PgMP Practice Exam 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨 𝟏: Your company just awarded the contract for construction of a new general port. A portfolio meeting is opened and you are an attendee. During the portfolio meeting, some of the senior members prefer to pursue it as a project, while other members suggest pursuing it as a program to enhance the delivery of benefits. You give your opinion on how the program enhances the delivery of benefits, by ensuring that:
𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨 𝟐: You are assigned as program manager of a critical program that is the development of a new system of drills for oil exploration. The program has many constraints because these drills systems should be operated in strict conditions: depth, underground structure, temperature, and location. The program is organized by project characteristics: one of them consists of the design and manufacturing of the drills system, which is conducted on your corporate premises. While other projects test the drills system in the designated areas. A key objective of the program is to minimize the overall future operational costs of the drills system for your organization. Which one does NOT characterize the need of having a program in such a case?
𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨 𝟑: Your organization specializes in providing services to customers. Your colleague, Henry, is assigned as a program manager of a program for the improvement of the information technology systems in your organization. Henry talks to you about the type of program benefits. One of the main benefits of the program is decreasing the processing time of the customers by 40%. What is the type of this benefit?
𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨 4: Which of the following have an organizational scope that changes with the strategic objectives of the organization?
𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨 5: How do you measure the success of the program?
𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨 6: Establishing the program direction is an important task in strategic program alignment, Which one best fits the role of the program manager among the following options?
𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨 7: You are managing program A. The program governance board is shared between your program and program B. Program B has been experiencing delays and the Program governance board has decided that multiple resources should be transferred from your program to be full-timers on program B. Two resources had issues with the transfer and do not answer your phone calls or respond to your emails. What should you do in this case?
𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨 8: What ensures that all the organization levels understand the strategic vision, the initiatives that support the vision, the objectives, and the deliverables?
𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨 9:Your company just awarded 10 projects, each of them is "construction of a new factory”, in the same industry. All factories are located in different locations and all will be funded, supported by the government. All projects material will be provided from a preferred vendor. You are a program manager of an existing program and your senior manager asks you to give your advice on how to manage those projects. You advise that they will be:
𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨 10: A program is made up of several projects or discrete components. These components mainly consist of activities organized to produce specific deliverables. Aggregation of these deliverables at the program level serves the strategic benefits of the performing organization. Program management targets the global optimization of its resources. This needs a specific management effort. Which one best describes this management effort among the following options?
𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨 11: The relationship between program management and portfolio management functions is:
𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨 12: You are assigned as a program manager of a program with many components. The project managers are developing their project communication management plans. It takes a long time to complete, and only one project manager has sent you his project communication management plan for review. Others find it difficult to complete their plans. Within this context what will you do as a program manager?
𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨 𝟏3: Your company is electrical equipment manufacturing company. You are a program manager of a program that is expected to design and build a new generation of power transformers. The program is considered as a critical change in the organization and you are concerned that the change will not be well accepted by employees. Now, you need to plan the change actions and you want to provide an integrated view of the perspectives of the stakeholders and committees. Within the above context, you should have a strong:
𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨 14: The relationship between program management and project management is:
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