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1. A project manager is preparing a project closure report. The project sponsor is confident about the success of the project, but the client is not sure that the project outputs will achieve their business needs.

Which aspect should the project manager highlight in the closure report to address the stakeholder's concern?

2. A year after implementing a policy change to improve diversity and inclusion within two teams, there is increasing conflict within the company.

What should have been done to prevent this conflict?

3. A project in aerospace design has run into a substantial technical issue, and the project team is uncertain on how to proceed.

With whom should the project manager call a meeting to discuss the issue?

4. A project manager at a large corporation has been assigned to oversee a customer experience project. Within the project, customer satisfaction is a big issue and there are many unresolved customer queries on a daily basis. The project manager has been informed that the customer service team is overwhelmed with these unresolved queries.

Which two actions should the project manager take to correct this problem? (Choose two)

5. A company has decided to implement a new archiving system A data breach occurred during the implementation of the project

What should the project manager do first?

6. The project charter was just approved and the project sponsor has given permission to proceed with the project. The program manager has confirmed that one of the requested key resources is also needed on another project at the same time This will affect project delivery

What should the project manager do?

7. An organization imports many of the materials for a product build. Due to global shipping delays, some of the essential materials have yet to arrive, resulting in the inability to finish building the product for the upcoming release. The project manager is meeting with stakeholders to discuss options.

What should the project manager recommend?

8. While finalizing project management plans, a customer provides the project manager with a new set of quality standards to which the final product must adhere.

What should the project manager do to ensure a smooth delivery of the product?

9. A project team is globally distributed with team members living and working in different time zones.

The project manager is trying to get the team to collaborate effectively.

Which three actions should the project manager take to accomplish this goal? (Choose three)

10. A project manager is assigned to a new project team that has several stakeholders who can have significant influence over the project outcomes.

The project manager categorized the stakeholders into four different groups and wants to define the communication strategy.

How should the project manager handle communication?

11. The project sponsor recently requested that a vendor begins working toward adopting a hybrid approach. In response, the vendor hired a project manager experienced in agile for the project.

What does that project manager need to do to make the team work in a collaborative way?

12. Experienced team members assigned to a critical project are also supporting several other projects and this is delaying the critical project. If this critical project is not delivered, the company could receive a fine from the government.

What should the project manager do?

13. Due to a recent company merger, a project manager from company B has been assigned to a team that is comprised of team members from company A. At the start of the project, conflicts arise due to a lack of clarity on processes and the project manager's relationship with company B.

What should the project manager do to resolve this conflict?

14. A project manager for a digital transformation project has already received the business needs for the project. When gathering requirements, the project manager discovers that not all of the requirements can be delivered with the available resources, but that some of the requirements will be enough to add business value.

With the project on a fixed budget, what should the project manager do next?

15. A project manager in one country is reporting to a lead project manager for a new software development project in another country. The lead project manager constantly requests updates from the project manager, often demanding information via multiple communication channels if the project manager does not respond within a few minutes of a request. Both of them are equal in seniority and both report to the same functional manager.

How should the project manager proceed?

16. In a project, one core team member tends to do all the work and ensures all tasks are completed.

This core team member is soon leaving the project, which may make the project vulnerable.

What should the project manager do?

17. There is frequent conflict between two project team members working on a project. This has caused a negative impact on the project.

How should the project manager handle this situation?

18. A project manager is working on a large project with a very difficult client. During the course of the project, the project manager realizes that if the project team had a little more time and funding to make some minor changes, the client could realize the benefits of 25% of the project outcomes early.

How should the project manager approach this?

19. While reviewing prototypes, the quality team found some deviations that do not affect the mam functionality but have the potential to be an issue in the future. To avoid major problems in the future, the team recommends corrective actions that will require additional funds. The project is already struggling to stay on budget and has even used some of the contingency reserves.

What should the project manager do?

20. HOTSPOT

A team is working on a project with three iterations. The project manager is reviewing the burndown chart.

What is the point where the chart shows that the team is performing below the plan?

21. In a newly formed project team one experienced team member is overwhelmed by the complexity of the tasks and is not happy with the project team.

What should the project manager do?

22. A project manager receives a voicemail from a business analyst on the project team. The business analyst indicates that an internal stakeholder is upset that they were not included before the project began. The stakeholder is asking for an addition to the requirements traceability matrix

What should the project manager do to improve the stakeholder relationship?

23. A project manager analyzes the cumulative flow chart and identifies a bottleneck in the testing activities from a self-organizing team. After discussing it with the team, a gap related to testing skills is identified.

What should the project manager do to address the issue?

24. A project manager is in a learn meeting and the project team requires a decision to be made about a new suggested timeline due to an impact from a potential scope change.

What should the project manager do?

25. A project manager is managing an agile project that is part of a program with many interconnected projects. Dependency management is fundamental because there will be many milestones for different projects that are dependent upon each other during the program duration.

What should the project manager do?

26. A project manager has been managing a project for several months when an issue that had not been registered as a risk appeared. This issue may have a big impact on the project.

What should the project manager do?

27. A client wants to create an innovative software for the travel industry using an agile approach. A project manager from the company was assigned to work on the details and estimates as requested by the client.

What should the project manager do before sending the information to the client?

28. A project manager has been assigned to a new project. There is one team member who never says anything during meetings. After meetings, however, the team member sends detailed emails with very good suggestions that help with project execution.

How should the project manager guide the team members?

29. A project manager has decided to stop activities that do not add value to a project that has a risk of

running over budget. A functional manager disagrees with this decision, especially when the team is performing product testing for highly sensitive end users. The functional manager escalated the issue to the project sponsor so that the team can resume activities.

How should the project manager have handled the situation?

30. A bank has decided to initiate a project to transition from serving small businesses and entrepreneurs to mid- and large-scale businesses. The country's economy is struggling, and some stakeholders cannot agree on this transformation need.

What should the project manager do'?

31. A new relevant project stakeholder suggested a change to some of the project parameters midway through execution.

What should the project manager do next?

32. A project is nearing completion. The sponsor is already asking the project management office (PMO) when the project manager will be assigned to host a planning session for a new initiative.

What should the project manager do next?

33. DRAG DROP

Drag the interpersonal skill on the left to the correct scenario on the right.

34. During a project status update by the project management office (PMO), the CEO is concerned that the status of all projects suddenly changed from green to red, without warning. Upper management is used to reading traditional reports related to progress and cost, and they want to continue viewing this information.

How should the PMO implement a better way to report the project's health?

35. Throughout an entire project, the project manager took notes at every meeting with team members. These notes provided useful insights from key stakeholders, which later resulted in increased value to the project. The project manager thought it would be helpful to keep these notes as a future reference for other project managers within the organization.

Where should the notes be located?

36. During the execution phase of a project, a new department has been created in the company. The manager of this department has requested to be involved in the regular project communications and reporting cycles.

What should the project manager do?

37. According to the project contract the delivery date is approaching However one important material is still not on site. The construction work will have to stop and wait for this special material, delaying the project.

What should the project manager do?

38. During the third iteration of a project, the product owner requests another mandatory feature. This also happened in the previous two sprints, which resulted in failure and caused frustration within the team.

What should the project manager do next?

39. During the course of a project, the project manager wants to ensure that the work carried out and the product being created do not deviate from the prescribed business value.

What should the project manager pay special attention to in order to achieve this goal?

40. A company was awarded a project in a dangerous location that poses several high-level risks for employees Help is needed to tram the employees on major safety and health factors. The project is ongoing and uses a hybrid approach. The project will be conducted in multiple sites, with several development iterations running in parallel

How should the project manager handle this situation?

A. Allocate and use part of the project's contingency reserves for training purposes.

B. Negotiate a contract and form a partnership with a local authority for medical and security support services.

C. Perform a retrospective and update the risk register and resource management plan regarding the necessary budget for training

D. Hire only local resources who are aware of the terntory's hazards, providing employment to the local community

41. A project manager is assigned to oversee the deployment of a new product that will be used by the entire organization. A key success factor for the project is the timely and successful adoption of the new solution by all entities.

What should the project manager do to ensure the success of this critical project?

42. A project team was established for a community impacted by oil and gas exploration activities. The team is required to interact with several external stakeholders. The local council authority has requested a meeting with the project team to discuss the impact of the project on the community. The project manager was not available at the time of the meeting, and the team was in disagreement regarding who should attend the meeting.

What should the project manager have done to prevent this conflict?

43. Key decision makers are meeting to define the objectives of a new database migration project. There are many disagreements about scope and time lines among the leaders of various company

departments.

How should the project manager impartially prioritize the requirements to be integrated?

44. A project team is facing challenges understanding how to deliver a project's scope.

A senior subject matter expert (SME) from the organization's global office is in town for 1 week.

What should the project manager do to benefit from the SME's presence?

45. A highly critical project is in jeopardy due to missing professional resources.

What should the newly assigned project manager do first?

46. DRAG DROP

Drag the items on left side to the matching term within the correct project approach on the right side.

47. A product team is comprised of consultants and staff members Most of the team members agree on risks and the defined risk actions. One consultant discovers a new risk and communicates it directly to management.

What should the project manager do?

48. A team member who is working on a critical project deliverable reported that their computer is not working. The IT department says that due to a high workload, they will not be able to provide assistance for 1 week.

How should the project manager address this situation?

49. A project manager is managing a technical project that requires intensive documentation as part of the key deliverables. Ina project review meeting, a key stakeholder reports that the latest documentation provided by the project manager includes a reference to unrelated products.

What should the project manager do?

50. A project manager for a factory construction project in a small town is evaluating the necessary actions to engage stakeholders. The local community is speculating the impact of the facility. There are rumors of job opportunities and environmental impacts which are listed on the project risk matrix

What should the project manager do with regard to community engagement in this situation''

51. During the execution of a project the project manager notices that only one team member has one of the technical skills needed to build the product. The project manager is afraid this might have a future impact on the quality and schedule because most of the upcoming activities will require at least three people with this specific skill.

What two actions should the project manager take to prevent the team from being unqualified? (Choose two)

52. A project manager notices that the response action for an identified issue is insufficient for solving the problem.

What should the project manager do next?

53. A team is developing an experimental program to be used by the public.

What should the project manager do to ensure the desired benefits are achieved?

54. During the setup of an agile project, the product owner expressed clear interest in having features released during product development over having the product completed in one year.

What should the project manager do?

55. During the execution phase of a project, a project manager notices that the project team is not motivated and performance is decreasing. The decision is made to invest in financial rewards for all of the Key team members. After the rewards are distributed, the team is still underperforming.

What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

56. An agile project manager notices that one of the team members is developing extensive knowledge in a specific matter. Other team members are likely to require this knowledge in the future.

What should the agile project manager do?

57. A project manager is leading a product feature rollout that will gain more subscribers for a video-streaming application. During the backlog grooming phase, the business stakeholders were unable to understand the feature integration with the product and raised concerns.

What can the project manager do to demonstrate the feature integration?

58. Some members of a project team are frustrated by a new team member who previously worked in a Scrum setting This new team member approaches members of the project team on a daily basis in what appears to be an attempt to engage in individual standup meetings

What should the project manager do?

59. As the project progresses, the learns not performing at acceptable levels and in accordance with the key performance indicators (KPls) that were set at the beginning of the project.

How should the project manager resolve this?

60. project manager for a defense software application has a culturally and gender-diverse team with a short project time line Considering the project will be stressful what skill should the project manager use to monitor the team's performance?

61. A project for a new product launch is in a very initial stage and the requirements are evolving Due to stiff competition in the market, the customer would like to launch the product keeping the scope flexible. The project team intends to start the work based on the forecast of a similar project delivered last year

Which project approach suits the scenario?

62. An iteration is almost finished, but the team is struggling to complete the stories that require more time.

What should the project manager do first?

63. A team is delivering features to a customer at every iteration. After completing each iteration, the customer is invited for a review. However, the customer is frequently not available and the review is often delayed, which results in increased rework for the team.

What should the project manager do?

64. A project manager scheduled a session to identify risks on the current project. Most of the stakeholders did not attend the meeting, although they previously confirmed their attendance.

How should the project manager proceed in order to complete the risk register?

65. A project manager is assigned to a new project that will launch the digital version of a current product. Even though the product is well known, the vision for its digital version is not clear to the stakeholders.

What should the project manager do to increase value delivery?

66. A company is moving to a hybrid approach and conducted capacity activities for all of the project managers. During these capacity-building activities, the focus was on agile approaches and team facilitation skills. When starting the implementation phase, the project managers faced issues motivating the newly hired agile staff.

Why are the project managers having issues motivating the agile staff?

