PK0-005 Project Management Concepts Practice Question
A project manager is closing out a data-center migration. During the final review, the team discovers that two servers were decommissioned without the required security wipe, which is a compliance violation. The project manager documents the issue and assigns an owner and due date. Which process is the project manager performing?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is treating any defect as a quality-control activity, when the specific act of logging an open problem with an owner and due date is issue management.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Manage Project Issues
The scenario shows a live problem being recorded, assigned an owner, and given a due date so it can be driven to resolution. That is the definition of issue management. Quality control may have detected the defect, and change control may later authorize remediation, but the act of logging and tracking the open problem itself is performed in Manage Project Issues.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Manage Project Issues
Why this is correct
Manage Project Issues is the process of identifying, logging, assigning, and driving project issues to resolution, including owners and due dates. The compliance violation is an active problem threatening the project, and the project manager is doing exactly that: documenting it, assigning accountability, and setting a target date for closure.
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Perform Integrated Change Control
Why it's wrong here
Perform Integrated Change Control reviews and approves or rejects change requests and manages changes to baselines. The security wipe omission is not a requested change to scope, schedule, or cost, so no change request is being processed. Logging and assigning an issue owner is issue management, not change control, even though a resulting fix might later trigger a change request.
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Control Quality
Why it's wrong here
Control Quality monitors and records results of quality activities to assess performance and recommend corrective actions. It is tempting here because the missing security wipe looks like a quality defect. However, the scenario describes the broader act of identifying, logging, and tracking a project issue to closure, which is handled by a dedicated issue-management process rather than quality control alone.
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Manage Project Knowledge
Why it's wrong here
Manage Project Knowledge concerns capturing, storing, and reusing lessons and information to benefit the organization. Recording the compliance violation with an owner and due date is corrective action tracking, not knowledge capture. While a lesson may eventually be recorded, the immediate activity of logging and assigning a defect for resolution belongs to a different process.
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