You are a senior project manager working at a manufacturing plant that created components used by the aviation industry. You are taking a predictive life-cycle approach and are in the process of implementing approved changes. What main information will you need to successfully finish the associated activities?

What or whom can the project manager consult to clarify the report distribution frequency?

The communications management plan

The communications management plan offers the who, what, where, why, and when of communications and reporting. This plan should contain the detailed information of when the report in question is scheduled for distribution.

Which of the following describes a resource which has been committed to a project as part of a contract or within the project charter?

Pre-assignment

Pre-assignments occur when individuals have been promised as part of a contract to a customer, or they have been assigned as early as the project charter. In either case, the resource has officially been committed to the project.

What type of leadership style does this project manager follow?

Transformational

Transformational is a form of leadership style innovation, and creativity.

As the project manager, what activity should you perform?

Look into providing training for Hal and others in the research team that may be in need of it as well

The project manager is responsible for providing project team members with the appropriate level of training needed to perform the work.

After conducting a lessons learned session at the end of each project phase, the project manager is responsible for collecting feedback from the team and developing a process improvement plan. The process improvement plan includes all of the following except for which one?

Failure rate

There are four primary items that the process improvement plan contains: process boundaries, process configuration, process metrics, and targets for improved performance. Therefore, failure rate is the correct answer.

Which process did you use to arrive at the cost baseline?

Determine Budget

The Determine Budget process establishes the cost baseline for the project and is an output of this process.

How many iterations will it take to finish the project work?

7 iterations

If the team maintains a velocity of 60 story points per iteration, it would take seven iterations to complete the remaining 420 story points.

A project manager using probability distributions to perform data is most likely to use which of the following:

Beta distributions

All options provided are forms of probability distribution. The most commonly used probability distributions are beta distributions and triangular distributions. Since beta is the only one of the two included as an option, it is the best choice.

What risk response strategy is the project manager most considering to use?

Exploit

Exploit is a strategy used when the organization is interested in making sure that the risk occurs, as well as increasing the impact of the positive risks. Exploit is the exact opposite of avoid, which seeks to eliminate the possibility of the risk occurring. The primary difference between exploit and enhance is that exploit applies changes to ensure that the opportunity will occur, which may or may not include an increase in the impact, or may not include an increase in the impact, while enhance only increases the likelihood and/or impact of the opportunity occurring.

The project was going well until you recently discovered that the site of the offshore development team has just conducted an emergency evacuation due to a political rally that has become violent. This comes as a shock to the local project team. How could this have been prevented?

By being aware of the project environment

When managing a project, you should always be aware of the local laws affecting the project, as well as the political climate. By being aware of the political climate, the project team would have planned and taken preventive actions. The question is not necessarily asking you how to avoid the rally but, instead, how to prevent it from affecting the project.

What type of Agile approach is the team practicing?

Kanban

Kanban is an agile approach that is often used in manufacturing projects but also makes a presence in the information technology field. Using Kanban, the work is balanced against available resources or available capacity for work. It’s a pull-based concept where work progresses to the next step only when resources are available.

Which of the following is not likely to be covered within the risk management plan?

When and how often to communicate with stakeholders throughout the project

While the risk management plan covers the details of risk-related reports and formats, it does not cover all of the communication requirements of project stakeholders. This is addressed within the communications management plan.

The company’s quality research team has been appointed to review the project materials. This team is not part of the group that developed the material. This is an instance of what type of review?

Independent peer review

Independent peer review is the correct answer. This type of review ensures that the concepts, the designs, and the tests that are utilized at the beginning of the project were good choices.

Using templates is helpful to the project manager in which way?

It allows for greater efficiency and consistency of results.

Templates are stored within the organizational process assets. When using templates from previous similar projects, the project manager can create a consistency of results, such as by using portions of activity lists or network diagrams, thereby making more efficient use of their time. It also allows for improved results.