A design and production company's program comprises the design and manufacture of complex parts. During the yearly strategy alignment meeting, the program manager notices that a peer program manager started a project to develop a new manufacturing technology to further reduce operations costs.
What should the program manager do to incorporate this new technology into the program?

• A.Update the benefits management plan with an analysis of the new technology's potential benefits.
• B.Analyze the benefits management plan to determine any new risks this new technology may introduce.
• C.Incorporate the new benefit to be obtained from this technology into the program's transition plan.
• D.Work with the project managers to update the program's risk register by evaluating this new technology's ROI.

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A program manager was assigned to a program with several component project managers.
These project managers had varying experience levels at the program management level, ranging from no experience to expert level. What should the program manager do?

• A.Provide roles for inexperienced staff who are not client facing.
• B.Send some of the program team members to a boot camp to ensure equal training.
• C.Establish a program management office (PMO) to facilitate sharing of resources.
• D.Create tasks to challenge new team members to ask questions.

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You are the program manager for your organization. Management has asked you to create a method to track the program stakeholders' concerns, threats, and demands for communication.
They would like you to map out each stakeholder or stakeholder group and identify trends within the chart to help your program communicate better. What type of a chart should you create for management?

• A.Communication matrix
• B.RACI chart
• C.Roles and responsibilities chart
• D.Stakeholder analysis chart

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You are the program manager for your organization. You are examining the order of the activities in your program schedule and would like to change some of the ordering to alleviate scheduling conflicts, risks, and based on your experience with the discipline the program uses. Some of the activities you can rearrange while some of the activities must be completed in a particular order. What term describes the activities that can happen in any order?

• A.Mandatory dependencies
• B.Discretionary dependencies
• C.Finish on constraints
• D.Benefits management dependencies

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You are the program manager of the NQA Program. In this program you're planning which contract types you'll allow into the program and which ones you will not. One contract type you won't accept is the cost plus percentage of cost contract. Which of the following is a valid reason you would not allow this contract type into your program?

• A.The contract type requires the vendor to provide a fee for the time invested and the materials used.
• B.The contract type requires the vendor to provide a fixed price for the work.
• C.The contract type allows is the most dangerous for the buyer.
• D.The contract type allows the vendor to change the price of the work he's completed.

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