Chapter 3 - Quiz
What important Scrum artifact is used to graphically display progress on each sprint during the monitoring and controlling process?
Burndown chart
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 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 planning process is associated with project scope management?
Collecting requirements
Which activity is a part of the Scrum planning process?
Creating sprint backlog
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
Agile methods are used when deliverables have a low degree of change.
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
The Rational Unified Process (RUP) framework is incompatible with the PMBOK process.
False
The kick-off meeting is always held before the business case and project charter are completed.
False
What is the main purpose of project plans?
Guide project execution
The organization recognizes that a new project exists and completes a project charter during which processes for a new project?
Initiating
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 is true about the agile method?
It uses several iterations or deliveries of software instead of waiting until the end of the project to provide a product.
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 scope management knowledge area maps to which process group through the activities of scope validation and scope control?
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 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
What is developed in the Project Integration Management knowledge area?
Project management plan
Which project would be compatible with the use of the agile approach?
Projects that have more flexible scheduling
In the Scrum method, during which meeting is the improvement of the product and process discussed?
Sprint retrospective
A _____ is usually not necessary to the Scrum method, because Scrum implies that team members work as a self-directed group.
Team charter
Identifying the project sponsor is a pre-initiation task.
True
In the Scrum method, team members work as a self-directed group coached by the ScrumMaster.
True
Many project management activities occur as part of the planning process group.
True
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 two main items for monitoring and controlling in the Scrum framework are the daily Scrum and the sprint retrospectives.
True
