ITPEC IP April 2018 Question 55
The project management knowledge areas include project cost management, project human resource management, project time management, and project procurement management. In a system development project, which of the following is an appropriate activity of project procurement management when a device is purchased for testing?
Explanation
Presenting specifications to candidate suppliers, evaluating proposals and choosing one — procurement management covers buying goods and services from outside the project.
Procurement management plans what to buy, requests proposals or quotations from suppliers (RFP), selects a supplier against evaluation criteria, signs the contract and manages it through delivery. Specifying the test device, comparing the suppliers' proposals and deciding on one are exactly these steps.
Answer (d)
Why not others:
- •(a) — scheduling the test to start after delivery is time (schedule) management
- •(b) — training the tester to operate the device is human resource management (developing the team)
- •(c) — budgeting the purchase and tracking estimated against actual cost is cost management
Key rule: When one purchase touches several knowledge areas, ask what the activity manages: choosing a source and contracting is procurement, dates are time, money is cost, and people's skills are human resources.
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