Project Scope Management

Q1. In which document will you find the code of account identifier, description of
work, responsible organization, and schedule milestones?

1. WBS

2. WBS Dictionary

3. PERT/CPM Charts

4. Roles and Responsibilities Matrix

Q2. You are a project manager in a large software development organization. It is

a primary objective in your company to deliver quality products, with a low rate
of errors and a high product acceptance rate by your customers. The company
has made significant investments in a robust system to support these corporate
objectives and goals. When developing contracts for software development
projects, it is standard that the customer is required to follow rigorously defined
processes for user acceptance testing which must be conducted each time a module
is completed. The customer is also required to notify the project manager, in
writing, that the software module was tested and whether it was acceptable or
not. This user acceptance testing and the resulting notification is part of which
process?

1. Control Scope

2. Collect Requirements

3. Validate Scope

4. Manage Quality

Q3. In your project, you use product analysis to translate high-level product
descriptions into tangible deliverables and requirements. Which of the following
techniques is not used in product analysis?

1. Value engineering

2. Value analysis

3. Product breakdown

4. Alternatives identification
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Q4. Project Scope Management includes the processes required to ensure that the
project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the
project successfully. Which of the following statements about Project Scope
Management are NOT true?

1. Completion of the project scope is measured against the project management

plan

2. Completion of the product scope is measured against the product requirements

3. The verified deliverables obtained from the Control Scope process are an input
to the Validate Scope process

4. One of the outputs of Validate Scope is accepted deliverables

Q5. During the Validate Scope process, you formalize acceptance of the project
deliverables and keep the project focused on the business need for which it was
undertaken. This should be done:

1. At the beginning of the project

2. At the end of theproject

3. When required by the projectsponsor

4. After getting verified deliverables from the Control Quality process

Q6. As a project manager, you are aware that changes are bound to occur during
projects. While monitoring and controlling change on your projects, you use the
term scope creep. What does the term refer to?

1. Uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to

time, cost, andresources

2. Controlled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time,

cost, andresources

3. Manageable expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to

time, cost, andresources

4. Unmanageable expansion to product or project scope with adjustments to time,

cost, andresources
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Q7. You are managing a project. Your company has set a pre- defined budget for
you to work with. In this context, a pre-defined budget is considered as a/ an:

1. Risk

2. Assumption

3. Constraint

4. Stage point

Q8. 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 processes, you can prevent many problems during execution.
This will save time in the later stages of the project. One of the primary complaints
you are 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?

1. It is a hierarchical decomposition of project work.

2. The planned work is contained within the lowest level of WBS components,
which are called WBS dictionaries.

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

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

Q9. In your project, a team member suggested the addition of a functionality, which
she thinks, will improve customer satisfaction. Your approach would be to:

1. Allow for the functionality, because satisfying the customer is your objective.

2. Disallow the new requirement, because it changes the project scope, and the
customer did not explicitly state this requirement.

3. Make changes to the project plan to accommodate the new requirement

4. Ask the customer for additional funding to implement the requirement

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Q10. The Scope Management Plan is an important component of the Project
Management Plan since it provides direction on how the project scope will be
managed throughout the project life cycle. The Scope Management Plan
documents:

1. Which product requirements will be incorporated

2. How the scope will be defined, developed, monitored, controlled, and validated

3. Which stakeholders are most critical for defining the project scope

4. High-level project scope deliverables

Q11. You are the project manager in a company. You have finished preparing a
detailed description of the project and product. What will you do next?

1. Collect Requirements

2. Create WBS

3. Validate Scope

4. Control Scope

Q12. There has been a change in the scope of your project, which may adversely
impact the project schedules and cost. You have updated the technical and
planning documents. All the requested changes and recommended corrective
actions will now be processed through:

1. Impact request statements

2. Change control system

3. Perform Integrated Change Control process

4. Changes to the scope management plan

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Q13. Planning the scope for a project occurs very early in the project life cycle.
One of the first steps is to document how the project scope will be defined,
developed, monitored, controlled, and validated. The output(s) of the Plan Scope
Management process are:

1. Scope management plan

2. Scope baseline and Requirements documentation

3. Scope management plan and Requirementsdocumentation

4. Scope management plan and Requirements management plan

Q14. Which of the following statements related to Validate Scope and Control
Quality processes is accurate?

