PMI PMP Practice Test 15
Question 140
A predictive-maintenance rollout has a signed contract excluding customer-facing outage notifications. The sponsor now wants the platform to send personalized outage alerts to customers before the current release. Implementation staff are ready to add the feature, but neither privacy impact nor the additional operating cost has been assessed. The baseline's change authority, rather than the project manager, approves added services. What should the project manager do before directing development?
- Evaluate the additional notification service's privacy, cost, support and schedule impacts and submit it for formal change authorization
- Ask the developers to add the alerts as a minor enhancement because they already work on maintenance data
- Reinterpret the signed exclusions informally so that customer alerts count as existing monitoring work
- Begin designing customer-alert screens and seek approval after the deployment date
Explanation
Correct Answer
A:The requested customer notification capability is explicitly outside the authorized boundary. Assessment and a decision by the delegated change authority must precede commitment.
Incorrect Answers
B:Technical familiarity does not waive contractual exclusions or obligations for identifiable customer information.
C:The exclusion is already agreed; informal reinterpretation would conceal an unapproved change to services and privacy responsibility.
D:Implementing before authorization exposes the project to unsupported cost, delivery and personal-data commitments.
Question 141
An international airport baggage-analytics rollout has two risk decisions. The team added a backup luggage scanner to reduce missed bag events, but tests now show both scanners rely on the same network switch; losing the switch defeats the apparent redundancy. Separately, a quantified risk of bags bypassing a secure inspection corridor exceeds the airport safety board's accepted tolerance and the project manager's delegated limit; the response options and evidence are ready for a board decision. Select exactly TWO actions, one for each risk.
Select exactly TWO answers.
- Repeat the already-completed security-corridor exposure scoring rather than submit the necessary exception to the safety board
- Reassess the residual missed-event risk and newly created shared-switch failure exposure using actual redundancy test results
- Run a generic risk-discovery workshop instead of investigating the known shared network dependency
- Present the beyond-tolerance secure-inspection risk, consequences and response choices to the airport safety board for authorization
- Accept the corridor risk at project-team level because the new backup scanner was intended to improve reliability
Explanation
Correct Answers
B:Redundancy based on a single switch can introduce a secondary common-cause failure; actual failover tests require a new residual-risk assessment.
D:Only the named board can decide whether and how to treat a quantified safety exposure above its permitted risk limit.
Incorrect Answers
A:The corridor exposure has already been evaluated above delegated tolerance; repeated scoring cannot replace the safety board's authorization.
C:Open-ended risk discovery is less direct than analyzing the documented switch dependency and its effect on scanner coverage.
E:A well-intended safeguard does not transfer the airport's risk-acceptance authority or override the measured secure-corridor threat.
Question 142
A refrigerated-drug distribution program has an approved benefits case and total investment ceiling. Its deployment plan lists trucks, sensors and warehouse integration, but finance cannot tell when cash must be available for deposit, calibration, installation and training. No supplier payment is overdue; the funding committee needs the first credible milestone cash-demand plan. What should the project manager prepare?
- Build a milestone-linked cash forecast with approved work packages, supplier commitments and timing of funding availability
- Increase the investment ceiling before identifying the dates and amounts of actual cash commitments
- Release the contingency reserve as routine cash without a realized risk event or delegated approval
- Wait for an overdue supplier invoice to reveal the shortage rather than forecast it
Explanation
Correct Answer
A:The missing input is when approved project costs require cash, not total benefit or overall affordability.
Incorrect Answers
B:A larger total budget would not answer whether money is present when commitments fall due.
C:Risk reserve cannot substitute for normal cash planning or authority to transfer funds.
D:Reactive invoice discovery would threaten temperature-control commissioning and supplier continuity.
Question 143
A marine biodiversity data exchange is about to accept a shared population-count export. The science, licensing and operations groups all claim another group owns final checks that protected species coordinates were removed before publication. Who should the project manager work with and what must be settled before the handoff?
- Create a broader common goal statement without naming anyone accountable for removing sensitive marine-location fields
- Delegate all export approval to whichever engineer finished the build, ignoring licensing rights
- Provide coaching to one scientist but leave the cross-functional acceptance responsibility unresolved
- Agree an explicit validation and signoff responsibility with the sponsor and qualified data owners before the export is released
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:A named acceptance owner and governed data-clearing evidence prevent the release from proceeding without accountability.
Incorrect Answers
A:Agreement on generic outcomes does not prevent a missed sensitive-coordinate clearance gate.
B:Technical delivery completion does not grant permission to approve protected biodiversity disclosure.
