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Moloy Chakraborty Principal Project Manager| WSP UK LTD High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
In the Perform Integrated Change Control process, which change requests are considered?

A) Any agreed on by the change control board
B) All formal requests
C) Those approved by the project manager
D) None, they are considered in another process
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Margaret Love Senior Instructor| Velociteach Greenville, Sc, United States
ALL change requests are considered there, so the most correct answer isn't available. Given the answers that ARE there, I'd go with the project manager, only because the PM is large and in charge.

A is incorrect because the CCB doesn't determine which requests are evaluated. They evaluate the ones brought to them (if there even IS a CCB, which sometimes there is not).
B is incorrect because all change requests should be assessed for impact on the project, regardless of whether or not they are formally documented
C is incorrect because there isn't another process to evaluate change requests.

At least that's my opinion... What is yours?
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Moloy -

B should be the right answer as this is the process which acts as the gatekeeper on any change requests generated from other processes. The CCB (if one exists) would review the change requests and decide on whether to accept or reject them.

Kiron
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Tamer Zeyad Sadiq Assistant Cost Manager| Turner & Townsend Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
Change request must be formal!!!!
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Margaret Love Senior Instructor| Velociteach Greenville, Sc, United States
Auuugh! I hate it when I'm wrong, but I love the fact that you guys are challenging me.

Yes, PMBOK 6th edition says a change request is a formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable or baseline. It also says that "Change requests" also include corrective actions, preventive actions, and defect repairs. In my experience, we have never treated defect repairs as formal change requests, but as we all know, the test isn't based on MY experience! :-)

That said, I have to amend my answer to agree with Kiron. I don't like any of the four but answer B is closest to correct. I had read something into answer C that is not there. C is incorrect because changes are APPROVED in this process so the PM hasn't yet approved them if we're just beginning to consider them. Kiron for the win.

Out of curiosity... where did this question come from?
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1 reply by Moloy Chakraborty
Jun 04, 2018 12:54 PM
Moloy Chakraborty
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it's from redvector.com
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Moloy Chakraborty Principal Project Manager| WSP UK LTD High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Jun 03, 2018 9:13 PM
Replying to Margaret Love
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Auuugh! I hate it when I'm wrong, but I love the fact that you guys are challenging me.

Yes, PMBOK 6th edition says a change request is a formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable or baseline. It also says that "Change requests" also include corrective actions, preventive actions, and defect repairs. In my experience, we have never treated defect repairs as formal change requests, but as we all know, the test isn't based on MY experience! :-)

That said, I have to amend my answer to agree with Kiron. I don't like any of the four but answer B is closest to correct. I had read something into answer C that is not there. C is incorrect because changes are APPROVED in this process so the PM hasn't yet approved them if we're just beginning to consider them. Kiron for the win.

Out of curiosity... where did this question come from?
it's from redvector.com
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Shriram Patki Engineering Manager, PMO| Nexteer Automotive Inc Saginaw, Mi, United States
Answer is all formal requests.

Change requests need to be formally requested.

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