You are working in a project involving a multiple culture, geographical locations and linguistic environments. As a leader, how should you respond to Ethical challenges?

You are working in an information technology project to build a business to business portal. As part of the design you need to develop a visual representation of an organizaton’s data described in business language independant of any specific technology. Which of the following technique would be useful?

You are working on a national project where your role of project manager is to co-ordinate among various departments and you do not have any decision making powers. You are asked to report to one of the functions. Which of the following organization structures does this belong to?

Your project team transitioned recently from predictive approach to Agile methodology. Who typically facilitates these daily standups?

A team member could not be reached by email or phone during the week that he was absent. The team member did not inform anyone about his absence and several activities have been affected impacting the project’s critical path. When he resumed his office, he informed the project manager about a personal tragedy happened at his home. How should the project manager respond to this situation?

In the middle of a technology project, a key project member is reassigned to a different project. The team has expressed disapproval regarding the reassignment as the team has developed a strong bonding. The major efforts and the deliverable from the team member who is reassigned have been completed. What action can help to improve the team’s morale?

Conflicts are inevitable in situations where priorities keep changing. Conflicts, if not handled properly, can become counterproductive. At part of which stage, does one party try to retreat from an actual or potential conflict situation in order to foster relationships? Select one:

Agile teams need regular coaching from a professional Agile coach. To enable high-performance teams, Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches must go deep into the methodology being adopted. On contrast, an agile coach who expresses opinions during team discussions, get so attached to their opinions, that they lose the objectivity needed to help the team may be called_______ Select one:

You have started working on a major public utility project. The government has announced a new scheme that can significantly increase the benefits of your project both to the performing organization and the beneficiaries. How should the project manager respond to this situation?

The project manager has established a project team that composed of resources that live in four different time zones. During the course of the project he realised that challenges coming up in communication, knowledge gaps and a feeling of isolation. What should he do to improve the situation? Select one:

A project manager is working on a software development project. Two customers are repeatedly submitting new feature requests. The completed scope definition for the product’s next version release has already been provided to stakeholders. What should the project manager do next?

A project manager received multiple complaints from the customer regarding quality on the recently delivered prototype. A detailed analysis indicates a lack of knowledge within a specific team. How could this be avoided in the future projects?

You are working in a project that involves complex engineering processes that interacts with each other to develop the final product. Which of the following data representation techniques helps to identify quality defects and to perform process improvements?

You are working on a national project where the degree of control for PMO is very high and the project managers directly report to the head of PMO. Which of the following types of PMO is most suitable for this project?

The project manager receives a progress report after a demo and a retrospective . The report shows that the agile project is not on track. Many promised features have not been completed. You have completed five iterations and only one more iteration is pending before the release date. What should be the correct approach to the future projects? Select two.

A team member could not be reached by email or phone during the week as he did not not log-in to the project network. The team member had not informed anyone about his leave. Due to her absence, several dependent activities are behind schedule, impacting the project’s critical path. How should the project manager respond to this situation?

You have recently taken up the role of a project manager from your previous role as the functional manager. Which of the following roles is not applicable for project managers?

A small group of users complain during a project’s user acceptance stage. The users say that their expectations are not met. Which action could help avoid this issue on future projects?

Agile teams need regular coaching from a professional Agile coach. To enable high-performance teams, Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches must go deep into the methodology being adopted. On contrast, an agile coach spends just enough time observing the team to pick up topics for the next retrospective may be called_______ Select one:

A major agile project with multiple iterations are going in parallel. One of the test engineers begins the process of exploratory testing. Which of the following artifacts will help to know about what to explore in the systems? Select one:

Your project team transitioned recently from predictive approach to Agile methodology. Daily standups are long, often lasting more than an hour. What could be the reason for such long standup meetings? Select one:

During a planning meeting an arguement arise regarding the choice of a tool. One of your team member was pushing his own view point disregarding the other team members. Which of the following technique he is adapting to convince the other team members.

Claims administration is a technique of Control Procurement. When claims are not resolved after repeated attempts, what should be done to such claims?

