Which characteristic is typically not representative of a minimum viable product?

You are a construction project manager. In a formal project management training class, you are told that you need to collect information on the contract schedule, scope, quality, and cost performance, along with all contract change documentation, payment records, and inspection results. Your instructor also informs you that this information can be used for lessons learned and as a basis for evaluating contractors for future contracts. Which document is your instructor talking about?

You have just been assigned to the photo transfer project. You are beginning to meet with the stakeholders and have made some observations. You notice that the team of seven software developers has been given considerable autonomy in how they conduct their work. The sponsor is pleased with the work so far, as is the business representative, who has been giving the team regular feedback on their deliverables. What methodology is the team most likely following?

You are several weeks into a new project, which is one of the most visible ones in the company. You are still getting the lay of the land and meeting with various stakeholders that include suppliers, customers, functional managers, and individual contributors. At some of these meetings, you are beginning to hear talk that not everyone is pleased that this project is taking place and is being given such high priority. You realize you have some tools that might assist you in fleshing out this problem. Which one would be most appropriate for you to use?

According to the latest update of the project schedule, you realize that the project will be completed one month after the desired completion date. You have extra resources on hand, and the activity dependencies are preferential. The project is not considered high-risk, and the SPI to date is 0.89. As a project manager, what would be your best course of action under these circumstances?

Conflicts are common and unavoidable in projects. Which of the following is not a common source of conflict in projects?

As the manager of a highly critical project, you walk into your office and receive a phone call from your client notifying you that they need an urgent review meeting about the delay that occurred in the delivery of one of the major pieces of equipment for the project. You open your email and are bombarded with emails from two of your team members regarding a conflict that started between them this morning. After a few minutes, you get a phone call from one of them while the other one shows up at your office. Which conflict resolution technique would you use immediately?

You have recently been assigned as the manager of a highly critical national project, which should be finished in a very short period of time compared to similar projects. After developing the first draft of the project network diagram, you see that the project cannot be finished on time. If the network diagram cannot be changed anymore and you have extra human resources, what would be the best approach?

You have just been hired as the project manager in a large company and given the approved project charter. You know that your company always undertakes very challenging projects, and your project is not an exception. What should be your first course of action?

As the manager of a large project, including considerable procurement activities, you are about to start project closure activities. All final project deliverables have been validated. What should be your first step in project closure?

Categorizing identified stakeholders can help the project team build valuable relationships with them as the project progresses. All of the following techniques are useful for this purpose, except for:

Your company has a new product concept to replace its standalone customer relationship management software with a cloud-based version featuring several attractive new features. The project is approximately two months underway, and you are receiving complaints from some team members that the information they need is not being readily shared. Some of this information comes from past projects, including how the old products were architected. What would be the most helpful action for you to take that will improve this situation?

You are managing a small project in the context of a large organization. The organization made a strategic decision to shut down one of its operational units, which was supposed to work on your project for a few days. This might lead to missing a major milestone in your project, so you need to do the required planning to acquire outside resources to get your project activity done. Which tools and techniques of risk response planning will help you in this situation?

A project manager recently assessed the team’s performance using earned value metrics and found that the rate of deliverable completion has slowed. After some investigation, he determined that one team member is inexperienced with the technique the team has chosen to develop the software for the current phase of the project. He meets with this team member and suggests they take a two-day class that others on the team have already taken. What should the project manager do next?

Organizations continually change, and this requires the business and its project leaders to ensure that projects are aligned with these changes to best equip them to meet these challenges. What do most change models (e.g., the ADKAR model) suggest as the first step towards achieving organizational change?

Understand the processes and systems required to change

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Acquire the skills needed to implement the change

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Become aware of why the change is necessary

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Understand the steps needed to sustain the change

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You are managing an airport construction company. Midway through the project, a team member informs you that one of the subcontractors is not meeting the quality requirements stipulated in their contract. This is a risk that could lead your client to reject the project’s final product. What is your first course of action?

ou are in charge of performing the financial analysis for a troubled project in your company. The project is currently on hold, and based on the results of your work, top management will decide whether to continue or discontinue it. Which category of costs should you not consider in your analysis?

As a project manager in a large organization with various projects similar to yours, you are responsible for reporting the project status to the top management in a way that quickly and easily gives them the required information. Which one of the following is the best type of report to provide the required information to senior management?

Which of these is an outcome of acquiring resources?

Which of the following activities would not take place at the end of a project phase in a predictive life cycle?