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511. Achieving effective upward communications in an organization requires that the sender consider which of the following:
A. entropy
B. position
C. the medium
D. A and B.
E. All of the above.
ANS: E
512. Configuration (baseline) control monitors performance against the
A. scope baseline
B. original schedule
C. original budget
D. All of the above.
E. None of the above.
ANS: A
513. Japanese resource management models exhibit.
A. a cooperative spirit of goal settings
B. non-specialized career paths
C. frequent changes on team assignments
D. A and B.
E. All of the above.
ANS: E
514. Life Cycle Costing:
A. is the concept of including all costs within the total life of a project.
B. is an activity devoted to optimizing cost/performance
C. is an activity of appraising the cost and technical performance of a completed project.
D. is a process of predicting the life of a project.
E. None of the above.
ANS: A
515. Risk management requires an understanding that _____ .
A. the degree of greatest uncertainty occurs in the Conceptual Phase of the Life Cycle.
B. risk identification must be directly aligned with the Work Breakdown Structure.
C. it is merely advanced preparation for possible adverse future events.
D. it does not imply complete control of events
E. All of the above.
ANS: E
516. The centerline of a standard "Shewhart' control chart represents:
A. the process target
B. the nominal dimension specified by the customer
C. the nominal dimension specified by the designer
D. the true process average or mean
E. the process sample average or mean
ANS: E
517. The critical path is calculated by
A. subtracting the end date of task one from the start date of task two.
B. determining which tasks have the least amount of total slack.
C. totaling the time for all activities.
D. determining the shortest path through the network.
E. Determining which tasks have the most slack
ANS: B
518. Delegation may
A. defer the decision on type of approach to be used.
B. be interpreted as passive and uncaring
C. tend to emphasize the task over the people involved.
D. be frequently utilized by a project manager.
E. All of the above.
ANS: E
519. Final risk quantification considers total risk impacts and _____ .
A. translates the impacts into economic terms for analysis.
B. concentrates on schedule impacts
C. may not consider safety and environmental impacts
D. A and B
E. A and C
ANS: E
520. Managerial Reserves are:
A. allowances to account for price changes that can occur over the life of a project.
B. incentive fees paid to managers for good performance.
C. funds used to offset poor cost or schedule estimates.
D. accounts to allocate and maintain funds for contingency programs
E. All of the above.
ANS: D
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