Program Management Professional Program Management Professional MCQ 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A program is in its delivery phase when the sponsoring organization announces a major restructuring. Which action best reflects sound program governance?
- Continue executing the program plan without change to avoid disruption
- Suspend all components until restructuring is complete
- Review strategic alignment and update the program roadmap and stakeholder register accordingly (Correct answer)
- Transfer program ownership to the new organizational unit immediately
Correct answer: Review strategic alignment and update the program roadmap and stakeholder register accordingly
Reviewing strategic alignment and updating key program documents ensures the program remains relevant under the new organizational structure.
Question 2: Which risk response strategy involves shifting the negative impact and ownership of a risk to a third party?
- Avoid
- Accept
- Mitigate
- Transfer (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Transfer
Transfer moves the financial or operational risk to another party, such as through insurance or contracts.
Question 3: A program manager wants to measure whether planned benefits are being realized. Which tool is MOST appropriate?
- Earned value analysis (EVA)
- Benefits realization metrics defined in the benefits register (Correct answer)
- Risk probability and impact matrix
- RACI chart
Correct answer: Benefits realization metrics defined in the benefits register
The benefits register contains the metrics and criteria used to evaluate whether program benefits are being realized as planned.
Question 4: What is the role of a program steering committee?
- Day-to-day management of program components
- Providing strategic oversight, approving major changes, and resolving escalated issues (Correct answer)
- Executing the program's communications plan
- Managing relationships with program vendors
Correct answer: Providing strategic oversight, approving major changes, and resolving escalated issues
A steering committee (governance board) provides strategic oversight, approves significant decisions, and handles escalations beyond the program manager's authority.
Question 5: When should a program manager formally close a component project?
- When the component's planned budget is exhausted
- When the component's deliverables have been accepted and transitioned appropriately (Correct answer)
- At the end of each fiscal year
- When the program manager decides the project is no longer needed
Correct answer: When the component's deliverables have been accepted and transitioned appropriately
A component is closed when its deliverables are formally accepted and successfully transitioned to the intended recipient or operations.
Question 6: A program manager discovers that two component teams are duplicating work on the same deliverable. This is an example of a failure in which program management area?
- Program risk management
- Program integration management (Correct answer)
- Program procurement management
- Program communications management
Correct answer: Program integration management
Duplication of work across components indicates a breakdown in program integration management, which coordinates component interdependencies.
Question 7: Which of the following best describes a 'program benefit'?
- A measurable improvement resulting from program outcomes that is perceived as an advantage by stakeholders (Correct answer)
- A financial return on investment calculated at program closure
- Any deliverable produced by a component project
- A reward given to high-performing program team members
Correct answer: A measurable improvement resulting from program outcomes that is perceived as an advantage by stakeholders
A program benefit is a measurable positive outcome or advantage that stakeholders perceive as a result of the program's work.
Program Management Professional Program Management Professional MCQ 4
A program is in its delivery phase when the sponsoring organization announces a major restructuring.
Which action best reflects sound program governance?