67. A project manager is leading a project that is implementing an assembly line.

During the quality review meeting, a team member reports an issue stating that the product being developed has discrepancies with the one requested by the customer.

What should the project manager do?

68. A project manager is managing a hybrid project. During project execution, the project manager was informed that over half of the project budget was reallocated to a project that is handling an emergency that recently occurred.

What should the project manager do?

69. A project manager is reviewing the status of a large project with team members in different countries. Through the status review, the project manager notices that one team is consistently behind schedule and their work often needs to be corrected.

What should the project manager do to improve the quality of this team's work?

70. During a kick-off meeting at the start of project execution, the vendor presents a migration plan to client stakeholders. The director of the business unit that owns the solution being migrated demands the ability to make the final go/no-go decision about whether the systems go live.

What should the project manager do?

71. A customer is concerned about the time required to complete a project and is asking the project team to reduce the number of iterations required to complete the product.

Which approach should the project manager take?

72. During a team meeting the project manager asks the team to complete a personality assessment to help everyone understand themselves and one another better. The project manager analyzes the results and realizes that more than one-half of team members are introverts.

What should the project manager do?

73. A new product is designed for a certain market. This product needs to adhere to the health and safety regulations for that region.

What should the project manager do to ensure that the product complies with the regulations?

74. A project manager is leading a project with a predictive approach for a governmental body with strictly defined requirements. In the middle of the project, the sponsor requires a significant new feature to be included. This feature was not in the original plan, nor was it part of the planning process.

What should the project manager do?

75. A company has decided to initiate a project to eliminate a sales channel that has been unprofitable for the past 3 years. Some members of the project team are pessimistic about the project.

What should the project manager do in this situation?

76. A company is transitioning projects from a predictive to an agile approach. The CFO is concerned that one of the agile projects has an important feature for the financial department that is being delayed for a later iteration.

What should the project manager do to clarify the situation?

77. A healthcare organization hired a new compliance specialist to ensure that the healthcare compliance needs are met. The feedback about the new compliance specialist from the team was average.

What should the project manager do to help the new compliance specialist improve?

78. A project has been reporting a declining schedule performance index (SPI) for the past four reviews.

No corrective action is under development, and the project team does not seem concerned.

What should the project manager do first to address the SPI trend?

79. DRAG DROP

A project team has developed the initial schedule using a network diagramming method and has arrived at the overall project duration. Upon examining the schedule, the project manager finds that there are several activities that may require buffers to mitigate or eliminate potential scheduling conflicts.

Match the following common terms with their explanations that evaluate the buffers or constraints.

80. In an agile project, the team decided to have a rotating group of facilitators for the daily scrum. Overall, most of the facilitators have grown and done well in this role; however, a few of them tend to run inefficient daily scrums.

What should the project manager do next?

81. A software system is being built for a company. Once the system is in production, the team would like to collect usage data to evaluate the delivered value.

Which evaluation practice should the project lead use to obtain accurate usage data?

82. A new team member is hired and the training is taking longer than expected. This impacts the overall project performance.

What immediate action should the project manager take to improve the situation?

83. A new sales software development project is underway. The customer is still finalizing the requirements for the system when a new CEO is introduced. The new CEO is expected to make changes to the organization, which most likely will impact development. However, the most important criterion for the project is that the software must provide correct sales results. No intermediate results are required.

Which project approach should the project manager take?

84. During a project review meeting, the project sponsor is worried that the protect may not be delivering results as planned Based on that the project manager is evaluating the project status.

What information should the project manager use as an indicator that the project is actually delivering value?

85. In an agile project, the project owner has repeatedly called for ad hoc meetings with team members.

What should the project manager do?

86. After sending an on-site meeting invitation to seven people for the kick-off meeting of a project, a key stakeholder declines because they will be at another location for the rest of the month.

What should the project manager do?

87. A project manager has been assigned to an emergency project that must be completed within the next few weeks. The project manager realizes this will have an impact on the local community. As the work is near a school, the project manager has engaged with them to understand their needs.

How should the project manager ensure the work continues smoothly?

88. A project manager is acting as a servant leader and is struggling to make deadlines on a critical roadway construction project that is falling behind schedule due to a lowperforming team.

In order to get the project back on track, what should the project manager do first?

89. A project manager is leading a project that involves on-site and remote team members One task that was assigned to a team member in another country appears to be behind schedule When the project manager inquires about this, the team member claims that the task was completed and that this was reported to the team lead via a telephone conversation.

What should the project manager do?

90. An agile project team received an assignment to develop an industrial system that interfaces with robots. The project team does not have any previous experience performing this type of work. Team members are interested in acquiring such expertise but it may result in a project delay.

How should this situation be handled?

91. A project manager has been assigned to a project and receives the project charter from the project management office (PMO). The document is very clear about customer requests During Project Scope Management some requirements seem to be different from the ones specified within the project charter

What should the project manager do?

92. A team has individual daily start times for each team member. Sometimes the overlap between team member working hours is short. During those times, the interactions and work as a team are reduced and ineffective.

What should the project manager do?

93. The project team is planning a schedule with limited information. The team |s having issues identifying the detailed tasks and estimating task durations.

Which three techniques should the project manager use? (Choose three)

94. A project manager is leading a strategic and competitive advantage project for a healthcare organization that is in its testing phase. The team has been working on this project for 6 months, and the morale of the team is low due to the schedule.

What can the project manager do to motivate the team?

95. A project manager is leading a project with strict time constraints. In team meetings, one of the team members is always silent. The project manager determines that this team member is not knowledgeable about the technology solution. The project manager is concerned that this problem will impact productivity.

What should the project manager do?

96. A project manager encounters a governance issue during the project execution phase. One of the team members complains about receiving assignments from multiple people and states they are not able to work effectively.

What should the project manager establish first in the project governance structure?

97. During project execution, a project manager is informed that most of the project team members have enrolled in the newly implemented work-from-home company policy.

How should the project manager reflect this change in the project?

98. A company's project management office (PMO) has started to implement iterative tools. The project manager is starting a new project and has identified an opportunity to use the new tools. There is disagreement among stakeholders about the use of the adaptive tool.

What should the project manager do first?

99. After a project has been approved, a key stakeholder tells the project manager that the current project management strategy is not well defined. The project manager is also informed that the key stakeholder does not want to hold a working session

What should the project manager do first?

