PgMP® Full Exam: 1: 170 Questions and Answers

PgMP® Full Exam-1

170 Questions and Answers

First Edition

by

Leithy Mohamed Leithy

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

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Acknowledgement

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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 1 - Questions

Exam 1 – 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 1, 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 1 - Questions

Q1: Omar is an experienced program manager who is currently in the middle of executing a strategic program, called U-Win, for ABC organization. During the Benefit realization of a subprogram of U-Win, Omar was not able to identify whether a specific deliverable was delivered as planned or not, he thought it is too technical for him to decide. What should Omar do?

(a) Omar should continue and neglect this issue as it is the responsibility of the technical architect of the subprogram

(b) Omar should call for a meeting with the technical team and ask them to explain in details the planned and achieved results of this deliverable

(c) Omar should initiate a program review to verify this deliverable

(d) Omar should initiate a program health check to verify this deliverable

Question Category: Difficult

Q2: Anil is preparing the closure for his component project, which is delivered by one of the vendors. He contacted his program manager to start the official closure of the vendor contract. When should the vendor contract be closed?

(a) After ensuring that all deliverables have been satisfactorily completed

(b) After ensuring that all payments have been made

(c) After ensuring that there are no outstanding contractual issues

(d) All the above

Question Category: Easy

Q3: As a program manager, it is important to understand the specific and unique needs of the funding organizations representatives concerning program financial arrangements. Where should you consider these needs?

(a) While developing the program communication plan

(b) While developing the program communication plan and stakeholder engagement plan

(c) While developing the program risk management plan

(d) All the above

Question Category: Moderate

Q4: The program management information systems collect information needed to manage and control the program. Which of the following items will help to incorporate effectively program management information systems?

(a) Document, data, and knowledge repositories

(b) Software tools

(c) Earned value management activities and tools

(d) All the above

Question Category: Easy

Q5: Which of the following should be included in the program master schedule?

(a) Components detailed transition milestones

(b) Program risk threshold activities

(c) Component milestones that represent an output to the program or share interdependency with other components

(d) All the above

Question Category: Moderate

Q6: Which of the following areas of expertise may help the program manager in stakeholder engagement?

(a) Enterprise resource management (ERP)

(b) Customer relationship management (CRM)

(c) Knowledge management system (KMS)

(d) None of the above

Question Category: Difficult

Q7: Which of the following statements can be used to describe the program outcomes?

(a) The outcomes are the final results, outputs, or deliverables realized through the individual projects

(b) The outcomes are the tangible gains and valuable assets to the organization from the economic

(c) Program outcome refers to the measurable improvement resulted from the program deliverable

(d) All the above

Question Category: Difficult

Q8: After you assigned to manage Gian program for one of the organizations that your company is dealing with, you developed your charter and started to get program authorization. If the program is not authorized, what is the right action to be taken by you as a program manager?

(a) The program manager should do another trial to authorize the program a few weeks later

(b) The program manager should do another trial to authorize the program after consulting the program sponsor

(c) The event should be recorded in the program charter and stored in the lessons learned

(d) None of the above

Question Category: Difficult

Q9: Which of the following can be described as the program governance?

(a) Program Governance covers the systems and methods by which a program and its strategy are defined, authorized, monitored, and supported by its sponsoring organization

(b) Program governance is the practices and processes conducted by a sponsoring organization to ensure that its programs are managed effectively and consistently

(c) Program Governance refers to the systems and methods by which a program team monitors and manages the component projects and subprograms that are being performed to support the program.

(d) All the above

Question Category: Easy

Q10: Which of the following activities are executed as part of the Benefits Identification?

(a) Establishing processes for measuring progress against the benefits plan

(b) Identifying and quantifying business benefits

(c) Defining the objectives and critical success factors for the program

(d) All the above

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