadership styles has proven to be the universally best or recommended approach?

Which of the following is the correct matching between procurement documents and the corresponding situations to use them?

You are managing a software project to develop a website. You are now in the design phase of the project. The graphic designer on the project recommends a blue background for the new website. When you informed the customer, he rejected and said that he wants the background to be yellow. The graphic designer explained that blue is more comfortable, attractive and calming. A decision must be made today in order not to delay the project schedule. How should this requirements conflict be resolved?

The planning of your project is complete. As a project manager you are about to conduct the kick-off meeting with all stakeholders and you feel that the strategic directions for the project need to be presented first. Who is the best person to present it in the kick-off meeting?

You are managing a product development project. Your customer tells you that you need to plan to have an audit team start auditing so that it finishes just before documentation begins. But other than that, she says it can start as late in the project as necessary. What’s the relationship between the auditing activity and the documentation activity?

You are an agile practicioner working on a product development project. A stakeholder asks you about the remaining features to be delivered. What should you do in this situation?

What is the first activity done in Test Driven Development (TDD)?

A project manager for a new electronic chips manufacturing project needs to make sure that the deliverables meet the quality standards. The project team produces about 100,000 chips per day, so testing all the deliverables would take much time and cost. The chips are so small that inspection would destroy them. Under these circumstances, what should the project manager do?

You are assigned as a project manager for a risky construction project. You are asked to provide a time estimate for your manager and consider uncertainties in your estimate. Which of the following techniques is most suitable in this situation?

Giles has been assigned to manage a large IT project. There are more than 200 stakeholders involved in the project. Which of the following emotional intelligence skills will he most need to find common ground with various stakeholders, and build rapport with them?

Which team development stages can be skipped for team members who worked together in the past?

Edwin is managing a large construction project. He and his team are in the planning phase. He is estimating the cost of each activity with the project team. The project sponsor has requested from him to take uncertainty into consideration. Which of the following techniques is the best to use?

Sam is a functional manager in the organization, he called Henry, the project manager three times today requiring to release one of his resources from his project to assign some functional work to him. He called Henry ten times this week for the same purpose. A team member informed Henry that the hardware needed to perform an activity may be delayed. This activity has early start of 5 and late start of 35. The project float is zero. The project is going well and its risk rating is low. The project has SPI of 0.89 and CPI of 1.12. What is the best thing to do?

The project team are involved in the Develop Schedule process. They are creating a bar chart to track project progress. They need to create a more comprehensive activity that is used between milestones or across multiple interdependent work packages. What do they need to create?

What is the status of the project?

A large IT project has been initiated in an organization. The project team has created the project management plan and holds kick-off meeting to get approval from key stakeholders in order to start executing the project activities. The Value Delivery Office (VDO) objects to some parts of the project management plan as the project team postponed the engagement of finance department to a late time in the project, however they should be engaged earlier as per VDO point of view. Which of the following is the best course of action?

Which of the following is the correct matching between the following situations with their corresponding agile events?

You are managing a software project and with the help of your team you created the network diagram shown and developed the initial project schedule. The team member responsible for completing activity C informs you that activity C will take three days longer than planned. In light of this, which of the following would be first thing to do?

Which of the following statements is not correct?

Project changes are approved during the _______ process and verified during the _______ process.

William is a project manager in a chemicals industrial company. The PMO in this company has authorized William to manage a project to lessen environmental impacts of one of its products. He found that replacing one type of material used in the product with another new environment friendly material, will decrease environmental impacts.He and his team are studying the consequences of removing the material and using the new material on the product technical properties like quality and price. Which technique should help the team in this situation?

You are a project manager for a large tele-communication project that was initially budgeted at $9,600,000. While preparing for your weekly status report you find that you have spent till now $4,000,000, the cost variance for your project is $-500,000, the schedule performance index is 1.12. In light of this, what is the earned value of the project?

You are managing an accounting project when a new financial manager is hired at your company. He will be affected by all accounting projects in your company. What’s the best thing for you to do?

Dave is assigned to manage a large and complex project under a contract with the government. The project is to replace existing copper cables by optical fiber cables. The project is very important and critical to the organization. The project charter has been approved. Dave and his team start to identify project stakeholders. It is clear that the project involves a large and complex communities of stakeholders with different power and influence levels. Dave needs to determine the relative importance of each identified stakeholder. Which of the following categorization methods is the most appropriate to use?

