Manage Schedule and Manage Quality 3 Flashcards
You are the Project Manager on a software upgrade project. Activity A (3 days) and activity B (4 days) can start immediately. Activity C (2 days) can start after A and B are complete. Activity D (5 days) can begin after activity B is complete. Activity E (6 days) can begin after activity B is complete. Activity F (4 days) can begin after activities C and D are complete. Activity G (5 days) can begin after activities D and E are complete. Activity H (4 days) can begin after activities F and G are complete. What is the slack of Activity D?
A. Two days
B. One day
C. Four days
D. Not enough information
Answer: B
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The longest path with Activity D on it is path B-D-G-H with a duration of 18 days. The critical path of B-E-G-H is 19 days. Subtracting the length of B-D-G-H from the critical path shows a difference of one day. This is the slack of Activity D.
Pareto Diagrams would be used to display which of the following?
A. The number of defects stemming from various causes
B. The number of data points falling outside the control limits
C. The relationship between two variables
D. The number of standard deviations away from the mean of 20% of the defects
Answer: A
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Pareto Diagrams are histograms showing the number of defects being caused by various factors, and therefore illustrate the 80/20 rule which states that, generally speaking, 80% of the defects stem from 20% of the causes.
Your project is falling behind the original schedule, and you have a hard deadline you must meet for your project completion. Management has recommended that you fast-track the project. You agree with management but warn them that fast-tracking could result in which of the following?
A. Increased costs due to additional resources being utilized
B. Increased risk
C. A reduction in scope
D. Increased use of procurements
Answer: B
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Fast-tracking causes increased risk and could result in re-work since you are performing what would otherwise be sequential activities in parallel.
You are analyzing your project schedule and realize you have failed to include quality assurance activities. You know quality assurance is an important component of project management, and you want to make sure there are appropriate tasks inserted into the schedule. You decide that you will work with your stakeholders to define and schedule these activities. At which point(s) in the project should these activities be conducted?
A. At the starting of the planning phase
B. At regular intervals throughout the project life cycle
C. In the executing phase
D. Upon closure of the project
Answer: B
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Quality assurance activities should be performed throughout the project life cycle.
You are the project manager for a large technology company. It is critical that you are first to market with an innovative technology your project will create. The customer has requested a three-week delay on the project, which was not planned. The company has limited resources available. You want to demonstrate the impact of this delay on management. Where would this delay best be shown?
A. Schedule baseline
B. Change request
C. Schedule data
D. Project calendar
Answer: C
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The best answer is C, Schedule Data would include an alternate schedule. Option A is wrong because the schedule baseline would only include the currently approved version of the schedule, but it would not include the alternate schedule yet. Technically B is also correct, but C is more correct because the change request would not be the best way to show the impact of the change to management. An alternate version of the schedule in the form of schedule data would be the best way to show it.
You are meeting with your team to plan the work that needs to be done. You are trying to determine the number of iterations that will be needed for this release, the features each iteration will contain and the target date for each release. What you performing?
A. Developing the schedule
B. Rolling Wave Planning
C. Agile Release Planning
D. Sprint Planning
Answer: C
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This is the describing Agile Release Planning where, you are determining how many sprints are needed, the features for each sprint and the approximate target date for the release. There is no real schedule in Agile so this is not Develop Schedule. Although you will be using Rolling Wave throughout the project, Rolling wave is a type of progressive elaboration. Sprint Planning will be done at the beginning of each sprint (not beginning of a release). PMI Authorized PMP Exam Prep Student Guide/ Page 98
Manage Quality is also sometimes called Quality Assurance. However, in QA, the focus is on the processes used in the project. That is also true of Manage Quality except that it is also concerned with:
A. Product design aspects; process improvements
B. Quality control measurements; verified deliverables
C. Correctness of deliverables
D. Documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance
Answer: A
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Manage Quality includes all of the quality assurance activities focused on using project processes effectively to ensure the final product meets stakeholder needs, expectations, and requirements. It also addresses product design aspects and process improvements. Answer choice selections. B and C are related to the Control Quality process, and D is a function of the Plan Quality Management process.
The team is in the process of analyzing quality activities and performing quality audits to determine which processes should be utilized to meet the project quality requirements. Which process is the team performing?
A. Plan Quality Management
B. Control Quality
C. Manage Quality
D. Validate Scope
Answer: C
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The Plan Quality Management process is concerned with targeting quality standards that are relevant to the project and devising a plan to meet those standards. Control Quality is specifically concerned with monitoring work results to determine compliance with established standards. The Validate Scope process is used to formally accept completed deliverables. The Manage Quality process describes what is being asked in the question.
The __ __ __process is concerned with targeting quality standards that are relevant to the project and devising a plan to meet those standards.
The Plan Quality Management process is concerned with targeting quality standards that are relevant to the project and devising a plan to meet those standards.
__ __ is specifically concerned with monitoring work results to determine compliance with established standards
Control Quality is specifically concerned with monitoring work results to determine compliance with established standards
The __ __process is used to formally accept completed deliverables.
The Validate Scope process is used to formally accept completed deliverables.
The __ __ process describes what is being asked in the question.
The Manage Quality process describes what is being asked in the question.
During a schedule update, you find that the project would require 45, 25, and 34 resources respectively during the next three months. The functional manager confirms that 45 additional resources cannot be made available during the first month without impacting other ongoing projects, and your project is a lower priority. Which of the following should you adopt?
A. Reverse resource allocation
B. Crashing
C. Fast tracking
D. Resource leveling
Answer: D
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You should use resource leveling, which is the technique used to smooth out resource usage on a project. In this case you might want to use an even 35 resources for all 3 months. With resource leveling you might have to let the schedule slip as a trade-off. Crashing and fast tracking are schedule compression techniques. Reverse resource allocation is not a real term.
Major outputs of Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Resources and Estimate Activity Durations become inputs to:
A. Develop project charter
B. Create WBS
C. Develop schedule
D. Define scope
Answer: C
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This question is describing the process outputs that feed into the Develop Schedule process, and thus the correct answer is C. Answers B and D refer to scope. Answer A refers to the project charter, which happens during the Initiating process group.
Which of the following is the best example of benchmarking?
A. Calculating the return on investment of purchasing a new piece of equipment
B. Determining the scope of work and measuring to ensure the scope is met
C. Performing a root cause analysis on the quality problems that have occurred on the project
D. Reading project management journals each month and looking for past projects to help determine quality measures for future projects
Answer: D
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Benchmarking involves comparing actual or planned project practices to those of comparable projects to identify best practices, generate ideas for improvement and provide a basis for measuring performance.
You just received word that, because of bad weather, your shipment containing key raw materials has been delayed by two weeks. Your project is on a very tight schedule and you know that the project completion date cannot be moved back. What should be the first step you take in dealing with this situation?
A. Fast track the project to ensure that the project schedule is not delayed
B. Review the work performance information to determine which activities’ planned completion dates have not been met, and analyze the impact of the delays on the critical path activities
C. Try to get additional supplies from an alternate location as soon as possible, and request an increase in the project budget to cover additional costs incurred in doing so
D. Re-organize the activity dependencies to ensure the activities being affected do not fall along the critical path
Answer: B
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Work performance information provides information on schedule performance, such as which activities’ planned completion dates have been met and which have not. Since work performance reports are used to track project execution, they should be consulted first when there is a delay in the project to determine the potential impact of the delay to the overall project schedule. It is important to know whether the activities being affected fall along the critical path, for if they do, you cannot allow them to be delayed. If they do not, it may be that you have sufficient float (slack time) to deal with the delay.
__ __ __provides information on schedule performance, such as which activities’ planned completion dates have been met and which have not.
