Project Scope Management (2)

Question 1

What are the 6 project management processes in the project scope management knowledge area?

Answer 1

Plan scope management, collect requirements, define scope, create WBS, validate scope, control scope

Question 2

What is product scope?

Answer 2

Features and functions that define a product, service or result

Question 3

What is project scope?

Answer 3

Work performed to deliver a product, service, or result with specified features and functions

Question 4

What are tailoring considerations for project scope management?

Answer 4

Knowledge and requirements management (formal or informal knowledge), validation and control (policies), development approach, stability of requirements, governance

Question 5

What is project scope management?

Answer 5

Processes required to ensure the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project

Question 6

What is the role of the PM in project scope management?

Answer 6

Ensure requirements-related work is accounted for in PMP, and once planned ensure these activities deliver value

Question 7

What is a predictive project?

Answer 7

Type of project that uses an approved version of the project scope statement and WBS as a scope baseline

Question 8

What is validate scope?

Answer 8

Process of formalizing acceptance of a completed project

Question 9

What is completion of product scope measured against?

Answer 9

Product requirements

Question 10

What are the inputs for the plan scope management process?

Answer 10

Project charter, PMP (quality MP, project life cycle description, development approach), EEFs (culture, infrastructure, personnel admin, marketplace), OPAs (policies, historical info)

Question 11

What tools are used for the plan scope management process?

Answer 11

Meetings, data analysis (alternative), expert judgement

Question 12

What are the outputs for the plan scope management process?

Answer 12

Requirements management plan (business analysis plan that describe how requirements will be analyzed and managed), scope management plan

Question 13

What are the inputs for the collect requirements process?

Answer 13

PMP (scope, requirements, stakeholder engagement), project charter, EEFs (culture, infrastructure, personnel admin, marketplace), agreements, project documents (assumptions, lessons learned, stakeholder register), business case, OPAs (policies, historical info)

Question 14

What are the tools used for the collect requirements process?

Answer 14

Data analysis (document analysis), expert judgement, prototype, context diagram, team skills, data representation, data gathering (brainstorming, interviews, surveys, benchmarking), decision making

Question 15

What is the purpose of the collect requirements process?

Answer 15

Determines, documents and manages stakeholder needs for meeting objectives

Question 16

What types of projects are prototypes a helpful agile approach for collecting requirements?

Answer 16

With evolving requirements because the scope is not understood at the beginning of the project

Question 17

What are the outputs for the collect requirements process?

Answer 17

Requirements documentation (business, stakeholder, solution, transition, project, quality), requirements traceability matrix

Question 18

What is a traceability matrix?

Answer 18

Grid that tracks requirements from their origins to deliverables that satisfy them

Question 19

What is a requirement?

Answer 19

Condition or capability that should be present in a product, service, or result to satisfy specs

Question 20

What are transition requirements?

Answer 20

Capabilities that are temporary and no longer needed after new result/product/service is ready

Question 21

What are the inputs for the define scope process?

Answer 21

PMP, OPAs (policies, project files from previous projects, lessons learned), EEFs (culture, infrastructure, personnel admin, marketplace), project documents (assumptions, requirements, risks), project charter

Question 22

What are the tools used for the define scope process?

Answer 22

Decision making, expert judgement, data analysis (alternative), product analysis (define product), team skills

Question 23

What are the outputs of the define scope process?

Answer 23

Project document updates (assumptions, requirements, traceability matrix, stakeholder register), project scope statement (product scope, acceptance criteria, deliverables, project exclusions)

Question 24

What is a work package?

Answer 24

Lowest-level component of WBS (most granular)

Question 25

What is the purpose of a WBS/decomposition?

Answer 25

Subdivide deliverables into smaller more manageable components

Question 26

What are the inputs of the create WBS process?

Answer 26

EEFs (industry-specific WBS standards), OPAs (policies, project files from previous projects, lessons learned), project documents (scope statement and requirements), PMP (scope MP)

Question 27

What are the tools used for the create WBS process?

Answer 27

Decomposition, expert judgement

Question 28

What are the outputs for the create WBS process?

Answer 28

Scope baseline, project document updates (assumptions, requirements)

Question 29

What is the scope baseline?

Answer 29

Approved version of scope statement and WBS

Question 30

What are the inputs for the validate scope process?

Answer 30

PMP (scope MP, requirements MP, scope baseline), project documents (lessons learned, quality reports, requirements, traceability matrix), verified deliverables, work performance data

Question 31

What are verified deliverables?

Answer 31

Project deliverables that are completed and checked for correctness through control quality process

Question 32

What are accepted deliverabels?

Answer 32

Meet the criteria for acceptance and are approved by customer or sponsor (want to turn verified into accepted)

Question 33

What are the tools used for the validate scope process?

Answer 33

Inspection, decision making

Question 34

What are the outputs of the validate scope process?

Answer 34

Accepted deliverables, work performance info, change requests, project document updates (lessons learned, requirements, traceability matrix)

Question 35

What are the inputs of the control scope process?

Answer 35

PMP (scope MP, requirements MP, change MP, configuration MP, scope baseline, performance measurement baseline), project docs (lessons learned, requirements, traceability matrix), work performance data, OPAs (policies, reporting methods)

Question 36

What are the tools used for the control scope process?

Answer 36

Data analysis (variance and trend)

Question 37

What are the outputs of the control scope process?

Answer 37

Work performance information, change requests, PMP updates (scope MP, scope baseline, schedule baseline, cost baseline, performance measurement baseline), project document updates (lessons learned, requirements, traceability matrix)