Which of the following matching is correct for these artifacts and the responsible person(s) to issue/update each of them?

During an audit on Paul's agile project by PMO in his organization, they found that there are iteration plans for the current and next iteration only. The PMO representative asks Paul where are the plans for the remaining iterations of the project. What is the best course of action?

Carlos is the project manager of a system automation project that was scheduled to be completed within six months. During the early stages of the project, he and the stakeholders operated with the belief that the software that the project team is developing will be compatible with the existing hardware. Now after the project team has started developing the software it has become apparent that the software will not work with part of the existing hardware. The incorrect belief of Carlos and the stakeholders about software compatibility is considered as a/an:

During planning a construction project, you asked project team members to pay attention to secondary risks. A new team member who has never worked on project before asked you what is meant by secondary risks, you answered him that secondary risks are:

Carol is managing an industrial project. She, her team and the project sponsor find that the level of overall project risk is significantly negative and outside the agreed-upon risk thresholds for the project. They tried to reduce the negative effect of uncertainty on the project as a whole and bring the project back within the thresholds, but they couldn't. So they decided to cancel the project. Which risk response strategy did they use?

All of the following artifacts are created prior to the start of the project, except:

After the weekly project status meeting with the project team members, you asked a project team member to send minutes of meeting to all the attendees. Meeting minutes is classified as:

According to the shown burndown chart for project XYZ iteration 1, the project status at point B is:

Tommy is managing an IT project. He is measuring the project performance against the performance measurement baselines. He found that his project is running behind schedule by two weeks and under budget by 10,000$. To return his project back on track, he decided to modify some processes to be performed automatically instead of doing it manually. This modification will cost 5,000$, and it will speed up the project performance and help the project to run on schedule after two months of performing the modification. He submitted a change request to perform the needed modification. This is known as:

Patrick is a project manager for a construction project. He is using root cause analysis to figure out what could cause potential risks on his project. Which process is he involved in?

Match each action with its associated team building stage in Tuckman Ladder.Which of the following is the correct matching?

During the Plan Risk Responses process, the project team is analyzing ways to deal with a top risk. A team member suggests to assign the activity to a more experienced team members. Another one suggests to do the risky activities at the beginning of the project or to ignore the risk. The project manager suggests to insure against the risky activity. A functional manager suggests to wait to see if the risk happens. Which of the following is a risk response strategy that the team has forgotten to do?

All of the following statements are true about project business case, except:

The items in the product backlog are ordered by:

What should the scrum master do in the daily standups?

Peter is a project manager for a tele-communication project in a multinational company. The project team members are located in three countries with different time zones. As per the communications management plan, the project team has a weekly status meeting through videoconferencing. Which communication method are they using?

XYZ organiztion has initiated a new software project. The new project will adopt an adaptive development approach. Resources are being carefully selected for this project because this project is for a new customer and it is expected to have a long term partnership with this customer. Which of the following resources types will be suitable for this project?

A new project has been initiated in XYZ organization. The organization has its internal governance system which states that each project must pass through five approval gates from initiation to closure. In order to have gate 2 approved, the project team must provide a project management plan including scope, schedue and cost baselines. The project team objects to this approach and decides that they will use adaptive approach which is more suitable and tailored to the project needs. Which of the following is the best course of action?

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

In which procurement management process is the source selection criteria created for your project?

The fifth principle of the Agile Manifesto states that: "Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done". Which of the following agile practices and techniques is closely related to this principle?

Andrew is a project manager in an industrial firm. He is taking over a manufacturing project from another project manager who resigned two weeks ago. Previously the company has faced criticism for the project deliverables from the customer. The previous project manager didn't pay much attention to quality of deliverables. Andrew hired inspectors to inspect the product of the project and prevent the defective ones from reaching the customer. He required from the extra inspectors to record the inspection results of the products as either conform or do not conform to quality requirements. This technique is known as:

Peter is a product owner for a software project that is being implemented using agile methodology. During an iteration review, the team demonstrates the completed product increment during the last iteration. He rejects one of the product features that the development team demonstrated. What should happen next?

