PMP Study Group Chapter Project Scope Management

You gave the responsibility of collecting requirement from project stakeholder to four of your team members. After starting the requirement collection process, one of your team members left the job and the requirements could not be compiled properly. Initially, you did not notice this, however, during a product review, a few stakeholders told you that some of the features in the product were not requested by them. Therefore, to verify their comments you review the product requirements and identify the issue.

• A. Scope creep

• B. Scope slippage

• C. Gold Scope

• D. Opportunity

During the planning phase, you have created the WBS for the work that you are about to complete. However, because of a lack of information you are not able to create the WBS for the rest of the work, so you leave it until you get the correct and detailed information. This is an example of:

• A. Iterative development approach

• B. Improper collecting requirement process

• C. Rolling wave planning

• D. Improper scope statement

The client informs you that he noticed some parts of the work are not being completed by your team. You ensure him that you will look into it and give a proper response after verifying the facts. Which document will you refer to verify it?

• A. Project scope statement

• B. WBS dictionary

• C. Schedule baseline

• D. WBS

As the project manager for a large, complex project, you have been getting complaints from your team, including some of the management team, about all the time being spent on planning. You know that by spending time following the appropriate planning process, you can prevent many problems during execution. This will save time in the later stages of the project. One of the primary complaints you were hearing is related to the time it takes to create the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). You are explaining the importance of the WBS to your project team members. Which of the following statements about the WBS is incorrect?

• A. it is a hierarchical decomposition of Project work

• B. Planned work contained in the lowest level WBS components are called WBS dictionaries.

• C. The WBS subdivides the project work into smaller, more manageable pieces of work

• D. The WBS organizes and defines the total scope of the project work

While finalizing the WBS, you assign each work package to a control account and establish a unique identified for the same work from a code of account. These identifiers help you find a hierarchical sum of costs, schedule, etc. Which statement is true about the WBS?

• A. It contains all project work

• B. It authorizes the project manager

• C. It is a hierarchy of project staft

• D. It is a hierarchical breakdown of project resources

During the collect requirement process, an influential stakeholder requested a Feature which was rejected. During the project execution, you notice that you have an opportunity to incorporate the requirement of this stakeholder into product and it will cost you nothing. By doing so, the stakeholder will be pleased and may help you in your next assignment. This is an example of:

• A. Scope creep

• B. Scope slippage

• C. Gold plating

• D. Opportunity

In the the create WBS process, you sub-divide project deliverables and project work into smaller and more manageable components. The output of this process is the Scope Baseline and Project document updates. Which of the following truly represents the scope baseline?

• A. Scope statement, Scope management plan, Schedule baseline

• B. Scope statement, WBS, WBS dictionary

• C. WBS, WBS dictionary, Risk Register

• D. Scope statement, WBS, Schedule baseline

You have been assigned to manage a software project that should be completed within three months. A project charter has been created. You met with the customer, sponsor and key stakeholders to collect requirements and developed a project scope statement. A project management plan has been developed and approved by the key stakeholders. You met with the actual user who will use the product of the project to demonstrate how the product of the project will work and discovered that the user's requirements are different from the ones you were initially given and approved by key stakeholders. What should you do?

• A. Create a change request for the user's requirement

• B. Complete the work as originally planned

• C. Try to meet other users to collect other requirements

• D. Re-plan the project to include the new requimements

Jaya Krisna has just joined a large startup companhy as a project manager. He has been assigned to manage his first project in the company. Midway through the project, he noticed that the customer is getting frequent change requests implemented by informally approaching the team members. This has resulted in work disruption and discontent among team members. What should be Meiriando's priority to remedy the situation?

• A, Ensure proper project Scope control

• B. Call for a meeting with the customer and team members to solve the problem

• C. Begin creating detailed project scope statement

• D. Modify the project management plan so that all change request must be approved by him.

During reviewing the product of the project with the customer, the customer discovered a defect in the product of the project. By referring to the project management plan, the project team discovered that this defect is due to a wrong description of one of the work packages. What is the next thing the team should do?

• A. Correct the WBS dictionary and repair the defect according to the corrected WBS dictionary

• B. Go to the change control board to implement the change

• C. Assess the impact of the correction on other project constraints such as time and cost

• D. Inform the project sponsor and key stakeholders for the change