Cost estimates are a prediction that is based on the information known at a given point in time. Although, initial estimates are known to have large uncertainties, later the estimation accuracy improves based on the detailed information available to the project team. Which of the following techniques is least accurate?

You have recently moved from a predictive life cycle to an agile approach. The team members have been well trained to embrace the new methodology. However, you realized that the  work assignments among the team members are unclear and the work progress is not satisfactory. Which of the following actions will help to improve the situation? Select two.

In the middle of your project a critical resource decide to leave the organization. Some of the critical activities and deliverables are still pending. There is a conflict among team members on who should take up the role in place of the person who is leaving the organization. Which of the following is a first step to resolve the conflict.

Your project is part of a big program. You have joined as a new project manager recently and the sponsor asks you to build the project schedule. What should be the first step to develop the schedule?

Conflicts are inevitable in a situation where priorities keep changing. Conflicts, if not handled properly, can scale to create negative impact on the project. As part of which stage, does one party try to dominate the other, in making decisions and acting upon it even at the expense of the other party’s interests? Select one:

A project manager for a construction firm meets with stakeholders. All stakeholders agree on a 20 month lifecycle for the project. After work has begun, the project manager learns that stakeholders would like the project to be completed within 18 months. What should be the steps in the project manager’s response? Select 3.

You are working in an agile project where the scope evolves across the lifecycle based on changing business priorities. You follow Scrum approach to develop the product. A list of known requirements in SCRUM on which the team is going to work in the current iteration is called. Select one:

Your project team transitioned recently from predictive approach to Agile methodology. Which of the following questions to be discussed in a standup meeting?
A) What did I complete since the last standup?

B) What am I planning to complete between now and  the next standup
C) Are there any impediments?
D) What are  the solutions for my problems?

You are in a Government project, that involves major procurement and complex technologies. You need to avoid any preferential treatment among the potential bidders and develop a common understanding about the scope of work and selection criteria. Which of the following techniques is most suitable in selection and award of the contract?

Cost estimates are a prediction that is based on the information known at a given point in time. Although, initial estimates are known to have large uncertainties, later the estimation accuracy improves based on the detailed information available to the project team. What is the degree of accuracy of bottom-up estimate?

The project manager receives a progress report after a release. The report shows that the agile project is not on track. Since all work was purposely selected and sequenced to meet higher-level objectives, the project manager is surprised by the report. He understands that the team is struggling with a number of obstacles. What is the role of the project manager to resolve these obstacles?

In the middle of your project a critical resource decide to leave the organization. she has completed most of her work and deliverables. However verification and validation activities are still pending. Getting a new resource at this stage will create budget and team allignment issues. as the project manager what should you do?

A project manager for a construction firm meets with stakeholders. All stakeholders agree on a 20 month lifecycle for a project. After work has begun, the project manager learns that stakeholders would like project to be completed within 18 months. What should be the first step the project manager should take to respond to this demand?

Agile projects require collaboration among stakeholders and team members take joint responsibility for their work. In order to see this happen, what should the team members build among themselves? Select one:

As part of the Validate Scope process you have sent the completed verification checklist to the customer asking them to review them. At the end of their review, you are expecting:

At the end of an internal process improvement project, all the deliverables have been completed and accepted. You want to know how the stakeholders have been engaged and their expectations managed. What should you do next?

Your project team transitioned recently from predictive approach to Agile methodology. What are the questions to be discussed in an iteration-based agile, as part of standups? A) What did I complete since the last standup? B) What am I planning to complete between now and the next standup? C) What are my impediments? D) What is the solution to my problem? Select one:

Your project team transitioned recently from predictive approach to Agile methodology. Which of the following artifacts is to be used extensively during daily standups?

You are working with a major contractor, of an infrastructure project. The contractor’s performance is slipping, and repeated performance reviews and follow-ups have not resulted in any improvement. The pending deliverables are not critical for commissioning. It is too late to switch to another contractor. What is the most appropriate next step?

