Chapter 4 : Project Integration Management

Question 1

What are the 4 outputs of the Monitor and Control Work process?

Answer 1

Change requests
Work performance reports
Project management plan updates
Project documents updates

Question 2

What are the 5 inputs to Develop Project Charter?

Answer 2

Project statement of work
Business case
Agreements
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets

Question 3

What is the term for “activities performed to bring future performance into compliance with the project management plan”?

Answer 3

Corrective actions

Question 4

What is the definition of a statement of work?

Answer 4

A narrative description of the products, services, or results or services to be delivered by the project.

Question 5

When does Close Project or Phase occur?

Answer 5

When the work of the project or phase is complete

When the work stops (before the work is complete)

Question 6

What is the primary deliverable of the Develop Project Charter process?

Answer 6

The project charter

Question 7

What is “integrated change control”?

Answer 7

The process of reviewing all change requests; approving changes and managing changes to deliverables, organizational process assets, project documents, and the project management plan; and communicating their disposition.

Question 8

What are enterprise environmental factors?

Answer 8

Conditions, not under the immediate control of the team, that influence, constrain, or direct the project, program, or portfolio.

Question 9

What is the primary output of Close Project or Phase?

Answer 9

Final product, service, or result transition

Question 10

What are the 5 inputs of the Develop Project Charter Process?

Answer 10

Project statement of work
Business case
Agreements
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets

Question 11

What are the key components of the project SOW?

Answer 11

Business needs for project
Product scope description
Strategic plan (how the project relates to the strategic plan)

Question 12

What are 3 main reasons that organizations undertake projects?

Answer 12

To solve a business problem
To address a business need
To exploit a business opportunity

Question 13

When in doubt on project issues, change requests, or if you have questions, what should you refer to?

Answer 13

The project management plan

Question 14

What is the project charter?

Answer 14

A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.

Question 15

What are the 5 outputs of Direct and Manage Project Work?

Answer 15

Deliverables
Work performance data
Change requests
Project management plan updates
Project documents updates

Question 16

What are the 4 outputs of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?

Answer 16

Approved change requests
Change log
Project management plan updates
Project documents updates

Question 17

What does project integration mean?

Answer 17

How the project fits into the organization or enterprise

How all the pieces or components of the project fit together

Question 18

What is the purpose of a configuration management system?

Answer 18

To define and document how changes to the product are to be submited, tracked, reviewed, and approved or rejected

Question 19

Which project document identifies why the project should be funded and how the project meets the business needs described in the SOW?

Answer 19

The business case

Question 20

Which project management process involves doing the work outlined in the project management plan to achieve the project goals?

Answer 20

Direct and Manage Project Work

Question 21

What is the responsability of the change control board?

Answer 21

To review, evaluate, and approve (or reject) change requests

Question 22

What is the “initiator”?

Answer 22

The person (or organization) with the ability to authorize the project

Question 23

What is the term for “the person, or group, provinding the financial resources for the project”

Answer 23

The sponsor

Question 24

What are organizational process assets?

Answer 24

Plans, processes, policies, procedures, and knowledge bases that are specific to and used by the performing organization.

Question 25

Is expert judgement an input, tool and technique, or output?

Answer 25

Tool and technique

Question 26

What are the 2 tools and techniques of the Develop Project Management Plan process?

Answer 26

Expert judgement

Facilitation techniques

Question 27

What are the Project Integration Management process and in which Process Group does each process fit?

Answer 27

Develop Project Charter (Initiating)
Develop Project Management Plan (Planning)
Direct and Manage Project Work (Executing)
Monitor and Control Project Work (monitoring and Controlling)
Perform Integrated Change Control (Monitoring and Controlling)
Close Project or Phase (Closing)

Question 28

Which important project document is described by the following statement?
“A document, or collection of documents, created by the project manager based on input from project team, stakeholders, management, and others, that is used to manage the project”

Answer 28

The project management plan

Question 29

“Collecting the project (or phase) records, documenting the results, obtaining formal acceptance, and transferring the completed (or canceled) project or phase to the appropriete party” describes which Project Integration Management process?

Answer 29

Close Project or Phase

Question 30

What is the PMIS (project management information system)?

Answer 30

An information system consisting of the tools and techniques used to gather, integrate, and desseminate the outputs of project management process. It is used to support all aspects of the project from initiationg through closing, and can include both manual and automated systems.