QUESTION 61
After attending a technology exposition, an influential stakeholder believes that integrating a new technology into the program will increase benefits and help shorten the schedule. The stakeholder asks the program manager to immediately include the new technology into the program. What should the program manager do next?
A. Assess the new technology and discuss the results with the program steering committee to determine next steps.
B. Start the change management process and submit a change request to integrate the new technology.
C. Inform the stakeholder that the program will not be changed until proof of concept (PoC) is completed.
D. Research the new technology and begin its integration during the next development cycle.
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 62
Your company and a competing company have created a teaming agreement for an opportunity.
Through this team agreement you and your competitor can complete a major program for a client. This is, technically, a risk response for both organizations. What type of risk response are you dealing with in this instance?
A. Teaming
B. Exploiting
C. Accepting
D. Sharing
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 63
You are the program manager for your organization and are about to execute your procurement management plan. You need to procure materials for your program and you want only the vendor to provide you with a price for the goods you need to procure. What type of a document should you provide to the vendor in this scenario?
A. Statement of work
B. Request for quote
C. Proposal
D. Program charter
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 64
You are the program manager for your organization. Management has asked you to create a document that will capture the stakeholders concerns, perceived threats, and specific objectives about the program and its projects. What document is management asking you to create in this instance?
A. Requirements document
B. Project charter
C. Business case
D. Scope statement
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 65
What is a stakeholder analysis chart?
A. It is a matrix that identifies who must communicate with whom.
B. It is a matrix that documents the stakeholders’ requirements, when the requirements were created, and when the fulfillment of the requirements took place.
C. It is a matrix that documents stakeholders’ threats, perceived threats, and communication needs.
D. It is a matrix that identifies all of the stakeholders and to whom they must report to.
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 66
A multi-year complex program will deliver advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) components for autonomous vehicles. Several key stakeholders are concerned because they have not been regularly involved with the program and do not understand the program’s benefits. What should the program manager do to address these key stakeholders’ concerns?
A. Meet with the stakeholders and update the stakeholder map.
B. Create a progress report to share with stakeholders after the next status meeting.
C. Capture stakeholder expectations, and revise the stakeholder engagement plan.
D. Update the communications management plan after meeting with the program steering committee.
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 67
Robert’s program is slipping on its schedule and management has asked that Robert find a method to compress the duration of the program. What approach could Robert take that would not dramatically add risks to program if he added labor to the effort-driven activities within the program?
A. Lead time
B. Crashing
C. Lag time
D. Fast tracking
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 68
Which of the following is used to build consensus through rounds of anonymous surveys?
A. The Pareto chart
B. The Delphi technique
C. The Monte Carlo simulation
D. The Gantt chart
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 69
The team on the router and switch upgrade project is involved in planning the project. They are performing Risk Response Planning. They are assigning risk owners. What is the main responsibility of the risk owner?
A. Watching for additional risks on the project
B. Watching for risk triggers and telling the Project Manager if they happen
C. Letting the Project Manager know that the risk has happened
D. Implementing a risk response plan if the risk event occurs
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 70
Part of your job as the program manager is to coach the project managers on their duties and goals. One of the project managers, Holly, is having trouble discerning the difference between quality assurance and quality control. She understands that she needs both to help you reach the program goals. Which statement best describes quality assurance for a project within your program?
A. Quality assurance is an inspection-driven process to keep mistakes out of the project.
B. Quality assurance is a prevention-driven process to keep mistakes out of the project.
C. Quality assurance defines quality and sets goals for the project team.
D. Quality assurance is an organization-wide process to do the work according the organizational goals and metrics.
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 71
You are the program manager for your organization. Your program has a budget of $750,000 and is expected to last one year. The program is currently 30 percent complete and has spent $245,000. The program is supposed to be 40 percent at this time. What is the schedule performance index (SPI) for this program?