A project was budgeted for $1,000,000 is being executed, and the following performance has been reported : Planned Value(PV): $500,000 Earned value (EV): $450,000 Actual cost (AC): $550,000 Assuming the current Cost Variance was caused by one-time cost drivers, which will not repeat in future, what would be the Estimate at Completion (EAC)?

As part of effective leadership, project managers help team members grow and keep them motivated throughout the project. What is the one step that supports this effective leadership?

Two vendors have submitted proposals for a new boiler plant. Based on the historical data from the other projects vendor A, has a 60% probability of ontime delivery, and an impact of 200000 USD. If the Vendor A is late, a negative impact of 50000USD will occur on the project. Vendor B, has a 40% probablility of ontime delivery, and an impact of 250000USD. If the Vendor B is late, a negative impact of 75000USD will occur on the project. Which analysis technique should be used to analyse this data and the award of the contract? Select one:

During a meeting, a project manager learns that a procurement activity got delayed due to an inspection failure. What should he do to get the project back on track?

You are the project manager of an information technology portal development project, with a fortnightly sprint. At the end of a 90 minute sprint planning session, the team agrees upon a set of features that the sprint will attempt to achieve. This document can be called. Select one:

Agile teams need regular coaching from a professional Agile coach. To enable high-performance teams, Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches must go deep into the methodology being adopted. On contrast, an agile coach who swoops in at stand-ups, sprinkle his observations and advice all over the team and flies away again may be called_______ Select one:

Your project has just started and you are in the first iteration. You have conducted a workshop on Agile estimation and the team is ready to estimate their stories. They choose to follow planning poker and the preferred technique. Which of the following are the prerequisites that must be TRUE for you to proceed with planning poker? [Select three]

Your project team transitioned recently from plan driven approach to Agile methodology. Which of the following artifacts, is used often in daily standups? Select one:

Your project team transitioned recently from predictive approach to Agile methodology. In the context of daily standups which of the following approach is different in flow based Agile compared to iteration based Agile?

You are working with a major contractor, of an infrastructure project. The contractor’s performance is slipping, due to which you had to assign your staff, (you have not planned for this), to monitor the contractor’s performance. What would be the ideal approach for you in this situation?

A project manager reported the following Earned value performance data on cumulative basis: Planned Value (PV): 13.5 million USD, Earned Value (EV): 14.5 Million USD, Actual Cost (AC): 14.5 million USD. What does this mean

As part of effective leadership, project managers help team members grow and keep them motivated through out the project life cycle. They do this by demonstrating servant leadership. Which of the following could be one of the key responsibilities of servant leaders in agile context?

Two vendors have submitted proposals for a new boiler plant. Based on the historical data from the other projects vendor A, has a 60% probability of ontime delivery, and an impact of 200000 USD. If the Vendor A is late, a negative impact of 50000USD will occur on the project. Vendor B, has a 40% probablility of ontime delivery, and an impact of 250000USD. If the Vendor B is late, a negative impact of 75000USD will occur on the project. Who would be the prefered choice to place the order. Select one:

A global organization sponsors a project that involves significant government intervention. When the project is partially complete there is a change in government and the new representative from the government expects significant involvement in your project. What should the project manager do? Select 2.

Deliverables are reviewed/inspected as part of Control Quality process, to verify conformance or compliance to the specifications. After this verification, they are directed for user acceptance. Which of the following processes handle this task?

Agile teams needs regular coaching from a professional Agile coach. To enable high-performance teams, Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches must go in depth into the methodology being adopted. On contrast, an agile coach who flirts from team to team, landing just long enough to impart a pearl of wisdom or pose a philosophical question may be called_______ Select one:

Workspace / Team space is a critical element in high performance teams. Which of the following is an example of bad team space?

Your project team transitioned recently from predictive approach to Agile methodology. In the context of daily standups, which of the following approaches, is different in flow based agile compared to iteration based Agile? Select two: Select one or more:

The project manager receives a progress report during a demo and review meeting. The report shows that the agile project is not on track. Since all work was purposely selected and sequenced to meet higher-level objectives, the project manager is surprised by the report. In the future, how can the project manager prevent such variance in future Agile Projects?

