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Project Managers
Your organization is embarking on a long-term project that will require additional human resources on a contract basis to complete the work of the project. Since the project will span several years,
Which of the following best characterizes Six Sigma?A. Stipulates that quality must be managed in B. Focuses on process improvement and variation reduction by using a measurementbased strategy C.
You work for a furniture manufacturer. Your project is going to design and produce a new office chair. The chair will have the ability to function as a regular chair and also the ability to transform
The quality management plan documents how the project team will implement the quality policy. It must address at least all of the following except which one?A. Quality control B. Quality metrics C.
Which of the following describes the cost of quality associated with scrapping, rework, and downtime?A. Internal failure costs B. External failure costs C. Prevention costs D. Appraisal costs
All of the following are benefits of meeting quality requirements except which one?A. An increase in stakeholder satisfaction B. Less rework C. Lower risk D. Higher productivity
The theory that 85 percent of the cost of quality is a management problem is attributed to ___________________?A. Deming B. Shewhart C. Juran D. Crosby
Four people are responsible for establishing cost of quality theories. Crosby and Juran are two them, and their theories are ___________________, respectively.A. grades of quality, fitness for use B.
All of the following are true regarding the Plan Quality process except for which one?A. DOE is a tool and technique of this process that provides statistical analysis for changing product or process
You are the project manager for BB Tops, a nationwide toy store chain. Your new project involves creating a prototype display at several stores across the country. You are hiring a contractor for
This process has the greatest ability to directly influence the project schedule.A. Develop Human Resource Plan B. Plan Procurements C. Plan Communications D. Plan Quality
You are the project manager for BB Tops, a nationwide toy store chain. Your new project involves creating a prototype display at several stores across the country. You are using a RACI chart to
You have been hired as a contract project manager for Grapevine Vineyards. Grapevine wants you to design an Internet wine club for its customers. Customers must register before being allowed to order
Which of the following are constraints that you might find during the Develop Human Resource Plan process?A. Organizational structures, collective bargaining agreements, and economic conditions B.
Sally is a project manager working on a project that will require a specially engineered machine. Only three manufacturers can make the machine to the specifications Sally needs.The price of this
All of the following statements are true regarding the Develop Human Resource Plan process except for which one?A. The Develop Human Resource Plan involves determining roles and responsibilities.B.
You are the project manager for the Heart of Texas casual clothing company. It’s introducing a new line of clothing called Black Sheep Ranch Wear. You will outsource the production of this clothing
You are the project manager for the Heart of Texas casual clothing company. It’s introducing a new line of clothing called Black Sheep Ranch Wear. You will outsource the production of this clothing
You are the project manager for an outdoor concert event scheduled for one year from today.You’re working on the procurement documents for the computer software program that will control the
You are the project manager for an upcoming outdoor concert event. You’re working on the procurement plan for the computer software program that will control the lighting and screen projections
All of the following are true regarding the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process except which one?A. Probability and impact and expert interviews are used to help correct biases that occur in
Your team has identified the risks on the project and determined their risk score. The team is in the midst of determining what strategies to put in place should the risks occur. After some
All of the following statements are true regarding the RBS except for which one?A. The RBS is contained in the risk management plan.B. It describes risk categories, which are a systematic way to
Your project team is in the process of identifying project risks on your current project. The team has the option to use all of the following tools and techniques to diagram some of these potential
Your project team has identified several potential risks on your current project that could have a significant impact if they occurred. The team examined the impact of the risks by keeping all the
You work for a large manufacturing plant. You are working on a new project to release an overseas product line. This is the company’s first experience in the overseas market, and it wants to make a
All of the following are elements of the enterprise environmental factors input of the Identify Risks process that you should evaluate except for which one?A. Assumptions analysis B. Industry studies
Your hardware vendor left you a voicemail saying that a snowstorm in the Midwest will prevent your equipment from arriving on time. You identified a risk response strategy for this risk and have
Your stakeholders have asked for an analysis of the cost risk. All of the following are true except for which one?A. Monte Carlo analysis is the preferred method to use to determine the cost risk.B.
You are constructing a probability and impact matrix for your project. Which of the following statements is true?A. The probability and impact matrix multiplies the risk’s probability by the cost
Your hardware vendor left you a voicemail saying that a snowstorm in the Midwest might prevent your equipment from arriving on time. She wanted to give you a heads-up and asked that you return the
You’ve identified a risk event on your current project that could save $500,000 in project costs if it occurs. Your organization is considering hiring a consulting firm to help establish proper
You’ve identified a risk event on your current project that could save $100,000 in project costs if it occurs. Which of the following is true based on this statement? (Choose the best answer.)A.
