In a CMMI PA, Generic Practices (GP) are used to what?

• A. GP are high-level aims.
• B. GP are measurement data.
• C. GP are practices that institutionalize processes to achieve the GG.
• D. GP are project baselines.

Answer: (C)

Generic Practices are the set of practices that institutionalize a process across the organization, providing the means to make the process repeatable, stable, and capable of improvement. They describe how a process should be defined, implemented, trained, measured, and governed so it becomes part of the organization’s way of working. The purpose of these practices is to satisfy the Generic Goals for a Process Area, which is why they’re used to achieve the GG. They’re not simply measurement data, baselines, or high-level aims themselves; those roles belong to other elements of the model.