100. A new project team has formed and the project manager notices that some of the team members do not feel comfortable being part of the project team As a result members of the team are working individually and not as a team

What should the project manager do to resolve this?

101. DRAG DROP

A project manager of a large company needs to categorize the stakeholders' involvement at the beginning of a project initiated by the board of directors. The sales and delivery teams are internal teams.

Drag each stakeholder scenario on the left to the correct engagement level on the right.

102. A company is undergoing a digital transformation and is changing its project portfolio to an agile approach. As a result, the leadership is looking to update the performance measuring system for the workforce.

What should the project manager propose?

103. A new manufacturing line project is planned to be delivered in iterations tor the equipment installation phase. During one of the iterations the vendor communicates to the project manager that they will not be able to deliver some of the equipment at the agreed dates.

What should the project manager do next?

104. The main project stakeholder was fired and replaced by another stakeholder. The new stakeholder reviewed the project scope and requested numerous changes, arguing that the stakeholder's team is unhappy with the results to date.

What should the project manager do?

105. At the end of a project's initiation phase, the budget was developed and sent to the approval board. During the approval meeting, one of the key stakeholders asked how the budget was developed for future uncertainties.

How should the project manager reply?

106. A project is ready to start, and resources are allocated. The development manager then informs the project manager that a critical resource is no longer available due to a family emergency. The development manager indicates that all other developers have been assigned to other projects, and there is no capacity for any developer to take on additional work.

What should the project manager do next to fulfill this resource need?

107. A project manager is managing a megaproject. The project stakeholders are from different geographical areas and have diverse cultural and social backgrounds. The project manager wants to improve team productivity to realize more effective and efficient results.

Which action should the project manager take?

108. A team needs to implement a mandatory compliance regulation in a product, which is required for its release. While nearing the product release, when completeness was being verified, it was found that the compliance part was not implemented in the project.

What should the project manager do next?

109. During a meeting for product review, a key stakeholder announces that because they are receiving adequate information about the project they will not attend any further meetings.

What should the project manager do?

110. A project manager is building a team to work on a service integration project that will transition technology management services from company A to company B. The project team will consist of members from both companies. Prospective team members for the project are located all over the world, have different types of technology backgrounds, and use different approaches for work.

How should the project manager build a cohesive, high-performing team?

111. A project team is working on the design of a solution for a complex project. Due to a lack of clarity of the customer's requirements, daily meetings were agreed upon between the team and the customer. There are a few external contractors in the project who do not agree with this idea as they feel it is a waste of time.

What should the project manager do?

112. During the execution phase of a healthcare IT project, the project manager finds one stakeholder is very difficult to communicate with and obtain feedback from on project deliverables.

What should the project manager do?

113. During the execution phase of a project a new project manager is assigned to replace the previous project manager As the project manager starts managing the project, they discover that team performance is significantly decreasing, which is impacting the project's key performance indicators (KPIs). This team has delivered good performance on similar projects in the past.

What should the project manager do next to improve this situation?

114. In an agile project that is about 45% complete, most team members are siloed and lack an

understanding of each other's work.

What would have most likely caused this communication breakdown?

115. A project manager is assigned to a new project to deliver a product at the end of the year. The project manager was informed by the vendor that a core component could not be shipped on time, which will impact the schedule.

What should project manager to do next to minimize the impact on the project?

116. In the beginning of project execution, the project manager finds out that a key resource will be unavailable for two weeks which could cause a delay to the schedule.

What should the project manager do first?

117. What is the correct way to put an organization on the proper path to changing their mindset to an agile approach?

118. A project manager is managing an internal project that was poorly defined. Recently, the project manager received several change requests raised by the organization's upper management.

What should the project manager do first?

119. A team is working on implementing a communications system when the client says that they are considering closing the project. The project manager schedules an urgent meeting with the client to understand why the project is at risk.

Which two tools or techniques can the project manager use to influence the client’s decision to keep the project active? (Choose two)

120. After assigning tasks to a project team, a project manager discovers that some team members are uncomfortable. Same team members are having 4 difficult time understanding their assigned tasks, whereas other team members are challenging the schedule based on that allocation to the project.

Which phase of the Tuckman ladder of team formation is occurring?

121. A project manager has been selected to deliver one of an organization's key flagship solutions Critical success factors include agility, market adaptation, and a quick response to market offerings

What is one of the key activities that the project manager should undertake to ensure company success?

122. An agile project is running its fifth iteration out of 10. After the last retrospective, the team members realize that they had to work extra hours to deliver the committed work.

What should the project manager do?

123. A project is nearing completion. The contingency time has been consumed To ensure that the final deliverables are achieved fhin budget, the project manager has asked the team to follow a rigorous process This Is causing some resistance among the team members.

What should the project manager do to address the growing resistance?

124. A project is ready to deliver the first batch of the product when a quality control check rejects the product as unfit for delivery. The root cause analysis (RCA) shows that a component added as part of the latest change request was not tested throughout the development cycle.

What should the project manager do next?

125. The team is working on a critical project deliverable and the project manager is concerned about meeting the deadline There have been complaints from some stakeholders about some of the team members' performance. The project manager wants to understand the situation and provide feedback to the team as soon as possible

What three actions should the project manager take to address this situation? (Choose three)

126. A project manager works for a large software development company that has multiple strategic business groups. The project manager has been assigned to develop maintenance planning software for a power plant. The project manager heard that a similar project that was executed by another business group in the company recently failed. The project manager is concerned about the project's performance and wants to take steps to help the project succeed.

What should the project manager do?

127. A project manager is building a team that will be comprised of subject matter experts (SMEs) from two different divisions of the same company.

The project team will be virtual and will include members from different countries around the world.

What should the project manager do to ensure effective team building occurs?

128. A team has been working on a project for several months, but the completion date is unclear because the scope is changing frequently as new knowledge is gained. Some deliverables have already been completed, but when new stakeholders join the team, they complain that project outcomes are not meeting business goals.

How can the project manager prevent this situation from happening in the future?

129. A leader from project B consistently reaches out to a team member in project A for assistance.

What should project A's project manager do?

130. An insurance company is planning to make a big change to its core application. The project manager realizes there is resistance to change from the sales agents since they are accustomed to taking orders manually and entering them in the system at the end of the day.

With the new change, they will use point-of-sale devices to take orders online.

What should the project manager do to get commitment from the sales agents?

