Management wants to determine how your project is fairing in comparison to a completed project that they’ve already deemed successful. 2 is incorrect because benchmarking is most useful for similar projects, though it is possible to benchmark projects that are not in the same discipline. 3 is incorrect because management has already deemed the finished project as successful. 4 is incorrect because the goal is to measure your project, not you.

Change is easily accepted in the beginning of a project; as the project moves toward completion change is harder to incorporate. 2 is incorrect. Risk is only accepted based on its impact of the project and the performing organization’s utility function. Recall that the utility function is an organization’s willingness to accept risk. 3 is incorrect. Team development happens throughout the project. 4 is incorrect. Scope verification happens throughout the project at phase completion, at major project deliverables, and at project completion.

The best choice is to utilize integrated change control. Cost control documents how the cost change is to be managed, but integrated change control is the actual analysis of the change and its effect on the project. Choices 1, 2, and 4 aren’t valid systems for this answer.

The change was made by Charles on his own accord. The Change Control System was not followed. 1 is incorrect because expert judgment is using an expert to help make the best decision. No consultation was done on the change. 3 is incorrect because corrective action is correcting a problem to get the project work back into scope. 4 is incorrect because Charles did not consult, document, or involve the project team in his decision.

Integrated change control calls for all of the knowledge areas, including risks, to be reviewed for the impact of the proposed change. 1 is incorrect because the charter does not have to be examined. 2 is incorrect because the life cycle costs concern the cost of the project’s deliverable once it’s in production. In some instances, life-cycle costing may be appropriate, but not in every instance of a change request. 4 is incorrect because benefit cost ratios are a method for selecting projects, not evaluating change requests.

Because the project’s baselines must be changed to reflect the added change. 1 is incorrect because there’s no reasons to create a variance report; it’s a change not a cost overrun. 2 is incorrect because this is part of the process to approve the change request. The change request has already been approved in this instance. 3 is incorrect because this is part of the process to approve the change request. The change request has already been approved in this instance.

Because this is a proposed change it should be documented and reviewed for consideration. Just because the change is considered doesn’t mean that it will necessarily be implemented. 1 is incorrect because discarding the change offers no documentation in case the change is actually needed. 2 is incorrect because the change should be added to the change control system for review, not just assigned to the vendor to complete. 3 is incorrect because changes don’t go into the SOW at this point.

The customer must approve any changes to the project deliverable. 1 is incorrect because the customer must first approve proposed changes. 2 is incorrect because the project manager must gain approval from the customer in order to do the changes. 4 is incorrect because it circumvents the change management process.

Adding features to the project scope just to consume the project budget is called gold plating. 2 is incorrect because this does not answer the question as completely as choice 1. 3 is incorrect because the organizational structure does not change that this is gold plating. 4 is incorrect because this answer is not relevant to this question.

The change control system that all changes should be formally documented. Undocumented change requests should not be processed or implemented. 1 is incorrect because the change may have been needed but the failure to follow the change control system prevents the change from entering the project scope. 2 is incorrect because there’s no mention of how much the change would cost the project. 3 is incorrect because there’s no mention of how much additional time the change would require.