WGU C783 PROJECT MANAGEMENT MAIN EXAM SCRIPT
2025 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Define scope - ✔✔Planning process further elaborates the objectives and
deliverables of the project into a project scope statement that's used as a basis for
future project decisions
✔✔Inspection - ✔✔technique refers to the act in which the project management team,
project management team leader, or other interested and significant parties take the
effort to review the entirety of the project in meticulous detail for determining whether or
not the project meets certain predetermined requirements for completion
✔✔Observation - ✔✔good way of studying people while they are performing their jobs.
Technique gives a hands-on feel of how people get their work done. Also called job
shadowing or simply following people around
✔✔Product analysis - ✔✔performed in order to hammer out the details of the project
scope. Involves breaking down of high-level descriptions into concrete deliverables.
Analysis includes techniques such as product break-down, requirements analysis,
system analysis, system engineering, value analysis, and value engineering
✔✔Product scope description - ✔✔description of the product features and functionality
that describes the characteristics of the end product
✔✔Project exclusions - ✔✔section in the project scope statement that describes
anything that is not included in the work of the project
✔✔Project Scope - ✔✔defines what will or will not be included in a project. Scope
comprises the overall project requirements and incorporates the constraints imposed on
the project by resources, time, and other limiting factors
✔✔Project Scope Management Knowledge Area - ✔✔concerned with the work of the
project and only the work that is required to complete the project. Its processes include
Plan Scope Management, Collect Requirements, Define Scope, Create WBS, Validate
Scope, and Control Scope
✔✔Project Scope statement - ✔✔the narrative description of the project scope. Includes
major deliverables, project assumptions, project constraints, and a description of work.
Helps developing a common understanding of a project scope among the stakeholders.
It is a documented description of the project to answer questions such as "What is being
produced?" "How is it being produced?" "What is included?" etc
✔✔Questionnaire - ✔✔research instrument consisting of a series of questions. Used for
the purpose of gathering information from respondents. Have advantages over some
,other types of surveys in that they are cheap, do not require as much effort, and often
have standardized answers that make it simple to compile data
✔✔Requirements documentation - ✔✔requirements defined in a formal document or set
of documents. The requirements documents are complex and interrelated on complex
projects. Requirements documents or document sets can have multiple names and
structures
✔✔Requirements Management Plan - ✔✔documents how the requirements will be
managed throughout the project life. Describes how the project will set up requirements
documents and requirement types, and their respective requirement attributes and
traceability
✔✔Requirements traceability matrix - ✔✔table that links requirements to their origin and
traces them through the project life cycle
✔✔Scope baseline - ✔✔includes the approved project scope statement, the WBS, and
WBS dictionary
✔✔Validate scope - ✔✔process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project
deliverables. Inspection-driven process the stakeholders will complete to inspect the
project scope deliverables
✔✔WBS Dictionary - ✔✔Documents descriptive elements of the WBS. It is an element
of the scope baseline
✔✔Work package - ✔✔The lowest level of a WBS. It can be easily estimated and
assigned to one person or team
✔✔Nominal group technique - ✔✔This information-gathering technique is similar to
brainstorming and can be used during the Collect Requirements process
✔✔WBS (work breakdown structure) - ✔✔A deliverable-oriented hierarchy that defines
and organizes the work of the project and only the work of the project.
✔✔Constraint - ✔✔Anything that either restricts the actions of the project team or
dictates the actions of the project team
✔✔Group decision-making technique - ✔✔Assessment process having multiple
alternatives with an expected outcome in the form of future actions
✔✔Work performance data (2) - ✔✔degree of compliance with requirements, number of
nonconformities, severity of the nonconformities, or the number of validation cycles
performed in a period of time
, ✔✔Affinity diagram - ✔✔group creativity technique that allows large numbers of ideas to
be classified into groups for review and analysis
✔✔Progressive Elaboration - ✔✔characteristics of incrementally, and continually,
refining work and information in greater details as a project progress
✔✔Activity attributes - ✔✔describe the characteristics of activities. Extension of the
activity list
✔✔Duration estimates - ✔✔quantifiable estimates of the number of work periods
needed to complete the schedule activities listed
✔✔Activity list - ✔✔extension of the WBS that contains all the activities of the project
and a description of each activity
✔✔Control schedule - ✔✔This process involves documenting and managing changes to
the project schedule
Schedule compression is a tool for this
✔✔Crashing - ✔✔schedule compression technique that looks at cost and schedule
trade-offs. Accomplished by adding resources, either internal or external, to the critical
path tasks
✔✔Critical path method - ✔✔CPM - is a mathematically-based algorithm for scheduling
a set of project activities
✔✔Define activities - ✔✔identifies the activities of the project that need to be performed
to produce the product or service of the project
✔✔Determining dependencies - ✔✔tie tasks to the timing of other tasks in the project.
