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A PMO professional is overseeing multiple customer care projects within a mid-sized company. The project sponsors, the chief of operations and the chief of customer success, have demanding schedules and are often occupied with other responsibilities.
How should the PMO professional ensure effective communication with these key stakeholders?
A PMO professional is tasked with ensuring the organization's competency framework stays relevant to evolving industry trends and internal strategic needs. Which approach should the PMO professional take to achieve this?
There have been numerous complaints about the performance of one of the project managers.
How should the PMO professional address this issue?
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 company decided to expand its PMO services to include strategic alignment and to participate in strategic planning. The company tasked a PMO professional with developing a framework to ensure the new services are properly planned, implemented, and governed.
Which action should the PMO professional take to develop the requested framework?
A PMO professional at a software company is in charge of ensuring effective use of methodology and integration between projects, monitoring progress, and identifying any deviations from the defined objectives.
Which responsibility describes the role of the PMO professional in this scenario?
A PMO professional is responsible for a recently deployed project management methodology. A project manager who manages a significant portion of the portfolio refuses to follow the methodology, leaving gaps in the PMO reporting at the portfolio level. The project manager views the prescribed processes as rigid, time-consuming, and as adding no value.
How should the PMO professional respond?
A PMO professional has been tasked with assessing and improving the competencies of the PMO team to better support the wide range of services the PMO provides. For example, the competencies required for a portfolio management service may differ significantly from those needed for training and mentoring services.
What steps should the PMO leader take to ensure the PMO team's competencies align with the diverse services provided?
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?
A PMO professional observes that there is a lack of alignment among project priorities and the organizational strategic goals. What should the PMO professional do first?
A well-established PMO unit is transforming from a traditional mix of controlling and directive functions to a customer-centric service model. The company culture is very hierarchical and the PMO professional faces some challenges ahead.
Which action should the PMO professional prioritize given the fundamental role of PMOs?
A bank's PMO is responsible for project management governance and for supporting project managers across the organization. The bank is revising its strategic plan to respond to competitors' changes. The revised plan will affect the PMO governance structure and most of the bank's projects. The PMO professional has been tasked with preparing the organization for the strategic changes.
What should the PMO professional do?
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 mature enterprise PMO unit in a large, diversified holding is now supporting a new business unit as a result of an organizational transformation. The director of this unit expresses doubts on the value and benefits of PMO support during the annual budgeting process.
How should the PMO professional articulate the PMO's value and get buy-in from this stakeholder for the PMO services?
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)
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?
A PMO professional has been tasked with evolving the PMO's value proposition in a rapidly changing, capital-intensive industry that has been strongly impacted by new environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulations. The organization's strategy emphasizes flexibility and innovation, but the PMO must also ensure compliance with these evolving requirements.
What should the PMO professional do when developing a PMO value proposition?
As part of a merger between two companies, a PMO professional consultant is hired to conduct an organizational project management (OPM) maturity assessment. The consultant must evaluate how well each organization manages portfolios, programs, and projects, and how their processes align with organizational objectives.
What should the PMO professional consultant do first?
A PMO is ready to deploy new services that address the current, confirmed needs of the organization.
What is the first thing the PMO professional should do to ensure optimal implementation of the PMO services to meet customer expectations?
A PMO professional is supporting project managers who are implementing a new organization-wide user support system. The PMO professional needs to help the project managers enable change management effectively within the organization. In recent years, similar initiatives have failed because employees were too focused on the negative effects of change. The changes were enforced by sending memos to employees who did not adopt the new processes. The instructions to adopt the new processes did not offer any flexibility.
Which approach should the PMO professional recommend to enable change this time?
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?
The project sponsor and the manufacturing director of a PMO-managed project have different opinions about the development of a new order-tracking system.
What should the PMO professional do to avoid this situation in the future?
An enterprise PMO (EPMO) in a large telecommunications company is overwhelmed with service requests from various departments. With limited resources, the EPMO cannot serve all customers and meet their expectations in the short term.
Which action should the PMO professional take to ensure efficient delivery?
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?
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?
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?
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?
A PMO was recently established to support the organization's new strategy following a global restructuring process.
Which two actions should the PMO leader take to effectively identify the expectations of PMO customers? (Choose 2)
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?
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?
The organization's PMO intends to transform its role into an agility-driven PMO.
Which option should the PMO leader take to help the PMO become more agile?
A PMO professional received feedback from the project managers indicating that the project management software is not user friendly and fails to support their work. Which action should the PMO professional take to address this concern?
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?
TESTED 18 Aug 2025