Project Management Professional Practice Question

Validate Scope formalizes stakeholder acceptance of deliverables. PMBOK states that the Scope Management Plan must define how this acceptance will be obtained, and the technique is executed differently in predictive (e.g., phase-gate sign-offs) versus adaptive life cycles (e.g., sprint reviews that confirm the Definition of Done). Tailoring the process to the chosen development approach improves the likelihood that acceptance criteria are met and deviations are detected early. The other options are inaccurate because Validate Scope occurs multiple times, focuses on external acceptance rather than internal verification, and does not replace Control Quality in Agile projects.