Bootcamp Chapter 3 Flashcards
According to the PMI, a process is:
A. A set of features and functions that used to create a product
B. A set of interrelated actions and activities performed to achieve a pre-specified product, result, or service
C. The best approach to take when trying to verify the quality of a product
D. A set of interrelated actions and activities that are performed to achieve outstanding quality
ANSWER: B
Answer A is incorrect because features and functions are characteristics or descriptions. Answer C and D are incorrect because inputs to a process sometimes, but not always, affect the quality.
What are inputs to a process?
A. Documents or documentable items that will be acted upon
B. Documents and other reports that are useful for planning
C. Agreed upon actions
D. The opposite of outputs
ANSWER: A
Although the other answers might be correct in certain instances, A is the best answer
Tools and techniques are:
A. Best performed by team members with the correct skill set
B. Applied to the inputs to create outputs, such as measuring, planning, applying a skill, etc
C. Best performed by the project manager
D. Often overlooked when performing a quality audit
ANSWER: B
Answer B is correct because it defines the role of tools and techniques in the execution of a project management process. Although Answer A is a correct answer, it is not the best answer.
Outputs of a process:
A. Often becomes inputs to another process
B. Are the steps to complete the process
C. The items of the process
D. Knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques
ANSWER: A
A is correct because it is the only one of the choices that describes an output of a process that is a tangible result.
Collect Requirements, Define Scope, Define Activities, and Determine Budget are processes of which Process Group?
A. Monitoring and Controlling
B. Executing
C. Planning
D. Closing
ANSWER: C
Answer C is correct because all of the processes listed, although from different Knowledge Areas are among the 24 planning processes that make up the Planning Process Group
What are the phases of the PDCA cycle?
A. Preliminary, Develop, Change, Actual
B. Plan, Define, Create, Act
C. Plan, Do, Check, Act
D. Plan, Do, Change, Act
ANSWER: C
Also known as the Deming Cycle
Integration Management, Scope Management, Time Management, Cost Management, Quality Management, Human Resource Management, Communications Management, Risk Management, Procurement Management, and Stakeholder Management are known as:
A. The management plans
B. The project management plans
C. The Knowledge Groups
D. The Knowledge Areas of project management
ANSWER: D
What is the major focus of Project Scope Management?
A. Doing only the minimum
B. Doing whatever it takes to meet stakeholder needs
C. Doing the work that is required to meet stakeholder needs, no more no less
D. Doing exactly what the project manager says to do
ANSWER: C
Answer C is the correct answer because Project Scope Management focuses on identifying all of the work required to meet stakeholder needs and then executing only the work required to fulfill those needs
Plan Scope Management, Collect Requirements, Define Scope, and Create WBS are all processes of which Process Group?
A. Executing
B. Planning
C. Monitoring and Controlling
D. Initiating
ANSWER: B
Which of the following contains the correct processes of the Project Time Management Knowledge Area?
A. Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Resources, Estimate Activity Durations, and Plan Schedule
B. Plan Schedule Management, Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Estimate Activities, Estimate Durations
C. Plan Time Management, Define Activities, Estimate Schedule, Control Activities, Control Resources
D. Plan Schedule Management, Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Resources, Estimate Activity Duration, Develop Schedule, Control Schedule
ANSWER: D
All of the answers except D have at least one incorrect or missing element
What document describes how to address project scope instability?
A. Project charter
B. Scope Statement
C. Scope management plan
D. Risk management plan
ANSWER: C
The scope management component is a component of the project plan and describes how scope and scope changes are managed, identified, and classified.
Which of the following is not an input to Determine Budget?
A. Project funding requirements
B. Project Schedule
C. Resource calendars
D. Scope baseline
ANSWER: A
Project funding requirements are an output of the Determine Budget process, or what the process is to produce. All other answers are inputs
In which phase of a project is risk at the highest level?
A. Executing
B. Planning
C. Closing
D. Initiating
ANSWER: D
Risk is highest at the start of a project
What are all of the various methodologies, resources, processes, and control systems needed to complete a project referred to as?