131. A project manager is leading a global project with resources spread out in different locations. The stakeholders have different interpretations of the requirements. The project manager is concerned about scope creep.

Which action should the project manager take to control the scope?

132. A development team is struggling to find design documentation for the upcoming sprint. Prior to leaving for vacation, the product owner communicated that the documentation had been uploaded to the project file repository.

What should the project manager do to address this issue?

133. A project manager has two projects that are being executed at the same time. The duration of the critical project must be reduced, but the project manager does not have enough resources to achieve this goal. In addition, the schedule does not have activities that can be overlapped

What should the project manager do?

134. A project manager is scheduled to meet with a client for their weekly risk management meeting. The project manager observed that one of the tasks which had external dependencies is delayed by one week. The project manager knows this will have an impact but does not know the exact details.

What two things should the project manager do? (Choose two)

135. After a recent status review meeting, the project manager becomes aware that an influential stakeholder is unclear about the purpose and benefits of the project Consequently, the stakeholder has questioned the viability of continuing the project.

What should the project manager do next to address the situation?

136. During project planning, a development team is assigned an agreed-upon work package to determine the appropriate pattern for integrating a new service with a legacy system. The lead developer has requested a meeting with the project manager and Is looking for direction as to which technology to select.

How should the project manager help guide the lead developer?

137. A technician is scheduled to install internet service at the homes of three remote call center agents who have different working schedules. Their functional managers arranged time off to allow time for installation and testing. The carrier sends an email to the project manager stating that one appointment is delayed for 2 days.

What does the project manager need to do now?

138. A project manager is managing a project that requires specialized architecture services. This project

was identified as a high risk for the organization. The project manager works with an external architect who is highly specialized. However, the architect will soon resign because they accepted an offer from another firm.

What should the project manager do next?

139. A project manager notices that the project team is unlikely to complete the development of a system on time before the testing start date, which was based on the technical complexity of the project.

What should the project manager do before communicating with the client during the regular project progress meeting?

140. A major project is unable to access the US$12 million funding allocated for the project. This prevents the start of the procurement process and is already leading to costly delays.

What should the project manager do?

141. A project manager noticed that the functional manager is not cooperating with staff assignment schedules and is always finding excuses not fo release the requested staff.

What should the project manager do first?

142. A CEO of a general contracting company urgently asks the project manager to sign up two project team members to participate in a specific training course. Halfway through the training, both team members complain that the training is too difficult, above their experience level, and that the material does not align with their tasks.

What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation?

143. A project manager submits a version of the software that the project team created. During the review meeting, a team member informs the project manager of a recent regulation that requires a dual verification process in the software. However, the product sponsor strongly insists there should be no updates to the software.

What should the project manager do?

144. A project manager who is new to an organization observes that an approaching deadline is likely to be missed because there have been some delays on the project due to a lack of resources.

What should the project manager do next?

145. A project involves exporting 150 packages to the customer. However, only 30 packages have been cleared by the customer for shipment. The logistics manager provided details to the customer 2 weeks ago and set up a weekly conference call to effectively communicate with them, but the customer has not been participating in the calls.

How should the project manager handle this situation?

146. Which two actions should a project manager consider while launching a new virtual team? (Choose two)

147. A team working on a close deployment waits to receive critical information from the customer. The customer keeps postponing sending the information which is delaying the deployment.

What should the project manager have done to prevent the delay?

148. Eight people have been working on a project for an extended period of time. The scope has changed significantly and the product owner has been replaced multiple times. The team members are feeling disassociated from the project.

What should the project manager do to ensure team alignment with the goals?

149. A company has undertaken a large transformation project in preparation for the changing economy. During the planning of the transformation project, the key resource from human resources (HR) refuses to approve the proposed project plan.

What should the project manager do to gain an understanding of the cause for the resource's refusal?

150. DRAG DROP

A company has created a cross-functional team to drive the digital transformation project for the business. The team is expected to deliver the minimum viable product (MVP) that addresses market need in the shortest possible time.

Match the roles for the team on the left to their corresponding responsibilities on the right.

151. A project manager is leading a project that will be delivered using a Scrum framework. The organization has an innovative project management office (PMO) that fully supports agile and also has a very friendly procurement team. A new vendor needs to be engaged to provide more developers for a new reporting platform.

What should the project manager do?

152. A project manager for a large software delivery project is in the process of finalizing the project governance,. The project manager would like to implement procedures that do not align with several policies required by the organization's project management office (PMO). The project manager believes that the procedures outlined in the project governance will be necessary for this particular project due to the unique nature of the technology.

What should the project manager do?

153. A business stakeholder for a project is reluctant to accept an agile approach due to a previous bad experience, and is pushing for a predictive approach.

What strategy should the project manager use to persuade the stakeholder to use an agile approach?

154. A project to implement a new process is still in development. When implemented, the company will benefit by a reduction in utility costs. The project financial evaluation indicates a payback of 3 years.

What should the project manager do to expedite the project delivery?

155. During project execution of a new IT solution, the testing of one feature was unsuccessful. The go-live milestone is now impacted due to this delay. Extensive analyses were performed, and there is no

way to resolve the defects before the go-live date.

What should the project manager do next?

156. During the initiation stage of a multimedia exhibition-design project the project manager is developing the project management plan.

What should the project manager do to complete this task?

157. A business improvement opportunity to reduce energy usage has been identified.

The project manager has assembled a team that includes site engineers to deliver this project. However, due to production imperatives, the site engineers may not be fully focused on the project.

How should the project manager manage the team?

158. During a project gate review meeting, it is identified that one of the project deliverables will require corrective actions to meet the project quality requirements.

What should the project manager do first?

159. Due to delays on some activities one of the project team members has increased the scope without any approval.

What should the project manager do next?

160. During a project’s third iteration, two of the existing team members were replaced As the project entered the next iteration, the team velocity dropped and the performance started to slip.

What should the project manager do?

161. A project manager is assigned to a project related to taxes, which will be managed using an agile approach. By reviewing lessons learned from a previous project, the project manager discovers that a key stakeholder is an expert on taxes and is willing to help.

How should the project manager leverage this information?

162. An organization is transitioning to agile delivery, and a new team has been assembled. A project is not going well because the variation of the team velocity is very high and every sprint delivers less than committed. A new project lead with a strong technical background has been assigned to the project.

What should the project lead do?

