Chapter 4: Project Integration Management

Question 1

What are the 6 Project Integration Management processes?

Answer 1

4. 1 Develop Project Charter
5. 2 Develop Project Management Plan
6. 3 Direct and Manage Project Work
7. 4 Monitor and Control Project Work
8. 5 Perform Integrated Change Control
9. 6 Close Project or Phase

04.0 Project Integration Management

Question 2

What is the major project document that provides the project manager with most of their authority?

Answer 2

The Project Charter

04.1 Develop Project Charter

Question 3

From what process does work performance data come from?

Answer 3

Direct and Manage Project Work

04.3 Direct and Manage Project Work

Question 4

What are manual or automated tools based on the needs of the stakeholders in the project and available in the project environment by the overall performing organization?

Answer 4

Change Control Tools

04.5.2.3 Change Control Tools

Question 5

What is the process of finalizing all activities across all of the Project Management Process Groups to formally complete the project or phase?

Answer 5

Close Project or Phase

4.6 Close Project or Phase

Question 6

What are the accepted deliverables for Close Project or Phase?

Answer 6

May include:

1. approved product specifications
2. delivery receipts
3. work performance documents

Partial or interim deliverables may also be included for phased or cancelled projects.

4.6.1.2 Accepted Deliverables

Question 7

What kind of meetings occur in the Close Project or Phase process?

Answer 7

Types of meetings include, but are not limited to:

1. lessons learned
2. closeout
3. user group
4. review meetings

4.6.2.3 Meetings

Question 8

What output refers to the transition of the final product, service, or result that the project was authorized to produce (or in the case of phase closure, the intermediate product, service, or result of that phase)?

Answer 8

Final Product, Service, or Result Transition

4.6.3.1 Final Product, Service, or Result Transition

Question 9

What would formal documentation indicate about a project that was terminated prior to completion?

Answer 9

Indicates why the project was terminated and formalizes the procedures for the transfer of the finished and unfinished deliverables of the cancelled project to others.

4.6.3.2 Organizational Process Assets Updates

Question 10

What is the difference between change control and configuration control?

Answer 10

Configuration control is focused on the specification of both the deliverables and the processes.

Change control is focused on identifying, documenting, and approving or rejecting changes to the project documents, deliverables, or baselines.

4.5 Perform Integrated Change Control

Question 11

What includes collecting, measuring and distributing performance information and assessing measurements and trends to effect process improvements?

Answer 11

Monitor project work

4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work

Question 12

What gives the project management team insight into the health of the project and identifies any areas that may require special attention?

Answer 12

Continuous monitoring

4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work

Question 13

What includes determining corrective or preventive actions or replanning and following up on action plans to determine whether the actions taken resolved the performance issue?

Answer 13

Control project work

4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work

Question 14

What are anything that can modify project policies or procedure, project scope, cost or budget, schedule or quality?

Answer 14

Change Requests

4.3.3.3 Change Requests

Question 15

What is the major project document that provides the project manager with most of their authority?

Answer 15

The Project Charter

4.1 Develop Project Charter

Question 16

What is the process of finalizing all activities across all of the management process groups to formally complete the project or phase?

Answer 16

Close Project or Phase

4.6 Close Project or Phase

Question 17

What is the the formal document that describes the process and management plans used to execute, monitor, and control the project?

Answer 17

The Project Management Plan

4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

Question 18

What three kinds of change requests are implementable in the Direct and Manage Project Work process?

Answer 18

1. Corrective action
2. Preventative action
3. Defect repair

4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work

Question 19

What is an EAC?

Answer 19

Estimate at completion

4.4.1.3 Cost Forecasts

Question 20

What is the process for documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans.The primary source of information for how the project will be planned, executed, monitored and controlled and closed?

Answer 20

Develop Project Management Plan

4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

Question 21

What is the process for developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and documenting initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholder needs and expectations?

Answer 21

Develop Project Charter

4.1 Develop Project Charter

Question 22

What is an EAC?

Answer 22

Estimate at completion

4.4.1.3 Cost Forecasts

Question 23

What is an ETC?

Answer 23

Estimate to completion

4.4.1.3 Cost Forecasts

Question 24

What is the process of reviewing all change requests, approving changes, and managing changes to deliverables, organizational process assets, project documents, and the project management plan?

Answer 24

Perform Integrated Change Control

4.5 Perform Integrated Change Control

Question 25

What is the process of tracking, reviewing, and regulating the process to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan?

Answer 25

Monitor and Control Project Work

4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work

Question 26

What is the process of performing the work defined in the project management plan to scheme the project’s activities?

Answer 26

Direct and Manage Project Work

4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work

Question 27

What process produces the project or phase deliverables?

Answer 27

Direct and Manage Project Work

4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work

Question 28

What is anything that can modify project policies or procedure, project scope, cost or budget, schedule or quality (including modifications to procurement documentation)?

Answer 28

Change request

4.4.3.1 Change Requests

Question 29

What is required for a decision that involves procuring goods, services, or resources?

Answer 29

A change request

4.3.1.2 Approved Change Requests

Question 30

What written document can modify project policies or procedure, project scope, cost, or budget, schedule or quality?

Answer 30

A change request

4.3.1.2 Approved Change Requests

Question 31

What are the physical or electronic illustrations of work performance information compelled in project documents, intended to generate decisions, actions, or awareness?

Answer 31

Work performance reports

4.4.3.2 Work Performance Reports

Question 32

What is used to document changes that occur during a project?

These changes and their impact to the project in terms of time, cost, and risk, are communicated to the appropriate stakeholders.

Answer 32

The Change Log

4.5.3.2 Change Log

Question 33

What is the document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and documenting initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholder’s needs and expectation?

Answer 33

The project charter

4.2.1.1 Project Charter