Which of these statements is accurate regarding quality management?
A. Modern quality management complements project management
B. Overworking the team to meet requirements is not likely to increase attrition and rework
C. Quality and grade are essentially the same
D. Project requirements are turned into customer needs, wants, and expectations
As a project manager, where would you document the escalation process to resolve issues that cannot be resolved at a lower staff level?
A. Scope management plan
B. Stakeholder management plan
C. Staffing management plan
D. Communications Management Plan
You are working on a waste management project that, upon competition, will be handed over to the local municipality for steady state operation. Parking of the trucks and other vehicles has become a major problem because no parking area has been allotted to you on the main dumping site. As a result, your trucks are being parked on nearby roadsides. One of the fleet supervisor tells you that there is a large tract of land very close to the main site, that is owned by a local charity. Many locals park their cars on this tract of land. What should you do?
A. Since the piece of land is already being used as parking, you can park your trucks over there.
B. Don’t park the trucks on that piece of land as it will be violation of other’s property rights.
C. Check the local parking laws.
D. Ask the supervisor to get contact information of the local charity.
You are a Project Manager for a company that designs and develops automation systems for car companies. You are in the Close Project process for a project in which a new automation system has been designed and created for a car company located in Korea. You need to obtain formal acceptance for the new automation system. All of the following statements are true with respect to the final acceptance of the new system EXCEPT?
A. Performance tests on the new automation system should be completed by the car company.
B. A formal statement is issued indicating that the new automation system meets the terms of the contract.
C. Final acceptance for the new automation system can be informal or formal.
D. A checklist can be used to determine whether the new automation system meets the car company’s specifications
If you want a group of experts to identify project risks, but also want unbiased data, what is an appropriate technique to use?
A. Interviewing
B. Delphi technique
C. Assumption analysis
D. Brainstorming
You have completed a milestone in your software development project and you are now verifying that the product meets the specifications outlined in the project management plan. What process group is this process in?
A. Quality Control
B. Monitor and Controlling
C. Executing
D. Planning
You are the project manager of a project executing work under a contract signed with a buyer organization. Just after the project has started, you notice that the buyer organization had made a mistake in the financial terms and your organization stands to benefit considerably through this oversight. What should your stance be?
A. Do not take any action since a contract is a binding and legal document.
B. Discuss with your management on how you could gain a bonus due to the increased revenue your company stands to gain.
C. Informally check with your counterpart in the buyer organization to see if they have noticed this error.
D. Bring the error to the notice of the buyer organization and have an amendment made to the contract since this was in good faith.
Progressive elaboration is least applicable to which of the following processes?
A. Create WBS
B. Control Schedule
C. Develop Schedule
D. Estimate Activity Durations
As the project manager of a high-visibility project, you are in the process of Identifying risks. You are concerned that the data you collect might be biased. A technique that helps keep the bias out of the data and keeps any one person from having undue influence on the outcome is:
A. Interviewing
B. Round-robin technique
C. Ishikawa technique
D. Delphi technique
You have been asked by your project manager to help them create a chart that illustrates the project resources that will be working on each work package. What would be the best type of chart to use?
A. Milestone chart
B. RACI chart
C. Project organization chart
D. WBS