163. A project manager is leading a hybrid project and is collaborating with the client to develop the project contract.

Some delays have been experienced due to unforeseen technical difficulties and new dependencies. However, the project manager is optimistic about recovering the delays in the upcoming sprints. A key stakeholder asked the project manager if the contract deadlines can be met.

What should the project manager do first?

164. A project manager schedules virtual daily standup meetings for a project, but half of the team members regularly join late or miss the meeting all together.

What should the project manager do?

165. A project manager is leading an automation project. The project team is colocated and includes people from both the technical and business units. The project manager discovers that personal differences and work styles are affecting the project negatively.

How should the project manager address this?

166. A new building project is in the middle of its life cycle. The municipality informs the project manager that due to new regulations, the parking lot around the project has to accommodate twice the number of cars than was initially planned.

What should the project manager do next?

167. A project manager is assigned to a time-bound internal project on quality improvement. During project execution, the project manager observes that a specific team member is being isolated by other team members.

Which three actions should the project manager take? (Choose three)

168. Toward the end of a protect the project manager did not receive approval from a key stakeholder because the necessary deliverables were not functioning as expected.

What should the project manager do next?

169. A project with a hard timeline is starting its first iteration out of six. The project team is lacking the necessary skills to execute.

What should the project manager do?

170. An IT project manager for a project that is 50% complete teams that a critical team member plans to relocate to another country soon. The team member is needed for the remainder of the project.

How should the project manager improve team dynamics?

171. A project manager is working on a time and materials (T&M) project using a hybrid approach. The milestones and outcomes are defined for the first 6 months with incremental releases every month. After the first 2 months, the client communicates their dissatisfaction with the results and asks to change the course of the project. The project manager held a face-to-face meeting with the client and now has a better understanding of the newly desired milestones and outcomes.

What should the project manager do first?

172. Vendor A submitted a bid for US$500,000. There is a 65% probability that the vendor will deliver behind schedule with a cost overrun of US$ 100,000. The vendor will come in ahead of schedule for a savings of US$50,000.

What should the project manager determine as the value of the vendor's bid?

173. A project manager is managing a project aimed at providing incremental deliveries to the market every three months. The team has been assigned, and the product backlog was created and prioritized by the product owner. After four iterations, the product owner escalates complaints to the CEO because the product does not meet the product owner's expectations.

What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation from happening?

174. A project manager has been authorized to begin a project and realizes that an effective high-performing team is needed to finish the project successfully.

What should the project manager do next?

175. A project manager is working on an agile project that is within the scope of a recently announced corporate audit. The project manager was appointed to attend the first meeting with the auditors scheduled for the following week.

What should the project manager do to prepare for the audit?

176. In a product development project, the project manager is constantly receiving complaints from stakeholders about functionalities being delivered, but not required by the business departments. The project sponsor wants to know if the project resources are being used effectively.

What should the project manager have done to avoid delivering work that is not adding value to the business?

177. A new team member has joined a project team. During the first sprint, the new team member approached the project manager and requested to implement a new way of testing. The team has been resistant to the proposed change.

What should the project manager do?

178. A project manager realizes that the team members are new to the hybrid approach and do not value standup meetings. Team members often arrive late. Digress into solutioning. or skip the meetings altogether.

How should the project manager improve this situation with the project team?

179. DRAG DROP

A project manager is working on a complex project and is unsure about planning, executing, monitoring and controlling the project.

Match the phrase on the left with the correct statement on the right.

180. A project manager has just been appointed to a project that has two major deliverables. Both deliverables have the same level of priority and are to be delivered at the same time. The members of the team are complaining about the lack of information regarding which deliverable needs to be finished first.

What should the project manager do?

181. A project stakeholder complained that they did not receive an important delivery that was stated in the schedule. The team member responsible for this deliverable explained that they sent an email to the stakeholder, advising them that the deliverable would not be delivered on time.

What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

182. A project manager is managing a few innovation projects with a high level of uncertainty. The project manager is experiencing challenges with the large number of change requests issued due to the nature of the project.

What should the project manager do?

183. A project manager works for a large global company. The project manager is leading a project where the expected business value is to improve the company's image and reputation. During the project's closing phase, the project manager realizes that there is still a negative perception about the company's brand.

What should the project manager have done to prevent this?

184. A global company is executing a strategic project to upgrade a legacy enterprise system. The company uses a hybrid approach to project management and has just completed the first sprint A team member provided ideas to improve the testing process during the sprint retrospective.

What is the next step for the project manager?

185. A project manager has been asked for performance feedback regarding one of the team members. The project manager would like to gather additional input from the project team because there are no metrics in place for evaluating employee performance.

What should the project manager do next?

186. During project execution, a key team member has to be moved to another critical project for the company. Currently, there is no other team member who can fill that role.

What should the project manager do first?

187. A project manager has noticed that the performance of a new team member has increased dramatically over the past few months. The project manager has been measuring this team member's performance through the cost performance index (CPl) and schedule performance index (SPl) of work packages. The project manager has also assigned new. unrelated work packages to this team member. The project manager wants to formally record the team member's success in the project documentation

What should the project manager do?

188. A project manager is working on a software product that will be installed across all levels of the client's organization. The client's executive sponsor insists that only stakeholders at the highest level of the company will be involved in the planning phase.

What should the project manager do?

189. A functional manager is concerned that the project's quality management techniques have advanced beyond the department's capabilities and wants the project team to review all quality management activities in two full-day workshops the following week.

What should the project manager do next?

190. During a project status meeting with senior managers, the project manager gives an update about the status of a deliverable. Some of the senior managers claim not to Know about the deliverable.

What should the project manager do next?

191. A major national company known for quality products has just selected a small subcontracting firm to assist with a project. The project manager from the subcontracting firm is meeting with the project team to ensure that the project is delivered according to the customer's standards in order to ensure this, what should the project manager define and document?

192. After a project status meeting, the project manager realizes that the project is under budget, quality checks are positive, and the schedule variance is negative.

How should the project manager qualify the project status?

193. A company has decided to investigate the feasibility of a new product. The project manager is in charge of validating the customer requirements.

What should the project manager do to gam customer feedback?

194. A project manager is performing the scrum master role for a project team of developers. At the daily standup, a couple of developers complain about the noise from a neighboring team, the performance of their laptops, and the difficulty in booking meeting rooms.

What should the project manager do?

195. A supplier is hired to provide information security services for a project. The supplier has decided not to provide this service any longer since they have not been paid on time. Their services are critical and this decision will affect the outcome of the project.

