gyu and hard mcps before midterm Flashcards
A major limitation of using Gantt charts for project management is that they do not:
a. Indicate all the major activities involved.
b. Indicate the closeout phase.
c. Show the timing of activities.
d. Show relationships among activities.
d. Show relationships among activities.
Project execution refers to the decision project managers sometimes have to make to cancel a project.
a. True
b. False
b. False
Which of the following is not likely to apply to team members from within an organization assigned to work on a project?
a. Be “on loan” from their regular jobs.
b. Only be involved for part of the time to complete the project.
c. Have only part-time responsibilities for the project.
d. No longer work for the organization once the project is completed.
d. No longer work for the organization once the project is completed.
he primary information that all Gantt charts document is:
a. Project activities and timing (duration and start/end points)
b. Project budgets and staffing for each activity
c. Three estimates of activity duration times (optimistic, most likely and pessimistic)
d. Project budgets and breakdown of activities
a. Project activities and timing (duration and start/end points)
Rolling wave planning is a technique for developing a project’s:
a. Total costs
b. Work breakdown structure
c. Critical path
d. Total amount of slack
b. Work breakdown structure
Controlling projects based on earned value analysis, a project experiencing a cost overrun would have a _______ cost variance equal to the actual costs minus ____________.
a. Positive; budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP)
b. Negative; budgeted cost of work scheduled (BCWS)
c. Positive; budgeted cost of work scheduled (BCWS)
d. Negative; budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP)
a. Positive; budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP)
In project management applications, clustering several “instruments” (e.g. summary reports) to provide executives with several high-level overviews of a project is referred to as:
a. windows
b. Pop-ups
c. dashboards
d. homepages
c. dashboards
Two examples of commercially available project management software are:
a. Microsoft Project and Deltek Enterprise Project Management (EPM)
b. Microsoft Project and PERT / CPM
c. Microsoft Excel and Deltek Enterprise Project Management (EPM)
d. Microsoft Excel and PERT / CPM
a. Microsoft Project and Deltek Enterprise Project Management (EPM)
Within operations, achieving the intended goals of quality and responsiveness refers to operational _____________.
a.
effectiveness
b.
processes
c.
efficiency
d.
systems
a.
effectiveness
An example of a quantitative approach to operations decision making would be;
Select one:
a.
Linear programming
b.
Trade-off analysis
c.
Establishing priorities
d.
Ethics
a.
Linear programming
Which of the following would not be considered a responsibility of operations managers?
Select one:
a.
Inventory control
b.
Scheduling a workforce
c.
Securing financing for a new production facility
d.
Selecting process technology
c.
Securing financing for a new production facility
What decision area of operations concerns the best arrangements for departments, machines and equipment in terms of workflow?
Select one:
a.
Layout
b.
Location
c.
Process design
d.
Product design
a.
Layout
For an airline company, deciding on the number of planes to acquire and where to use the planes involves what aspect of operations?
Select one:
a.
Capacity planning
b.
Scheduling
c.
Location of facilities
d.
Assuring service quality
a.
Capacity planning
Which decision area involves system design that has strategic, long term implications for operations?
Select one:
a.
Aggregate planning
b.
Capacity
c.
Inventory management
d.
Material requirements planning
b.
Capacity
Of the following, which is not considered to be one of the decision areas or characteristics of system design decisions?
Select one:
a.
Tactical control
b.
Long term
c.
Product design
d.
Strategic
a.
Tactical control
