The correct answer is B. Notice that there are multiple „right answers.” However, removing the team member (choice A) is too drastic. By this time, you would have built a team through team building. Removing one person might drastically change team dynamics. Though choices C and D could be done, they involve taking action without knowing the reason there was a problem. Choices C and D may not solve the problem, and the same problem could resurface. Only choice B gets to the root cause.

The correct answer is B. This situation tests ethics. Choice C is gold plating and should not be done without the customer’s approval. Choice D is even worse because it provides no additional benefit to the customer. Choice A, in theory, provides benefit to the customer if the more expensive equipment provides value, but it should not be done without customer approval.

The correct answer is A. This is the definition of the risk response strategy of „avoidance.”

The correct answer is D. First find EV = CV + AC = $600. Calculate CPI = EV/AC = $600/$500 = 1.20. Next, to find PV, you would use the formula PV = EV – SV = $650. Now you can compute SPI = EV/PV = 600/650 = 0.923. In Answer A, PV is wrong and in answers B and C all three values are incorrect.

The correct answer is D. Would you select a choice that said „remove the resource,” like choice A? Why? There is no need for the project manager to take such drastic action, because he would have accounted for the team member’s level of experience and productivity in the project management plan. Since training for project work is the cost of the project, choice B cannot be right. Choice C is not correct, as no impact to the project is referenced in the question. Mentoring (choice D) is the only logical choice, and work that a project manager may be frequently called on to perform.

The correct answer is A. The expected monetary value is probability times impact. In this case you multiply the probabilities together and then multiply the impact. 0.20 x 0.10 x 0.20 x $1000 = $4.

The correct answer is B. Resource leveling usually extends vs. shortens (choice A) the project. It does not necessarily require gaining outside resources (choice C) or add cost (choice D). It is a way to use existing resources more efficiently.

The correct answer is D. The formula is [N x (N – 1)]/2. Therefore 6(5)/2 = 15. Watch for questions that ask how many MORE communication channels there are.

The correct answer is B. With normal distribution, the mean indicates you have a 50 percent chance of being over or under your estimate. Since you have only a 15 percent chance of being over, you are above (or to the right of) the mean.

The correct answer is D. This is the essence of Herzberg’s hygiene factors.

The correct answer is D – Responding to change

The correct answer is C – Definition of Done

The correct answer is B – Based on their value to the business

The correct answer is A – Daily Scrum

The correct answer is D –  When the time-boxed duration is met

The correct answer is D –  The Scrum Team has sub-teams

The correct answer is D – When the time-boxed duration is met

The correct answer is C – Cumulative Flow Diagram

The correct answer is C – Expected monetary value or business value

The correct answer is C – Create a value stream map of the current process, identifying steps, queues, delays, and information flows.

The correct answer is A – Personas are detailed, synthetic biographies of fictitious users of the future product

The correct answer is D – Process owner

The correct answer is  A – One Point

The correct answer is B – Refactoring not done on regular basis

The correct answer is B – The act of adding detail to items in the Product Backlog

The correct answer is A – Main stakeholder accountable for setting priorities for the project team and defining the product features to deliver the maximum business value.

The correct answer is A – The Development Team

The correct answer is D – Parking Lot Chart

The correct answer is A – At the end of Sprint Planning

The correct answer is C – The Product Owner

The correct answer is C – Small, incremental improvements by the people who are doing the work

The correct answer is C – Escaped defects

The correct answer is B – Burnup Chart

The correct answer is B – Dynamic and Incomplete

The correct answer is B – Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation

The correct answer is B – Return on Investment (ROI): A metric used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or to compare efficiency among a number of investments. To calculate ROI, the return of an investment (i.e., the gain minus the cost) is divided by the cost of the investment. The result is usually expressed as a percentage and sometimes a ratio. The product owner is often said to be responsible for the ROI.

The correct answer is B – The acronym INVEST (independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small, and testable) helps the agile practitioner remember the characteristics of a good user story. I – Independent stories can be developed in any order and avoid dependencies which can make development more complex. N – Negotiable user stories mean that both the customer and developer should feel free to analyze and adapt a user story to meet customer needs. V – A valuable user story describes how the product feature will provide value to the customer. E – Estimable user stories are ones that developers can readily estimate the effort or duration required for developing them. S-Small user stories are ones that take about two to five days of work to implement. T – Testable user stories are ones that can be verified according to acceptance criteria to ensure value.

The correct answer is C – A project burndown chart is an often used information radiator to show iteration progress. It charts two series: the actual work remaining and ideal/estimated work remaining. The vertical axis is the work unit (often story points or hours) and the horizontal axis is iteration duration (typically in number of days). The ideal/estimated work series is a straight, downward sloping line originating on the vertical axis at the value of work to be completed (e.g., 20 story points) and extending to the horizontal axis (i.e., 0 story points) on the last day of the iteration. The actual series is dependent upon the agile team’s productivity and the task complexity and is updated daily. The actual series is typically volatile and is not a straight line but ebbs and flows as the project team tackles the development process.

The correct answer is A – Because agile welcomes the changing scope that customers may request to stay relevant in the marketplace.