C:Individual coaching does not settle responsibility across science, operations and licensing.
Question 144
The airport de-icing resource coordination tool team is preparing de-icing truck assignments and fluid reserve readings for winter-operations readiness gate. The de-icing truck assignments and fluid reserve readings product is accepted and supported, yet no operational manager will track ongoing improvement in unsupplied aircraft de-icing bays when delivery closes. Contract settlement is complete. Which course of action is most appropriate at this stage?
- Capture reusable lessons, release staff appropriately and transfer records
- Close procurement obligations and financial records under approved terms
- Confirm agreed closeout criteria before requesting completion approval
- Assign ongoing benefits measurement to an accountable operational owner
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:Benefits after handover require continuing ownership beyond the delivery team. An operating owner must own postrelease benefit evidence after the project team disbands. That is the missing step before winter-operations readiness gate can be responsibly authorized.
Incorrect Answers
A:Closing a project also preserves knowledge and responsibly retires resources. That action would address a different decision: transfer actual operational knowledge and controlled records before releasing the people who hold it. In this case, an operating owner must own postrelease benefit evidence after the project team disbands.
B:Unresolved contractual and financial commitments prevent clean closeout. That action would address a different decision: close supplier claims, invoices and obligations under the agreement before formally releasing accounts and resources. In this case, an operating owner must own postrelease benefit evidence after the project team disbands.
C:Closure criteria need to be explicit before someone certifies completion. That action would address a different decision: establish contractual acceptance conditions and evidence before asking anyone to certify phase completion. In this case, an operating owner must own postrelease benefit evidence after the project team disbands.
Question 145
Two cooperative water-service groups agree that spring irrigation telemetry must be tested at the same pump station, and each has shown its signed service calendar. The facilities lead confirms that evening testing is safe if a technician remains on-site. Both groups are authorized to adjust their schedules but want the project manager to allocate the slot. What is BEST?
- Help both groups jointly evaluate evening and daytime test trade-offs, agree a safe timetable and record the technician assignment and contingency
- Give the first group permanent priority because its request reached the project manager's inbox earlier
- Ask the executive board to mandate that neither group use the station until the next quarterly planning cycle
- Allocate the pump station to both teams at the same hour and make them solve any safety interference on site
Explanation
Correct Answer
A:The conflict is a shared, negotiable physical-resource constraint with established safety facts. A facilitated agreement creates commitments both parties can own and provides a fallback if a session fails.
Incorrect Answers
B:Request order is not a defensible basis for balancing safety, irrigation impact and operating constraints.
C:A solvable local scheduling conflict should not create an extended outage or be moved unnecessarily to senior governance.
D:This disregards the known physical exclusivity constraint and safety supervision required for the test sessions.
Question 146
The next review of participant permission versions and withdrawal notices in medical research consent registry is due at ethics-controlled registry review. A subcontractor began processing participant permission versions and withdrawal notices records without the prime vendor notifying the project, contrary to the prime contract approval arrangement. Which management action should be taken FIRST?
- Review contractual acceptance evidence and invoke the agreed performance and remedy process
- Assess downstream controls and enforce notification and approval provisions through the prime agreement
- Clarify acceptance criteria and negotiate a documented, authorized agreement
- Evaluate bids against published weighted criteria and mandatory compliance before selection
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:Fourth-party oversight must be enforceable rather than assumed. The prime must enforce notification, consent and downstream controls before the new party can keep handling the data. That is the missing step before ethics-controlled registry review can be responsibly authorized.
Incorrect Answers
A:Vendor performance must be judged against contractually observable outcomes. The stated facts require another prerequisite first: the prime must enforce notification, consent and downstream controls before the new party can keep handling the data.
C:Precise terms prevent disputes over what completion means. The stated facts require another prerequisite first: the prime must enforce notification, consent and downstream controls before the new party can keep handling the data.
D:Lowest price alone does not make an ineligible bid acceptable. The stated facts require another prerequisite first: the prime must enforce notification, consent and downstream controls before the new party can keep handling the data.
Question 147
A hotel guest-service integration has TWO external-environment changes. A new enacted guest-identity retention regulation applies to its already-approved digital check-in service, and the legal team confirms the current backlog configuration will be noncompliant on the effective date. Separately, the project is evaluating two electronic guest-door-lock devices and an interoperability standard is being revised; no architecture selection has yet been authorized. Select exactly TWO actions, one for each change.
Select exactly TWO answers.
