Quiz for Project Integration Management

Monitor and control project work is the part of the integration management. [1 - Project Integration Management processes]

As higher economic value added the project is more preferable.

Estimate activity resources requirements should be performed. [1 - 3.4.7 Estimate activity resources]

Project management plan describes the processes selected by project management team. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Outputs]

Enterprise environmental factors, organizational process assets, project charter, outputs from planning processes used as input to develop project management plan. [1 - 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan]

Constrain optimization methods or mathematical approach use suitable programming methods in project selection methods.

A document that integrates all management plans and their baselines. [1 - 4.2.3 Develop Project Management Plan: Outputs]

Present value, net present value, internal rate of return, payback period, benefit-cost ratio are the economic models used in project selection.

As a part of monitoring and controlling processes, defect repair may require update of project documentation including but not limited to project management plan, its subsidiary management plans, forecasts, issues log, reports of project performance and other documents. [1 - 4.4 Monitor and Control Project]

The first action is to identify the influence and risks to the project that identified issue and change can do, then inform management and stakeholder. After that, generate a change request, if a change will be needed. Use an integrated change control process. [1 - 4.3.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution: Outputs]

Configuration management plan is a part of part of the project management plan and describes how the configuration management on the project will be performed. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Outputs]

Work authorization system is a part of enterprise environment factors that used as an input to monitor and control work. [1 - 4.4.1 Monitoring and Control Project Work: Inputs]

Controlling activities include determining whether corrective, preventive actions to be taken, or re-planning and follow up on action plans is required to determine if the applied actions resolved the issue related to performance. Monitoring and controlling Work includes tracking, reviewing, and regulating activities to meet project performance objectives described in project management plan. In other words, this is a process of collecting, measuring, and distributing information related to project performance, and identifying project performance trends. [1 - 4.4 Monitoring and Control Project Work]

Lessons learned is one of the sources of historical information that used during project initiation.

Direct and manage project execution also requires implementation of changes that were approves, while addressing the corrective and preventive actions, and defect repair. [1 - 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution]

Project improvement plan oversees the process of constantly identifying suitable processes and organizational assets to be used on the project and improving them in order to reach project objectives with lower costs, shorter time and better quality. For example such improvement can be done on repetitive type of activities.

The investment amount should be less than $450,000 because the investment money should generate the interest and reach at least the invested amount.

Planning and execution project process groups are integrated via human resources knowledge area. [1 - 3.1 Common Project Management Process Interactions]

Integration management linked individual processes from different process groups and knowledge areas. For example, the change a new risk may require to revise time, cost, procurement or other management plans and affect customer's expectations and company;s strategic opportunities. [1 - Project Integration Management processes]

Monitoring and controlling processes usually require update of project documentation including but not limited to project management plan, its subsidiary management plans, forecasts, issues log, reports of project performance and other documents. [1 - 4.4 Monitor and Control Project]

Project manager uses expert judgement determines resources and skill level needed to perform project work and documenting it is project management plan. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Tools and Techniques]

As a part of monitoring and controlling processes, preventive action usually requires update of project documentation including but not limited to project management plan, its subsidiary management plans, forecasts, issues log, reports of project performance and other documents. [1 - 4.4 Monitor and Control Project]

Preventing unnecessary changes is the primary task of the project manager related to changes.

Objective of corrective action is to ensure that project issues are fixed in aspect to bring project inline with project management plan and management plan baselines. [1 - 4.4.3 Monitoring and Control Project Work: Outputs]

The standards, procedures, policies, historical information and lessons learned from the past projects, templates and other documents are a part of an organizational processes assets. [1 - 4.2.1 Develop Project Management Plan: Inputs]

Sponsor has primary reproducibility to create or change project charter.

The complete product or service has to be handed off as one of the final steps in the project closing. [1 - 4.6 Close Project or Phase]

Net present value is one of the economic models for used project selection.

Develop project charter is a part of project integration management.

Direct and manage project execution process uses expert judgement and project management information system. [1 - 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution]

Peer review in one of the comparative or benefit measurement methods.

Historical information and lessons learned knowledge database are organizational process assets. [1 - 4.1.1 Develop Project Charter: Inputs]

Closing of project or phase is a part of integration management.. This process finalizes all activities across all project management process groups and complete the project or phase formally.

Monitoring and controlling process group uses the scope, time, cost, communications, risk, procurement. Understanding of relations between these knowledge areas leads to understanding of integration management.

A project with higher benefit cost ratio to be selected.

Working capital is the amount of money that available for investment, including the projects.

Procurement is the project management knowledge area used in project closing.

