CIS 517 QUIZ 7
Q You are the project manager for the Heart of Texas casual clothing company. Your company is introducing a new line of clothing called Black Sheep Ranch Wear. You will outsource the production of this clothing line to a vendor. Your legal department has recommended you use a contract that reimburses the seller's allowable costs and builds in a bonus based on the vendor achieving the performance criteria they've outlined in their memo. Which of the following contract types will you use?
FPIF
CPF
CPFF
CPIF
Q: Four people are responsible for establishing cost of quality theories. Crosby and Juran are two them, and their theories are ___________________, respectively.
fitness for use, zero defects
zero defects, fitness for use
cost of quality, zero defects
grades of quality, fitness for use
Q: You are the project manager for an upcoming outdoor concert event. You're working on the procurement plan for the computer software program that will control the lighting and screen projections during the concert. You're comparing the cost of purchasing a software product to the cost of your company programmers writing a custom software program. You are engaged in which of the following?
Creating the procurement management plan
Using expert judgment
Procurement planning
Make-or-buy analysis
Q: Which of the following project management plans guides how and when project resources will be released from the project team?
Project communications management plan
Project schedule management plan
Project staffing management plan
Project human resources management plan
Q: What does RACI stand for?
Roles, Action, Consult, Inform
Roles, Accountable, Confirm, Inform
Responsible, Account, Confirm, Inform
Responsible, Accountable, Consult, Inform
Q: Sally is a project manager working on a project that will require a specially engineered machine. Only three manufacturers can make the machine to the specifications Sally needs. The price of this machine is particularly critical to this project. The budget is limited, and there's no chance of securing additional funds if the bids for the machine come in higher than budgeted. She's developing the source selection criteria for the bidders' responses and knows all of the following are true except for which one?
Sally will base the source selection criteria on price alone because the budget is a constraint.
Sally will review the project management plan, requirements documents, and risk register as some of the inputs to this process.
Sally will use understanding of need and warranties as two of the criteria for evaluation.
Sally will document an SOW, the desired form of response, and any required contractual provisions in the RFP.
Q: You are the project manager for Xylophone Phonics. This company produces children's software programs that teach basic reading and math skills. You are ready to assign project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships. On which project Planning process are you working?
Acquire Project Team
Plan Organizational Resources
Estimate Activity Resources
Plan Human Resource Management
Q: You work for a furniture manufacturer. Your project is going to design and produce a new office chair. The chair will have the ability to function as a regular chair and also the ability to move its occupant into an upright, kneeling position. The design team is trying to determine the combination of comfort and ease of transformation to the new position that will give the chair the best characteristics while keeping the costs reasonable. Several different combinations have been tested. This is an example of which of the following tools and techniques of Plan Quality Management?
DOE
Benchmarking
Quality metrics
COQ
Q: The ____ helps in identifying the minority of causes, which create the majority of problems and delays, and to focus on them.
Scatter diagram
Run chart
Pareto chart
Control chart
Q: Failure costs are also known as which of the following?
Internal costs
Prevention costs
Cost of keeping defects out of the hands of customers
Cost of poor quality
Q: Which of the following is a prevention-driven activity to reduce errors in the project and to help the project meet its requirements?
Progressive elaboration
Quality assurance
Control quality
Project planning
Q: Which of the following is a flowchart that shows all of the processes and the interfaces that interact with the project processes?
Control chart
Pareto chart
Process configuration
Quality baseline
Q: Which of the following contracts should you use for projects that have a degree of uncertainty and require a large investment early in the project life cycle?
Fixed price
Cost reimbursable
Lump sum
T&M
Q: All of the following are true regarding the Plan Quality Management process except for which one?
DOE is a tool and technique of this process that provides statistical analysis for changing product or process elements one at a time to optimize the process.
Some of the tools and techniques of this process are cost-benefit analysis, COQ, Seven Basic Quality Tools, benchmarking, DOE, and statistical sampling.
Changes to the product as a result of meeting quality standards might require cost or schedule adjustments.
This is one of the key processes performed during the Planning process group and during the development of the project management plan.
Q: You are the project manager for an outdoor concert event scheduled for one year from today. You're working on the procurement documents for the computer software program that will control the lighting and screen projections during the concert. You've decided to contract with a professional services company that specializes in writing custom software programs. You want to minimize the risk to the organization, so you'll opt for which contract type?
FFP
CPIF
FPIF
CPFF
Q: Which of the following documents describes how to implement the quality policy?
Quality control measurement
Quality management plan
Quality matrix
Quality audit
Q: The quality management plan documents how the project team will implement the quality policy. It should address at least all of the following except which one?
The responsibilities the project team has in implementing quality
The processes to use to satisfy quality requirements
The resources needed to carry out the quality plan
The quality metrics and tolerances and what will be measured
Q: Which of the following is a graphical representation of roles and responsibilities of various project team members?
RACI chart
Pareto chart
Resource histogram chart
Organization chart
Q: Which of the following describes the cost of quality associated with scrapping, rework, and downtime?
Appraisal costs
Prevention costs
External failure costs
Internal failure costs
Q: Which of the following contract types is described in the statement below?
"The seller is reimbursed for all allowable costs for performing the contract work, and receives a fixed payment calculated as a percentage for the initial estimated project costs."
Cost plus incentive fee contract (CPIF)
Firm fixed-price contract (FFP)
Fixed price incentive fee contract (FPIF)
Cost plus fixed fee contract (CPFF)
Q: What term best describes the cost associated with safety requirements?