The correct answer is A – Assign the user story an arbitrarily high number

The correct answer is D – An agile team must always face the prioritization of product features in its product backlog. From release planning to iteration planning, an agile team must prioritize the user stories/ features of its product to ensure that high-quality and high-value features are developed first to help facilitate an optimized and early return on investment (ROI). An agile team typically prioritizes requirements or user stories/features in terms of relative value and risk; value is defined by the customer (i.e., customer-value prioritization). Two common methods to prioritize product features are: MoSCoW and Kano. The MoSCoW method categorizes features into ‘Must have,’ ‘Should have,’ ‘Could have,’ and ‘Would have’ features. The Kano method categorizes features into ‘Must haves (threshold),’ ‘Dissatisfiers,’ ‘Satisfiers,’ and ‘Delighters.’ Must haves are features that are requisite. Dissatisfiers are features that adversely impact perceived value and should be eliminated. ‘Satisfiers’ are features that increase perceived value linearly, where the more you add the more the customer is pleased, but are not required, and ‘Delighters’ are features that increase perceived value exponentially to please the customer. To prioritize features based on risk-to-value matrix has four quadrants, with the horizontal axis having low and high value, and the vertical axis having low and high risk. User stories are assigned to one of the four categories/quadrants: low-value, low-risk; low-value, high-risk; high-value, low-risk; high-value, high-risk. A cost-to-value matrix can also be made in this manner. All prioritization in agile is ‘relative,’ meaning that the priority of one user story is relative to other user stories and not prioritized on a fixed scale.

The correct answer is B – The product roadmap – owned by the product owner – serves as a high level overview of the product requirements. It is used as a tool for prioritizing features, organizing features into categories, and assigning rough time frames. Creating a product roadmap has four basic steps: 1) Identify requirements (these will become part of the product backlog), 2) Organize requirements into categories or themes, 3) Estimate relative work effort (e.g., planning poker or affinity estimation) and prioritize (value), and 4) Estimate rough time frames (estimate velocity, sprint duration, and rough release dates).

The correct answer is C – Acceptance criteria is typically defined in tandem with user story definition during release planning; however, acceptance criteria can also be defined during iteration planning once a story has been picked for the iteration. The one steadfast rule is that acceptance criteria must be defined before development begins. Like agile planning, the definition of acceptance criteria is constantly evolving as the conversation with the product owner matures.

The correct answer is D – Business case development is an important initial step in agile project management. The business case is a concise document that outlines the project’s vision, goals, strategies for achieving goals, milestones, required investment and expected return/payback. A business case articulates the why and how a project will deliver value to a customer.

The correct answer is C – 83/20=4.15. Round 4.15 up to 5. 5 iterations is the best answer.

Correct answer: C. – As a project manager, you have to communicate with all stakeholder categories

Correct answer: B. – A group of related projects, subsidiary programs, and program activities that are managed in a coordinated manner

Correct answer: A: – Iterations develop the product through a series of repeated cycles, while increments successively add to the functionality of the product

Correct answer: A: – Technical Project Management, Strategic and Business Management, and Leadership

Correct answer: B: – Estimation refers to the likely amount or outcome of a variable, while forecast is a prediction of the same variable based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast

Correct answer: C: – The project is progressing faster and costing less than planned.

Correct answer: A: – Power Distance Index

Correct answer: A: – Individualism

Correct answer: C: –  The maturity level of the design of the project management process

Correct answer: A: –  The Result Indicators tell us what we have accomplished while the Performance Indicators focus on future outcomes

Răspuns corect: B. Planul de management al proiectului este o colecție de planuri realizate de managerul de proiect

Răspuns corect: B. Documentul de inițiere lansează ideea proiectului

Răspuns corect: C. Ca manager de proiect, trebuie să comunici cu toate categoriile de stakeholder

Răspuns corect: A. Parte interesată (stakeholder)

Răspuns corect: C. Raportul final de proiect este acceptat de sponsorul (proprietarul) proiectului

Răspuns corect: C. După finalizarea planului de management al proiectului.

Răspuns corect: C. Puterea expertului

Răspuns corect: C. Realizarea raportului de progress

Răspuns corect: A. Versiunea aprobată a planului de management al proiectului (planurile de referință/ baselines)

Răspuns corect: B. Conținut, Timp, Buget

Răspuns corect: C. Sponsorul (proprietarul) proiectului

Răspuns corect: A. Inițiere. Planificare, Execuție, Monitorizare și Control, Încheiere

Răspuns corect: B. Semnarea Documentului de iniţiere şi acceptarea Raportului final de proiect

Răspuns corect: B. O sumă de proiecte și procese corelate, pentru care managementul centralizat aduce valoare

Răspuns corect: C. Analiza modului în care proiectul poate aduce beneficiile așteptate

Răspuns corect: D. Marjă liberă

Răspuns corect: B. 44

Răspuns corect: B. Cel mai devreme moment de start al activității succesoare minus cel mai devreme moment de final

Răspuns corect: C. Marjă totală

Răspuns corect: A. Cel mai târziu moment de final minus cel mai devreme moment de final

Răspuns corect: C. Întârziere (lag)

Răspuns corect: A. A-D

Răspuns corect:  D. 2 zile

Răspuns corect: D. C

Răspuns corect: C. 5 zile