Work performance information provides information on schedule performance, such as which activities’ planned completion dates have been met and which have not.
The late start of the successor activity is 12 and the early start of the predecessor activity is 2. The duration for this activity is 8. What is the late start of this activity?
A. 4
B. 10
C. 6
D. 14
Answer: A
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Use backward pass to calculate the late start (Successor Activity Late Start - Duration of Current Activity = Late Start of Current Activity). Therefore 12 - 8 = 4.
The project team is using a white board with post-it notes showing the activities being worked on for the near term activities only. What is being used?
A. Lean Six Sigma
B. CMMI
C. Status board
D. KanBan
KanBan
__ is a method for managing knowledge work with an emphasis on just-in-time (JIT) delivery (current work) while not overloading the team members (all of the work), using visual components such as white boards.
KanBan
__ __ __is a methodology to improve results by eliminating the seven kinds of waste.
Lean Six Sigma is a methodology to improve results by eliminating the seven kinds of waste.
__ is a process improvement framework to help organizations build capability in their people and processes, with five maturity levels.
CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) is a process improvement framework to help organizations build capability in their people and processes, with five maturity levels.
Your organization uses a flow-based agile project methodology. In this environment whose responsibility is it to coordinate between agile teams by communicating between projects, help manage customer releases at the program level, and investment themes at the portfolio level?
A. The cross-functional team members
B. The product owner
C. The project manager
D. The project management office
Answer: D
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The role of the PMO in the agile environment is very similar to any other methodology. Read more in the Agile Practice Guide pp. 81-82.
You are managing a project that is under budget and behind schedule. You have plenty of slack in non-critical path activities and you feel it’s too risky to make changes to dependencies. Which of the following is your best option to get the project back on schedule?
A. Crashing
B. Fast-tracking
C. Resource leveling
D. Critical chain method
Answer: A
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Your best option given the circumstances is to crash the project. With crashing, you will add resources to critical path activities, thus exchanging potentially higher costs for faster delivery. You should know that fast-tracking is not an option here because you are told it’s too risky to change dependencies and that’s exactly what fast tracking does (working on activities in parallel). Resource leveling attempts to smooth out resources, primarily to prevent people from being overworked, and often will result in longer schedule duration.
The company quality manager is part of your project management team. Since you are responsible for quality but are not an expert in this area, you want to understand his thoughts on quality management better. He explains to you there are five increasing levels of effective quality management, the highest of which is what?
A. Create a culture aware and committed to quality in processes and products
B. Incorporate quality into planning and design
C. Use quality assurance to examine and correct the process itself
D. Detect and correct defects before deliverables are sent to customer
Answer: A
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While all the choices are valid, creating a quality culture is the most effective quality management.
You have worked hard to establish a schedule baseline, and had calculated the critical path; however, you have been informed that actual duration information has been made available and now you want to update the schedule and determine if the critical path has changed. Activity A is 5 days, and happens before Activities B (2 days) and E (6 days). Activity C is a successor to E and B and is 1 day long. Finally, activity D, dependent on C and A will complete after 8 days. You have updated your schedule accordingly. After this schedule update, the total float is computed to be less then zero. What does this mean?
A. The project will likely complete late
B. The project will likely complete early
C. The critical path work is ahead of schedule but the other work is behind schedule
D. The most recently completed task took less time than planned
Answer: A
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Negative float tells you that the project is behind schedule, and the project will be late unless you can get caught up.
You are collecting measurements according to the quality management plan, but each instrument yields different results which make it hard to determine the validity of data collected. All measurements must be exactly 15 parsecs. Your current measurements are 5, 25, 12, 48 parsecs. What best describes this situation?
