Free PMP Practice Exams, Agile Exam 1

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1. A project manager is new to the organization and is assigned to replace the project manager of an active project. What should be one of the first things the project manager does?

Setup meetings with the team members to discuss the project’s status and risks.

Prepare by reviewing the risk register and mitigation strategies.

Conduct a Pareto analysis to identify which tasks need to be prioritized.

Schedule meetings with the project stakeholders to learn more about the project deliverables.

2. A project manager is part of a project that has a scrum team. The team members are unfamiliar with the distinction between risks and issues and prefer to use the concept of impediments. For which of the following would the team be unable to apply the concept of impediments?

One of the competitors announced the imminent release of a new version of their product.

The project manager is on leave and scrum master has to take a lead for distinguishing risk from issues.

One of the junior members of the team cannot work at full capacity for a week.

The administration of the building announced that for the next couple of weeks there will be maintenance work on the air conditioning system.

3. A project manager in a project management office (PMO) is tasked with implementing an agile framework. The leadership team expects a seamless transition to agile practices. However, the project team has no experience with agile projects. The project manager recognizes that the team will face challenges in this transformation. Which three factors should the project manager prioritize to ensure a successful transition to agile practices?

Providing extensive training and coaching to team members on agile principles and practices.

Identifying key stakeholders and involving them in the agile transformation process.

Promoting a culture of collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement among team members.

Establishing a rigid and inflexible project plan to ensure strict adherence to timelines.

Ignoring customer feedback at the beginning of the project and focusing solely on internal team dynamics.

4. A project manager is assigned a project for a customer with a history of being demanding and unclear about requirements. The customer has refused to accept previous deliverables without providing clear feedback. How should the project manager proceed with this project?

Implement an iterative approach in order to obtain formal acceptance of each deliverable.

Work with the customer and the product owner to clearly define the minimum viable product (MVP).

Request to terminate the project until the customer is able to provide concrete expectations.

Meet with the sponsor to define a detailed schedule leading to project completion on time.

5. Which of the following steps should an Agile project manager of a newly formed virtual team take to help the organization succeed?

Let the team decide and evolve their roles and responsibilities.

Neglect “Face time” and regular check-ins with team members.

Help establish cooperation and trust.

Provide clear goals, direction, or priorities.

6. A project manager is running an agile project that is half completed. During the most recent sprint retrospective, the team members see that they worked more hours than were originally scheduled. How should the project manager address this situation?

Empower the team to address this issue and present the sponsor with the proposed resolution.

Work with the project team to identify why this occurred and what can be done to prevent it in future sprints.

Reach out to the sponsor asking for additional project team members to increase velocity.

Note the additional hours in the budget and leverage the budget reserves.

7. Which agile project parameter is least likely to change during project execution?

Project vision

Product owner

Definition of done

Product backlog

8. An agile team finds it difficult to complete a checklist because they have different interpretations of what the project aims to achieve. How can the project manager help them gain a common understanding of the project’s overall purpose?

Conduct the first sprint retrospective.

Review the full list of user stories.

Review the Agile Manifesto.

Review the project vision.

9. In a scaled agile framework, which responsibilities of a release train engineer can be performed by a project manager? (Choose 3).

Coaching on team continual improvement

Coaching on global technical excellence

Coaching on global continual improvement

Escalating impediments

Managing risks

10. A software developer who is working on a critical component has to take emergency leave from the project. Due to time constraints, the project manager cannot hire a new replacement developer for the team. What should the project manager do to manage the situation?

Prolong the iteration to allow time for the developer to return and complete the component.

Ask team members to find a way to complete the missing developer’s work in this iteration.

Move the critical component to the final iteration it can be worked on after the developer returns from leave.

Request the project sponsor to extend the project until the developer returns and finishes the work.

11. During an iteration the team realizes that the project will overrun the budget. This is due to the support resources being involved for longer than planned. Company policy requires immediate notification when there is any change to the budget. What should project manager do to manage the project budget?

Discuss with the project team to reduce the use of support resources by the project.

Accept the cost overrun risk, depending on the contingency amount of the project.

Estimate the additional project cost and plan to propose the new budget to the change review board.

Reduce the resources and ask the team to manage tasks within the planned cost.

12. A project manager is leading a daily standup meeting when a team member requests that other team members take on some of their assigned work because they are feeling overwhelmed with an upcoming deadline. What should the project manager do next?

Reassign the team member’s work to other team members without asking for their input.

Tell the team member to go for training to figure out how to complete their work on time.

Dismiss the team member’s concerns and move on with the daily standup meeting.

Ask the team member to identify the tasks they need assistance with in another meeting.

13. During a daily standup, a stakeholder unexpectedly joins the meeting and criticizes the performance of one of the team members. After this, the team member is very distracted from their work and their productivity noticeably decreases. What should the team member do in this scenario?

Schedule a meeting with the stakeholder to discuss the stakeholder’s actions during the standup.

Email the stakeholder to request that future communications should come through the project manager.

Meet with the project manager and sponsor to request reassignment to a different project.

Meet with the scrum master to discuss what occurred and how it has affected productivity.

14. A team member informs the project manager during a project meeting that a due task was not completed on time because of a last-minute work crisis. What should the project manager do?

Talk to to the team member privately, ask him/her to work overtime on the task

Review the task progress with the team and decide the course of action

Ask other team members to step in and assist in the completion of the task

Check the task dependency, priority and impact of delay on the whole project

15. A project that should have been 90% complete by now is only 50% complete. The total project budget is $100,000 and the actual cost of work performed is $60,000.

What can be determined from this information?

The project is over budget with a CPI of 0.83.

The project is under budget with a CPI of 1.2.

The project is over budget with a CPI of 1.2.

The project is under budget CPI of 0.83.