Engineering management Flashcards
Management is:
An art
Engineering is:
A science
Engineers can become good
managers only through
Effective career planning
If you are an engineer
wanting to become a manager,
what will you do?
All of the above
a. Develop new talents
b. Acquire new values
c. Broaden your point of
view
When engineer enters
management, what is the most
likely problem he finds
difficult to acquire?
All of the above
Learning to trust others
b. Learning how to work
through others
c. Learning how to take
satisfaction in the work
of others
What management functions
refers to the process of
anticipating problems,
analyzing them, estimating
their likely impact and
determining actions that
will lead to the desired
outcomes and goals?
Planning
What refers to the
establishing
interrelationships between
people and things in such a
way that human and materials
resources are effectively
focused toward achieving the
goal of the company?
Organizing
What management function
involves selecting
candidates and training
personnel?
Staffing
What management function
involves orienting personnel
in the most effective way
and channeling resources?
Directing
Actual performance normally
is the same as the original
plan and therefore it is
necessary to check for
deviation and to take
corrective action. This
action refers to what
management function?
Controlling
What refers to management
function which is to
encourage others to follow
the example set for them,
with great commitment and
conviction?
Leading
What refers to a principal
function of lower management
which is to instill in the
workforce a commitment and
enthusiasm for pursuing the
goals of the organization?
Motivating
What refers to the
collection of the tolls and
techniques that are used on
a predefined set of inputs
to produce a predefined set
of outputs?
Project Management
Which is NOT an element of
project management process?
Research and development
What is the most essential
attribute of a project
manager?
Leadership
In project management, what
provides a simple yet
effective means of
monitoring and controlling a
project at each stage of its
development?
Life cycle model
What project life cycle
model is the most relevant
for information technology
project?
Waterfall model
In a project management, “R&D” stands for
Research and Development
In project management O&M
stands for:
Operation and Maintenance
A project management must
be very good in which of the
following skills?
All of the above
a. Communication skills
b. Human relationship skills
c. Leadership skills
Project integration
management involves which of
the following processes?
Quality planning
Project quality management
involves all of the
following processes except:
Quality feature
What is defined as an
organized method of
providing past, present, and
projected information on
internal operations and
external intelligence for
use in decision-making?
Management Information
System
Middle management level
undertakes what planning
activity?
Intermediate planning
Strategic planning is
undertaken in which
management level?
Top management level
What is the advantage of
free-rein style of
leadership?
Little managerial control
and high degree of risk
If you are appointed as a
division manager, your first
task is most likely to
Set goals
What is defined as the
process of planning,
organizing, and controlling
operations to reach
Operations Management
For a project manager to
achieve his given set of
goals through other people,
he must have a good
Interpersonal skills
What type of conflict do
managers encounter when
there is disagreement on
issues of territorial power
or hidden agenda?
Politics
The process of partitioning
an organization into
subunits to improve
efficiency is known as
Departmentalization
By departmentalization of
an organization, it
decentralizes __________?
all of the above
Authority
b. Responsibility
c. Accountability
What type of committee
companies or corporations
created for a short-term
purpose only?
Ad hoc committee
What refers to a
description of whether the
objectives are accomplished?
Effectiveness
to finish a certain
engineering job in 20 days.
He is said to be __________
if he finished the job
within the required period
of 20 days
Effective
If an engineer provides
less input (labor and
materials) to his project
and still come out with the
same output, he is said to
be more __________.
Efficient
To determine a qualified
applicant, the engineer
manager will subject the
applicant to a test that is
used to measure a person’s
current knowledge of a
subject?
Performance test
What type of training is a
combination of on-the-job
training and experience with
classroom instruction in
particular subject?
Apprenticeship program
What type of authority
refers to a specialist’s
right to oversee lower-level
personnel involved in the
project regardless of the
personnel’s assignment in
the organization?
Functional authority
When a consultant or
specialist gives advice to
his superior, he is using
what type of authority?
Staff authority
When structuring an
organization, the engineer
manager must be concerned
with the determining the
scope of words and how it is
combined in a job. This refers
to _______
Division of labor
When structuring an
organization, the engineer
must be concerned with the
grouping of related jobs,
activities, or processes
into major organizational
subunits. This refers to:
Departmentation
Which technique will the
manager use when evaluating
alternative using
qualitative evaluation?
