People Domain

1. As a project manager, you are leading a collocated project team that will create deliverables
in an agile fashion, followed by a rollout phase that will use a predictive approach. You are
concerned that the transition from agile to waterfall may cause friction within the project
team. With the development phase complete, how might the team’s working agreements
need to change in this situation?

A. The team charter will need to be updated to reflect collective responsibility for the completion
of project tasks
B. The project manager should institute a set of working agreements that worked well on
previous waterfall projects
C. Each project team member will need to develop their own social contract to support the new
framework
D. The social contract should reflect a transition from collective to individual responsibility for
the project tasks

2. As a project manager, you recently completed a project team performance appraisal, and a
previously unknown competency gap in technical skills was uncovered, which needs to be
addressed. What should you do next?
A. Implement the response planned for this risk
B. Conduct unplanned training to address the competency gap
C. Consult the training management plan
D. Let go of the staff who have technical skill gaps
3. Your agile project needs specialists that are not available locally. You find the
needed resources across the globe, but due to various constraints, cannot colocate them
for the duration of the project. You decide that the only way to go ahead with the project is
by setting up the team in a virtual environment. The kick-off meeting is in a few weeks from
now.
What is your best course of action to have the team attend the kick-off?
A. Have the team members connect to the videos conference during the meeting
B. If possible, bring the team members to attend the kick-off meeting in person
C. Record the kick-off meeting on a video and send the recording to the team
D. Do nothing since agile teams are empowered to make their own decisions

4. A project is researching and exploring a new biomedical technology. The external market
conditions are complex and highly regulated. While the team has worked in similar conditions
before, the timeline for delivery is aggressive.

How should the project manager motivate this team?

A. Empower team members to use a fail-fast approach to deliver results and value quickly.
B. Provide guidance and support to the team while they work in timeboxed iterations.
C. Share daily reminders of the timeline and milestones informally in the team chat.
D. Ensure product vision and roadmap development is done collaboratively with the product
owner and team.

5. As a project progresses, existing knowledge is used and new knowledge is created to achieve
the project’s objective and contribute to organizational learning.
Which of the following enterprise environmental factors would contribute to this process?

A. Lessons learned register

B. Knowledge management plan
C. Trusting working relationships
D. Interpersonal and team skills
Process Domain

6. A project manager has been assigned to a heavily regulated drug development project that
will use traditional waterfall and agile phases. Currently, the project manager is conducting a
communication requirements analysis as part of the development of a communications
management plan. What is the best strategy to address the communication needs of this
hybrid project?

A. Determine directions of influence of each project stakeholder and include the results in the
communications management plan
B. Ensure that only the regulatory compliance elements of the project are included in the
communications management plan
C. Develop requirements list specific to the waterfall phases and use regulatory obligations as
overarching requirements for all phases
D. A communications management plan is not necessary when some of the project phases are
executed using an agile approach

7. You are managing a project to build 100 site towers, and you have just completed building the
50th tower. To mark the successful completion of this first significant milestone, you hold a
celebration where you share the developments, challenges and lessons learned so far on the
project. In what process will you use this information and knowledge gained so far to improve
the future performance of the project?

A. Control Quality
B. Perform Continuous Improvement
C. Manage Quality
D. Direct and Manage Project Work
8. A project manager has been communicating with 10 stakeholders regularly. Last week 2 more
stakeholders were identified and added to the communications management plan. What is
the number of potential communication channels?
A. 66
B. 78
C. 55
D. 12

9. A project manager is determining the budget for a software development project where the
product will be built incrementally. Since the project is subject to a strict budget, the project
manager has to ensure that scope and schedule baselines stay within cost constraints. The
project manager includes budgetary requirements in the release plan. How can the
information in the release plan help the project manager with determining the project
budget?
A. The release plan can become a part of the cost management plan
B. The velocity can be increased for the project to stay within budget constraints
C. Release burndown charts can be updated with cost trend lines
D. Review meetings with stakeholders can be used to discuss the scope and schedule

10. You are leading a software development project for a client. Due to unstable requirements,
you have elected to use a change-driven life cycle. You are currently facilitating an iteration
planning meeting with the product owner and the development team. What should you do as
part of the meeting?
A. Control the scope to prevent scope creep
B. Review the product increment and get feedback
C. Make sure the scope of the iteration is fixed
D. Recommend improvements for the next iteration
11. You are a project manager for an engineering services company, in the process of bidding to
work on a solar energy project for a utility company.
What is the first thing you should do to position your company as the best fit for the project?

A. Attend the bid conference to learn all you need to know about the utility company’s
requirements
B. Request an independent cost estimate to include in your seller response
C. Look for the selection method in the procurement documents of the utility company’s bid
package
D. Re-use a proposal that won selection by a telecommunications company

12. You are planning risk management activities for a small project you are leading. The project
team is having trouble assigning cost and schedule impacts to the identified risks due to a lack
of high-quality numeric data.

What is your best course of action?

A. Make up numeric data and evaluate on a quantitative basis

B. Release the project team and terminate the project
C. Proceed directly to the Plan Risk Responses process
D. Request the numeric data from the project sponsor
Business Environment Domain

13. During a sprint review, the team identified successful gains on planned improvements while
noting that a lot more development and testing is required. The product owner wants to
report on the business value of the work.

Which action should the team take to assist the product owner with validating business value?
A. Conduct a variance analysis for the budget for the last iteration.
B. Examine customer feedback.
C. Plan to discuss it at the next retrospective.
D. Measure earned value management (EVM).

14. The project you are leading has a current CPI of 1.0 and SPI of 0.8. You have been notified by
the project management office that your project has been selected for a quality audit that is
scheduled to take place over the coming weeks.

What should be your primary concern with regards to the audit?

A. That the project falls back in line with the project schedule
B. Finding errors, defects, bugs or other non-conformance problems in the product
C. Assuring that the project products fall within the sponsor’s acceptance limits
D. That the work performed lines up with company policies, processes and procedures
Agile Questions

15. The team is working on an application for gathering customer feedback on the company’s top-
selling products. The project is half way done when the CEO announced that a new VP of
Product Development and Marketing has been hired. As far as the scrum master is aware, the
executive sponsor who also acts as the product owner for the project remains unchanged.
What should the scrum master do next?
A. Engage the executive sponsor in conversation to understand the impact of this organizational
change on the project
B. Engage the VP of Product Development and Marketing by inviting them to the sprint
retrospective
C. Do nothing. The executive sponsor for the project remains unchanged
D. Do nothing. The project stakeholders have already been identified and the project is half way
done

16. During a meeting, five agile teams are supposed to choose a shared development
infrastructure to be used by all the teams on their upcoming project. Despite intense debate
and voting, the teams cannot come to an agreement on what infrastructure to select. In this
situation, how should the decision about the development infrastructure be made?

A. Each team should choose a development infrastructure that works for them
B. The teams should accept the decision of the appropriate decision-making authority
C. The teams should use agile voting techniques and accept the majority decision
D. The project management office should make decisions for multiple team projects
17. The latest software build for a virtual reality headset release did not include urgent change
requests already implemented by the electronics workstream. The product owner informed
the software team about the change during a daily meeting but no one recorded it.

What should the project manager to avoid this problem in the future?
A. Refine the product backlog with the team and product owner before the next iteration.
B. Increase the frequency of backlog refinement meetings and note the change in the
retrospective.
C. Run an ad-hoc retrospective and add the agreed urgent change processs to the team
charter.
D. Privately remind the team lead that the role requires fast and proactive problem solving.

18. A smart grid project combines predictive and agile tracks. The agile team detected a major
software defect after its release, and began working on a correction. But the defective
release was deployed by the predictive track and caused a field test to fail.

Which measure would be most effective to prevent similar problems in the future?
A. Run the same unit tests in the agile lab and in the field sites
B. Send project-wide issue log updates via instant messaging
C. Ensure that retrospectives are shared with the predictive team
D. Re-plan the software track into the predictive schedule

19. An approved change was implemented to manage risk. Three months later, the project
manager finds that the change did not yield the desired result. In fact the change led to
adverse consequences.

What should the project manager do to avoid this issue in future?

A. Review the assumptions log to revisit or change current assumptions

B. Update the risk information to the lessons learned register
C. Evaluate new risks and update the probability and impact matrix
D. Confirm that the implemented risk response is effective
20. The agile team is tasked with building a version of a smartphone shopping application suitable
for older people. Marketing has NOT been able to find any volunteer test users fitting the
profile.

Which option would be most effective to ensure the best product value is delivered?

A. Examine evaluations of similar competitor products

B. Ask older relatives about the price point they want
C. Remove eye glasses when testing the user interface
D. Ask the product owner to run friendly tests with older relatives