Explain the meaning of management.
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You are a project manager working on contract. You’ve performed earned value analysis and discovered that the project will be completed on time and under the original estimated amount. This means the profit to your company will decrease as will your personal bonus. Which of the following should you do? A. Add activities to the project to increase the cost enough to meet the original estimated amount. B. Tell the customer you're adding additional requirements to the project chat were originally cut because of cost constraints. C. Inform the customer that the project is completed and has come in under budget. D. Bill the customer for the full amount of the contract as this was the original agreed-upon price.
You work for a large manufacturing plant. You're in the Initiation process of a new project for an overseas product release. This is the company's first experience in the overseas market, and they hope to make a big splash with the introduction of this product. The project entails producing your product in a concentrated formula and packaging it in smaller containers than the U.S. product uses. A new machine is needed in order to mix the first set of ingredients in the concentrated formula. Which of the following actions should the project manager take? A. The project manager should document the project's goals and known deliverables in a high-level overview document and recommend the project proceed. B. The project manager should document the project's goals and known deliverables in a high-level overview document and assume the project is a go. C. The project manager should document the project's goals and known deliverables in a high-level overview document and recommend a feasibility study be performed. D. The project manager should document the project's goals and known deliverables in a high-level overview document and deliver it to the stakeholders.
You are a project manager for Laurel's theater productions. Your new project is coming in over budget and requires a cost change through the cost change control system. You know all of the following are true regarding Cost Control except: A. Performance is monitored to detect variances B. Changes are reflected in the cost baseline C. Changes are monitored and reflected in the project scope D. Changes are monitored so that inappropriate changes do not get into the cost baseline
Your project is in the Scope Definition process. You've just completed the WBS. Which of the following is true? A. The WBS breaks the project deliverables down to a level where alternatives identification can be used to determine how level two assignments should be made. B. The WBS breaks the project deliverables down to a level where project constraints and assumptions can be easily identified. C. The WBS breaks the project deliverables down to the work package level where product analysis can be documented. D. The WBS breaks the project deliverables down to the work package level where cost and time estimates can be easily determined and quality control measurements can be determined.
You have been assigned to a project in which the objectives are to expand three miles of the north-south highway through your city by two lanes in each direction. You are in charge of the demolition phase of this project, and you report to the project manager in charge of this project. You have been hired on contract and will be released at the completion of the demolition phase. What type of organizational structure does this represent? A. Functional organization B. Weak matrix organization C. Projectized organization D. Balanced matrix organization
You’re promised your team two days of paid time off plus a week’s training in the latest technology of their choice if they complete their project ahead of schedule. This is an example of which of the following? A. Achievement theory B. Expectancy theory C. Maslow's theory D. Contingency theory
You are ready to perform the Activity Sequencing process for your project. To make your job easier, you're going to use a software tool to help you draw a PDM network diagram. Most software programs use this technique. You know all of the following are true regarding the PDM except: A. It shows the activities on arrows and connects them to dependencies usually depicted as circles. B. It’s also called AON. C. It shows the activities in boxes with arrows connecting the dependent activities. D. It uses four types of dependency relationships of which finish to start is one.
Three people are responsible for establishing cost of quality theories. Crosby and Juran are two of them, and their theories respectively are: A. Grades of quality, fitness for use B. Fitness for use, zero defects C. Zero defects, fitness for use D. Cost of quality, zero defects
You’ve been assigned as a project manager on a research and development project for a new dental procedure. You’ve published the scope statement and are working on the scope management plan. What is the purpose of the scope management plan? A. It describes and documents a scope baseline to help make future project decisions. B. It decomposes project deliverables. C. It describes how project scope changes will be incorporated into the project and how project scope will be managed. D. It describes how cost and time estimates can be composed for project scope changes.
Your project was just completed, accepted, and closed. As is customary for your organization, you conduct a post-implementation audit. The purpose of this audit includes all of the following except: A. Evaluating project goals and comparing them to project product B. Reviewing successes and failures C. Documenting the acceptance of the work results D. Documenting possible improvements for future projects
Which of the following is true regarding product descriptions? A. The product description is an output of the Initiation process. It describes the characteristics of the product or service. B. The product description is an output of the Initiation process. It describes the characteristics of the product or service and less detail in the early phases of the project. C. The product description is an input of the Initiation process. It describes the characteristics of the product or service and contains a lot of detail in the early phases of the project. D. The product description is an input of the Initiation process. It describes the characteristics of the product or service.
You are preparing a cash flow analysis for a project the company is considering undertaking. The project's cost is $525,000, and expected cash inflows are $125,000 the first year and then $75,000 per quarter the second year and $100,000 per quarter after that. What is the payback period? A. 16 months B. 27 months C. 32 months D. 28 months