A. Negative ten percent
B. .75
C. $300,000
D. $225,000
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 72
You are the program manager for your organization and are working on gathering the requirements for a new solution and mission statement. There are several instances in the stakeholder pool where the stakeholders and their manager are being queried on possible requirements. You worry that the subordinates may have requirements, ideas, and suggestions to offer but they may be not submitting their thoughts because they do not want to contradict their managers. You believe you need a method to gather all requirements without the stakeholders having any fear of retribution. Which one of the following allows you to anonymously gather iterations requirements and still allow for all stakeholders to review what has been submitted in an attempt to find consensus?
A. Delphi Technique
B. Focus groups
C. Web surveys
D. Workshops
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 73
A program manager recognizes that a successful resource being used in project A could also be used in project B. What should the program manager do first to leverage the utilization of this resource?
A. Assign project A’s resource to project B.
B. Reassign the resource to project B after project A ends.
C. Prioritize the resource to optimize their use across both projects A and B.
D. Mitigate risk by leveraging other resources in project A.
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 74
A program manager for the construction of an international event venue that will impact the local community needs to determine the best approach for communications. One of the conditions of the program is that after the event takes place, a park will be built for the community’s use. What should the program manager do to ensure community support?
A. Review the scope with the program sponsor and community representatives
B. Organize an advocacy group and facilitate community engagement
C. Negotiate the program scope with community representatives
D. Ensure community representatives are part of the steering committee
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 75
A company implements a transformational business strategy and a program to change its IT infrastructure and service delivery model. While leading a program team from cross-cultural backgrounds and geographies, the program manager notices a varying level of delivery excellence, which they attribute to cultural differences and behavioral tendencies. To achieve commitment to program goals, what should the program manager do to improve the team’s level of engagement?
A. Delegate the task of managing team behavior, attitudes, and commitment to team member managers, and ask the managers for regular progress reports.
B. Organize social events to support the communications enrichment plan, bond the teams, and motivate team members.
C. Establish a formal mentoring, coaching, and support program to address cultural differences that will enable the team to work collaboratively.
D. Email all team members mandating that, to deliver program objectives, they must focus on their roles and responsibilities.
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 76
You are beginning a new project and a portion of the development will be created by a foreign company. You are not sure how to do business with this company because it is offshore. What document would be best to guide you in this business?
A. Company?s policies and procedures
B. PMI Code of Conduct
C. Local laws of the offshore company
D. Historical information from past projects
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 77
You are the program manager for your organization and are reviewing several proposed change requests for your program. Mary, a stakeholder, who has made a change request is asking why it is taking you so long to review the change. You tell her that you must perform integrated change control to review each change request. What is integrated change control?
A. It is the review of the impact of the change on the program’s knowledge areas.
B. It is the review of the impact of the change on the time, cost, scope, and quality baselines.
C. It is the review of the impact of the change on the program’s triple constraints.
D. It is the review of the impact of the change on the program’s Iron Triangle.
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 78
As a Project Manager, you are managing a project that has fourteen deliverables from outside vendors. One vendor has been in negotiations with a partner for more financing that could cause the vendor to stop production on one of your deliverables if they don?t reach an agreement. A rumor is out that the vendor’s plant will be shutting down because of this issue. What is the best course of action you should take?
A. Contact the vendor and discuss this problem
B. Start contacting other vendors as a backup plan
C. Change vendors as soon as one is found
D. Initiate the risk response plan created for this vendor
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 79
Ben is the program manager for his organization. He’s working with program team to determine what activities need to be completed in order to move the program into execution. He and the team are subdividing the program scope into smaller, manageable components to determine the activity list. What is Ben and his program team creating by subdividing the program scope in this scenario?
A. Work breakdown structure
B. Program network diagram
C. Program scope baseline
D. Activity list
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 80
You are the project manager for the JJY Project, which is similar to the HHG Project you managed last quarter. You would like to model the current project scope on the previous project to save time and effort. This is an example of what kind of scope definition?
A. Analogous estimating
B. Organizational process assets
C. Parametric scope definition
D. Template driven
Correct Answer: D