NEW QUESTION 257
To meet growth expectations and its board’s mandate, an organization drafts a new business strategy to meet future challenges and put the business on track. Key to the new strategy is upgrading the IT infrastructure and strategic direction by transitioning from an on-premise to a cloud-based computing platform that will optimize costs and offer scalability, performance, and high availability.
To appropriately plan for program success, what should the program manager do to engage stakeholders?

NEW QUESTION 258
You are the program manager of the NHQ Program. You will need to initiate six projects for your program. When should project initiating happen within a program?

NEW QUESTION 259
Your program has 121 stakeholders that you’ll need to communicate with. Your communications management plan defines how the communication should happen, what should be communicated, and the expected modality of the communications. You’ll also need which one of the following as an input to the information distribution process in your program?

NEW QUESTION 260
You are a program manager for your organization. You have proposed a program to the management that will last four years and will cost $35 million to create. Management has asked to see the program charter and the proposed costs and benefits of the program.
Management agrees to your program charter and proposed to fund the program in increments at the completion of each milestone. What type of funding does management proposed for this program?

NEW QUESTION 261
A large program consists of several component projects and six project managers. The program governance board requests that all components within the program undergo user acceptance testing before being released to the production environment.
Where should the program manager document this?

NEW QUESTION 262
Mike is the program manager of the NHQ Program. Mike and a vendor are in disagreement over the deliverable the vendor has created for Mike’s program. Mike does not believe the vendor has correctly created the deliverable, while the vendor is adamant that his company has indeed completed the contract.
Both parties have documented their stance in the debate.
This is an example of what?

NEW QUESTION 263
Part of your job as the program manager is to coach the project managers on their duties and goals. One of the project managers, Holly, is having trouble discerning the difference between quality assurance and quality control. She understands that she needs both to help you reach the program goals. Which statement best describes quality control for a project within your program?

NEW QUESTION 264
You are the program manager of the NHQ Program. You are working with your program team to ensure that the work in the program is done accurately and according to scope. You are also reviewing the team inspection process that will need to be done to ensure that the work is being done according to the scope.
If the work is found to be defective it will need to be corrected before the program customers can inspect the work. What process are you completing to ensure that the work is done accordingly to scope?

NEW QUESTION 265
Program management has several themes that the program manager must be aware of.
Which one of the following is not a program management theme?

NEW QUESTION 266
A program with objectives that impact a large segment of the population receives negative commentary from organizations representing the public interest.
What action should the program manager take first?

NEW QUESTION 267
You are the project manager for the GGG Project and are about to close the project kick off meeting. All of the project team members and the key stakeholders are in attendance. What final item should you talk about before closing the meeting?

NEW QUESTION 268
In your program you must adhere to Six Sigma as part of your organization’s enterprise environmental factors. There is terminology, reports, and measurements that you are expected to use as part of your program. Six Sigma is an example of what program management process?

NEW QUESTION 269
Complete the following phrase about quality management: Quality is ____ into a program, not ____ into a program.

NEW QUESTION 270
A program manager at a pharmaceutical company plans a new drug development effort. The development is slated to yield three drug variants. The program manager articulates the program scope boundaries.
Which of the following deliverables captures these items?

NEW QUESTION 271
In preparation for the development and submission of the program master schedule to a client, the program manager meets with the component project manager and master program scheduler to discuss the work breakdown structure (WBS). During the meeting, the master scheduler indicates that the master program schedule should include which of the following?

NEW QUESTION 272
You are the program manager for your organization. Management has assigned you to a new program that has been chartered. Your team is in the process of the Manage Program Issues process. One of the two outputs of this process is change requests. Which one of the following is the other one?

NEW QUESTION 273
You are the program manager of a new program in your organization. This program will last for one year and your program team will work full-time on the effort. The nature of the work requires that the program team work closely together for the next year, but many of the program team members have never met one another. You decide to take the team on an outing where they can work together through challenges, learn teamwork, and get to know one another. This is an example of what process?

NEW QUESTION 274
You are the program manager for the HQM Program. Your program has sixteen constituent projects around the world. You are requiring that each project manager and project management team use the same forms, software, and templates to create standardization in each project. What term is assigned to the forms, templates, and software that your program will provide for your projects?

NEW QUESTION 275
All of the following information is defined in the program statement of work except for which one?

NEW QUESTION 276
You are the program manager for your organization and are working on gathering the requirements for a new solution and mission statement. There are several instances in the stakeholder pool where the stakeholders and their manager are being queried on possible requirements. You worry that the subordinates may have requirements, ideas, and suggestions to offer but they may be not submitting their thoughts because they do not want to contradict their managers. You believe you need a method to gather all requirements without the stakeholders having any fear of retribution. Which one of the following allows you to anonymously gather iterations requirements and still allow all stakeholders to review what has been submitted in an attempt to find consensus?