Progressive reduction of the assets' value is the accelerated depreciation. This means that booked value of the asset depreciates with different but progressing numbers on yearly basis. This category is also used in project selection.

Either one or more subsidiary plans to be used on summary or detailed level. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Outputs]

Integration between all project management areas in one of the most important factors in effective change management.

Develop project plan is the process of documenting the necessary project activities that explain, formulate, incorporate, and organize all sub-ordinary plans? [1 - 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan]

Baselines are created during project planning.

Rewarding the project team increases productivity and provided during project execution; although it can be done by the management outside of the project, when it is completed.

Project charter contains the purpose and justification of the project, measurable objectives and success criteria, high level descriptions of the project, requirements and risks, summaries of the milestone schedule and budget, project approval requirements, name/role and authority and responsibilities of project manager, name and authority of the authorizing person. [1 - 4.1.3 Develop Project Charter: Outputs]

A project with higher IRR to be selected.

Work performance information contains, but not limited to the deliverable status, schedule progress, and involved costs. [1 - 4.3.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution: Outputs]

This is a product maintenance work, not a project. It does not require executing the most of project management processes.

Project manager uses expert judgement while defines the level of configuration management and documents it in project management plan. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Tools and Techniques]

Work authorization system is a project management sub-system that provides a collection of formal documents, procedures and processes to define when, how, and who authorize the project work. [1 - 4.4.1 Monitoring and Control Project Work: Inputs]

Change control board is responsible for reviewing, analyzing, and them whether approving or rejecting a change. [1 - 4.5 Perform Integrated Change Control]

Project management plan describes how the content of reviews, pending decisions and open issues will be managed. [1 - 4.2.3 Develop Project Management Plan: Outputs]

Activity resource requirements and resources breakdown structure are outputs of estimate activity resources process, so this information needs to be updated in project documentation. [1 - 3.4.7 Estimate activity resources]

Project integration management connects all project process groups via the following processes: develop project chapter and project management plan, direct and manage project execution, monitor and control project work, perform integrated change control, close project phase. [1 - 3.1 Project Management Process Groups and Knowledge Areas]

Present value is one of the economic models used for project selection.

Earn value measurements use performance measurement baseline. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Outputs]

Project management plan describes the integrity of the performance measurement baselines will be supported on the specific project. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Outputs]

Subsidiary plans need to be detailed to the extent that needed by a specific project. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Outputs]

Direct and manage project execution means performing the work defined in project management plan to achieve the project's objectives. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Outputs]

The project time management knowledge area in mostly used in planning, monitoring and controlling process groups. [1 - 3.1 Common Project Management Process Interactions]

Monitoring and controlling work generate the corrective, preventive, defect repair types of change request. [1 - 4.4 Monitoring and Control Project Work]

Project management plan describes the life cycle selected for the project and the processes to be used in each phase. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Outputs]

Configuration management system, the same as other listed here tools are part of the Project Management Information System, while Configuration Management System is responsible foe version control. [1 - 4.3.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution: Outputs]

Project management plan describes the level of implementation of each process used in the project. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Outputs]

Payback period is used in project selection process; as shorter payback period the project is more preferable.

This information is a part of enterprise environmental factors. [1 - 4.2.1 Develop Project Management Plan: Inputs]

Resources calendar is the input to estimate activity resources along with activity list, activity attributes, enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets. [1 - 3.4.7 Estimate activity resources]

Project integration management coordinates and unifies the quality, human resources, communication and procurement. [1 - 3.5 Executing Process Group]

Scoring models is one of the benefit measurement methods used for project selection.

Schedule, cost performance and scope baselines are called performance measurement baselines. [1 - 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan]

All knowledge areas may be effected by change. Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing are not knowledge areas but process groups. [1 - 4.5 Perform Integrated Change Control]

Project statement of work (SOW) is the right answer. This document is usually created by customer or sponsor, and used in project selection and an input to develop project charter. [1 - 4.1.1.1 Project Statement of Work]

The right answer means perform integrated change control. [1 - Project Integration Management processes]

Planning, monitoring and controlling are well integrated via project risk management knowledge.

Project management plan describes the tools and techniques selected to execute project processes. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Outputs]

Along with creating a network diagram, the project documents need to be updated. [1 - 3.4.6 Sequence Activities]

Corrective actions deal with actual deviations of project performance with performance management baselines. [1 - 4.4.3 Monitoring and Control Project Work: Outputs]

Change management plan describes how to identify, manage and control changes on the project. It documents the who and how will be processing the change, the level of approval authorization, how the change control board forms and acts, how to manage and control changes, who should be involved in discussions regarding change, organizational assets to be used in managing,tracking and controlling the change. Change management plan covers whole project as well as each specific knowledge area knowledge area (scope, time, cost, people, and others). [1 - 4.3.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution: Outputs]

The objective of preventive action assures the expected future performance is inline with the project management plan. [1 - 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution]

Integration management occurs in all project management knowledge areas. [1 - Project Integration Management processes]

A list of milestones is one of the outputs of define activities process. [1 - 3.4.5 Define Activities]

Project manager determines which processes to be implemented depends on the project needs.

