Project Scope Management Test Answer Key Part 3

36. Which document should list and describe all of the deliverables required for the project? a. project b. scope charter statement c. WBS d. Gantt chart ANSWER: b 37. Which approach for constructing a WBS uses a similar project’s WBS as a starting point? a. top-down b. bottom-up c. mindd. analogy mapping ANSWER: d 38. Which approach for constructing a WBS involves refining the work into greater and greater levels of detail? a. analogy b. bottom-up c. top-down d. mind mapping ANSWER: c 39. Which approach for constructing a WBS starts with the largest items of the project and breaks them into subordinate items? a. analogy b. bottom-up c. top-down d. mind mapping ANSWER: c 40. 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? a. analogy b. bottom-up c. top-down d. mind mapping ANSWER: d 41. 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? a. analogy b. bottom-up c. top-down d. mind mapping ANSWER: b 42. Mind mapping can be used for developing WBSs using which approach? a. analogy approach only b. bottom-up or analogy approach c. top-down or bottom-up approach d. any approach ANSWER: c 43. Which is recommended for the creation of a good WBS? a. Any WBS item should be the responsibility of all the people working on it. b. A unit of work should appear at only one place in the WBS. c. Each WBS item should be created assuming that the requirements are inflexible. d. The work content of a WBS item is independent of the WBS items below it. ANSWER: b 44. What is scope creep? a. the tendency for project scope to keep getting bigger and bigger b. subdividing project deliverables into smaller pieces c. the approved project scope statement and its associated WBS. d. a task at the lowest level of the WBS a ANSWER: 45. What process involves formal acceptance of the completed project scope by the stakeholders? a. Scope b. Scope planning validation c. Scope control d. Scope baseline ANSWER: a 46. Which term refers to the difference between planned and actual performance? a. Decomposition b. Variance c. Scope d. Scope creep validation ANSWER: b 47. Which process involves developing a working replica of the system or some aspect of the system? a. Prototyping b. Variance c. Decompositio d. Use case modeling n a ANSWER: 48. Which process involves identifying and modeling business events, who initiated them, and how the system should respond to them? a. Prototypin g c. RAD ANSWER: d b. JAD d. Use case modeling 49. 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? a. Prototypin b. JAD g c. RAD d. Use case modeling ANSWER: b 50. _____ includes the processes involved in defining and controlling what work is or is not included in a project. Project scope management ANSWER: 51. _____ refers to all the work involved in creating the products of the project and the processes used to create them. ANSWER: Scope 52. The main outputs of _____are the project scope statement and updates to project documents. ANSWER: scope definition 53. Creating the _____ involves subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components. WBS ANSWER: work breakdown structure work breakdown structure (WBS) WBS (work breakdown structure) 54. _____ refer to “conditions or capabilities that must be met by the project or present in the product, service, or result to satisfy an agreement or other formally imposed specification.” ANSWER: Requirements