1) Which of the following statements best defines Agility?
a. Agility means delivering with cost and schedule. b. Agility means planning to avoid change in scope. c. Agility means working with smaller team sizes. d. Agility is the ability to balance flexibility and stability.
2) A teammate wants you to explain the relationships between a project life cycle and a product life cycle. What would be the best answer? a. The product life cycle and the project life cycle are synonyms for most projects. b. The project life cycle is a single phase of the product life cycle. c. Both are distinct phases of the project management life cycle. d. The product life cycle is generally contained within the project life cycle.
3) Which of the following should an Agile project manager focus on first?
a. Performance Evaluation b. Iteration Goals c. Tasks d. Deliverables
4) The technical concept is the answer to which of the following questions?
a. Why will the project be accomplished? b. Who will accomplish the project? c. How work will be executed to accomplish the project objectives? d. Where will the project be accomplished?
5) A project manager has finished the project scope statement and is now going to develop a work breakdown structure for a multiphase software project. He asks you for advice on how to organize the WBS. What would be your answer? a. Use the project phase as the second level of decomposition b. Use type of resources as the first level of decomposition c. Use work packages as the first level of decomposition d. Organize the WBS based on budgets for the major deliverables
1 6) As part of a Scrum-mode project, the features represent parts of the product that bring significant value to the end-users. Why should the team be interested in pursuing an incremental approach to delivering features? a. Incremental delivery allows you to bunch features, so that customer feels he has got something substantial. b. Incremental delivery eliminates the possibility of change requests. c. Incremental delivery simplifies work for the team. d. Incremental delivery provides early value to the customer, and reduces the risk of delivering something the customer does not want.
7) What life cycle is a combination of predictive and adaptive life cycles?
a. Iterative life cycle b. Upward life cycle c. Hybrid life cycle d. Incremental life cycle
8) Your colleagues are heatedly discussing what is the best organizational structure to manage any project regardless of objectives, size of a performing company and technology. They ask you to settle the dispute. What would be your answer? a. The structure that best suits the needs of a particular project b. Projectized c. Functional d. Strong matrix
9) In agile development, work in progress (WIP) limits set the maximum amount of work that can exist in each status of a workflow. The objective of the Lean methodology with respect to WIP is to? a. Minimize WIP b. High WIP for larger teams, otherwise low WIP c. Neutral to WIP considerations d. Maximize WIP
10) The design phase of a construction project is only half done when the project team switches to the closure. What is the most likely cause? a. Project manager is about to leave the project. b. Project has been cancelled. c. Seller has breached the contract. d. One of the project deliverables has been completed.
2 11) You have been assigned to manage a project for developing a product that is unique to the marketplace. You have difficulty in developing a project management plan and ask an experienced manager for advice. He suggests starting to plan the first phase in detail and to outline activities being done in later phases. What technique have you been advised to use? a. Trend analysis b. Top-bottom estimating c. Core processes planning d. Rolling wave planning
12) Your sponsor insisted that your project use a more up-to-date agile approach to provide faster results. He told you that a traditional project management approach would be too slow. You are concerned that as your project advances with 3-weekly scrum meetings, more and more integration concerns are being raised by stakeholders whose needs were never clearly analyzed before the project got started. Furthermore, you have discovered that several other projects in your organization could be affected by some of your deliverables. The project managers for these projects are asking for detailed schedule information in order assess the impact on their plans. What would be the best thing to do? a. Help the other project managers to understand the benefits of using an agile approach and suggest they implement it in their projects b. Try to get the sponsor to accept that an agile approach was not the correct way to run this project c. Immediately plan time with key stakeholders to understand and document integration concerns and identify project constraints and risks. Then meet with the sponsor and review the development approach d. Share the agile backlog with the other project managers to enable them to plan more effectively
13) Scrum is an agile process framework for managing knowledge and work and is considered a group of practices, most of which match the recommendations of the Agile Manifesto. That being so, the Scrum term "sprint" has the same meaning as which Agile term? a. Iteration b. Release c. Performance baseline d. Estimate
14) You have been appointed as the project manager to design and develop construction documents. The project is part of a program that involves upgrading and building new facilities for 5 factories. As the work will be performed under the guidance of a project management office you are concerned about potential conflict because ... a. ... project management office most focuses on ongoing work of the performing organization.
3 b. .. project management office's objectives usually differ from the strategic plan of the performing organization. c. ... in the program resources are shared across many projects that can limit your options. d. ... you have authority to terminate the program.
15) You have been authorized to manage a project to design a predictive business system. The project is broken into three phases, each lasting about two months. You have identified 20 key stakeholders and documented their needs and expectations. Now the team is going to proceed with developing the requirements management plan. What should you be most concerned about? a. Structure of the WBS b. Description of the project and product c. Sequencing of the phases d. The diversity of stakeholders
16) Particularly in agile environments, throughput can be optimized by limiting the work in progress (WIP). Which of the following are benefits of this approach? a. The chances of a bottleneck are reduced, so improving the throughput. b. Spreading the work over several tasks keeps everybody happy. c. Developers get to choose the priorities. d. The project customer works more closely with the team.
17) You have changed jobs to a completely different industry. You previously worked as a project manager in the pharmaceutical sector and now you work in the banking sector. Both companies have a very strong PMO and well-defined project methodologies. Furthermore, many of your new colleagues have gone through a project management certification process similar to that which you achieved in your previous company. The sponsor for your new project is very concerned that you do not have detailed expertise in banking practices and regulations and doubts whether you will be capable of managing the project successfully. Which of the following point should you raise with him? a. Project management skills are completely transferrable to any industry and knowledge of the banking sector is not necessary. b. Ask the sponsor to organise training to gain the required expertise. c. You explain that your strategy will be to include team members with the necessary expertise and that you also consider the project as a personal development opportunity. d. There is nothing special about running projects in the banking sector and you're sure there will be no problems.
4 18) A project manager is presenting a system development project to customers. After explaining the main objectives of the project, he says that the project is divided into four overlapping stages, namely Design, Development, Testing and Transfer to the maintenance team. These stages are known as? a. Project manager life cycle b. Project life cycle c. Product life cycle d. Project management life cycle
19) You have been invited to give a lecture on project management to bank managers. You are presenting basic concepts of projects when a listener asks you to explain what a project life cycle defines. What would be your answer? a. It defines work to be done in each phase. b. It defines power of a project manager. c. It describes interaction between various elements of project management. d. It organizes and defines the total scope of the project.
20) You are facilitating the monthly lunch meeting in the project management communiuty of your organization. Todays discussion is about how to best define a project. Which two of the following can be characterized as a project? a. Provide inputs to end of year budgeting process b. Implementing a new organizational structure c. Upgrading all the PC’S in the organization to windows 365 d. Sending out invitations to the upcoming office chrismas party e. Accepting and processing a customer order
21) A Product Owner decided to request that team members work over the week-end. Which principle of Agile manifesto does this violate? a. Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they b. need, and trust them to get the job done. c. Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project d. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software e. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely
22) You are an Agile manager. One of the stakeholders associated with your project is becoming a major distraction. This stakeholder calls various team members multiple times a day to give advice and request status updates. What is it best to do?
5 a. Contact the customer to explain the situation and ask for assistance in managing the stakeholder b. Invite the Stakeholder iteration meetings. Explain that these meetings will be the best time to share thoughts and concerns which can be incorporated into future iterations c. Contact the stakeholder and explain that no changes can be made once the iteration has begun d. Do nothing. Allow the stakeholder to call, but do not make changes to the product. It is important to make sure that stakeholders feel engaged in the process, but do not allow it to interrupt workflow or alter the final product
