What is a Quality Management Plan?

• A. A budget plan for quality tools.
• B. A document detailing quality practices, criteria, roles, responsibilities, and acceptance requirements to ensure project outputs meet quality standards.
• C. A plan for risk responses.
• D. A schedule baseline.

Answer: (B)

A Quality Management Plan defines how quality will be managed throughout the project. It lays out the quality practices to be used, the criteria and metrics for judging quality, who is responsible for each quality activity, and the acceptance requirements that outputs must meet before they can be delivered. This makes quality an explicit part of the plan, guiding audits, process improvements, and how success will be measured, so everyone knows what “quality” means for this project and how to achieve it.

This is the best choice because it directly describes a document that specifies the methods, standards, roles, and acceptance criteria needed to ensure project outputs align with quality expectations. The other options focus on different areas: a budget-oriented approach to quality tools is too narrow, a plan for risk responses addresses risks rather than quality, and a schedule baseline concerns timing and sequencing rather than quality criteria and ownership.