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You are the program manager for your organization. Management has assigned you to a new program that has been chartered. Your team is in the process of the Manage Program Issues process. One of the two outputs of this process is change requests. Which one of the following is the other one?
You are the program manager of the HNG Program. This program has a budget at completion of $2,345,900 and is expected to last two years. The program is currently 30 percent complete and you have spent
$789,000. The program is supposed to be 35 percent complete but do to some delays you're slightly behind schedule. Based on this information, how many pennies is the program losing per dollar invested in the program work?
What component of the change management system is responsible for evaluating, testing, and documenting changes created to the project scope?
A program manager learns that their company’s organizational strategy has changed. This change impacts one component project of a program, misaligning it with both the program objectives and the new organizational strategy. This component project, however, is already 90 percent complete.
What should the program manager do next?
You are program manager for the HYH Program. Your program governance is requiring you to use earned value management to predict how closely your program is tracking to the cost and schedule baselines and to predict overall program performance. Which earned value management formula can you use to predict how much more will need to be invested in the program based on current program performance?
A program is developing a next-generation product line, and one component has been delivered. However, due to a change request, expectations for another component are unmet.
What activity should the program manager perform next?
A program management team is invited to a company’s annual strategy planning session. The CEO discusses the mission and vision of the organization, and how the strategic plan will create opportunities to fulfill them.
How can the program manager use the company’s vision to establish a program?
The project manager of project A develops a communications management plan. The project manager of project B is new and is uncertain how to develop appropriate communications for the company's staff.
What should the program manager do to ensure communications on the component projects are consistent?
You are the program manager for your organization. Your program is about to being initiated and management is asking you for a document that will define all of the required resources, skills, and competencies you'll need in your program. What document defines the skills and competencies for a program?
While setting up a program’s infrastructure and plan, a program management team develops documents and processes that provide commonality and consistency throughout the program’s components.
What should the team also prepare, if not already provided by the organization’s assets?
You are the program manager for your organization. Management has asked that you determine when resources, such as leased equipment, are no longer needed so that you may release the resources to save time, money, and utilization of resources within your program. What program management process is management asking you to perform?
A program governance board mandates that phase gate reviews must be held so each component project can be reviewed and individually authorized to proceed to the next phase. Tracking and reporting of actual benefits realized is one part of the review.
What is the other part of the review?
In a program's definition phase, a program manager in country A is assigned to expand a restaurant chain into country B. The program manager creates the program team by identifying the required project management resources.
Which of the following represents an initial step needed to evaluate available resources that are aligned with the program's needs?
During the selection of source process, you assign certain points towards various categories to judge the vendors. Which type of source selection process is it?
You are the program manager for your organization. You have proposed a program that will cost $750,000
and will last for four years. Management is concerned with the cost of the program in relation to the return your
program will bring. If the rate of return is six percent what is the minimum value your project should return in four years based on the investment of the program?
A program will generate revenue for several years after it ends. The program manager and the operations manager, who are accountable for managing the benefits after program closure, are in disagreement. The operations manager is concerned that information necessary for managing the processes and benefits after program closure will be unavailable. The program manager expresses that managing the benefits after program closure is not within the scope and must be managed through the scope management plan.
What should the program sponsor do?
If a program has a budget of completion of $550,000, is 25 percent complete, and has spent $135,000 what is the cost variance (CV)?
Which one of the following is not an output of the direct and manage program execution process?
You are the project manager for your organization. Your project team has finished the second phase of a seven-phase project. At the end of each phase, management must review the work your project team has completed and determine if the project should be allowed to continue. What name describes this type of end- of-phase review management is completing on your project?
In a transformational program, all projects are on track and delivering their objectives. However, stakeholders are hesitant to take on the new processes because performance in the current environment may not be representative of actual performance. Stakeholders fear that the program will fail to provide the service required.
To assure positive performance in the current environment, the program manager should do which of the following?
Tom is the program manager for his organization. He has to balance the resources he'll be using in the program with the demand for operations to use the same resources. What program document can Tom reference to determine the availability of certain program resources, such as application developers, engineers, and technical writers?
An initiative involves the development of new technology and leverages existing technologies. It is determined critical by the program governance board and the program sponsor that a comprehensive risk management plan be put in place.
In what phase is the risk management plan created?
