PMP Questions ID 2408 a dashboard viewable by all project stakeholders displays various statuses using the industry sta

A dashboard viewable by all project stakeholders displays various statuses using the industry standard of red, yellow, and green colors. Throughout project execution, to meet the needs of the project and some of the project stakeholders, the project manager has been adding more colors to reflect additional statuses. This situation has created confusion among some of the stakeholders over the status naming conventions and meanings. What should the project manager do?

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Explain the meaning of the new statuses to the stakeholders

Remove statuses from the dashboard to avoid confusion

Add a simpler status for the stakeholders who are confused

Revert the status to an industry standard of red, yellow, green

The updated version of the product is to be at the customer's location by the end of the week, but the team realizes they will be unable to complete the deliverable by then. The project manager and the team have looked for solutions to resolve this issue but there is nothing to avert missing the deadline. The deployment team who is supposed to install the product at the customer site is under a lot of stress to meet their deadline and are going to be furious that the update will not be there at the end of the week. What is the project manager's best action?

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Wait until the deadline hoping the team eventually makes it

Send the status report to the customer

Make the phone call to the customer to inform them of the delay

Cancel the installation at the customer site

In a steering committee meeting for a project to build a new state-of-the-art communications device, the committee chair reprimands the project manager for not using the company’s file sharing system as required by the organization. The project manager explains that the project team chose a newer tool for the project, as it was much better. What most likely caused this situation?

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The project manager did not research the enterprise environmental factors

The project manager did not review the organizational process assets

The project team did not investigate communication tools

The project manager did nothing wrong

You are developing the communications management plan for a construction project. You want to determine the information needs of the project stakeholders, specifically focusing on the type and the format of information that will be required to communicate with the stakeholders. What is your best course of action?

A new project is starting, and the team members come from all over the world. The project manager has concerns about communications. What should the project manager do first?

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Implement an online tool to enable the team members to chat among themselves

Enroll the project team members in cultural training to raise cultural awareness

Nothing; the business world has been multicultural for so long that there should be no issues

Funnel all communications through the project manager to avoid miscommunication

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