1. Validate Scope is concerned with correctness of the work results, while

Control Quality is primarily concerned with acceptance of the work results.

2. Validate Scope is concerned with acceptance of the work results, while Control
Quality is primarily concerned with correctness of the work results.

3. Validate Scope is the process of managing changes to the scope baseline.

4. Both Validate Scope and Control Quality processes are always done sequentially.

Q15. The scope baseline is a component of the project management plan and is
critical for you to validate scope and perform scope control. Which of the following is
NOT a component of the scope baseline?

1. Project Scope Statement

2. WBS

3. WBS dictionary

4. Activity list
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Q16. After collecting requirements, one of your tasks as a project manager is to
prepare a scope statement for your project. The scope statement provides:

1. Authorization to the project manager for using organizational resources for

project activities.

2. Documentation of how the project scope will be managed and how scope
changes will be integrated into the project.

3. Definition for work breakdown structure.

4. Common understanding of the project scope among project stakeholders.

Q17. In your project, you need to validate to determine whether deliverables meet
requirements and product acceptance criteria. For this purpose, which of the
following would you rely on?

1. Inspection

2. Expert judgment

3. Observations

4. Focus groups

Q18. The customer accepted your project`s product two weeks ago, but recently
complained that some of the product features are not as desired and that the
product is not functioning properly. What should you do FIRST?

1. Ignore the customer, since he already accepted the product.

2. Review the customer`s testresults.

3. Review the Validate Scope process.

4. Start working on rectifying the errors as reported by the customer.

Q19. Your project involves manufacturing high-precision engine subassemblies

for the shipping industry. You have to perform several activities such as
measuring, examining, and validating to determine whether work and
deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria. You would have
to do reviews,product reviews, and walkthroughs. These activities are carried out
in which process?

1. Validate Scope

2. Quality Inspection

3. Collect Requirements
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4. Control Scope

Q20. An environmental remediation project has succeeded in reducing costs. This is

achieved by implementing a change request for new technology that was not
available when the scope was originally defined. The technology change that is
adopted is a/an:

1. Value adding change

2. Error or omission in defining the scope of the project

3. External event

4. Contingency or workaround plan

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Answers

Q1. 2 is the correctanswer

Justification
Information in the WBS dictionary may include but is not limited to: code of account
identifier, description of work, assumptions and constraints, responsible organization,
schedule milestones, associated schedule activities, resources required, cost estimates,
quality requirements, acceptance criteria, technical references, and agreement
information.

Reference: PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition, Page 162

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Q2. 3 is the correctanswer
Justification
Validate Scope is the process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project
deliverables.
The key benefit of this process is that it brings objectivity to the acceptance process and
increases the probability of final product, service, or result acceptance by validating each
deliverable. The verified deliverables obtained from the Control Quality process are
reviewed with the customer or sponsor to ensure that they are completed satisfactorily
and have received formal acceptance of the deliverables by the customer or sponsor.

iTechGurus comments: This question describes an inspection of the deliverable by the

customer (i.e., testing). The process of accepting deliverables (Validate Scope) should
include written notification that the deliverable has been either accepted orrejected.

Reference: PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition, Page 163 and 164

Q3. 4 is the correctanswer

Justification
Product analysis includes techniques such as product breakdown, systems analysis,
requirements analysis, systems engineering, value engineering, and value analysis.

Reference: PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition, Page 153

Q4. 3 is the correctanswer

Justification
The verified deliverables are obtained from the Control Quality process, not the Control
Scope process.

Reference: PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition, Page 131

Q5. 4 is the correctanswer

Justification
Verified deliverables are project deliverables that are completed and checked for
correctness through the Control Quality process.

Reference: PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition, Page 165

ITechGurus comments: Validate Scope is the process of formalizing acceptance of the

completed project deliverables. This should be done after getting individual deliverables
from the Control Quality process. Verified deliverables are an input to the Validate Scope
process.

