PMI PMI Project Integration & Change Control 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the primary purpose of the Project Management Plan?
- To document project lessons learned after closure
- To define how the project will be executed, monitored, controlled, and closed (Correct answer)
- To assign roles and responsibilities to team members
- To track identified project risks and responses
Correct answer: To define how the project will be executed, monitored, controlled, and closed
The Project Management Plan defines how the project will be executed, monitored, controlled, and closed across all PMBOK knowledge areas.
Question 2: Which process group includes the Direct and Manage Project Work process?
- Planning
- Executing (Correct answer)
- Monitoring and Controlling
- Initiating
Correct answer: Executing
Direct and Manage Project Work is part of the Executing process group, where the work defined in the project management plan is carried out.
Question 3: What is the Perform Integrated Change Control process used for?
- Reviewing, approving, and managing all change requests across the project (Correct answer)
- Tracking project cost variances only
- Managing individual resource assignments
- Documenting all identified project risks
Correct answer: Reviewing, approving, and managing all change requests across the project
Perform Integrated Change Control reviews all change requests and manages changes to deliverables, documents, and the project management plan in an integrated manner.
Question 4: What is a Change Control Board (CCB)?
- A team responsible for managing project quality audits
- A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing and approving or rejecting change requests (Correct answer)
- A committee dedicated to managing identified project risks
- A group responsible for stakeholder communication planning
Correct answer: A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing and approving or rejecting change requests
A Change Control Board is a formally constituted group with authority to review, evaluate, approve, defer, or reject project change requests.
Question 5: What document records all change requests and their current status?
- Risk register
- Issue log
- Change log (Correct answer)
- Lessons learned register
Correct answer: Change log
The change log is used to document and track all change requests submitted during the project, along with their approval status and disposition.
Question 6: What is the purpose of Project Integration Management?
- To manage only the technical aspects of a project's deliverables
- To ensure all project processes are properly coordinated and unified (Correct answer)
- To manage all procurement and contracting activities
- To exclusively control project cost performance
Correct answer: To ensure all project processes are properly coordinated and unified
Project Integration Management ensures that all project elements are properly coordinated, that trade-offs between competing objectives are managed, and the project is executed holistically.
PMI PMI Project Integration & Change Control 1
What is the primary purpose of the Project Management Plan?