Your company manufactures small kitchen appliances. They are introducing a new product line of appliances in designer colors with distinctive features for kitchens in small spaces. These new products will be offered indefinitely starting with the spring catalog release. Which of the following is true?
A. This is a project because this new product line has never been manufactured and sold by this company before.
B. This is an ongoing operation because the company is in the business of manufacturing kitchen appliances. Introducing designer colors and features is simply a new twist on an existing process.
C. This is an ongoing operation because the new product line will be sold indefinitely. It's not temporary.
D. This is not a project or an ongoing operation. This is a new product introduction not affecting ongoing operations.
What is the w5hh (wwwwwhh) principle given by barry boehm?
You are the project manager for a cable service provider. Your team members are amiable with each other and are careful to make project decisions jointly. Which of the following is true? A. They are in the smoothing stage of Team Development. B. They are in the norming stage of Team Development. C. They are in the forming stage of Team Development. D. They are in the forcing stage of Team Development.
You are a project manager for Fountain of Youth Spring Water bottlers. You are installing a new accounting system and have identified several problems and their causes. You decide to use which of the following to identify the variables that will have the greatest effect on project outcomes? A. Design of experiments B. Bench marking C. Benefit/cost analysis D. Flow charting
Information-gathering techniques used in the Risk Identification process include all of the following except: A. Brainstorming B. Delphi technique C. Interviewing D. Kaizen technique
You are the project manager for Design Your Web Site, Inc. Your company is designing the website for a national grocery store chain. You have your activity list in hand and several time estimates and are ready to diagram the activity dependencies. You should use which of the following? A. PDM techniques B. PDM or ADM techniques C. AON techniques D. ADM techniques
You are the project manager for a software consulting firm that is working on developing a new software program for a customer in another country. Things seem to be progressing well. Recently, your stakeholders examined the work of the project and formally accepted the work results. Which process was just performed? A. Scope Verification B. Quality Assurance C. Performance Reporting D. Quality Control
You are the project manager for a new website for the local zoo. You need to perform Quantitative Risk Analysis. You'll use all of the following tools and techniques to accomplish this except: A. Data precision ranking B. Sensitivity analysis C. Decision tree analysis D. Interviewing
Your project has recently experienced change. Some of the agreed-upon WBS elements have been changed as a result. What kind of change has occurred? A. Schedule change B. Risk response change C. Quality change D. Scope change
Which of the following is constraint chat you might find during the Organizational Planning process? A. Organizational structure, expected staff assignments, collective bargaining agreements, and project management team preferences B. Organizational structure, organizational interfaces, technical interfaces, and interpersonal interfaces C. Organizational interfaces, expected staff assignments, collective bargaining agreements, and project management team preferences D. Organizational interfaces, technical interfaces, and interpersonal interfaces
The tools and techniques of Source Selection include all of the following except: A. Contract negotiation B. Work authorization system C. Weighting systems D. Independent estimates
What are the skills required to be a project manager? Followup question, Rate yourself in each of the skill with examples.
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You are working on a project that will upgrade the phone system in your customer service center. You have used bottom-up estimating techniques to assign costs to the project activities and have determined the cost baseline. Which of the following is true? A. You have completed the Cost Estimating process and now need to complete the Cost Budgeting process to determine the project's baseline. B. You have completed the Project Plan Development process and established a project baseline to measure future project performance against. C. You have completed the Cost Estimating process and now need to complete the Project Plan Development process to establish a project baseline to measure future project performance against. D. You have completed the Cost Budgeting process, and the cost baseline will be used to measure future project performance.