Tag: Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1362

You and your team are documenting requirements on you project to control fatigue as people need to work more hours to keep up with the competition. You decided to set up components for the requirements on your project. Acceptance criteria are an example
of______________


A. Stakeholder requirements
B. Transition requirements
C. Project requirements
D. Business requirements

Correct Answer: C

Explanation:

Explanation:
Various components of requirements documentation can be used. Examples are: business requirements, stakeholder requirements, solution requirements, project requirements, and requirements assumptions, dependencies, and constraints. Project
requirements consist of acceptance criteria and levels of service performance, safety, and compliance.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1361

Modifications may be needed to the WBS and WBS dictionary because of approved change requests, which shows that______________


A. Replanning is an output of control scope
B. Scope creep is common on projects
C. Rebaselining will be necessary
D. Variance is relative to the scope baseline

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
Approved change requests will most likely impact and cause updates to the WBS, WBS dictionary, and project scope statement. In other words, they will cause variance to the scope baseline.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1360

The key inputs to the validate scope process include all the below items EXCEPT______________


A. The project management plan (scope management plan and scope baseline)
B. Change requests
C. Validated deliverables
D. Requirements traceability matrix

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

Explanation:
The change requests are not an input of the validate scope process but are an output. The other items are all inputs to help the project manager validate the scope of the project.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1359

Your customer signed off on the requirements document and scope statement of your video game project last month. Today she stated she would like to make it an interactive game that can be played on a television and on a computer. This represents a
requested scope change that, at a minimum______________


A. Should be reviewed according to the perform integrated change control process
B. Results in a change to all project baselines

C. Requires adjustments to cost, time, quality, and other objectives
D. Results in a lesson learned

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation:
A requested change is an output from the control scope process. Such a change should be handled according to the integrated change control process and may result in an update to the scope baseline or other components of the project management plan.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1358

You are project manager on a systems engineering project designed to last six years and to develop the next-generation corvette for use in military operations. You and your team recognize that requirements may change as new technologies, especially in sonar
systems, are developed. You are concerned that these new technologies may lead to changes in the scope of your product, which then will affect the scope of your project. Therefore your requirements traceability matrix should include tracing requirements to all
the following project elements EXCEPT______________


A. Business needs
B. Product design
C. Product development
D. Project verification

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
The requirements traceability matrix is an output of the collect requirements process. It includes tracing requirements to business needs, opportunities, and objectives; project objectives; project scope: WBS deliverables; product design; product development; test
strategy and scenarios; as well as high-level requirements to more detailed requirements.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1357

Your project is now under way, and you are working with your team to prepare your requirements management plan. Which of the following strongly influences how requirements are managed?


A. The phase-to-phase relationship
B. A set of procedures by which project scope and product scope may be changed
C. Requirements traceability matrix
D. Requirements documentation

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation:
The requirements management plan defines how requirements will be analyzed, documented, and managed. It is strongly influenced by the phase-to-phase relationship. The project manager selects the most effective relationship for the project and documents it
in the plan.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1356

Work performance information includes all the following EXCEPT______________


A. Started deliverables
B. Costs authorized and incurred
C. Progress of deliverables
D. Completed deliverables

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

Explanation:
Work performance information is an output of validate scope. It emphasizes deliverables whether or not they have started, their progress, and ones that have finished or have been accepted.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1355

Updates of organizational process assets that are an output of control scope include all the following EXCEPT______________


A. Causes of variations
B. Lessons learned
C. Work authorization system
D. Reasons certain corrective actions were chosen

Correct Answer: C

Explanation:

Explanation:
The work authorization system is not used in control scope. The others are examples of organizational process assets that may require update as a result of scope control.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1354

Written change requests should be required on______________


A. All projects, large and small
B. Only large projects
C. Projects with a formal configuration management system in place
D. Projects for which the cost of a change control system can be justified

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation:
A system is needed for careful monitoring of changes made to the requirements. Use of written change requests encourages the individuals asking for changes to take responsibility for their requests and reduces frivolous requests that may adversely affect the
project.
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Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1353

Any step recommended to bring expected future performance in line with the project management plan is called______________


A. Performance evaluation
B. Corrective action
C. Preventive action
D. Defect repair

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

Explanation:
Recommended corrective action is an output from control scope. In addition to bringing expected future performance in line with the project management plan, it also serves to bring expected future performance in line with the project scope statement.