A request, demand, or assertion of a contract partner for consideration, compensation, or payment under a legally binding contract, is often referred to as

CPI is a measure of the value of work completed to the actual cost incurred on the project. It is considered as the most critical EVM metric and measures the cost efficiency for the work completed. CPI less than 1.0 indicates which of the following condition?

Your team is relatively inexperienced in project management and Agile methodologies. As the project manager and servant leader how do you respond to this situation?

A new team member is assigned to fill the vacancy of a resource who is leaving. The new resource will be working on a small project that is critical to a larger program milestone. Unfortunately, there is a rumor that the new team member may not deliver, due to a lack of skills. How should the program manager respond to this rumor?

A global organization sponsors a project that involves six different companies. When the project is partially complete, the project manager learns that one of the stakeholders has health issues and hence wants to reduce his level of involvement. What should the project manager do? Select 2.

As a SCRUM Master you need to solve a process problem. You assembled your team for a brainstorming session. The process is new to the team and the team should come out with a creative solution to reduce the complexity of the process. Which of the following are some of the key activities you would do as part of setting the environment for the session? Select Two: Select one or more:

Agile methodology seamlessly integrates testing and development as against the traditional approach of having testing at the end of each phase. Which of the following is a major pitfall of having testing at the end of the phase? Select one:

A project manager is faced with an updated recent schedule that requires delivering a business result under a far more aggressive timeline. The contractors at site are willing to work overtime for early delivery of their work packages. As the project manager how do you respond to this situation? [select two]

You are a project manager appointed to a project, that follows agile methodology. You realize that the user stories picked up for the current release, might not be sufficient to deliver a minimum viable product(MVP). You may have to add a few more stories and increase the team capacity to complete the product. Which of the following Stakeholders can raise the concern over the need of additional resources for the team. Select one:

You are working in an infrastructure project that follows predictive life cycle. Requested changes from various control processes are processed through integrated change control. Approved and implemented changes are checked as part of control quality process. What should be done to the implemented changes as part of this process? [Select three]

Due to a pandemic situation you are forced to work on a virtual team, in a work-from home mode . As the project manager what would be your first steps to cope up with this changed working mode? [ select two ]

A project customer and a contractor agreed on regular Quality audits during execution by a third-party audit team. Which of the following documents guides the procurement audit?

Cost estimates are a prediction that is based on the information known at a given point in time. Although, initial estimates are known to have large uncertainties, later the estimation accuracy improves based on the detailed information available to the project team. Which of the following estimation techniques relies on the statistical relationship that exists between historical information and variables?

The project manager has established a project team that comprises of resources from different time zones. During the execution of the project he encounters challenges in communication, knowledge gaps and a feeling of isolation among the team members. What should she do to improve the situation?

An agile approach meets the needs of the next phase in a team’s project. The project follows a hybrid approach for the overall lifecycle. As the team discusses the phase it becomes clear that some team members do not have an appropriate exposure in agile methodology. How should the project manager respond to this issue?

On a large, distributed team project, you want to improve intra and inter team communication. Which of the following is the best way to go about?

The power user who participated in a demo at the end of a specific iteration is not happy with the user interface. Which action could help avoid this issue on subsequent iterations? Select one:

Your project impacts varied sections of stakeholders and success/failure of the project largely revolves around their acceptance and adoption. Which of the following factors, will directly influence the Project’s success?

Which of the following are the key benefits of Manage Stakeholder Engagement: [Select two] Select one or more:

A product owner repeatedly complains, saying that a function developed by the team does not align with the original design. What will help to solve this issue? Select one:

Among the various Project Management processes, which process is directly affected by the application area within which the project is being performed

You have sent a progress report to a client and he acknowledged with a correction on the reporting format. As a project manager what would you do?

Your project involves solving a complex problem within your existing plant. You cannot develop a comprehensive procurement statement of work for this engagement. You have sent a high-level request for proposal (RFP) and the potential service providers have lot of questions to be clarified. You have answered the questions individually to all bidders. However, you noticed that there are significant differences in their cost estimates, and you are unable to evaluate and select the vendor. Which of the following information will help to identify the reasonable proposal against the requirements?

Cost estimates are a prediction that is based on the information known at a given point in time. Although, initial estimates are known to have large uncertainties, later the estimation accuracy improves based on the detailed information available to the project team. What is the degree of accuracy of definitive estimate?

A project manager needs stakeholder involvement in order to identify strategic and operational assumptions and constraints. Unfortunately, the project manager is finding it hard to obtain consistent input due to lack of participation. How can the project manager enhance stakeholder participation?

A project manager receives a new delivery date that requires delivering a business result under a far more aggressive timeline. The customer is willing to prioritize the features and agree for a time phased delivery. As the project manager how do you approach this problem? [Select two appropriate responses]

A government agency becomes a key stakeholder in a complex project due to regulatory requirements. During the middle of the project one of the key officials of this agency is transferred and a new officer has joined in his place. During a project appraisal meeting with him, he expressed his dissatisfaction over the work done so far on compliances. As the project manager what will you do?

During a progress review meeting with a customer, as part of the conversation, customer makes an informal request regarding the communication and engagement activities. How do you proceed on these requests? Select one:

After a sprint planning meeting, the Scrum team meets separately to discuss what they heard and decide how much they can commit to, during the upcoming Sprint. What would be the typical outcome of this meeting? Select one:

Manage Quality, has a broader definition than Quality Assurance. Manage Quality activities will fall into which of the elements of Cost of Quality Framework?

During Sprint review, the customer, claimed that the feature delivered is not aligned to the business objectives. What should be the next step? Select one:

As part of risk identification process, the team conducted a structured review of project documents and found that some activities carry significant risk for timely completion of the project. Which of the following documents, provide input for quantitative assessment of risks?

The activity of bringing together the team responsible for a major initiative to share information, ask advice and discuss lessons learned may be called.

Your project involves solving a complex problem within your existing plant. You cannot develop a comprehensive procurement statement of work for this engagement. You have sent a high-level request for proposal (RFP) and the potential service providers have lot of questions to be clarified. You have answered the questions individually to all bidders. However, you noticed that there are significant differences in their cost estimates, and you are unable to evaluate and select the vendor. What is the appropriate action to follow?

A project manager reported the following Earned value performance data: Planned Value (PV): 12.4 million USD, Earned Value (EV): 14.5 Million USD, Actual Cost (AC): 14.5 million USD. The project is running behind schedule. What could be the possible reason?

While establishing the objectives of the project there was a diffrence of opinion between two key stakeholders in aligning the project objectives to organizational objectives. Unfortunately, the project manager is finding it hard to obtain consistent inputs from the key stakeholders to arrive at the key objectives and sucess criteria. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is faced with an updated schedule from the customer that requires delivering a business result under a far more aggressive timeline. The resources count cannot be increased. As the project manager what would be your approach to meet the customers expectation?

A government agency becomes a key stakeholder in a complex project due to regulatory requirements. During the middle of the project, one of the key officials of this agency is transferred and a new officer has joined in his place. What should be the first thing the project manager should do?

You are the project manager of a project that follows incremental agile model. Each release is sliced into eight fortnightly sprints. The success of the sprint will be assessed during the Sprint Review Meeting. What parameter is used to measure the success of a sprint? Select one:

You are working in an agile project where there are six agile teams working in parallel on a major solution and one “Scrum of Scrums” team. A metric that predicts how much work each software development team can successfully complete within a time boxed Sprint is called? Select one:

Manage Quality, has a broader definition than Quality Assurance. Within Project management, the focus of Manage Quality includes which of the following activities? (Select 3)

The customer during the review, claimed that the features that are business critical are not delivered but the other non priority features are delivered. Which of the following is not developed properly? Select one:

As part of creating project charter, the newly appointed project manager investigates the organizational process assets (OPA). Which of the following information is he NOT likely to find from the OPA?

