Deck 5: Project Scope Management

Question 1

 Deliverables are only product-related, such as a piece of hardware or software.

Answer 1

False
Explanation: Deliverables can be product-related, such as a piece of hardware or software, or process-related, such as a planning document or meeting minutes.

Question 2

 Project scope statements must include the project boundaries, constraints, and assumptions.

Answer 2

False
Explanation: Project scope statements should include at least a product scope description, product user acceptance criteria, and detailed information on all project deliverables. It is also helpful to document other scope-related information, such as the project boundaries, constraints, and assumptions.

Question 3

 The executing tasks of the WBS remain constant from project to project.

Answer 3

False
Explanation: The executing tasks vary the most from project to project, but many of the tasks under the other project management process groups would be similar for all projects.

Question 4

 Project scope management includes the processes involved in defining and controlling what is or is not included in a project.

Question 5

 The project's size, complexity, importance, and other factors do not affect how much effort is spent on collecting requirements for scope planning.

Question 6

 The scope baseline in a WBS consists of the requirements documentation and enterprise environmental factors.

Question 7

 Mind mapping allows people to write and even draw pictures of ideas in a nonlinear format.

Question 8

 Scope refers to all the work involved in creating the products of the project and the processes used to create them.

Question 9

 A work package represents one component of the product that the project aims to deliver.

Question 10

 The scope management plan can be informal and broad or formal and detailed, based on the needs of the project.

Question 11

 A work package must always represent less than 80 hours of work.

Question 12

 Many information technology projects also require detailed functional and design specifications for developing software, which also should be referenced in the detailed scope statement.

Question 13

 The project scope statement should reference supporting documents, such as product specifications that will affect what products are produced or purchased, or corporate policies, which might affect how products or services are produced.

Question 14

 Given the project management software that is available, it is relatively easy to create a good WBS.

Question 15

 Information from the project charter provides a basis for further defining the project scope.

Question 16

 Many organizations provide different guidelines and templates for developing WBSs.

Question 17

 The project management plan, project documents, enterprise environmental factors, and organizational process assets are the primary inputs for creating a WBS.

Question 18

 The tasks in a WBS must be developed as a sequential list of steps.

Question 19

 The main purpose of the WBS is to define all of the work required to complete a project.

Question 20

 The scope of a project is clear and specific from the start.

Question 21

 Which action involves defining and documenting the features and functions of the products produced during the project as well as the processes used for creating them?

A) Collecting requirements
B) Defining scope
C) Controlling scope
D) Validating scope

Question 22

 Which process involves generating ideas by comparing specific project practices or product characteristics to those of other projects or products inside or outside the performing organization?

A) variance
B) benchmarking
C) prototyping
D) decomposition

Question 23

 Which term describes a product produced as part of a project?

A) variance
B) scope
C) deliverable
D) work package

Question 24

 Which task is at the lowest level of the WBS?

A) variance
B) objective
C) deliverable
D) work package

Question 25

 Which output documents how project needs will be analyzed, documented, and managed?

A) requirements traceability matrix
B) requirements management plan
C) WBS
D) project scope statement

Question 26

 Creating the WBS is a subprocess associated with which process in project scope management?

A) planning
B) monitoring and controlling
C) closing
D) executing

Question 27

 The format of the WBS dictionary is essentially the same for all projects.

Question 28

 Which approach for constructing a WBS starts with the largest items of the project and breaks them into subordinate items?

A) analogy
B) bottom-up
C) top-down
D) mind mapping

Question 29

 Scope creep if not managed well can lead to the failure of information technology projects.

Question 30

 Which action involves normalizing acceptance of the project deliverables and during this phase the key project stakeholders, such as the customer and sponsor for the project, inspect and then formally accept the deliverables?

A) Creating scope
B) Defining scope
C) Controlling scope
D) Validating scope

Question 31

 What is the main technique used in creating a WBS, which involves subdividing project deliverables into smaller pieces?

A) conglomeration
B) accumulation
C) decomposition
D) catalyzation

Question 32

 What is a table that lists requirements, their various attributes, and the status of the requirements to ensure that all are addressed referred to as?

A) requirements traceability matrix
B) Gantt chart
C) state transition table
D) entity-attribute-value model

Question 33

 Which action involves reviewing the project charter, requirements documents, and organizational process assets to create a scope statement, adding more information as requirements are developed and change requests are approved?

A) Creating scope
B) Defining scope
C) Controlling scope
D) Validating scope

Question 34

 Which approach for constructing a WBS involves refining the work into greater and greater levels of detail?

A) analogy
B) bottom-up
C) top-down
D) mind mapping

Question 35

 Which technique is used for creating a WBS uses branches radiating from a core idea to structure thoughts and ideas instead of writing down tasks in a list or immediately trying to create a structure for tasks?

A) analogy
B) bottom-up
C) top-down
D) mind mapping

Question 36

 Which document should list and describe all of the deliverables required for the project?

