CPP Change Control & Configuration Management 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which change control document captures all submitted change requests along with their status and disposition?
- Issue log
- Change log (Correct answer)
- Risk register
- Lessons learned register
Correct answer: Change log
The change log tracks all change requests, their current status (pending, approved, rejected), and final disposition throughout the project.
Question 2: Configuration identification involves which of the following activities?
- Scheduling CCB meetings
- Selecting and labeling configuration items and establishing baselines (Correct answer)
- Performing earned value calculations
- Conducting stakeholder interviews
Correct answer: Selecting and labeling configuration items and establishing baselines
Configuration identification selects which items will be controlled, assigns unique identifiers, and establishes the initial baselines.
Question 3: When assessing a proposed change, a project manager performs an impact analysis. What does this analysis evaluate?
- The personal qualifications of requestors
- Effects on scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and resources (Correct answer)
- The number of stakeholders who support the change
- Only the financial cost of the change
Correct answer: Effects on scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and resources
A thorough impact analysis examines how the proposed change affects all project constraints including scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and resources.
Question 4: What is a 'baseline' in the context of configuration management?
- A daily status report template
- A formally approved version of a work product used as a reference for future comparison (Correct answer)
- The initial budget estimate before refinement
- A checklist used during project audits
Correct answer: A formally approved version of a work product used as a reference for future comparison
A baseline is a formally approved snapshot of a product or plan that serves as the fixed reference point against which future changes are measured.
Question 5: Which of the following BEST describes configuration status accounting?
- Approving changes to scope documents
- Recording and reporting the status of configuration items and approved changes (Correct answer)
- Conducting post-project reviews
- Estimating costs for new configuration items
Correct answer: Recording and reporting the status of configuration items and approved changes
Configuration status accounting maintains records of the status of each configuration item and tracks changes from baseline through implementation.
Question 6: A client requests a small, seemingly low-cost change to a software module. The project manager should FIRST:
- Implement it immediately since it is minor
- Log the request and perform a formal impact analysis (Correct answer)
- Reject it because the project is in execution
- Ask the team to absorb it in the contingency reserve
Correct answer: Log the request and perform a formal impact analysis
All changes, regardless of perceived size, must be formally logged and analyzed for impact before approval or rejection.
Question 7: Emergency changes that bypass the standard CCB process should ALWAYS:
- Be kept secret from the sponsor
- Be documented and retroactively reviewed by the CCB as soon as possible (Correct answer)
- Permanently replace the standard process
- Be performed only by the project manager without team input
Correct answer: Be documented and retroactively reviewed by the CCB as soon as possible
Even emergency changes must be documented and submitted for formal CCB review after the fact to maintain configuration integrity.
CPP Change Control & Configuration Management 3
Which change control document captures all submitted change requests along with their status and disposition?