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A newly hired PMO professional is lacking information about the performance of one of the portfolios. The PMO professional has been tasked with ensuring effective performance monitoring and reporting processes.
What strategy should the PMO professional employ to achieve this goal?
A PMO professional overseeing multiple projects notices that project managers have varying levels of adherence to the project governance processes.
What should the PMO professional do first to ensure consistent governance across projects?
A PMO professional must create a strategic presentation for stakeholders to provide visibility on the company's projects.
Which two types of information should the PMO professional present to the stakeholders? (Choose 2)
In a low-project-maturity organization, the new CEO cannot realize the effective value the PMO brings to the organization.
How should the PMO professional respond to this issue?
A PMO professional is supporting project managers who are engaged in launching a new advertising campaign for a marketing agency. One of the project managers seeks guidance on effectively managing the stakeholders to ensure project success and client satisfaction.
What should the PMO professional do?
A PMO team member who joined the PMO 5 years ago as a junior PMO analyst recently received feedback from customers indicating a lack of initiative in handling daily tasks, leading to a low perception of the PMO's value.
What should the PMO professional leading the PMO do to resolve this issue?
A company aims to build a series of nuclear power plants and wants to establish a PMO to support its large-scale and high-risk strategy. The PMO professional has already developed the PMO vision, mission, and high-level strategy.
What should the PMO professional do next?
A PMO professional has been hired to establish a PMO within an organization. However, upon starting, they discovered that a PMO had already been implemented a few years ago but was shut down due to its failure to generate perceived value at the executive level.
What approach should the PMO professional take when beginning this task?
A newly hired PMO professional is tasked with improving the executives' level of satisfaction with the PMO's performance. The PMO was established last year and has not been very successful in attending to the needs of the PMO customers.
Which two actions should the PMO professional take to address this issue? (Choose 2)
A PMO was just established in a large organization. The PMO team identified all potential PMO customers and analyzed them based on their power and interest. The list of customers was much too long and the PMO's capacity to nurture them all is not sufficient.
What should the PMO professional do to move toward developing the service catalog?
A manufacturing company is in the process of establishing its PMO, and the PMO professional leading it recognizes that securing executive sponsorship and ongoing support is crucial for the PMO's success and mandate.
How should the PMO professional effectively secure and maintain executive sponsorship for the PMO?
After which event should a PMO professional expect the PMO mandate to be reviewed?
A PMO professional for an engineering company was contacted by a newly hired project manager who wanted to submit an urgent change request to reset the baseline for the project schedule. The project manager did not understand the process for submitting such a request. Because this project is critical for the company, any delays might put the project at risk.
What should the PMO professional do?
An enterprise organization recently initiated a new project. A PMO professional made sure that all pertinent project documentation was prepared and that all project management procedures were carried out in accordance with the accepted practices.
What source should the PMO professional use to identify stakeholders?
A PMO professional at a large IT company needs to assess the maturity of the PMO.
What should the PMO professional review?
A junior team member is assigned to a project that uses a unique, in-house methodology. What should the PMO professional do to ensure the junior team member is productive within the shortest possible time?
The PMO at an expanding healthcare organization has been tasked with enhancing the organization's project management practices to achieve higher efficiency and better outcomes. To achieve this, the first step is to perform a gap analysis to evaluate the current state of project management maturity. This analysis will help PMO understand the existing capabilities, identify gaps compared to industry standards, and highlight areas needing improvement. Based on the results, the aim is to create a targeted improvement plan to elevate the organization's project management maturity level.
What is the primary purpose of conducting a gap analysis in the context of evaluating and progressing organizational project management capability?
An organization delivers system implementation projects to external clients. The PMO has noticed that recent post-project reviews consistently reveal issues. Further analysis shows that these issues become apparent during end-user testing. The testing process is unstructured and usually lacks documentation.
What next steps should the PMO lead take?
An organization is implementing a new project management methodology. The PMO professional is responsible for establishing governance structures to support the implementation of the new methodology.
What should the PMO professional do to ensure that the new project management methodology will be used within the organization?
A PMO software tool was introduced 6 months ago to give PMO customers a comprehensive portfolio overview. The PMO professional recently received feedback indicating that customers are having difficulty navigating the tool and locating the necessary dashboards.
What should the PMO professional have done to prevent this issue?
A PMO professional notices that the project managers are not adhering to the established project management guidelines within the organization. What actions should the PMO professional take to address this issue effectively?
A PMO professional uses a project portfolio performance dashboard designed using PMO standard metrics. The PMO professional discovers that the lab team is using its own metrics. The lab team's project manager explains that the PMO standard metrics are not meaningful to their team.
How should the PMO professional ensure that the PMO standard metrics are captured, while allowing flexibility for the lab team?
A PMO professional is responsible for a team of project managers who lead projects for the business departments. A business manager has mentioned to the PMO professional that one of the project managers assigned to them is very set in their ways, which is causing friction among the project team members.
How should the PMO professional respond to this feedback?
Last year, a company established a new PMO to enhance the management of its customer projects. After 1 year, the CFO is dissatisfied with the perceived lack of value in the PMO's periodic reports, and the CIO has raised concerns about the PMO staff's insufficient IT competencies.
What should a PMO professional recommend to the company's CEO to address these concerns?
A mid-sized technology company has established a PMO to improve project delivery and governance. The company's leadership has tasked the PMO professional with assessing the current effectiveness of the PMO and identifying areas for improvement.
How should the PMO professional proceed to fulfill this request?
In a large energy company, a PMO was recently established to help organize the numerous projects that are completed every year. Executives have passionate discussions in meetings to select and prioritize projects to enter the portfolio. These discussions cause frequent delays and result in decisions being questioned by some of the executive board members.
What should the PMO professional do to improve this situation?
Historically, an organization's PMO has been considered as a department that employs project managers, with its role linked to managing only internal projects. With a change in PMO leadership, the new PMO manager decides to elevate the role of the PMO and make it a strategic partner.
Which actions should the PMO manager take to achieve this goal?
A PMO professional is responsible for supporting programs and projects at a government organization. The PMO professional has been tasked with providing project management tools and information systems that will enable the organization's project managers to achieve their goals effectively.
Which two actions should the PMO professional take? (Choose 2)
A newly appointed PMO professional received a mandate for setting up a PMO in an organization operating in the energy sector, with a main objective of improving project delivery.
What should the PMO professional do first?
There have been numerous complaints about the performance of one of the project managers.
How should the PMO professional address this issue?
In a pharmaceutical company, several scope changes were requested on major strategic initiatives. After analysis, it seems that several project managers did not apply a proper stakeholder assessment during the preparation of the projects.
What should the PMO professional do first to address this issue?
A PMO professional created a formal PMO charter including the PMO's roles and responsibilities.
What should the PMO professional do to ensure that the charter remains relevant in the organization?
The PMO has decided to expand its services by including project prioritization and status reporting to better visualize project execution.
Which action should the PMO professional take next?
TESTED 19 Feb 2026