MIS 573-Chapter 5

What process involves formal acceptance of the completed project scope by the stakeholders?

Scope validation

Which document contains a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines the total scope of the project?

work breakdown structure

Which statement best describes scope?

work involved in creating the products and the processes used to create them

Which task is at the lowest level of the WBS?

work package

Which of the following task priorities will never be delayed by leveling?

1000

Which is recommended for the creation of a good WBS?

A unit of work should appear at only one place in the WBS.

A deadline date is entered in which tab in the Task Information dialog box?

Advanced

Which action involves defining and documenting the features and functions of the products produced during the project as well as the processes used for creating them?

Collecting requirements

Which action involves reviewing the project charter, requirements documents, and organizational process assets to create a scope statement, adding more information as requirements are developed and change requests are approved?

Defining scope

Which process uses highly organized and intensive workshops to bring together project stakeholders—the sponsor, users, business analysts, programmers, and so on—to jointly define and design information systems?

JAD

Which process involves developing a working replica of the system or some aspect of the system?

Prototyping

Which of the following cannot be performed on General tab of the Task Information dialog box?

Setting the constraint type

Which of the following can be performed on the General tab of the Task Information dialog box?

Updating the duration Modifying the start date Modifying the finish date Correct All of the above

Which process involves identifying and modeling business events, who initiated them, and how the system should respond to them?

Use case modeling

Which action involves normalizing acceptance of the project deliverables and during this phase the key project stakeholders, such as the customer and sponsor for the project, inspect and then formally accept the deliverables?

Validating scope

Which term refers to the difference between planned and actual performance?

Variance

Which approach for constructing a WBS uses a similar project's WBS as a starting point?

analogy

Which process involves generating ideas by comparing specific project practices or product characteristics to those of other projects or products inside or outside the performing organization?

benchmarking

During which approach do team members first identify as many specific tasks related to the project as possible and then aggregate the specific tasks and organize them into summary activities, or higher levels in the WBS?

bottom-up

Which of the following appears in the Indicators column to show that there is a scheduling conflict?

calendar alert indicator

__________ and task relationships are the two basic elements of scheduling.

constraints

What is the main technique used in creating a WBS, which involves subdividing project deliverables into smaller pieces?

decomposition

How many possible types of task relationships can you apply in Microsoft Project?

four

Tasks with priority 0 are __________.

leveled first

Which technique is used for creating a WBS uses branches radiating from a core idea to structure thoughts and ideas instead of writing down tasks in a list or immediately trying to create a structure for tasks?

mind mapping

Creating the WBS is a subprocess associated with which process in project scope management?

planning

Which output documents how project needs will be analyzed, documented, and managed?

requirements management plan

What is a table that lists requirements, their various attributes, and the status of the requirements to ensure that all are addressed referred to as?

requirements traceability matrix

Which document should list and describe all of the deliverables required for the project?

scope statement

When a task is assigned a deadline date, its __________ does not extend beyond the deadline date.

slack

What is scope creep?

the tendency for project scope to keep getting bigger and bigger

Which approach for constructing a WBS involves refining the work into greater and greater levels of detail?

top-down

Which approach for constructing a WBS starts with the largest items of the project and breaks them into subordinate items?

top-down

Mind mapping can be used for developing WBSs using which approach?

top-down or bottom-up approach