PM cards 14th 20

Question 1

Changes to project scope always require changes to the __________.

Answer 1

project schedule

Question 2

___________ monitors the project deliverables against the project requirements and the quality baseline to ensure that the project is delivering according to plan.

Answer 2

Quality control

Question 3

Quality Control monitors the project ___________ against the project ____________ and the quality baseline to ensure that the project is delivering according to plan.

Answer 3

deliverables, requirements

Question 4

___________ monitors the expenses on the project and assures costs stay in alignment with the performance baseline.

Answer 4

Cost control

Question 5

What is quality control?

Answer 5

The process of reviewing project results and determining whether they comply with the standards documented in the quality management plan and making any appropriate changes to remove the causes of unacceptable quality when the standards are not met.

Question 6

What is inspection?

Answer 6

a Quality Control tool that involves examining, measuring, or testing work results to determine whether they conform to the quality standards and plan.

Question 7

Some of the costs associated with inspection include ?

Answer 7

rework, labor costs, material costs, and potential loss of customers.

Question 8

What are tolerable results?

Answer 8

When measurements fall within a specified range during quality control inspection.

Question 9

What is attribute sampling?

Answer 9

A quality control inspection technique which determines whether the results are conforming or nonconforming to the requirements.

Question 10

What is prevention in regard to quality control?

Answer 10

Prevention keeps errors from reaching the customers or from occurring in the first place.

Question 11

What is a Pareto diagram?

Answer 11

It is used to rank the importance of a problem based on its frequency of occurrence over time.

Question 12

What type of histogram displays the relative importance of defects?

Answer 12

Pareto diagram

Question 13

What is a histogram?

Answer 13

Abar chart that depicts variables on the horizontal and vertical axes.

Question 14

What are control charts?

Answer 14

Masure and display the variance of several samples of the same process over time.

Question 15

What type of technique is commonly used in quality control testing of manufacturing?

Answer 15

Control Chart

Question 16

A _______________ is based on a mean, an upper control limit, and a lower control limit.

Answer 16

control chart

Question 17

The upper control limit of a control chart is the point beyond which ___________.

Answer 17

preventing additional defects becomes cost-prohibitive.

Question 18

The lower level of a control chart is the limit at which the customer or end user will _____________

Answer 18

reject the product because of the defects.

Question 19

What is statistical sampling?

Answer 19

you gather a subset of all the applicable work results and randomly select a small number for testing or examination. The results for this subset represent the whole.

Question 20

What is trend analysis?

Answer 20

a mathematical technique that can be used to predict future defects based on historical results.

Question 21

What are run charts?

Answer 21

Used to show variations in the process over time or to show trends (such as improvements or the lack of improvements) in the process.

Question 22

What is an Ishikawa Diagram?

Answer 22

It shows the relationship between the effects of problems and their causes.

Question 23

An Ishikawa Diagram is also known as ?

Answer 23

A cause-and-effect diagram or a fishbone diagram.

Question 24

What are the most common actions taken as a result of quality activities?

Answer 24

Rework, Process Adjustments, and Acceptance