Manage Closure Flashcards
You have delivered the final product of your project and are now ready to close the project. You have gathered all the project documents and lessons learned and are now preparing to archive all the relevant information. Which of the following is least important when archiving project records?
A. An efficient records management system
B. Integration of the archive with business software
C. Updated records reflecting final results of the project
D. Ensuring the information is easily available for future use
Answer: B
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Choice B is the correct response. Even though integrating business software can make things more efficient and user-friendly, it is the least important of the responses listed.
You are managing a major software upgrade for your company, and the key software items have been developed and tested. There were some bugs found, which delayed the progress, and the stakeholders became dissatisfied due to the cost overruns. Once the bugs were corrected but before installation could begin, the sponsor informed you that the project is terminated. To which of the following should you direct your attention?
A. Meeting with key stakeholders to understand their concerns
B. Propose a plan to the sponsor to salvage the project
C. Determine if there are management reserves to offset the cost overruns thus satisfying your stakeholders
D. Completing project closure activities
Answer: D
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A project enters closure when it ends or is prematurely terminated before completion of all deliverables. The project manager should initiate project closure to document lessons learned, update records, create archives and then release resources.
A new team member has joined your agile team but has never worked in an agile environment before. He has been used to attending close out meetings during phase closure and project closure and is trying to understand how that works in an agile environment. How would you advise him?
A. The closeout in Agile happens in the Retrospective.
B. The closeout in Agile happens in the Sprint Review.
C. The closeout in Agile happens once the deliverables have met the definition of done.
D. The closeout in Agile happens after being authorized by the Project Manager.
Answer: A
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The Retrospective is the last Agile ceremony in a sprint and that is where the sprint closeout occurs. Retrospectives occur after the Sprint Review. The definition of done is approved by the Product Owner during the Sprint Review.
All of the following occurs while closing a project, except which one?
A. Release or reassign personnel
B. Validation of scope
C. Create lessons learned
D. Conduct regression analysis
Answer: B
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Remember that the validate scope process takes place during monitoring and controlling. All of the other answer choices are done during closing.
You are in the process of closing the Kickoff project phase and you are referring to the project management plan. For what purpose are you using this document?
A. To update baselines
B. To secure customer approval
C. To analyze project performance relative to the plans
D. To secure product acceptance
Answer: C
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Project plans establish the framework for performance measurements and are therefore required to create a final performance report on project objectives.
You are working on the close project process and want to document the steps you are taking to wrap everything up, so that other project managers in your organization will have a check-list to use in the future. Which of the following does not happen during the close project process?
A. Prepare final report
B. Transition of deliverable
C. Update project documents
D. Validate Scope
Answer: D
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Validate Scope is a part of project scope control and is carried out throughout the monitoring and controlling process group. Transitioning the deliverables, updating project documents and preparing the final report are all done during this process.
In an Agile project, the completion of the project is not always tied to time or a deadline. Usually, it’s discussed as the definition of done or project release criteria. Where would you find this information?
A. Product backlog
B. The Retrospective
C. Lessons learned register
D. The Project Charter
Answer: D
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The Charter uses the same concepts in agile. Read more about this in the Agile Practice Guide p 49
You are the project manager for a large international project. The project is wrapping up and your client appears to be satisfied. That is good since this was a five year project with high visibility from your leadership team. You want to close out the project as quickly and efficiently as possible. Which of the following is not an input to the Close Project or Phase process?
A. Project management plan
B. Accepted deliverables
C. Final product transition
D. Organizational process assets
Answer: C
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The inputs to the Close Project or Phase process are project management plan, accepted deliverables, and organizational process assets. Final product transition is the output of the this process, not an input.
Which of the following processes comes latest during the Closing Process?
A. Close Process Group
B. Release the team
C. Archive Records
D. Close Contracts
Answer: B
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The project team creates the lessons learned, project archives and the updates the personnel records for the new skills acquired by individuals while working on the project. Releasing the resources for new assignments would be the last step in closure because you need the team, or at least a part of the team, to perform the necessary close-out functions.
