Chapter 5: Project Scope Management Flashcards
Which knowledge area includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully:
A. Project Cost Management
B. Project Integration Management
C. Project Scope Management
D. Project Communications Management
C. Project Scope Management
The process of determining, documenting, and managing stakeholder needs and requirements is known as:
A. Collect requirements
B. Define scope
C. Plan scope management
D. Create WBS
A. Collect requirements
When can a scope baseline be changed:
A. As required by the project manager
B. By the project stakeholders
C. Only through formal change control procedures
D. By the project sponsor
C. Only through formal change control procedures
Company SVT is undertaking a project to construct an oil pipeline between Alberta and Texas. They have been working on a document which says how the project scope will be defined, validated and controlled. Which PMBOK process will they use for this:
A. Define Scope
B. Plan Scope Management
C. Validate Scope
D. Collect Requirements
B. Plan Scope Management
Which document is used to provide the project context needed to plan the scope management processes:
A. The Project Charter
B. The Scope Management Plan
C. The Project Management Plan
D. The Project Definition
A. The Project Charter
Which of the following is not a component of a scope management plan:
A. Process that specifies how formal acceptance of the completed project deliverables will be obtained
B. Process that establishes how the WBS will be maintained and approved
C. Process for preparing a detailed project scope statement
D. Process for the development of the project charter
D. Process for the development of the project charter
Which type of project requirements capture any condition or criteria needed to validate the successful completion of a project deliverable or fulfillment of other project requirements:
A. Business requirements
B. Quality requirements
C. Solution requirements
D. Project requirements
B. Quality requirements
Brainstorming, nominal group technique, idea/mind mapping, affinity diagram and multi criteria decision analysis are described in PMBOK as:
A. Group creativity techniques
B. Group meeting techniques
C. Group facilitation techniques
D. Collecting requirements
A. Group creativity techniques
Which of the following is not a group decision making technique:
A. Unanimity
B. Plurality
C. Dictatorship
D. Brainstorming
D. Brainstorming
A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them is known as:
A. Requirements traceability matrix
B. Product requirements matrix
C. Project requirements matrix
D. Affinity diagram
A. Requirements traceability matrix
Company TAZ Software is designing a new software application. The have a clear vision of what the software will do but are developing the detail of how the software will do this as the project proceeds. They are making short term plans for the project and reviewing these and determining how to proceed next at the end of each stage. This type of project is known as:
A. A waterfall project
B. A highly defined project
C. An iterative life cycle project
D. A multiple phase project
C. An iterative life cycle project
Product breakdown, systems analysis, requirements analysis, systems engineering and value analysis are all techniques that are used in:
A. Alternatives generation
B. Product analysis
C. Facilitated workshops
D. Brainstorming
B. Product analysis
The description of the project scope, major deliverables, assumptions and constraints is known in PMBOK as:
A. The project scope definition
B. The project management plan
C. The project charter
D. The project scope statement
D. The project scope statement
Limiting factors that affect the execution of the project are known in PMBOK as:
A. Project exclusions
B. Project constraints
C. Project limitations
D. Project assumptions
B. Project constraints
The hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be carried out by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required project deliverable is known in PMBOK as:
A. The work breakdown structure
B. Project decomposition
C. Product analysis
D. Alternatives generation
A. The work breakdown structure
The planned work in the lowest level of WBS components are called:
A. Work packages
B. Work tasks
C. Project activities
D. Project requirements
A. Work packages
The document that provides deliverable, activity, and scheduling information about each component in the WBS is:
A. The project schedule
B. The WBS dictionary
C. The WBS register
D. The WBS log
B. The WBS dictionary
The plan which specifies how formal acceptance of the completed project deliverables will be obtained is:
A. The quality management plan
B. The project management plan
C. The scope management plan
D. The risk management plan
C. The scope management plan
Uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope is referred to as:
A. Scope growth
B. Scope wandering
C. Scope enlargement
D. Scope creep
D. Scope creep
The technique that is used to determine the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance is:
A. Gap analysis
B. Earned value analysis
C. Variance analysis
D. Work performance analysis
C. Variance analysis
Project Scope Management processes
- Plan Scope Management
- Collect Requirements
- Define Scope
- Create WBS
- Validate Scope
- Control Scope
Business analysis
Analysis undertaken before the project starts and before the project manager has been appointed
Plan Scope Management process
Process in which the project manager prepares the Scope Management Plan
Scope Management Plan
Describes how the scope will be managed, including how it will be defined and developed, monitored and controlled, and verified to ensure that it has been successfully achieved; becomes part of the overall project management plan
Plan Scope Management inputs
- Project charter
- Project management plan
- EEFs
- Organizational process assets
- Development approach (adaptive, agile, predictive, etc.)
Plan Scope Management tools and techniques
- Expert judgement
- Data analysis techniques
- Meetings
Alternatives analysis
Data analysis technique that evaluates options for achieving project objectives