PROJECT INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT Flashcards
A quantifiable deviation, departure, or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value is called:
a. A variance
b. A gap
c. A lag
d. A float
A
By definition, a variance is any quantifiable deviation, departure, or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value. It is often preceded by a modifier, such as cost or schedule.
David has recently inherited a project that is having significant difficulties and running behind schedule
because of poor estimates for the activity durations. The project team had missed numerous deadlines, and customers are unhappy with the progress on the project. David has been analyzing the leads and lags in the schedule in an attempt to bring activities into alignment with the project plan without impacting the cost baseline. He has determined that he can schedule some of the activities in parallel rather than sequentially with no adverse effect on the project costs. Of the following choices, which describes David’s action?
a. Crashing
b. Fast-tracking
c. Re-baselining
d. Lessons learned
B
The best answer choice is B. David is involved in a schedule compression technique known as fast-tracking. Crashing is also a schedule compression technique, but it typically results in increased cost.
Which of the following best defines the formal closing of a project or phase?
a. The comparison of the financial results against the plan to determine the project’s overall
profitability using real project data
b. The informal review of the project after the project’s final deliverable has been given to the
client.
c. The process of finalizing all activities for the project, phase, or contract.
d. The published documentation of how project events were addressed, or should be addressed,
on future subsequent projects.
C
Close Project or Phase is the process of finalizing all activities for the project, phase, or contract.
Darla’s project is coming to the end of a specific phase. She has scheduled a phase-end meeting with her team in order to get the required sign-offs on specific deliverables. This particular phase end is a natural time to evaluate the team’s performance in the phase that is ending. Darla is sending a communication to her team members regarding this meeting. Which of the following is the correct nomenclature for a meeting of this type?
a. Phase exit
b. Monitoring gate
c. Kill gate
d. Milestone review
A
The best answer choice is A. Typical terms include phase gate, kill point, and stage gate.
Reducing the project budget by 10% is considered what?
a. A product change
b. A quality change
c. A project change
d. A necessary requirement
C
Reducing the project budget is considered a project change. Because of balancing competing demands, it’s necessary to consider the impact a budget reduction will have on the scope, schedule, and quality constraints on a project.
The PMBOK Guide defines a project as having two specific characteristics. Which of the following comprise those characteristics?
a. Beginning and phased
b. Temporary and unique
c. Sponsor and client
d. Costly and time consuming
B
The best answer choice is B. The PMBOK Guide defines a project as a temporary undertaking designed to create a specific product, service, or result.
Which knowledge area defines the “processes and activities to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project management process groups?”
a. Project Integration Management
b. Project Scope Management
c. Project Quality Management
d. Project Procurement Management
A
In the project management context, Integration Management includes characteristics of unification, consolidation, communication, and interrelationships. These actions should be applied from the start of the project through completion.
At the end of a project when project documentation is being archived, which stakeholder is typically still
working on the project?
a. The project team members
b. The project manager
c. The client and/or the client’s legal team
d. All stakeholders on the project
B
Archiving documentation is usually the last function prior to formally closing the project. The project manager is often the only remaining stakeholder actively working on the project.
From the following documents, select the one that formally authorizes the project.
a. Business case
b. Statement of Work
c. WBS
d. Project charter
D
The best answer choice is D because the project charter is the document that formally authorizes and initiates the project.
The project that Walter has been managing is coming to an end. He is in the closing activities. Prior to finalizing the Close Project process, he needs to verify that the project has achieved the project scope. To which of the following documents must he refer in order to determine this?
a. Work Breakdown Structure
b. Earned Value measurement
c. Stakeholder register
d. Project management plan
D
The best answer choice is option D because the project management plan contains the Scope Management plan and the scope baseline.
One of your team members at the software development company you work for has created a new coding process that results in decreasing development time by an average of 30%. You record this development in order to
a. Help the team member receive recognition
b. Make this information available for future projects
c. Motivate the other team members to be more creative
d. Document it as an exception to standard procedure
B
The best answer choice is B because this scenario specifically involves documenting lessons
learned that may be valuable for future projects.
By definition, any unique and verifiable product, result, or capability to perform a service that is required to be
produced to complete a process, phase, or project is called:
a. Product
b. Service
c. Artifact
d. Deliverable
D
By definition, a deliverable is any unique and verifiable product, result, or capability to perform a service that is required to be produced to complete a process, phase, or project.
Hank has been assigned as the project manager for an industrial waste disposal system construction project. During the development of the charter, the project budget initially designated for this project was estimated at $10 million. Recently, organizational cuts have resulted in decreased funding for this project and a reduced scope. If the sponsor reduces the project budget to $5 million just before the planning phase begins, what should Hank do?
a. Document the new budget as a constraint
b. Revise the project charter
c. Meet with the stakeholders to get their opinions
d. Update the summary budget in the charter
B
The best answer choice is B. If the funding is decreased and the scope reduced, the number of stakeholders, milestones, and other aspects of the project will change. Because the planning processes have not started yet, it is better to revise the project charter with the new project objectives, budget, and scope. Hank must also identify any new stakeholders and eliminate any stakeholders that are no longer involved based on the new project scope.
Which of the following is used to provide a comparison between the actual work performed and the schedule
baseline?
a. Quantitative analysis
b. Qualitative analysis
c. Performance reviews
d. Work Breakdown Structure
C
The best answer choice is C. Performance reviews are used as a comparison tool to evaluate the work performed as it relates to the schedule baseline.
Your company was awarded a contract to evaluate the environmental impact of a new but unproven
technological advance in wind farming. When developing the project charter, to what documentation should a project manager pay special attention?
a. Requirements
b. The awarded contract
c. The business case
d. A stakeholder analysis
B
Because the contract was awarded following a bidding process, there will be contractual obligations that need to be fulfilled as outlined within the contract. These need to be reflected in the project charter that is being created.
Which of the following is not a subsidiary plan that is typically included in the project management plan?
a. Cost management plan
b. Scope Management plan
c. Performance improvement plan
d. Communications Management plan
C
The best answer choice is C because any performance improvement plan is not a subsidiary plan and is not included as part of the project management plan.
As your project team executes the activities required for the work packages listed in the WBS, they have been reviewing information from previous projects to determine best practices for completing the activities
necessary to complete the work. This information is found in which of the following?
a. Communication Management plan
b. Enterprise environmental factors
c. Project charter
d. Lessons learned
D
The best answer choice is D because the lessons learned database contains details from previous
projects and can be a valuable resource in completing new projects.
From the list of choices below, select the process that is considered to be the most dependent on the type and nature of the work being performed and the process in which the project deliverables are created.
a. Control Scope
b. Collect Requirements
c. Monitor and Control Project Work
d. Direct and Manage Project Work
D
The best answer choice is D. Because the output of the Direct and Manage Project Work process are the deliverables, it is this process that is most dependent on the type and nature of the work being performed and process in which the deliverables are created.
