PMP (Schedule Management) Questions

You are leading a project to renovate a sports stadium. The project has a hard deadline as the work must be completed before the start of the games season. Upon developing and optimizing the schedule, the total float for the project is negative. The project sponsor is adamant that the project must be completed on time at any cost As you try to find the solution, you realize that none of the activities can be overlapped. What is your best course of action?

Midway into project execution, you have been asked to shorten your project duration by three weeks to meet a new deadline but deliver all originally planned functionality. Additional resources are available, and the cost is not as great a concern as schedule. What should you do?

An agile team wants to apply a tool to visually analyze their work in progress for each step in a process in order to determine where bottlenecks exist in the overall process. What tool would help them the most?

A project manager is monitoring the status of the project schedule for a product development project. The project deliverables are being produced in an iterative fashion, and the project has just completed seven of twelve planned sprints The project manager has gathered the following information:

 • 17 story points were completed and accepted in the seventh sprint • 20 story points were planned for sprint #7

• One feature worth 3 story points was completed but rejected and placed back in the product backlog

• The value of the features developed to date is $172,000

• Actual costs to date are $167,000

• The BAG for the project is $300,000

• The project backlog contains 250 story points

• The project team has successfully completed 137 story points to date Which of the following accurately describes the schedule performance of the project for the seventh iteration?

Understanding the various metrics that are generated during an agile project allows agile practitioners to more accurately gauge the scope, time, and resources needed to complete a project and deliver incremental value with each iteration. For the purposes of gauging the number of iterations needed to complete a project, a correct understanding of throughput is essential. Which of the following statements describes what is meant by throughput in agile terms?

A project to build a software application is being managed using a lean framework for software development An agile practitioner creates a value stream map to analyze the process and see how to reduce the time between when a user story is submitted to the team as a requirement from the customer and when it is deployed at the customer production environment as a product increment and starts delivering value. Which of the following is the agile practitioner trying to minimize or reduce?

A project team has just completed estimates for both the activity durations and the activity resources for the project you are managing. Tomorrow morning, you need to present a preliminary schedule to the key stakeholders. What is your best course of action?

Looking at your network diagram, resource calendars, and the risk register, you learn that one of your key resources on one non-critical path is scheduled to undergo minor surgery and will be out for seven days. Another key resource has a planned vacation for five days, and another is presenting at a conference for three days, and their assigned activities affect the critical path. To proactively protect your milestones, what can you add to your project schedule using the critical chain method?

A project is underway to construct a wind farm in an area with no communication infrastructure. The plan is to monitor progress and coordinate the scheduling of the project activities using project management software and provide daily status updates to the project sponsor at the home office. Two project teams will work and reside onsite in rotating seven-day tours. Which of the following is the most likely challenge the teams will face while controlling the schedule?

During the first iteration planning meeting, an agile team struggled to provide an accurate estimation of their velocity. Someone quoted a well-known British economist, John Maynard Keynes, by saying: "It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong." Which of the following best describes the meaning and intent of this statement?

You are advising a project manager who is new to your company and has just been assigned to manage a project The sponsor on his project is very demanding and is asking to see a project schedule developed as soon as possible. The project manager would like to meet the sponsor's request and produce a project schedule as quickly as possible but without jeopardizing work quality. Which of the following represent the best advice for the project manager in this case?

The project is supposed to roll out a new service to thousands of existing users. The project team wants to consider and prepare for various possibilities and situations that may occur during rollout. What technique can the project manager facilitate to help the team with their preparations?

A project manager had originally planned to use two industrial 3D printers simultaneously for a project but has just learned that one of them will be unavailable. The project manager adjusts the schedule so that the components are created sequentially using one printer Unfortunately, this action affects the critical path and delays the planned finish date of the project. What tool or technique has the project manager used in this situation?

As the project manager, you are analyzing the project schedule and discover that the project is behind schedule due to shipment delays and inclement weather. You want to bring current project performance into alignment with the original planned schedule. What is your best course of action?

Midway into project execution, new cybersecurity laws take an immediate effect and require audits of the system The project has a well thought out project management plan. The audits may come at any time throughout the system's development What is the best way for the project manager and team to address the risk of audits disrupting the project plans?