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Project Integration Management Flashcards

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  1. A Control Account Manager discovers that a scope change approved by the customer has not yet been reflected in the performance measurement baseline. What should the CAM do first?

    Answer: Process the change through the formal baseline change control process

    All approved scope changes must be incorporated into the baseline through formal change control before work and budgets are adjusted.

  2. Which document integrates the scope, schedule, and budget for a single control account under a CAM's responsibility?

    Answer: The control account plan (CAP)

    The control account plan brings together scope, schedule, and budget elements into one integrated management document for the control account.

  3. During integrated baseline review (IBR) preparation, a CAM finds that work package budgets do not sum to the control account budget. What integration principle is violated?

    Answer: Vertical traceability of the budget

    Vertical traceability requires that work package and planning package budgets sum exactly to the control account total.

  4. A CAM is asked to use management reserve to cover a cost overrun on existing in-scope work. What is the correct response?

    Answer: Decline, because management reserve is for unplanned in-scope work, not overruns

    Management reserve may not be used to eliminate cost variances or cover overruns; overruns must remain visible in performance data.

  5. Which meeting best exemplifies integration management at the control account level?

    Answer: A monthly review where the CAM reconciles cost, schedule, and technical status together

    Integration means reviewing cost, schedule, and technical performance together to get a unified picture of control account health.

  6. A CAM receives conflicting direction: the program manager wants scope accelerated while the contracts office says no authorization exists. What should the CAM do?

    Answer: Hold work until proper work authorization is issued through the change process

    Work must never begin without formal work authorization, regardless of verbal pressure from leadership.

  7. In an earned value management system, what links the contract statement of work to the individual control accounts?

    Answer: The work breakdown structure (WBS)

    The WBS decomposes the contract scope hierarchically, tying every control account back to the statement of work.