A. Your project is precise, and is accurate
B. Your project is accurate, but lacks precision
C. Your project lacks precision and this must be fixed in order to become accurate
D. The calibration of your instruments are off and you must calibrate each one
Answer: C
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Your focus should be on the lack of precision. Precision means that all the measurements are very similar to one another. In other words, how close are the measurements to each other? Accuracy means the measured value is very close to the true value (think accuracy as the bullseye). None of the measurements are accurate, so answers A & B are incorrect. Nothing in the question gives an indication the calibration of the instruments is out of whack. The measurements given could be from operator error. This makes answer D less appealing than answer C.
You are using a Statistical Process Chart and you see that almost all of the values are falling outside of the Control Limits and many are falling outside of the Spec Limits. What would be the initial best course of action in this situation?
A. This should correct itself over time as more data is gathered so you just need to monitor; no need to take action at this time
B. Re-analyze the Upper and Lower Control and Spec Limits
C. Make changes to the product so they fall within these limits even if that means a change in scope
D. Look for 7 consecutive data points above or below the mean then identify the defect
Answer: B
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The initial calculations to estimate the limits may have been incorrect, so you should check the estimates and re-analyze the Upper Control Limit, Lower Control Limit, Upper Spec Limit and Lower Spec Limit.
You are leading a software development project using agile methodology for a significant client. Previous projects with this client have been delayed, so it is critical that this project is on time. OPAs indicate that you are to monitor and report on schedule progress weekly. What are the work performance information metrics that are used for controlling the schedule??
A. SV= (EV - PV) and SPI = (EV / PV)
B. SV= (EV - AC) and SPI = (EV / AC)
C. SV= (EV - BAC) and SPI = (EV / AC)
D. SV= (PV - EV) and SPI = (PV/ EV)
Answer: A
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Schedule variance is (EV - PV) and schedule performance index is (EV/ PV).
You are a project manager on a large international project with multiple sponsors. It is a sensitive project with no room for error and your organization makes quality a top priority. Which of the following best describes the purpose of Plan Quality Management?
A. Performing cost benefit analysis as it pertains to quality
B. Determining applicable quality standards and processes to satisfy the quality requirements
C. Measuring quality standards and comparing them to your firm’s Organization Process Assets
D. Deriving a quality policy
Answer: B
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The Quality Planning process involves identifying quality standards relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
Quality touches every part of the project and is not just limited to the Quality Management area. There are two outputs of Quality that are used by other Knowledge Areas such as Validate Scope and Close Project or Phase. Those two outputs are:
A. Verified deliverables; quality metrics
B. Quality reports; verified deliverables
C. Quality control measurements; quality reports
D. Quality metrics, quality reports
Answer: B
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Quality reports are used in closing projects as well as while monitoring and controlling project work. And both quality reports and verified deliverables are used as input to Validate Scope. The other choices are viable, but they are not called out specifically by PMBOK Guide.
When managing a project throughout different locations in the United States, which of the following would least likely be used to improve quality and enhance performance?
A. IEEE
B. BS
C. CMMI
D. ISO
Answer: B
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IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers with standards and information. CMMI is the Capability Maturity Model Integration as a process improvement framework. ISO is the International Organization for Standardization with standards across multiple industries focusing on quality, safety, and efficiency. BS is the British Standard is United Kingdom’s version/extension of ISO which is used more in the United Kingdom and Europe areas. Since this project in the United States, B would least likely be used.
Your project has the following schedule network paths: A-D-F-H, B-D-F-H, C-E-F-H, and C-E-G-H. Tasks have the following durations: A=10, B=8, C=6, D=4, E=12, F=6, G=3, H=4. What is the duration of the critical path?
A. 22
B. 24
C. 25
D. 28
Answer: D
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The critical path is the chain of activities with the longest combined duration. In this case it is path C-E-F-H, with a duration of 28 days.
A project deliverable on a the critical path is lagging behind schedule. The cost performance index (CPI) is 1.3. The project manager is able to put the project back on schedule. What happens to the project?