A large automaker begins a program to create the next-generation car. As the program team is composed, key stakeholders are identified.
Key stakeholders for the program should include which of the following?
A component project manager escalates an issue regarding a key stakeholder to the program manager. The key stakeholder does not respond to emails or phone calls, and the project manager believes this key stakeholder is exhibiting a negative attitude toward the work. The key stakeholder has a significant influence over the component project, which could impact other components if delays occur. The program manager’s attempts to reach the stakeholder via email also fail.
What should the program manager do next?
A company initiates a program to reorganize its sales and production departments. Three production departments are located at the three production plants next to the company’s headquarters. Five regional sales departments are located at different locations around the world.
At this stage of the program, what is the first step?
As a program manager you must also understand the project management lifecycle and the project lifecycle. What is the difference between the two?
Tom is program manager for his organization. His program is scheduled to last ten months and has a cost estimate for the program of $550,000. It is now month nine and Tom reports that he actually has a cost variance of a positive $56,000. While Tom is pleased, the new management is not. Why is a positive cost variance not necessarily good news?
A program manager is concerned because several change requests in a component project are causing delays to the program's work package milestones. There are insufficient skilled resources within the component project to complete both the change requests and the milestone tasks.
What should the program manager do next to address this risk?
Which of the following shows the ratio between a task's budgeted and actual costs?
A regional finance program is impacted by a new currency regulation issued by a country in the region. The new regulation requires changes to the financial statements of that country’s branches by the end of the fiscal year. Failing to comply with the regulation may result in fines and/or closure of the branches. A branch general manager immediately meets with the program manager to select and secure a local fiscal expert to support
the regulation, as these types of resources are in high demand. There is a high risk that the changes will not be completed on time if the resource is not secured.
What should the program manager do to address the risk?
You are the program manager for your organization and you are dealing with your program stakeholders. You are explaining to them, along with your program team, how certain activities in the program may cause delays in the schedule if the associated risk events come into play. The cost of impact of the risk events are minimal, but the schedule impacts could be bigger. The stakeholders are concerned about delaying the schedule
beyond a given due date for the program. They would like you to determine if it is possible to add more labor, use a higher grade of material, or hire some consultants to ensure the risks do not occur in the program. They are not much concerned about the cost of the solution as long as the solution or identified risks do not delay the program completion. What type of risk response are your program stakeholders recommending in this situation?
A program is in its last year of execution. The program manager will receive a performance bonus if executive leadership and the program steering committee determine that the program is a success.
How can the program manager justify receiving a performance bonus upon program closure?
A program receives initial approval from the selection committee to proceed with the program development. What should the program manager do next?
You are the program manager of the GHY Program in your organization. It has come to your attention that some of the project managers in your program are adding time to each project activity in an effort to pad their durations in case some event happens in their project that will cause delays. What principle should you share with these project managers that counterattack the concept of padding activities with additional time?
A project is assigned to a qualified project manager by the program manager. The client rejects the project manager due to a lack of proper qualifications to manage such a project.
What should the program manager do next?
You work as a program manager for a large construction program. Your program includes constructing hotels across the country. You collect information on the status of the program. During comparison with the original plan you find the 200 hotels have been completed as against 275 hotels planned as of today. In which program process are you working on?
Program manager B leaves the program and program manager A takes over the program responsibilities. Program manager A wants to ensure that all expected benefits of the program are realized.
What is used to assess the program cost/benefit justification?
A program manager notices that one project manager tends to withdraw during important team discussions to avoid conflict.
What technique could the program manager use to gain more input from this project manager?
A large international manufacturing company is centralizing its IT which is currently spread over 16 countries. The transition means physically regrouping the infrastructure and aligning processes and organizations. The high-level scope of this transformation encompasses three main areas:
1.The technology area--assessing which technology/tooling should be retained for the target data center.
2.The policies and procedure area--aimed at establishing a common set of processes supporting the new way of delivering services.
3.The HR area--assuring the new organization best fits the diversity of the countries and functional domains, while offering equivalent compensations for comparable functions.
You have selected your team and you are preparing the business case to support 1) the team selections you made and 2) your recommendation to proceed to the program's next phase.
Which document should be present in your business case?
You are the project manager of a construction project. You have to close a phase of the project. Which is the only technique (or tool) available in the Close Project or Phase process?
