Quality Management
Plan Quality Management Tools n Technique
Organizational Process Assets
List of Organizational Process Assets
What are the seven basic quality tool?
The seven basic quality tools are:
| Question: The value of all work so far is completed called: |
| A. Earned Value |
| B. Estimate at complete |
| C. Actual Cost |
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D. Planned Value |
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Answer: 1
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| Question: A PM is analyzing a series of project activities. His decisions about which resources to assign and for what length of time to apply them are the result of careful consideration of historical data. This analytical technique is called______. |
| A. Design of experiments |
| B. Advanced scheduling |
| C. Cost/Schedule Control System Criteria (C/SCSC) |
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D. Inspection by attribute |
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| Question: Earned value should be used to estimate final project costs because it. |
| A. Tests the "official" position of the project manager against a statistically forecasted range of final possibilities based on actual project performance |
| B. Provides management with the final BAC, BCWS, and BCWP |
| C. Shows specific tasks in which cost overruns are expected to occur and, thus, focuses the project manager's attention on critical tasks |
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D. Ensures that management reserve or contingency will not be needed |
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Answer: 1
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| Question: Resource leveling heuristics allocates scarce resources to critical path activities first. |
| A. True |
| B. False |
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D. |
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Answer: 1
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| Question: The Critical Path Method of scheduling is: |
| A. A technique used to predict project duration by analyzing which sequence of activities has the least amount of float |
| B. A technique that uses weighted averages to calculate project duration |
| C. A technique that uses sequential network logic for schedule development |
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D. A technique that allows for probabilistic treatment of both network logic and activity duration estimates |
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Answer: 1
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| Question: In preparing the time estimates for a project, expert judgment is often used. This is best supplied by: |
| A. Engineers who will be working on the project |
| B. Planners who are preparing the schedule |
| C. Knowledgeable consultants |
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D. Customer?s representative |
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Answer: 1
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| Question: A PM is analyzing a series of project activities. His decisions about which resources to assign and for what length of time to apply them are the result of careful consideration of historical data. This analytical technique is called______. |
| A. Design of experiments |
| B. Advanced scheduling |
| C. Cost/Schedule Control System Criteria (C/SCSC) |
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D. Inspection by attribute |
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Answer: 1
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Answer explanation:
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| Question: A period of time in work weeks which includes non-working days is called: |
| A. Elapsed Time |
| B. Duration |
| C. Effort |
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D. Earned Time |
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Answer: 1
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| Question: In preparing the time estimates for a project, expert judgment is often used. This is best supplied by: |
| A. Engineers who will be working on the project |
| B. Planners who are preparing the schedule |
| C. Knowledgeable consultants |
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D. Customer?s representative |
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Answer: 1
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Answer explanation:
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| Question: Earned value should be used to estimate final project costs because it. |
| A. Tests the "official" position of the project manager against a statistically forecasted range of final possibilities based on actual project performance |
| B. Provides management with the final BAC, BCWS, and BCWP |
| C. Shows specific tasks in which cost overruns are expected to occur and, thus, focuses the project manager's attention on critical tasks |
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D. Ensures that management reserve or contingency will not be needed |
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Answer: 1
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Answer explanation:
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| Question: Resource leveling heuristics allocates scarce resources to critical path activities first. |
| A. True |
| B. False |
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D. |
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Answer: 1
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Answer explanation:
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| Question: The Critical Path Method of scheduling is: |
| A. A technique used to predict project duration by analyzing which sequence of activities has the least amount of float |
| B. A technique that uses weighted averages to calculate project duration |
| C. A technique that uses sequential network logic for schedule development |
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D. A technique that allows for probabilistic treatment of both network logic and activity duration estimates |
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Answer: 1
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| Question: Which is a time-phased budget used to measure and monitor cost performance on the project? |
| A. Cost baseline |
| B. Project schedule |
| C. Cost management plan |
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D. EAC |
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Answer: 1
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| Question: When is the earliest time administrative closure should be completed? |
| A. At the end of each project phase |
| B. At the end of the project |
| C. Whenever a deliverable is complete |
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D. Whenever a new project manager takes over a project |
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Answer: 1
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| Question: _____________ is another term for top down estimating. |
| A. Analogous estimating |
| B. Life-cycle costing |
| C. Parametric modeling |
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D. Bottom up estimating |
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Answer: 1
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| Question: You are managing a heavy equipment manufacturing project that involves many mechanical, electrical as well as IT staff. Your team prepared a schedule network diagram using duration estimates with dependencies and constraints. Your team also calculated the critical path for the project using late and early values. Today, your project office has indicated about the non-availability of some of the resources you planned for the project. Now, you explore the possibility of modifying the schedule to account for limited resources. What is your best possible step in such a situation? |
| A. Recalculate critical path using the critical chain method |
| B. Perform resource leveling to account for limited resources |
| C. Use crashing or fast tracking to level resources across the project |
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D. Apply leads and lags to develop a viable schedule |
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Answer: 1
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| Question: You have been managing a research project that is intended to create Genetically Modified fruits using Genetic Engineering techniques. Since many legal issues are involved in this process, you created contingency allowances by using different quantitative analysis methods to account for cost uncertainty. You have just wrappedup a brainstorming session with your team in the execution phase to monitor new risks evolved in the project over past few weeks and to establish new risk response plans. What should you do if you want to allocate more contingency reserves to account for new risks? |
| A. Perform the reserve analysis to compare the amount of contingency reserves remaining to the amount of risk remaining |
| B. Perform Monte Carlo analysis to compare the amount of contingency reserves remaining to the amount of risk remaining |
| C. Perform the variance and trend analysis to compare planned results to the actual results |
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D. Perform the quantitative risk analysis to determine the outstanding risks |
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Answer: 1
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| Question: You have a schedule activity that can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any subsequent activities. This is an example of? |
| A. Free Float |
| B. Lead Float |
| C. Total Float |
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D. Lag Float |
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Answer: 1
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| Question: Which technique is NOT commonly used to align the timing of activities with available resources? |
| A. Critical Path Method |
| B. Resource Leveling |
| C. Critical Chain Method |
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D. What-if Analysis |
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Answer: 1
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| Question: Which of the following is not a Project Time Management process? |
| A. Source Activities |
| B. Estimate Activity Resources |
| C. Define Activities |
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D. Sequence Activities |
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Answer: 1
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| Question: Due to the unexpected release of a similar product from a competitor, the Widgets International executive team has stepped up the pressure on the product team to release the Widget product 3 months earlier. The project manager uses what technique to shorten the schedule but maintain the project scope? |
| A. Schedule compression |
| B. Rolling wave planning |
| C. Schedule network analysis |
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D. Schedule management planning |
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Answer: 1
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| Question: As the project manager of a large project, you have just completed the Estimate Costs process. As you begin the Determine Budget process, which of the following would you require as inputs? |
| A. Activity cost estimates, Basis of estimates |
| B. Activity cost estimates, Changes to activity cost estimates |
| C. Resource breakdown structure and Cost aggregation |
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D. Activity cost estimates, Staff management plan |
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Answer: 1
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