Which of the following documents are the main risk management document where most of the risk information is kept, which are developed along the risk management processes from identify risks through perform qualitative and quantitative risk analysis to plan risk responses, implement risk responses and monitor risks?

Project schedule can be presented graphically using one or more of these formats. Match each format with its purpose.

The project team working on a construction project noticed that stakeholders are not engaged enough and they only share negative feedback about the project. However, the project team usually communicates with stakeholders. All of the following might be reasons behind this issue, except:

Tom is a project manager at training and consulting company. The company regularly builds teams to create products for clients and train them on those products. When the product is delivered, the team is dissolved and assigned to other projects. What kind of organization is he working for?

Midway through the project, the project manager discovers that he has missed some risks during project planning. The project now is being executed as the project management plan has been approved. Which of the following actions should the project manager do regarding the new risks?

You are a project manager for an electrical system implementation project using traditional approach. A team member approaches you with a change that could cut your schedule down by two weeks. What is the first thing you should do?

You signed a contract with a supplier to deliver raw materials for your project. He always delivers these materials later than the due date. He asked you to accept late deliverables and in exchange he will decrease the material cost. This is an example of:

Which of the following is the correct pairing of leadership styles and team phases in Tuckman model of team formation and development progress?

Ricardo is managing a software project to produce a mobile application. The product of the project has ten main functionalities as per the customer requirements. Ricardo agreed with the customer that the project will be performed in five months and 12,000 $ budget. They agreed that the product of the project will be produced through a series of iterations that successively add required functionalities within the predetermined time frame. The product will be considered complete after adding the final functionality. Which type of project life cycle is used here?

A key stakeholder has approached the project team who are working on a software project with a concern. He needs to add a new feature to the existing code. This code should be delivered within one week. The same stakeholder keeps chasing the project team with many requests during the past two weeks. Which of the following is the best course of action?

A project is being implemented using a predictive approach. There is a high turnover rate for the project team members. More then 50% of the project team members who were assigned at the beginning of the project have left the project and new team members replaced them. The project manager wants to adopt an adaptive approach to accommodate these changes. If his trial is successful, it can be applied on all projects within the organization. What should the project manager do first?

A large software project has been initiated in an organization using an adaptive approach. The project is very large and there are multiple teams working on it. The project has multiple releases and each release has multiple iterations with many features. The project teams sometimes get lost and lack a holistic view of what they are building and why. Which of the following artifacts can help them in this situation?

Adam is a manager in his organization, he is responsible for ensuring that maintenance work is running efficiently and smoothly. Gerard is also a manager in the same organization, he is responsible for providing management oversight for maintenance work in the organization. Stephen is also a manager in the same organization, he is responsible for leading his team to ensure that the new testing station is installed and working properly within predetermined schedule and budget. Which of the following statements best describes their roles?

Which of the following statements is true regarding project communications in projects with adaptive life cycle?

Where should you document positive risks?

A project has been initiated in the organization to build new substation. During project planning, the project manager has a meeting with the procurement manager to discuss what are the goods and services that the project might need from outside the organization. In this meeting what should the project manager provide?

Steven is a project manager for a large scale integration project, which has a tight schedule. He is reporting to Derek, a senior manager who is also the sponsor of the project. Derek called Steven in the middle of the project and asked him about the status of the project, as he doesn't know whether the project is ahead or behind schedule at this moment. Derek wants to know the earned value numbers. Which report should Steven send to him?

Alex is managing a construction project, when two team members come to him with a conflict. A civil engineer has identified an important project risk: There is a subcontractor that may not deliver work on time. The designer believes that the risk has low probability to occur; however, He consults the lessons learned from previous projects and discovers that the subcontractor failed to deliver work on three previous projects. The civil engineer suggests that two team members take one week to evaluate the possibility of doing this work inhouse, and come up with some initial work that they can do, in case that subcontractor does not deliver. Alex decides to follow the civil engineer’s suggestion over the objections of the designer. Which risk response strategy did he use?

All the project team trust John and do what he says because he showed great performance during the financial crisis which his organization faced last year. Which power does John have on the project team?