Take place because all tasks in a project rarely happen at a time, Some tasks must start
or finish before the other can begin. Previous or predecessor task can be linked to its
succeeding or successor task, and thereby set up the task dependency between the
two
✔✔Develop schedule - ✔✔process of analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource
requirements, and reschedule constraints to create the project schedule. Goal is to form
the processes such that the stakeholders can use it in the creation of the project
✔✔Discretionary dependencies - ✔✔defined by the project management team, usually
process or procedure driven. Known as preferred logic, soft logic, and preferential logic
2025 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Define scope - ✔✔Planning process further elaborates the objectives and
deliverables of the project into a project scope statement that's used as a basis for
future project decisions
✔✔Inspection - ✔✔technique refers to the act in which the project management team,
project management team leader, or other interested and significant parties take the
effort to review the entirety of the project in meticulous detail for determining whether or
not the project meets certain predetermined requirements for completion
✔✔Observation - ✔✔good way of studying people while they are performing their jobs.
Technique gives a hands-on feel of how people get their work done. Also called job
shadowing or simply following people around
✔✔Product analysis - ✔✔performed in order to hammer out the details of the project
scope. Involves breaking down of high-level descriptions into concrete deliverables.
Analysis includes techniques such as product break-down, requirements analysis,
system analysis, system engineering, value analysis, and value engineering
✔✔Product scope description - ✔✔description of the product features and functionality
that describes the characteristics of the end product
✔✔Project exclusions - ✔✔section in the project scope statement that describes
anything that is not included in the work of the project
✔✔Project Scope - ✔✔defines what will or will not be included in a project. Scope
comprises the overall project requirements and incorporates the constraints imposed on
the project by resources, time, and other limiting factors
✔✔Project Scope Management Knowledge Area - ✔✔concerned with the work of the
project and only the work that is required to complete the project. Its processes include
Plan Scope Management, Collect Requirements, Define Scope, Create WBS, Validate
Scope, and Control Scope
✔✔Project Scope statement - ✔✔the narrative description of the project scope. Includes
major deliverables, project assumptions, project constraints, and a description of work.
Helps developing a common understanding of a project scope among the stakeholders.
It is a documented description of the project to answer questions such as "What is being
produced?" "How is it being produced?" "What is included?" etc
✔✔Questionnaire - ✔✔research instrument consisting of a series of questions. Used for
the purpose of gathering information from respondents. Have advantages over some
,other types of surveys in that they are cheap, do not require as much effort, and often
have standardized answers that make it simple to compile data
✔✔Requirements documentation - ✔✔requirements defined in a formal document or set
of documents. The requirements documents are complex and interrelated on complex
projects. Requirements documents or document sets can have multiple names and
structures
✔✔Requirements Management Plan - ✔✔documents how the requirements will be
managed throughout the project life. Describes how the project will set up requirements
documents and requirement types, and their respective requirement attributes and
traceability
✔✔Requirements traceability matrix - ✔✔table that links requirements to their origin and
traces them through the project life cycle
✔✔Scope baseline - ✔✔includes the approved project scope statement, the WBS, and
WBS dictionary
✔✔Validate scope - ✔✔process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project
deliverables. Inspection-driven process the stakeholders will complete to inspect the
project scope deliverables
✔✔WBS Dictionary - ✔✔Documents descriptive elements of the WBS. It is an element
of the scope baseline
✔✔Work package - ✔✔The lowest level of a WBS. It can be easily estimated and
assigned to one person or team
✔✔Nominal group technique - ✔✔This information-gathering technique is similar to
brainstorming and can be used during the Collect Requirements process
✔✔WBS (work breakdown structure) - ✔✔A deliverable-oriented hierarchy that defines
and organizes the work of the project and only the work of the project.
✔✔Constraint - ✔✔Anything that either restricts the actions of the project team or
dictates the actions of the project team
✔✔Group decision-making technique - ✔✔Assessment process having multiple
alternatives with an expected outcome in the form of future actions
✔✔Work performance data (2) - ✔✔degree of compliance with requirements, number of
nonconformities, severity of the nonconformities, or the number of validation cycles
performed in a period of time
, ✔✔Affinity diagram - ✔✔group creativity technique that allows large numbers of ideas to
be classified into groups for review and analysis
✔✔Progressive Elaboration - ✔✔characteristics of incrementally, and continually,
refining work and information in greater details as a project progress
✔✔Activity attributes - ✔✔describe the characteristics of activities. Extension of the
activity list
✔✔Duration estimates - ✔✔quantifiable estimates of the number of work periods
needed to complete the schedule activities listed
✔✔Activity list - ✔✔extension of the WBS that contains all the activities of the project
and a description of each activity
✔✔Control schedule - ✔✔This process involves documenting and managing changes to
the project schedule
Schedule compression is a tool for this
✔✔Crashing - ✔✔schedule compression technique that looks at cost and schedule
trade-offs. Accomplished by adding resources, either internal or external, to the critical
path tasks
✔✔Critical path method - ✔✔CPM - is a mathematically-based algorithm for scheduling
a set of project activities
✔✔Define activities - ✔✔identifies the activities of the project that need to be performed
to produce the product or service of the project
✔✔Determining dependencies - ✔✔tie tasks to the timing of other tasks in the project.
Take place because all tasks in a project rarely happen at a time, Some tasks must start
or finish before the other can begin. Previous or predecessor task can be linked to its
succeeding or successor task, and thereby set up the task dependency between the
two
✔✔Develop schedule - ✔✔process of analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource
requirements, and reschedule constraints to create the project schedule. Goal is to form
the processes such that the stakeholders can use it in the creation of the project
✔✔Discretionary dependencies - ✔✔defined by the project management team, usually
process or procedure driven. Known as preferred logic, soft logic, and preferential logic