A. There will be activities performed in parallel.
B. There will be a revised scope.
C. There will be an increase in costs and risks.
D. There will be rework.
Answer: C
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Crashing a project will increase both costs and risks. PMBOK Guide Sixth Edition (2017) PMI/PMI/6.5.2.6/253
You are the project manager for a large biotech company. Your sponsor is very concerned with project quality. She brings up the topic of Cost of Quality. Which of the following is not included in a cost of quality calculation?
A. Team member’s time spent finding and repairing defects
B. Quality managers’ time spent writing quality standards
C. Project managers’ time spent creating the project management plan
D. Team members’ time spent reviewing specifications, plans and other documents
Answer: C
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Cost of quality includes all of the costs incurred for activities relating to prevention, inspection, re-work, scrap and other costs associated with quality failures.
Your organization uses a project methodology variant of the Critical Path Method for all projects within your department. You have been asked to run a project in support of operation for a different department. You have realized that this project is very different; unlike other projects, the requirements are unknown and will have to be discovered as you make iterations of the project deliverables tailored to your customer’s needs. You have realized that the normal critical path method will not work in this environment, and you are looking for a different scheduling tool that will explain to your key stakeholders the status of the work. What tool would be more appropriate in this project environment?
A. Critical Chain
B. Free Float Gantt Charts
C. Product box exercise
D. Feature Burndown/Burnup Charts
Answer: D
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Feature Burnup or Burndown Charts are useful in the agile environment to illustrate the amount of completed work. These charts can be used to show trends in work completed per sprint. The Product Box exercise is used to describe an agile product’s vision. The team attempts to describe the product attributes as if they were designing a cereal box product slogan, ingredients, benefits, etc. Read more in the Agile Practice Guide p. 67 or in the PMBOK Guide pg. 226.
__ __ or __ __ are useful in the agile environment to illustrate the amount of completed work. These charts can be used to show trends in work completed per sprint.
Feature Burnup or Burndown Charts are useful in the agile environment to illustrate the amount of completed work. These charts can be used to show trends in work completed per sprint.
The __ __exercise is used to describe an agile product’s vision.
The Product Box exercise is used to describe an agile product’s vision.
Your project sponsor has approached you to discuss some quality concerns she is having regarding the stability of a process for a new manufacturing project you are managing. Which of the following would be the best tool to provide the information she requires?
A. Milestone chart
B. Run chart
C. Fishbone diagram
D. Control chart
Answer: D
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Control Charts are used to determine whether or not a process is stable or has predictable performance. Milestone charts show planned or actual occurrence of major events in a project. Fishbone diagrams are used to identify causes leading to negative outcomes. Run charts show quality results over time.
__ __are used to identify causes leading to negative outcomes. Run charts show quality results over time.
Fishbone diagrams are used to identify causes leading to negative outcomes. Run charts show quality results over time.
Apart from smoothing out the allocation of resources, what would resource leveling generally lead to?
A. Increased resource requirements during certain time periods
B. Fast-tracking
C. Crashing
D. A longer project duration
Answer: D
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Resource leveling is applied to allocate scarce resources to critical path activities first, but this often results in a project duration that is longer than originally planned.
You are a project manager working on a high visibility construction project. Although you have had some weather delays and some of your material expenses were larger than planned, you think you are doing okay. You are going to take some work performance information for your current project. You know that PV = 450, AC = 500 and EV = 375. What is the CPI and SPI, respectively?
A. CPI = .90, and SPI = 1.2.
B. CPI= .75, and SPI = .83.
C. CPI = 1.2, and SPI = .90.
D. CPI = .83, and SPI = .75
Answer: B
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CPI is calculated as follows: EV/ AC. SPI is calculated as follows: EV/PV. Therefore, CPI is 375/500 = .75, and SPI is 375/450 = .83.
You are building a spacecraft that will require some rework to some of the components. You are working to make sure that the correct processes are followed and that the deliverables are being tested in the right ways. You will also prepare a lessons learned document as part of the output to this process. In which of the following processes are you engaged?
