PMP Exam Prep

Scope Management Sample Questions

  1. The lead engineer recommends that web enabling be added to the new building temperature controller currently being designed by the project. The project manager denies the request, indicating that it is outside the scope of the project. This is an example of______?
  2. Quality development
  3. Scope management
  4. Value engineering
  5. Change management processes
  1. The project is essentially complete when the customer wants to make a major change to the project scope. What should the project manager do next?
  2. Ask the customer to provide a description of the change
  3. Inform senior management of the change
  4. Deny the change because the project is finishing up
  5. Ask the project team to evaluate the scope of the request
  1. The project manager should use what document to explain to the team members what scope is included in their task?
  2. Work Breakdown Structure
  3. Task Package
  4. WBS Dictionary
  5. Project Scope of Work
  1. The project manager is working to establish a new project management process in her company. She has decided to start with the charter, why would she start with a charter?
  2. It lists all of the resources that she will need to do the project
  3. The scope section describes the tasks that need to be done
  4. It provides the project background to the project
  5. It provides the project manager authority
  1. Your manager would not approve your new project charter, but wants you to start immediately on the project so the project does not miss the milestone dates You should ______?
  2. Skip the charter and start work
  3. Show the manager the impact of proceeding without approval
  4. Start work on the critical path tasks only
  5. Start the WBS
  1. You are 2 weeks from finishing your project, but the stakeholders are not happy with the deliverables and your project will be extended 2 months to finish up. Which of the following processes would have corrected the situation?
  2. Scope change control
  3. Schedule control
  4. Scope planning
  5. Risk monitoring
  1. The new missile intercept system is near completion and is about to enter the testing and implementation phase of the project. The project is two months ahead of schedule. What should the project manager be most concerned with heading into the last phase?
  2. Quality control
  3. Performance reporting
  4. Scope control
  5. Scope verification
  1. You have just received a new project after the previous project manager moved to another division. As part of the handover you were given the complete project scope. What should you do first?
  2. Talk to the stakeholders to confirm project scope
  3. Prepare the WBS
  4. Gantt chart the scope items to check your milestone dates
  5. Prepare the WBS dictionaries
  1. Which document forms the foundation of the project planning and controlling?
  2. Project Charter
  3. Scope Management Plan
  4. Project Plan
  5. Work Breakdown Structure
  1. Changes in the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) specifications require an E-Stop button be added to the fuel pumps that are currently being launched by your project. This could BEST be defined as what type of change?
  2. Scope Change
  3. Product Change
  4. Project Change
  5. Legal Change
  1. If a project manager had violated the 8-80 hour rule, he had likely ______?
  2. Specified too many work hours during the week
  3. Underspecified his project scope
  4. Decomposed his project too much
  5. Forgotten to create a WBS
  1. Dempster’s Triangle does NOT include which of the following items?
  2. Time
  3. Scope
  4. Staff
  5. Cost
  1. Project Scope Management is a ______?
  2. Process Group
  3. Project Deliverable
  4. Management Technique
  5. Knowledge Area

Answers: b,a,c,d,b,d,d,a,a,b,c,c,d

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