Q6. 1 is the correctanswer

Justification
Uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time, cost, and
resources is referred to as scope creep.

Reference: PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition, Page 168

Q7. 3 is the correctanswer

Justification
Constraint is a limiting factor that affects the execution of a project or process; for
example, a predefined budget or any imposed dates or schedule milestones that are
issued by the customer or performing organization.
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Q8. 2 is the correctanswer
Justification
The planned work is contained within the lowest level of WBS components, which are
called work packages. A work package can be used to group the activities where work is
scheduled and estimated, monitored, and controlled.

Reference: PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition, Page 157

Q9. 2 is the correctanswer

Justification
Project Scope Management includes the processes required to ensure that the project
includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project
successfully.

Managing the project scope is primarily concerned with defining and controlling what is
and is not included in the project.

Reference: PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition, Page 129

Q10. 2 is the correct answer

Justification
The Scope Management Plan describes how the scope will be defined, developed,
monitored, controlled, and validated.

Reference: PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition, Page 135

Q11. 2 is the correct answer

Justification
Define Scope (5.3) is the process of developing a detailed description of the project and
product. This process should be followed by the Create WBS (5.4) process.

Reference: PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition, Page 130

Q12. 3 is the correct answer

Justification
Controlling the project scope ensures all requested changes and recommended corrective
or preventive actions are processed through the Perform Integrated Change Control
process.

Reference: PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition, Page 168

Q13. 4 is the correct answer

Justification
Both the Scope Management Plan and the Requirements Management Plan are outputs of
the Plan Scope Management process.

Scope baseline is an output of the Create WBS process. Requirements documentation is an

output of the Collect Requirements process.

Reference: PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition, Page 130

Q14. 2 is the correct answer

Justification
The Validate Scope process differs from the Control Quality process in that the former is
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primarily concerned with acceptance of the deliverables, while the latter is primarily
concerned with correctness of the deliverables and meeting the quality requirements
specified for the deliverables.

Control Quality is generally performed before Validate Scope, although the two processes
may be performed in parallel.

Reference: PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition, Page 164

Q15. 4 is the correct answer

Justification
Components of the scope baseline include Project Scope Statement, WBS, Work Package,
Planning Package and WBS dictionary.

ITechGurus comments: Activity list is not a component of the scope baseline.

Reference: PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition, Page 161 and 162

Q16. 4 is the correct answer

Justification
The project scope statement is the description of the project scope, major deliverables,
assumptions, and constraints. It also provides a common understanding of the project
scope among project stakeholders.

Reference: PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition, Page 154

Q17. 1 is the correct answer

Justification
Inspection includes activities such as measuring, examining, and validating to determine
whether work and deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria.

Reference: PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition, Page 166

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Q18. 3 is the correct answer

Justification
The verified deliverables obtained from the Control Quality process are reviewed with
the customer or sponsor to ensure that they are completed satisfactorily and have
received formal acceptance of the deliverables by the customer or sponsor.

iTechGurus comments: Option 3: The first step to be taken is to review the Validate
Scope process to determine whether the product conforms to the stipulated
requirements.

Option 1: Ignoring the customer is never recommended since he is one of the most
important stakeholders in yourproject.

Option 2: You cannot review the customer’s test results, since the customer may not be
ready to share it with you and, therefore, you may not have access to it.

Option 4: Before rectifying the errors, you must understand clearly whether all the
deliverables were delivered satisfactorily.

Q19. 1 is the correct answer

Justification
Validate Scope includes inspection as a technique. Inspection includes activities such as
measuring, examining, and validating to determine whether work and deliverables meet
requirements and product acceptance criteria.

Inspections are sometimes called reviews, product reviews, and walkthroughs.

Reference: PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition, Page 166

Q20. 1 is the correct answer

Justification
Value addition, usually, is a result of implementation of change requests.

A contingency plan would have had to be created at the start and since this technology
was not available then, it cannot be the answer.

Since the technology wasn’t previously available, it cannot be considered as an error in

the plan.