PMP Questions ID 2636 a project manager is new to a company and has not led a project with international team members

A project manager is new to a company and has not led a project with international team members. What should the project manager do to develop cultural sensitivity?

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Decline the project, citing the difficulty of working with culturally diverse people as the reason.

Recognize that culture is learned, seek to understand local customs, and maintain flexibility when working with team members.

Learn every detail of each team member's culture to be sensitive to their needs.

Meet with the human resource department to obtain formal training in this area.

A senior manager wants to use an essential project resource for another project. What should the project manager do?

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Ask the senior manager to provide a replacement.

Inform the team and reassign that resource's responsibilities to other team members.

Explain to the senior manager that this resource is fully committed to the project and is unavailable.

Escalate the issue to the program manager for resolution.

During a demo and review meeting, the progress report shows that an agile project is not on track. The project manager is surprised, because all work was purposely selected and sequenced to meet higher-level objectives. What should the project manager have done to prevent this miscommunication?

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Trained and mentored the team on using the agile approach

Encouraged the team to self organize and provide buy-in to the project

Engaged the team to record the agile progress reporting system

Created a contingency reserve

A project manager is developing a project charter, but a key stakeholder is failing to provide information about the expected project benefits. What should the project manager do?

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Note this as an open item and continue with project planning.

Inform the project sponsor about the issue.

Use analogous estimating to estimate the expected benefits.

Refer the issue to the change control team.

At the end of an iteration, a team member tells the project manager that a planned task is unfinished because of an issue that appeared days ago but was unable to be resolved. What should the project manager do to prevent this type of situation in the future?

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Address the issue in the demo.

Review the issue in the next daily standup meeting.

Discuss the issue during the next iteration planning meeting.

Discuss the issue during the retrospective.

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