Intuition and subjective
judgment
Which technique will the
manager use when evaluating
alternative using
quantitative evaluation?
Rational and analytical
techniques
What refers to the
strategic statement that
identifies why an
organization exists, its
philosophy of management,
and its purpose as
distinguished from other
similar organizations in
terms of products, services
and markets?
Corporate mission
What refers to a process of
influencing and supporting
others to work
enthusiastically toward
achieving objectives?
Leadership
What describes how to
determine the number of
service units that will
minimize both customer’s
waiting time and cost of
service?
Queuing theory
What refers to the rational
way to conceptualize,
analyze and solve problems
in situations involving
limited or partial
information about the
decision environment?
Decision theory
What is quantitative
technique where samples of
populations are
statistically determined to
be used for a number of
processes, such as quality
control and marketing
research?
Sampling theory
The engineer manager must
be concern with the needs of
his human resources. What
refers to the need of the
employees for food, drinks,
and rest?
Physiological need
What refers to the learning
that is provided in order to
improve performance on the
present job?
Training
What technique is best
suited for projects that
contain many repetitions of
some standard activities?
. Benchmark job technique
What organizational
structure is based on the
assumption that each unit
should specialize in a
specific functional area and
perform all of the tasks
that require its expertise?
Functional organization
. What type of organization
structure in which each
project is assigned to a
single organizational unit
and the various functions
are performed by personnel
within the unit?
Product organization
What organizational
structure provides a sound
basis for balancing the use
of human resources and
skills?
Matrix organization
In which type of
organization where the
structure can lead to a
“dual boss” phenomenon?
Matrix organization
Which one is an advantage
of a matrix organization?
Rapid reaction
organization
Which one is a disadvantage
of a matrix organization?
Inefficient use of
specialist
Which one is an advantage
projectized organization?
Efficient use of
technical personnel
Which one is a disadvantage
of a projectized
organization?
Slower workflow
Which one is an advantage
of a functional
organization?
Rapid reaction time
possible
Which one is disadvantage
of a functional
organization?
Inefficient use of
specialist
In what type of
organization where a project
manager is held responsible
for completion of the
project and is often
assigned a budget?
Matrix organization
In selecting an
organizational structure,
which of the following is
not a criterion?
Location
What is NOT a factor to be
taken into consideration
when selecting an
organizational structure for
managing projects?
Location of the project
If a project have
multidimensional goals, the
project manager often use
his __________ to reach a
compromise solution.
Tradeoff analysis skill
Who is responsible for
ensuring that the project is
completed successfully as
measured by time, cost,
performance and stakeholder
satisfaction?
Project manager
Who is responsible for
running a department so that
all his customers are served
efficiently and effectively?
Sales manager
What is the major activity
of the project support
office?
Administrative support
for projects
What is the major activity
of the project office
Overall project
management support
What is an important tool
for the design and
implementation of the
project’s work content?
Linear responsibility
chart
What chart summarizes the
relationships between
project stakeholders and
their responsibilities in
each project element?
All of the above
Linear responsibility
chart
b. Matrix responsibility
chart
c. Responsibility interface
matrix
What network model enables
engineer managers to
schedule, monitor, and
control large and complex
projects by using only one
time factor per activity?
Critical path method
What network model enables
engineer managers to
schedule, monitor, and
control large and complex
projects by employing three
time estimate for each
activity?
Program evaluation review
technique
For a project manager to
have an effective means of
identifying and
communicating the planned
activities and their
interrelationships, he must
use a network technique. One
of the network techniques is
commonly known as CPM. What
does CPM stands for?
Critical Path method
For a project manager to
have an efficient means of
identifying and
communicating the planned
activities and their
interrelationships, he must
use a network technique. One
of the network techniques is
commonly known as PERT. What
does Pert stands for?
Program evaluation review
technique
What is the benefit of
using PERT/CPM network as
integral component of
project management?
All of the above
They furnish a consistent
framework for planning,
scheduling, monitoring
and controlling project.
b. They illustrate the
inter-dependencies of all
tasks
c. They can be used to
estimate the expected
project completion dares
as well as the
probability that the
project will be completed
by a specific date
The CPM was developed by
Rand and Walker in what
year?
1957
.In what year was PERT
developed?
1958
In Morris life cycle model,
a project is divided into
how many stages to be
performed in sequence?
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