Cost of risk mitigation
Cost of quality
Cost risk avoidance
Cost of doing business
Q: All of the following statements are true regarding the Plan Human Resource Management process except for which one?
A RAM (or RACI chart) is an output of this process that allows you to see all the people assigned to an activity.
The staffing management plan created in this process describes how and when resources will be acquired and released.
Included in the Plan Human Resource Management output are project organization charts that show the project's reporting relationships.
The Plan Human Resource Management process involves determining roles and responsibilities.
Q: Which of the following best characterizes Six Sigma?
Asserts that quality must be a continuous way of doing business
Focuses on improving the quality of the people first, then improving the quality of the process or project
Stipulates that quality must be managed in
Focuses on process improvement and variation reduction by using a measurement-based strategy
Q: All of the following are benefits of meeting quality requirements except which one?
Less rework
Lower risk
Higher productivity
An increase in stakeholder satisfaction
Q: The theory that 85 percent of the cost of quality is a management problem is attributed to ___________________?
Shewhart
Juran
Crosby
Deming
Q: You are the project manager for the Heart of Texas casual clothing company. Your company is introducing a new line of clothing called Black Sheep Ranch Wear. You will outsource the production of this clothing line to a vendor. The vendor has requested a procurement SOW. All of the following statements are true except for which one?
The procurement SOW contains a description of the new clothing line.
The vendor requires a procurement SOW to determine whether it can produce the clothing line given the detailed specifications of this product.
The procurement SOW contains the objectives of the project.
As the purchaser, you are required to write the procurement SOW.
Q: You are the project manager for BB Tops, a nationwide toy store chain. Your new project involves creating a prototype display at several stores across the country. You are hiring a contractor for portions of the project. The contract stipulates that you'll pay all allowable costs and a 6 percent fee over and above the allowable costs at the end of the contract. Which of the following describes this contract type?
CPPC
CPF
CPIF
CPPF
Q: Which of the following are constraints that you might find during the Plan Human Resource Management process?
Organizational structures, collective bargaining agreements, and economic conditions
Organizational interfaces, technical interfaces, and interpersonal interfaces
Organizational interfaces, collective bargaining agreements, and economic conditions
Organizational structures, technical interfaces, and interpersonal interfaces
Q: Your organization is embarking on a long-term project that will require additional human resources on a contract basis to complete the work of the project. Since the project will span several years, you know one vendor probably can't supply all the resources you'll need over the course of the contract. However, you want to work with only one vendor throughout the project to minimize the amount of procurement documents you'll have to produce. So, you'll specify in your procurement documents that contractors will have to form partnerships to work on this project. You know all of the following are true regarding this question except for which one?
You'll use an FP-EPA contract because this project spans several years.
You will use an RFP, which is part of the procurement documents output of the Plan Procurement Management process, as your procurement document for this project.
Some of the quality metrics you'll use for this project include on-time performance, failure rates, budget control, and test coverage. Quality metrics are an output of the Plan Quality Management process.
You should consider teaming agreements, which are an input to the Plan Procurement Management process
Q: Which of the following charts is described in the statement below?
"It shows the causes of a certain event. A common use of this diagram is to identify potential factors causing an overall effect. It helps identify causal factors and contributing causes."
Process configuration chart
Control chart
Flowchart
Ishikawa
Q: Which process has the greatest ability to directly influence the project schedule?
Plan Procurement Management
Plan Communications
Plan Quality Management
Plan Human Resource Management
Q: You are the project manager for BB Tops, a nationwide toy store chain. Your new project involves creating a prototype display at several stores across the country. You are using a RACI chart to display individuals and activities. What does RACI stand for?
Resource, accountable, consult, identify
Responsible, accountable, consult, inform
Responsible, assignment, control, inform
Resource, activity, control, identify
Q: You have been hired as a contract project manager for Grapevine Vineyards. Grapevine wants you to design an Internet wine club for its customers. Customers must register before being allowed to order wine over the Internet so that legal age can be established. You know this project will require new hardware and an update to some existing infrastructure. You will have to hire an expert to help with the infrastructure assessment and upgrades. You also know that the module to verify registration must be written and tested using data from Grapevine's existing database. This new module cannot be tested until the data from the existing system is loaded. You are going to hire a vendor to perform the programming and testing tasks for this module to help speed up the project schedule. The vendor will be reimbursed for all their costs, and you want to use a contract type that will allow you to give the vendor a little something extra if you are satisfied with the work they do. Which of the following will be applied in this situation?
Fixed-price contracts can include incentives for meeting or exceeding performance criteria.
You'll use a CPAF contract for the programming vendor.
Contract type is determined by the risk shared between the buyer and seller.
Each procurement item needs an SOW.
Q: ____ is the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements.
Regulation
Project phase
Scope
Quality
Q: ____ is the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements.
Regulation
Project phase
Scope
Quality
Q: You are the project manager for Xylophone Phonics. It produces children's software programs that teach basic reading and math skills. You are performing the Plan Quality Management process and are identifying nonproductive activities. Part of this involves capturing information such as process boundaries, process configurations, and process metrics. Which of the following does this describe?
The process improvement plan
The quality management plan
The quality metrics
The cost of quality
Q: Which of the following is the process of documenting project procurement decisions, specifying the approach, and identifying potential sellers?
Control procurements
Conduct procurements
Plan procurement management
Close procurements
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