CAPM Project Scope Management 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A project manager is using a decision tree and multi-criteria scoring to evaluate competing requirements. This is an example of which requirements technique?
- Group creativity techniques
- Group decision-making techniques (Correct answer)
- Benchmarking
- Context diagrams
Correct answer: Group decision-making techniques
Group decision-making techniques such as multi-criteria decision analysis are used to evaluate and prioritize requirements.
Question 2: Which process determines whether project work and deliverables meet the defined scope?
- Plan Scope Management
- Control Scope (Correct answer)
- Validate Scope
- Define Scope
Correct answer: Control Scope
Control Scope monitors project and product scope status and manages changes to the scope baseline.
Question 3: What is a WBS Dictionary?
- A glossary of project management terms
- A document providing detailed information about each WBS component (Correct answer)
- A list of all deliverable acceptance criteria
- A mapping of WBS elements to cost accounts
Correct answer: A document providing detailed information about each WBS component
The WBS Dictionary provides detailed descriptions, acceptance criteria, and technical references for each component in the WBS.
Question 4: Context diagrams are used during requirements collection to:
- Show the sequence of project activities
- Illustrate the product scope by displaying the business system and its interactions with people and systems (Correct answer)
- Decompose deliverables into smaller components
- Document stakeholder roles and responsibilities
Correct answer: Illustrate the product scope by displaying the business system and its interactions with people and systems
Context diagrams visually depict how a business system interacts with external entities such as people and other systems.
Question 5: Which scope management process uses expert judgment, data analysis, and meetings to monitor scope status?
- Define Scope
- Create WBS
- Validate Scope
- Control Scope (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Control Scope
Control Scope uses tools such as variance analysis and trend analysis to monitor scope performance against the scope baseline.
Question 6: A project sponsor asks the project manager to add a major deliverable discovered after planning. The project manager should:
- Add it immediately because the sponsor requested it
- Refuse since the scope is already defined
- Evaluate the impact and submit a formal change request (Correct answer)
- Update only the WBS and continue
Correct answer: Evaluate the impact and submit a formal change request
Even sponsor requests must go through formal change control to evaluate schedule, cost, and risk impacts before approval.
Question 7: Which of the following BEST describes progressive elaboration in scope management?
- Breaking deliverables into smaller work packages over time
- Iteratively detailing project scope as more information becomes available (Correct answer)
- Gradually expanding project scope to meet new requirements
- Progressively raising the level of WBS decomposition
Correct answer: Iteratively detailing project scope as more information becomes available
Progressive elaboration means continuously improving and detailing a project plan as more accurate and specific information becomes available.
CAPM Project Scope Management 4
A project manager is using a decision tree and multi-criteria scoring to evaluate competing requirements.
This is an example of which requirements technique?