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In this movie, we will take a look at the workbook questions, which are found within your work files for the Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement questions. There are a total of seven questions for this process and this will be a good test to see how much information you've retained so far. We begin with a review of the process's purpose. This is something you will definitely want to know, at least to have grabbed the concept. The purpose is to provide a high-level description of the project scope. In a sense, the project scope provides the definition of the project. The next three questions are a review of the inputs, tools and techniques and outputs. In the first three processes of this knowledge area, there is only one output, which is given away by the title of the process. In this case, it is the Preliminary Project Scope Statement. Just a reminder that these three tools and techniques are present in nearly every process of this knowledge area, as well as Enterprise Environmental Factors and Organization Process Assets as input. Question five says who provides the information for creating the Preliminary Project Scope Statement. That would be the project sponsor or the project initiator. Remember that the Project Charter plays a big role along with the Statement of Work, which supply a great deal of information that contribute to the Preliminary Project Scope Statement. Question six says name at least five items that are contained within the Preliminary Project Scope Statement. There are fifteen items you could have chosen from and I'll go ahead and put them all up here. This includes objectives, requirements, characteristics, acceptance criteria, boundaries, deliverables, constraints, assumptions, the initial project organization, the initial defined risk, initial WBS, schedule milestones, order of magnitude cost estimate, project configuration management requirements and the approval requirements. I'd like to mention that the Detailed Project Scope Statement, which is created in the next knowledge area, also looks very similar to this. Question seven says why is the Preliminary Project Scope Statement important. Maintaining the focus of the project is extremely important and until the Detailed Project Scope Statement is created, there needs to be something that'll provide a basis for project decisions to be made. It's drafted with as much detail as possible at this stage. And then further developed in the Scope Knowledge Area as more information becomes available through the planning stage. That's it for the workbook review, which brings this movie to a close. One last comment on this process; the important thing is to understand what the Preliminary Project Scope Statement is and what it entails.