Product scope is measured against the product requirements whereas project scope is measured against:
A. The WBS and WBS dictionary
B. The project scope statement and its associated WBS and WBS dictionary
C. The project requirements and WBS.
D. The acceptance criteria
The Project Manager controls the interfacing and overlapping areas of the organization’s procurement processes, and the project schedule with processes from this area:
A. Project Resource Management
B. Project Scope Management
C. Project Risk Management
D. Project Integration Management
The WBS is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team, to accomplish the project objectives. This is created as part of:
A. Project Integration Management
B. Project Scope Management
C. Project Procurement Management
D. Project Schedule Management
Project performance measurements are used to assess the magnitude of variation from the original scope baseline. Once the degree of scope variation is known, what step is performed next?
A. Audit the project team
B. Upgrade the configuration management database with new controls.
C. Replanning
D. Root cause analysis of the cause of the variance relative to the scope baseline.
You have completed a milestone in your software development project and you are now verifying that the product meets the specifications outlined in the project management plan. What process group is this process in?
A. Quality Control
B. Monitor and Controlling
C. Executing
D. Planning
Which of the following documents will help trace the requirements to product design?
A. Requirements traceability matrix
B. Design traceability matrix
C. Project scope statement
D. Product traceability matrix
During a weekly status meeting a team member suggests adding a component to the project. As the project manager, you indicate that all focus should be put on the current scope and don’t worry about any enhancements. Focusing on the current scope is an example of?
A. Gold plating
B. Scope verification
C. Scope management
D. Change control
A technique which enhances brainstorming with a voting process used to rank the most useful ideas so that they can be taken up for further brainstorming is:
A. Six thinking hats
B. Nominal group technique
C. Affinity diagram
D. Mind mapping
As an experienced PMP, you have found that running a WBS meeting is tricky because you need to find a balance between decomposition and excessive decomposition. When items are excessively decomposed it leads all of the following, EXCEPT:
A. It breaks the 100% rule.
B. Inefficient use of resources
C. Non productive management effort
D. Decreased efficiency when performing work
A complicated software project was authorized by a project sponsor. However, the users who were intended to use the product found it very difficult to articulate their requirements. What technique can be employed to elicit requirements for such a project?
A. Job overlaying
B. Hidden participant
C. Job duplication
D. Job shadowing