PK0-005 Project Management Concepts Practice Question
An organization is launching a project to design a brand-new autonomous delivery vehicle. The technology is unproven, requirements will emerge through prototyping, and the customer expects frequent demonstrations. Which approach should the project manager recommend?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is equating regulatory or certification needs with a mandatory predictive life cycle, when iterative work can still generate compliant evidence.
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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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Iterative, because incremental prototypes will reveal requirements over time
Iterative delivery suits work where requirements emerge through repeated cycles of building and feedback. Unproven technology plus a customer who wants frequent demonstrations maps directly onto iterative prototyping, where each cycle reduces uncertainty and informs the next. Predictive and waterfall approaches depend on early requirement definition and defer visible results, so they cannot accommodate the discovery this project demands.
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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Predictive, because regulatory certification requires frozen requirements
Why it's wrong here
Regulatory compliance does impose documentation and verification demands, but it does not require that requirements be frozen at project start. Certification evidence can be assembled from iterative design records and test results. Choosing a predictive life cycle purely for compliance would still leave the team unable to define the novel technical requirements early enough to plan meaningfully.
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Iterative, because incremental prototypes will reveal requirements over time
Why this is correct
Iterative approaches deliberately repeat cycles of build and feedback so that requirements are discovered and refined rather than fixed upfront. The autonomous vehicle scenario, with unproven technology and a customer wanting frequent demonstrations, aligns precisely: each prototype teaches the team something and shapes the next cycle, reducing uncertainty progressively.
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Waterfall, because sequential phases give the customer predictable checkpoints
Why it's wrong here
Waterfall is a predictive variant in which each phase is completed before the next begins. Its checkpoints arrive late, typically after long analysis and design phases, so the customer would not see working demonstrations until late in the effort. That conflicts with the stated expectation of frequent demonstrations and with the need to learn through prototyping.
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Predictive, because a detailed upfront schedule reduces uncertainty
Why it's wrong here
Predictive planning assumes requirements can be sufficiently defined early and change is controlled through baselines. For unproven technology with emergent requirements, that assumption fails, and the resulting baselines would be invalidated repeatedly. Heavy upfront scheduling would consume effort on plans that cannot survive the discovery inherent in prototype-driven work, so predictive is a poor fit here.
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