Project Management Masterclass

Module 8 – Create Project Scope

Questions
All of the following are true about the project scope management plan except :

A. It enables the creation of the WBS from the detailed project scope statement.
B. It describes how the scope will be defined, developed, monitored, controlled, and
Q1 validated.
C. It can be formal or informal, broadly framed or highly detailed, based on the needs of
the project.
D. It is not related to the project management plan.

You are involved in collecting requirements for your project. You are likely to use the
stakeholder register for all of the following except :

A. Identifying stakeholders who can provide information on the requirements.

Q2 B. Capturing major requirements that stakeholders may have for the project.
C. Capturing main expectations that stakeholders may have for the project.
D. Evaluating the product breakdown structure (PBS) associated with each of the key
stakeholders.

You are developing a document that links product requirements from their origin to the
deliverables that satisfy them to help ensure that each requirement adds business value
and to manage changes to the product scope This is known as the:

Q3 A. Requirements traceability matrix.

B. Configuration management system.
C. Business case.
D. New product development matrix.

All of the following are true about the project scope statement except :

A. It is an output of the Validate Scope process.

B. It describes, in detail, the project’s deliverables and the work required to create those
Q4 deliverables.
C. It provides a common understanding of the project scope among project stakeholders.
D. It may contain explicit scope exclusions that can assist in managing stakeholder
expectations.

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Questions
Yousif is a project manager working for a advertisement agency. As part of his latest
project, he uses an approach that enables the team to release partially completed work to
customers in order to obtain early feedback. This then allows the team to use the feedback
to modify the work. What type of project life cycle is Yousif using?
Q5 A. Incremental
B. Predictive
C. Iterative
D. Agile

____ involves subdividing the project work packages into smaller, more manageable
components called activities.

A. Subdivision
Q6
B. Decomposition
C. WBS
D. Iterative planning

Within Agile approaches, how are requirements documented?

A. In the requirements log

Q7 B. In the backlog
C. In the team charter
D. In the schedule

Your project involves manufacturing high-precision engine subassemblies for the shipping
industry. You have to perform several activities such as measuring, examining, and
verifying to determine whether work and deliverables meet requirements and product
acceptance criteria. You would have to do product reviews, audits, and walkthroughs.
These activities are carried out in which process?
Q8
A. Validate Scope
B. Quality Inspection
C. Collect Requirements
D. Control Scope

Which of the following are events used by Scrum teams? (Select two.)

A. Sprint planning
Q9 B. Weekly scrum
C. Sprint review
D. Sprint kick-off day

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Questions
In your project, you create a document to record the code of account identifier, description
of work, responsible organization, and schedule milestones. This document can be
referred to as:

Q10 A. WBS
B. WBS dictionary
C. Organizational chart
D. Roles and responsibilities matrix

The 100 percent rule signifies that:

A. 100 percent of the deliverables are included within the WBS

Q11 B. 100 percent of the scope baseline represents the project scope statement
C. 100 percent of activities are included within the activity list
D. 100 percent of the scope is represented within the WBS

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?

Q12 A. Alternatives identification

B. Value engineering
C. Value analysis
D. Product breakdown

The basis for the development of the final activity list is/are ________.

A. the WBS
Q13 B. the WBS Dictionary
C. the WBS and the WBS dictionary
D. neither the WBS nor the WBS dictionary

Yousif is holding a meeting with select members of the project team to help identify and
generate requirements. This is an example of:

A. Brainstorming
Q14
B. Expert judgment
C. Product analysis
D. Alternatives analysis

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Benchmarking refers to:

A. Determining where the project team should be through a status meeting

B. The investment made towards preventing non-conformance to requirements
Q15 C. Comparing actual or planned project practices to other projects as a way of generating
ideas for improvement
D. Identifying the factors that may influence variables of a product or process being
developed

Of the following describes an incremental life cycle except? (Select two.)

A. Optimized for speed of delivery

Q16 B. Uses iterations to gather insight to rework deliverables
C. Produces and builds on a subset of the overall solution
D. Scope, time, and cost are determined in the early phases of the life cycle.

A predictive life cycle approach is characterized by which of the following? (Select two.)

A. Scope, time, and cost are determined in the early phases of the life cycle.
B. Change is constrained as much as possible.
Q17
C. Scope is determined early in the project life cycle, but time and cost are routinely
modified.
D. Deliverables contain sufficient capability to be considered complete after one iteration.