Project charter contains the purpose and justification of the project, measurable objectives and success criteria, high level descriptions of the project, requirements and risks, summaries of the milestone schedule and budget, project approval requirements, name/role and authority and responsibilities of project manager, name and authority of the authorizing person. [1 - 4.1.3 Develop Project Charter: Outputs]

Historical information is the part of enterprise environment factors, that used for improvement of processes and procedures and is not a part of change management system.

While monitoring of the project and controlling work includes tracking, reviewing, and regulating activities to meet project performance objectives described in project management plan, the monitoring activities are collecting, measuring, and distributing information related to project performance, and identifying project performance trends. [1 - 4.4 Monitoring and Control Project Work]

Change management plan describes how changes will be monitored and controlled. This document is a part of project management plan. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Outputs]

Stakeholder risk tolerances are used in the monitoring and controlling process group while apprising project performance. The stakeholder tolerances is a part of enterprise environment factors. [1 - 4.4.1 Monitoring and Control Project Work: Inputs]

Monitoring and controlling applies through all phases of the project. [1 - 4.4 Monitoring and Control Project Work]

Monitoring and controlling a project means measuring against project management plan and management baselines. [1 - 4.4 Monitoring and Control Project Work]

Law of diminishing returns (also called diminishing marginal returns) is the decrease in the marginal (per-unit) output of a production process as the amount of a single factor of production is increased, while the amounts of all other factors of production stay constant. This means that at certain point, the extending a number of resources may not be increasing performance on the project, additional coordination may require.

Business case is the document that provides the necessary information for project investment. [1 - 4.1.1 Develop Project Charter: Inputs]

Define activities process identifies the specific actions to deliver project results. [1 - 3.4.5 Define Activities]

Business case provides the information to justify if the project is worth the required investment. Usually the business need and cost-benefit analysis is the part of business case document. [1 - 4.1.1 Develop Project Charter: Inputs]

Information about the existing systems is a part of enterprise environmental factors.

Project manager must analyze what impact to other project knowledge areas may cause the change.

Procurement knowledge area supports the planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, closing process groups. [1 - 3.1 Common Project Management Process Interactions]

Monitoring and controlling work produces change requests and updates of project management plan and project documents. [1 - 4.4 Monitoring and Control Project Work]

Project management plan and base lines are used as a reference to identifying project status.

While the requested new functionality can be done in parallel with existing project an required new resources, initiation a new project would be the best decision. So, create a charter for new project is the right choice.

Project scope statement along with lists of activities and milestones, and organizational process assets are used as an input to creating network diagram. [1 - 3.4.6 Sequence Activities]

One of the outputs of change management process is update project documentation. The influence of change to entire system is a part of implementation process that cannot be completed without such analysis/testing. [1 - 4.3.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution: Outputs]

Planning, executing, monitoring and controlling are mostly used in project quality management knowledge area.

Deliverables, work performance information, change requests, project management plan and project documents updates are outputs of the direct and manage project execution process. [1 - 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution]

All but not limited to the mentioned here materials can be stored for future references.

Configuration management plan describes the way how version control on the project will work. [1 - 4.3.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution: Outputs]

A number of people signed the project charter may indicate a number of business areas related to the project. Configuration management becomes more complex when many stakeholders have strong influence on the project. More coordination on the priorities of each stakeholder requires more efforts.

The results of project management plan are elaborated through the perform integrated change control. [1 - 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan]

Project manager and project team are using the direct and manage project execution process to manage project. [1 - Direct and Manage Project Execution]

Project manager performs integration management processes. [1 - Executing Process Group]

Scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement require project management plan.

The value of a not selected project named opportunity cost.

Organizational standard processes and procedures are considered as organizational process assets? [1 - 4.1.1 Develop Project Charter: Inputs]

Indexing and archiving project records and documents is a mandatory procedure during project closure. [1 - 4.6 Close Project or Phase]

Perform integrated change control belongs to monitoring and controlling process group and is a part of the integration management. [1 - Chapter 3.6.1 Perform Integrated Change Control]

Project scope baseline, enterprise environment factors and organizational process assets are inputs to define activities process. [1 - 3.4.5 Define Activities]

Project manager uses expert judgement while develops project management plan and adapts processes to meet the project needs. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Tools and Techniques]

Statistically, project managers spend over 90% of their time on communications.

