ITPEC IP October 2025 Question 57
Which of the following is the appropriate explanation concerning the approach for project management?
Explanation
A plan to achieve the objectives is made, and quality, progress and cost are controlled during implementation — project management plans a temporary undertaking and keeps it on course to its objectives.
A project has a goal, a start and an end. Project management first plans how to reach the goal (scope, schedule, cost, quality, staff, risks), then during execution measures actual progress, quality and cost against the plan and takes corrective action where they deviate, until the objectives are achieved. The other options describe the processes of neighbouring fields.
Answer (c)
Why not others:
- •(a) — planning, requirements definition, system development and maintenance in order is the life cycle of a system's development, not the management of a project
- •(b) — strategy, design, migration (transition), operation and improvement is the service life cycle of IT service management (ITIL)
- •(d) — preliminary investigation, main audit, evaluation and conclusion checking the risk controls is the procedure of a system audit
Key rule: Project management plans and controls a temporary undertaking against its objectives; service management runs ongoing services, and a system audit independently evaluates controls.
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