Mentoring & Coaching Pert 7 Quality and Procurement - Post Test

While working on a product redesign project, the project manager has met with the company’s senior management to inform them that they need to provide adequate resources to ensure the product’s quality. Which of the following statements is true about management’s responsibility regarding quality?

• Management is not responsible for quality on project
• Management only responsible for quality on operation
• Management is responsible for quality throughout the organization
• Only project team responsible for quality on project

The company has informed all company employees that they must pay careful attention to the work that they are doing to ensure the company delivers a quality product . What quality management theory best illustrates this scenario?

• Total Quality Management
• Just in time
• ISO 9000
• Continous quality

The project team would like to document the sequence of steps that the process should follow to ensure that the deliverables are being made with the correct quality requirements. What tool can best help the team show the sequence of steps and whether there’s any room for improvement in a given process?

• Cost of Quality
• Process Chart
• Flowcharts
• Process Improvement Charts

What in quality management describes a project’s or product’s attribute and how the quality control process will verify compliance to it?

• Requirement metrics
• Quality Metrics
• Scope Metrics
• Quality Test

Manage quality is a process that is done to increase the probability of meeting a project’s quality requirements. From what other process does manage quality get the data needed to improve quality management?

• Validate Scope
• Control Scope
• Plan Quality Management
• Control Quality

The project team has determined they will use an outside consultant to configure the network routers on the network upgrade project. They’re not sure what type of configuration they should put in the routers or how it should be done. They will depend on the expertise of the consultant. They would also like to keep the risks as low as possible. What contract best fits this project?

• Firm fixed price
• Time and material
• Cost plus fixed fee
• Cost plus incentive

While working on the office renovation project, the project manager has received multiple bids from different vendors. What the project manager thought would be a cost-effective contract turned out to be very expensive. The project manager then hires a professional estimator to determine what the contract should cost. What is the project manager looking for?

• Outside Estimate
• Building Cost Estimate
• Independent Cost Estimate
• PMO

The project manager and the team have determined that they will procure the installation and configuration of the telephone systems for the new computer network. They have determined that the type of agreement they will use is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. What project document will specify the type of contract that will be used?

• Requirement documentation
• Procurement Strategy
• Project Scope Statement
• Bid Document

The project manager has met with over six different sellers and has negotiated with them. Finally, he has selected one of the sellers and awarded the contract. What process group are these activities part of?

• Initating
• Planning
• Executing
• Monitoring and Controlling

The project manager is set to start the process of conduct procurement. What should the project manager have received before starting this process?

• Procurement Management Plan
• Procurement Strategy
• Procurement Scope
• Seller Proposal