Manage the time and sequence of the work to be done is the purpose of work authorization system.

Benefit-cost ratio is one of the economic models used in project selection.

The following knowledge areas are used during project execution: quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurements.

Expert judgement is used in develop project management plan process. [1 - 4.2.1 Develop Project Management Plan: Inputs]

Sunk cost is the amount of money that already spent on the project, and do not counted in project selection.

Iteration process helps to adjust management plans and make them more realistic. Due to most of planning processes depend on each other, result of one process may effect to results of other processes. That's why the sequence of the processes is important as well as their international revision.

While the other answers also have their place in the process, configuration management plan ensures that all project documentation is updated and the latest version is used. [1 - 4.3.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution: Outputs]

Government standards can be a part of enterprise environmental factors. [1 - 4.2.3 Develop Project Management Plan: Inputs]

This is a project manager's duty to selecting and constantly improving project processes for the sake of time, cost and quality of project deliverables.

Expert judgement is used as tools and techniques in develop project management plan. [1 - 4.2.2 Develop Project Management Plan: Tools and Techniques]

project manager creates network diagram; in other words sequences activities. [1 - 3.4.6 Sequence Activities]

Scope, cost, and schedule baselines can be used as a project baseline to measure overall performance. [1 - 4.2.3 Develop Project Management Plan: Outputs]

Enterprise environment factors are the input to develop project charter, and the project charter is developed during project initiation. [1 - 4.1.1 Develop Project Charter: Inputs]

Project statement of work, business case, contracts, enterprise environmental factors, organizational assets are the required inputs to develop project chapter.

Referring to project definition, any approved unique and verifiable products, results, or capabilities of service that produced by a complete process, phase, or project. [1 - 4.3.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution: Outputs]

During project execution communications process is most useful.

All choices are right, but not limited to listed here. These sources can be used in assessing the project charter inputs. [1 - 4.1.2 Develop Project Charter: Tools and Techniques]

Configuration management is a part of monitoring and controlling process group and can be a part of the integrated control management system, which belongs to enterprise environment factors. [1 - 4.4 Monitoring and Control Project Work]

Work authorization a permission and direction to start a specified work in accordance to specific time and sequence. [1 - 4.4.1 Monitoring and Control Project Work: Inputs]

Develop project charter provides formal authorization of a project and documents initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders' needs and expectations. [1 - 4.1 Develop Project Charter]

Perform integrated change management control to be used to manage changed in the completed project management baseline. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Outputs]

The project initiator or sponsor provides the statement of work (SOW) based on business need, product or service requirements, and organizational strategic plan. SOW often provided as a part of request for proposal (RFP), request for information (RFI) of other bidding documents or as part of a contract. [1 - 4.1.1 Develop Project Charter: Inputs]

Constrain optimization method in other words mathematical approach uses programming techniques in project selection.

Activity attributes and milestones are input to sequence activities process along with activity list project scope statement and organizational process assets. [1 - 3.4.6 Sequence Activities]

Expert judgement is the tool for developing project management plan. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Tools and Techniques]

Since the scope baseline is an output of create WBS process, its inputs are applied.

The second project to be chosen as it's net present value is bigger; duration of the project is not important.

Perform integrated change control process is performed through all stages of the project from inception to completion. [1 - 4.5 Perform Integrated Change Control]

Typically business case describes business needs and cost-benefits analysis to justifies the project. This document may contain such points as market demands, organizational needs, customer request, technological advantage, legal requirements, ecological impacts or social needs. [1 - 4.1.1 Develop Project Charter: Inputs]

Scheduling, configuration, access to project information and other software tools are used by the direct and manage project execution process. [1 - 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution]

Spent funds, in other words sunk cost, is not considered in project selection.

Requirements management plan outlines the way to identify, manage, and control the requirements. [1 - 5. Cost Management]

Baselines of the scope, schedule and cost are used for identifying and reporting project performance. [1 - 4.4 Monitoring and Control Project Work]

After the project deliverables have been verified, the project procurements have to be closed. [1 - 4.6 Close Project or Phase]

The last process on the project would be release the project resources; you might be needed some of the resources until the product is hand off.

Communications are most used during the initiation, planning, executing, controlling and monitoring process groups.

Develop project charger is one of the integration management processes. [1 - Project Integration Management processes]

Determine the required processes, standards and templates for creating management plans.

