A planning technique used to provide products, services and results that truly reflect customer requirements by translating those customer requirements into the appropriate technical requirements for each phase of project product development is called:
A. Six Sigma
B. PDCA
C. Voice of the Customer
D. ISO
A project manager from a buyer organization is invited to lunch by the manager of a seller organization. The project manager’s organization does not permit receipt of gifts from vendors. The project manager should:
A. Go out for lunch and refrain from informing his / her managers about the lunch.
B. Avoid going out to lunch with anyone from the seller organization.
C. Insist on paying for his / her lunch.
D. Permit the manager from the seller organization pay for his / her lunch since it has a very small value.
Sally, a project manager was reconciling expenditure of funds with funding limits on the commitment of funds for the project. She found a large variance between the funding limits and planned expenditures. As a result, she decided to reschedule work to level out the rate of expenditures. This is known as:
A. Funding limit reconciliation
B. Funding limit constraints
C. Funding limit expenditure
D. Funding limit appropriation
Which of the following is NOT a tool or technique of the Acquire Resources process?
A. Negotiation
B. Multi-criteria decision analysis
C. Pre-assignment
D. Conflict management
A number of deliverables were submitted to the buyer as part of a project. Where would the project manager find documentation on the requirements for formal deliverable acceptance and how non-conforming deliverables can be addressed?
A. In the SOW
B. In the lessons learned document
C. In the deliverable release note.
D. In the agreement
The Executive VP of Finance has informed you that you will be the Project Manager for an energy audit the company is performing in order to save expenses. He has tasked you to identify the stakeholders and to start documenting the high-level assumptions and constraints. Your project is in what stage?
A. Initiating
B. Planning
C. Monitoring & Controlling
D. Executing
You are the project manager responsible for building a 100,000 sq. ft. data center. One of the schedule activities in your plan is to install the Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) units, however in order to start the installation of the units the raised floor in the data center must be completely installed first. This is an example of what type of precedence relationship?
A. Finish to Finish
B. Start to Finish
C. Start to Start
D. Finish to Start
Accounting for the limited resources in the project schedule is called:
A. Forward pass
B. Critical chain method
C. Backward Pass
D. Critical Path Method
When writing the roles and responsibilities for team members, you should document the role, authority, responsibility and competency for each team member. Where must this information be documented?
A. Human resource management plan
B. RACI chart
C. Resource calendar
D. Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)
Sheila is a project manager managing a global project. She has stakeholders located in various parts of the globe. Due to the nature of the project, she also has large volumes of information that needs to be shared with the recipients. What type of communication method should she prefer for this purpose?
A. Pull communication
B. Push communication
C. Request based communication
D. Interactive communication