PMP Exam Pretest - Scope

You gave the responsibility of collecting requirement from project stakeholder to four of your team members. After starting the requirement collection process, one of your team members left the job and the requirements could not be compiled properly. Initially, you did not notice this, however, during a product review, a few stakeholders told you that some of the features in the product were not requested by them. Therefore, to verify their comments you review the product requirements and identify the issue.

• A. Scope creep

• B. Scope slippage

• C. Gold plating

• D. Opportunity

During the planning phase, you have created the WBS for the work that you are about to complete. However, because of a lack of information you are not able to create the WBS for the rest of the work, so you leave it until you get the correct and detailed information. This is an example of:

• A. Iterative development approach

• B. Improper collecting requirement process

• C. Rolling wave planning

• D. Improper scope statement

The client informs you that he noticed some parts of the work are not being completed by your team. You ensure him that you will look into it and give a proper response after verifying the facts. Which document will you refer to verify it?

• A. Project scope statement

• B. WBS dictionary

• C. Schedule baseline

• D. WBS

As the project manager for a large, complex project, you have been getting complaints from your team, including some of the management team, about all the time being spent on planning. You know that by spending time following the appropriate planning process, you can prevent many problems during execution. This will save time in the later stages of the project. One of the primary complaints you were hearing is related to the time it takes to create the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). You are explaining the importance of the WBS to your project team members. Which of the following statements about the WBS is incorrect?

• A.it is a hierarchical decomposition of project work

• B. Planned work contained in the lowest level WBS components are called WBS dictionaries.

• C. The WBS subdivides the project work into smaller, more manageable pieces of work

• D. The WBS organizes and defines the total scope of the project work

While finalizing the WBS, you assign each work package to a control account and establish a unique identified for the same work from a code of account. These identifiers help you find a hierarchical sum of costs, schedule, etc. Which statement is true about the WBS?

• A. It contains all project work

• B. It authorizes the project manager

• C. It is a hierarchy of project staft

• D. It is a hierarchical breakdown of project resources