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491. According to labor law, which of the following management actions are prohibited during a union organizing drive?
A. Forbidding employees from distributing union literature in working areas
B. Implementing previously scheduled pay raises
C. Forbidding unions from soliciting workers during working hours
D. Circulating anti-union petitions
E. All of the above
ANS: D
492. All of the following statements define the role of a meeting chairperson except:
A. Initiates and concludes discussion
B. Controls irrelevant discussion
C. Resolves strong disagreements
D. Produces meeting agenda
E. Consolidates agreements.
ANS: D
493. Attributes quality data are:
A. quantitative or qualitative data
B. quality data for which the products or services is designed and built.
C. reflect measurements on a continuous scale of a characteristic of the product or service
D. indicate management's understanding of the concept of variability
E. A and B only
ANS: E
494. Lessons learned are most often based upon project historical records. Lessons learned can be used to:
A. See what mistakes others have made
B. See how others have solved problems
C. Predict trends, highlight problems and identify alternatives
D. All of the above
E. A and B only
ANS: D
495. Risk mitigation includes all but which of the following:
A. Developing system (policies, procedures, responsibilities)
B. Obtaining insurance against loss
C. performing contingent planning
D. developing planning alternatives
E. identification of project risks.
ANS: E
496. All the techniques described below can be used to keep a meeting focused except:
A. Recall agenda items/purpose of meeting
B. Summarize discussion periodically
C. Encourage pursuit of interesting new ideas
D. Rephrase unclear ideas presented by group members
E. All are acceptable techniques
ANS: C
497. Approval to proceed is normally made at the end of the _____ phase of a typical project.
A. conceptual
B. development
C. implementation
D. execution
E. close-out
ANS: A
498. Management by Objectives (MBO)
A. is a method used to evaluate personnel by objectively comparing them to common performance standards
B. requires a supervisor and a subordinate to jointly establish performance objectives
C. should be the responsibility of the organization's personnel department
D. should always involve the establishment of objectives that are quantifiable
E. B and D
ANS: B
499. Project Risk _____ .
A. should not be calculated for small projects.
B. is the probability of each risk event minus the sum of the consequences of potential risk events.
C. is the cumulative effect of uncertain occurrences which will adversely affect project objectives.
D. cannot be quantified for first time projects.
E. B or D
ANS: C
500. Resource leveling _____.
A. Allocates resources to activities to find shortest schedule within fixed resource limits.
B. Smoothes out resource requirements by rescheduling activities within their float time.
C. Smooths out resource requirements by substituting activities with unassigned resources.
D. Attempts to reduce resource requirements within a constraint on project duration
E. B or D
ANS: E
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