PMI PgMP Program Management Professional (PgMP) Online Training
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The questions for PgMP were last updated at May 16,2024.
- Exam Code: PgMP
- Exam Name: Program Management Professional (PgMP)
- Certification Provider: PMI
- Latest update: May 16,2024
In preparation for the development and submission of the program master schedule to a client, the program manager meets with the component project manager and master program scheduler to discuss the work breakdown structure (WBS).
During the meeting, the master scheduler indicates that the master program schedule should include which of the following?
- A . Program benefits and all component project activities
- B . Component resources and their activity assignment/responsibility metrics
- C . Program-level activities and integrated component projects
- D . Program activities, component activities, and all other work
A new program is comprised of four component projects . The program manager must assign project managers to each of the four projects. There are eight potential project managers to consider.
What should the program manager do before assigning the project managers?
- A . Determine budgetary constraints related to the project managers’ salaries
- B . Request performance feedback from the project managers’ line managers
- C . Evaluate the project managers’ skills and match them to the needs of the projects
- D . Interview each project manager to determine their career aspirations
Marty is the project manager of the recently completed NHK Project . The project was deemed successful by the project customer and they have signed the formal acceptance documentation. Marty has written the final project report, released the project team, and completed the lessons learned documentation.
What else should Marty do in the closure of the NHK Project?
- A . Summarize the project variance.
- B . Archive the project records.
- C . Summarize the project risks costs.
- D . Close the project office.
Throughout a multiyear program, component projects are transitioned to the customer. During the project acceptance phase, a potential risk is identified and brought to the program team’s attention.
What should be done with the identified potential risk?
- A . Incorporate it into the risk register and perform a thorough analysis.
- B . Mitigate the risk before it is incorporated into the risk management plan.
- C . Document the risk in the program transition plan and identify it as a potential issue.
- D . Document it in the issue log and immediately notify the steering committee.
A project manager in your program has estimated the cost of a program to be $145,000. As the project manager’s project comes close to completion, the project manager realizes that he has still $27,876 left in his project budget. He decides to add some additional features to the project’s deliverables in an effort to use the remaining budget. These additions will add value to the project and the project customer is likely to enjoy these new features.
This is an example of what term?
- A . Gold plating
- B . Errors and omissions
- C . Expert judgment by the project manager
- D . Value added change
A program is near completion and the benefits will be delivered shortly . The program manager prepares to initiate program closeout activities to release the program resources.
Before initiating closeout and releasing the resources, what should the program manager do?
- A . Review the benefits management plan with the program sponsor
- B . Obtain approval from the sponsor to close the program
- C . Prepare performance evaluations for all program personnel
- D . Prepare performance evaluations for all project personnel
Your program creates a byproduct that you could sell to a client . The cost of the byproduct would offset the cost of the program by nearly $7,500 per month.
This is an example of which positive risk response?
- A . Sharing
- B . Enhance
- C . Exploiting
- D . Accepting
Alice is the project manager of the NHQ Project and is entering the project’s closing processes . The project, she has managed, has been for another organization in a contractual relationship. Her organization requires Alice to complete performance reviews of the project team, review the deliverables with the project customer, and to obtain formal signoff of the project deliverables. There may be other conditions and activities that Alice
likely will need to do in this final project phase. Where can Alice check regarding this project?
- A . Project Integration Plan
- B . Project Contract
- C . Project Quality Control procedures
- D . Project Communications Management Plan
A rapidly expanding IT company wants to mature its delivery methodology. It creates a benefits management plan that identifies formal program management governance as a key area that would add value.
What benefits would structuring work into programs bring to this organization?
- A . Delivery of initiatives and objectives through the alignment of portfolios
- B . Bundling of components or work to gain efficiencies unachievable if managed separately
- C . Increasing efficiencies by adhering to defined constraints to achieve specific activities
- D . Coordination of portfolio and project work by linking principles and practices
A multi-year complex program will deliver advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) components for autonomous vehicles. Several key stakeholders are concerned because they have not been regularly involved with the program and do not understand the program’s benefits.
What should the program manager do to address these key stakeholders’ concerns?
- A . Meet with the stakeholders and update the stakeholder map.
- B . Create a progress report to share with stakeholders after the next status meeting.
- C . Capture stakeholder expectations, and revise the stakeholder engagement plan.
- D . Update the communications management plan after meeting with the program steering
committee.