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40 Cards in this Set
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Progressive elaboration of product characteristics on your project must be coordinated carefully with the—
a. Proper project scope definition |
a. Proper project scope definition
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You are examining multiple scope change requests on a project you were asked to take over because the previous project manager decided to resign. To assess the degree to which the project scope will change, you need to compare the requests to which project document?
a. Preliminary scope statement |
b. WBS
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You and your project team recognize the importance of project scope management to a project’s overall success; therefore, you include only the work required for successful completion of the project. The first step in the Project Scope Management process is to—
a. Clearly distinguish between project scope and product scope |
b. Prepare a scope management plan
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An example of an organizational process asset that could affect how project scope is to be managed is—
a. Personnel administration |
c. Historical information
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You are managing a complex project for a new method of heating and air conditioning in vehicles. You will use both solar and wind technologies in this project to reduce energy costs. Therefore, you must ensure that the work of your project will result in delivering the project’s specified scope, which means that you should measure completion of the product scope against the—
a. Scope management plan |
c. Product requirements
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A key tool and technique used in define scope is—
a. Templates, forms, and standards |
c. Expert judgment
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Alternatives generation often is useful in defining project scope. An example of a technique that can be used is—
a. Sensitivity analysis |
d. Lateral thinking
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Product analysis techniques include all the following EXCEPT—
a. Value engineering |
d. Bill of materials
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The baseline for evaluating whether requests for changes or additional work are contained within or outside the project’s exclusion is provided by the—
a. Project management plan |
b. Project scope statement
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Rather than use a WBS, your team developed a bill of materials to define the project’s work components. A customer review of this document uncovered that a scope change was needed, because a deliverable had not been defined, and a change request was written subsequently. This is an example of a change request that was the result of—
a. An external event |
b. An error or omission in defining the scope of the product
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Collecting requirements is critical in project scope management as it becomes the foundation for the project’s—
a. Scope management plan |
b. WBS
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The project scope statement addresses and documents all the following items EXCEPT—
a. Project exclusions |
d. Project management methodology (PMM)
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The first step in collecting requirements on any project, large or small, is to—
a. Talk with the project stakeholders through interviews |
b. Review the scope management plan
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You want to structure your project so that each project team member has a discrete work package to perform. The work package is a—
a. Deliverable at the lowest level of the WBS |
a. Deliverable at the lowest level of the WBS
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Quality function deployment is one approach for collecting requirements. Assume that you have studied the work of numerous quality experts, such as Deming, Juran, and Crosby, and your organization has a policy that states the importance of quality as the key constraint of all project constraints. You and your team have decided to use quality function deployment on your new project to manufacture turbines that use alternative fuels. The first step you should use is to—
a. Determine the voice of the customer |
a. Determine the voice of the customer
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On the WBS, the first level of decomposition may be displayed by using all the following EXCEPT—
a. Phases of the project life cycle |
d. Project organizational units
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Change is inevitable on projects. Uncontrolled changes are often referred to as—
a. Rework |
b. Scope creep
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Each WBS component should be assigned a unique identifier from a code of accounts to—
a. Link the WBS to the bill of materials |
c. Sum costs, schedule, and resource information
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In scope control it is important to determine the cause of any unacceptable variance relative to the scope baseline. This can be done through—
a. Root cause analysis |
d. Project performance measurements
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To assist your software development team in collecting requirements from potential users and to ensure that agreement about the stakeholders’ needs exists early in the project, you decide to use a group creativity technique. Numerous techniques are available, but you and your team choose a voting process to rank the most useful ideas for further prioritization. This approach is known as—
a. Brainstorming |
b. Nominal group technique
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You have been appointed project manager for a new project in your organization and must prepare a project management plan. You decide to prepare a WBS to show the magnitude and complexity of the work involved. No WBS templates are available to help you. To prepare the WBS, your first step should be to— a. Determine the cost and duration estimates for each project deliverable |
b. Identify and analyze the deliverables and related work
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Assume that you are a major subcontractor doing work for a prime contractor on a major project. Your change control system should—
a. Be identical to that of the prime contractor |
c. Comply with relevant contractual provisions
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You are leading a project team to identify potential new products for your organization. One idea was rejected by management because it would not fit with the organization’s core competencies. You need to recommend other products using management’s guideline as—
a. An assumption |
a. An assumption
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Validate scope—
a. Improves cost and schedule accuracy, particularly on projects using innovative techniques or technology |
d. Differs from perform quality control in that validate scope is concerned with the acceptance—not the correctness—of the work results
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Any step recommended to bring expected future performance in line with the project management plan is called—
a. Performance evaluation |
b. Corrective action
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Written change requests should be required on—
a. All projects, large and small |
a. All projects, large and small
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Updates of organizational process assets that are an output of control scope include all the following EXCEPT—
a. Causes of variations |
c. Work authorization system
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Work performance information includes all the following EXCEPT—
a. Started deliverables |
b. Costs authorized and incurred
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Your project is now under way, and you are working with your team to prepare your requirements management plan. Which of the following strongly influences how requirements are managed?
a. The phase-to-phase relationship |
a. Phase-to-phase relationship
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You are project manager on a systems engineering project designed to last six years and to develop the next-generation corvette for use in military operations. You and your team recognize that requirements may change as new technologies, especially in sonar systems, are developed. You are concerned that these new technologies may lead to changes in the scope of your product, which then will affect the scope of your project. Therefore your requirements traceability matrix should include tracing requirements to all the following project elements EXCEPT—
a. Business needs |
d. Project verification
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Your customer signed off on the requirements document and scope statement of your video game project last month. Today she stated she would like to make it an interactive game that can be played on a television and on a computer. This represents a requested scope change that, at a minimum—
a. Should be reviewed according to the perform integrated change control process |
a. Should be reviewed according to the perform integrated change control process
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The key inputs to the validate scope process include all the below items EXCEPT—
a. The project management plan (scope management plan and scope baseline) |
b. Change request
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Modifications may be needed to the WBS and WBS dictionary because of approved change requests, which shows that—
a. Replanning is an output of control scope |
d. Variance is relative to the scope baseline
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You and your team are documenting requirements on you project to control fatigue as people need to work more hours to keep up with the competition. You decided to set up components for the requirements on your project. Acceptance criteria are an example of—
a. Stakeholder requirements |
c. Project requirements
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Which following item is NOT an input to control scope?
a. Requirements traceability matrix |
c. Deliverables
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You are the project manager for a subcontractor on a major contract. The prime contractor has asked that you manage your work in a detailed manner. Your first step is to—
a. Follow the WBS that the prime contractor developed for the project and use the work packages you identified during the proposal |
b. Develop a subproject WBS for the work package that is your company’s responsibility
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The project scope statement is important in scope control because it—
a. Is a critical component of the scope baseline |
a. Is a critical component of the scope baseline
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The product scope description is documented as part of the project’s scope statement. It is important to include it because it—
a. Facilitates the project acceptance process |
c. Progressively elaborates characteristics
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How is a context diagram used?
a. To depict product scope |
a. To depict product scope
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You are establishing a PMO that will have a project management information system that will be an online repository of all program data. You will collect descriptions of all work components for each project under the PMO’s jurisdiction. This information will form an integral part of the—
a. Chart of accounts |
b. WBS dictionary
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