Free PMP Practice Exams, Agile Exam 3

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1. An organization has implemented agile for its recent projects, but all of the recent agile projects have missed their delivery milestones. The sponsors for the agile projects are regularly adding new requests to the projects. A project manager is given a new agile project and finds that it has a vague project objective and no clear definition of done (DoD). What should the project manager do?

Set up a meeting with the project stakeholders to ensure the communication management plan is clearly defined.

Work with the project stakeholders to ensure that the project charter and deliverables are clearly defined.

Ensure the sponsor allows the project team to include the most technical resources to better ensure project success.

Work closely with the project team to develop and clearly define the project vision.

2. A project manager typically conducts retrospective sessions at the end of a project. However, the sponsor believes that retrospectives are a waste of time and budget, and instructs the project manager to significantly reduce or eliminate retrospectives in future projects.

What potential outcome could arise from the sponsor’s directive?

The emphasis is placed on stakeholder observations about project performance.

The focus shifts towards discussing issues instead of identifying ways to improve for future projects.

The time management plan is not properly updated.

The opportunity to improve team processes based on specific project observations is missed.

3. A project manager secures project approval with a constrained budget due to fiscal limitations. The sponsor emphasizes no additional funds are available during the current fiscal year. The product owner is concerned that the tight budget will impact the project.

What should the project manager prioritize?

Requesting the sponsor to allocate funds from the next fiscal year to supplement the current budget.

Meeting with the sponsor to express the need for a potential budget increase or the project will be delayed.

Removing secondary deliverables from the project plan and monitoring the budget after each iteration.

Monitoring the budget throughout the project and demonstrating the value of the project to the company.

4. During a standup, a project team member suggests modifying some features to benefit from a new opportunity. Another team member expresses concern regarding the user experience resulting from the proposed feature.

How should the project manager address this situation?

Meet with the product owner to discuss both the opportunity and concern about the proposed modification.

Meet with stakeholders and the project team to discuss how to proceed regarding the proposed modifications.

Have the project team vote whether or not to include the modification.

Ask the project team to consider the modification and decide on how to proceed at the next scheduled meeting.

Note the opportunity in the project backlog and table the discussion.

5. During a team meeting, team members were discussing the external dependencies of a project and asked the project manager for advice. What should the project manager ask the team to do?

Team must list out impact of a new competitor in the market.

Team must list out products launched by the competitors and try to copy their style.

Team must concentrate on their assigned work and forget external dependencies. This will not affect their work.

Team must list out all external dependencies and assess the impact of it on project deliveries.

6. During the kick-off meeting an important agile project, the project manager sets the policies and procedures to be followed throughout the project. Midway through the project, the project manager finds that some of the project team are failing to follow the established procedures.

What should the project manager do in this scenario?

Meet with the project team to review the policies and procedures again and stress their importance.

Work with the project sponsor to replace team members not following the established procedures.

Work with the legal department to document the policies and procedures and have the project team members sign this document.

Develop an incentive program for those who correctly follow the ground rules.

7. In a new agile project, the team is using Kanban Method. Kanban board acts as an information radiator to anyone who sees it, providing up-to-date information on the status of the work of the team.

How is the Kanban board technology considered?

Tool used in PDCA

Board for story point estimates

Used to show the work done

Low-tech, high-touch

8. A PMO is moving from waterfall to agile project management. The project team has been trained on agile but encounter issues working with company executives using the new processes.

How should project manager address this issue?

Inform the PMO that the project needs to use waterfall as the project will not succeed without executive acceptance.

Invite the executives to the project standups so they can learn the importance of the project.

Meet with the executives to train them on the benefits of agile practices.

Replace the current project stakeholders with the executives.

9. Two agile teams are collaborating on a project. Team A’s output is not complete enough for Team B to integrate into their backlog.

According to servant leadership and agile principles, how will the project manager resolve this situation?

The project manager helps Team A solve the issue, and Team A decides how to implement the solution.

Team B decides how Team A implements the change, project manager supervises.

Team B submits a change request to Team A, and Team A validates the change.

The project manager decides how Team A implements the change, and defines acceptance criteria.

10. A key stakeholder is leaving a project, additionally, the current project manager is being moved to a more urgent project and is instructed to hand off project management duties to a new project manager.
What step should the current project manager take next?

Clarify the new stakeholder’s expectations for the project and update the engagement plan.

Ensure that the new stakeholder can attend all future sprint meetings and update the project plan with the stakeholder’s proposed revisions.

Recommend that the new stakeholder meet with the product owner to ensure expectations are in alignment.

Meet with the new stakeholder to learn their expectations for this project and update the other stakeholders on these proposed revisions.

11. A project manager receives an email from a customer detailing reservations about the project deliverables. How should the project manager address the customer’s reservations?

Meet immediately with the customer to discuss the project scope.

Schedule additional time during the deliverable hand over to discuss the customer’s reservations.

Set up a meeting with the product owner and the customer to discuss the criteria for an acceptable deliverable.

Note the reservations in the risk register and prepare a mitigation plan.

12. Which is a key factor that servant leadership aims to establish in order to improve team performance?

Accuracy

Speed

Concentration

Trust

13. A project manager is leading a development project for a high-profile client with strict deadlines. During a sprint, the project manager notices that the team is struggling to complete user stories as planned due to unforeseen technical complexities.

What is the most appropriate action to take?

Ask the sponsor to extend the sprint duration to accommodate the delays caused by unforeseen technical complexities.

Request additional resources to accelerate development and mitigate the impact of delayed user stories and technical complexities.

Meet with the team to analyze the root causes of the complexities and ask the product owner to adjust the sprint backlog.

Arrange a meeting with the client and request an extension of the project’s timeline to compensate for the delayed user stories.

14. A project manager is struggling to keep a technical system implementation on track after the loss of a key team member two months ago. The project has missed multiple milestones and is now in critical status.

What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation?

Identified the risks early and developed a mitigation plan.

Motivated the team to meet all milestones and deadlines.

Replaced the key member with a more experienced one.

Reassigned the key member’s tasks to other team members.

15. A project manager is asked to provide the remaining time planned for the project. What tool should the project manager use to provide this information?

The work breakdown structure

The release burndown chart

The count of story points for the remaining user stories

The planning poker analysis