Most activities of integrated change control are performed during monitoring and controlling processes. [1 - 4.5 Perform Integrated Change Control]

Activity attributes is one of the outputs of define activities process among the lists of activities and milestones. [1 - 3.4.5 Define Activities]

The project scope has been used in planning documents; so, direct and manage project execution process uses the following inputs: project management plan, approve changes, enterprise environment factors, organizational process assets. [1 - 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution]

Straight line depreciation is the annual reduction of an asset's value by equal amounts.

Templates that can be used on the project are considered as organizational process assets. [1 - 4.1.1 Develop Project Charter: Inputs]

Project team and project manager use expert judgement for monitoring and controlling work on projects. [1 - 4.4 Monitoring and Control Project Work]

Project manager uses expert judgement while develops technical and management details for project management plan. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Tools and Techniques]

Issuing and authorizing a project charter is a responsibility of project sponsor. Quite often a project manager supports project sponsor in developing and coordinating the development of this document.

Integration during planning allows to deliver a realistic project management plan.

Project management plan outlines how the selected process will be used to on the specific project. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Outputs]

Project manager uses Expert Judgement while determines which project documents will be processed throughout the formal Change Control Process. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan: Tools and Techniques]

Project monitoring and controlling work uses project management plan, performance reports, enterprise environment factors, organizational process assets as input. [1 - 4.4 Monitoring and Control Project Work]

Finalize how to execute and control the project is the next process after preparation of the procurement plan.

Scope management knowledge area is used in the planning, monitoring and controlling. [1 - 3.1 Common Project Management Process Interactions]

Prevention action addresses anticipated deviation of project performance with performance management baselines. [1 - 4.4.3 Monitoring and Control Project Work: Outputs]

The involved parties (stakeholders and project team) need to be formally informed about the change and referred to the changed documents. [1 - 4.3.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution: Outputs]

Murder boar in other words, a panel of people that used to identify the negative sides of new ideas is used in project selection activities.

Perform integrated change control is one of the integration management processes. [1 - Project Integration Management processes]

Project manger is responsible for project integration.

Historical information may contain information on similar project and help to fulfill the gaps. [1 - 4.3.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution: Outputs]

All project documents affected by change need to be updated. [1 - 4.3.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution: Outputs]

Project management plan describes a series of integrated processes in execution, monitoring and controlling, and closing. [1 - 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan]

A project management plan needs to be approved, realistic and formal. To be bought by a project management team, a project management plan needs to be realistic. To make a project management plan works, it should be well coordinated with stakeholders, resources managers, and the project team, it also needs to be approved and formally accepted by management.

Cost management knowledge area is used in the planning, monitoring and controlling. [1 - 3.1 Common Project Management Process Interactions]

Scope baseline is created as an output of create WBS, along with WBS, WBS dictionary, and project document updates. [1 - 3.4.4 Create WBS]

Direct and manage project execution process belongs to the executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing process groups. [1 - 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution]

The right answer means actually execute the project or in other words, direct and manage project execution. [1 - Project Integration Management]

All project should have charters. Read about definition of project charter.

Develop project charter is supported by project integration knowledge area. [1 - 3.1 Project Management Process Groups and Knowledge Areas]

Enterprise environmental factors, organizational process assets, project charter, outputs from planning processes may require update of project management plan. [1 - 4.2.1.2 Develop Project Management Plan: Inputs]

Close a project or phase is an integrated function because it focuses on closing all project knowledge areas. [1 - 4.6 Close Project or Phase]

Project charter documents the business needs, understanding of users' preferences to a new product or service, or project goals. [1 - 4.1.3 Develop Project Charter: Outputs]

Process define activity creates activity list. [1 - 3.4.5 Define Activities]

Project management plan defines the way of executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing the project. [1 - 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan]

The complexity and application area of the project are influence the content of the project management plan. [1 - Develop Project Management Plan]

Two organizations have different reasons for run the project. Buyer may want to get a product or services but buyer to increase revenue, get a new client or enhance reputation.

Planning and execution are two project process groups that integrated via human resources knowledge area. [1 - 3.1 Common Project Management Process Interactions]

All project management knowledge areas are applied during project planning, which are scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk and procurement.

Corrective action is actual execution of project work to bring the expected future performance inline with the project management plan. [1 - 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution]

Project manager needs to complete final project performance report. [1 - 4.6 Close Project or Phase]

Internal rate of return is used in project selection process.

Direct and manage project execution means perform integration management. [1 - 3.29 Execute Process Group]

Perform estimate activity duration process is the next process to be performed after the estimation of activity resources is completed. [1 - 3.4 Planning Process Group]