PMP - Project Management Professional Certification: Core Processes & Agile Flashcards

Question 1

What is the primary purpose of the Initiating Process Group?

Accepted Answer

To define a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase. Key outputs include the Project Charter and Stakeholder Register.

Question 2

What is the primary purpose of the Planning Process Group?

Accepted Answer

To establish the scope of the project, refine the objectives, and define the course of action required to attain the objectives that the project was undertaken to achieve. It produces the Project Management Plan.

Question 3

What is the primary purpose of the Executing Process Group?

Accepted Answer

To complete the work defined in the Project Management Plan to satisfy the project requirements. This involves coordinating people and resources, managing stakeholder expectations, and integrating various project activities.

Question 4

What is the primary purpose of the Monitoring & Controlling Process Group?

Accepted Answer

To track, review, and regulate the progress and performance of the project; identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required; and initiate the corresponding changes. It ensures project objectives are met.

Question 5

What is the primary purpose of the Closing Process Group?

Accepted Answer

To formally complete or close the project, phase, or contract. This includes obtaining final acceptance, transferring the product, service, or result, and releasing resources. Lessons learned are documented.

Question 6

What is the primary purpose of Project Integration Management?

Accepted Answer

To identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the Project Management Process Groups. It ensures all parts of the project work together cohesively.

Question 7

What is the primary purpose of Project Scope Management?

Accepted Answer

To ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully. Key outputs include the Scope Baseline and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).

Question 8

What is the primary purpose of Project Schedule Management?

Accepted Answer

To manage the timely completion of the project. This involves defining activities, sequencing them, estimating durations, and developing and controlling the project schedule.

Question 9

What is the primary purpose of Project Cost Management?

Accepted Answer

To complete the project within the approved budget. This includes planning, estimating, budgeting, and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.

Question 10

What is the primary purpose of Project Quality Management?

Accepted Answer

To ensure that the project, as well as the product, service, or result, will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken. It focuses on meeting stakeholder requirements and expectations.

Question 11

What is the primary purpose of Project Resource Management?

Accepted Answer

To identify, acquire, and manage the resources needed for the successful completion of the project. This includes both human resources (team) and physical resources (equipment, materials).

Question 12

What is the primary purpose of Project Communications Management?

Accepted Answer

To ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, monitoring, and the ultimate disposition of project information.

Question 13

What is the primary purpose of Project Risk Management?

Accepted Answer

To conduct risk management planning, identification, analysis, response planning, implementation of responses, and monitoring risk on a project. It aims to maximize positive impacts and minimize negative impacts.

Question 14

What is the primary purpose of Project Procurement Management?

Accepted Answer

To purchase or acquire products, services, or results needed from outside the project team. This includes managing contracts or purchase orders issued by the project team.

Question 15

What is the primary purpose of Project Stakeholder Management?

Accepted Answer

To identify all people or organizations impacted by the project, analyze stakeholder expectations and their impact on the project, and develop appropriate management strategies for effectively engaging stakeholders in project decisions and execution.

Question 16

What are the 4 core values of Agile, as stated in the Agile Manifesto?

Accepted Answer

1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
2. Working software over comprehensive documentation
3. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
4. Responding to change over following a plan

Question 17

What is the primary role of the Product Owner in Scrum?

Accepted Answer

The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Development Team. They manage the Product Backlog, ensuring its clarity, transparency, and alignment with stakeholder needs.

Question 18

What is the primary role of the Scrum Master?

Accepted Answer

The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. They help the team understand Scrum theory, practices, rules, and values, and remove impediments to the Development Team's progress. They also facilitate Scrum events.

Question 19

What is the purpose of the Daily Scrum (or Daily Stand-up)?

Accepted Answer

A 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team to synchronize activities and create a plan for the next 24 hours. It inspects progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapts the Sprint Backlog as necessary.

Question 20

What is the purpose of the Sprint Review?

Accepted Answer

To inspect the Increment and adapt the Product Backlog if needed. The Scrum Team and stakeholders collaborate on what was done in the Sprint and what has changed in their environment. It's an informal meeting, not a gate.

Question 21

What is the Product Backlog in Scrum?

Accepted Answer

An ordered list of everything that might be needed in the product and is the single source of requirements for any changes to be made to the product. It is dynamic, continuously evolving, and maintained by the Product Owner.

Question 22

What is the Sprint Backlog in Scrum?

Accepted Answer

The set of Product Backlog items selected for the Sprint, plus a plan for delivering the Increment and realizing the Sprint Goal. It is created by the Development Team during Sprint Planning and is highly visible.

Question 23

What is an Increment in Scrum?

Accepted Answer

The sum of all the Product Backlog items completed during a Sprint and the value of the increments of all previous Sprints. It must be "Done," meaning usable and potentially releasable, regardless of whether the Product Owner chooses to release it.

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