You are the project manager for a new website for the local zoo. You need to perform the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process. When you’ve completed this process, you’ll produce all of the
Which of the following processes assesses the likelihood of risk occurrences and their consequences using a numerical rating?A. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis B. Identify Risks C. Perform
The information-gathering techniques used in the Identify Risks process include all of the following except ___________________.A. toot cause analysis B. the Delphi technique C. brainstorming D.
You are using the interviewing technique of the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process.You intend to use normal and lognormal distributions. All of the following statements are true regarding
Each of the following statements is true regarding the risk management plan except for which one?A. The risk management plan is an output of the Plan Risk Management process.B. The risk management
Assessing the probability and consequences of identified risks to the project objectives, assigning a risk score to each risk, and creating a list of prioritized risks describes which of the
You are a project manager for Fountain of Youth Spring Water bottlers. Your project involves installing a new accounting system, and you’re performing the risk-planning processes.You have
Communication technology takes into account all of the following factors that can affect the project except for which one?A. Urgency of the need for information B. Project environment C. Reasons for
You need to communicate information in a multidirectional fashion with several stakeholders.Which of the following is true?A. This describes push communication, which is a communication model.B. This
This ensures that information is distributed but does not acknowledge or certify that it was understood by intended receiver(s).A. Push communication B. Interactive communication C. Medium D. Message
You are preparing your communications management plan and know that all of the following are true except for which one? (Choose the least correct response.)A. Encode means to translate thoughts or
All of the following are true regarding Plan Communications except for which one?A. The communications management plan is a subsidiary plan of the project management plan.B. This process should be
You have eight key stakeholders to communicate with on your project. Which of the following is true?A. There are 36 channels of communication, and this should be a consideration when using the
Your project sponsor has requested a cost estimate for the project on which you’re working.This project is similar in scope to a project you worked on last year. She would like to get the cost
All of the following are tools and techniques of the Determine Budget process except for which one?A. Reserve analysis B. Expert judgment C. Historical relationships D. Cost of quality
Which of the following is displayed as an S curve?A. Funding requirements B. Cost performance baseline C. Cost estimates D. Expenditures to date
You are the project manager for a custom home-building construction company. You are working on the model home project for the upcoming Show Homes Tour. The model home includes Internet connections
Your project sponsor has requested a cost estimate for the project. She would like the cost estimate to be as accurate as possible because this might be her one and only chance to secure the budget
You are the project manager for a custom home-building construction company. You are working on the model home project for the upcoming Show Homes Tour. The model home includes Internet connections
You have received the following estimates for a complex activity that is critical to the success of your project. The most likely estimate is $42, the optimistic estimate is $35, and the pessimistic
You have received estimates for activity costs associated with one work package of the WBS. Additional contingencies have been added to the estimates to account for cost uncertainty.Which of the
You want to improve your activity cost estimates by taking into account estimation uncertainty and risk. Which of the following tools and techniques will you use?A. Analogous estimates B. Three-point
All of the following are inputs of the Estimate Costs process except for which one?A. Resource calendars B. Scope baseline C. Project schedule D. Human resource plan
You are a project manager working for iTrim Central. Your organization has developed a new dieting technique that is sure to be the next craze. One of the deliverables of your feasibility study was
You are a project manager working for iTrim Central and you’re preparing your cost management plan. You know that all of the following are true regarding this plan except for which one?A. The WBS
This document is used to establish the criteria for planning, estimating, budgeting, and controlling costs.A. Cost performance baseline B. Performance management baseline C. Project funding
All of the following are true regarding the Project Cost Management Knowledge Area processes except for which one? (Choose the least correct answer.)A. The primary concern of the Project Cost
What is one of the problems with project management software?A. The project manager manages the software instead of the project.B. Project duration calculations are sometimes approximate.C. You
You are the project manager for Rivera Gourmet Adventure Vacations. Rivera combines the wonderful tastes of great gourmet food with outdoor adventure activities. Your project involves installing a
You are the project manager working on a research project for a new drug treatment.Your preliminary project schedule runs past the due date for a federal grant application.The manager of the R&D
If your expected value is 110 and the standard deviation is 12, which of the following is true?A. There is approximately a 99 percent chance of completing this activity in 86 to 134 days.B. There is
If you know the expected value is 500 and the standard deviation is 12, you can say with approximately a 95 percent confidence rating which of the following?A. The activity will take from 488 to 512
You are a project manager for Move It Now trucking company. Your company specializes in moving household goods across the city or across the country. Your project involves upgrading the nationwide
You are a project manager for Move It Now trucking company. Your company specializes in moving household goods across the city or across the country. Your project involves upgrading the nationwide
Which of the following statements is true regarding the critical path?A. It should not be compressed.B. It allows for looping and branching.C. The critical path technique is the same as PERT.D.
