PK0-005 Project Management Concepts Practice Question
A project manager is closing out a project that delivered a new customer portal. The sponsor wants to ensure that lessons from this effort improve future projects and that the product is properly handed over. Which TWO activities should the project manager perform as part of closing the project? (Choose two.)
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is treating closure as a purely administrative formality, which leads candidates to pick activities such as re-baselining or releasing resources before acceptance is documented.
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Why each option matters
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Archive project documents and record lessons learned in the organizational process assets repository.
Closing a project centers on confirming the product is accepted and ensuring the organization retains the knowledge gained. Formal acceptance transfers ownership and authorizes final settlement, while archiving documents and lessons learned in the organizational process assets repository makes the experience available to future teams. Re-baselining, premature resource release, and starting follow-on work are not closure activities.
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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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Archive project documents and record lessons learned in the organizational process assets repository.
Why this is correct
Archiving records and capturing lessons learned makes the project's knowledge reusable, which is precisely what the sponsor wants. Lessons learned should include what went well, what did not, and recommendations for similar future efforts, and they belong in the organizational process assets so other project managers can retrieve them. This closes the knowledge loop rather than leaving experience trapped with the departing team.
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Obtain formal acceptance of the final deliverables from the customer or sponsor.
Why this is correct
Formal acceptance confirms the product meets requirements and transfers ownership to the receiving organization, which is a core closing activity. Without documented acceptance, the project cannot be properly closed and disputes about completeness may surface later. It also authorizes final payment and release of resources, and it produces the verified deliverable record the sponsor needs for the handover.
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Release the project team and reassign their equipment before confirming deliverable acceptance.
Why it's wrong here
Releasing resources before acceptance is confirmed is premature, because rework or defect correction may still be required. If the team is disbanded and equipment reassigned, the project manager loses the capacity to address acceptance findings. Resource release is a legitimate closing activity, but it must follow formal acceptance and the completion of any remaining corrective work.
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Initiate a new project to implement the enhancements that were deferred during execution.
Why it's wrong here
Deferred enhancements may eventually become a new project, but initiating one is not part of closing this project, and doing so without a business case and authorization bypasses portfolio governance. Closing activities focus on acceptance, knowledge transfer, resource release, and administrative closure. Conflating the next initiative with this closure also confuses the sponsor's stated goal of improving future projects through lessons learned.
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Re-baseline the schedule to reflect the actual completion date recorded during execution.
Why it's wrong here
Re-baselining during closure would rewrite history and destroy the ability to compare planned versus actual performance on future similar work. Baselines are changed through change control during execution when scope changes justify it, not retroactively at closure to make variance disappear. The correct closure action is to report final variance against the original baseline, not to erase it.
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