During a meeting with the team, you collaborate to prepare stories for the upcoming
iteration, with the intention of providing enough information about the stories for the team
to understand what the stories are and determine sizing. In what activity are you engaged?

Q18 A. Planning for the upcoming sprint

B. Refining the backlog
C. Creating the backlog
D. Developing the product road map

A Project Manager has completed the Define Scope process and is now-creating the work
breakdown structure. The Project Manager and the project team have spent the last week
working on the work breakdown structure. They have broken down the WBS to an
appropriate level of decomposition. Which of the following best describes this?

Q19 A. Breaking down work where it's completely and clearly defined
B. Breaking down work where it's budgeted and scheduled
C. Breaking down work where it's budgeted, scheduled, and completely and clearly
defined
D. Breaking down work where the bottom levels of the WBS represent work packages

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As a Project Manager, you are managing a project that has 95 pages of requirements. The
project is for a high profile customer that spends more than $2,500,000 a year with your
company. You have completed this project on schedule and on budget. The customer is
not pleased with the product that was built as they say it won't work as they need it to.
What should the Project Manager do?
Q20 A. Hold a project risk meeting to determine why the project does not satisfy the customer.
B. Hold a project quality meeting to determine why the project does not satisfy the
customer.
C. Review the Scope and determine why it did not satisfy the customer.
D. Refund 10% of the cost of the project back to the customer.

Which of the following best defines backlog refinement?

A. An ordered list of user-centric requirements that a team maintains for a product

B. The iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a plan as greater amounts of
information and more accurate estimates become available
Q21 C. The progressive elaboration of project requirements and/or the ongoing activity in
which the team reviews, updates, and writes requirements to satisfy the need of the
customer
D. A meeting held by the team where the work that was accomplished or completed
during the sprint is reviewed

In Project Scope Management, when statistical analysis is appropriate, quick turnaround

is needed and there is a broad audience, which of the following is the best approach?

A. Group decision making technique

Q22
B. Questions and surveys
C. Observations
D. Prototypes

A project manager is in the process of developing the project charter and is using a hybrid
project management approach. Almost immediately, he identifies several constraints.
Where is he likely to document the constraints and maintain regular updates as they
change throughout the project?
Q23
A. Product vision
B. Sprint backlog
C. Risk register
D. Assumption log

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Validated deliverables have been completed and checked for correctness by the ____.

A. Control Quality process

Q24 B. Perform Quality Assurance process
C. Validate Deliverables process
D. Deliverable Acceptance process

Yousif has been assigned the flyover construction project and he is in the process of
initiating the project. In order to meet the customer's project expectations, based on the
business and compliance requirements, which of the following should Yousif define first?

Q25 A. High level scope of the project

B. Project schedule
C. Project Statement of Work
D. Product Statement of Work

The Project Manager is working with the customer to gain formal acceptance on the
documentation deliverables for a software project. The customer is saying that the
deliverables are unusable in their present form as they don't align with the project
requirements. Upon reviewing documentation, the customer tells the Project Manager that
the requirements are not accurate to meet the needs for which the project was undertaken.
Which of the following will help fix this problem?
Q26
A. Creating the work breakdown structure
B. Control Scope
C. Define Scope
D. Validate Scope

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:

Q27 A. At the beginning of the project

B. At the end of the project.
C. When required by the project sponsor
D. After getting verified deliverables from the Control Quality process

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A Project Manager has completed the Define Scope process. The customer and Sponsor
have shortened the schedule by eight weeks and decided that the work breakdown
structure will be cut in half. What would be the best action the Project Manager should
take?

Q28 A. Call a meeting and notify the team of the change in schedule
B. Discuss with the customer and Sponsor the ramifications of having the WBS not
reflect the true work of the project.
C. Begin execution of the project
D. Provide the customer and Sponsor an updated schedule and budget

The project owner is extremely concerned about the correctness and acceptance of the
work results. Of the following, what processes are related to correctness and results
acceptance?

Q29 A. Validate Scope and Perform Quality Control

B. Control Scope and Validate Scope
C. Perform Quality Assurance
D. Plan Quality and Perform Quality Control

Haya is a product manager responsible for a mobile app to capture weather data. In
preparation for the upcoming sprint, she meets with the team to ensure that stories are
clear and appropriately sized. What activity is Haya performing with the team?

Q30 A. Backlog refinement

B. Backlog preparation
C. Release planning
D. Roadmap grooming

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