CPP Change Control & Configuration Management 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the primary purpose of a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) in a project environment?
- To track financial transactions
- To record and manage configuration items and their relationships (Correct answer)
- To schedule project milestones
- To document stakeholder communications
Correct answer: To record and manage configuration items and their relationships
A CMDB stores configuration items (CIs) and their interdependencies, enabling teams to assess impact before making changes.
Question 2: During integrated change control, who holds final authority to approve or reject changes on a large program?
- The project manager alone
- The Change Control Board (CCB) (Correct answer)
- The project sponsor exclusively
- Any senior team member
Correct answer: The Change Control Board (CCB)
The Change Control Board (CCB) is the formal governing body with authority to approve, defer, or reject change requests on programs.
Question 3: Which document formally describes the current approved scope, schedule, and cost baselines for a project?
- Change log
- Project management plan (Correct answer)
- Risk register
- Stakeholder register
Correct answer: Project management plan
The project management plan contains the performance measurement baselines (scope, schedule, cost) against which changes are assessed.
Question 4: A team member discovers a defect in a delivered component. What is the FIRST step under formal change control?
- Immediately fix the defect
- Submit a defect repair request through the change control process (Correct answer)
- Notify the customer informally
- Update the project schedule to accommodate rework
Correct answer: Submit a defect repair request through the change control process
Even defect repairs must be submitted as formal change requests so impact can be assessed and approval obtained before work begins.
Question 5: Version control in configuration management primarily ensures which of the following?
- Cost estimates are accurate
- Only the latest approved version of a document or artifact is used (Correct answer)
- Stakeholders receive meeting minutes
- Risk responses are updated regularly
Correct answer: Only the latest approved version of a document or artifact is used
Version control tracks revisions to configuration items so teams always work from the correct, approved baseline version.
Question 6: What term describes the formal process of verifying that a configuration item conforms to its documented requirements?
- Configuration status accounting
- Configuration auditing (Correct answer)
- Change impact analysis
- Baseline baselining
Correct answer: Configuration auditing
Configuration auditing verifies that configuration items meet their specified requirements and that changes were implemented as approved.
Question 7: A project manager notices scope changes being implemented without formal approval. This situation is known as:
- Schedule compression
- Scope creep (Correct answer)
- Risk escalation
- Resource leveling
Correct answer: Scope creep
Scope creep is the uncontrolled expansion of project scope without formal change control approval.
CPP Change Control & Configuration Management 2
What is the primary purpose of a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) in a project environment?