IPA IP 2024 Question 37
A question IPA Japan published in 令和6年度 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問37, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
Which of the following is the most appropriate activity performed in project integration management when a system development project is closed?
Explanation
Registering knowledge and lessons learned as organizational assets — closing the project, the integration management process, ends by passing what was learned to future projects.
Project integration management coordinates all the other knowledge areas from the project charter to closure. Its last process, closing the project or phase, closes the contracts, archives the project records and collects the knowledge and lessons learned, then registers them in the organization's process assets so that later projects can reuse them. That last step belongs to no single area such as schedule or cost, and is integration management's own.
Answer (d)
Why not others:
- •(a) — comparing planned and actual progress is controlling the schedule, an activity of schedule management
- •(b) — checking the deliverables against what was required is validating the scope, an activity of scope management
- •(c) — comparing the budget with actual cost is controlling costs, an activity of cost management
Key rule: Each knowledge area controls its own variances; integration management closes the project as a whole and turns its lessons into organizational assets.
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