A) project charter
B) scope statement
C) WBS
D) Gantt chart

Question 37

 Which approach for constructing a WBS uses a similar project's WBS as a starting point?

A) top-down
B) bottom-up
C) mind-mapping
D) analogy

Question 38

 Which document contains a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines the total scope of the project?

A) project charter
B) business case
C) project scope statement
D) work breakdown structure

Question 39

 Which statement best describes scope?

A) each level of work that is outlined in a work breakdown structure
B) end product created as part of a project that is delivered to the client
C) tasks that are decomposed into smaller tasks in a work breakdown structure
D) work involved in creating the products and the processes used to create them

Question 40

 A unit of work should appear at only one place in the WBS.

Question 41

 Creating the _____ involves subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components.

Question 42

 During which approach do team members first identify as many specific tasks related to the project as possible and then aggregate the specific tasks and organize them into summary activities, or higher levels in the WBS?

A) analogy
B) bottom-up
C) top-down
D) mind mapping

Question 43

 Mind mapping can be used for developing WBSs using which approach?

A) analogy approach only
B) bottom-up or analogy approach
C) top-down or bottom-up approach
D) any approach

Question 44

 Which process uses highly organized and intensive workshops to bring together project stakeholders-the sponsor, users, business analysts, programmers, and so on-to jointly define and design information systems?

A) Prototyping
B) JAD
C) RAD
D) Use case modeling

Question 45

 The main outputs of scope definition are the _____ and project document updates.

Question 46

 When using project management software, estimates of work time should be entered only at the work package level; the rest of the WBS items are just groupings or _____ tasks.

Question 47

 Which term refers to the difference between planned and actual performance?

A) Decomposition
B) Variance
C) Scope validation
D) Scope creep

Question 48

 Which process involves developing a working replica of the system or some aspect of the system?

A) Prototyping
B) Variance
C) Decomposition
D) Use case modeling

Question 49

 _____ includes the processes involved in defining and controlling what work is or is not included in a project.

Question 50

 A(n) _____ is a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines its total scope.

Question 51

 Subdividing the project deliverables into smaller pieces is known as _____.

Question 52

 _____ refer to "conditions or capabilities that must be met by the project or present in the product, service, or result to satisfy an agreement or other formally imposed specification."

Question 53

 Which process involves identifying and modeling business events, who initiated them, and how the system should respond to them?

A) Prototyping
B) JAD
C) RAD
D) Use case modeling

Question 54

 What process involves formal acceptance of the completed project scope by the stakeholders?

A) Scope validation
B) Scope planning
C) Scope control
D) Scope baseline

Question 55

 Which is recommended for the creation of a good WBS?

A) Any WBS item should be the responsibility of all the people working on it.
B) A unit of work should appear at only one place in the WBS.
C) Each WBS item should be created assuming that the requirements are inflexible.
D) The work content of a WBS item is independent of the WBS items below it.

Question 56

 The main outputs of _____are the project scope statement and updates to project documents.

Question 57

 What is scope creep?

A) the tendency for project scope to keep getting bigger and bigger
B) subdividing project deliverables into smaller pieces
C) the approved project scope statement and its associated WBS.
D) a task at the lowest level of the WBS

Question 58

 _____ refers to all the work involved in creating the products of the project and the processes used to create them.

Question 59

 The _____ includes the approved project scope statement and its associated WBS and WBS dictionary.

Question 60

 A(n) _____ is a table that lists requirements, their various attributes, and the status of the requirements to ensure that all are addressed.

Question 61

 What are some of the suggestions for improving the requirements process?

Question 62

 _____ is the difference between planned and actual performance.

Question 63

 A work package is a task at the _____ level of the WBS.

Question 64

 Describe the process of scope validation.

Question 65

 _____ involves controlling changes to the project scope while keeping project goals and business strategy in mind.

Question 66

 A(n) _____ is a document that describes detailed information about each WBS item.

Question 67

 _____ is a technique that uses branches radiating out from a core idea to structure thoughts and ideas when creating a WBS.

Question 68

 A hierarchy is used to show the levels of _____ in the WBS.

Question 69

 In the _____ approach to creating a WBS, team members first identify as many specific tasks related to the project as possible.

Question 70

 The main tool for performing scope validation is _____ and group decision making techniques.

Question 71

 List and briefly describe five approaches for creating work breakdown structures.

Question 72

 What is a work breakdown structure? What are the inputs and tools used for creating one?

Question 73

 Some organizations prescribe the form and content for WBSs for particular projects. These are known as _____.

Question 74

 _____ is the tendency for project scope to keep getting bigger and bigger.

Question 75

 _____ involves developing a working replica of the system or some aspect of the system.

Question 76

 List and briefly describe the six main processes involved in project scope management.

Question 77

 _____ is a process for identifying and modeling business events, who initiated them, and how the system should respond to them.