A. Manage Quality
B. Validate Scope
C. Control Quality
D. Manage Project Team
Answer: A
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A) Manage Quality involves making sure that the correct processes are followed and the methods used for performing control quality are yielding reliable results. The initial sentence is a red herring. B) Scope Validation involves obtaining acceptance of the deliverable. C) Control Quality involves checking the deliverables to ensure compliance with the required quality specifications of the project. D) Manage Project Team involves managing team members.
__ __ involves making sure that the correct processes are followed and the methods used for performing control quality are yielding reliable results.
Manage Quality involves making sure that the correct processes are followed and the methods used for performing control quality are yielding reliable results.
__ __involves obtaining acceptance of the deliverable
Scope Validation involves obtaining acceptance of the deliverable
__ __involves checking the deliverables to ensure compliance with the required quality specifications of the project.
Control Quality involves checking the deliverables to ensure compliance with the required quality specifications of the project
__ __Team involves managing team members.
Manage Project Team involves managing team members.
You are the project manager for a large advertising company. You are managing a new collateral project for a high visibility client. Your project has a firm finish date and several tasks on the critical path seem like they will be delayed. Which of the following is likely to show up as the project progresses?
A. Additional lags
B. Negative floats
C. Increase in convergences
D. Resource leveling
Answer: B
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Since many tasks seem to be delayed, it is likely that some of your tasks will end up with negative floats, which tells you that your project is behind schedule and that you must make up that time in order to complete the project on schedule.
You are the project manager for a large consulting company. You want to ensure that your project is properly funded. You are discussing your funding requirements with your sponsor. She is very focused on having a quality deliverable. You simply can not produce a faulty product. Which of the following costs of quality is not a cost of non-conformance?
A. Replacement costs
B. Inspection costs
C. Rework costs
D. Scrap costs
Answer: B
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Inspection is the cost of ensuring quality or conformance, which is money spent to avoid failures. Examples of the costs of non-conformance (money spent because of failures) are replacement, rework, and scrap.
You are the project manager for a Fortune 200 company who is responsible for a project with the potential to increase profit margins by 47%. Your project has a CPI of 2.43 and a SPI of 1.89. A major deliverable has just been completed and as the project manager, what is your next step?
A. Conduct a phase gate, validate scope and receive sign-off from the customer
B. Conduct an audit of the process and follow the project management plan for how to proceed after the results are consolidated
C. Verify the deliverable meets all requirements according to project requirements
D. Review OPAs and EEFs to ensure the deliverable is in compliance with customer requirements
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Once a deliverable has been completed, the project manager should ensure the deliverable is checked for correctness via the control quality process. Conducting a phase gate was not implied in the question. Conducting an audit of the process does nothing to ensure our deliverable was completed correctly. Conducting a review of OPAs and EEFs is counter-productive because they were already used to create the Quality Management Plan which informs us how to control quality.
__ __ __ is a tool and technique for Manage Quality, not Control Quality.
Design for X is a tool and technique for Manage Quality, not Control Quality.
You are the project manager for a local zoo. You have just been awarded a contract to have a rare breed of lion at your zoo. This lion will require its own area and you are managing the project to create the new area for this endangered species. You want to ensure the structure you create is error-free since it will house this rare animal. Your team is primarily contract labor and you do not have an existing relationship with the service provider. Which of the following is not a tool and technique of Control Quality?
A. Design for X
B. Data representation
C. Inspection
D. Meetings
Answer: A
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Design for X is a tool and technique for Manage Quality, not Control Quality.
A project manager is concerned about significant rework costs due to rejection of deliverables following the pre-delivery inspection. What should the project manager do?
A. Change the sampling method.
B. Review quality standards identified in the planning process.
C. Review the requirements management plan for a clear understanding of the scope statement.
D. Identify the source by conducting a root cause analysis.
Answer: D
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Any improvements to quality should address the root cause of the problem. The question illustrates how quality control activities feed into the quality assurance process when it comes to making improvements.
