안녕하세요 온라인 시험 후기 남깁니다.

1. 준비기간

사실 저는 2020년에 이직을 준비하면서 6판으로 공부를 한번 했었는데, 어쩌다보니 시험 전에 원하던 회사에 취직을 하면서 까맣게 잊고 살다가 최근 다시 생각이 나서 다시 공부하려니 7판이 나왔더군요!ㅎㅎ

시험 전 4주를, 퇴근 후 두시간 주말에는 서너시간 정도 공부했습니다.

외울것도 제법 있어서 오래 가지고 갈수록 메모리도 휘발되고 모멘텀이 떨어지니 가능하시면 3-4주 안에 끝내시면 좋을 듯 합니다.

2. 온라인시험

여기 대부분 오프라인 시험 후기가 많아 적어봅니다.

오프라인은 정해진 날이 있는 반면 온라인은 아무때나 볼 수 있는게 가장 큰 장점입니다.

1) 시험신청 & 승인받기 (여긴 오프라인과 똑같습니다)

2) 승인 후에, 시험 결제 시 시험방식을 온라인으로 선택하고 일정을 선택합니다.

온라인은 매일 시험이 가능하며, 하루중에도 굉장히 많은 시간 선택 슬롯이 있습니다. 편한 시간을 선택하시면 되는데, 저는 오후형인간(?)이라 오전엔 뇌가 안 깰 것 같아서 오후 4시에 시험을 봤습니다. (오후 8시쯤 끝남)

3) 시험 신청 하실때 시험 신청 사이트에서 사용하실 PC 사양 테스트를 하실 수 있습니다. 

4) 시험 시작 30분전에 사이트에 체크인을 합니다. 휴대폰을 이용하여 신분증, 시험 볼 사진 찍어보냅니다. 체크인 중에 실제 인도분이 PC로 전화를 걸어서 카메라를 켤 것을 요청하고 방을 다시한번 스캔합니다. 그리고 필요시 아이템을 옮길 것을 요청합니다. (예로, 에어컨 리모컨을 손이 닿지 않는 곳으로 치우라고 요청하고 어디로 치웠는지 보여달라고 했습니다)

5) 시험 내내 노트북 카메라를 켜 놓습니다. 앞에 얼굴이 계속 떠 있으니 집중이 약간 안 됐습니다..ㅋㅋ

6) 답지 제출 후 결과 나오는데 2일 걸렸습니다. (up to 5days라고 했음) 전에는 온라인은 바로 나왔는데, 최근에 바뀌었다고 들었고 아마 cheating이 많은지 audit을 추가하기로 한게 아닌가 싶네요.

3. 공유해보는 팁

- 시험 신청 후 승인은 워킹데이 기준 5일 걸립니다. 이론 마치고 시험 신청 먼저하시고, 기다리는 동안 기출문제 풀어보면 일정이 대략 맞습니다.

- 온라인 시험 전에 노트북 카메라를 이용해서 정면 얼굴 사진을 찍는데, 이 사진 나중에 “Certification Exam Report”(위에 일부 캡쳐된 것이 Exam Report)에 같이 출력되어 나옵니다. 시험에만 집중하려고 머리 질끈 묶고 그지같이 있었는데 박혀 나와서…. 이 리포트는 아무도 못 보여줄 것 같습니다…

- 180문제를 세 번에 나눠서 보게 되는데 60개-10분 break-60개-10분 break-60개, 마지막 60개째 에는 배고픔으로 집중력이 너무 떨어집니다. 쉬실 때 간식을 든든하게 드세요.

- 집에 있는 양반이 거실에서 자꾸 화상미팅을 해서 그 소리가 계속 들려서 너무 거슬렸어요. 다른 이유보다는 괜히 cheating으로 오해받고 disqualified 될까봐서요. 온라인으로 집에서 보실 땐 아무도 없는 시간으로 고르세요.

- 생각보다 시간이 너무 넉넉해서 영어랑 한국어를 전부 다 봤는데, (너무 일찍 끝내면 cheating으로 간주한다고 해서요) 종종 번역이 아예 다른 뜻으로 잘못되어 전혀 다른 의미가 되어 있는 경우를 봤습니다. 시간이 되시면 크로스체크를 하시면 좋습니다.

4. 시험문제

- 번업차트 (한개의 Iteration 임) Iteration 중에 너무 많은 새로운 task를 받았다.

- Drag&Drop 3문제? 인가 나옴 

  Agile - story point / Traditional - schedule / Hybrid - Phase + Iteration / All method + support each other(?)
  Dormancy, Proximity, Urgency, Connectivity 연결하기

A project manager has just been hired to lead a project team in a hybrid environment. The team is working on a group of critical projects.
What should the project manager do to ensure the right environment and authority are in place to effectively deliver the projects?

A. Create a project steering committee aligned with existing organizational structures. 
B. Develop a detailed project management plan to share with project resources.
C. Develop a detailed risk log and share it with all of the project stakeholders.
D. Appoint a self-organizing project team that is not influenced by organizational factors.
 

A primary stakeholder is unable to join the project status meetings consistently. The project manager has been communicating with this stakeholder informally and regularly to ensure that the stakeholder is up to date on the project. However, the project manager has recently resigned and will not be meeting with the new project manager prior to departure.
How should the project manager ensure that the new project manager continues to update this particular stakeholder?
A. Ensure that the project team has been provided guidance on the specific needs of this stakeholder
B. Update the stakeholder engagement plan with the specific communication needs for the stakeholder 
C. Ensure that the project documents contain specific instructions regarding the stakeholder
D. Update the communications management plan with specific information on stakeholder engagement
 

A project manager for a software development company faces a number of financial risks in their project. The project manager needs to frequently check the strength and efficiency of the risk management process. -> Monitor Risk process
What should the project manager use to accomplish this?

