PM cards 7th 20

Question 1

What is the primary output of the Initiating Process Group?

Answer 1

The Project Charter

Question 2

What does the project charter contain?

Answer 2

Prject description, project approach, stakeholders, goals and objectives, problem statement, high-level deliverables, milestones, costs, assumptions, constraints and risks.

Question 3

What is project scope?

Answer 3

It includes all the components that make up the product or service of the project and the results the project intends to produce.

Question 4

To complete scope planning what 3 scope components must be completed?

Answer 4

The scope management plan, the scope statement and the work breakdown structure (WBS).

Question 5

At what stage is the project scope completed?

Answer 5

The Planning Process Group

Question 6

What is the scope management plan?

Answer 6

It documents how the project scope will be defined and verified and how scope will be monitored and controlled throughout the life of the project.

Question 7

What is the scope statement?

Answer 7

It provides a common understanding of the project by documenting the project objectives and deliverables.

Question 8

What is the work breakdown structure?

Answer 8

It breaks the project deliverables down into smaller components from which you can estimate task durations, assign resources, and estimate costs.

Question 9

Who signs the project scope statement?

Answer 9

The key stakeholders

Question 10

The _____________ describes how the project team will define project scope, verify the work of the project, and manage and control scope.

Answer 10

Scope Management Plan

Question 11

What is scope creep?

Answer 11

The term commonly used to describe the changes and additions that seem to make their way onto the project to the point where you’re not managing the same project anymore.

Question 12

When developing a scope management plan it is important to consider 3 key items. What are they?

Answer 12

Stability of the scope, Impact of scope changes, the scope change process.

Question 13

Scope change processes at a minimum needs what components?

Answer 13

A change request form, an analysis of the impact, an approval process, a communications plan to keep stakeholders informed, and a method to incorporate approved changes.

Question 14

The primary outputs of scope planning are what?

Answer 14

The scope management plan, the scope statement, and the work breakdown structure.

Question 15

What is an agreement between the project and the project customer that states precisely what the work of the project will produce.

Answer 15

The project scope statement.

Question 16

Success criteria is also known as?

Answer 16

Acceptance criteria.

Question 17

_______________ include the process and criteria you’ll use to determine that the deliverables are complete and satisfactorily meet expectations.

Answer 17

Success criteria

Question 18

What are KPIs?

Answer 18

Key Performance Indicators

Question 19

Deliverables and requirements are sometimes referred to as ____________.

Answer 19

Critical success factors.

Question 20

Critical success factors are those elements that must be completed __________ and __________ in order for the project to be considered complete.

Answer 20

accurately and on schedule

Question 21

Order of magnitude estimates are based on?

Answer 21

Actual duration and cost of similar projects or the expert judgement of someone familiar with the work or the project.

Question 22

Do assumptions needs to be documented and validated?

Answer 22

Yes.

Question 23

What is the final element that must be included in the project scope statement?

Answer 23

A constraints list.

Question 24

Once the scope statement is complete, the next step is what?

Answer 24

Present the scope statement to the stakeholders and have the project sponsor and stakeholders sign off.

Question 25

What is used as the basis for estimating activity duration, assigning resources to activities, estimating work effort, and creating a budget?

Answer 25

The work breakdown structure.

Question 26

The lowest level of any WBS is called ______________.

Answer 26

work package level

Question 27

What is a code of accounts?

Answer 27

Numeric identifiers that are assigned to the work package level of the work breakdown structure.

Question 28

What is the WBS Dictionary?

Answer 28

This is where the WBS levels and work component descriptions are documented.

Question 29

Scope planning uses the output of the _________ phase, the project charter, to create the _____________ and the scope management plan.

Answer 29

Initiating. Scope Statement.