What should the project manager do to address this issue?

196. A company is running a project to eliminate a sales channel that has been unprofitable for the past 3 years. A key stakeholder from another area, who has legacy ties to that sales channel, objects to the project.

What should the project manager do in this situation?

197. for a project has reported the potential for a delivery delay due to a technical issue with the sub-supplier. To stay on schedule, the vendor proposed replacing the sub- supplier's component with a similar part that is different from the one that is stipulated in the project specifications.

What should the project manager do next?

198. A project manager has been assigned to a project that is in progress. The project manager is looking for information regarding why the project is being completed.

What should the project manager do first?

199. An engineer working on a project team has tasks that require an additional skill that the engineer does not have a designer on the team is experienced with this skill from previous jobs and is willing to teach this skill even though it is not part of the current work.

What should the project manager do?

200. A team is finishing the third release to present to the stakeholder as part of a demonstration. The company that subcontracts the developers has communicated that there is a cash flow problem and the company will not be able to provide the same resources for the next iterations.

What should the project manager do next?

201. An agile project is running its fifth iteration out of eight After the last iteration planning the team was informed that there is a new competitor in the market and it is necessary to move faster to ensure

market share is not missed.

What should the project manager do?

202. A project team is performing a post-release evaluation of a product that requires detailed feedback from seven stakeholders. Six of the stakeholders have promptly provided feedback. One of them has not provided any feedback despite numerous requests from the team.

What should the project manager do in this situation?

203. A team is currently working on a mobile app solution. During sprint execution, one of the developers requires clarification about the acceptance criteria for a particular task

What should the project manager do to obtain the information required by the developer?

204. A project manager is meeting with the project sponsor regarding a new project.

The project manager tells the sponsor that, as part of the communications management plan, a weekly email will be sent with the status of the project, so the sponsor can be informed of the progress. The sponsor indicates that the email is not necessary because they will ask for a status update whenever it is needed.

What should the project manager do next?

205. A company is changing their current business model. The change requires implementing a complex project using multiple agile teams.

What three options should the project manager have the testing team adopt as testing mechanisms? (Choose three)

206. A project manager has been assigned to a long-term project. The project manager came across a government debate over a new law that may affect the project.

What are the first two actions the project manager should perform? (Choose two)

207. A business analyst on the project meets the customer in the elevator and says that due to constant changes in requirements the development of the product will take more time than expected.

What should the project manager do?

208. In a multinational project, stakeholders are in different time zones. The project manager has regular project update meetings with the stakeholders. However, a group of stakeholders who has never attended project update meetings is complaining to the project sponsor that they know very little about the project.

What should the project manager do?

209. A research and development team is finishing up a two year initiative. The project manager is focused on the closing activities for the project.

Which activity should be considered as a priority?

210. A project is ending its fifth out of six iterations. During the iteration review, a customer adds a new regulatory feature that exceeds the capacity of the remaining iteration.

What should the project lead do?

211. An organization initiated a project in a complex program. The project lead notices that the team is

demotivated because the current project framework implemented by the project management office

(PMO) is not compatible with agile delivery

What should the project lead do?

212. During an ongoing project a key resource asks the project manager about the project purpose and if it is aligned with the organization's strategy.

What should the project manager share with the key resource?

213. A key project team member is out on sick leave in the middle of a critical project iteration. The project sponsor learns that any delay with the end-of-iteration release will displease the business stakeholders. Although all team members are cross-functional, they are also working close to full capacity.

What should the project manager do to address this situation?

214. During a project meeting, the project manager asks risk owners to present issues that may affect the backlog. During their presentation, the project manager realizes that some risk owners did not implement the already agreed-upon risk responses.

What should the project manager do to reduce exposure?

215. 1During execution of a complex project, the project manager encounters numerous change requests from various teams. These changes may result in the project not meeting its objectives.

How should the project manager ensure that these changes are managed effectively?

216. As a project is reaching completion, the project sponsor tells the project manager to immediately close the project and to move on to another project.

Which critical task should the project manager complete before closing the project?

217. During the execution of a project within an operations function the project manager encounters scope changes and a delay in the delivery of critical tasks.

How should the project manager address this situation?

218. The marketing team is moving from predictive to hybrid approaches for their projects. The marketing director is not familiar with hybrid approaches and does not support the new direction.

What should the project manager do?

219. A project manager is working on a project with multiple workstreams. One of the workstreams missed its deadline multiple times.

Who should the project manager speak to about this situation to ensure it does not happen again?

220. HOTSPOT

An agile project manager is evaluating the method that will be used to display the value of the work performed to date.

Which method will they select to display to the project stakeholder?

221. A customer's technical lead discussed a new feature with the project manager. The project manager believes the new feature will boost performance significantly and adds it as a high-priority item in the sprint backlog. At the end of the sprint, all of the planned stories were not completed because the new feature took more time.

What should the project manager do next?

222. A project manager is working with a team that is new to agile. One of the more influential stakeholders struggles with the nature of agile. The project manager knows that this stakeholder is needed as an advocate and wants to do everything possible to make the stakeholder comfortable with the project.

What should the project manager include in the status report to illustrate the project's performance?

A. Results of the MoSCoW assessment

B. Cost-benefit analysis

C. Return on investment (ROI) analysis

D. Earned value analysis (EVA)

223. A customer has provided excellent feedback on the project. However, a key project resource is leaving the company.

Which measure should mitigate the impact of this key resource's departure?

224. The project manager of a high-risk project is concerned about a delay in the schedule that might force the project to ‘move its go-live date.

What should the project manager do next?

225. DRAG DROP

A production team will soon begin their first agile project. No one in the team or management has agile knowledge. The training manager can only fund three enrollments.

Match the team role on the left to the correct training course on the right. (Use all three of the team roles.)

226. Development team members are located in three different time zones It is difficult to find a suitable time to hold the daily standup for all team members.

What should the project manager do?

227. A project team is using one of the visual management tools to identify dependencies. It was identified that domain knowledge from one team needs to be shared with another team to ensure the continuity of deliverables.

What should the project manager do?

228. A team is holding the first demonstration of the software built to date on a medium-sized project. The product owner has uncovered a number of issues they would like to be addressed before providing approval.

How should the project manager approach this problem?

229. During project execution, the project manager discovered that a key deliverable was missing from the scope of work After investigation, the project manager and the team discovered that the missing deliverable will impact the critical path

What should the project manager do to avoid future delays?

