PM1 Scope Review

If you are breaking a project into pieces at a meeting by decomposing it into tasks so that you can track, define and manage activities, what are you doing?

• collecting requirements.

• creating the WBS.

• defining the scope.

• verifying the scope.

Carmine is a wedding planner. He has created a WBS to subdivide a

project into more manageable tasks. To highlight the details of the event

for all vendors who are fulfilling deliverables for the wedding, he is

preparing a document that describes the cost estimates, quantity

requirements, description of the work, and contract information. Carmine

is working on the:

• project scope statement.

• requirements documentation.

• work breakdown structure.

• work breakdown structure dictionary.

Andrew is the prom committee chairman. He is on-site at the prom to

make sure all vendors show up at the event and all vendors' activities are

falling within the scope of work contracted. Which process stage is

Andrew in?

• initiating

• executing

• monitoring and controlling

• closing

Andrew is the prom committee chairman. He is at the prom and realizes

that the meal delivered to the attendees was steak and not chicken.

Andrew makes the catering manager aware immediately that the chicken

meal was agreed upon, so the steak meal is outside the project scope.

Which project management process stage is Andrew in?

• initiating

• executing

• monitoring and controlling

• closing

If a PM has a budget of $250,000 and 10 months to finish a project, which section of the project scope statement would these components be listed?

• project acceptance criteria

• project constraints

• project deliverables

• project exclusions

Delores is leading a marketing project. She meets with the stakeholders

to define and document all the needs for the marketing project. The

activity that Delores is participating in is referred to as:

• collecting requirements.

• controlling the scope.

• creating the WBS.

• verifying the scope.

As a PM you must determine how to handle change requests. When you are determining the process that will be used, what are you conducting?

• collect requirements

• control scope

• define scope

• verify scope.

Jen's team is creating the WBS for their home restoration project. Which

best describes the layers that would likely be included?

• activity packages, planning packages, and work packages

• control accounts, planning packages, and activity packages

• control accounts, planning packages, and work packages

• work packages, milestone packages, and control accounts

If a project manager is informed that there is a requirement that all animals must be registered to participate in an upcoming project, this requirement should be listed in what section of the project scope statement?

• project deliverables

• project acceptance criteria

• project constraints

• project exclusions

Luke and his team have been working on a new home construction

project. The project scope statement originally included a three bedroom

and two bathroom ranch-styled home. The customer called and asked to

have a small shed built in the backyard with extra materials left from the

home construction. This uncontrolled expansion without adjustments to

time, cost, and resources is referred to as:

• change control.

• gifting.

• gold plating.

• scope creep.