In which document will you find the code of account identifier, description of work, responsible organization, and list of schedule milestones? Show 1. WBS WBS Dictionary The Scope Management Plan is an important component of the Project Management Plan since it provides direction on how the project will be managed throughout the project life cycle. The Scope Management Plan documents: 1. Which product requirement will be incorporated How project scope will be defined, developed, controlled, and verified You are the project manager in a company. You have finished preparing a detailed description of the project and product. What will you do next? 1. Collect requirements Create WBS Planning the scope for a project occurs very early in the project life cycle. One of the first steps is to document how the project scope will be defined, validated, and controlled. the output(s) of the Plan Scope Management process are: 1. Scope management plan Scope management plan and Requirements management plan Which of the following statements related to Validate Scope and control Quality processes is accurate? 1. Validate Scope is concerned with correctness of the work results, while Control Quality is primarily concerned with acceptance of the work results Validate Scope is concerned with acceptance of the work results, while Control Quality is primarily concerned with correctness of the work results The scope baseline is a component of the project management plan and is critical for you to verify scope and perform scope control. Which of the following is not a component of the scope baseline? 1. Project Scope Statement Activity list After collecting requirements, one of your tasks as a project manager is to prepare a scope statement for your project. the scope statement provides: 1. Authorization to the project manager for using organizational resources for project activities Common understanding of the project scope among project stakeholders. The customer accepted your project's product two weeks ago, but recently complained that some of the product features are not as desired and that the product is not functioning properly. What should you do FIRST? 1. Ignore the customer, since
he has already accepted the product Review the Validate Scope process As part of decompressing, you break down the project work that needs to be accomplished in the near term at a low level of WBS. However, the work planned in the future is broken down at a relatively high level of WBS. This technique is called: 1. Procrastination Rolling wave planning As a project manager, you are responsible for managing changes to the project scope. If, at the end of the project, a customer wants a major change in the scope of work, you should: 1. Reject the change Let the customer know about the impact of the change After completing the define Scope process, management has asked you to coordinate the activities related to work breakdown structure (WBS) in your project. When using documentation as a tool, what should you do FIRST? 1. Identify the
development and related work Identify the development and related work In your project, while decompressing the project work into more manageable components you are aware of the problem of excessive decomposition. Which of the following is NOT the consequence of excessive decomposition? 1. Non-productive management effort Better knowledge of activity sequences Project Scope Management includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the work successfully. In this context, a detailed project scope statement is prepared as part of: 1. Collect Requirements Define Scope You are a project manager in a manufacturing company. You are developing a new product. In this context, you conducting requirements workshop for the stakeholders to determine the products critical characteristics. Which technique would you use for this purpose? 1. Quality function development Quality function development You have recently joined as the project manager for ABC Company. You notice that the customers are getting frequent change requests implemented by informally approaching the team members. This has resulted in work disruption and discontent among team members. What should be your FIRST priority to remedy the situation? 1. Create a detailed project scope statement Ensure proper project scope control Your company exhibited a car model in two international auto expos and obtained feedback from the global automobile industry, auto magazines, and others. The company decided to go ahead with the designing and manufacturing of the car, taking into consideration the feedback received. Which of the following methods did your company use to make this decsion? 1. Observation technique Prototype Your project sponsor recently attended a project management conference where the purposes of the Management-By-Objectives (MBO) approach were discussed. In this context, which of the following is NOT a purpose of MBO? 1. Aligning project goals with organization goals Aligning project goals with the goals of previous projects As a project manager, you are interested in creating a detailed project scope statement to clearly define what work will be performed and what work is going to be excluded. Which of the following will NOT be part of this project scope statement? 1. Project exclusions Work breakdown structure (WBS) Which of the following cannot be considered a benefit of a well-constructed scope statement? 1. Provides a documented basis for making fututre project decisions Provides a basis for time and cost estimates You are managing a complicated software development project with several deliverables. To be effective and to be alert to potential future problems, you monitor the status of completion of the project deliverables. the information will be available to you in the: 1. Work performance measurements Earned value techniques Your project is very critical for the company and must be completed within the next six months. the project charter has been signed, but the scope statement is not yet prepared. The management asks you to go ahead with the project without the scope statement being approved. What should you do? 1. Refuse to work on the project,
because the management is not following standard project management practices. Meet the management and explain the problems you may face if you start a project without a scope statement You have undertaken a project under contract where you are supposed to create an anti-virus software product for a customer in ten months. You follow the software development life cycle which includes analysis, high level design, low level design, coding, testing, and rollout with a deliverable at the end of each phase. Your customer has defined the scope very well and said that he is going to review your product after ten months. In this case, you should: 1. Insist that the customer verify the deliverables at the end of each phase Complete the product per specifications and provide the completed product to the customer as requested Inspection includes activities such as measuring. examining, and testing undertaken to determine whether results conform to requirements. Which of the following terms does not refer to inspection? 1. Product review Stage-gate During the Validate process you formalize acceptance of the project deliverables and keep the project focused on the business need for which it was undertaken. This product should be done: 1. At the beginning of the project After getting verified deliverables from the Control Quality process Project scope management includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully. In this context, the project charter plays a very important role because it: 1. Provides a list of project deliverables Provides high-level project description and product characteristics You are the project manager of a software company involved in creating an anti-virus software product. you are in the execution phase of the project when you realize that a requirement was not included in the product. This si due to an omission in defining the scope baseline of the project. What should you do? 1. Issue a change request Issue a change request In your project, the process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline is referred to as: 1. Validate Scope Control Scope Which of the following is not an accepted form for the WBS structure? 1. Using phases of the project life cycle as the second level of decomposition, with the product and project deliverables inserted at the third level Using work packages as the first level of decomposition The project scope statement consists of the product scope description and project deliverables. It also defines the: 1. Scope Baseline Product acceptance criteria You are a project manager in a large software development organization. It is a primary objective in your company to deliver quality products with a low rate of errors and high product acceptance rate by your customers. The company has made significant investments in a robust system to support these corporate objectives and goals. When developoing contracts for software development projects, it is standard that the customer is required to follow rigorously defined processes for user acceptance testing which must be conducted each time a module is completed. the customer is also required to notify the project manager, in writing that the software module was tested and whether it was acceptable or not. This user acceptance testing, and the resulting notification is part of which process? 1. Control Scope Validate Scope What happens when the scope of a project changes?Scope change is an official decision made by the project manager and the client to change a feature, to expand or reduce its functionality. This generally involves making adjustments to the cost, budget, other features, or the timeline.
What is the meaning of scope creep?Scope creep: Adding additional features or functions of a new product, requirements, or work that is not authorized (i.e., beyond the agreed-upon scope).
What happens when a project's scope has not been defined properly?What is scope creep? Scrope creep refers to a scenario whereby changes occur after the project has been started and the changes are not defined or anticipated within the scope statement. When scope creep occurs, it can negatively impact the project timeline, deliverable quality, resources, budget, and other aspects.
What are the types of scope creep?The four types of scope creep in project management
Scope creep fits into four distinct buckets: business creep, effort creep, hope creep, and feature creep.
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