PgMP® Full Exam: 2: 170 Questions and Answers

PgMP® Full Exam - 2

170 Questions and Answers

First Edition

by

Leithy Mohamed Leithy

MBA, PfMP, PgMP, PMP, PMOC, COBIT, ITIL, CSSGB

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Acknowledgement

To my Wife and my Sons

For their patience and encouragement

About the Author

Leithy Mohamed Leithy is a certified Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP®), Program Management Professional (PgMP®), and Project Management Professional (PMP®). He also has the certification of Project Management Office (PMOC), ITIL, COBIT, and CSSGB.

Leithy is originally an engineer of computer and automatic control, graduated from Ain Shams University in Egypt in 1989. Later, he upgraded his educational level and got his master (MBA) in IT Management from Leicester University in the UK.

Leithy has extensive experience in portfolio management, program management, project management and PMO. He practiced the implementation of project management office, program management office, and portfolio management office for the different models: Supportive, Directive and Controlling.

He has practical experience in delivering sensitive projects and programs under high pressure, harsh target deadlines, and budget challenges. He developed project and program management methodologies and implemented them in large multi-national organizations.

He acquired excellent practical portfolio management experience while managing multiple portfolios and guided the portfolio managers to achieve their target strategic and financial objectives.

He worked in Egypt and in the Arabian Gulf over the last twenty-five years with big firms and international enterprises, strengthening his practical experience and adding a lot to his pragmatic thinking. While concentrating on information technology, he interfered with different industries; educational, health, financial, telecommunication, utilities, and oil and gas.

Combining the practical experience with the academic knowledge and international certifications creates an excellent understanding of the best practice and world-class standards.

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Table of Contents

About the Author

Introduction

Exam 2 - Questions

Exam 2 – Questions and Answers

Appendix (A) – Questions Mapping per Domain

Introduction

This book is developed to help you in passing the Program Management Professional Certification PgMP® Exam on your first attempt.

The book is created based on the The Standard for Program Management – Third Edition which was PMI certified in 2013. Throughout this book, it will be referred to as the Standard Guide. This book adopts all PMI publications related to the Portfolio Management that were created before the publication date of this edition.

This book contains one Full PgMP® Exam with its detailed answer and explanation, i.e., it has 170 questions. The questions were created from the different domains as per the examination blueprint details stated in the PMI Program Management Professional (PgMP)® Handbook published in 2016.

Please note that this book has the same exam, Exam 2, in the Passing the PgMP® Exam: A Study Guide book by the same author.

Therefore, if you bought Passing the PgMP® Exam: A Study Guide, there is no need to buy this book.

This book is different from others as it is the first to be created by an author who passed the PfMP®, PgMP® and PMP® Exams, so this author knows how to pass the different exams from the PMI the first time.

This book reflects the flavor of the questions that you are going to see on the exam. Besides, it covers different examples of each type of the commonly found questions on the PgMP® Exam model; including the regular question, table question, and question set.

As a program manager, your practical experience will help you a lot to pass the exam, and it is a critical success factor of your readiness to the exam. However, in this book, you will find a major support to orient you to the examination philosophy that you will face.

PMP, PgMP, and PfMP are registered trademarks by PMI.

The book gives you an opportunity to test yourself by having the exam questions listed all together, so, you can pass through them as if you are in the exam. On the other hand, it gives the opportunity to review the exam results or study by having the question followed by its answer for the full exam in another separate section.

If you need to test yourself or study a particular Domain, you can still get the same questions listed in in the book and ordered by Domain name in Appendix (A).

Please note that each question answer has the following:

- Answer choice

- Standard Guide Reference: this is referring to The Standard for Program Management – Third Edition which is a PMI Registered book

- Clarification and Tips: this is the most important part of the answer that describes the reasons for selecting the right answer and eliminating the three other choices

- Domain: the name of the domain that question covers

- Phase or Activity: the phase or the activity of the Domain

- Life Cycle Management Phase or Management Supporting Processes: for any Domain other than Life Cycle Management Domain, you will have here the phase of the Life Cycle Management based on its relation with this Domain. For the Life Cycle Management Domain, you will have here the Management Supporting Process Group

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Exam 2 - Questions

Q1: Which of the following items are not expected to be included in the final report of your program?

(a) Reason(s) for program closure

(b) Successes and failures

(c) Program documentation archive plan

(d) None of the above

Question Category: Easy

Q2: Which of the following entities may refer to the governance board in some organizations?

(a) Steering Committee

(b) Oversight Committees

(c) Boards of Directors

(d) All the above

Question Category: Easy

Q3: Omar is confirming that all deliverables have been satisfactorily completed, that all payments have been made, and that there are no outstanding contractual issues. Which activity, in the closure phase, is Omar executing?

(a) Transition close out

(b) Contract close-out

(c) Sustainment close-out

(d) Project closure

Question Category: Moderate

Q4: Which of the following may be an output of the program procurement activity?

(a) Request for quote (RFQ), request for proposals (RFP), and invitation for bid (IFB)

(b) Awarded contracts

(c) Proposal evaluation criteria

(d) All the above

Question Category: Easy

Q5: How usually the program stakeholders view the program benefits?

(a) As a positive risk

(b) As a change

(c) As an opportunity

(d) As an issue to be resolved

Question Category: Difficult

Q6: Ahmed is currently in the Benefits Delivery phase of his program where he aggregates all performance information across projects and non-project activity to provide a clear picture of the program performance as a whole. Which activity does Ahmed execute?

(a) Information distribution activity

(b) Program performance reporting activity

(c) Components performance reporting activity

(d) Program audit

Question Category: Moderate

Q7: Which of the following artifacts triggers the program initiation phase?

(a) Business case

(b) Program charter

(c) Program roadmap

(d) Program mandate

Question Category: Difficult

Q8: Which of the following program plan elements are related to alignment with the organizational strategy?

(a) Program constraints and assumptions

(b) Program goals and objectives

(c) Program communication plan

(d) All the above

Question Category: Moderate

Q9: Omar is just assigned to the X-Total program where he started to estimate his program scope, resources, and cost. Which phase is he working in?

(a) Stakeholder engagement phase

(b) Definition phase

(c) Benefits delivery phase

(d) Closure phase

Question Category: Easy

Q10: Omar is a program manager executing a program whose main objective is to create a very competitive thermal camera. During the program phase-gate review, the program governance board found that the program is not likely to deliver its expected benefits due to rapid technology change in the competitive market of the thermal cameras. What decision should be taken by the governance board?

(a) The governance board should request the program manage to activate the change management process

(b) The governance board should request a business case review

(c) The governance board should take the hard decision to terminate the program

(d) The governance board should request the program manager to create a recovery plan for the situation

Question Category: Difficult

Q11: How the program team should deal with the stakeholders’ issues and concerns?

(a) Program team should select the important issues and concerns only to record

(b) Program team should review the stakeholders’ issues and concerns with the program manager before logging them

(c) Program team should accept and log stakeholder issues and concerns and should manage them to closure

(d) None of the above

Question Category: Moderate

Q12: Simon defined his components cost estimation during the program Definition phase. Now, during the Benefits Delivery phase, Simon discovered that his estimation is not accurate enough for one of his components, and he found that the budget for this component was more than required. What is the best choice for Simon?

(a) Simon will discuss the subject with the component manager to get solution

(b) Simon may present an opportunity to the sponsor for