Project Integration Management

Question 1

What are 3 main reasons that organizations undertake projects?

Answer 1

To solve a business problem
To address a business need
To exploit a business opportunity

Question 2

When in doubt on project issues, change requests, or if you have questions, what should you refer to?

Answer 2

The project management plan.

Question 3

“Collecting the project (or phase) records, documenting the results, obtaining formal acceptance, and transferring the completed (or canceled) project or phase to the appropriate party” describes which Project Integration Management process?

Answer 3

Close Project or Phase

Question 4

`What is “integrated change control?”

Answer 4

The process of reviewing all change requests; approving changes and managing changes to deliverables, organizational process assets, project documents, and the project management plan; and communicating their disposition

Question 5

What is the PMIS (project management information system?

Answer 5

An information system consisting of the tools and techniques used to gather, integrate, and disseminate the outputs of the project management process. It is used to support all aspects of the project from initiating through closing, and can include both manual and automated systems.

Question 6

What are enterprise environmental factors?

Answer 6

Conditions, not under the immediate control of the team, that influence, constrain, or direct the project, program, or portfolio.

Question 7

What is the primary output of Close Project or Phase?

Answer 7

Final product, service, or result transition.

Question 8

What are the 5 inputs of the Develop Project Chart Process?

Answer 8

Project statement of work
Business case
Agreements
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets.

Question 9

What does project integration mean?

Answer 9

How the project fits into the organization or enterprise.

How all the pieces or components of the project fit together.

Question 10

What is the purpose of a configuration management system?

Answer 10

To define and document how changes to the product are to be submitted, tracked, reviewed, and approved or rejected.

Question 11

What are the 5 outputs of Direct and Manage Project Work?

Answer 11

1. Deliverables
2. Work performance data
3. Change requests
4. Project management plan updates
5. Project documents updates

Question 12

What is the project charter?

Answer 12

A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activites.

Question 13

Which project management process involves doing the work outlined in the project management plan to achieve the project goals?

Answer 13

Direct and Manage Project Work

Question 14

Which project document identifies why the project should be funded and how the project meets the business needs described in the SOW?

Answer 14

Business Case

Question 15

What is the responsibility of the change control board?

Answer 15

To review, evaluate, and approve or reject change requests.

Question 16

What is the “initiator”?

Answer 16

The person or organization with the ability to authorize the project.

Question 17

What is the term for “the person, or group, providing the financial resources for the project”

Answer 17

Project Sponsor

Question 18

What are organizational process assets?

Answer 18

Plan, processes, policies, procedures, and knowledge bases that are specific to and used by the performing organization.

Question 19

Is expert judgment an input, tool, and technique, or output?

Answer 19

Tool and Technique

Question 20

What are the 4 outputs of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?

Answer 20

1. Approved change requests
2. Change log
3. Project management plan updates
4. Project documents updates

Question 21

What are the Project Integration Management processes and in which Process Group does each process fit?

Answer 21

Developing Project Charter - Initiating
Developing Project Management Plan - Planning
Direct and Manage Project Work - Executing
Monitor and Control Project Work - Monitoring and Controlling
Perform Integrated Change Control - Monitoring and Controlling
Close Project or Phase - Closing

Question 22

What is the primary deliverable of the Develop Project Charter process?

Answer 22

Project Charter

Question 23

When does the Close Project or Phase occur?

Answer 23

• When the work of the project or phase is complete.

* When the work stops (before the work is complete)

Question 24

What are the 2 tools and techniques of the Develop Project Management Plan process?

Answer 24

1. Expert judgment

2. Facilitation techniques

Question 25

What is the definition of a statement of work?

Answer 25

A narrative description of the products, services, or results or services to be delivered by the project.

Question 26

What is the term for “activities performed to bring future performance into compliance with the project management plan”?

Answer 26

Corrective action

Question 27

Which important project document is described by the following statements? “A document, or collection of documents, created by the project manager based on input from the project team, stakeholders, management, and others, that is used to manage the project”

Answer 27

Project Management Plan

Question 28

What are the 5 inputs to Develop Project Charter?

Answer 28

1. Project statement of work.
2. Business case
3. Agreements
4. Enterprise environmental factors
5. Organizational process assests

Question 29

What are the 4 outputs of the Monitor and Control Project Work process?

Answer 29

1. Change requests
2. Work performance reports
3. Project management plan updates
4. Project documents updates

Question 30

What are the key components of the project SOW?

Answer 30

• Business needs for the project
• Product scope description
• Strategic plan (how the project relates to the strategic plan)