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The PMO established an online community for sharing best practices 2 years ago. The community has grown over time and the PMO is considering increasing the services provided to include some in-person events based on customer feedback. The content for the events has been fully designed with special attention to new trends in the market and concrete applications within the performing organization.
What should the PMO lead do to onboard this new service?
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?
After identifying the needs and expectations of PMO customers, the PMO professional recommends introducing a new service to effectively meet these needs within the specified timeframe. However, new regulations were recently introduced, and the company must comply with them before launching the new PMO service, which will affect the timeline for its implementation.
What should the PMO professional do?
Two years ago, a software company implemented an agile culture and adopted Scrum as a framework for product development. During those 2 years, the company's senior management struggled with the link between the product value generated and the business objectives.
What should the PMO professional do to bridge this gap?
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?
The chief strategy officer and the PMO professional are working on the strategic plan while defining the long-term strategic vision of a rapidly growing startup. They are setting the strategic goals and developing action plans.
What should be the PMO professional's primary focus to help ensure alignment to these strategic goals?
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)
A multinational company seeks to establish and maintain strong governance for its PMO to ensure efficient service delivery, accountability, and alignment with organizational goals.
What is the most critical action the PMO professional should take when establishing PMO governance to ensure the PMO operates effectively?
A new portfolio management tool was introduced as the organization took on more projects. A few months later, the PMO professional observes that the organization is paying for more functionality than the project teams are using.
What should the PMO professional do first?
Senior management at a small company is dissatisfied with project performance and has tasked the PMO with addressing the issue. An organizational project management (OPM) maturity assessment has uncovered significant gaps compared to industry standards.
What should the PMO professional do first?
A new PMO has been started in a medium-sized retail company that has several concurrently running strategic projects. A team of project managers with no PMO experience has been assigned to the new PMO.
Which two actions should the PMO professional take to help the project managers prepare for their roles? (Choose 2)
Which primary strategy should the PMO professional adopt to effectively oversee an organization's portfolio to drive value creation, innovation, and competitive advantage?
A PMO professional recently joined an established PMO with a customer feedback system in place. However, the feedback has not been systematically analyzed or used to drive improvements in service delivery. The PMO services align with standard methodologies, but PMO customers feel their evolving needs are not being adequately met.
What should the PMO professional do to ensure the feedback system is effectively utilized to enhance PMO service delivery?
A well-established PMO in the banking sector has decided to evolve the company's current project management practices as an element of its mandate to drive organizational project management maturity. However, the proposed changes were received with skepticism by the leadership team due to concerns about the impact on delivery throughput. The PMO professional was asked to address these concerns.
How should the PMO professional begin to address this issue?
A PMO professional is mentoring a project manager who is overseeing a project critical to the organization's strategic goals. The project manager has encountered resistance from a key stakeholder who believes the project's direction might jeopardize their department's interests. Despite written communication, the stakeholder remains concerned.
What should the PMO professional advise the project manager to do?
In an organization, the executives focus mainly on project operational deliverables. How should the PMO professional support the executives in fostering a business-value-driven perspective?
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 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?
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 newly appointed PMO professional has been tasked with developing an organizational project management (OPM) competency framework to improve project management across the organization. The goal is to ensure alignment with both industry standards and specific organizational needs.
What should the PMO professional do first?
During executive meetings, the leader of a recently established PMO notices that the organization's leaders are worried about falling revenues during the last quarter and are beginning to look for ways to cut costs. The PMO leader is concerned that the PMO may be cut.
What should the PMO do to mitigate this risk?
A PMO professional is acting as the PMO leader temporarily in a well-established and mature PMO unit. In this role, a PMO professional receives an escalation from the portfolio manager that a new business stakeholder's activity is overlapping with key portfolio management functions.
What should the PMO professional do to resolve 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?
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?
A PMO Professional works for a large retail corporation undergoing a significant organizational restructuring. As part of the restructuring, a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is being implemented to streamline operations and improve efficiency across all departments. However, midway through the implementation, resistance to change emerges among department heads, leading to delays and decreased employee morale.
Which action should the PMO Professional take to address this issue?
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 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)
An organization is going through a transformation process that will impact its processes and employee job descriptions. The PMO professional needs to ensure continuous improvement of the organization's PMO in these turbulent times.
What should the PMO professional do in this situation?
A PMO professional is leading a new PMO that aims to enhance organizational PMO maturity. When the PMO professional presents the roadmap to the board of directors, one of the executives says that no resources are available to work with the PMO.
What should the PMO professional do to avoid this situation in the future?
A newly hired PMO professional works within the PMO and supports a large enterprise program. This professional is expected to guide junior PMO team members but faces difficulties with team management and collaboration.
How should the PMO leader best support the PMO professional in overcoming these challenges?
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 leading a global PMO wants to ensure that the PMO's services continue to evolve and deliver value to customers.
Which approach best supports the PMO professional in achieving this goal?
A PMO offers a service for managing projects. One of the PMO customers always demands that a specific project manager is assigned to their projects. However, it is not always possible to accommodate such requests, which causes dissatisfaction.
What should the PMO professional do to improve the delivery of this service?
TESTED 31 Jan 2026