PMP Questions ID 2645 carina is a principal project manager of youve got dogs a specialty company that creates custom

Carina is a principal project manager of You’ve Got Dogs, a specialty company that creates custom dog apparel and toys. Three months into the project, she kicks off the second phase of a project that is developing high-tech dog bones. As part of her practice, she sits down with her sponsor to determine whether there are any new players that they missed in the first phase, and they hold a discussion on the direction of influence of these new stakeholders. What activity is Carina carrying out?

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Planning resource management

Identifying stakeholders

Planning stakeholder engagement

Identifying risks

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.

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

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

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.

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