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551. When a majority of team members must agree before a decision is reached _____.
A. some team members may become alienated
B. future group effectiveness may become damaged.
C. the PM may lose credibility
D. the project manager will most likely have to utilize a conflict resolution technique
E. All of the above.
ANS: E
552. You are managing an internal project where a vice president from the user group is acting as the sponsor. You have just been informed by
your team that the critical path has slipped by three weeks. You should:
A. Immediately inform the sponsor and ask for advice
B. Do nothing until the slippage occurs
C. See the sponsor after you have evaluated alternatives, recommendations, and performed an impact analysis
D. Look for someone to blame before you see the sponsor
E. Inform your senior management of the problem and tell them that you will get back to them after you assessed the situation
ANS: C
553. A quality control manager decides to increase his daily sample size from three to six. The size of the control band will:
A. increase
B. decrease
C. remain unchanged
D. not determinable from given data
E. None of the above.
ANS: B
554. Obtaining team commitment depends on:
A. clear and interesting job assignments
B. consensus on project goals
C. involvement in developing task objectives
D. All of the above.
E. B and C
ANS: E
555. Risk mitigation is the process of _____ .
A. transferring risk to another party.
B. reducing uncertainty on the project
C. identifying all possible risk events
D. monitoring status and making adjustments
E. All of the above.
ANS: B
556. The "rolling wave" or "moving window" concept is used most frequently on projects where:
A. The baseline is frozen for the duration of the project and no scope changes are permitted
B. Marketing is unsure of what the customer actually wants and reserves the right to make major scope changes
C. The low levels of the work breakdown structure are known with certainty for the next three to six months, but the remaining tasks are based
upon the results of the first three to six months of work
D. Networking techniques are not appropriate
E. All of the above
ANS: C
557. The Cost Performance Index (CPI) measures
A. total costs
B. performance over a period of time
C. costs at a point of time
D. variable costs
E. All of the above.
ANS: C
558. All of the following statements about control charts are true except:
A. Control charts can be used to establish as well as maintain process control
B. control charts are used to detemine acceptance limits when no limits are stipulated by the product specification; otherwise, one should use the
limits dictated by the specification.
C. all data points outside the control chart limits are variations explained by assignable causes.
D. A and B.
E. B and C
ANS: E
559. As a control tool, the bar chart (Gantt) methods is most beneficial for:
A. rearranging conflicting tasks
B. depicting actual versus planned tasks
C. showing the outer dependencies of tasks
D. A and C.
E. A and D
ANS: B
560. Cost forecasting calculations include:
A. EAC = ACWP + (BAC - BCWP)
B. EAC = BAC/CPI
C. EAC = ACWP + (BAC/CPI)
D. All of the above.
E. A and B
ANS: E
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