Project Management Project Scope and Quality 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A project manager is creating a Requirements Traceability Matrix. What is its PRIMARY purpose?
- Tracking the cost of each requirement
- Linking requirements to their origin and tracing them through the project lifecycle (Correct answer)
- Assigning requirements to team members
- Prioritizing requirements by business value
Correct answer: Linking requirements to their origin and tracing them through the project lifecycle
The Requirements Traceability Matrix links each requirement to its business objective and traces it from origin through testing and delivery.
Question 2: During project execution, a team member implements a small, seemingly beneficial process improvement without going through the change control board. The project manager should:
- Praise the initiative and document the improvement after the fact
- Reverse the change and submit it through the formal change control process (Correct answer)
- Allow it since it is a small change
- Wait until the next project phase to address it
Correct answer: Reverse the change and submit it through the formal change control process
All changes, regardless of size, must go through the integrated change control process to maintain baseline integrity and avoid unauthorized scope changes.
Question 3: A scatter diagram is used in quality management to:
- Show the order in which defects occurred over time
- Determine whether two variables are related (Correct answer)
- Rank defects from most to least frequent
- Track whether a process is within control limits
Correct answer: Determine whether two variables are related
A scatter diagram plots two variables to identify potential correlations or relationships between them.
Question 4: Which WBS element represents the lowest level of deliverable at which cost and schedule can be reliably estimated?
- Control account
- Planning package
- Work package (Correct answer)
- Milestone
Correct answer: Work package
A work package is the lowest level of the WBS where work can be estimated, assigned, scheduled, monitored, and controlled.
Question 5: The concept of 'continuous improvement' in quality management is most closely associated with:
- PMBOK Guide
- Kaizen (Correct answer)
- PERT analysis
- Monte Carlo simulation
Correct answer: Kaizen
Kaizen is a Japanese philosophy of continuous, incremental improvement involving all employees to enhance quality and efficiency.
Question 6: A stakeholder submits a change request to add new features after the scope baseline has been approved. The project manager should FIRST:
- Implement the change immediately to satisfy the stakeholder
- Evaluate the impact on schedule, cost, and risk before submitting to the CCB (Correct answer)
- Reject the request because the baseline is already approved
- Update the WBS to include the new features
Correct answer: Evaluate the impact on schedule, cost, and risk before submitting to the CCB
Before escalating to the change control board, the project manager should assess the impact of the proposed change on all project constraints.
Question 7: Which quality concept describes the total range between the upper and lower specification limits for a process?
- Standard deviation
- Tolerance (Correct answer)
- Control limit
- Accuracy
Correct answer: Tolerance
Tolerance defines the acceptable range of variation specified by the customer or stakeholder for a quality metric.
Project Management Project Scope and Quality 4
A project manager is creating a Requirements Traceability Matrix.
What is its PRIMARY purpose?