Change Management - PMBOK 7th edition

Correct Answer: Identifying and maintaining the integrity of configuration items throughout the project.

Configuration management primarily focuses on identifying and maintaining the integrity of configuration items throughout the project. This involves ensuring that all configuration items are properly defined, documented, tracked, and controlled to maintain consistency and alignment with project objectives. While ensuring changes are approved and documented is important, it is a component of change control, which is a subset of configuration management. Identifying potential risks and managing resources are critical project management activities but are part of risk management and resource management, not configuration management's primary focus.

Correct Answer: Configuration Control

Configuration Control is the Configuration Management process that ensures only approved changes are implemented in project deliverables. It involves systematically managing changes to the configuration items, including proposing, evaluating, approving or disapproving, and implementing changes. This process maintains the integrity and consistency of the project's deliverables by preventing unauthorized or unapproved changes. Configuration Identification involves identifying and defining the configuration items within a project but does not control changes to them. Configuration Status Accounting records and reports the status of configuration items and change requests but does not ensure that only approved changes are implemented. Configuration Verification and Audit checks that the configuration items meet the required specifications and that they are correctly implemented but does not manage the approval or implementation of changes.

Correct Answer: Review changes after impact analysis by the project manager.

The best practice is to have the Change Control Board (CCB) review changes after the project manager has performed an impact analysis. This approach ensures that all potential impacts on scope, schedule, cost, and quality are carefully considered before a decision is made. Involving the CCB after impact analysis maintains project control and facilitates informed decision-making.