You are in the middle of a metro rail project. During land acquisition you have come across some legal issues and the scope of work is likely to get changed. New stakeholders have come in who want major changes to the final product and the way the project is planned and executed. This action is beyond the control of the project team. As the Project Manager, what should be your action?

Performance data is routinely collected from various controlling processes as the project progresses and they form part of work performance information. Which of the following activities will be done for the work performance information through the Monitor and Control Work process to complete the work performance reports?

You are part of a big transition project. The team is distributed across three locations. Once in a week you hold a video conference to review status, progress and risks. You feel the effectiveness of the meeting is lacking. What is required to improve the effectiveness of such meetings?

Your Project is a social development initiative and the outcome expected goes beyond its economic value. Which of the following techniques helps to evaluate the benefits in a holistic approach? Select one:

A project manager is faced with an updated schedule that requires delivering a business result under a far more aggressive timeline. The project’s technical resource manager has worked with the project manager on previous projects. The schedule is slipping due to various impediments. The team indicates that the project need additional technical resources to meet the schedule in the midst of aggressive target and impediments being faced. What should be the project manager’s next step?

In agile Project Management lifecycle, Release planning provides the stakeholders with : Select one: Select one:

In response to slippage on some scheduled tasks, the project manager reprioritized a number of subsequent tasks in order to fix the problem. The reprioritization resulted in resource imbalance, seen as the overloading some of the critical resources . As the project manager what should be the first action to take?

Your project has gone through a major re-scoping. You have developed a formal note highlighting changes, the variances, causes, and how they impact schedule or cost and the forecast of the future performance. Which of the following best describes the above information?

Manage Quality, has a broader definition than Quality Assurance. Within Project management, the focus of Quality Assurance is directed on which of the following activities? Select 2.

An agile approach meets the needs of the next phase, in a customer driven time critical project. Customer is not aware of agile methodologies. How should the project manager respond to this situation? Select one:

During a release of a product version, A features that was promised to the market cannot be completed on time due to unexpected challenges. How should the project manager resolve this issue?

You are working in an Oil and Gas project, that demands multiple simulations of seismic data to calculate the project outcome and the cumulative probability through thousands of iterations. Which of the following simulation models is most suitable?

In the initiation stage of your project, it is apparent that factions within the client’s company have views that are significantly different on how the project should be structured and how the deliverables should be defined. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do?

In response to slippage on some scheduled tasks, the project manager reprioritized a number of tasks, that are to be done in future. His re-prioritization did not put the project schedule back on track, and now the project manager needs to escalate the issue to the project stakeholders. To escalate the issue, what should the project manager do first?

Your company is subjected to a broad array of regulatory compliance requirements for all of its projects and operations. Which of the following plan component helps to address compliances of a project on an ongoing basis. Select one:

A key team member is unhappy with the overall development approach. you are in the middle of planning. the explanation given by the team member is very logical. He is suggesting a hybrid form of life cycle rather than a plan driven approach. As the project manager what should you do?

An Agile Project Management (APM) , follows Envision, Speculate, Explore, Adapt and Close as phases of lifecycle. In which of these phases, the release plan is finalized? Select one:

Your project involves teams comprising of multiple cultures and time zones. A few team members have developed a tendency to think that their culture is superior to that of other’s. Which of the following term represents this pre-conception? Select one:

The project manager receives a progress report during a demo and review meeting. The report shows that the agile project is not on track. Many promised features have not been completed. You have completed five iterations and only one more iteration is pending before the release date. what should be the correct approach to the future projects? Select two.

As part of Monitoring and Control process group, you ask your team to record the results of executing quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes. You are involved in _________process

Your project involves five distinctive phases from feasibility study to product launch. Each phase is managed by a separate project lead with dedicated teams. As a project manager, which of the following are your key activity? Select three: Select one or more:

A project manager needs to ensure that the team delivers business value within the required timelines. The manager recently learned that key stakeholders are worried that the current release plan will not meet urgent business needs. What can the project manager do to effectively respond to the stakeholder concerns?

Your project involves multiple contracts and follows a predictive life cycle. How do you handle changes to the contracts? Select three.

