The quality management plan documents how the project team will implement the quality policy. It must address at least all of the following except which one?

a. Continuous process improvement

b. Quality assurance

c. Quality control

d. Quality metrics

You are the project manager working on a research project for a new drug treatment. Your preliminary project schedule runs past the due date for a federal grant application. The manager of the R&D department has agreed to release two resources to work on your project in order to meet the federal grant application date. This is an example of ______.

a. resource leveling

b. fast tracking

c. crashing

d. adjusting the resource calendar

You are a project manager working on gathering requirements and establishing estimatesfor the project. Which process group are you in?

a. Monitoring and Controlling

b. Executing

c. Planning

d. Initiating

The amount of authority a project manager possesses can be related to which of the following?

a. The organizational structure

b. The amount of authority the manager of the project manager possesses

c. The project managers communication skills

d. The key stakeholders influence on the project

(5 points) You accept project costs to date and assume future work (ETC) will be performed at the budgeted rate. If BAC = 800, ETC = 275, PV = 300, AC = 200, EV = 250, and cumulative CPI = 1.25, what is the EAC?

a. 600

b. 750

c. 550

d. 640

Which of the following best characterizes Six Sigma?

a. Stipulates that quality must be managed in

b. Focuses on improving the quality of the people first, then improving the quality of the

c. Focuses on process improvement and variation reduction by using a measurement based

d. Asserts that quality must be a continuous way of doing business