Knowledge Area Quiz

Project Integration Management

1. What should a project manager do, or follow, to ensure clear boundaries for project
completion:
A. Monitor the team members closely
B. Complete a scope statement
C. Scope exclusions
D. Consult resource roles and responsibilities matrix

2. Which of the following is the BEST method to manage change control?

A. Conduct the process from project inception through completion
B. Create a new project
C. Prevent changes from being made by increasing costs
D. Wait until you have at least 2 or 3 and then call a review meeting

3. What should a project manager do FIRST if a team member has added functionality to
a product in the project without impacting time, cost, or quality?
A. Ask the team member why the need for functionality is required
B. Ask the your manager to assess the value of the improvement
C. Confirm the customer is willing to incur this added expense
D. Discuss with the team member how they know there is no time, cost or quality
impact

4. When preparing a single document to navigate project execution, monitoring and

control, and closure you are creating:
A. The Project charter
B. The Project plan
C. The Communications plan
D. The project framework

5. A project charter _________

A. Formally authorizes the project
B. Identifies the Project Manager
C. Is generic enough not to change often
D. Is not needed to start a project

6. A Project Management Plan includes:

A. Project charter, budget, schedule and resources
B. Scope statement and WBS
C. Responsibility charts/assignments and project plan
D. A process of documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate
and coordinate all plans

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7. If a project deviates from a more than nominal variation on its BASELINE, what is the
best course of action the Project Manager needs to take?
A. Use of expert judgment
B. Project management methodology
C. Variance analysis
D. Review the project’s risk management process

8. You have just returned from the weekly change control board meeting where you
presented the requested changes to the Contact Center relocation project. You had (4)
change requests approved, however one request was rejected. These are outputs of
what process?
A. Project manager review process
B. Change control board
C. Perform integrated change control
D. Expert judgment

9. To date, your project of designing the world’s fastest web search engine has gone
amazingly well for a complex project that has involved a myriad of vendors and
contracts. You have accumulated extensive contract documentation, which should be
used as an input to what process?
A. Contract administration
B. Historical information and lessons learned
C. Close project or Phase
D. Plan purchases and acquisitions

10. Your company is creating a change control board to review all change requests for a
project that you will be assigned. What is the MOST appropriate selection to include
when reviewing who should be represented on the change control board?
A. The project manager
B. The customer, project manger, project team members
C. The customer
D. The project initiator and project sponsor

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ANSWERS

1. What should a project manager do or follow to ensure clear boundaries for project
completion:

B. Complete a scope statement

Explanation: The project team must complete a scope statement for developing a common
understanding of the project scope among stakeholders. This lists project deliverables,
summary level sub-products, whose full and satisfactory delivery marks the completion of the
project. Scope verification is the process of securing formal acceptance of the project scope
by stakeholders. Scope definition is the process of subdividing the major project deliverables
into smaller more manageable components. Risk Management Plan involves setting up
processes for identifying and dealing with project risks.

2. Which of the following is the BEST method to control changes to the project?

A. Conduct the process from project inception through completion

Explanation: The project manager needs to be aware of the integration of change control
and that it consists of many variables, review all change request, approve changes and
managing the changes to the deliverables, organizational process assets, project documents
and the project management plan. Choice A is the best, most proactive choice.

3. What should a PM do FIRST if a team member has added functionality to a product in

the project without impacting time, cost or quality?

D. Ask the team member how they know there is no time, cost or quality impact
Explanation: The team members do not have the same view of the project that the project
manager has. The PM sees the entire project and can better evaluate, with their help, the
impact of changes to the project.

4. When preparing a single document to navigate project execution, monitoring and

control, and closure you are creating:

B. The Project plan

Explanation: This is the definition of a project plan.

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ANSWERS

5. A project charter _________

A. Formally authorized the project

Explanation: A project charter may be created by the project manager, but the sponsor in the
initiating process group issues it. At a minimum, it formally recognizes the existence of a
project or establishes the project. Therefore a project does not exist without a project charter.
Answer A is the best choice.

6. A Project Management Plan includes:

D. A process of documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and

coordinate all plans.
Explanation: For the exam you must assume that a management plan exists since that is a
PMBOK standard. When a question addresses a problem on a project, your management
plan may be able to see you, as the project manager, planned to handle such a problem.
Realistic management plans include, scope, schedule, cots, quality, human resources,
communications, risks & procurement. Also change management plan, configuration
management plan, requirements management plan and process improvement plan.
Source: PMBOK4 page 79

7. If a project deviates from a more than nominal variation on its BASELINE, what is the
best course of action the Project Manager needs to take?

D. Review the project’s risk management process

Explanation: Deviations from baselines are often due to incomplete risk identification and risk
management. Baselines may be on the exam frequently, make certain you understand the
concepts.

8. You have just returned from the weekly change control board meeting where you
presented the requested changes to the Contact Center relocation project. You had (4)
change requests approved, however one request was rejected. These are outputs of
what process?

C. Perform Integrated Change Control

Explanation: Performing Integrated Change Control is the process of reviewing all change
requests, approving changes and the management of changes to project deliverable, project
documents, project management plan, the organization process assets and enterprise
environmental factors.
Source: PMBOK 4 page 97

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ANSWERS

9. To date, your project of designing the world’s fastest web search engine has gone
amazingly well for a complex project that has involved a myriad of vendors and
contracts. You have accumulated extensive contract documentation, which should be
used as an input to what process?

C. Close Project or Phase

Explanation: Project closure includes the closure guidelines and requirements; project
organizational process assets include project audits, project evaluations, and transition
criteria. Additionally expert judgment is applied when performing administrative closure
activities.
Source: PMBOK 4 page 101

10. Your company is creating a change control board to review all change requests for a
project that you will be assigned. What is the MOST appropriate selection to include
when reviewing who should be represented on the change control board?

B. The customer, project manager, project team members

Explanation: In addition to the project management teams’ expert judgment, stakeholders
may be asked to provide expertise and to be included on the change control board. Also,
consultants, stakeholders, including customers or sponsors, professional technical
association industry groups, subject matter experts and PMO may be consulted. (Refer to
PMBoK 4 page 98, section 4.5.2)