Projects often require activities throughout each process group. Your organization is a small start-up company and utilizes agile planning processes. As a project manager, you want to ensure all the necessary tasks are completed and have asked to meet with the sponsor to discuss closing out the project. Which of the following is not required when closing a project?
A. Making final payments
B. Updating project archives
C. Updating the resource management plan
D. Releasing the project team
Answer: C
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Project closure activities include financial closure (making final payments and updating cost records), conducting lessons learned, transition of deliverables, final project performance reporting, archiving project records, and releasing the team. While the resource management plan should be consulted with regard to the method for releasing the team, closing a project does not involve updating that plan.
As part of closing your project you are gathering together all necessary project documents. You are especially interested in reviewing the constraints which applied to your project. Your next move is to consult the:
A. Assumption log
B. Constraint log
C. Project charter
D. Issue log
Answer: A
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There is no constraint log and the charter does not list constraints. The issue log assists the project manager with problems, gaps, inconsistencies or conflicts occurring unexpectedly and requiring some action so they do not impact project performance. The assumption log is used to record all assumptions and constraints throughout the project life cycle.
On projects with procurements, it is necessary to make sure the contracts are closed out. This activity happens during which process?
A. Close Procurements
B. Close Project or Phase
C. Control Procurements
D. Monitor Procurements
Answer: C
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Control Procurements is where contracts are closed. There are no such processes as Close Procurements or Monitor Procurements.
You are closing out your project. Before you release your team from the project you want to provide them with feedback on the overall project performance. Since the team worked for several departments during the project you decide to conduct the review before they are released. What is the most important benefit of a final project review?
A. The final review enables the team to share in the lessons learned and knowledge accumulated during the project.
B. Feedback from different perspectives provides an overall assessment of each team member during the project.
C. Team members will be assessed during the meeting by subordinates, encouraging a more participative style.
D. A standardized questionnaire is used to gather data.
Answer: A
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The correct answer is A. Final reviews of the project are a necessary part of the closing process to ensure documentation, including a final review, is created, disseminated, and stored.
During administrative closure, you must do all of the following except:
A. Deal with excess project material
B. Manage knowledge sharing and transfer
C. Hold a final team meeting
D. Close project accounts
Answer: C
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The key word here is administrative. You can, and perhaps should, hold a final team meeting. But it is not an administrative activity.
You are having lunch with a group of peer project managers. The topic of project objectives comes up and there is disagreement on exactly what a project objective is. Which of the following statements best describes project objectives?
A. Business case for the project
B. Purpose of the project as defined in the project charter
C. Deliverables of the project
D. Quantifiable criteria to determine project success
Answer: D
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Project objectives are quantifiable criteria to measure project performance. These should include cost, schedule and quality aspects
You have just completed a large multi-year project. Your baselines have changed throughout the project, and you are relieved that the project is coming to an end. You are finalizing all the information and completing the necessary activities to close the project officially. When is a project considered to be closed?
A. When all project documents are finalized and archived
B. When lessons learned are documented
C. When you receive final payment from the customer
D. When the customer accepts the product
Answer: A
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Customer acceptance is the first step in closure. Lessons learned and final performance reports must be completed before they can be archived. Therefore, the project is truly closed only after the archives are completed.
You are well into executing your project and it looks like you will finish on time. You have previously noticed some projects in your organization just seem to end and have no formal closure. At your team meeting, you explain to your team the key benefits of formally closing the project are:
A. Project information is archived, planned work is completed, charter is updated
B. Planned work is completed, team resources are released, team management plan is updated
C. Project information is archived, planned work is completed, team resources are released
D. Planned work is completed, charter is updated, project information is archived
Answer: C
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The charter typically does not get updated and the team management plan is irrelevant here.
You and your agile team have just completed the first of a series of sprints for the latest group of features that will be added to your firm’s smart phone product. Most things went well, though a few did not go as expected. You want to ensure that the team learns from its mistakes so as not to make them again on future sprints. To close out the first sprint, what should be done next?