During a hardware design project, a critical path activity was delayed because the predecessor activity was completed later than planned. After investigating the cause of the problem, it was found that the team member responsible for executing the predecessor activity was late in completing the activity, because the estimated time for completing the activity was shorter than the actual needed time. This most probably happened because:

The human resources department in an industrial company has just sent an email to all employees, just to inform them that next Monday is a vacation to all employees because of the country's national day. This is an example of:

You are a project manager for a large tele-communication project. The project has 1250 stakeholders. You feel that misunderstandings can occur in your project because the project is a large one and contains a large number of stakeholders. You need to avoid these misunderstandings. What can you use to reduce the number of such misunderstandings?

You are a project manager for a large industrial project. To test your product you need a special equipment. You need to decide whether to buy or lease the equipment. The daily lease cost is $150. The cost of purchasing the item is $2,000 investment cost & $50 daily cost. You need to use the item for about 12 days. What should you do?

Mary, the project manager, sent a text message to Tom, a project stakeholder, using the company’s instant messaging system. When he received it, Tom called her back. Which of the following is true about this situation?

Michael is a senior developer. He usually interrupts the other team members during any meeting. He will attend the next iteration planning meeting. The project manager wants to ensure that all voices are heard and he is worried that Michael may dominate the meeting. What should the project manager do?

Eric is a project manager of a construction project to install new glass windows in an office building. He planned to spend $21,300 on the project, but his costs are going higher than planned, and now he is afraid that his project is spending too much money. Which of the following parameters can he use to determine whether his project is over or under budget?

You are a project manager on a construction project. When you planned the project, your enterprise environmental factors included a policy that all changes that cost over 2% of the budget need to be approved by the CEO, but smaller changes could be paid for by a management contingency fund. One of your stakeholders submitted a change request that requires a 3% increase in the budget. Your company has an outsourcing effort, and you believe that a small change to the way that the change is requested could allow you to take advantage of it and cut your costs in half. What is the best way to handle this situation?

How should you plan for change management in predictive environment?

Which of the following contract types is more suitable for agile projects?

What is the personality trait of a person who has the ability to perceive the information presented by others and to manage them?

WBS is a good way that helps you to manage a project effectively. In WBS you should breakdown your work into smaller and more manageable pieces. Which of the following doesn’t describe how far to decompose the project work?

Which of the following events is most related to agile principle "At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly"?

Kevin is working on a large software project using adaptive approach. He wants to find the changes in project scope and their impact on the project progress. Which of the following tools is the most appropriate to use?

Tom is the sponsor of a large construction project. He is meeting with all the stakeholders to ask for their participation and support in the next testing events. How would you best describe his level of engagement?

You are a project manager for a product development project which uses traditional life cycle. A team member approaches you with a change that could cut your schedule down by one week and the change is easy to make. What is the first thing you should do?

You are managing a product development project. During the project, the customer told you that there are three work packages, he thinks that they are not necessary. The customer doesn't have technical understanding of the project work and he wants to remove these work packages from the project scope. You can't remove these work packages, because if they are removed, the project scope will be negatively impacted. You requested a meeting with the customer and made a presentation about the importance of these work packages. Which process did you undergo?

The project manager is analyzing project performance using earned value management tool. He determines that the cost variance is – 10,000 $. What is the best thing to do?

Which of the following theories focuses on motivating employees by creating a work-life balance?

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 C happens, how much will be left in the contingency reserve?

You are a project manager for a product development project. You have recently received a shipment for your project containing barcode scanners. The shipment contains twenty pieces of barcode scanners, while the contract states that the seller should provide twenty five pieces. You find that twenty pieces can satisfy the needs of your project. What is the best course of action?

George is managing the PMO in XYZ organization. He has created a dashboard for all the projects being implemented in the organization. The dashboard includes a set of charts and graphs showing progress or performance against important measures of the current projects. All of the following might help the project managers take correct decisions using the dashboard, except:

A project team are working on an product development project in an industrial environment using Kanban system. They are developing the project schedule. The project activities are relatively similar in size and scope and can be bundled by size and scope. The project manager needs to limit a team’s work in progress in order to balance demand against the team’s delivery throughput. Which scheduling method is the most appropriate to use?