You are an experienced project manager who has just been hired as a consultant for a high-profile project. You are replacing the previous project manager who left unexpectedly. You are in the beginning stages of the project and just met with the project sponsor. While meeting with the sponsor you reviewed a document which has the high-level project description and product characteristics, project approval requirements, measurable project objectives, and related success criteria. With this information what would be a next step?
A. Use this information to create a project charter
B. Use this information to validate the business case
C. Use this information create the activities list
D. Use this information to create your Quality Management Plan
Answer: D
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High-level project description and product characteristics, project approval requirements, measurable project objectives, and related success criteria are all part of the Project Charter. The project charter is an input to Plan Quality Management. The question indicates you are replacing an existing project manager, so the charter and business case have already been developed; this makes Choices A and B incorrect. This project is in the early stages and nothing in the question indicates you have a scope statement or a WBS, which is needed to create an activities list, so Choice D is correct.
While planning a construction project it became apparent to you that a particular structure for a particular room was going to be too big to fit through the doorway. You decide that the best approach would be to start installing this fixture during the installation of the frames for the drywall and doorway but before the door frame is fully complete. That way the fixture could be moved into the room easily. This relationship is an example of:
A. Finish to Start
B. Start to Start
C. Finish to Finish
D. Start to Finish
Answer: D
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You must START the installation of the fixture BEFORE the door frame can FINISH otherwise the fixture will not fit through the door.
You are the Team Facilitator; your team has prioritized the user stories for the current sprint and have identified all the tasks needed to meet the deliverable. The tasks have been broken down into approximately equal amounts and the dependency relationships between the tasks are fairly simple. What would be the best approach for team members to complete the tasks on time in this situation?
A. Delegate equal number of tasks to team members.
B. Delegate tasks to team members on a rolling basis.
C. Perform the shortest tasks first.
D. On-Demand Scheduling
Answer: D
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On-Demand Scheduling is where the team members pull work from a queue, and this works best when tasks are approximately of the same size and there are no complex dependencies. Since this is an Agile project, you do not delegate tasks to team members as agile teams are self-organizing. Since the tasks are approximately of the same size, there should be no shortest or longest tasks.
__-__ __ is where the team members pull work from a queue, and this works best when tasks are approximately of the same size and there are no complex dependencies
On-Demand Scheduling is where the team members pull work from a queue, and this works best when tasks are approximately of the same size and there are no complex dependencies
You are in the process of executing your project and need to know when it will be completed. You have the following activity durations on your project: A=8, B=14, C=6, D=6, E=12, F=6. You also know that D is dependent on A and B. Task F is a successor of D and E. Task C is a predecessor of task E. Based on this information what is the critical path and what is the float of task A?
A. Critical path is BDF and the float of task A is 6
B. Critical path is ADF and the float of task A is 0
C. Critical path is CEF and the float of task A is 0
D. Critical path is BDF and the float of task A is 2
Answer: A
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For this question you need to draw out the schedule network diagram based on the information provided. You would have the following paths: A to D, B to D, C to E, D to F and E to F. You would then need to use the durations provided to do a forward and backwards path analysis. The end result is that the critical path is BDF and the float of task A is 6.
Which of the following best describes control charts?
A. Graphic displays of process data over time, shown relative to established control limits
B. Graphic tools used to uncover the source of variations
C. Tools used to document the relationship between 2 variables
D. Assist the client in validating the scope of our deliverables
Answer: A
Process - Task 7 - Manage Quality
Control charts are a graphical display of process data over time and showed against established control limits. Control charts show defects, but inspection actually detects them
__ __ are a graphical display of process data over time and showed against established control limits. __ __ show defects, but inspection actually detects them.
Control charts are a graphical display of process data over time and showed against established control limits. Control charts show defects, but inspection actually detects them.
