PMP · Question #488
A project to develop a large hydropower plant is in the implementation phase and is managed using a hybrid approach. What should the project manager do to ensure full compliance of quality requirement
The correct answer is C. Continually survey the quality of the deliverable. In a hybrid project's execution phase, ensuring full compliance of quality requirements necessitates continuously monitoring and verifying the quality of deliverables.
Question
A project to develop a large hydropower plant is in the implementation phase and is managed using a hybrid approach. What should the project manager do to ensure full compliance of quality requirements during the execution phase?
Options
- AAnalyze the quality requirements.
- BPlan quality management
- CContinually survey the quality of the deliverable
- DSet up quality policies and procedures
How the community answered
(26 responses)- A4% (1)
- B8% (2)
- C77% (20)
- D12% (3)
Why each option
In a hybrid project's execution phase, ensuring full compliance of quality requirements necessitates continuously monitoring and verifying the quality of deliverables.
Analyzing quality requirements is an activity performed during the planning phase to understand what is needed, not during execution to ensure compliance.
Planning quality management is a process completed during the planning phase of a project, defining how quality will be managed, rather than an activity performed during execution to ensure actual compliance.
During the execution phase of a project, ensuring quality compliance means actively performing quality control. Continually surveying the quality of the deliverables involves inspecting, testing, and reviewing the work products as they are being produced, which allows for immediate identification of deviations from quality standards and timely corrective actions, thus ensuring compliance throughout the execution.
Setting up quality policies and procedures is part of the planning phase, establishing the framework for quality management, and does not represent the ongoing activity of ensuring compliance during execution.
Concept tested: Quality control; executing quality processes
Source: https://www.pmi.org/pmbok-guide-standards/foundational/pmbok/control-quality
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Community Discussion
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Ola B.Jun 16, 2026C is correct here. During execution the name of the game is actually verifying the deliverables meet the quality bar you already defined in planning, not rehashing the plan. I always tell folks to lab this out in their head: you have a baseline, now you are in the build phase, so you run continuous quality checks to catch defects early rather than waiting for a surprise at the end. A and B are planning activities you should have already finished, and D is typically something the organization hands down to you, not something you create mid execution.
Toby R.Jun 18, 2026Agree on C, though in my exam last month the wording was trickier, it said something like monitor quality results against the quality management plan, so know that C is really about comparing actuals to the plan you already built, not creating anything new.
Nina C.May 17, 2026C makes sense here because during execution you are actively monitoring deliverables, not planning or setting policies anymore. Quick question though, in a hybrid approach would you still run these quality surveys continuously like in agile, or on a more periodic schedule tied to the predictive phases?
Olusegun A.May 31, 2026C is the right call here since the question puts you in execution, but "continually survey" is awkward phrasing for what PMBOK really frames as Manage Quality and Control Quality activities. D is a trap because setting up quality policies is something the performing organization handles, not a project manager scrambling to do it mid-execution.
Orla P.Jun 6, 2026C is correct. Execution means actively monitoring deliverables, not planning or analyzing.
Toby R.May 28, 2026Confirmed C on my exam last month. The key word in the stem is execution, so they want the monitoring activity, not the planning one. Continually surveying quality during implementation is what actually catches defects on deliverables before they spiral. A and B are setup steps that happen earlier, so they are distractors for anyone not reading carefully.