- Assess the enacted rule's effect on committed guest-record design and obtain governed backlog and funding decisions with legal and product owners
- Create a generic yearly external scan instead of acting on the known enacted requirement and pending interoperability decision
- Reopen the entire strategic business case without comparing the actual law or interface alternatives involved
- Track the evolving interoperability standard and assess its interface and supplier consequences before selecting an irreversible architecture
- Approve the cheapest device immediately and treat a later connectivity failure as ordinary maintenance
Explanation
Correct Answers
A:The first signal is binding and already affects planned work. A targeted, authorized adjustment prevents deployment in conflict with a known legal date.
D:The second signal is an unsettled standard during an open design choice; prompt evidence collection can prevent costly interoperability lock-in.
Incorrect Answers
B:A yearly scan would be too late for both current known decisions and would not identify their exact owner approvals.
C:Strategic value review can follow an impact finding, but does not directly resolve the rule or compare specific door-lock compatibility.
E:Supplier price cannot override external interface requirements and deferring assessment until after installation creates avoidable rework.
Question 148
An agro-food traceability board paper reports that farm-to-store inspection failures increased by 17%, yet its executive summary contains no owner, corrective alternatives or decision request. The quality team has already reconciled the source data and confirmed the trend. The board meets tomorrow to allocate response funding. What should the project manager present?
- Replace the board meeting with another raw spreadsheet extract because leaders should identify their own actions
- Wait for the annual report to explain the 17% variance rather than bringing it to the pending funding decision
- Provide a concise verified variance, impact on traceability confidence, response options, recommended owner and the specific funding choice needed
- Remeasure the same quality records without addressing which corrective response the board must authorize
Explanation
Correct Answer
C:Decision-ready status reporting links evidence and value impact to alternatives and accountable requested action.
Incorrect Answers
A:Data volume alone does not tell directors which available decision and owner can control the verified quality decline.
B:The known trend is material to an imminent authorized funding choice; deferral is not useful governance.
D:The data has already been reconciled. Further measurement without a decision request would repeat completed analysis.
Question 149
A national digital heritage exhibition has all promised catalogue pages, yet visitors with screen readers take twice the planned time to discover an exhibit. Museum leaders specified equitable exhibit discovery as the benefit, not catalogue page count. Which project-manager action most directly addresses the gap?
- Claim the benefit has been realized because the curatorial team uploaded every planned exhibit description
- Validate screen-reader task completion with affected visitors and reprioritize navigational improvements against the agreed accessibility outcome
- Add a larger public-facing content counter to the home page without changing the inaccessible navigation
- Reclassify the visitor accessibility target as an internal technical enhancement without consulting the museum owner
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:The delivered volume is not achieving the intended experience. Empirical access performance should lead an authorized adjustment to the work that produces visitor value.
Incorrect Answers
A:Content quantity is an output; it does not prove accessible exhibit discovery for the affected visitors.
C:Increasing output visibility does not remove the measured assistive-technology barrier.
D:The project manager cannot unilaterally downgrade a stated benefit and protected user requirement.
Question 150
The retailer ethical supplier screening project is approaching supplier eligibility decision for vendor labor audits and material declarations. The quantified vendor labor audits and material declarations exposure may breach the steering committee threshold; the risk owner and indicators are already assigned, but the board has not received response alternatives or the explicit authorization request. Which action best protects the project's intended outcome?
- Compare mitigation, avoidance, transfer and acceptance against tolerance and value
- Assign an accountable risk owner, early indicators and clear escalation triggers
- Report exposure, uncertainty, options and the required decision to authorized governance
- Reassess residual and secondary risk using actual control evidence
Explanation
Correct Answer
C:Effective risk communication supports accountable choices. A decision-ready exposure summary shows uncertainty, alternatives and which approval exceeds team delegation. The supplier eligibility decision decision then rests on evidence rather than an unsupported assumption.
Incorrect Answers
A:Risk responses should be proportionate and aligned with delegated appetite. That action would address a different decision: compare response choices with expected exposure and tolerance; risk elimination is not always economical. In this case, a decision-ready exposure summary shows uncertainty, alternatives and which approval exceeds team delegation.
B:Ownership and triggers convert a vague concern into an actionable risk. That action would address a different decision: a known threat needs a responsible watcher and observable trigger so the team can act before a breach. In this case, a decision-ready exposure summary shows uncertainty, alternatives and which approval exceeds team delegation.
D:Risk monitoring must follow effects after responses are implemented. That action would address a different decision: assess both remaining original exposure and secondary harms created by the chosen control. In this case, a decision-ready exposure summary shows uncertainty, alternatives and which approval exceeds team delegation.
