PART A:

Explain Extra Production Capacity as a competitive advantage

What is a Capacity Cushion?

What differences in organizational structures affect project management?

If Jacob from Trinity Manufacturing is managing a project for a simple organization with no bureaucracy,

1. he will most likely finish his project on time and under budget.
2. he will most likely finish his project late and over budget.
3. he will not finish the project at all.
4. the level of bureaucracy in the organization is irrelevant to project management

What are the types of project management organizational structures?

If Mark is working on a project that involves other departments, including his own, he will most likely have 2 bosses and the project management structure will be a:

1. Matrix type
2. Functional type
3. Pure Project type
4. Dysfunctional type

What is the critical path in Project Management?

What are the types of costs associated with quality?

Which of the following would be considered a prevention cost of quality?

A) inspecting work in process

B) training workers to perform their jobs

C) issuing a recall of defective product before another customer is injured

D) performing a 24 hour burn-in on every item produced to make sure it works before it is packaged.

What are the Malcom Baldrige quality award winner characteristics?

Which of the following is a characteristic of a typical recipient of the Malcom Baldrige Quality Award?

1. They formulated a vision of what they thought quality was and how they would achieve it.
2. Senior management was disengaged and disinterested.
3. They did what the customer said they thought quality should be.
4. They produced product which had non-random variation.
5. They passively and halfheartedly managed the process.

Types of variation (Random and Non-Random) and their characteristics

Which of the following would be a random cause of variation?

A) room temperature, wind and dirt in an environment open to outside air

B) a machine in need of repair

C) an untrained worker

D) defective raw material