PMP Practice Test

PMP Practice Test practice questions, page 4 of 27, with answer review and explanations.

Question 16

Knowledge sharing has been a key priority for a complex technological project with a large number of team members. During the project execution phase, the project manager receives numerous complaints from all team members that they are overloaded with knowledge-sharing emails, which contain useful information but are unmanageable due to the high volume.What should the project manager do to solve this problem?

  1. Establish an unofficial communications method for the team to share knowledge and lessons learned.
  2. Establish a pull communications method to access knowledge repositories and lessons learned.
  3. Establish an interactive communications method between stakeholders to share knowledge and lessons learned.
  4. Establish a push communications method for the team to share knowledge and lessons learned.

Question 17

An agile project started 6 months ago. Since the beginning of the project, there have been disagreements among team members regarding daily meetings since some of the team members are not available at the same time. The project manager is convinced an agile team should be self-organizing, and that meeting times should be worked out by the team.What should the project manager do?

  1. Establish a team charter.
  2. Recognize the team's contributions.
  3. Assign a team leader.
  4. Establish a project schedule.

Question 18

A project development team is located in different areas around the world. Last week, a very important release was delayed because one of the developers did not respond on time to an email that was sent to everyone. The developer seems to have missed reading the email.What should the project manager do to avoid these situations?

  1. Review the stakeholder engagement plan.
  2. Review the resource management plan.
  3. Review the risk management plan.
  4. Review the communications management plan.

Question 19

In an agile project, the team decided to have a rotating group of facilitators for the daily scrum. Overall, most of the facilitators have grown and done well in this role; however, a few of them tend to run inefficient daily scrums.What should the project manager do next?

  1. Praise the team for self-organizing and growing, then work one-on-one with the facilitators, as needed.
  2. Return to using the scrum master as the facilitator for the daily scrums now that the trial period is over.
  3. Ask the facilitators who are doing well to continue and recommend that the others stop facilitating.
  4. Retrain all team members on daily scrum facilitation to ensure there is consistency in the approach.

Question 20

A project manager has been transferred to another country to work on a key project. The project manager successfully completed the planning phase and has started the execution phase, reporting good progress. During the last meeting with the project sponsor, the project manager was told that some stakeholders have complained that the project manager's emails are very harsh.What should the project manager do to solve this situation?

  1. Determine the level of influence of the stakeholders who are complaining.
  2. Change the communication mode from emails to meetings to reduce stakeholders complaints.
  3. Adjust the communications management plan to gain stakeholder trust.
  4. Explain to the sponsor that the communication model being used is from company headquarters.