A. Conduct a sprint closure meeting
B. Conduct a retrospective
C. Conduct a lessons learned review meeting
D. Conduct a sprint review
Answer: B
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Every sprint on an agile project is closed out with a retrospective. Lessons learned review meetings are common for predictive projects at the end of each phase and the end of the project. Sprint reviews are performed at the end of a sprint after all deliverables are produced or demoed for the end user or customer to approve (or reject). There is no such thing as a sprint closure meeting.
Sally is working on closing her project. She has updated the project documents and completed the final report. What is left for Sally to do before the project is completely closed?
A. Update organizational process assets
B. Review the project plan
C. Validate deliverables
D. Accept deliverables
Answer: A
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At this point Sally is completing the outputs of the closing phase. Answer a is the best choice because updating organizational process assets is an output of the closing process. Answer B, reviewing the project plan is done at the beginning of the close process. Answer C and D are both part of the Validate Scope process.
In an Agile project, the completion of the project is not always tied to time or a deadline. Completion is usually discussed as the definition of done or project release criteria. Where would you find this information?
A. Backlog
B. The Retrospective
C. Closing Manifesto
D. The Project Charter
Answer: D
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The Charter uses the same concepts in agile. Read more about this in the Agile Practice Guide p. 49
Your project has been successful and met all of its objectives. Now the time has come for formal closure of the project. You must do all of the following except what?
A. Scope validation
B. Archive records
C. Document lessons learned
D. Prepare final report
Answer: A
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Scope validation involves formal customer acceptance by the customer of the deliverables. Those accepted deliverables then become inputs to closing the project.
Several team members frequently spend their time helping operations and maintenance staff with a project feature that was just commissioned. The project manager needs to ensure the feature was signed off on and that ownership was transferred. Which documents should the project manager rely on for this purpose?
A. Procurement agreements, organizational process assets updates, and final report
B. Procurement agreements, organizational process assets updates, and project document updates
C. Stakeholder engagement plan, organizational process assets updates, and procurement agreements
D. Project document updates, organizational process assets updates, and final report
Answer: D
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Project document updates, organizational process assets updates, and final report are outputs of the close project or phase process. PMBOK Guide Sixth Edition (2017) PMI/PMI/4.7.3/127
Which of the following would not be a suitable reason for closing a project?
A. Adequate funding is no longer available to complete the requirements.
B. The requirements changed during execution to the point where the project is no longer feasible.
C. Project costs have doubled the approved budget with more deliverables still to be produced.
D. Merger or acquisition that affects the organization.
Answer: C
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Just because a project is over budget is not necessarily a reason to cancel or close it. It all depends on the value that may still be derived from the project, as determined by the end users or customers.
Mike is a senior project manager with Next Solutions Inc. He has been working on a 14-month long project to develop an inventory control management database for a prominent client. Mike has gained acceptance of the final deliverables during the Validate Scope process and is now entering the Close Project process. Which of the following activities is not part of the administrative closure of a project?
A. Audit the outcome of the project
B. Review the project management plan
C. Confirm the formal acceptance of deliverables
D. Document any additional changes and issue a change request
Answer: D
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D is the correct answer because change requests are not part of the closing process. A, B, and C are all activities that are conducted to close a project.
Which of the following would result from project closure?
A. Final Report
B. Enterprise Environmental Factor Updates
C. Accepted Deliverables
D. Validated Deliverables
Answer: A
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The final report is produced during administrative closure. The other choices listed are outputs from other processes.
During Closing, it is important for the project manager to prepare a final report which provides a summary of the project performance. It contains all of the following except:
A. Summary level description of the project or phase
B. Cost objectives, acceptable cost range, actual costs
C. Summary of risks and issues and how they were dealt with
D. Performance of resources including team assessment
Answer: D
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While it is important to assess the team during the life of the project, there is no mention of resources in the final report. All of the other choices are explicitly called out.
You are ready to close your project out and have gathered together all project documents for review. Your sponsor calls you in to a meeting and reminds you that there are business documents that must be reviewed as well. Your next step should be to review which business documents?
