PMI PMP-Project Management Professional Practice Exam Q. 1101 to 1110
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Q. 1101: Recently your company introduced a new set of “metal woods” to its established line of golfing equipment. However, in the past weeks many of the clubs have been returned because of quality problems. You decide to conduct a failure mode and criticality analysis to:
A. Analyze the product development cycle after product release to determine strengths and weaknesses
B. Evaluate failure modes and causes associated with the design and manufacture of this product
C. Evaluate failure modes and causes associated with the design and manufacture of a new product to replace the clubs
D. Help management set priorities in its existing manufacturing processes to avoid failures
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Justification in favor of the correct answer:
This technique is a method of analyzing design reliability. A list of potential failure modes is developed for each element, and then each mode is given a numeric rating for frequency of occurrence, criticality, and probability of detection. These data are used to assign a risk priority number for prioritizing problems and guiding the design effort.
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Q. 1102: The “rule of seven” as applied to statistical process control charts means that:
A. Seven rejects typically occur per thousand inspections
B. Seven consecutive points are above or below the mean
C. At least seven inspectors should be in place for every thousand employees
D. A process is not out of control even though seven measurements fall outside the lower and upper control limits
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Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Consecutive points on a control chart that are above or below the mean or if a point exceeds a control limit indicate an abnormal trend in the process and must be investigated.
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Q. 1103: Long-term contracting is an important aspect of project quality management because it:
A. Provides incentives to vendors to make quality commitments
B. Improves quality through the use of benefit-cost ratio
C. Usually results in lower costs and increased profitability
D. Provides for periodic. yet mandatory quality audits
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Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Vendors that have long-term relationships with buyers are generally more inclined to invest in process and quality improvement, because they have a higher probability of recovering their costs. The stability provided through longer-term contracts permits better planning and encourages better communication and partnering between the buyer and the seller. Long-term contracting with fewer vendors also reduces buyer-related costs by simplifying accounting, collections, and other administrative tasks.
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Q. 1104: Even though your project is vastly different from a manufacturing operation, you believe the principles of kaizen will work well. The kaizen approach to continuous improvement emphasizes:
A. The greater importance of customer satisfaction over cost
B. Radical changes in operating practices
C. Incremental improvement
D. The use of quality circles to improve morale
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Masaaki Imai, a Japanese engineer, coined the word kaizen to describe an approach to quality that means making small improvements every time a process is repeated.
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Q. 1105: Results of quality control measurements are used:
A. As an input to plan quality management
B. To prepare an operational definition
C. To prepare a control chart
D. As an input to perform quality assurance
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Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Quality control activities result in measurements that are used as inputs to the QA process. Such quality control measurements are used to evaluate and analyze the quality of the processes of the project against the organization’s standards or specific requirements. They also compare processes used to create the measurements and validate actual measurements to determine their level of correctness.
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Q. 1106: The control chart is a tool used primarily to help:
A. Monitor process variation over time
B. Measure the degree of conformance
C. Determine whether results conform
D. Determine whether results conform to requirements
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Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Used to monitor process variation and to detect and correct changes in process performance, the control chart helps people understand and control their processes and work. It enables the project manager, along with appropriate stakeholders, to identify points where corrective action can be taken to prevent unnatural performance.
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Q. 1107: The area where the project manager can have the greatest impact on the quality of his or her project is in:
A. Quality planning
B. Quality assurance
C. Quality control
D. Quality improvement
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Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Quality assurance is the management section of quality management. It is the collective term for the formal activities and managerial processes that attempt to ensure that products and services meet the required quality level. The project manager should establish administrative processes and procedures necessary to ensure and often prove that the scope statement conforms to the customer’s actual requirements, to determine which processes will be used to ensure that stakeholders have confidence that the quality activities will be properly performed, and to ensure that all legal and regulatory requirements will be met.
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Q. 1108: You are a project manager for residential construction. As a project manager, you must be especially concerned with building codes-particularly in the plan quality management process. You must ensure that building codes are reflected in your project plans because:
A. Standards and regulations are an input to plan quality management
B. Quality audits serve to ensure there is compliance with regulations
C. They are a cost associated with quality initiatives
D. Compliance with standards is the primary objective of perform quality control
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
During the plan quality management process, the project management team must consider any application area-specific standards, regulations, rules, and guidelines that may affect the project as part of the enterprise environmental factors. Building codes are an example of regulations.
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Q. 1109: You work as a project manager in the largest hospital in the region. Studies have shown that patients have to wait for long periods before being treated. To assist in identifying the factors contributing to this problem, you and your team have decided to use which of the following techniques?
A. Cause-and-effect diagrams
B. Pareto analysis
C. Scatter diagrams
D. Control charts
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Cause-and-effect diagrams, also called Ishikawa diagrams or fishbone diagrams, are used to illustrate how various causes and sub-causes interact to create a special effect. It is named for its developer. Kaoru Ishikawa. These diagrams are useful in linking the undesirable effects seen as special variation to the assigned cause, enabling project teams to implement corrective actions to eliminate the special variation shown in a control chart.
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Q. 1110: The ISO 9000 standards provide:
A. A description of how products should be produced
B. Specifics for the implementation of quality systems
C. A framework for quality systems
D. The maximum process requirements necessary to ensure that customers receive a good product
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
ISO 9000 provides a basic set of requirements for a quality system, without specifying the particulars for implementation.
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