IPA IP 2025 Question 48
A question IPA Japan published in 令和7年度 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問48, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
Which of the following lists all and only the appropriate items as the targets of the scope of a system development project entrusted by a customer?
Explanation
Only the deliverables, item A — a project's scope is what the project must produce, its deliverables, and the work needed to produce them.
Scope management defines and controls the deliverables (the products, services and results the project creates) and the work required to complete them; a WBS breaks that scope down. In a project entrusted by a customer, the deliverables to be handed over, such as the system, its documents and the manuals, are the core of the scope, so A is a target of it.
B is a tool the project uses to manage itself: it is bought, not produced, and is not part of what is delivered. C is an input to the project: the customer's requirements are what scope definition starts from, but a document the customer wrote is not something the project creates.
Answer (a)
Why not others:
- •(b) — adds B, a commercial tool used in the project, which is a means of managing the work, not a deliverable or work in scope
- •(c) — leaves out the deliverables and includes B and C, neither of which the project produces
- •(d) — the customer's requirements document is an input to defining the scope, not part of it, and the deliverables are left out
Key rule: Project scope = the deliverables and the work to create them; the tools used and the inputs received are not in it.
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