A. Project charter, business case and benefits management plan
B. Business case and benefits management plan
C. Business case and business management plan
D. Project charter and benefits management plan
Answer: B
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The only two documents specifically referred to in the PMBOK Guide as business documents are the business case and benefits management plan. There is no such thing as a business management plan. And while it is important to review the project charter, strictly speaking it is not considered a business document.
Which of the following is the purpose of a retrospective?
A. To determine if the deliverables meet the definition of done.
B. To close out the sprint.
C. To allow the Product Owner to accept the deliverable.
D. For Stakeholders to reward the team.
Answer: B
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A retrospective is the last Agile ceremony on a sprint whose primary purpose is to discuss lessons learned and close out the sprint. This occurs after the sprint review meeting, where the Product Owner (not the team) approves based on the definition of done and accepts the deliverable. The purpose is not to reward team members at this meeting. PMI Authorized PMP Exam Prep Student Guide/ Page 143
You just finished a phase gate with your sponsor and they are pleased planning has finally been signed off. What is your next action?
A. Plan a kick off meeting
B. Collect requirements
C. Award the contract for a key resource to assist with milestone development
D. Ensure the scope is correct and control quality
Answer: A
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A kickoff meeting should be held with stakeholders, project management team members, and other stakeholders to gain commitment from the team for the project, alert them of the phase gate, and explain the roles and responsibilities of each stakeholder.
After a project ends, the project manager and project team members are still being asked to do the following: -Evaluate new requirements -Make minor modifications -Solve technical issues The project manager wants to ensure the product or service developed by the project now has operational support. What should the project manager do?
A. Complete the handover of the project.
B. Review the acceptance criteria and get acceptance.
C. Formally disband the project team and find a new project.
D. Continue to fulfill the requests as the product is still being developed.
Answer: A
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Project closure and hand-off will ensure knowledge transfer to production and/or operations. PMBOK Guide Sixth Edition (2017), 4. Project Integration Management / 4.7 Close Project or Phase, pp121 - 123.
You are a project manager at a large construction company. You have successfully completed the work on a large building. At the final team meeting, as part of professional and social responsibility, you should:
A. Elaborate the final project reports as required by organizational policies
B. Have a party to celebrate the successful completion of the project
C. Create a letter of recommendation for team members for their personal files
D. Thank members for their contribution
Answer: A
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Elaborating the final project report is necessary to satisfy completion or exit criteria for the phase or project. Having a party celebrating the successful completion of the project, thanking each member for their contribution, and creating a letter of recommendation for each team member for their personal file are team-building activities and rewards.
Your management decided to terminate the project due to persistent budget and schedule overruns by the supplier. What should you do immediately?
A. Proceed with the closure
B. Call a meeting with management to try to resurrect the project
C. Discuss it with the team members and present a revised project management plan to management
D. Finish completing the deliverables that are nearly complete, then perform close-out procedures
Answer: A
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The project was terminated, so the next step is to formally close the project. This includes gathering and organizing relevant documentation, closing out procurements, and releasing the team.
You are finishing the closing process on an elaborate 18-month defense project. The project has had numerous setbacks and delays, but you were able to manage the issues effectively and produce the desired results. You are producing the final report as you close out the project. What does the final report not include?
A. Summary of the validation information for the product
B. Summary level description of the project
C. Includes information on schedule and cost performance
D. Project team transition instructions
Answer: D
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The final report provides a summary project description, quality objectives, cost and schedule performance information, and a summary of validation information for deliverables. It does not include future project team assignment instructions, therefore D is the correct answer.
You have just received formal acceptance of the project’s deliverables. Which two items must still be performed?
A. Close contracts and Validate Scope
B. Close contracts and Close Project/Phase
C. Release the team then close the project out
D. Release Team and Document Risk Effectiveness
Answer: B
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From the options provided, your next tasks are to close contracts and close the project. Answer A would be incorrect because it includes Validate Scope, which has already been done, since you have received formal acceptance of the project deliverables. Answer C would be incorrect because releasing the team is the last thing that is done in project closure. Answer D would be incorrect because documenting risk effectiveness would be done prior to project closure.
