Chapter 4 - Project Integration Management 9%

Question 1

______ includes the processes and activities to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and PM activities within the Project Management Process Groups.

This includes making choices about Resource Allocation, Balancing Competing Demands, Examining Alternative Approaches, Tailoring the Processes to Meet the Project Objectives, and Managing interdependencies among the Project Management Knowledge Areas.

Answer 1

Project Integration Management

Question 2

The process of developing a document that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.

Answer 2

Develop Project Charter

Question 3

The Project \_\_\_\_\_\_ Management processes are: Develop Project Charter
Develop Project Management Plan
Direct and Manage Project Work
Manage Project Knowledge
Monitor and Control Project Work
Perform Integration Change Control
Close Project or Phase

Answer 3

Integration

Question 4

The process of defining, preparing, and coordinating all plan components and consolidating them into an integrated project management plan.

Answer 4

Develop Project Management Plan

Question 5

The process of leading and performing work defined in the project management plan and implementing approved changes to achieve the project’s objectives.

Answer 5

Direct and Manage Project Work

Question 6

The process of using existing knowledge and creating new knowledge to achieve the project’s objectives and contribute to organizational learning.

Answer 6

Manage Project Knowledge

Question 7

The process of tracking, reviewing, and reporting overall progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan.

Answer 7

Monitor and Control Project Work

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Perform Integration Change Control

Question 9

The process of finalizing all activities for the project, phase, or contract.

Answer 9

Close Project or Phase

Question 10

The document issues 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 and documents that high-level info on the project and the product, service, or result the project is intended to satisfy.

Answer 10

Project Charter

Question 11

The ability to effectively guide a group event to a successful decision, solution, or conclusion.

Answer 11

Facilitation

Question 12

Includes preparing the agenda, ensuring that representatives for each key stakeholder group is invited, and preparing and sending the follow-up minutes and actions.

Answer 12

Meeting Management

Question 13

The document that describes how the project will be executed, monitored and controlled, and closed. It integrates and consolidates all of the subsidiary management plans and baselines, and other information necessary to manage the project.

Answer 13

Project Management Plan

Question 14

Provides access to IT software tools, such as scheduling software tools, work authorization systems, configuration management systems, information collection and distribution systems, as well as interfaces to other online automated systems such as corporate knowledge base repositories. Automated gathering and reporting on KPIs can be part of this system

Answer 14

Project Management Information System (PMIS)

Question 15

A project document where are issues are recorded and tracked. Data may include, issue type, who raised it/when, description, priority, who is assigned to it, target resolution date, status, and final solution.

Answer 15

Issue Log

Question 16

An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.

Answer 16

Corrective Action

Question 17

An intentional activity that ensure the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.

Answer 17

Preventative Action

Question 18

An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.

Answer 18

Defect Repair

Question 19

Used to record all assumptions and constraints throughout the project life cycle.

Answer 19

Assumption Log

Question 20

Knowledge that is personal and difficult to express, such as beliefs, insights, experience, and “know-how.”

Answer 20

Tacit

Question 21

Knowledge that can be readiliy codified using words, pictures, and numbers.

Answer 21

Explicit

Question 22

May record challenges, problems, realized risks and opportunities, or other content as appropriate.

Answer 22

Lessons Learned Register

Question 23

Used to select the corrective actions or a combination of corrective and preventative actions to implement when a deviation occurs.

Answer 23

Alternatives Analysis

Question 24

Used to forecast future performance based on past results for expected slippage and problems later if things continue as they are.

Answer 24

Trend Analysis

Question 25

Reviews the differences between planned and actual performance. Includes duration estimates, cost estimates, resources utilization, resources rates, technical performance, and other metrics.

Answer 25

Variance Analysis

Question 26

Describes how the change request throughout the project will be formally authorized and incorporated.

Answer 26

Change Mangement Plan

Question 27

Describes how the information about the items of the project (and which items) will be recorded and updated so that the product, service, or result of the project remains consistent and/or operative.

Answer 27

Configuration Management Plan