A. Project management information system
B. Project management system
C. Project system
D. Project control system
ANSWER: B
The project management system is defined as the aggregation of processes, tools, techniques, methodologies, resources and procedures used to manage the project
Initiating is formally beginning and authorizing a new project or a phase of a project. Beginning the Initiating processes authorizes the project manager to begin to apply the organization’s_______________to the project.
A. Budget
B. Resources
C. Management team
D. Infrastructure
ANSWER: B
The Monitoring and Controlling phase of project management involves measuring your performance against the plan, looking for changes and variances, and if any are found, deciding how to deal with them and taking action. Which term best describes this type of action?
A. Iterative actions
B. Preventative actions
C. Reactionary actions
D. Corrective actions
ANSWER: D
The PMI suggests that when changes or variances to the original plan are discovered, the project manager and the team should take corrective action. Although it is true that the act of looking for changes and variances is proactive in nature, the question here dealt with the type of action to be taken after a change or variance is discovered
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis and Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis are processes belonging to which Process Group?
A. Execution
B. Planning
C. Initiating
D. Analysis
ANSWER: B
Correct because the listed processes are among the five risk management processes in the Planning Process Group
Project procurement management is concerned with the processes that deal with the acquisition of products, goods, and services, along with the management of contracts and the relationships between buyers and sellers. Conduct Procurements and Control Procurements are two processes that are performed during which Process Groups?
A. Initiating and PLanning
B. Intiating and Executing
C. Executing and Monitoring and Controlling
D. Executing
ANSWER: C
The four Project Procurement management processes span all of the project management process groups except for Initiating.
Project Integration Management processes all interact with each other. They also interact with the processes of:
A. The Planning Process Group
B. The Project Scope Management and Project Procurement Management Knowledge
C. The Project Scope Management Knowledge Area
D. All other Knowledge Areas
ANSWER: D
According to the PMI, senior management has many responsibilities, including protecting the project from changes and loss of resources. The team responsible for the activities being worked on. Who is responsible for Project Integration Management?
A. Project sponsor
B. Project manager
C. All project stakeholders
D. Management
ANSWER: B
All project stakeholders have distinct project responsibilities. The project manager is responsible for Project Integration Management
During the Initiating phase of a project, many of the cost projections, schedule projections, and resource projections are largely based on assumptions. Because of this, during Initiating,________ are said to be high.
A. Project costs
B. Project risks
C. Project constraints
D. Project details
ANSWER: B
The goal of the Initiating Process Group is to:
A. Develop the project charter
B. Develop the project charter and identify the stakeholders
C. Develop the project charter and the project scope statement
D. Identify the stakeholders and develop the project scope
ANSWER: B
The Initiating Process Group is made up of only two processes; Develop Project Charter (from Project Integration Management Knowledge Area) and Identify Stakeholders (from Project Stakeholder Management Knowledge Area).
The main goal of the Planning Process Group is to:
A. Collect Requirements
B. Define Scope
C. Define Activities
D. Develop project management plan
ANSWER: D
The Planning Process Group is comprised of the processes necessary to develop the project management plan and project documents necessary to carry out the project.
During the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group, the project manager and the team measure and compare in order to track all major project variables. By continually measuring project performance against the project plan, what are they able to do?
A. Identify costs associated with variances and implement preventative actions
B. Identify variances, exert influence, and take corrective action where necessary
C. Effectively communicate the areas of variance to the appropriate project stakeholders
D. Identify quality problems
ANSWER: B
Answer B is the correct answer because continuous measurement of performance against the plan does provide a basis for influencing the causes of identified variance and establishes the opportunity to determine what is required to correct the variance if correction is required.
Rolling Wave Planning:
A. Is done in the Initiating phase
B. Is a form of progressive elaboration
C. Involves planning in the near term at a low level of the WBS
D. Involves scheduling flexibilities for activities
ANSWER: B
Rolling Wave Planning is a planning technique that recognizes that the level of information on the planning horizon is insufficient for the development of a detailed plan.