At the end of an internal process improvement project, all the deliverables have been completed and accepted. You have some suggestions to the organization for improving certain policies and procedures. What should you do?

You are working in an agile project and your sponsor asks for the information on productivity, and the impediments on the deliverables. Which of the following, measures the quantum of work, an agile team accomplishes in a given iteration?

Your company is into health care domain and subjected to significant legal and regulatory compliances for all of its projects and services. How do you ensure that the compliance requirements are addressed? [ select three ] Select one or more:

In the middle of your project’s weekly status review meeting, one of your key team members was arguing with another team member over the overall development approach being followed. If the conflict continues it might become disruptive spoil the meeting rhythm and ultimately the performance. As the project manager what would you do?

During a daily stand up meeting, your team share, their status to keep themselves updated of what each member is doing. Which of the following are the 3 goals of any stand-up meeting ? Select three. Select one or more:

A project owner repeatedly complains, that a function developed by the team does not to align with the original design and specifications. What will help, solve this issue? Select one:

During a release of a product version, A features that was promised to the market cannot be completed on time due to unexpected challenges. How should the project manager resolve this issue? Select one:

You are executing a project for a defense establishment. Quality Assurance and Control are stringent requirements. Which two of the following are of the primary benefits of Manage Quality Process: (Select 2 answers)

In response to a scheduled delay, the project manager reprioritizes a number of successor tasks to fix the problem. This reprioritization shifts the release date, which may not be acceptable to the client and the sponsor. Your project follows an agile approach. How would you control the schedule? Select one:

As a project manager you have identified that the project is going through changing priorities in terms of requirements and features. The release plan made earlier was well aligned to the business value that the Stakeholders were expecting at that moment of time. As the project manager what should you do now ?

For a supply chain and logistics related project, you are developing an integrated Project Management plan. Developing plan to manage scope, schedule, resources have been completed. Based on the assumptions and constraints and other environmental factors, you conducted a risk identification and analysis workshop and created a risk register. How do you ensure the agreed upon risk responses are implemented as planned?

You have recently moved from a predictive life cycle to an agile approach. The team members have been well trained to embrace the new methodology. However, you realized work assignments among the team members are unclear and the work progress is not satisfactory. Which of the following actions will help to improve the situation?

A project manager receives complaints from the customer regarding poor quality of the prototype. A detailed analysis indicates lack of knowledge in a specific domain, that was needed by the cross-functional project team. How could the project manager avoid this type of situation in the future?

Your company is subjected to a broad array of regulatory compliance requirements for all of its projects and operations. Which of the following techniques would you use to verify the compliance with these requirements:

A key team member is unhappy with the overall approach documented in a project management plan. The member surprises the project manager with her negative comments about the approach during a weekly status meeting. How should the project manager address the team member’s concerns?

Agile approaches emphasize servant leadership as a way to empower teams . It is the practice of leading through service, by focusing on, understanding and addressing the development needs of team members. How does an agile leader approach project work? (Arrange the following in the order of priority and importance in agile leadership). Select one:

You are working on a program that involves three sub projects. Each project follows different development approaches. The upcoming sub project needs extensive customer involvement. and you decide to follow an adaptive life cycle. Customer is not aware of agile methodologies. How should the project manager respond to this issue? Select one:

The project manager receives a progress report during a demo and review meeting. The report shows that the agile project is not on track. Many promised features have not been completed. You have completed five iterations and only one more iteration is pending before the release date. what should be the correct approach to the future projects? Select two.

PESTLE is a method of evaluating internal and external business environment changes. Which of the following factors within PESTLE, identifies changes in the political landscape that may affect government policies, financial models and the resultant viability of projects? Select one:

During a progress review meeting with a customer, as part of the coversation customer makes an informal request regarding the communication and engagement activities. How do you proceed on these requests? Select one:

During the recently concluded review, one of the key stakeholders has expressed that the user stories picked up for the current iteration is not well aligned with the current release plan. What would you do as the project manager in the current scenario?

