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A major national company known for quality products has just selected a small subcontracting firm to assist with a project. The project manager from the subcontracting firm is meeting with the project team to ensure that the project is delivered according to the customer's standards.in order to ensure this, what should the project manager define and document?

• Quality

• Estimates

• Objectives

• Requirements

A project manager is managing a hybrid project that is using a contractor for a few key deliverables. The contractor has been hired to perform an important delivery, but has not yet confirmed that they can meet the required schedule.What should the project manager do?

• Escalate the issue to the procurement team as the final delivery date of the project will be impacted.

• Review the project scope with the stakeholders and remove the potentially delayed item from the scope.

• Plan the task delivery with the contractor or vendor, highlighting the criticality of the current situation,

• Check with procurement to see if there is another previously used contractor who can develop the task.

A project manager sent the first communication about the project management plan to the team. The next day. two field engineers were asking about their roles and the project schedule. What should the project manager have done?

• Confirmed that the communication was understood and solicited feedback from the team

• Sent the roles and responsibilities matrix along with the project management plan

• Discussed the roles with the managers to help explain them to their team members

• Briefed each team member on their roles before sending the project management plan

A bank is considering building another branch in one of three neighboring cities. The project manager has been tasked with demonstrating the benefits of building a new branch, renting an existing building, or not expanding at all.How should the project manager proceed?

• Calculate the payback period (PBP) for building a new branch in each location versus renting an existing building.

• Calculate the costs for each option in each location and compare the net present value (NPV) for each.

• Perform a Kano analysis on building a new branch versus renting in each of the locations.

• Perform a gap analysis on renting in each of the locations.

A servant leader is about to start a confidential agile research project. A high risk has been identified related to a team member disclosing details of the project with external people.What should the servant leader do to address this risk?

• Include this restriction as a ground rule and ensure all team members are familiar with it by reviewing the ground rules at the end of every iteration.

• Forecast the cost of the risk to calculate the required contingency reserve that needs to be allocated if the risk materializes.

• Ask the functional manager to educate the team about this risk and ensure that disciplinary actions will be taken.

• Contact the human resources (HR) department to ensure that disciplinary actions will be taken if the employees disclose any confidential information.

A project manager works in a startup company and is in charge of a key project that has critical and time-sensitive delivery objectives. One of the project team members missed completing an assigned deliverable on time, despite repeated assurances from the team member that it would be completed on time.What should the project manager do next?

• Record the issue then refocus the team's efforts on delivering the next set of deliverables

• Give the team member a formal warning for the negative impact due to failure to deliver and not meet deadlines

• Hold a team meeting to discuss team member commitments and communications

• Meet with the team member and work on a development plan for them to avoid missed deliverables in the future

In an agile project, two key stakeholders disagree about a major new requirement. Recognizing that this could lead to potential issues, what should the project manager do next?

• Facilitate a meeting with the stakeholders and product owner to clarify the new need,

• Update the acceptance criteria documentation to clearly reflect what was approved.

• Review the new requirement and update all the stakeholders accordingly.

• Ask the two key stakeholders to agree on the requirement based on a Pareto analysis.

During project execution for an innovative product, a project team has been working hard to meet the deadlines. However, one of the team members will be leaving in 3 weeks and will be replaced with a new team member.How should the team share tacit knowledge?

• Provide the new member with access to the knowledge database so all of the project documentation is available.

• Have the team meet on a regular basis and share their experiences, challenges, and lessons learned.

• Ask the new member to document all of the requirements so a better understanding of the project objective is acquired,

• Provide the new member with the project documentation repository to allow the new member to review previous lessons learned.

A project manager is working on the delivery of a solution that needs to be deployed to the public quickly. The project team is experienced, the stakeholders are supporting the delivery, and the customer is cooperating. What strategy should the project manager use to ensure on-time delivery of the solution?

• Have a high-level plan for incremental deliveries and get the customer's feedback as early as possible.

• Ask the sponsor for support regarding the allocation of additional resources to finish on time.

• Have a detailed plan of all milestones, deliverables, functionalities, and allocation of resources.

• Meet with the customer to agree on the components of the solution and the priorities.

A project manager for a technology project is informed by the cybersecurity team that there are changes in the government's cybersecurity requirements. The project manager calls a team meeting to discuss the requirements, and the team learns that the design changes can be made at no additional cost.What should the project manager direct the team to do?

• Update the scope management plan to track the new government requirements.

• Accept the cybersecurity team’s request as the security of the company is at risk of being noncompliant.

• Ask the project sponsor to increase funds in the contingency reserve as a risk mitigation.

• Request a change through the change control process to manage the new cybersecurity requirements.