You and your project team are working to close out a project, and have transitioned the deliverable to the operations side of the organization. You have received payment for the validated deliverables. All procurements have been finalized and closed out. What else should you be focused on creating at this point?
A. Project Management Plan Updates
B. Procurement Performance Review
C. Executing the Staff Release Plan
D. Organizational Process Assets Updates
Answer: D
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Organizational Process Assets Updates (which includes the archiving of records) are an output of the Close Project or Phase process. The other output is the final product, service or result transition.
As the technical lead on a company-wide software implementation project, Gene realizes his team has completed all the necessary exit criteria for the deliverables in question at this point of the project. He contacted you, the project manager, to determine if it would be an appropriate time to conduct his closure activities. When should administrative closure be carried out?
A. At the completion of each phase of the project, and at the completion of the project itself.
B. At the completion of each process group
C. At the completion of each deliverable
D. At the completion of each procurement contract on the project
Answer: A
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Administrative closure activities should be carried out at the completion of each phase of a project and at the conclusion of the project itself. Performing this process at each phase will help determine the feasibility of moving forward with the next phase.
Which of the following is most likely updated as an output of the Close Project process?
A. Administrative Closure Procedure
B. Contract Closure Procedure
C. Final product, result or transition
D. Organizational Process Assets
Answer: D
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During closure of a project the project manager will include the development of the index and location of all relevant project documentation for later reference, which is an update to the OPAs.
Selina is now closing her project. She has gathered her project documents and is getting ready to document the lessons learned throughout the project. What should not be her thoughts when creating documents as lessons learned?
A. Develop lessons learned documentation that are easy to comprehend, even by someone not familiar with the project.
B. Lessons learned detail team members and stakeholders that caused failures or delays during the project
C. Developing lessons learned documentation should further your development and increase your learning experience.
D. Keep lessons learned documents in a location where they are easily accessible and can be retrieved for those who may later need the information.
Answer: B
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Lessons learned are designed to help the organization with future projects and maintain the knowledge learned. They are not designed to place blame or to expose who made mistakes, therefore B is the correct answer.
You are wrapping up a project to develop a prototype of a self-driving vehicle and are interviewing stakeholders to determine their satisfaction with the deliverable. The project ran over schedule due to an unforeseeable change in legislation regarding the use of such technology, and a substantial amount of rework became necessary to ensure compliance with the new regulations. Despite this, your project remained on budget due to the effective application of reserves and shuffling of resources between other projects in the program. In which artifact should you document whether the deliverable has achieved its business value?
A. Organizational process assets
B. Final report
C. Benefits management plan
D. Validate Scope
Answer: B
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The final report contains summarized information including, among other things, information about whether or not the project and its deliverable achieved the business needs identified in the business documents.
In an Agile project, the completion of the project is usually documented as the definition of done (DoD). From the list below, which one would most likely be included in the DoD?
A. Backlog
B. Retrospective criteria
C. Closing Manifesto
D. Acceptance criteria
Answer: D
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Often times when acceptance criteria are left out of the DoD, issues arise around work being completed and accepted. These are two different ideas, for example, when kids say they have cleaned their room, that doesn’t mean they cleaned it to a parent’s standards. This concept is mentioned in the Agile Practice Guide on p 58
All of the following must be done before the project can be closed except which one?
A. Ensure that the schedule baseline has been updated
B. Get formal acceptance of the deliverables from the customer
C. Make sure the scope of the project was completed
D. Verify that the product acceptance criteria have been met
Answer: A
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Before closing a project you need to get formal written acceptance of the deliverables from the customer, ensure every work item in the WBS has been completed, and verify that the product acceptance criteria have been met.
Your management decided to terminate the project due to persistent budget and schedule overruns. You have just provided the seller formal written notice that the contract is closed. What should you do next?
A. Proceed with contract closure procedure
B. Call a meeting with management to try to resurrect the project
C. Archive relevant project documents
D. Release project resources
Answer: D
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The project was terminated and procurements have been closed out, so the next step is to release the project team.
Your project has been terminated early by the sponsor. You are closing the project. At this point, your next best move to is to do what?