Use the following graphic to answer this question. If the duration of activity B was changed to 10 days and the duration of activity G was changed to 9 days, which path is the critical path?A.
You are a project manager for Picture Shades, Inc. It manufactures window shades that have replicas of Renaissance-era paintings for hotel chains. Picture Shades is taking its product to the home
You are a project manager for Picture Shades, Inc. It manufactures window shades that have replicas of Renaissance-era paintings for hotel chains. Picture Shades is taking its product to the home
You are working on a project that requires resources with expertise in the areas of hospitality management and entertainment. You are preparing your project schedule network diagram and know that you
You are the project manager for Design Your Web Site, Inc. Your company is designing the website for a national grocery store chain. You have your activity list in hand and are ready to diagram the
You have been hired as a contract project manager for Grapevine Vineyards. Grapevine wants you to design an Internet wine club for its customers. Customers must register before being allowed to order
All of the following statements describe the activity list except which one?A. The activity list is an output of the Define Activities process.B. The activity list includes all activities of the
You have been hired as a contract project manger for Grapevine Vineyards. Grapevine wants you to design an Internet wine club for its customers. One of the activities for this project is the
Your project’s primary constraint is quality. To make certain the project team members don’t feel too pressed for time and to avoid schedule risk, you decide to use which of the following
You are the project manager for Changing Tides video games. You have produced a project schedule network diagram and have updated the activity list. Which process have you just finished?A. The Define
You are the project manager for Changing Tides video games. You have gathered the inputs for the Estimate Activity Durations process. Which of the following tools and techniques will you employ to
Which of the following is not a major step of decomposition?A. Identify major deliverables.B. Identify resources.C. Identify components.D. Verify correctness of decomposition.
Your company provides answering services for several major catalog retailers. The number of calls coming into the service center per month has continued to increase over the past 18 months. The phone
What limits the options of the project team?A. Technology B. Constraints C. Deliverables D. Assumptions
Your project depends on a key deliverable from a vendor you’ve used several times before with great success. You’re counting on the delivery to arrive on June 1.This is an example of a/an
You are a project manager for a documentary film company. In light of a recent regional tragedy, the company president wants to get a new documentary on the efforts of the heroic rescue teams to air
You are in the process of translating project objectives into tangible deliverables and requirements.All the following are techniques used in the product analysis tool and technique of the Define
Which of the following statements about decomposition is the least true?A. Decomposition involves structuring and organizing the WBS so that deliverables are always listed at level one.B.
You are a project manager working on a new software product your company plans to market to businesses. The project sponsor told you that the project must be completed by September 1.The company
You’ve constructed the WBS for your recent project. You’ve requested that the subproject managers report to you in three weeks with each of their individual WBSs constructed.Which statement is
You are the project manager for Lucky Stars nightclubs. They specialize in live country and western band performances. Your newest project is in the Planning processes group. You are working on the
You are a project manager for Giraffe Enterprises. You’ve recently taken over for a project manager who lied about his PMI certification and was subsequently fired. Unfortunately, he did a poor job
Your company, Kick That Ball Sports, has appointed you project manager for its new Cricket product line introduction. This is a national effort, and all the retail stores across the country need to
Which of the following statements is true regarding brainstorming and lateral thinking?A. They are forms of expert judgment used to help define and develop requirements and develop the project scope
Which of the following makes up the project scope baseline?A. The approved project scope statement B. The approved scope management plan and WBS C. The WBS, approved project scope statement, and WBS
You are a project manager for an agricultural supply company. You have interviewed stakeholders and gathered requirements. Which of the following is true regarding the process this question refers
Which of the following is true regarding the project scope statement?A. The project scope statement includes a change control system that describes how to make changes to the project scope.B. The
Unanimity, majority, plurality, and dictatorship are four examples of which of the following techniques?A. Group creativity techniques, which is a tool and technique of the Collect Requirements
You are a project manager responsible for the construction of a new office complex. You are taking over for a project manager who recently left the company. The prior project manager completed the
Which of the following is true?A. You are a project manager for Laredo Pioneer’s Traveling Rodeo Show. You’re heading up a project to promote a new line of souvenirs to be sold at the shows.
You are a project manager for Laredo Pioneer’s Traveling Rodeo Show. You’re heading up a project to promote a new line of souvenirs to be sold at the shows. You are getting ready to write the
Which of the following is true regarding the project charter?A. The project charter should be published under the name of a manager external to the project.B. The project charter should be published
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