Chapter 3
What process group does the project integration management knowledge area map to through the activities of developing project charters?
Initiating
The project management plan is the output of which project planning process?
Integration management
Which process includes measuring progress toward project objectives and taking corrective action to match progress with the plan?
Monitoring and Controlling
What is often the most difficult and unappreciated process in project management?
Planning
What processes include devising and maintaining a workable scheme to ensure that the project addresses the organization's needs?
Planning
What is developed in the Project Integration Management knowledge area?
Project management plan
Which process involves gaining stakeholder and customer acceptance of the final products and services and bringing the project, or project phase, to an orderly end?
Closing
Which activity is a part of the Scrum planning process?
Creating sprint backlog
What processes include defining and authorizing a project or project phase?
Initiating
Reporting performance, where project stakeholders can identify any necessary changes that may be required to keep the project on track, is a common part of which process?
Monitoring and Controlling
The project schedule management knowledge area maps to which process group through the activity of schedule control?
Monitoring and Controlling
The project scope management knowledge area maps to which process group through the activities of scope validation and scope control?
Monitoring and Controlling
Which project would be compatible with the use of the agile approach?
Projects that have more flexible scheduling
Project initiation involves taking the actions necessary to ensure that activities in the project plan are completed.
False
The Rational Unified Process (RUP) framework is incompatible with the PMBOK process.
False
The burndown chart is a Scrum created artifact that provides a list of features prioritized by business value.
False
The kick-off meeting is always held before the business case and project charter are completed.
False
The pre-initiation phase of a project using the Scrum method does not involve project charters, stakeholder management strategy, and kick-off meetings.
False
Monitoring and controlling processes overlap all of the other project management process groups.
True
The DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) methodology of the Six Sigma projects, is used to improve an existing business process.
True
The WBS provides a basis for creating the project schedule and performing earned value management for measuring and forecasting project performance
True
The executing process group generally requires the most resources.
True
The level of activity and length of each process group varies for every project.
True
What important Scrum artifact is used to graphically display progress on each sprint during the monitoring and controlling process?
Burndown Chart
The two main items for monitoring and controlling in the Scrum framework are the daily Scrum and the sprint retrospectives.
True
A milestone list is an output associated with the Project Scope Management knowledge area.
False
Agile methods are used when deliverables have a low degree of change.
False
Decisions and actions taken in one knowledge area at a certain time rarely affect other knowledge areas.
False
Initiating and closing tasks are usually the longest and require the most amount of resources and time.
False
Initiating processes are not required to end a project.
False
Key outcomes of the executing process group are formal acceptance of the work and creation of closing documents.
False
An organization's project management plan expresses the vision, mission, goals, objectives, and strategies of the organization.
False - Strategic plan does tho
Which framework is an iterative software development process that focuses on team productivity and delivers software best practices to all team members?
Rational Unified Process
In the Scrum method, during which meeting is the improvement of the product and process discussed?
Sprint Retrotrospective
A _____ is usually not necessary to the Scrum method, because Scrum implies that team members work as a self-directed group.
Team Charter
A sprint review is a meeting in which the team demonstrates to the product owner what it has completed during the sprint.
True
What tool provides a basis for creating the project schedule and performing earned value management for measuring and forecasting project performance?
Work Breakdown Structure
What is one of the main outputs of the initiation process?
developing the project charter
The project stakeholder management knowledge area maps to which process group by identifying stakeholders?
initiating
What process provides enterprise environmental factors as an output?
project human resource management
An organizational process assets update is the output of which closing process?
project integration management
Which are outputs of the executing process of project integration management?
Deliverables
Administrative activities, such as archiving project files, closing out contracts, documenting lessons learned, and receiving formal acceptance of the delivered work as part of the phase or project, are often involved in which processes?
Closing
Which planning process is associated with project scope management?
Collecting Requirements
Which planning process is within the Project Scope Management knowledge area?
Creation of a WBS
Which is an example of a pre-initiation task?
Developing a business case for a project
Identifying the project sponsor is a pre-initiation task.
True
Initiating processes take place during each phase of a project.
True
Kick-off meeting agendas are usually recorded in a Word document.
True
Many project management activities occur as part of the planning process group.
True