WorksheetsProject Management Quiz Scope
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 29mins
An organization's value chain can be represented by a special type of flowchart called SIPOC. SIPOC stands for:
Superior service, inferior service, peak hour service, optimized service, and client service
Simple, intellectual, procedural, optimal coding
Sample, information, practice, organization, and control
Suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, and customers
Verified deliverables are inputs in which of the following scope management processes?
Define Scope
Create WBS
Validate Scope
Control Scope
Which of the following processes produces a work breakdown structure as an output?
Create WBS
Define Scope
Develop Project Management Plan
All of the following are true regarding the Control Scope process EXCEPT:
It assures that underlying causes of all requested changes and recommended corrective actions are understood and processed through the Integrated Change Control process
One of the key focuses in the process may be dispute resolution related to project scope
It monitors the status of the project and product scope, maintains control over the project by preventing overwhelming scope change requests, and manages changes to the scope baseline
It verifies the correctness of work results
A project manager, managing a data center project, had the opportunity to attend several meetings about the project prior to the creation of the project charter. In one of the meetings, the sponsor specifically denied funding for two very specific items. Two months into the project, a couple of stakeholders requested the project manager add work for one of the items that was strongly denied by the sponsor. What will be the best thing the project manager can do in this situation?
Add the work if it does not have much impact on the schedule
Inform the stakeholders that the work cannot be added
Evaluate the impact of adding the work on time, cost, quality, risk, human resource, and other elements
Immediately inform the sponsor about the request that was denied by him
Completion of the product scope is measured against which one of the following?
Scope statement
Project requirements
Project objectives
Product requirements
Your company, ITProConsultancy, has assigned you as the project manager to upgrade the call center in your organization. The number of calls the customer support agents have to answer each month has increased drastically in the last five months, and the phone system is approaching the maximum load limit. Your team has worked on the requirements document and the project scope statement, and you are now ready to create the WBS with the help of your team members. All of the following are true regarding the WBS EXCEPT:
The WBS represents all the work required to be completed in the project
Each level of the WBS represents a verifiable product or results
Activities in the WBS should be arranged in the proper sequence they will be performed
The WBS should be decomposed to a level called the work package level where cost and schedule can easily be calculated
Sarah, a project manager, is in the Define Scope process of developing a comprehensive, detailed description of the project and product. Which of the following is NOT a tool & technique used in this Define Scope process?
Product Analysis
Expert Judgement
Data Analysis
Data Representation
Your project to build a new substation to supply power to a newly developed industrial park is not going too well. You are overwhelmed with numerous issues in the project and got really frustrated when the city conducted an inspection and reported a building code violation. You were asked by management to ensure full compliance to the mandatory city and construction industry standards. At this time, you are also approaching the final deadline of the project in two weeks. You have identified a couple of changes that will drastically enhance performance and make your clients very happy. While trying to sort out all these messes, you received a call from the senior engineer informing you that he would be leaving the company soon. Which is the MOST critical issue you should address first?
Notify the customers about the possible delay in the project
Initiate the change control process to implement new changes
Find a replacement for the senior engineer
Ensure compliance with the city and construction industry standards
As a project manager, you are responsible for determining and delivering the required levels of both grade and quality. Select which of the following statements you disagree with.
Grade relates to the product's characteristics.
Grade relates to the customer requirements.
Quality relates to the customer requirements.
Quality and grade of a product must be carefully managed.
A project manager is in the Control Scope process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope, maintaining control over the project by preventing overwhelming scope change requests, and managing changes to the scope baseline. Which one of the following is NOT true about this process?
The Control Scope process must be integrated with other control processes
It should be performed prior to scope planning
Variance analysis is used as a tool & technique in this process
Work performance information and change requests are the key outputs in this process
A project manager is in the Collect Requirements process of collecting and documenting quantifiable needs and expectations of the sponsor, customer, and other stakeholders. Which of the following is NOT true regarding this process?
It describes project deliverables and the work required to create them in detail as well as deliverables description, product acceptance criteria, requirements assumptions and constraints, and exclusions from requirements
Requirements documentation and requirements traceability matrix are the key outputs in this process
Interpersonal and team skills and data representations are used as tools & techniques in this process
The scope management plan and requirements management plan are inputs in this process
You have been selected as the project manager for a major data center upgrade at your company headquarters. The sponsor has handed you a project charter and wished you the best of luck. What should you do next as the first step?
Instruct the team to work on a project scope statement
Instruct the team to work on the WBS
Review the charter and make sure that all key stakeholders have inputs into the scope
Start working on planning the project
As per the project manager’s instruction, the team has decomposed project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components to develop a WBS and WBS dictionary. The team finalized the WBS by establishing control or cost accounts and unique identifiers for the lower-level components of the WBS called work packages. Normally presented in the chart form, this WBS provides a structure for hierarchical summation of:
Cost and schedule information
Cost and requirements information
Cost, resource, and schedule information
Schedule and requirements information
The sponsor has recently assigned you as a project manager to design and develop a custom video conferencing tool. As per the sponsor, the project must be completed in four months and should integrate with the existing infrastructure and applications in the organization. This is an example of which of the following?
Constraints
Assumptions
Expert judgment
High-level planning
Walkthroughs, reviews, product reviews, and audits are examples of which one of the following methods of examining work or a product to determine whether it conforms to documented standards or not?
Observation
Verification
Inspection
Group decision-making techniques
The team members are analyzing the objectives and description of the products stated by the customer or sponsor and turning them into tangible deliverables and finally creating the project scope statement. Which of the following BEST describes what the team members are doing?
Performing the product analysis
Performing the plan quality management
Conducting a multi-criteria decision analysis
Determining the product description
Julia is managing a water treatment plant construction project. A new government has recently been sworn in. During the election campaign, the winning candidate made a number of commitments regarding environmental control reforms. Julia is not sure how the new government and its future policies might affect her project. This is an example of:
Variability risk
Mitigated risk
Ambiguity risk
Opportunity risk
All of the following are TRUE about the Validate Scope process EXCEPT:
Customer acceptance of the project deliverables is a key output of this process
It is an input to the Develop Project Management Plan process and an output of the Control Quality process
It should be performed at the end of each phase of the project
This process is closely related to the Control Quality process
