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20 Cards in this Set
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One of the most important and most difficult aspects of project management is defining the ________ of the project.
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a. business objectives
b. budget *c. scope d. outputs |
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________ can be product-related, such as a piece of hardware or software, or process-related, such as a planning document or meeting minutes.
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a. Prototypes
b. Project scope management *c. Deliverables d. Scope statements |
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Which of the following processes of project scope management involves defining and documenting the features and functions of the products produced during the project as well as the processes used for creating them?
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a. scope verification
*b. collecting requirements c. scope definition d. creating the WBS |
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Which of the following processes of project scope management involves subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components?
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a. scope verification
b. scope control *c. creating the WBS d. scope definition |
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Key project stakeholders, such as the customer and sponsor for the project, inspect and then formally accept the deliverables of the project during the ________ process of project scope management.
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a. scope control
*b. scope verification c. creating the WBS d. scope definition |
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Which of the following processes of project scope management involves reviewing the project charter and preliminary scope statement created during the initiation process and adding more information during the planning process as requirements are developed and change requests are approved?
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a. creating the WBS
b. scope verification *c. scope definition d. scope control |
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________ is the first step in project scope management and is often the most difficult.
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a. Defining scope
b. Estimating costs *c. Collecting requirements d. Scheduling milestones |
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The project scope statement, stakeholder requirements documentation, and organizational process assets are the primary inputs for creating a ________.
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*a. work breakdown structure
b. work package c. scope baseline d. prototype |
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A ________ represents the lowest level of work that the project manager is using to monitor and control the project.
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a. milestone
b. work breakdown structure *c. work package d. scope baseline |
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One approach for constructing a WBS is the ________, in which you use a similar project's WBS as a starting point.
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*a. analogy approach
b. bottom-up approach c. top-down approach d. mind-mapping approach |
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In which approach to creating a WBS do team members first identify as many specific tasks related to the project as possible?
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a. analogy approach
b. top-down approach c. mind-mapping approach *d. bottom-up approach |
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Most project managers consider the ________ of WBS construction to be conventional: You start with the largest items of the project and break them into their subordinate items.
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*a. top-down approach
b. mind-mapping approach c. analogy approach d. bottom-up approach |
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Instead of writing tasks down in a list or immediately trying to create a structure for tasks, the ________ allows people to write and even draw pictures of ideas in a nonlinear format.
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a. analogy approach
b. top-down approach c. bottom-up approach *d. mind-mapping approach |
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Which of the following is a basic principle that applies to creating any good WBS and its WBS dictionary?
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*a. A WBS item is the responsibility of only one individual, even though many people may be working on it.
b. Project team members should rarely be involved in developing the WBS. c. A unit of work should appear at several places in the WBS. d. The work content of a WBS item is the sum of the WBS items above it. |
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The approved project scope statement and its associated WBS and WBS dictionary form the ________.
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a. scope verification
b. project management plan *c. scope baseline d. work package |
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Even when the project scope is fairly well defined, many information technology projects suffer from ________, which is the tendency for project scope to keep getting bigger and bigger.
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a. scope verification
b. kill points c. scope control *d. scope creep |
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The project management plan, requirements documentation, the requirements traceability matrix, and validated deliverables are the main inputs for ________.
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a. scope control
b. scope creep *c. scope verification d. the work breakdown structure |
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________ is the difference between planned and actual performance.
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*a. Variance
b. Decomposition c. Scope creep d. Scope baseline |
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________ 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.
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a. Mind mapping
*b. Joint Application Design (JAD) c. Prototyping d. The bottom-up approach |
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________ is a process for identifying and modeling business events, who initiated them, and how the system should respond to them.
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*a. Use case modeling
b. Mind mapping c. Joint Application Design (JAD) d. Prototyping |
