Deck 5: Project Scope Management

Question 1

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

Answer 1

False
A concern when creating a WBS is how to organize it to provide the basis for the project schedule. You should focus on what work needs to be done and how it will be done, not when it will be done. In other words, the tasks do not have to be developed as a sequential list of steps.

Question 2

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

Answer 2

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

Question 3

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

Answer 3

True
The charter describes the high-level scope, time, and cost goals for the project objectives and success criteria, a general approach to accomplishing the project's goals, and the main roles and responsibilities of important project stakeholders.

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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 7

Many organizations provide different guidelines and templates for developing WBSs.

Question 8

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

Question 9

The project scope statement, stakeholder requirements documentation, and organizational process assets are the primary inputs for creating a WBS.

Question 10

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 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

The WBS is organized solely around project phases.

Question 20

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

Question 21

_____ involves formalizing 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 22

_____ 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 23

The term ______ describes a product produced as part of a project.

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

Question 24

_____ 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 25

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

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

Question 26

Scope refers to:

A) each level of work that is outlined in a work breakdown structure.
B) the 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) the work involved in creating the products and the processes used to create them.

Question 27

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

Question 28

A(n) ____ is a task at the lowest level of the WBS.

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

Question 29

In the _____ approach, 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 30

The ______ 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 31

The _____ technique 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 32

Creating the WBS is a subprocess associated with the _____ process in project scope management.

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

Question 33

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

Question 34

In the _____approach for constructing a WBS, you use a similar project's WBS as a starting point.

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

Question 35

The _____ 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 36

The main technique used in creating a WBS is _____, which involves subdividing project deliverables into smaller pieces.

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

Question 37

The _____ 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 38

The _____ should list and describe all of the deliverables required for the project.

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

Question 39

A(n) _____ is 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 40

Generating ideas by comparing specific project practices or product characteristics to those of other projects or products inside or outside the performing organization is known as _____.

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

Question 41

Which of the following 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 42

_____ 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 43

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

Question 44

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

Question 45

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

Question 46

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

Question 47

Scope creep refers to:

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 48

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

Question 49

_____ is a process for 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 50

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

Question 51

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

Question 52

_____ involves formal acceptance of the completed project scope by the stakeholders.

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

Question 53

Tasks in a WBS that are decomposed into smaller tasks are called _____ tasks.

Question 54

PMI uses the term "_____" to describe each level of work in the WBS.

Question 55

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

Question 56

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

Question 57

_____ 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 58

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

Question 59

_____ refers to the difference between planned and actual performance.

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

Question 60

_____ refers to the process of developing a working replica of the system or some aspect of the system.

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

Question 61

_____ is the difference between planned and actual performance.

Question 62

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

Question 63

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

Question 64

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

Question 65

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

Question 66

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

Question 67

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

Question 68

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

Question 69

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

Question 70

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

Question 71

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

Question 72

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

Question 73

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

Question 74

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

Question 75

Describe the process of scope verification.