MPM-003 - Project Implementation and Control (Set 1)

1.  You are a team member and as the project progresses you are required to report the progress of the project schedule to your project manager. To do this you would use performance measurement technique such as:   

 A  Gantt charts

 B  Status reports

 C  Cost Performance Index

 D  Schedule Performance Index

 

2.  Primary responsibility for establishing design and test specifications rests with:

 A  Senior management

 B  Procurement

 C  Engineering

 D  Quality control

 

3.  Responsibility charts are used to manage the:

 A  Project networks

 B  Bar charts

 C  Project work

 D  Project information

 

4.  Performance measurement techniques are used to:

 A  Perform a cost/benefit analysis

 B  See the viability of the project

 C  Measure the earned value of the project

 D  All of the above

 

5.  As a project team member which input would you not use for Directing and Managing project execution?

 A  Approved Preventive actions

 B  Contract

 C  Validated defect repairs

 D  Rejected change requests

 

6.  As the project manager an important tool you would use for monitoring and controlling the project work is:

 A  Work performance related information

 B  Earned Value Management

 C  Risk management plan

 D  Brainstorming

 

7.  Achieving quality depends on:

 A  The top management

 B  Workers on the shop floor

 C  Everyone in the organization

 D  Achieving zero defects

 

8.  You are a part of the quality control group and have been asked to test samples to ensure that the required quality is being maintained. To do this you should use:

 A  Inspections

 B  Cause and Effect analysis

 C  Trend analysis

 D  Control chart

 

9.  Your project is running late and you decide to add more resources to critical activities to bring the schedule back on track. This means you have decided to:

 A  Revise the critical path

 B  Crash the project

 C  Fast track the project

 D  Level the resources

 

10.  During implementation of the project the senior design engineer is very excited as he has made a design change that will improve efficiency and asks you to incorporate the change in the design. As the project manager what should you do?

 A  Ask for the change to be incorporated

 B  Put up a change request to the change control board

 C  Assess the impact of the change on all aspects of the project

 D  Refuse to consider the change at this stage