You are a program manager for an environmental program. The program involves installation of windmill across the country. During execution of the project, a stakeholder raises a change request to add an additional module with the existing installation. The program governance board has approved the change request. Which of the following is true regarding this scenario?
A program manager is concerned that a program will be unable to achieve its intended benefits.
How should the program manager handle this concern?
In your program you must adhere to Six Sigma as part of your organization's enterprise environmental factors. There is terminology, reports, and measurements that you are expected to use as part of your program. Six Sigma is an example of what program management process?
A country is in the process of strengthening its defense program. A key project is not meeting its specified performance objectives. The project manager initiates a change request to address this issue.
What should the program manager do NEXT?
The program manager has a global program with five component projects. The program sponsor wants the management plans, processes/procedures, and technology to be uniform across the program. The requirements will create issues and result in increased costs The program sponsor is new and has imposed these new requirements six months into a three-year program.
What should the program manager do next?
Gary is the program manager for his organization. His current program has 432 stakeholders, some of which are external to his organization. He would like to create a chart that identifies each stakeholder's opinion of the program, influence over program decisions, their requirements and affect on program priorities, and other information. What kind of chart should Gary create in this instance?
Over the life of your program you've received many change request forms. Some of the change requests have been approved and some have been declined. Where should you record all change requests and their status?
An organization requests that a junior project manager, with no previous experience or training in the industry, take over a complex program component. The program component involves senior subject matter experts and has dependencies with other large projects to deliver key benefits to the organization.
How should the junior project manager respond to this request?
Which of the following statements are true regarding the Monitoring and Controlling Program Risks process? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A program completes all component projects and all identified benefits are being delivered. However, the program sponsor is concerned that long-term benefits may not meet organizational performance parameters.
To ensure the realization of long-term benefits, what should the program manager use?
A large infrastructure development program involves three road construction projects, two sewage line construction projects, and one project to lay underground electric cables. During a program meeting, the project manager of a road construction project communicates that a project risk related to the interdependency with a sewage line project has crossed its risk threshold.
What should the program manager do next?
Which one of the following is NOT a component of the risk monitoring and controlling process?
Don is the project manager of the NQP Project for his organization. This project is scheduled to last for 18 months and will have several elements of the project that have government regulations. Management is concerned with the regulations and would like Don to report on the activities that will be affected by the regulations. What document should Don reference for information on the activities and the regulations?
You are hosting a meeting with all of the vendors that have received a copy of your statement of work. In this meeting, you'll be discussing the statement of work, clarifying the details, and answering any QUESTION NO:s the vendors may have about the project. What is this meeting called?
A critical program for a company fails to delivers its intended benefits. The CEO and program sponsor are both held accountable and, ultimately, their employment is terminated by the board of directors.
What should the program manager do before formally closing the program?
You are the program manager for your program and are creating a communications management plan. Management wants you to address the type of communications based on the number of communication channels you'll have within the program. Currently there are 345 stakeholders in your program but next week you'll have 387 stakeholders. How many more communication channels will you have next week in your program?
You are the program manager for the HQM Program. Your program has sixteen constituent projects around the world. You are requiring that each project manager and project management team use the same forms, software, and templates to create standardization in each project. What term is assigned to the forms, templates, and software that your program will provide for your projects?
A program manager initiates a developmental program. Significant resources and funding are required for early activities until the program cost and budget estimates are complete.
What should the program manager do to understand the financial environment?
What analysis type could you use in a program to compare the positive stakeholders and their position, power, and influence over your program to the same variable components of the negative stakeholders in your program?
You are the program manager of the JNH Program. Tom, a project manager in your program, has just completed his project and is ready to officially close his project. You agree that Tom's project is completed. What role do you play in Tom's project closure?
Which of the following documents contain a list of all problems, unfavorable events, or situations that occurred so far in the program?
Which benefit measurement method considers the value of each time period's return for a project that will create deliverables over multiple time periods?
You are the program manager for the HGQ Program in your organization. Your program has eight constituent projects including a small project which you've assigned to Beth a new project manager in your organization. Part of your assignment is to coach Beth on project management in your program. You are telling Beth about the five process groups of project management and how they map to the progression of the project. Which process group would you tell Beth is where she'll likely spend the bulk of the project time and the project budget?
TESTED 21 Dec 2024
