CPSM CSPM Project Integration & Scope Management 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A project manager discovers that two sub-teams have each built separate modules that overlap in functionality. Which integration management process failed?
- Direct and Manage Project Work
- Monitor and Control Project Work
- Develop Project Management Plan (Correct answer)
- Perform Integrated Change Control
Correct answer: Develop Project Management Plan
Develop Project Management Plan should have coordinated work assignments across teams to prevent duplication.
Question 2: During scope definition, the team identifies a deliverable that benefits stakeholders but was not in the original project charter. What should the PM do first?
- Add it to the scope baseline immediately
- Submit a change request through the change control process (Correct answer)
- Remove it since it wasn't authorized in the charter
- Notify the sponsor only after delivery
Correct answer: Submit a change request through the change control process
Any additions to scope after baseline must go through formal change control, even if beneficial.
Question 3: Which document formally closes a project phase and authorizes the start of the next?
- Project Management Plan
- Phase-end review report
- Project charter (Correct answer)
- Lessons learned register
Correct answer: Project charter
A new or updated project charter (or a formal phase authorization) is used to authorize continuation into the next phase.
Question 4: A WBS should be decomposed to the level of:
- Individual tasks that take less than one hour
- Work packages that can be reliably estimated and assigned (Correct answer)
- Activities that span no more than one sprint
- Deliverables that map one-to-one with team members
Correct answer: Work packages that can be reliably estimated and assigned
The WBS is decomposed to work packages—the lowest level where cost, schedule, and responsibility can be accurately planned.
Question 5: What is the PRIMARY purpose of the scope management plan?
- To define every deliverable in detail
- To document how scope will be defined, validated, and controlled (Correct answer)
- To assign scope-related tasks to team members
- To track scope changes after project closure
Correct answer: To document how scope will be defined, validated, and controlled
The scope management plan describes the processes for defining, documenting, verifying, managing, and controlling project scope.
Question 6: Which technique is MOST useful when collecting requirements from a large, geographically dispersed stakeholder group?
- Focus groups
- Prototyping
- Questionnaires and surveys (Correct answer)
- Facilitated workshops
Correct answer: Questionnaires and surveys
Questionnaires and surveys efficiently gather requirements from many stakeholders across different locations simultaneously.
Question 7: When validating scope, acceptance is obtained from:
- The project sponsor only
- The project team and quality assurance lead
- The customer or authorized stakeholders (Correct answer)
- The project management office (PMO)
Correct answer: The customer or authorized stakeholders
Validate Scope involves obtaining formal acceptance of completed deliverables from the customer or project sponsor.
CPSM CSPM Project Integration & Scope Management 2
A project manager discovers that two sub-teams have each built separate modules that overlap in functionality.
Which integration management process failed?