Adam is an experienced project manager. He is training a group of new project managers in the organization. He required from them to pay attention to human resources management and take into consideration all the factors that can influence their teams. All of the following factors can influence managing the project human resources except:

After the prospective sellers have submitted proposals, the engineering manager is arguing with the finance manager about which seller should award the contract. The engineering manager wants the contract to be awarded to seller A because this seller has great experience with the work to be performed. While the finance manager says that the contract should be awarded to seller B, because he will provide the required work with low cost. The project manager should tell them to best focus on which document to make the selection:

Which of the following situations represents using virtual teams?

You have been promoted to a project manager position and assigned to manage a project that involves multiple stakeholders from five countries. You are being mentored by a senior project manager who has a great experience of managing large scale and multinational projects within your organization. He advised you to pay more attention to evaluating the engagement levels of the identified stakeholders. Which of the following documents contains specific strategies for engaging stakeholders in your project?

What is the best method to report to the project team the status of the project schedule during project executing?

Which of the following is the correct matching?

You are in the middle of executing a major new construction project. The project is very important and highly visible in your organization. The sponsor informed you that he is worried that the project will not meet the quality standards it was intended to. If the project doesn't meet the quality standard, the customer will not be satisfied. What should you do in this situation?

An organization is leading an agile transformation. The first project using agile methodology has been initiated. The project team has never worked on agile projects before. One team team members asks about the project management plan. The agile coach has clarified to him that planning in agile projects is different than traditional projects. Agile projects use adaptive planning. Which Agile Manifesto value is concerned with adaptive planning?

During a project weekly meeting, the project manager displays the project status to the team members. The project SPI = 0.83 and CPI = 0.98. The project team are in a very critical situation, because the project is running behind schedule and there is only two months remaining for the project to be completed as per the contract with the customer. If the project is not delivered on time, they may be subjected to a penalty. He wants to clarify the critical situation, so he raised his voice and spoke loudly with an angry look on his face. What did he do?

Which of the following is a basic rule for creating a work breakdown structure?

It has been noticed by the agile coach that the team is working extra hours in order to complete the current iteration. Which of the following is the best course of action?

While analyzing the status of the project, the project manager calculated the ratio between earned value EV and planned value PV and found that the ratio is 1.13. He was not satisfied and decided to crash some critical path activities by adding more resources to these activities as a corrective action. Is his decision correct?

During executing a major software project, one of the stakeholders has requested a change to the scope of work which was previously not included in the plan. The new change will not change the cost baseline of the project. What should you do first?

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

Chris is a project manager for a construction project. He and his team have finished defining project activities and they need to determine the relationships between project activities to create the network diagram. They decided that the first task is "digging work", it must be completed before the second task "pour foundation" begins. The third task "level concrete" cannot begin until "pour foundation" begins. What is the relationship between the "digging work", "pour foundation" and "level concrete"?

Which of the following statements is true?

All of the following statements are true about procurement inspection, except:

Alan is managing a hardware design project. The project SPI = 0.83 and CPI = 1. The customer is not happy with the project progress. He requested from Alan to return the project back on track. Alan suggested that they can remove a test from the project management plan. Removing this test will ensure that the project will be back again on track. The customer requested to perform all the work in the project management plan without adding any extra cost or cutting scope. Which of the following should Alan do?

The twelvth principle of the Agile Manifesto states that: "At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly". Which of the following agile practices and techniques is closely related to this principle?

Which of the following best describes the output of the Identify Risks process?

An organization has adopted agile approach recently to a new project. The project sponsor directs their project manager who has been assigned as a team facilitator to add a new high priority feature to the product. How should the project manager handle this scope change?

You have a meeting with potential sponsors to select between three projects. Project A has a net present value of $64,350 and will take seven months to complete. Project B has a net present value of $92,100 and will take three years to complete. Project C has a net present value of $35,000 and a benefit-cost ratio of 5:3. Which project should you select?

Which of the following best represents a sprint goal?

Alex is a project manager working for automobile manufacturer for a project to build more fuel-efficient, high stability small cars. He and his team determine how to inspect the product of the project to meet the stakeholders’ needs and expectations, as well as to meet the goal for the product’s performance and reliability. In which process are they involved and which tool are they using?