A. Brainstorming session
B. Stakeholder register
C. Assumption log
D. Audit meeting
 

A project manager has been assigned a low-priority project that includes new team members with no previous formal project experience. The project team has requested deadline extensions for the first development increment twice already.
What should the project manager do to support the team?

A. Provide feedback to the team using project performance evaluations.

B. Include buffer time in the schedule to absorb future delays.
C. Escalate the impact on the schedule to the project sponsor.
D. Create a change request to extend the project's duration and costs.
 

A laboratory is launching a new product, defined to be executed in eight iterations with a fixed release date. At the beginning of the second iteration, the project manager realizes that a significant regulatory feature is missing in the project backlog.
What should the project manager do?

A. Ask the product owner to add the missing feature in the backlog.
B. Invite stakeholders to discuss the impact of adding the regulatory feature.
C. Estimate the related cost and ask for a project extension.
D. Increase the capacity of the team to include the missed feature.

A company is working on a project to develop an integration of their existing systems. There are known issues in production.
What should the project manager do?

A. Identify and remove impediments and mitigate the risks.
B. Ensure the product owner reviews requirements with the team.
C. Include acceptance criteria in the definition of done (DoD).
D. Review the quality control processes and procedures.
 

A project manager is working on a complex project with a high degree of change.
What strategy should the project manager use to ensure a successful project completion?

A. Update the project management plan to reduce the possibility of scope creep.
B. Schedule a regular risk review with the project management team.
C. Increase the active engagement and participation of key stakeholders.
D. Create a project change roadmap to keep track of all unforeseen changes.
 

A project manager is leading a project that has a dependency on the client's vendor management system for critical requirements. The vendor management team will not derive any benefits from the project. However, the project requires support from the vendor management head.
What should the project manager do next?

A. Get support from the sponsor to hire a subject matter expert (SME) from the vendor management team to work on the project.
B. Review the terms of reference of the steering committee to include the vendor management head. 
C. Work with the sponsor on a communications management plan to obtain support from the vendor management head.
D. Obtain help from the sponsor to highlight any nonfinancial benefits for the vendor management team.
 

A subject matter expert (SME) external to the project team provides a suggestion that will save the project delivery time. This SME has available time to support the project, but was not planned to be involved in the current agile iteration.
What should the project manager do?

A. Bring the SME on board immediately and discuss the implications later.
B. Ask the existing team members to collaborate with the SME and complete the activity.
C. Ask the SME to complete all of the necessary changes, which will save time.
D. Direct the team member to ignore the SME's changes as they were not planned.
 

During daily team standup meetings, team members constantly ask about which tasks they should focus on first.
How should the project manager ensure the team is fully productive?

A. Review the project backlog during the team's standup meeting.
B. Encourage project team members to prioritize the product backlog.
C. Ensure team members are working according to the project plan.
D. Work with the product owner to ensure the project backlog is prioritized.

In the daily check-in meeting, a team member informs the project team that the licenses for one of the components that will be used will expire in a couple of months. The licensing cost is significant.
What should the project manager do next?

A. Evaluate the impact of nonrenewal of the license.
B. Escalate the licensing issue to the product owner.
C. Add a spike to the backlog for an alternative design.
D. Raise a change request to secure the renewal.
 

A project manager is working as a servant leader for a pilot project to adopt agile practices. After three sprints, the team demos the product to the main stakeholders, but receives negative feedback about the product's features. The team feels that all the features met the acceptance criteria defined by the product owner and does not understand what went wrong.
How should the project manager mitigate the product rejection?

A. Share the product backlog for the main stakeholders to review in advance.
B. Engage the main stakeholders in the upcoming sprint review sessions.
C. Create dedicated sprints to implement feature fixes for the rejected ones.
D. Ask the project sponsor to evaluate the assignment of a new product owner.
 

A project that is using an incremental approach has colocated team members and is using a kanban board to visualize the work in progress (WIP). A key external stakeholder requests that all project activities be placed on hold until a status report is distributed.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

A. Stored project documentation in a shared folder.
B. Organized monthly meetings with the external stakeholders.
C. Invited all of the stakeholders to daily standup meetings.
D. Sent weekly status update reports to all of the stakeholders.
 

In the middle of the execution phase for a big project, a new stakeholder who was unfamiliar with the project joined the board of directors and is influencing the decisions made in the project. This change is impacting the project's progress.
What should the project manager do first?

A. Inform the client about the change.
B. Update the risk register with a new risk.
C. Present the project to the stakeholder.
D. Revise the project schedule.
 

A project to build a new energy plant was just completed. However, a few days before operation of the plant, the local community protested and closed access to the plant. They argue that an important natural reserve was impacted and prior consultation was not done by the project team.
What should the project manager verify first?

A. Stakeholder engagement plan
B. Cost-benefit analysis
C. Business case
D. Risk management plan
 

During a sprint, one of the team members found an issue. According to the team member and the product owner, the issue has a higher level of importance than the other features of the sprint, but is not a roadblock to completing it.
What should the project lead ask the project team do?

A. Avoid the temptation to make any changes and address the issue in the next sprint.
B. Submit the issue to the change control board (CCB) to evaluate and formally approve a plan to address it.
C. Address this issue only as it has a higher priority than the remaining features of the same sprint.
D. Follow the sprint plan by delivering the features established for the sprint and prioritize the issue in the backlog.
 

끝으로..

제가 그 해외에 살다가 시험전에 갑자기 해외에서 웹사이트 접속 안돼서 멘붕왔던 쿠키몬스터PM입니다..ㅋ

그래도 다행히 잘 마무리했네요! 그럼 다들 좋은결과 있으시길 바래요.