Project Scope Management

George is managing a construction project and currently sequencing the project activities and defining their logical relationships. Two activities have both the SS and FF relationships. How should George schedule these activities?

• Apply both the relationships.

• Select the relationship with the highest impact.

• Select the SS relationship as this is more logical than the FF relationship.

• Select the FF relationship as this can help meet the project deadlines.

As part of tracking a project, a project manager is validating the completion of project scope. He or she would measure this against:

• Requirements traceability matrix

• The Project Management Plan

• The Project Charter

• The Requirements Management Plan

Which of the following processes is not a part of the Project Scope Management?

• Create WBS

• Control Quality

• Control Scope

• Collect Requirements

Establishing control accounts for the work packages and a unique identifier from a code of accounts finalizes the WBS. This provides a structure for hierarchical summation of:

• Schedule and requirements information

• Cost and requirements information

• Cost and resource information

• Scope, budget and schedule information

Uncontrolled project scope changes are often referred to as ________ .

• Scope creep

• Scope verification

• Value Added Scope

• Scope control

While managing a project, you have included the product acceptance criteria in the Quality Management Plan. While reviewing your plan, a senior manager asks you to reconsider this. You then realize that what you did is incorrect. Where should you place the product acceptance criteria?

• Project Charter

• Change control process

• Project Scope Statement

• Scope Verification Plan

The Project Scope Management Knowledge Area is primarily concerned with:

• Defining the scope of work that included in the project

• Ensuring that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project

• The scope of work required during the initiation phase

• Defining the specifications and functionality of the work product

A project manager approaches you to understand the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in better detail. You tell her that:

• The WBS is a detailed project plan and includes the effort, resources, and dates on which the tasks for the project are complete.

• The WBS is a task-oriented decomposition of work that identifies each task and the resource required to accomplish the task.

• The WBS is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work the project team must accomplish to meet project objectives.

• The WBS is a Gantt chart that contains details about the project deliverables the project team must do.

Why must the Validate Scope process be completed in a project?

• To obtain scope documents from recent similar projects for benchmarking

• To determine whether the scope is at the correct complexity level

• To obtain formal acceptance of deliverables by the customer or sponsor

• To ensure the project team is all aware of the scope

A project manager wants to use a group decision-making technique to generate, classify and prioritize requirements. Which of these is not a valid group decision-making technique?

• Plurality

• Singularity

• Majority

• Unanimity