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CAPM Practice: Demonstrate an understanding of project management planning

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Match each project planning component on the left with its primary purpose on the right. Items: 1. Cost baseline 2. Quality management plan 3. Risk register 4. Schedule baseline Which option correctly matches each item to its description?
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Correct answer: 1. Cost baseline → Provides the approved time-phased project budget against which performance is measured 2. Quality management plan → Defines how quality requirements will be met and how quality activities will be performed 3. Risk register → Identifies potential threats and opportunities and their characteristics 4. Schedule baseline → Provides the approved version of the schedule that is used to compare actual progress

Explanation

The cost baseline is the approved time-phased budget used for performance measurement. The quality management plan describes HOW quality will be achieved. The risk register documents identified risks (threats and opportunities) with their characteristics. The schedule baseline is the approved schedule version used to track actual performance against planned performance.

**Why not A:** This option incorrectly assigns the schedule baseline description to the cost baseline and the cost baseline description to the schedule baseline. The cost baseline is about budget measurement, and the schedule baseline is about timeline measurement — this reverses both.

**Why not B:** This option misassigns all four components. It gives quality management plan purposes to the cost baseline, risk register purposes to the quality management plan, schedule baseline purposes to the risk register, and cost baseline purposes to the schedule baseline.

**Why not D:** This option assigns risk register purposes to the cost baseline, schedule baseline purposes to the quality management plan, cost baseline purposes to the risk register, and quality management plan purposes to the schedule baseline — every match is incorrect.

Key Concept

This question covers Demonstrate an understanding of project management planning under Demonstrate an understanding of project management planning (Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts).

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