Needed ASAP. Explain every choice in long paragraphs.

The project team is undergoing an agile transformation. This requires the team members to maintain their original project plans in the current management tool, but also enter performance data in the new tool built around agile practices. The team identifies that the information in the two tools is out of sync. This risk has been identified earlier in project planning.

What is the best course of action for the project manager?

Accept the risk since agile values individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Recognize that the risk has now become an issue and implement the planned response

Conduct a probability and impact assessment to determine a risk score

Communicate to the project sponsor that work may be delayed due to clerical errors

Projects in a program are using various project management approaches, such as plan-driven, agile, hybrid. The project teams are complaining that because of that, the team members must enter the same work, hours, risks, and other data in multiple tools. The redundant work is impeding on their productivity time.

What is the best course of action for the program manager?

Direct the teams to continue entering the data in the various systems

Determine what tools and data provide the appropriate oversight

Switch all projects in the program to the agile project management approach

Pause all data entry until a valuable solution can be determined

An organization is to undertake a multi-phased project. The sponsor wants to pursue the project objectives as they have been planned but also wants to accommodate and adjust to new information and changes in the environment as the project progresses.

Which project management approach should the project manager select for this project?

Waterfall

Agile

Hybrid

Phased

Your sponsor has committed to building a high-speed rail from one major inland city, Azules, to the coast. You have two possible routes, either Brazos or Corazon.

Given the costs, odds, and rewards of high demand and low demand of each route in this decision tree, what is the expected monetary value of the route to Brazos?

Senior leadership has returned from a conference where they have learned about the agile practice of retrospectives. Even though the organization does not manage any projects in an agile manner, they mandate that from now on this ceremony is included in all projects.

How should the outputs from the retrospectives be stored and managed?

Senior leadership determines the location of the outputs and who may access the contents

The project team stores the outputs in a location that the project manager can control and limit changes

The project team determines a location that is accessible for relevant stakeholders to view and track

The project manager establishes the location and allows the customer to view and make recommendations

The resource management plan for an international project calls for a scrum team to be colocated during the regular workweek. However, after five sprints were completed, the project manager got a change request approved to cut costs by transitioning the team to a virtual environment working remotely from their homes with the start of the sixth sprint.

After the team begins working remotely, what will be the best method to understand the impact of the change on the team's productivity?

Check the product burndown chart to look for any changes to the trendline

Calculate the CPI at the end of each sprint to determine the change in the team's productivity

Review the product burnup chart to compare velocity before and after the change

Update the project schedule network diagram to reflect the changes in the team's environment

As part of the Plan Resource Management process, project team members hold a brainstorming session to charter working agreements. The team identifies 37 agreements that include communication guidelines, decision-making and conflict resolution processes, core hours, a definition of a story point, how and when user stories will move through the Kanban board, etc.

What should the project manager do next?

Submit a change request to revise the resource management plan to incorporate the team's working agreements

Verify that all of the project team members support the working agreements and document the agreements in the project charter

Review the team's working agreements at the start of every daily standup and during the sprint review meetings

Ask the project team members for their top five to ten agreements and document the information in the team charter

A project manager implements the project management plan meticulously but is struggling with leading the project team effectively. There is a great deal of unhealthy tension between the project team members as well as with the project manager. The project manager has had several outbursts during sprint retrospectives, which has caused the meeting to be abruptly adjourned.

What should the project manager do first?

Submit a change request to revise the project management plan to eliminate the requirement for retrospectives

Take a proactive step in improving his own emotional intelligence (EI) to become a more effective leader

Reduce the story size by splitting user stories and use relative estimation with the entire team to estimate

Lead a training session with the project team members to help them become emotionally competent

A project is six months into its nine-month projected duration. The project manager reports that the project is at least three months behind schedule because certain key stakeholders were resistant to consequential changes due to the project.

What might have been done differently during project planning to avoid this situation?

Better execution of the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process

Development of a stakeholder engagement assessment matrix

Creation of a comprehensive stakeholder register

Establishment of a more robust communications management plan

Two team members are arguing over how to organize the work packages in the work breakdown structure (WBS). One says the work packages should be arranged in the order the work is planned to be carried out, while the other insists the order of the work packages in the WBS does not matter. The two ask the project manager for advice.

What is the project manager's best response?

Work is decomposed and sequenced in the Define Activities process.

Any approach is good as long as the team members avoid the conflict.

The chronological order of tasks is defined in the Sequence Activities process.

The approach should be defined by the project management office (PMO).

You are leading a project to design a high-efficiency solar cell. The project needs copper, silver, and silicon among other materials. You have ordered custom-built manufacturing equipment, secured permission to install a solar array on the roof for testing, and reserved a conference room for daily stand-up meetings.

What is the result of your efforts?

Resource histogram

Resource management plan

Resource assignment matrix

Physical resource assignments