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QUESTION: 16

A Scrum team is analyzing the burndown chart on day four of a 15-day sprint. The burndown chart is shown below.
What should the team do next?

Ask the product owner if some low-priority stories could be cut from the sprint
Continue with the sprint as the progress shows buffers for potential interruptions
Ask the project team to select any additional stories as they have additional capacity than planned
Continue with the sprint work as planned and keep monitoring

Answer(s): D

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A project manager is closing a project and preparing to hand it over to the operations team. During handover, a delayed invoice was submitted with a higher-than- planned cost against the project work. Consequently, project handover was delayed and the project's reported completion costs were increased.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

Notified all vendors about the invoicing and nonpayment deadlines
Reviewed the total committed cost against the cost invoiced at project closing
Involved the finance team and discussed the issue with the vendor
Captured and reviewed all of the project work and related costs regularly

Answer(s): D

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QUESTION: 18

A project manager is assigned to a critical software development project. The team is using a hybrid approach and has divided development into four sprints. At the end of sprint three, the project manager discovers that the earned value (EV) is US$500,000 and the planned value (PV) is US$550,000.
What should the project manager do?

Fast track the project
Adjust the budget
Introduce a float
Adjust the project time line

Answer(s): A

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QUESTION: 19

A project manager is working with a co-located agile project team that has worked together long enough to be in the performing phase of team development. An unforeseen event has caused the team to be dispersed and they are now unable to co-locate.
What should the project manager do to keep the team performing as effectively as possible?

Ask the project sponsor and executive stakeholders to encourage the team to maintain their performance
Provide the team with virtual collaboration software and training on the software to minimize disruption
Transition the team from an agile approach to a predictive approach for better performance control
Evaluate project performance and step in if performance decreases to an unacceptable level

Answer(s): D

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