A technical subject matter expert (SME) identifies an occurrence that should be captured in the project's lessons learned. The SME asks the project manager to write, document and include it in the lessons learned register. What should the project manager do?

A. Assign the documenting task to a project team member

B. Ask the SME to document and capture the occurrence.

C. Request the SME to wait until the project closure phase.

D. Take ownership of documenting this information

A project manager recently joined the company. At the interview, the project manager demonstrated experience with agile delivery, and the project management office (PMO) manager asked for assistance in implementing agile. What should the project manager do to initiate the adoption of agile within the company?

A. Organize agile workshops with the developers and testers to gain their support in using agile approaches for their projects.

B. Request that all the project managers and business managers receive training in the agile framework used previously by the project manager.

C. Advise the PMO manager to continue with the company's current predictive approaches until all the projects in execution are closed.

D. Assess the organization's culture to determine if agile can be used in project delivery and determine the practices to be used.

A company's board of directors announced that a major layoff will occur at the end of the month. When evaluating the impact the protect manager found that 25 of the project team members are part of the layoff. What should the project manager do first?

A. Request a meeting with the project sponsor to discuss the viability of the project and determine the next actions

B. Request a meeting with the customer and discuss trade-offs to reduce the scope and product quality as a result of the lack of personnel

C. Request a meeting with the finance department to increase the budget of the project to hire temporary personnel to perform the affected activities

D. Request a meeting with the human resources (HR) department and demand they find a solution to retain the project team members

A project manager notices that one of the marketing executives in the firm always appears stressed. The project manager observes that the executive's performance is gradually declining and is affecting the project deliverables. What should the project manager do?

A. Assign the marketing executive's tasks to another project team member.

B. Review the executive's declining performance with human resources (HR).

C. Show empathy and praise the marketing executive's strengths.

D. Make the marketing executive accountable for their work and output.

A key customer stakeholder asks the project team to include new tasks in the backlog and begin analyzing new requests. The customer expects results as soon as possible and pressures the team to attend noncritical meetings. The team is frustrated by this situation.

How should the project manager approach this situation?

A. Understand the customer's perspective and provide mentoring on agile mindsets.

B. Call for an internal team retrospective and create an improvement action plan.

C. Ask the customer to work with the product owner to prioritize all requests.

D. Work with the team to receive customer directions and improve the process.

A project manager has been given a critical, 5-day window and is allocated a maximum of US$100,000 as a contingency reserve. Subsequently, the project manager drafted a course of action based upon the best available information. Overall, five actions were required to be completed at a cost of US$20,000 and a duration of 1 day each. After 3 days of work, the project manager completed two actions and spent US$80,000.

What should the project manager do next?

A. As the CPI and SPI are greater than 1.0, reevaluate and prioritize the remaining actions.

B. Stop the work and raise a project change request to the change control board (CCB) for additional funds and a project schedule extension.

C. As the cost performance index (CPI) and schedule performance index (SPI) are less than 1.0, reevaluate and prioritize the remaining actions.

D. Complete all actions and then inform the client of the additional cost and schedule overrun needed to complete the project.

In a financial company, a strategic project has been planned to use a predictive approach. During project planning, the product leader requests that milestones be submitted for review. There is a defined scope and an established deadline to conclude the project.

What should the project manager do first to meet the product leader's expectations?

A. Change the project charter to indicate that the approach will be different.

B. Inform the product leader that they must wait until the end of the project.

C. Meet with the software team to review the possibility of monthly milestone reviews.

D. Modify the project management plan to use an agile framework to incorporate milestones.

A project team has finished its first iteration out of six. The iteration's delivery performance (velocity) was 50%. During the iteration retrospective, the team realizes that the complexity of the work was underestimated.

What should the project manager do?

A. Update the issue log and escalate it to the project sponsor.

B. Meet with the team to review internal actions to resolve the situation.

C. Ask the technical manager to help the team with the issue.

D. Ask to replace some team members with more experienced ones.

A project manager is leading a team that is geographically dispersed. The team needs to collaborate and finalize the monthly reports. Occasionally, meetings occur during the weekends due to the time differences. Team members have expressed that they do not want to work on the weekends.

What should the project manager do?

A. Take over the activity and deliver the reports whenever work is required on a weekend.

B. Avoid reporting during the months that team members would need to work on the weekend.

C. Remind the team members of their governance responsibilities documented in the team charter.

D. Communicate to the project stakeholders that the reports will be delayed certain months of the year.

Key decision makers are meeting to define the objectives of a new database migration project. There are many disagreements about scope and time lines among the leaders of various company departments. How should the project manager impartially prioritize the requirements to be integrated?

A. Retain only requirements that result in profitable revenue growth.

B. Ensure the CEO selects the requirements from all department leaders.

C. Give each department a fixed budget that will cover ten requirements.

D. Rank the requirements with the highest benefit-cost ratio as more important.