5. PMP Mock Exam (LITE) - 1
a. The team limits its estimation to the next few weeks at most.
There is no fixed duration for the estimation span. However, the team limits its estimation to
the next few weeks at most. [Agile Practice Guide, 1st edition, Page 61]
A common misconception is that Agile teams do not estimate work as traditional teams do.
This is incorrect. Which of the following statements is correct regarding estimating in Agile
projects?
a. The team limits its estimation to the next few weeks at most.
b. The team limits its estimation to the next few sprints at most.
c. The team limits its estimation to the next four to six weeks at most.
d. The team limits its estimation to the next three to four weeks at most.
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a. Disciplined Agile
Waterfall is not an Agile framework. Disciplined Agile (DA) is a process decision framework
that integrates several best practices into a comprehensive model. DA was designed to offer
a balance between those popular methods deemed to be either too narrow in focus (e.g.
Scrum) or too prescriptive in detail (e.g. AgileUP). [Agile Practice Guide, 1st edition, Page
114]
For your upcoming project, you are currently looking for a balanced Agile framework that is
neither too narrow in focus nor too prescriptive in detail. You are ideally looking for a process
decision framework that integrates several Agile best practices into a comprehensive model.
Which of the following Agile frameworks is recommended in this case?
a. Disciplined Agile
b. Scrum
c. Waterfall
d. AgileUP
b. Lean Software Development (LSD)
Lean Software Development (LSD) is an adaption of Toyota Product System (TPS)
principles and practices to the software development domain and is based on a set of
principles and practices for achieving quality, speed, and customer alignment. [Agile Practice
Guide, 1st edition, Page 152]
Which of the following Agile methods provides a product development framework that is an
adaption of Toyota Product System (TPS) principles and practices to the software
,development domain and is based on a set of principles and practices for achieving quality,
speed, and customer alignment?
a. Toyota Software Development (TSD)
b. Lean Software Development (LSD)
c. TPS Enabled Software Lifecycle (TSL)
d. Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)
a. Initiate the formal change control process.
Change requests do come. They are never ignored; they are managed through the
integrated change control process. This does not require terminating the contract.
Implementing the new requirement without following the change control process is not
advisable. [PMBOK® Guide 6th edition, Page 113]
Mark is managing a telecom network deployment project. The buyer of the telecom network
is an external entity. Recently, the customer requested that all future project updates be
posted to their information system automatically. In order to implement this, the project team
needs to customize their project management information system so it can be integrated
with the customer's information system. This is a new customer requirement that was not a
part of the original project's scope. What should the project manager do?
a. Initiate the formal change control process.
b. Ask the project team to customize the project management information system.
c. Request that the customer terminate the current contract and award a new contract.
d. Ignore the request; this is outside the project's scope.
b. Wait for the formal approval of the new budget
Acknowledgement of a message does not necessarily mean agreement with or
comprehension of the message. Ben should wait for a formal approval of the budget before
taking any action. [PMBOK® Guide 6th edition, Page 113]
Ben is the project manager for a mobile application development project. Due to a recent
technological development, a significant change in the product design is required. This
change would require a 25 percent increase in the project budget. Ben prepares a detailed
report and emails it to the project sponsor, and the sponsor acknowledges the receipt of the
report. What should Ben do next?
a. Update the project schedule
b. Wait for the formal approval of the new budget
c. Update the project budget
d. Update the cost management plan
c. Determining the definition of done for stories.
, Since the team is analyzing and documenting the conditions of satisfaction, they are
determining the definition of done for the stories in the iteration. [Agile Practice Guide, 1st
edition, Page 151]
An Agile team is discussing each user story in the iteration backlog and documenting the
conditions of satisfactions for each story. These conditions are then written on the back of
the story cards. What is the team doing?
a. Estimating the stories.
b. Testing the user stories.
c. Determining the definition of done for stories.
d. Playing planning poker.
b. Grade relates to the customer requirements.
The grade of a product relates to the technical characteristics of the product. [PMBOK®
Guide 6th edition, Page 274]
You are managing a project that is required to deliver personal protective equipment (PPE)
to a manufacturing facility. Due to the nature of the manufacturing process, all the deliveries
have to be in accordance to strict specifications defined in the contract. As a project
manager, you are responsible for determining and delivering the required levels of both
grade and quality. Select which of the following statements you disagree with.
a. Grade relates to the product's characteristics.
b. Grade relates to the customer requirements.
c. Quality relates to the customer requirements.
d. Quality and grade of a product must be carefully managed.
c. Customers
Only internal stakeholders can provide expert judgment on effective management strategies
for internal stakeholders. Project customers are important stakeholders but usually they lack
the knowledge on internal stakeholders, and hence cannot provide accurate feedback.
[PMBOK® Guide 6th edition, Page 550]
During the development of the project stakeholder engagement plan, the project manager is
usually dependent on the expert judgment of senior stakeholders to identify and plan
effective stakeholder management strategies. Which of the following stakeholders cannot
guide the project manager in developing effective strategies for internal stakeholders?
a. Sponsor
b. Identified key stakeholders
c. Customers
d. Project team members
d. 45 story points.
a. The team limits its estimation to the next few weeks at most.
