PMI PMP-Project Management Professional Practice Exam Q. 1491 to 1500
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Q. 1491: Assume you are managing a project, and your project management plan has been approved. Your project has a high level of change associated with it. There is active and ongoing stakeholder involvement. This means you probably are working with a(n):
A. Adaptive life cycle
B. Iterative life cycle
C. Incremental life cycle
D. Predictive life cycle
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
The adaptive life cycle is one that is known as change driven or one with agile methods and is set up to respond to change and ongoing stakeholder involvement. This approach differs from iterative and incremental as durations are very rapid and are fixed in time and cost. This approach is preferred in a rapidly changing environment where requirements and scope are difficult to define in advance and when it is possible to define small incremental improvements, which deliver value to stakeholders.
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Q. 1492: One way to help mitigate personnel risks that may occur during the end of the project is to:
A. Meet individually with each team member
B. Provide specific recognition to each team member who has worked on the project
C. Prepare a staff release plan
D. Document the time each person is to work on the project in a resource calendar
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
The staff release plan determines the method and timing of releasing team members. Morale is improved if there are smooth transitions for the staff to upcoming projects. This staff release plan also helps to mitigate human resource risks that may occur. It is part of the staffing management plan, which is pad of the human resource plan.
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Q. 1493: You are conducting a stakeholder analysis on your project. After identifying potential stakeholders, the next step in the process is to:
A. Determine their desired level of participation
B. Provide detailed contact information for each identified stakeholder
C. Perform an assessment to see how each stakeholder might react in certain situations
D. Analyze each stakeholder’s impact or support and classify them
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
The second step in the stakeholder analysis process is to analyze the potential impact or support each stakeholder could generate and then to classify the stakeholders to define an approach or strategy.
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Q. 1494: Assume your project communication management plan has been approved by your sponsor and the members of your Steering Committee. You are managing a global project and have team members working virtually in four continents and stakeholders in numerous locations. Your next step is to:
A. Set up an information management system
B. Select communications technology
C. Determine performance reporting methods
D. Select a communications model
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Although all four listed are tools and techniques in the manage communications process (another is communications methods), since this project is a virtual one, the choice of technology is an important consideration. It can vary from project to project and throughout the life cycle, but as the project manager the focus is to ensure the choice is important for the information that is communicated.
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Q. 1495: Although your project team is working virtually, you are striving to make it a high-performing team. You held a virtual kickoff meeting to ensure there was a shared project vision. You now see that team members are addressing the work to be done, but they do not seem to be collaborating. You realize the team is:
A. Concerned about their formal roles and responsibilities
B. Independent
C. Forming
D. Storming
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
During the storming stage, the team is addressing the work, technical decisions, and the project management approach. However, if team members are not collaborating and open to different ideas and perspectives, the environment becomes counterproductive.
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Q. 1496: You are conducting a stakeholder analysis on your project. Your organization uses an approach to classify stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project. This approach is known as:
A. A power/interest grid
B. A power/influence grid
C. An influence/impact grid
D. A salience model
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Although a number of classification models are available to help prioritize the key stakeholders, the power/influence grid groups stakeholders based on their level of authority or power and their active involvement or interest in the project.
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Q. 1497: When managing projects, one important technique is capturing lessons learned from previous projects to improve the organization’s project management process. Therefore, in planning the project, it is important to plan the closing procedures, particularly to review the:
A. Risk responses that were used
B. Checklists for risk identification
C. WBS and scope documents
D. Team members’ performance feedback
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Checklists are a tool and technique of the identify risks process and include risks encountered on similar, previous projects identified through the lessons learned process. The project team will review the checklist as part of the identify risks process as well as during closeout. To help others in the future, the team will add to the list as necessary based on its experience.
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Q. 1498: The basic approach to quality management in projects is to be compatible with which of the following:
A. Six-Sigma, failure mode and effect analysis, and total quality management
B. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
C. Methods, such as those recommended by Deming, Juran, and Crosby
D. Inspection over prevention
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Project quality management is intended to be compatible with International Organization for Standardization quality standards.
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Q. 1499: During a bidders conference, it is important that:
A. Only qualified sellers participate
B. All potential sellers are given equal standing
C. The evaluation criteria for the proposal is used to determine participation
D. Responses to questions be provided solely to the prospective seller that asked the question
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Bidders conferences are conducted to ensure all prospective sellers have a clear and common understanding of the requirements. They are not used to prequalify vendors. Thus, all vendors are treated equally.
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Q. 1500: One key interpersonal skill used to manage stakeholder expectations is:
A. Negotiation skills
B. Building trust
C. Compromise
D. Conversation
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Building trust helps to build the foundation of the relationship and is a critical component in effective team leadership. Without trust, it is difficult to establish positive relationships with the various stakeholders engaged in the project. If trust is compromised, people will disengage, and collaboration becomes more difficult if not impossible.
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