Answers

1. C
Respond to the customers request by explaining the change procedure and asking that he or she submit
a request for change
2. C
Ask the person responsible for the estimate to explain the difference and bring supporting information
to you
3. B
Contact your companys management and seek for assistance
4. C
Accept the new ideas
5. A
Look at other tasks in the schedule and see which ones should be reduced to allow time for this problem
to be worked
6. C
Arrange a meeting of the project team members and allow them to decide
7. A
Refuse to work on the presentation unless you are listed as a coauthor
8. C
Speak to the visiting engineers and discuss having an informal meeting between your engineers and the
visiting engineers
9. B
You are the owner of a company that is supplying parts to a project that you are managing
10. C
Ask the team members how they would divide the money
11. B
Investigate the matter completely
12. B
Scope definition
13. A
Chart of accounts
14. C
Stakeholder
15. C
Three years
16. B
- $50,000
17. B
Less than the total cash flow without the net present value applied
18. C
Program
19. D
The bulk of the project budget will be spent in the execution phase
20. B
Project

Answers:
21. C
Statement of work
22. A
Reviewing the performance of an installed software module
23.D
Management by objectives
24.C
The set of procedures developed to ensure that project design criteria are met
25. C
Project charter
26. C
Work package

27. C
The original scope of the project plus or minus any scope changes
28. C
The project charter
29. B
All the work that must be completed for the project
30. D
Program manager
31. B
The basis for organizing and defining the total scope of the project
32. C
Executing
33. A
They allow stakeholders to judge the performance of the project according to its plan
34.B
Project

35.C
The project charter
36.C
Weak matrix organization
37.C
One-half month
38.C
Constraint
39.D
$119,500
40.D
Work package
Answers:
41.B
$110,000
42. B
May 6
43.B
7
44. D
0
45.A
A B E G H
46. C
May 12
47. B
Twenty
48. C
May 5
49. B
No change to project completion date
50. A
May 1
51. C
Precedence diagram
52. A
Finish finish
53. C
32.3
54. B
34.28 to 30.39
55. B
2.8
56. C
.166
57. D
Fast tracking
58. A
Making the project shorter by any economic means

59. D
The baseline schedule
60. B
Gantt chart

Answers:
61. C
The critical path is the list of activities that have zero float
62. C
Reduce the over utilization of resources
63. B
1.5
64. B
One
65. C
Monte Carlo analysis
66. A
Placement of the activity on the logic diagram line
67. D
The projects budget
68. C
Parametric
69. B
Analogous
70. C
More accurate
71. C
$0
72. A
$10,000
73. B
Time-phased budget for the project
74. C
Life cycle cost
75. C
The project budget should be increased by $10,000
76. C
Corrective action
77. B
The client has authorized a $10,000 addition to the scope of the project
78. D
The BAC is equal to the EV
79. A
Spending plan, which is the plan for the flow of money to pay for the project
80.C
$65,250
Answers:
81. A
$3122.60
82. A
Is a method of including all of the cost associated with the project over its entire life
83.B
0.777
84. A
1.200
85.D
20,000
86. B
6,500
87. B
-2,000
88. C
-500
89. C
25,740
90. B
The cost performance index will remain the same for the remaining part of the project
91. B
Budget at completion, earned value, and actual cost
92. C
Reduce EV by $4,000
93. B
Average unit cost decreases as more units are produces
94. C
73
95. D
Quality management
96. C
Upper management
97. C
Upper management
98. C
Implement quality improvements as long as the benefits outweigh the costs
99. B
Design of an experiment
100. A
R


Answers:
101. C
Quality
102. C
Quality assurance manager
103. B
Is planned in and not inspected in
104. C
Grade
105. C
Pareto diagram
106. C
Check sheet
107. D
Customer satisfaction
108. A
Common causes
109. A
Inputs to quality control
110. B
X bar
111. C
Cause and effect diagram
112. B
Variable inspection
113. B
The control chart tells you when you should not take corrective action
114. B
In small incremental steps
115. B
Kaizen
116. B
Cost and delays are reduced, production improves, market share increases, and profits go up
117. D
Greater than one
118. A
The overall project plan
119. D
Provide confidence that the project will satisfy relevant quality standards
120. B
Stable organizational structure
Answers:
121. D
Directing, coaching, supporting, delegating

122. C
Matrix organization
123.D
Pure project organization
124.C
Weak matrix
125. D
Salary
126. D
Integration
127. B
Project office
128. D
Human resource department
129. D
Project management office
130. A
Problem solving
131. B
Weak matrix
132. C
Staffing plan
133. D
The project lifecycle
134. D
Sense of personal achievement, work satisfaction
135. C
Repeats some of the things said
136. A
Input to performance appraisals
137. B
Creative problem solving
138. A
Commitment from top level management
139. B
Project kick-off meeting
140. B
Co-location
Answers:
141.A
The group taking more time than one individual
142. C
Projectized organization
143. A
Organization planning, staff acquisition, and team development


144. C
Team members who are accountable to both functional and project managers
145. D
Visual, audio, and tactile
146. C
Effective communication, ability to reconstruct why decisions were made, and historical value
147. D
Project organization structure
148. D
Language, distance, culture, and knowledge
149. A
Sending a videotape of the project progress to the client
150. A
Team building and convergent thinking
151. C
Delphi technique
152. D
Clairvoyant


153. C
Assign someone to find out more factual information about the problem

154. D
Lack of a communications device
155. B
Oral
156. C
The project manager
157. B
Communication blockers
158. D
Oral, written, and nonverbal
158. D
Project expediter
160. D
Past project review

Answers:
161.C
The project manager should make sure that the supplier understands the risk before the contract is
signed
162. A
Risk avoidance
163. C
Risk mitigation
164. B
Reduce the probability of cost overruns
165. D
-$7,000
166. C
Management reserve
167. A
Risk triggers
168. A
The most likely date will be earlier than the expected value date
169. D
$2,500
170. B
11/36
171. C
Buffering
172. D
The clients outsourcing method
173. C
Lessons learned from other similar projects
174. C
A list of potential risk events
175. B
The percent of time a given activity will be on the critical path
176. C
Money to offset missing cost or schedule objectives
177. A
Breakeven point will favor buying a cheap, low-quality machine
178. D
Add buffer to the critical chains
179. C
50%
180. C
Both better or worse, a positive or negative effect
Answers:
181. A
Increase risk
182. B
Only the negative risks
183. B
Deflection
184. D
Closeout
185. C
Determine the critically index for an activity in the schedule
186. B
The statement of work
187. A
The supplier will include an allowance for the risk in the contracted price
188. C
Make sure that the supplier understands the risk before the contract is signed
189. B
Make or buy
190. C
Project charter
191. D
Negotiating a change to the contract
192. D
At the end of the blanket order, prices are adjusted for the actual amount of material delivered
193. C
Decrease transportation costs
194.D
Marketing
195. D
Cost-plus contracts
196. C
Back charge
197. D
Contract negotiation
198.C
Request for proposal
199.C
Request for proposal
200.D
A competitors method of outsourcing