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Question 1

What do all the org project enabling processes take as an input?

Answer 1

All the organizational project-enabling processes take the organization strategic plan as an input

Question 2

What is something important that LCMM’s activities include that you might forget?

Answer 2

Actually establishing a LCMM process

Question 3

What are inputs and outputs for LCMM you might forget?

Answer 3

It gets a couple inputs from QM and the organization tailoring strategy from TLR. Its outputs go to MEAS (org process performance measures needs/data), and to Control (basically OPAs)

Question 4

What inputs and outputs for INFRAM are ones you’d forget?

Answer 4

IFRAM gets infrastructure needs from both PM and PP. Its outputs (org. infrastructure and project infrastructure) to the organization and the project(s) are enablers to both.

Question 5

What inputs and outputs of PM might you miss?

Answer 5

PM gets supply strategy from SUP (note there is no similar input from ACQ). It also gets project status reports from PAC. Distinct outputs are project direction to PP and PAC, org lessons learned to KM, project portfolio to PP/HRM.

Question 6

What I/Os of KM might you miss?

Answer 6

KM has pretty predictable inputs and outputs. Key inputs are both org lessons learned from PM and project lessons learned from PAC; the key output is the KM system which is then an enabler.

Question 7

What Tailoring IPOs might I miss?

Answer 7

Tailoring primarily takes the life cycle models from LCMM, and outputs both org and project tailoring strategies (LCMM and PP). The activity I’m most likely to forget is “Take due account of the life cycle structures recommended or mandated by standards.”

Question 8

What ACQ actvities might I miss?

Answer 8

• Establish and maintain an agreement
• Monitor the agreement
• Accept the product or service

Question 9

What ACQ I/Os might I miss?

Answer 9

• Inputs : Acquisition need from PP and Enabling System Requirements from all the process on the bottom and right half of the V. You also get acquisition replies and acquired systems from SUP.
• Outputs :
  
  • ​Acq strategy [PP]
  • Request for supply [SUP]
  • Acquisition agreement [Control]
  • Accepted System or system element [INT]
  • Acquisition payment [SUP]

Question 10

What SUP activities might I miss?

Answer 10

• Establish and maintain an agreement
• Execute the agreement
• Deliver and support the product or service

Question 11

What SUP inputs might I miss?

Answer 11

• Request for supply [ACQ]
• Supply Payment [ACQ]
• Validated system [VAL]
• Disposed system [DISP]

Question 12

Which SUP outputs might I miss?

Answer 12

• Supply strategy [PM]
• Supply response [ACQ - Acquisition reply] and [PP]
• Supply agreement [Control]
• Supplied system [ACQ – Acquired system]
• Supply report [PAC]
• Supply record [KM]

Question 13

What is a RM activity I may miss?

Answer 13

Manage the Risk Profile

Question 14

What is it from all the the other life cycle processes that could be inputs into CM?

Answer 14

CIs generated by any other life cycle process

Question 15

Where do major, specific outputs of the TM processes almost always go?

Answer 15

PAC

Question 16

What might I miss about QA’s inputs?

Answer 16

None of them come from the technical processes, not even from verification or validation.

Question 17

Where do CRs from PAC go?

Answer 17

Into CM and INFOM

Question 18

What about life cycle concepts/constraints could I miss?

Answer 18

• Life cycle concepts (i.e. operations concept, disposal concept, support concept) get developed in BMA (preliminary) and SNRD, and then serve as inputs to all technical processes thereafter.
• Life cycle constraints are generated by technical processes on the bottom and right side of the V, and they are inputs to everything in the V “left” of the processes that generate them. They are worded in the outputs as X constraints where X is the name of the TP

Question 19

How does the RVTM trace through the life cycle?

Answer 19

• Initial version gets created in SNRD
• Updated in SRD
• Then is an input to VER, where the final version of it comes back as an input to SRD
• Final RVTM is an input into VAL

Question 20

Trace MOEs/MOPs/TPMs through the life cycle

Answer 20

• Preliminary MOE needs/data get generated in BMA and finalized in SNRD
• MOP needs and data are generated in SRD. Note: there are no preliminary MOPs
• TPM needs and data are generated in a preliminary version in AD, finalized in DD.
• MOE/MOP/TPM needs and data are all inputs into MEAS

Question 21

What are source documents?

Answer 21

Source documents are external documents relevant to the particular stage of procurement activity for the system of interest. Inputs into PP, BMA, and SNRD.

Question 22

What’s the trace for Project Constraints through the life cycle?

Answer 22

Project Constraints get generated by Project Planning, but are only inputs into BMA and SNRD

Question 23

How do the various traceabiities (e.g. design traceability, implementation traceability) evolve through the V?

Answer 23

In the left side and bottom of the V, traceabilities are bi-directional and generally from/to before/after. E.g. for IMPL: Design traceability (from the predecessor process) is an input to IMPL. Implementation traceability flow both back to DD and forward to INT.

Question 24

What is a key input from ACQ to INT?

Answer 24

Accepted system

Question 25

Where do all the strategy doc outputs from ACQ, SUP, and everything in the V go?

Answer 25

PP

Question 26

What else gets validated in Validation besides the system?

Answer 26

It includes validating the actual requirements, not just the system. Validated requirements is them an input to PAC and SNRD

Question 27

What are the standard controls?

Answer 27

• Applicable laws/regulations
• Project direction
• Project control requests
• Standards
• Agreements

Question 28

What are the standard enablers?

Answer 28

• Organizational policies, procedures, and standards
• Organization infrastructure
• Project infrastructure
• Knowledge management system

Question 29

Where do project change requests come from and where do they go?

Answer 29

They may originate in any life cycle process, but they are outputted from PAC, thence to CM and INFOM

Question 30

What are PP I/Os I could miss?

Answer 30

• Input : Supply response [SUP]
• Input : QM corrective actions [QM]
• Input : QA Plan [QA]
• Input: Strategy docs from other TM and T processes. The exam questions may use something like “X Strategy” where X refers to a process
• Output : SEMP
• Output : Project constraints [BMA] and [SNRD]
• Output : Acquisition need [ACQ]

Question 31

What is the trace of system functions through the life cycle?

Answer 31

• They are identified in SNRD and defined (fleshed out) in SRD
• They are then used by AD and DD

Question 32

What is the trace of interfaces through the life cycle?

Answer 32

• System functional interfaces are identified in SRD.
• They are then inputted into AD and AD outputs the preliminary definitions of these interfaces.
• Then the preliminary interface definitions go to DD, where, they are completed/updated and then outputted as interface definitions
• They are inputs into IMPL, INT, and VER
• INT then will, potentially, flow back interface update identification to AD and DD.

Question 33

When are procedures generated by the technical processes and where are they used?

Answer 33

• They are generated by the TPs on the right side of the V (excluding Operation)
• They are inputs into PAC

Question 34

What do most (but not all) of the TPs do in their “manage” activity?

Answer 34

Provide baseline information for configuration management.