PMI PMP-Project Management Professional Practice Exam Q. 1281 to 1290
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Q. 1281: Analyzing stakeholders is a part of the identify stakeholders process. Common approaches for analyzing stakeholders in a qualitative manner includes all the following two-axis grids, EXCEPT:
A. Comparing power and influence
B. Comparing power and interest
C. Comparing influence and location
D. Comparing influence and impact
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Identifying and analyzing the stakeholders helps to classify them better for developing a strategy to help manage them and their expectations throughout the project. The most common comparison elements are: power, influence, interest, and impact. The location of the person may have an impact on one of the other measures, but it is not easily quantifiable on a low, medium, high, type scale.
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Q. 1282: You are responsible for a project in your organization that has multiple internal customers. Because many people in your organization are interested in this project, you decide to prepare a stakeholder management strategy. Before preparing this strategy, you should:
A. Conduct a stakeholder analysis to assess information needs
B. Determine a production schedule to show when each stakeholder needs each type of information produced
C. Determine the potential impact that each stakeholder may generate
D. Prioritize each stakeholder’s level of interest and influence
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Stakeholder analysis is used to analyze the information needs of the stakeholders and to determine the sources for meeting those needs. It helps to determine whose interests should be taken into account throughout the project.
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Q. 1283: Recognizing the importance of preparing a stakeholder management plan, you met with your team to obtain their buy-in and to discuss it. You explained the key benefit of plan stakeholder management is to:
A. Determine appropriate strategies for a continual focus on identifying stakeholders throughout the life cycle
B. Provide a clear plan that is actionable to interact with stakeholders to support the project’s interests
C. Develop appropriate management strategies to effectively engage stakeholders
D. Plan a series of meetings to ensure stakeholders remain interested and to address their concerns
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
While the plan stakeholder management process develops appropriate management strategies to effectively engage the stakeholders during the project life cycle, the key benefit of this process is to have a plan that is clear and actionable to interact with them to support the project’s interests.
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Q. 1284: Assume you are actively working, along with your team, to manage stakeholder engagement on your project to develop a new drug to prevent any retina problems of any type. You know you must manage their engagement throughout the project life cycle. This means some organizational process assets will need updating including:
A. Informal and formal project reports
B. The stakeholder register
C. The stakeholder management plan
D. Work performance information
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
While a number of different organizational process assets require updates as a result of the manage stakeholder engagement process, project reports is one example. They include the formal and informal project reports that describe project status and include lessons learned, issue logs, project closure reports, and outputs from other knowledge areas.
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Q. 1285: Stakeholders often have issues, and you have asked each of your team members to document them. At each team meeting, you and your team discuss them and determine appropriate responses. You have a project issue log, which is:
A. Part of the project’s lessons learned
B. Added to the stakeholder register to show which stakeholder raised it
C. An output from the manage stakeholder engagement process
D. An output from the control stakeholder engagement process
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Issues logs are an output of this process, as issues are expected in this process. The log is updated as new issues are identified, and existing issues are resolved.
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Q. 1286: As you work on your project to update its software training classes to focus on an agile approach, you have a number of key stakeholders. As many students and their managers are requesting these classes, your CEO has taken a special interest in your project and has asked you to accelerate your schedule to complete it in two months rather than in your planned six months but still have quality offerings. This means as you work to monitor overall project stakeholder relationships, you should:
A. Provide notifications to stakeholders about status regularly
B. Ask your stakeholders for regular feedback as you work on your project
C. Provide presentations to each stakeholder group
D. Determine how changes will be monitored and controlled
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
As you work in managing stakeholder engagement you should review your project management plan. Your CEO has requested a major schedule change; among other things the project management plan is an input to this process as it contains a change management plan that documents how changes will be monitored and controlled.
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Q. 1287: As you work with your team to prepare your stakeholder management plan, you decided to develop a stakeholder engagement chart. You set it up so you could:
A. Show the phase of your project of interest to identified stakeholders
B. Show gaps between current and desired levels of engagement
C. Determine which stakeholders you and your team felt were critical to project success but did not know about it
D. Determine when to involve key stakeholders in your project
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
The stakeholder engagement assessment matrix is used as a tool and technique in plan stakeholder management. The purpose of the matrix is to show gaps between current and desired engagement levels to then ensure the plan provides these data.
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Q. 1288: A number of items in the stakeholder management plan are similar to those in the communications management plan. An example is:
A. Method for updating and refining the plans as the project progresses and develops
B. Stakeholder communication requirements for the current project phase
C. Information to be distributed to stakeholders including language, format, content, and level of detail
D. Time frame and frequency for the distribution of required information to stakeholders
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Method for updating and refining the plans as the project progresses and develops. The other items listed have specific stakeholder references that, while similar, are not in the communications management plan.
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Q. 1289: Having worked as a project manager for nine years, you know how important it is to identify the critical stakeholders so you do not overlook anyone who has a major influence on your project even if you do not ever plan to meet with or talk with this individual. As you work with your team, you explain the key benefit of the identify stakeholder process is that it:
A. Identifies the people, groups, or organizations that could impact or influence project decisions
B. Shows the interdependencies among project stakeholders to enable classification for how best to involve them on your project
C. Identifies the appropriate focus for each stakeholder or a group of stakeholders
D. Shows the potential impact each stakeholder has on project success
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
The identify stakeholder process has a number of purposes. It identifies people, groups, or organizations that could impact or be impacted by a decision, activity, or outcome of the project. It analyzes and documents relevant information concerning their interests, involvement, interdependencies, influence and potential impact on project success. Its key benefit is to allow the project manager to identify the appropriate focus for each stakeholder.
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Q. 1290: The last step in the stakeholder analysis process is to:
A. Determine the organizational culture
B. Assess how stakeholders probably will respond in various situations
C. Determine stakeholder roles, interests, and expectations
D. Evaluate the amount of support each stakeholder could generate
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
In stakeholder analysis, the last step is to assess how key stakeholders are likely to react or respond to various situations in order to plan how to influence them to enhance their support and mitigate any potential negative impacts.
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