There is no fixed duration for the estimation span. However, the team limits its estimation to
the next few weeks at most. [Agile Practice Guide, 1st edition, Page 61]
A common misconception is that Agile teams do not estimate work as traditional teams do.
This is incorrect. Which of the following statements is correct regarding estimating in Agile
projects?
a. The team limits its estimation to the next few weeks at most.
b. The team limits its estimation to the next few sprints at most.
c. The team limits its estimation to the next four to six weeks at most.
d. The team limits its estimation to the next three to four weeks at most.
Brainpower
Read More
a. Disciplined Agile
Waterfall is not an Agile framework. Disciplined Agile (DA) is a process decision framework
that integrates several best practices into a comprehensive model. DA was designed to offer
a balance between those popular methods deemed to be either too narrow in focus (e.g.
Scrum) or too prescriptive in detail (e.g. AgileUP). [Agile Practice Guide, 1st edition, Page
114]
For your upcoming project, you are currently looking for a balanced Agile framework that is
neither too narrow in focus nor too prescriptive in detail. You are ideally looking for a process
decision framework that integrates several Agile best practices into a comprehensive model.
Which of the following Agile frameworks is recommended in this case?
a. Disciplined Agile
b. Scrum
c. Waterfall
d. AgileUP
b. Lean Software Development (LSD)
Lean Software Development (LSD) is an adaption of Toyota Product System (TPS)
principles and practices to the software development domain and is based on a set of
principles and practices for achieving quality, speed, and customer alignment. [Agile Practice
Guide, 1st edition, Page 152]
Which of the following Agile methods provides a product development framework that is an
adaption of Toyota Product System (TPS) principles and practices to the software
,development domain and is based on a set of principles and practices for achieving quality,
speed, and customer alignment?
a. Toyota Software Development (TSD)
b. Lean Software Development (LSD)
c. TPS Enabled Software Lifecycle (TSL)
d. Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)
a. Initiate the formal change control process.
Change requests do come. They are never ignored; they are managed through the
integrated change control process. This does not require terminating the contract.
Implementing the new requirement without following the change control process is not
advisable. [PMBOK® Guide 6th edition, Page 113]
Mark is managing a telecom network deployment project. The buyer of the telecom network
is an external entity. Recently, the customer requested that all future project updates be
posted to their information system automatically. In order to implement this, the project team
needs to customize their project management information system so it can be integrated
with the customer's information system. This is a new customer requirement that was not a
part of the original project's scope. What should the project manager do?
a. Initiate the formal change control process.
b. Ask the project team to customize the project management information system.
c. Request that the customer terminate the current contract and award a new contract.
d. Ignore the request; this is outside the project's scope.
b. Wait for the formal approval of the new budget
Acknowledgement of a message does not necessarily mean agreement with or
comprehension of the message. Ben should wait for a formal approval of the budget before
taking any action. [PMBOK® Guide 6th edition, Page 113]
Ben is the project manager for a mobile application development project. Due to a recent
technological development, a significant change in the product design is required. This
change would require a 25 percent increase in the project budget. Ben prepares a detailed
report and emails it to the project sponsor, and the sponsor acknowledges the receipt of the
report. What should Ben do next?
a. Update the project schedule
b. Wait for the formal approval of the new budget
c. Update the project budget
d. Update the cost management plan
c. Determining the definition of done for stories.
, Since the team is analyzing and documenting the conditions of satisfaction, they are
determining the definition of done for the stories in the iteration. [Agile Practice Guide, 1st
edition, Page 151]
An Agile team is discussing each user story in the iteration backlog and documenting the
conditions of satisfactions for each story. These conditions are then written on the back of
the story cards. What is the team doing?
a. Estimating the stories.
b. Testing the user stories.
c. Determining the definition of done for stories.
d. Playing planning poker.
b. Grade relates to the customer requirements.
The grade of a product relates to the technical characteristics of the product. [PMBOK®
Guide 6th edition, Page 274]
You are managing a project that is required to deliver personal protective equipment (PPE)
to a manufacturing facility. Due to the nature of the manufacturing process, all the deliveries
have to be in accordance to strict specifications defined in the contract. As a project
manager, you are responsible for determining and delivering the required levels of both
grade and quality. Select which of the following statements you disagree with.
a. Grade relates to the product's characteristics.
b. Grade relates to the customer requirements.
c. Quality relates to the customer requirements.
d. Quality and grade of a product must be carefully managed.
c. Customers
Only internal stakeholders can provide expert judgment on effective management strategies
for internal stakeholders. Project customers are important stakeholders but usually they lack
the knowledge on internal stakeholders, and hence cannot provide accurate feedback.
[PMBOK® Guide 6th edition, Page 550]
During the development of the project stakeholder engagement plan, the project manager is
usually dependent on the expert judgment of senior stakeholders to identify and plan
effective stakeholder management strategies. Which of the following stakeholders cannot
guide the project manager in developing effective strategies for internal stakeholders?
a. Sponsor
b. Identified key stakeholders
c. Customers
d. Project team members
d. 45 story points.
