PMI PfMP Exam Questions

Capability and capacity analysis are useful tools in portfolio performance management. In using this type of analysis a best practice is to:

Assume you are the portfolio manager for a telecommunications company. Your company was about to launch a new and easy to use smart phone with more features than any existing phones on the market at a lower price. However, although the phone was due to market in five days, the Federal Communications Commission issued today a regulation that would make your new phone not available for use in airplanes. Thus additional work must be done, and your executives are wondering whether a new phone should be developed for this new feature. You are ensuring that if a new phone is developed, or if the almost completed product is not to be marketed, there is still alignment to the organization's strategy. As you complete an analysis of alternatives, you also should ensure results of the analysis are reflected in the:

Assume you are preparing the first portfolio risk management plan for your outsourcing company, which typically handles call centers around the world. While the company has implemented portfolio management and has a Portfolio Oversight Group, it did not previously assess risks to the portfolio itself. Instead, it assumed risks would be managed at the project level. However, numerous customer complaints have been received. The root cause is once a new call center is established, limited if any planning is done as the manager rushes to have it ready and operational as soon as possible. This has led to a lack of understanding as to what is required for the call centers to be successful. In preparing this plan, you are reviewing the portfolio management plan because it:

Since you work for a global aerospace and defense organization, it decided to pilot the implementation of portfolio management in its cargo aviation business unit. You were asked to lead this initiative and realized before you could proceed, you should find out information about all the existing projects, programs, and operational activities. This task took three months to complete, but with this list, you now can use it to set up categories for the work that is under way and to also define criteria to use to propose new components. As a result you should:

As soon as you complete the portfolio risk management plan, and you have been working on it now with a team, you realize you need to update some organizational process assets such as: