Project Management Project Scope and WBS 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A WBS dictionary primarily serves to:
- Define the WBS numbering system
- Provide detailed descriptions of each WBS component including acceptance criteria (Correct answer)
- List all project stakeholders by role
- Summarize the project budget by phase
Correct answer: Provide detailed descriptions of each WBS component including acceptance criteria
The WBS dictionary supports each WBS component with details such as description, acceptance criteria, responsible party, and resource requirements.
Question 2: Scope creep most commonly results from:
- Poor risk management
- Inadequate change control and stakeholder management (Correct answer)
- Aggressive project scheduling
- Insufficient team training
Correct answer: Inadequate change control and stakeholder management
Scope creep typically occurs when changes are allowed informally without going through change control and stakeholder agreements are unclear.
Question 3: On a large program, a project manager is uncertain about the details of work that is 6 months away. The best approach is:
- Delay planning until the work is closer
- Use rolling wave planning to plan near-term work in detail and far-term work at a high level (Correct answer)
- Define all work packages now to avoid future rework
- Create a separate project for the future work
Correct answer: Use rolling wave planning to plan near-term work in detail and far-term work at a high level
Rolling wave planning allows progressive elaboration, detailing near-term work while keeping far-term work at a higher level until more information is available.
Question 4: Which of the following is NOT typically included in a project scope statement?
- Project deliverables
- Project exclusions
- Resource assignments by name (Correct answer)
- Acceptance criteria
Correct answer: Resource assignments by name
Resource assignments by name belong in the resource management plan, not the scope statement.
Question 5: A customer requests a feature during execution that was explicitly listed as an exclusion in the scope statement. The PM should:
- Add it immediately to maintain the relationship
- Evaluate the request and process it through integrated change control (Correct answer)
- Refuse the request without evaluation since it was excluded
- Add it to the backlog for the next project phase
Correct answer: Evaluate the request and process it through integrated change control
Even excluded items can be added via formal change control; the PM should evaluate and process the request properly rather than refusing outright.
Question 6: The process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline is called:
- Validate Scope
- Control Scope (Correct answer)
- Define Scope
- Plan Scope Management
Correct answer: Control Scope
Control Scope is the process of monitoring scope status and managing changes to ensure the scope baseline is maintained.
Question 7: In agile projects, the product backlog most closely corresponds to which traditional PM artifact?
- Project charter
- Scope statement and requirements documentation (Correct answer)
- Risk register
- Stakeholder register
Correct answer: Scope statement and requirements documentation
The product backlog serves as the evolving list of features and requirements, functioning similarly to the scope statement and requirements documentation in predictive approaches.
Project Management Project Scope and WBS 4
A WBS dictionary primarily serves to: