Product design is 60 percent complete when a team member notices that a required environmental parameter was updated. Incorporating this change will increase project costs.
What should the project manager do?


A. Request re-approval of the project scope via a signed contract.
B. Meet with the sponsor to discuss including the change in the projects scope.
C. Initiate a change request with the change control board (CCB).
D. Inform the client about the change, and request additional funds.

A project manager is unable to continue work on a project from its current location. The project manager quickly identifies a provider in another location and wants to begin the contract immediately. The project management office (PMO) declines approval due to
past, negative issues and selects another provider. However, this has caused significant project delays.

What should the project manager do to avoid this type of delay in the future?


A. Use existing resources, even if the cost is increased.
B. Ask the team to suggest possible ways to manage the changes.
C. Engage all project stakeholders and roll out the recovery plan to manage the change.
D. Ask the PMO to be more collaborative to facilitate timely completion.

A project manager joins a project to handle the merger between a digital marketing firm and an advertising firm. Team members from both firms are finding it difficult to work together.
What should the project manager do?


A. Schedule training to enhance the competencies of both teams.
B. Conduct team-building activities to build a collaborative working environment.
C. Initiate team assessments to understand both teams strengths and weaknesses.
D. Offer recognition and rewards to promote team cohesion.

A functional manager complains that an employee is involved in too many project meetings, wasting valuable time that could be used for other responsibilities. To what document should the project manager refer to address this?


A. Work breakdown structure (WBS)
B. Resource calendar
C. Network diagram
D. Work performance report

An IT departments deliverable is two weeks late. If the deliverable is not completed by the end of the week, the project will be placed on hold. Within the last two weeks, the project manager communicated the issue to the IT department, spoke with the IT project
manager, and elevated the risk level in the risk register.

To support the work, what should the project manager do next?


A. Analyze stakeholder communications requirements.
B. Validate the communications management plan.
C. Apply the escalation process defined in the communications management plan.
D. Communicate to the project stakeholders that the project will be delayed.

The project manager for a medium-sized project expects materials from a vendor to arrive in time to deliver an upcoming milestone. However, the project manager learns there will be a three-week delay, which will directly impact the schedule. The type of contract
used with the vendor was firm fixed price (FFP).

What type of contract should the project manager use in the future to mitigate vendor delays?


A. Fixed price incentive fee (FPIF)
B. Cost plus award fee (CPAF)
C. Time and material (T&M)
D. Fixed price with economic price adjustment (FP-EPA)

During project execution, several concerned stakeholders confront the project manager with concerns. The project manager discovers that these stakeholders expectations were unrecorded and, hence, unmet.
What should the project manager have consulted to avoid this?


A. Communications management plan
B. Project charter
C. Stakeholder analysis
D. Stakeholder engagement plan

A project is scheduled for implementation during the next three months. However, the key stakeholder wants to complete the project sooner in order to mitigate a regulatory compliance risk.
What should the project manager do?


A. Fast track the schedule.
B. Follow the change control process.
C. Reprioritize project timelines and update the schedule.
D. Crash the schedule.

During a projects execution, a modification in a data entry specification is made. Due to the modification, three model defects are identified for repair.
What should the project manager do?


A. Update the risk register.
B. Escalate to the project sponsor
C. Enter change log items
D. Submit change requests

A smooth-running project was meeting schedule and cost baselines until an unexpected change in the geopolitical situation arose. As a result, the client instructs the project execution team to mobilize to a neutral, remote, offshore location.
What should the project manager do first?


A. Continue working from the current location without disclosing it to the client, and manage client meetings at the offshore location.
B. Prepare a transition plan for mobilizing resources and establishing an office at the new location.
C. Advise stakeholders that the project should be cancelled because project execution at the new location is impossible.
D. Initiate change management procedures and assets the impacts on the projects cost and schedule.