Planning Processes

Question 1

1. What is the umbrella document created at the end of the planning process?

Answer 1

Project Management Plan.

Question 2

2. What do you define first in developing the Project Management Plan?

Answer 2

Scope

Question 3

3. What are the 3 process activites in creating the scope?

Answer 3

a. Create the scope management Plan
b. Collect the requirements
c. Define the scope

Question 4

4. What document is made that breaks the scope down to digestible pieces?

Answer 4

WBS

Question 5

What document is created after the WBS?

Answer 5

The Schedule

Question 6

6. What are the steps in creating a Schedule

Answer 6

a. Plan Schedule Management
b. Define Activities
c. Sequence Activities
d. Estimate Activities Duration
e. Develop Schedule

Question 7

7. What are the 3 steps in Cost Planning?

Answer 7

a. Plan Cost Management
b. Estimate Costs
c. Determine Budget

Question 8

8. What is the planning process group for Quality Control?

Answer 8

a. Plan Quality Management

Question 9

9. What are the 2 steps in the process group Resource Planning?

Answer 9

a. Plan Resource Management
b. Estimate Activity Resources

Question 10

10. What are the 5 (process group) steps in Risk Management?

Answer 10

a. Plan Risk Management
i. Identify Risks
ii. Qualitative Analysis
iii. Quantitative Analysis
iv. Plan Risk Responses

Question 11

11. What is the (1) process group for procurement for the project?

Answer 11

Plan procurement Management

Question 12

12. What is the process group activity for Stakeholder engagement?

Answer 12

a. Plan Stakeholder Engagement

Question 13

13. What is the purpose of a Project Management Plan?

Answer 13

a. Process of a defining, preparing and coordinating all aspects of a plan & integrating them into a consolidated plan
b. Simpler: outlines the basis of the work and how that work will be performed
c. Is the project management plan detailed? Can be. Also can be summary level
d. What does the PMPlan do?
i. How the project will be executed, monitored, controlled and closed

Question 14

e. What does the project management Plan contain? High-level answer (2 items)

Answer 14

Baselines and Plans

Question 15

What are the 4 project management plan baselines?

Answer 15

a. Scope, Schedule, Cost, Performance Measurements

Question 16

2. How many Plans are in a project management plan and what are they?

Answer 16

a. 12
b. Scope, Requirement, Schedule, Cost, Quality, Resource, Communication, Risk, Procurement, Stakeholder, Change, Configuration

Question 17

14. What are the 4 PMPlan Inputs?

Answer 17

a. Project Charter
b. Other outputs
c. Environmental
d. Org Process Assets

Question 18

15. What 4 tools and techniques used to create the PMPlan?

Answer 18

a. Expert judgement
b. Data gathering
c. Interpersonal skills and team skills
d. Meetings

Question 19

16. What is the outputs (4 types) from the PMPlan process

Answer 19

a. Project Management Plan which include:
-12 subplans
-4 baselines
–project lifecycle description
development approach

Question 20

17. What are the purposes of scope management planning (what and how)?

Answer 20

a. What: Defines how the project will defined, validated and controlled
b. How: Guidance and direction on scope will be managed