You are managing a mechanical project. The sponsor is worried about the status of the project. You provided him with the earned value calculations AC = $24,100, ETC = $44,600, VAC = -$1,600, BAC =$89,000, and EAC = $91,100. Your sponsor asks you to forecast how much money you expect to spend on the remainder of the project. Which is the best estimate to use for this forecast?

You are managing a large software project that’s been broken down into sub-projects (or phases). Each of these sub-projects is scheduled to take between four and seven months to complete. At the end of each sub-project, you plan to go through the closing processes and document lessons learned. Which of the following best describes what you must do at the beginning of each sub-project or phase?

What can be understood from the indicated project risk burn down graph?

Nathalie is managing a product development project. During the last project status meeting, she displayed the earned value measurements to the project team and project sponsor. SPI = 1.09 and CPI = 0.79. It is clear that the project is running over budget. The project sponsor is very angry and requested from her to share with him the cost incurred on a weekly basis. Which process should she undergo to provide the needed information to the project sponsor?

TCPI can be classified as:

An agile team has completed 10 story points in the current iteration, although the team has committed to complete 15 story points per iteration. What should the team do?

All of the following statements about Control Resources process is true, except:

You are an agile practitioner assigned to a software project to make some modifications to an online shopping company's website to increase revenue and enhance the customer experience, based on customer feedback. The modifications will be delivered over multiple releases. How can you measure the business value delivered during the project?

ABC organization has started a new project to migrate the existing network for a customer to a new one. The customer sites locations are spread in five different cities. The project team wants to decide which development approach will be used for this project. Which of the following tools might help them?

An automobile manufacturer has started a project to build more fuel-efficient cars using a hybrid development approach. The project consists of five sequential phases and each phase has multiple deliverables. The project manager mainly use predictive life cycle with some agile practices. Which agile practices can the project manager recommend to the team to make certain that the deliverables are completed and delivered as expected?

Which of the following statements indicates the optimal cost of quality?

During executing your first project, your customer has terminated your project before it is complete. Which of the following statements is true?

Jenny is the project manager for an electronic boards design project in a multi-national organization. She needs a supplier to provide the electronic components needed for her project. A contrct should be signed with the supplier to provide the needed components on time with the required specifications. Typically, who should sign the contract with the supplier?

An orginaztion wants to select one of two projects to implement. Project A is expected to result in a $30 million net profit, while project B is expected to result in $25 net profit. The organization does not have the capability to undertake both projects. If the organization selects project A, what will be the opportunity cost?

Monica is leading a project to develop a new electronic device in predictive environment. She discusses with the project team using a new component suggested by a team member to have better performance. The project team needs to test the viability of using the new component. They have a tight schedule and there is a risk if they decide to use the new component and it turns out later that it affects the product performance, the project will face delays and financial penalties. Which of the following is the best course of action?

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

Mark is a project manager on a software project. He is always watching his team members during their work , during their breaks, and when they leave. He always walks around the office to make sure that everyone is doing his work. He always makes all the project decisions. What kind of manager is he?

Mike is a project manager for a software project. He is managing a project team which consists of twelve team members. He has noticed that two of his team members are demotivated, Dave who likes relatedness and Noel who likes new challenges. Which of the following is the best course of action?

You are managing a construction project which contains a procurement work. The air conditioning system of the project will be outsourced to a contractor. You prepare the RFP to be sent to contractors when your cousin knows that you will need a contractor. He owns a company working in air conditioning system and he wants to bid on your project. The reputation of his company is very good and your company worked with him before and he’s done good work. What should you do?

Which of the following is the correct matching between leadership styles with the most suitable situations?

Who is in charge for activity A?

Stakeholder register can include all of the following, except:

Susan is a project manager for a new software project. This type of projects has not been previously done before by her company and she has never managed a similar project to this one. What is the best method of estimating the time for activities that have not previously been done by her company?

A software organization has decided to adopt agile approach. In a large new project, they are struggling to coordinate between multiple scrum teams. Which of the following is the best approach to solve this problem?

You are the project manager for a software project. You created a Risk Management Plan, identified number of risks with project team and stakeholders. The following figure shows the probability and impact matrix you created. What is the most important risk that the project manager needs to take into consideration?

In which stage of team development the team members tend to be independent?