Pmbok 4Th Edition, Initiating Process Group

Front 1

What are the two processes within the Initiating Process Group?

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Develop Project Charter and Identify Stakeholders

Front 2

What is the document that officially starts project?

Back 2

Project Charter

Front 3

Develop Project Charter belongs to which process group and which knowledge area?

Back 3

Initiating process group and Integration Management knowledge area.

Front 4

What are the key inputs for Develop Project Charter?

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Statement of Work (SOW) and Business Case.

Front 5

What tool(s)/technique(s) is/are used in the Develop Project Charter process?

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Expert Judgement.

Front 6

What is the output for Develop Project Charter process?

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The Project Charter.

Front 7

Who signs the Project Charter?

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Senior management.

Front 8

What document names and gives the project manager the authority to direct the project?

Back 8

Project Charter.

Front 9

What document should include high-level project requirements?

Back 9

Project Charter.

Front 10

What document should include a high-level milestone view of the project?

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Project Charter.

Front 11

What document includes a summary-level preliminary budget?

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Project Charter.

Front 12

What is a statement of work (SOW)?

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A written description of the project's product, service, or result.

Front 13

Who supplies the statement of work (SOW)?

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The customer.

Front 14

What are the essential elements of the statement of work (SOW)?

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What is to be done, the business reason for doing it, and how the project supports the organization's strategy.

Front 15

What does the business case explains?

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Why the project is being undertaken, the problem it will solve, and the benefit cost analysis.

Front 16

What is Identify Stakeholders?

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It is the process that focuses on creating the stakeholder register.

Front 17

What is a stakeholder?

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Anyone with a vested interest in the project. The interest may be positive or negative.

Front 18

What is the stakeholder register?

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A document that lists all of the project stakeholders, describes them, and classifies them.

Front 19

What are the key inputs to the Identify Stakeholder process?

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The Project Charter and procurement documents.

Front 20

What is the key tool used in the Identify Stakeholder process?

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Stakeholder analysis.

Front 21

What is the Stakeholder Analysis tool?

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Identifies which stakeholder should receive project communications, the type of communications, and how often they should receive it.

Front 22

What are the outputs that result from the Identify Stakeholders process?

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Stakeholder Register and the Stakeholder Management Strategy.

Front 23

What is the Stakeholder Management Strategy?

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A document that explains how to maximize the positive impacts and mitigate the negative impacts from positive and negative stakeholders.

Front 24

Identify Stakeholders belongs to which process group and which knowledge area?

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Initiating process group and the Communication Management knowledge area.

Front 25

What document officially starts the project?

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Project Charter

Front 26

What document gives the project manager authority?

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Project Charter

Front 27

For internal projects, who provides the statement of work (SOW)?

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Sponsor

Front 28

For external projects, who provides the statement of work (SOW)?

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Customer

Front 29

What are the three main points covered in a statement of work (SOW)?

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1. High-level description of work
2. Business need addressed
3. Answers: "Why we are doing this?"

Front 30

The business case explains ___.

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why the project is undertaken.

Front 31

What are some examples of Business Case?

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Market demand, organizational need, customer request, technological advances, legal requirement, ecological impacts, and social need.

Front 32

Are all projects performed under contract?

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No, not all.

Front 33

What are some examples of Enterprise Environmental Factors?

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Organization's culture/structure, chain of authority, and how decisions are made.

Front 34

What are some examples of Organizational Process Assets?

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Documentation from prior projects (like a risk register), WBS template, communication management plan, company's travel policy, or a charter from a prior contract.

Front 35

Under the Integration Management knowledge area, it is interesting to know that Expert Judgement is the tool for ____ ____ processes.

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all six

Front 36

Under the Integration Management knowledge area, it is interesting to know that Expert Judgement is the ___ tool for ____ of the ____ processes.

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is the (only) tool for (four) of the (six) processes.

Front 37

People with specialized training, experience, or knowledge is known as the tool ___ ___.

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Expert Judgement

Front 38

Procurement documents may list ...

Back 38

Suppliers, consultants, and/or customers

Front 39

As an input to the Identify Stakeholders process, Organizational Process Assets, may include ...

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Historical information, lessons learned, a template that includes a survey or questionnaire

Front 40

What are the two tools used in the Identify Stakeholder process?

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Stakeholder Analysis and Expert Judgement

Front 41

What type of information should you gather when performing Stakeholder Analysis?

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Roles, responsibilities, experience, level of influence, level of interest

Front 42

What are the steps taken during Stakeholder Analysis?

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Identify, classify, and assess.