During Risk identification sessions, you and your team identified more than 150 risks for your project. You are afraid that evaluating each of these risks quantitatively will cost you an enormous amount of time, while not all of them are really relevant and important enough to justify such a measure. What should you do next?

As part of creating project charter, the newly appointed project manager wants to understand the stakeholders risk tolerance and thresholds. Which one of the following sources will provide this information?

A project manager receives complaints from a the customer regarding poor quality of the prototype. A detailed analysis indicates a lack of knowledge in a specific skill that was needed by the cross-functional project team. The training is very expensive and the customer may not approve the budget. As the project manager what would you do in this situation?

Three parts of a single project are being completed by three project teams. The three parts are highly dependent on each other. The team leads are worried that this might create conflicts when the outputs from the respective teams are combined and seek your advice. What advice should the project manager provide?

During a technical project, a key project team member facing a personal issue at home front. The team has expressed dissatisfaction about his performance and co-operation with fellow colleagues. What action can you do to help to keep up the project performance and help the team member who is non cooperative?

A governmental agency becomes a key stakeholder in a complex project due to regulatory changes. In light of the change, the project manager needs to develop an understanding of this new stakeholder and identify new risks that may emerge from the change. What should be the first thing the project manager should do?

An agile approach meets the needs of the next phase in your project because of the potential high degree of changes. Which of the following should you consider regarding customer engagement? Select 2. Select one or more:

In response to slippage on some scheduled tasks, the project manager reprioritized a number of subsequent tasks in order to fix the problem. The reprioritization shifts the release date which may not be acceptable to the client and the sponsor. Your project follows an agile approach. How would you control the schedule? Select one:

Your organization is engaged in building homes for low income families. Your organization has departments for construction, marketing, design and architecture and Project Management Office to oversee all the ongoing projects. You are one of the Project Managers reporting to the PMO and manage your project with the staff deputed from other departments. What type of organization structure is being practiced? Select one:

The project manager requires a project team comprising of resources that live in four different time zones. The project manager did not consider the implications of this requirement, and believes that the distribution will provide an ideal project team that will save cost and cover 24/7 working environment. What technique is she following in this situation? Select one:

During the review meeting one of your customer end Stakeholders raised a change request claiming that the delivered features are not adding business value. As a project manager what will be the next step to address the request?

You are the project manager in a high-risk electronics project that involves many new technologies. You derived the Risk management plan and the risk register from a previous, similar project. As part of risk monitoring, you realize these documents are not helpful. How can this be handled better in future projects?

If the person or entity, who champions the project, leads the project through the engagement / selection process until formally authorized, playing a significant role in the development of the initial scope and charter, authorizing the project charter and participate in scope, phase-end reviews, go/no-go decisions may be called:

A project’s’ daily standups are long, often lasting for more than an hour. The project team uses the standup meetings for extended discussions about solutions to project obstacles. What should be the appropriate duration of a daily standup?

The correct answer is: Assess the situation with him through a one on one meeting and manage the personal emotions to reduce the tension and increase the co-operation

In a technical project, a complex task is to be assigned to a new project team member who joined recently. The team has expressed their consent regarding this assignment. However, you are concerned about his readiness to take up this responsibility. As the Project Manager, what action you will take ?

Creating and nurturing coherence among different cultures in a multicultural team environment is critical to the success of any agile project. In this context, the extent to which less powerful members of a culture, accept that, power is unequally distributed, is measured as: Select one:

As a Product owner sitting through a demo for his product, and realizes that if the release schedule is changed, he could increase the business value of the project without increasing the cost of implementation. By realizing the value, he adjusts the road map and sprint iterations. Which of the following statement describes what was done to the Project? Select one

You are a project manager of a project that follows agile methodology. The user stories considered for the current release and the team capacity is not well aligned. Which of the following Stakeholders can raise the concern over sufficient resources in the team? Select one:

As part of effective leadership, project managers help team members grow and keep them motivated throughout each project. They do this by demonstrating servant leadership. Which of the following could be one of the key responsibilities of servant leaders in an agile context? Select one: