Project Management Professional (PMP) ® Exam Prep Course 8 - Project Quality Management
Project Management Professional (PMP) ® Exam Prep Course 8 - Project Quality Management
Exam Prep
Course 8 - Project Quality Management
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Quality Management
All the activities of the performing organization
that determine quality policies, objectives, and
responsibilities so that the project will satisfy
the needs for which it was undertaken.
Executing Process Group Planning Process Group
8.2 8.1
Manage Plan Quality
Quality Management
8. Project Quality
Management
8.3
Control Quality
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Quality Management
Key Terms
Project Quality Management must address the
management of the project & product.
Quality - “the degree to which a set of inherent
characteristics fulfill requirements.” (American Society for Quality, 2000)
Gold Plating – Giving the customer extra
functionality, adds no value to the project; PMI
argues against gold plating.
Marginal Analysis – Finding the point where the cost
of the incremental improvement in quality equals
the value of the improvement.
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Quality Management
International Organization for Standardization
(ISO)
Total Quality Management (TQM)
Six Sigma
Kaizen
Quality vs. Grade
Precision vs. Accuracy
PDCA
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Quality Management
Thought Leaders
W.E. Deming: (PDCA), Quality = results of work efforts /
total costs
J.M. Juran: quality planning, control & improvement.
People are cause. Fitness for Use
P. Crosby: Quality is Free, 0 Defects Conforming to Rqmts,
Doing It Right the First Time" (DIRFT)
K. Ishikawa: Cause-Effect (Fishbone) Diagram, Design
Statistics, introduced quality circles
G. Taguchi: Quality as part of the Design, not Inspection,
Taguchi Method.
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Quality Management
8.1 Plan Quality
Identifying which quality standards are
relevant to the project, and determining how
to satisfy them.
Performed in parallel with other planning
processes.
Quality is planned, designed, and built in,
not inspected in. Planning Process Group
8. Project Quality
Management
8.1
Plan
Quality
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Quality Management
8.1 Plan Quality Management
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
.1 Project charter .1 Expert judgment .1 Quality management
.2 Project management plan .2 Data gathering plan
.3 Project documents .3 Data analysis .2 Quality metrics
.4 Enterprise environmental .4 Decision making .3 Project management
factors plan updates
.5 Data representation
.5 Organizational process .4 Project documents
.6 Test and inspection
assets updates
planning
.7 Meetings
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Quality Management
Cost of Quality
Conformance Nonconformance
Prevention Planning Scrap Failure
Auditing Expediting
Warranty
Testing
Service
Controlling Recalls
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Quality Management
Flowcharts
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Quality Management
Flowcharts
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Quality Management
SIPOC
Sometimes called COPIS.
Tool that summarizes the inputs and outputs of
one or more processes in table form.
Acronym SIPOC stands for suppliers, inputs,
process, outputs, and customers which form the
columns of the table.
First used in TQM programs.
Used today in Six Sigma and Lean manufacturing.
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Quality Management
SIPOC Steps
1. Create an area that will allow the team to post additions to the
SIPOC diagram. This could be a transparency (to be projected by an
overhead) made of the provided template, flip charts with headings
(S-I-P-O-C) written on each, or headings written on post-it notes
posted to a wall.
2. Begin with the process. Map it in four to five high level steps.
3. Identify the outputs of this process.
4. Identify the customers that will receive the outputs of this process.
5. Identify the inputs required for the process to function properly.
6. Identify the suppliers of the inputs that are required by the process.
7. Optional: Identify the preliminary requirements of the customers.
This will be verified during a later step of the Six Sigma
measurement phase.
8. Discuss with project sponsor, Champion, and other involved
stakeholders for verification.
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Quality Management
SIPOC
Input Output
Supplier Process Customer
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Quality Management
Logical Data Model
A logical data model is also referred to as a logical schema.
It is a data model of a specific problem domain that is expressed
independently of any specific named database product or storage
technology.
It focuses on the foundational data structure and its elements such
as relational tables, columns, object-oriented classes and/or XML
tags.
It represents the abstract structure of a domain of information.
A logical data model is most often used in business process seeking
to capture the important aspects of the organization and how they
relate to one another.
The logical data model is the basis for the physical data model.
It is sometimes used as a synonym for a domain model, but the two
are not the same. A domain model is more focused on capturing
the concepts in the problem domain rather than the structure of the
data associated with that domain.
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Quality Management
Logical Data Model
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Quality Management
Logical Data Model
Conceptual Data Model Logical Data Model Physical Data Model
Includes high-level data constructs Includes entities (table), attributes Includes tables, columns, keys data types,
(columns/fields) and relationships (keys) validation rules, database triggers, stored
procedures, domains, and access constraints.
Non-technical names, so that executives Uses business names for entities and Uses more defined and less generic specific
and managers at all levels can understand attributes names for tables and columns, such as
the data basis of architectural description abbreviated column names, limited by the
database management system (DBMS) and any
company defined standards.
Uses general high-level data constructs Is independent of technology (platform, Includes primary keys and indices for fast data
from which architectural descriptions are DBMS) access.
created in non-technical terms.
May not be normalized. Is normalized to forth normal form (4NF) May be de-normalized to meet performance
requirements based on the nature of the
database. If the nature of the database is
online transaction processing (OLTP) or
operational data store (ODS) it is usually not
de-normalized. De-normalization is common in
data warehouses.
Represented in the DIV-1 viewpoint Represented in the DIV-2 Viewpoint Represented in the DIV-3 Viewpoint (DoDAF
(DoDAF V2.0) (DoDAF V2.0), and OV-7 View (DoDAF V1.5) V2.0), and SV-11 View (DoDAF V1.5)
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Quality Management
Matrix Diagrams
Also called a matrix chart.
Used to show the relationship between two, three or four
groups of information.
Six possible shapes to the matrix: L, T, Y, X, C, and roof-shaped
depending on how many variables or groups are being
compared. Shape # of Groups What the Matrix Shows
L-Shaped 2 Groups A <—> B (or A <—> A)
T-Shaped 3 Groups B <—> A <—> C but NOT B <—> C
Y-Shaped 3 Groups A <—> B <—> C <—> A
C-Shaped 3 Groups All three simultaneously (3-D)
X-Shaped 4 Groups A <—> B <—> C <—> D <—> A but not
A <—> C or B <—> D
Roof-shaped 1 Group A <—> A when also A <—> B in L or T
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Quality Management
Matrix Diagram Symbols
Strong relationship + Positive relationship
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Quality Management
Sample Matrix Diagrams
Customer A Customer B Customer C Customer D
Measure #1 15 22 19 12
Measure #4 41 58 36 61
Y-Shaped Matrix
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Quality Management
Test Driven Development (TDD)
Tests are written BEFORE the code.
A Unit Test is a test of a small, functional piece of code.
Unit Tests are given priority in TDD.
Unit tests make it…
– Easier to find bugs.
– Easier to maintain the code, but not test maintainability or
test readability.
– Easier to have full code coverage.
– Easier to design & develop code.
– Easier to deliver early & often.
– Easier to track performance.
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Quality Management
TDD
3.
1. Red
Refactor
2. Green
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Quality Management
Test Driven Development (TDD)
Must be able to make it fail. No code can be
written without a failing test. This mean we
actually run the tests to ensure the failure state
before writing any code.
Running the test to prove failure is a fundamental
difference of TDD.
Make it work. Code must be as simple as possible.
The code must ONLY pass that new test for which it
was designed.
Make it better. This means you must refactor.
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Quality Management
Acceptance Test-Driven Development
Also called ATDD
Moves testing focus from code to business
requirements.
Tests created before coding.
Might use functional test framework such as
FIT (Framework for Integrated Testing) or
FitNesse
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Quality Management
Acceptance Test-Driven Development
Four stages:
– Discuss the requirements – during planning meeting
ask acceptance criteria.
– Distill tests in a framework-friendly format
– Develop the code and hook up the tests
– Demo through exploratory testing
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Quality Management
Refactoring
Refactoring – Process of changing existing
code to improve the way it functions.
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Quality Management
Types of Refactoring
Yuck – You look at code and it works, but is
unsatisfactory. This is about making small
improvements.
The Not Understood – Code that you look at
and cannot understand what it is doing. You
must make code easier to understand.
New Insights – When new functionality needs
to be added, or you learn something.
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Quality Management
Types of Refactoring
Planned Refactoring – Actually adding refactoring
to your project plan as a deliverable.
– M. Fowler says it should hardly ever be done, because
it represents a failure of the team to do the
refactoring in small enough pieces to be constant.
– Planned refactoring almost always requires
justification.
– Is evidence that you are not doing enough of the
other types of refactoring.
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Quality Management
Types of Refactoring
Long Term Refactoring – Trying to get closer to
some large future goal. Get some vision of
where you want things to be in the future.
– Must be done gradually.
– Does not require significant planning.
– The essence is doing small steps.
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Quality Management
8.2 Manage Quality
Answers the question are we following the
right standards. e.g. if we follow these
standards what will the results be?
Provides an umbrella for Continuous
Improvement . . .
Executing Process Group
8.2
Perform
Quality
Assurance
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Quality Management
8.2 Manage Quality
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
.1 Project management plan .1 Data gathering .1 Quality reports
.2 Project documents .2 Data analysis .2 Test and evaluation documents
.3 Organizational process assets .3 Decision making .3 Change requests
.4 Data representation .4 Project management plan
.5 Audits updates
.6 Design for X .5 Project documents updates
.7 Problem solving
.8 Quality improvement
methods
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Quality Management
Root Cause Analysis
A Root Cause is - if removing the item from
the problem-fault sequence prevents the
final undesirable outcome from occurring
then the item is considered a root cause.
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Quality Management
Root Cause Analysis
Define and properly describe the event or
problem.
Establish a timeline from the normal situation
until the failure.
Distinguish between root causes and causal
factors.
The team then focuses on problem prediction
to determine when the problem will happen
next and what must happen to prevent future
occurrence.
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Quality Management
Affinity Diagrams
An affinity diagram is one of the “Seven
Management and Planning Tools”.
Created by Jiro Kawakita in the 1960s.
Sometimes referred to as the KJ Method.
Used to sort a large number of ideas created
during brainstorming based on their natural
relationships for review and analysis.
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Quality Management
Affinity Diagrams Steps
1. Record each idea on card or PostIts™.
2. Look for ideas that seem related.
3. Sort the cards into groups until all the cards
have been used.
4. Once the cards are sorted create clusters or
subgroups for easier analysis.
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Quality Management
Affinity Diagrams
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Quality Management
Cause and Effect Diagram
(Ishikawa or fishbone Diagram)
Time Machine Method Material
Major
Defect
Potential Causes
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Quality Management
Histogram
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Quality Management
Scatter Diagram
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Quality Management
In Control – When ‘in control’ a process should not be
adjusted.
Specification Limits – Customer expectations or
contract requirements.
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What is ‘out of control’ ?
What is the ‘rule of 7’?
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Quality Management
Pareto Diagrams
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Quality Management
Run Chart
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Quality Management
Design For X
1. Design for “excellence” also known as DFX.
2. Term used in the engineering world
3. The X serves as a placeholder for different
design objectives.
4. Common substitutes for x include assembly
(DfA), cost (DfC), logistics (DfL),
manufacturability (DfM), reliability (DfR),
serviceability and/or repairability (DfS).
5. Making square pegs and round holes.
6. Using fewer components.
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Quality Management
Problem Solving
Thomas J. D'Zurilla defined problem solving as a
“cognitive–affective–behavioral process through which an
individual (or group) attempts to identify, discover, or
invent effective means of coping with problems
encountered in every day living”.
Problem solving is used in when products or processes fail,
so corrective action can be taken to prevent
further failures.
Used when a potential problem can be predicted and
analyzed, and mitigation applied so the problem never
actually occurs.
Problem solving techniques include: GROW model, How to
Solve It, OODA loop, PDCA, Rapid Problem Resolution,
failure mode effects and many others.
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Quality Management
Benchmarking
Used for process and product improvement.
Can be done within the organization or with
other organizations that have similar
processes.
Can disrupt a project if improperly done.
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Quality Management
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Statistical method used to identify which factors
may influence specific variables in a process.
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Quality Management
8.3 Control Quality
Monitoring specific project results to determine
whether they comply with relevant standards.
Identifying ways to eliminate causes of
unsatisfactory results.
Quality standards include project processes and
product goals. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group
8. Project Quality
Management
8.3
Control Quality
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Quality Management
8.3 Control Quality
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
.1 Project management plan .1 Data gathering .1 Quality control
.2 Project documents .2 Data analysis measurements
.3 Approved change requests .3 Inspection .2 Verified deliverables
.4 Deliverables .4 Testing / product .3 Work performance
evaluation information
.5 Work performance data
.5 Data representation .4 Change requests
.6 Enterprise environmental
factors .6 Meetings .5 Project management
plan updates
.7 Organizational process
assets .6 Project documents
updates
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Quality Management
7 Basic Quality Tools
Also know as 7QC Tools.
Used within PDCA cycle to solve quality
problems.
They are:
• Cause-and-effect diagrams • Flowcharts
• Checksheets • Pareto diagrams
• Histograms • Control charts
• Scatter diagrams
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Quality Management
Check or Tally Sheets
Scratch
5 8 6 7 5
Dent
3 3 5 4 2
Poor Fit
1 2 5 4 3
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Quality Management
Statistical Sampling Terms
Attribute – A quality or characteristic of a thing.
Variable – A quantity or function that may assume
any given value or set of values.
Producer’s Risk – (Alpha) chance of rejecting a
good lot. Type I error.
Consumer’s Risk – (Beta) chance of accepting a bad
lot. Type II error.
Sampling Plan – Sample size (n) and acceptance
criteria (c).
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Quality Management
Statistical Terms
Mean – Sum of the values divided by the count.
Median – the middle value.
Mode – the most commonly
occurring value.
Standard Deviation:
Σ(x – x)2
n-1
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Quality Management
Statistical Example
You have a sample with 5 cases with values of 1,2,3,4,5
The mean= Σ(values)/number of cases or 15/5 = 3
Variance and Standard Deviation
(1-3)2+ (2-3)2 + (3-3)2 + (4-3)2 + (5-3)2 =
4 + 1 + 0 + 1 + 4 = 10
10 / (5-1) = 2.5 (variance)
Square root of 2.5 = 1.58 (standard deviation)
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Quality Management
Project Quality Management –
Summary
Three (3) processes.
Assurance vs. Control.
Principles advocated by Deming, Juran,
Ishikawa, Crosby, Taguchi.
Control Chart & rule of seven.
PM & team have primary responsibility for
conformance to standards.
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Quality Management
Project Quality Management –
Summary
Importance of Continuous Improvement
7 basic quality tools
Variable vs. Attribute sampling
Gold Plating – not recommended
Metrics
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Review Questions:
2. A project manager and team from a firm that designs railroad equipment are
tasked to design a machine to load stone onto railroad cars. The design allows
for 2% spillage, amounting to over two tons of spilled rock per day. In which of
the following does the project manager document quality control, quality
management, and quality improvements for this project?
A. Quality management plan
B. Quality policy
C. Control charts
D. Project management plan
3. The project has had a major defect, and the project manager has involved the
project team and process engineers in analyzing the situation. One of the group
says that the real fault is the age of the equipment. Another says it is the lack of a
material for the correct quality. To address the root of the problem, the project
manager decides to use an Ishikawa diagram. Which of the following BEST
describes the step of the quality management process in which the group is
involved in this situation?
A. Quality analysis
B. Control quality
C. Manage quality
D. Plan quality management
4. You are a project manager for a major information systems project when
someone from the quality department comes to see you about beginning a
quality audit of your project. The team, already under pressure to complete the
project as soon as possible, objects to the audit. You should explain to the team
that the purpose of a quality audit is:
A. Part of an ISO 9000 investigation.
B. To check if customer is following its quality process.
C. To identify lessons learned that can improve performance on the project.
D. To check accuracy of costs submitted by the team.
5. The project has had a major defect, and the project manager has involved the
project team in analyzing the situation. One of the group says that the real fault is
the technology being used. Another says it is the age of the material. To address
the root of the problem, the project manager decides to use a Control Chart.
Which of the following BEST describes the step of the quality management
process in which the group is involved in this situation?
A. Analyze quality
B. Control quality
C. Manage quality
D. Plan quality management
6. The project has had a major defect, and the project manager has involved the
project team and process engineers in analyzing the situation. One of the group
says that the real fault is using a new machine when an older machine was
specified. Another says it is a change in subcomponent suppliers. To address the
root of the problem, the project manager decides to use a cause and effect
diagram. Which of the following BEST describes the step of the quality
management process in which the group is involved in this situation?
A. Perform quality analysis
B. Control quality
C. Manage quality
D. Plan quality management
9. In which of the following processes do you ensure that the quality standards will
allow the project to achieve its desired quality goals?
A. Control quality
B. Manage quality
C. Plan quality management
D. Perform quality definition
10. Which of the following is not an input to the quality planning process?
A. Product scope baseline
B. Risk register
C. Enterprise environmental factors
D. Organizational quality metrics
11. Which of the following is a tool and technique used in the plan quality
management process?
A. Project charter
B. Process analysis
C. Cause and Effect Diagrams
D. Design of Experiments
12. What is the effect of a project product, service or result that meets customer
requirements while being ahead of schedule and over budget?
A. The project is successful.
B. The project is significantly over budget.
C. Project quality has been achieved.
D. The project is behind schedule.
13. Which of the following statements best describes marginal analysis?
A. The process of determining the point at which the value of incremental
quality improvements will not equal the cost to attain them.
B. The process of determining the point at which the value of incremental
quality improvements equal the cost of those improvements.
C. The process of determining the optimal quality standards for the project.
D. The process for determining the optimal profitability based on the
differentiation of the cost and pricing.
14. Sally is talking to a coworker and states she believes her boss is being unfair
with her regarding her current project and the project's level of quality. Who is
owns final responsibility for project quality?
A. Project resources
B. Project sponsor
C. Project manager
D. The entire project team
15. Your project team is currently using Cost-Benefit Analysis. In which of the quality
management processes are you in?
A. Plan quality management
B. Manage quality
C. Control quality
D. Integrated change control
16. You are a project manager leading a team that is currently using the cost of
quality to evaluate the project. In which of the quality management processes are
you in?
A. Manage quality
B. Control quality
C. Develop project management plan
D. Plan quality management
17. You are leading an engineering project. Your team is completing a quality audit.
In which of the quality management processes are you in?
A. Manage quality
B. Quality planning
C. Control quality
D. Close project
18. Your project team is using control charts to determine the current quality status of
your project. In what part of the quality management process are you in?
A. Plan quality
B. Control quality
C. Manage quality
D. Direct and manage project execution
19. You are the project manager on a project that has struggled with the quality of
the deliverables throughout the entire project. Your boss, the Senior Vice
President has come to you and stated that quality is the most important project
constraint. On Monday morning you come into the office and find that another
problem with quality has occurred. What is the best thing for you to do?
A. Absorb a cost increase to fix the root cause of the problem.
B. Fix the problem immediately.
C. Cut project costs and allow the schedule to slip.
D. Allow project risks to increase by allowing the schedule to slip.
20. You are a project manager leading a project that has an SPI 1.03 and a CPI
1.05. The ETC is $247,905. In a meeting you are conducting with your team to
discuss the quality of the project one of your team members complains that the
schedule is seriously compressed and you do not have time for the meeting. You
have consistently rewarded your team according to the reward system you put in
place and have a great team that has worked well together. Which of the
following best explains why the complaining individual is wrong?
A. Improved quality leads to increase productivity, decreased cost
effectiveness, and increased technology risks.
B. Improved quality leads to increased productivity, increased cost
effectiveness, and decreased cost risk.
C. Improved quality leads to increased productivity, increased cost
effectiveness, and increased cost risk.
D. Improved quality leads to increased productivity, decreased cost
effectiveness, and decreased cost risk.
23. You are a project manager working through some issues on your project. A
member of your team suggests you make use of a Pareto diagram. Why might a
Pareto diagram be helpful?
A. Focus on the most critical issues to improve quality.
B. Allow you to effectively brainstorm.
C. Examine potential future outcomes.
D. Determine if a process is out of control.
24. As a project manager which of the following will a Control chart help you do?
A. Focus on the most critical issues to improve quality.
B. Determine if a process is functioning within set limits.
C. Allow you to effectively brainstorm.
D. Examine potential future outcomes.
25. You are a project manager trying to decide the best way to evaluate the quality of
a manufactured product. Which of the following best explains why you choose
not to test the entire population?
A. It would create noise in the data.
B. It would exclude other testing methods.
C. It would take too long.
D. It would show type II errors.
26. All of the following are examples of the cost of conformance except:
A. Auditing
B. Controlling
C. Appraisal
D. Expediting
27. All of the following are examples of the cost of nonconformance except:
A. Expediting
B. Warranty service
C. Auditing
D. Recalls
28. You are a project manager working on a large, highly visible project. Your most
recent control chart shows seven consecutive points on one side of the mean.
What should you do next?
A. Find the cause of the change.
B. Nothing. The project is not necessarily in trouble.
C. Notify your sponsor that there is a problem.
D. Adjust the chart to reflect the new mean.
29. You are a project manager leading a large project within your organization. Last
week you were on vacation. Upon your return you discover the team added
several deliverables to the project because they determined it would benefit the
customer. What is wrong with this situation?
A. The project manager was not present when the decision was made.
B. Nothing, this is the best way to have a happy customer.
C. Nothing. The team needed to keep moving in your absence.
D. The team is gold plating.
30. You are working on creating a financial plan for your project. If you are planning
on using JIT, how much inventory should you plan on maintaining?
A. 0%
B. 15%
C. 25%
D. 40%
31. When planning your project which would generally have the highest priority:
schedule, cost or quality?
A. Quality
B. Schedule
C. Cost
D. It should be determined for each project.
32. You are a project sponsor with several projects falling within your authority. You
are concerned about the accuracy of the performance reporting you have
recently been receiving. Which of the following would best allow you to validate
your concerns?
A. Control charts
B. Quality audits
C. Monte Carlo analysis
D. Logit analysis
33. You are leading a large manufacturing project for a new automobile. The current
design allows for a 1.3% defect rate and expects to produce 1.2 million units. In
which of the following would you document quality control, quality assurance, and
quality improvements?
A. The quality policy
B. The project management plan
C. The quality management plan
D. Organizational processes and templates
34. You are a project manager leading a road construction project. The road is
almost 80% complete according to your most recent EVMS report when a senior
executive informs you that she is worried the project will not meet the quality
standards. What should you do in this situation?
A. Assure the executive that during the plan quality process it was
determined that the project would meet the quality standards.
B. Use EVMS to predict future results.
C. Check the results from previous projects' quality management plans.
D. Form a quality assurance team.
35. You are a project manager leading a small information technology project. You
ask two members of your team to select tools and techniques to implement a
quality assurance program that will be combined with existing quality control
activities. Which of the following would you not expect to see in the program?
A. Histograms
B. Focus groups
C. Quality audits
D. Statistical sampling
36. You are the project manager on a major engineering project. You are working
with the quality assurance department to make sure everyone has confidence
that the project will satisfy the quality standards. Which of the following must you
have before starting the process?
A. Defined areas of concern
B. Requested quality improvements
C. Quality control measurements
D. Rework
37. You have just taken over a project from another project manager. The project is
currently in the execution process group. The previous project manager created
a project budget, determined communications requirements, and went on to
complete work packages. What should you do next?
A. Complete the WBS.
B. Complete the identify risk process.
C. Complete the project according to the plan.
D. Identify the quality standards.
38. You are a project coordinator leading an information technology project. Your
project is facing major changes to its deliverables. If you are involved in
determining which quality standards are relevant to the changes, you must also
be involved in:
A. Quality management
B. Manage quality
C. Plan quality management
D. Control quality
39. You are the project manager for a large manufacturing project in the electronics
industry. Your project has completed all of its deliverables. As you examine the
lessons learned you conclude that the project has added five areas of
performance and three areas of functionality. The customer has signed off on the
delivery of the product of the project and is very happy with the results. What
does this mean in terms of success of the project?
A. The project was unsuccessful because it was gold plated.
B. The project was successful because the team learned from the effort and
the customer was satisfied.
C. The project was an unqualified success.
D. The project was unsuccessful because making the customer happy meant
the team had to do more work.
40. You are a project coordinator on an information technology project within your
organization. One of your team members comes to you and states that a
completed work package does not meet the specified quality metric and that they
do not believe it is possible to meet the metric. You gather the appropriate team
members together to discuss the situation. Which process in the quality
management knowledge area are you in?
A. Monitoring and control
B. Manage quality
C. Control quality
D. Project execution
41. Management assigns you to be the project manager of a project that crosses
functional lines and is designed to operate at 6-sigma levels. The sponsor has
given you cost and schedule requirements. Which of the following would not be
an appropriate action on your part?
A. Evaluating the project risks.
B. Accepting the requirements.
C. Creating a detailed estimate.
D. Working with the team to come up with a project plan.
42. The project has had a major defect, and the project manager has involved the
project team and process engineers in analyzing the situation. One of the group
says that the real fault is the age of the equipment. Another says it is the lack of a
material for the correct quality. To address the root of the problem, the project
manager decides to use an Ishikawa diagram. Which of the following BEST
describes the step of the quality management process in which the group is
involved in this situation?
A. Perform quality analysis
B. Manage quality
C. Control quality
D. Plan quality management
43. An external stakeholder suggests to the project manager that the team does not
have enough time to hold quality meetings when the schedule has been
significantly compressed. The current CPI is 1.12 and the team has performed
very well under adverse circumstances. Which of the following best explains why
the stakeholder is wrong?
A. Improved quality leads to increased productivity, increased cost
effectiveness, and decreased cost risk.
B. Improved quality leads to increased productivity, decreased cost
effectiveness and increased cost risk.
C. Increased quality leads to increased productivity, increased cost
effectiveness, and increased cost risk.
D. Improved quality leads to increased productivity, decreased cost
effectiveness, and decreased cost risk.
44. You are leading a project to develop food packaging equipment. The current
specifications call for less than one percent spillage per container. In which of the
following do you document quality control, quality assurance, and quality
improvements for the project?
A. Quality management plan
B. Quality policy
C. Project documents
D. Project management plan
45. As the project manager, you have created a plan for how the team will implement
the quality policy. It addresses the organizational structure, responsibilities,
procedures, and other information about plans for quality. If this plan changes
during the project, which of the following plans will also change?
A. Quality assurance plan
B. Quality management plan
C. Project management plan
D. Quality control plan
46. You are in the middle of a major new facility construction project. The structural
steel is in place and the heating conduits are going into place when a senior
manager informs you that he is worried the project will not meet the quality
standards. When should you do in this situation?
A. Assure senior management that during the plan quality process, it was
determined that the project would meet the quality standards.
B. Analogously estimate future results.
C. Form a quality assurance team.
D. Check the results from the last quality management plan.
Answer Key:
1. D
Answer D. To give the stakeholders confidence you first need to have information
about where you are at. Your quality control measurements provide the
information about where you are at in meeting the quality standards.
2. A
Answer A. The Quality Management Plan contains all the information that
documents how quality will be managed throughout the project.
3. B
Answer B. At this point the team has already completed the planning steps and
ensured that the plan will deliver the desired level of quality. The issue is making
sure you are actually delivering against the plan.
4. C
Answer C. Lessons learned are always key elements of any project as they allow
continuous process improvement. Constantly getting better is key to PMI.
5. B
Answer B. This is not a situation where you are planning for quality or making
sure the plan would lead to the desired level of quality. You are in execution and
trying to determine why you are not achieving the desired goals. This is control
quality.
6. B
Answer B. Don't be confused by the fact the project manager selected a cause
and effect diagram (a poor choice for this situation). The correct answer is still
control quality.
7. A
Answer A. PMBOK Guide p. 274 - Quality should never be defined as meeting
customer expectations. Quality is best defined as the ability to fulfill the project's
stated requirements. This definition explains why requirements definition is so
critical to project success.
8. C
Answer C. PMBOK Guide p. 272 - Like most defined processes in the PMBOK
Guide, the first step is define what quality means for the project and the steps
that will be used to achieve quality.
9. B
Answer B. PMBOK Guide p. 288 - Manage quality is the process where the
project team uses systematic quality activities to ensure that the project will
employ all the processes needed to meet requirements.
10. A
Answer A. The scope baseline includes both the project and the product.
PMBOK Guide p. 277 - The inputs to the plan quality management process
include:
- .1 Project charter
- .2 Project management plan
- .3 Project documents
- .4 Enterprise environmental factors
- .5 Organizational process assets
11. D
Answer D. PMBOK Guide p. 277 - The tools and techniques used in plan quality
management include:
- .1 Expert judgment
- .2 Data gathering
- .3 Data analysis
- .4 Decision making
- .5 Data representation
- .6 Test and inspection planning
- .7 Meetings
12. C
Answer C. The only thing that can be stated definitively is that the project's
quality level has been achieved. With the information provided you cannot be
sure the project was successful as the project is over budget. However, you also
cannot tell if the project is significantly over budget. The project is not behind
schedule.
13. B
Answer B. Marginal analysis is an analytical process used in determining the
point at which spending any more money to improve the project quality will
exactly match the value of the improvements. It is a one for one exchange.
14. C
Answer C. PMBOK Guide p. 273-275 - The project management team and not
the entire project team is ultimately responsible for the level of quality on a
project. However, in this case the best answer is the project manager.
15. A
Answer A. PMBOK Guide p. 272 - Cost-benefit analysis is a tool and technique
used in the Plan Quality Management Process.
16. D
Answer D. PMBOK Guide p. 272 - Benchmarking is a tool and technique used in
the plan quality management process.
17. A
Answer A. PMBOK Guide p. 288 - A quality audit is a tool or technique used in
the perform quality assurance process.
18. B
Answer B. PMBOK Guide p. 304 - Control charts are one of several tools and
techniques that make up the control quality process.
19. A
Answer A. The key phrase in the answers is "root cause". Only A fixes the root
cause of the problem. B might only be a temporary solution. Neither C nor D
provide a solution to the quality problem.
20. B
Answer B. This is a very long winded question, but is typical for the exam. Most
of the question has little to do with coming up with the correct answer. Just
remember from PMI's perspective improving the quality of the project will lead to
lot of good stuff including decreasing the long term cost of the project, making the
team more productive and reducing risks.
21. C
Answer C. PMBOK Guide p. 273-274 - This question is almost a straight
definitional question. Quality is "the degree to which a set of inherent
characteristics fulfill requirements."
22. D
Answer D. PMBOK Guide p. 273-274 - This question is almost a straight
definitional question. Quality is "the degree to which a set of inherent
characteristics fulfill requirements."
23. A
Answer A. PMBOK Guide p. 304 - A Pareto diagram is a type of histogram an is
conceptually related to Pareto's law, which holds that a relatively small number of
causes will typically produce a majority of the problems or defects.
24. B
Answer B. PMBOK Guide p. 304 - Control Charts are used to determine whether
or not a process is stable or has predictable performance.
25. C
Answer C. PMBOK Guide p. 303 - The primary reason for not testing an entire
population is that it can be extremely time consuming. For this reason sampling
is often used.
26. D
Answer D. PMBOK Guide p. 283 - The costs of conformance include:
- Prevention
- Appraisal
- Planning
- Training
- Auditing
- Testing
- Controlling
27. C
Answer C. PMBOK Guide p. 283 - The costs of nonconformance include:
- Scrap
- Rework
- Expediting
- Warranty service
- Recalls
- Failure
28. A
Answer A. PMBOK Guide p. 304 - This is a trick question of sorts. Hopefully, the
first thing you would do is notice the Rule of Seven was in play and you needed
to determine why you had 7 consecutive cases on one side of the mean.
29. D
Answer D. Be careful in reading the question. Nothing gives you an indication
that the customer actually approved the changes. Do not simply assume they
have. The correct answer is the team is gold plating.
30. A
Answer A. JIT refers to Just in Time inventory management. It is a technique
where you attempt to carry no inventory and only have material arrive when
needed. Therefore, 0% is the correct answer.
31. D
Answer D. PMBOK Guide p. 294 - Don't get trapped because this is a quality
question. The correct answer is always it depends and must be determined for
each project.
32. B
Answer B. PMBOK Guide p. 294 - This question reflects the definition of a quality
audit. It is a structured, independent review to determine whether project
activities comply with organizational and project policies, processes, and
procedures.
33. C
Answer C. PMBOK Guide p. 277 - The quality management plan is where all
aspects for how quality will be managed on the project are defined.
34. D
Answer D. The real question here is which option helps ensure you meet the
appropriate quality standards. The only choice is forming a quality assurance
team.
35. B
Answer B. PMBOK Guide p. 288 - This question is basically asking which item
from the list is not a tool or technique from manage quality and control quality
processes combined. The tools and techniques from control quality and manage
quality combined include:
- Data gathering
- Data analysis
- Data representation
- Decision making
- Audits
- Design for X
- Problem solving
- Quality improvement methods
- Inspection
- Testing / product evaluations
- Meetings
36. C
Answer C. The key word in this question is must. The only one of the four items
you must have is the quality control measurements. Everything else is optional.
37. D
Answer D. For some this is an easy question because it appears in the quality
section. However, if you did not know which process group you were in would
you have gotten it correct? Identifying the quality standards is the correct answer
because no one has yet completed the planning process. The next step in that
process calls for the creation of the quality standards, and then completing the
identify risks process. The WBS is already done and you cannot execute the
project until the planning is complete.
38. C
Answer C. Although quality planning usually occurs during project planning,
sometimes you have to go back to planning from other processes to re-evaluate
or make another decision.
39. A
Answer A. This question might be considered a trick by some, but it is not. The
correct answer is the project was gold plated (you have no information that the
customer approved the changes prior to implementation). So even though they
were happy with the product of the project it was gold plated and that is bad. This
is a situation with a great product and a failed project.
40. C
Answer C. Measuring is by definition part of the control quality process. Be
careful here as the question is about the quality management knowledge area
and not the project management process groups.
41. B
Answer B. As a project manager you should never simply accept requirements or
anything else without understanding the implications of acceptance on the
project.
42. C
Answer C. You have a standard you are trying to meet which takes both plan
quality and manage quality out of the mix. Perform quality analysis is a made up
process. Only control quality represents a process where you are measuring
against targets and trying to analyze the variances.
43. A
Answer A. Improving the quality of the project improves the processes being
used by the team. This will lead to improved productivity, increased cost
effectiveness and decreased cost risk.
44. A
Answer A. Be very careful with this question. Two answers are technically
correct. The quality management plan is part of the project management plan so
both are technically correct, but the quality management plan is the best, most
accurate answer.
45. C
Answer C. The plan described is the quality management plan. Since the quality
management plan is included in the project management plan, changing the
quality management plan will also change the project management plan.
46. C
Answer C. Assuring management that it was determined in planning that the
project meet quality standards is not productive, since it does not solve the
problem. An analogous estimate looks at the past history of other projects. This
would not be appropriate to determine how the current project is going. The
quality management plan does not provide results. A quality assurance team
could help to determine whether the team is following the correct process to
satisfy the relevant quality standards.