PMP Scope Management 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which document defines all requirements that must be met for the project to be accepted, including measurable acceptance criteria?
- Requirements Management Plan
- Project Scope Statement (Correct answer)
- Requirements Traceability Matrix
- Quality Management Plan
Correct answer: Project Scope Statement
The project scope statement includes deliverables, acceptance criteria, project exclusions, and constraints that define what must be met for acceptance.
Question 2: A project has a well-documented scope baseline, but the project manager is concerned about scope creep. The BEST preventive measure is:
- Hold weekly team meetings to remind everyone not to add work
- Rigorously enforce the integrated change control process for all scope changes (Correct answer)
- Reduce the number of stakeholders who can communicate with the team
- Increase the project budget to accommodate potential additions
Correct answer: Rigorously enforce the integrated change control process for all scope changes
Rigorous integrated change control is the most effective preventive measure against scope creep by ensuring all changes are formally evaluated and approved.
Question 3: Which of the following is NOT an output of the Validate Scope process?
- Accepted deliverables
- Work performance information
- Change requests
- Scope baseline updates (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Scope baseline updates
Scope baseline updates are an output of Control Scope, not Validate Scope; Validate Scope produces accepted deliverables, work performance information, and change requests.
Question 4: A project manager uses facilitated workshops to collect requirements. What is the PRIMARY advantage of this technique?
- It eliminates the need for a requirements traceability matrix
- It allows cross-functional stakeholders to rapidly define and reconcile requirements together (Correct answer)
- It reduces the project schedule by replacing all other elicitation techniques
- It ensures the sponsor approves all requirements before documentation
Correct answer: It allows cross-functional stakeholders to rapidly define and reconcile requirements together
Facilitated workshops bring together cross-functional stakeholders to quickly discover and reconcile differences in requirements, building consensus efficiently.
Question 5: When a project manager performs variance analysis during scope control, they are PRIMARILY comparing:
- Planned versus actual costs
- Scope baseline versus actual scope performance (Correct answer)
- Stakeholder expectations versus deliverable quality
- Scheduled dates versus milestone completion dates
Correct answer: Scope baseline versus actual scope performance
In Control Scope, variance analysis compares the approved scope baseline against actual project performance to determine if a variance exists.
Question 6: An agile project team refers to the product backlog as a living document. In terms of traditional scope management, the product backlog MOST closely aligns with:
- The project charter
- The requirements documentation (Correct answer)
- The WBS dictionary
- The scope management plan
Correct answer: The requirements documentation
The product backlog captures and prioritizes all features and requirements, most closely aligning with requirements documentation in traditional approaches.
Question 7: A project manager is told by a team member that a feature was quietly removed from the deliverable to save time. What should the project manager do?
- Allow it since the team made a reasonable judgment call
- Document it as a change request and process it through change control (Correct answer)
- Report the team member to HR for insubordination
- Add the feature back and extend the schedule to cover it
Correct answer: Document it as a change request and process it through change control
Removing work from scope is a scope change that must be formally processed through integrated change control regardless of the reason.
PMP Scope Management 4
Which document defines all requirements that must be met for the project to be accepted, including measurable acceptance criteria?