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PMI PgMP - Program Management Professional (PgMP)

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Total 452 questions

Based on its board's mandate, an organization drafts a new business strategy to meet future challenges, put the business on track, and meet growth expectations. Key to this are upgrading the IT infrastructure and strategic direction to transition the computing platform from onsite to cloud-based, thereby optimizing costs, and providing scalability, performance and high availability.

How should the program manager use the program mission statement to engage program stakeholders?

A.

Publish the program mission statement and interact with operational managers and stakeholders to ensure that programs receive appropriate operational support.

B.

Review, capture and document the organization's current state, its new strategic direction, and how the program will support its mission

C.

Incorporate the names of key stakeholders and their respective influence, power, and authority into the program mission statement.

D.

Update the program mission statement to address strategic business goals, and the influence of stakeholders' interests, concerns, and expectations.

You are the program manager for your organization and management has asked you to be certain to finalize the lessons learned documentation for your program. When will the lessons learned documentation be created?

A.

Lessons learned are in program execution.

B.

Lessons learned are created at each program deliverable.

C.

Lessons learned are created during the program closure.

D.

Lessons learned are created during the program archive.

Which of the following terms is used for a schedule compression technique where two activities that were previously scheduled to start sequentially start at the same time?

A.

Fast tracking

B.

Compressing

C.

Float

D.

Crashing

During the last steering committee meeting, a program manager presented the benefits register to the program governance board. Since the intended benefits of the program were realized, the program manager was asked to transition the program into operations.

At this stage, what is expected during the post-review session organized by the program manager?

A.

Earned value (EV) report

B.

Customer sign-off

C.

Benefits register updates

D.

Feedback and lessons learned

The program manager plans to address a negative cost variance generating a red flag in the program management status report.

What should the program manager do?

A.

Contact the project sponsors to present the details, impacts, and possible corrective actions regarding the negative cost variance.

B.

Gather all the details, analyze impacts, determine corrective actions and present the findings to the governance board for direction.

C.

Work with program sponsor to compile impact analysis data to obtain additional funding for the program.

D.

Ask the program team to compile all details, analyze impacts, determine corrective actions and present to the governance board for direction.

A company hires a program manager to create a healthcare management system. After five months, the program manager identifies an opportunity to integrate an online medical solution, which could provide additional value to the stakeholders. The program sponsor approves the change in scope.

The program manager should ensure that the results obtained by this opportunity are working in tandem with which of the following?

A.

Critical success factors

B.

Key performance indicators

C.

Benefits management plan

D.

Stakeholder engagement plan

You are the program manager of the BHG Program. One of the projects in your program will be using new materials that are somewhat untested. You are worried that there may be delays and waste because the project team is unaware of how to accurately use these materials. You elect to send the people that will be using the new materials through training on how to complete their project work. You also allow them to purchase some of the materials to experiment on their use before the actual project work is to be done. You want to ensure that mistakes do not enter into the project. What type of action have you provided in this scenario?

A.

This is an example of a preventive action.

B.

This is an example of team development.

C.

This is an example of quality assurance.

D.

This is an example of a corrective action.

Holly is the program manager for her program. She is creating with her team a plan that will address how the program team will achieve program goals based on who the program will need to interact with in the program. This plan should define all of the people, groups, and other entities the program needs to interact with in order to move the program forward. On what plan is Holly working?

A.

Stakeholder management plan

B.

Communications management plan

C.

Human resource management plan

D.

Interface management plan

To create market advantage, a program sponsor requests accelerating the implementation of a new manufacturing process that is based on a recently improved system component. The program manager is concerned that the delivery of some program goals could be jeopardized.

What should the program manager do?

A.

Document the concerns that program goals may be affected and present at the next program governance board review meeting for guidance and actions to be taken

B.

Advise the program sponsor that the program will continue and follow the program management plan, unless the change control board (CCB) has approved changes to the plan

C.

Work with the project managers of the affected components to implement fast tracking and update the resource management plan accordingly

D.

Evaluate critical success factors and key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor benefits throughout the program's life cycle

You are the program manager of the YHT Program. You have been working with a vendor in the program but have decided that the contract between your program and the vendor needs to be terminated. What two things must be documented if you wish to terminate a vendor's contract?

A.

Contract and the quality measurements for the vendor's work

B.

The scope verification document and the termination notice

C.

Contract and scope verification process documents

D.

Work that has been completed and uncompleted work