PMP Questions ID 2519 a project manager prepares the charter for a project that aims to automate 20 percent of product

A project manager prepares the charter for a project that aims to automate 20 percent of product testing. The project sponsor advises the project manager to assign senior test engineers to identify the tests that can be automated. However, the test department manager is uncooperative because they believe that the project will cause downsizing in their department. What should the project manager do first?

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Raise the risk that the senior testing engineers will be unavailable for the testing.

Provide objective cost-benefit evidence of test automation to the test department manager

Meet with the test department manager to explain the statement of work (SOW).

Ask the project sponsor to provide a rationale for test automation.

After sponsor approval of a project, the project manager invites the sponsor, selected team members, and other stakeholders to a meeting. The major purpose of the meeting is to develop a document that will guide the team in defining the primary project deliverables. What will be the final output of this meeting?

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Requirements management plan

Work breakdown structure (WBS) dictionary

Milestone list

Scope management plan

A project manager assumes a project during its execution stage and wants to review the project scope for cost estimating purposes. The project manager discovers that some deliverables were missed in the work breakdown structure (WBS). What should the project manager do next?

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Ask subject matter experts (SMEs) to check whether these deliverables are necessary.

Ask the stakeholders if these missed deliverables need to be added.

Add the work to the WBS according to the 100 percent rule and recalculate the total project cost.

Request that the project management office (PMO) approve additional funds for this work.

A sponsor recruits a project manager to implement a project. The project was initiated based on assumptions and feedback from the sponsor's colleagues. What should the project manager do first?

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Collaborate with stakeholders to understand the project objectives.

Define the project tasks and activities.

Document the input from the sponsor's colleagues.

Validate the project deliverables.

A customer continually submits new feature requests for an existing product. A project manager just communicated the completed scope definition for the product's next version release to stakeholders. What should the project manager do next?

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Meet with stakeholders to align expectations.

Immediately define project boundaries with the sponsor.

Meet with the product manager to ask that the number of new requests be reduced

Review the scope management plan and iterate it through the scope definition process.

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