230. Organizational downsizing has resulted in the key subject matter expert (SME) resource leaving a multiyear project.

What should the project manager do?

231. A project leader is assigned to a new project and is asked to assemble an effective five-member agile team.

If the project leader has no restrictions, which team should they choose?

232. A new project manager has been assigned to an environmental project. After reviewing the project plan, the project manager notices that health and safety requirements have not been properly addressed. This is a serious concern, and the project manager wants to fix this issue immediately.

Why is this situation problematic?

233. A new regulation has been approved that will impact the deliverables in the fourth phase of the project. The delivery is following an iterative approach and is currently completing the second phase.

What should the project manager do next?

234. A project manager is leading a hybrid project that is building an app for a travel industry startup. Due to unforeseen events, the features and the overall solution will not be useable by many customers due to new travel restrictions.

What should the project manager do first?

235. A project manager is working with a colocated agile project team that has worked together long enough to be in the performing phase of team development. An unforeseen event has caused the team to be dispersed and they are now unable to colocate.

What should the project manager do to keep the team performing as effectively as possible?

236. A senior-level executive approached the project manager of a highly visible project that is currently in the execution phase. The executive indicated that they do not support the project and will be actively trying to prevent its success by reailocating key team members to another critical project.

What should the project manager do?

237. A project manager notices that a project participant seems frustrated and expresses themselves loudly at status meetings and later discovers that the participant is hearing impaired.

Which process should the project manager have used at the start of the protect that would have identified this situation?

238. A project manager just started managing agile projects. The project manager realizes that due to the lack of a clear definition of project objectives and definition of done (DoD) their colleague's projects have had many difficulties Sponsors keep asking for more features and the projects have yet to be completed

What should the project manager do to avoid these issues?

239. A project manager is managing an agile project for the first time. Early on, the project manager discovers the team is struggling to agree on the scope of a feature during a sprint.

How should the project manager help the team resolve the issue?

240. HOTSPOT

An agile team is conducting a sprint retrospective and wants to focus on the practices that allowed them to recover after a bad start Please click on the area of the burndown chart that the team should focus on.

241. A company recently adopted agile to develop innovation projects. The project manager is experiencing problems with some team members who consider some agile ceremonies to be unnecessary.

What should the project manager have done before the beginning of the project?

242. An organization is introducing agile to its projects. During an informal discussion the project manager learned that team members who are currently working on different teams are discussing how they would like to be together on the same team

What should the project manager do?

243. A construction project for a nuclear power plant will reduce the region's energy dependence on external electricity supplies. The project manager has received support for the project from several leaders in the region. However, some people from the government want to stop this project to focus on developing renewable energy sources.

Which stakeholders should the project manager include in the stakeholder engagement plan?

244. A project team is engaging a development team in another country to develop software. During progress reviews, the project manager identified completion date delays due to rework because there were different interpretations of the client's needs.

What should the project manager do?

245. A project manager is working on a large project in another country and realizes that only a few people from the project team are working on all of the releases.

What should the project manager do to prevent this in the future?

246. A project manager for an agile project is concerned that the team has been losing momentum over

the last iterations.

Which two tools should the project manager use to analyze team performance? (Choose two)

247. A project has been running for 2 months and now requires approval for a supplier to begin some execution tasks. The project team has evaluated several suppliers and selected their top two preferred suppliers. The project sponsor requested that another supplier who has lower costs be added to the list. However, the project manager is aware that this supplier does not always fulfill the project requirements.

What should the project manager do?

248. A project manager finds an unexpected issue halfway through a customer's protect After analysis the project team determines that the issue will affect the timeline unless more resources are allocated to the project.

What should the project manager do?

249. How can agile measurements improve upon predictive measurements in cases where the final 10% of a project takes longer than planned?

250. A project manager is newly assigned to the second phase of an ongoing project. During the implementation, a defect occurred and no one knows how to fix it, as the former engineering team has moved to another project. The customer warns that previously, this defect negatively affected the project schedule.

What should the project manager do first?

251. A building management system (BMS) project is in its commissioning phase and handover to the operations team will commence soon. However, the project manager noted that both the project and operation teams are not able to properly operate the BMS. As a result, there is an increased risk of the project schedule being delayed.

What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

252. A project manager is evaluating a project and realizes that its earned value (EV) shows the cost spent is higher than the value delivered. The project manager then discovers that the team has been adding small features that are not part of the requirements.

What should the project manager do?

253. A geographically distributed project team has development issues between the collocated and virtual teams causing productivity to decrease.

What should the project manager do to address this issue?

254. During the course of the project several obstacles are identified that are preventing the project from moving forward.

What should the project manager do to remove the obstacles?

A. Have the project team work on other activities

B. Implement plans to remove the obstacles

C. Escalate to the project steering committee

D. Prioritize the obstacles for resolution

255. A product owner is invited to a sprint review meeting. At the end of the review, the product owner says that the increment is ready to be delivered to the customer.

What conclusion should the project manager come to with regard to the product owner's statement?

256. A project team is implementing an enterprise notification tool with a vendor. The project manager noticed that this vendor's developer has been reporting the same status for several weeks in a row. A few days later, the vendor communicates that the deliverable will not be completed on time due to resource constraints within their company.

What should the project manager do next?

257. A project has recently Kicked off. The project manager observes that thete are different expectations among the project team members. These growing misunderstandings are affecting team productivity.

Which document should the project managefve?

258. A project manager writes to the receiving organization to inform them that all acceptance activities are completed with success and it is time to initiate handover. The receiving manager replies that the team will not be ready for the handover procedure for another two weeks.

What should the project manager do?

259. DRAG DROP

The project manager is having difficulty communicating with one of the team members. The team member recently attended a training course and has been training other team members in a new agile technique However sometimes the team member is forceful in pushing ideas even if other team members are uncomfortable

What personality indicators should the project manager consider when determining what communication style to use with this team member?

260. An agile team has completed five sprints. The final product is expected to be delivered in another three sprints. The project manager receives a call from the technical resource manager that one of the developers must take leave for the next 4 weeks, with no temporary replacement available. This

is going to significantly impact the deliverable.

What should the project manager do?

261. A multimillion-dollar project has started and is in the execution phase. A local regulatory authority has just announced changes to the requirements that will need to be implemented in 6 months, prior to completing the project execution phase.

What should the project manager do next?