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Project Integration Management Flashcards

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  1. A CAM's control account shows a cumulative cost variance of -$50,000 that exceeds the reporting threshold. What integrated action is required?

    Answer: Prepare a variance analysis report explaining cause, impact, and corrective action

    Threshold-breaching variances require formal analysis covering root cause, impact on the project, and planned corrective action.

  2. Rolling wave planning at the control account level means the CAM should:

    Answer: Detail-plan near-term work packages while keeping far-term effort in planning packages

    Rolling wave planning converts planning packages into detailed work packages as their execution window approaches.

  3. Which element ties a control account to the responsible organizational unit, ensuring single-point accountability?

    Answer: The intersection of the WBS and the organizational breakdown structure (OBS)

    A control account is established at the intersection of the WBS and OBS, giving one manager accountability for scope, schedule, and cost.

  4. A CAM notices a subcontractor's schedule slip will delay a successor task in another control account. The most integrated response is to:

    Answer: Coordinate with the affected CAM and update the integrated master schedule impacts

    Integration requires communicating cross-control-account schedule impacts and reflecting them in the integrated master schedule.

  5. Undistributed budget (UB) differs from management reserve (MR) in that UB is:

    Answer: Budget for authorized scope not yet allocated to control accounts

    Undistributed budget covers authorized, definitized scope awaiting distribution to control accounts, while MR covers unplanned in-scope risk.

  6. When closing out a completed control account, the CAM should ensure that:

    Answer: Budget equals earned value at completion and no further charges are accepted

    At closure, budget at completion should equal cumulative earned value, and the charge number should be closed to prevent further costs.

  7. A directed change from the customer arrives without a negotiated price. How should the CAM plan this authorized unpriced work?

    Answer: Plan near-term effort in the baseline based on the estimated value until definitization

    Authorized unpriced work is planned into the baseline at its estimated value and adjusted when the change is definitized.