A. Meet with the sponsor
B. Engage all the proper stakeholders in the process
C. Call a meeting with all stakeholders
D. Meet with the sponsor and steering committee
Answer: B
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The PMBOK Guide recommends to engage all proper stakeholders in the process.
You are approaching the end of a very challenging project, which had many successes and failures that you wish to document so future projects can benefit from the information learned. Who should be involved in gathering and organizing this documentation?
A. The project team
B. The project manager
C. The project team and project manager
D. The internal stakeholders
Answer: C
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All project team members contribute to the lessons learned register, with the project manager leading the effort. The lessons learned will be derived from the project manager, stakeholders, customers, project sponsor, project team, etc., but it is up to the project manager and team to ensure they are properly documented and archived.
In an Agile project, the completion of the project is usually documented as the definition of done (DoD). From the list below which one would most likely be included in the DoD?
A. Backlog
B. Retrospective criteria
C. Closing Manifesto
D. Acceptance criteria
Answer: D
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Oftentimes when acceptance criteria are left out of the DoD, issues arise around work being completed and accepted. These are two different points-of-view. For example, when your kids say they have cleaned their room but not to your standard of “clean.” This concept is mentioned in the Agile Practice Guide on p. 58.
Documents which are useful when closing a project include all of the following except:
A. Lessons learned register
B. Change Log
C. Quality Reports
D. Closing management plan
Answer: D
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Many documents are created and used during the project, which may be used at closing. There is no such document as a closing management plan. Instead, the project management plan should be reviewed during closing to ensure all project work is completed and the project has met its objectives.
Your project is nearing completion and you are preparing to release your project team from the project. Prior to releasing the team, you want to make sure they update the organizational process assets. Which type of organizational process assets would you have the project team update during project closing?
A. Commercial databases
B. Policies, procedures, and processes
C. Organizational knowledge bases
D. Resource availability
Answer: C
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A. commercial databases are an external enterprise environmental factor. B. is incorrect because the project management office or outside entity usually establishes these items and are not updated as part of project work. C. is the correct answer because organizational knowledge bases are updated throughout the project, such as lessons learned. D. is an internal enterprise environmental factor. Reference PMBOK Guide page 39-40 (2.3 Organizational process assets)
Your project finished on-time and within budget. As part of closing the project, in addition to updating project documents and organizational process assets, you must also prepare a final report. This report provides a summary of the project performance and can include all of the following information except:
A. The criteria used to evaluate the project and product quality
B. A summary level description of the project or phase
C. Lessons learned on the project
D. Summary of any risks or issues encountered on the project and how they were addressed
Answer: C
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It is vital to record lessons learned for each project. However, they do not belong in the final report. Lessons from projects get captured in the lessons learned register. All lessons learned from all projects should ultimately wind up in an organizational process asset called a lessons learned repository.
Which statement related to administrative closure and contract closure is correct?
A. Contract closure does not include administrative closure
B. Both contract closure and administrative closure require verification that all the work has been completed or was otherwise properly terminated
C. Early termination of a contract because of budget overruns cannot be included as part of the contract closure procedure
D. Administrative closure activities are for the entire project and not for specific project phases
Answer: B
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Product verification (ensuring all work is completed correctly and satisfactorily, or was otherwise properly terminated) is done as part of both administrative closure and contract closure.
Juan has been working on a project to develop a new HRIS database for a client of an automobile manufacturer. His project ran into numerous unanticipated risks and had a Cost Performance Index (CPI) of 0.73 and a Schedule Performance Index (SPI) of 0.81. The project is not going to deliver the desired results and is terminated based on this performance. Which best describes the reason for this project being terminated?
A. The project was terminated because it was over budget and behind schedule.
B. The project was terminated since it suffered from scope creep and produced additional deliverables that were not required.
C. The project has been terminated since it is over budget and ahead of schedule.
D. The project has been terminated because the number of risks exceeded the sponsor’s risk threshold.
Answer: A
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Choice A is the correct answer. The CPI and SPI provided represent a project which is over budget and behind schedule. B, C, and D are not supported by the information provided in the question.
