MGT302 Quizzes Week 4

Question 1

A noncritical activity with high variance could possibly become critical in some situations.

Correct!

True

False

Question 2

A chart to show time lengths and sequences of project task activities was developed by?

Correct!

Henry Gantt

Rebecca Scott

Suzuki Ishikawa

Nathan Palmer

Question 3

The bars in a Gantt chart show?

Precedence relationships

Activity descriptions

Correct!

Activity start and finish times

Activity resources needed

Question 4

Project risks that are within company control such as poor forecasting are referred to as?

Cost risks

External risks

Technology risks

Correct!

Operational risks

Question 5

The third step in both the CPM and PERT approaches is?

Determine the sequential relationship between all of the activities

Determine the critical path

Identify all project activities and time to complete each activity

Correct!

Develop an activity network

Question 6

Which of the following is not a category of project management risk?

Correct!

Internal

External

Cost

Schedule

Question 7

The time estimate that represents the time to complete the activity if everything goes according to plan is the?

Pessimistic completion time

Least likely completion time

Correct!

Optimistic completion time

Most likely completion time

Question 8

All critical path activities have a slack time greater than zero.

True

Correct!

False

Question 9

The cost associated with reducing an activity duration is often referred to as a crash cost.

Correct!

True

False

Question 10

Modern concerns of project managers include all of the following except?

Risk assessment

Project security

Development of contingency plans

Correct!

Elimination of need for projects

Quetion 11

The DMAIC improvement cycle has been applied to revenue management approaches.

Correct!

True

False

Question 12

All of the following individuals are commonly associated with Six Sigma philosophy and tools except?

Correct!

Hill

Juran

Deming

Crosby

Question 13

Few firms attempt to use both Six Sigma and lean.

True

Correct!

False

Question 14

A quality philosophy that drives a firm to lower prices, higher quality, and fast response is referred to as?

Critical path method

Lean manufacturing

Correct!

Six Sigma

Process capability

Question 15

In Six Sigma, DPMO refers to?

Detections per million opportunities

Detections per manufacturing output

Correct!

Defects per million opportunities

Defects per manufacturing output

Question 16

SQC refers to?

Statistical quality capability

Statistical quality concept

Statistical quality charting

Correct!

Statistical quality control

Question 17

Pareto charts are used to describe process flow.

True

Correct!

False

Question 18

The highest level of Six Sigma training is referred to as Black Belt.

True

Correct!

False

Question 19

The process of preparing to meet quality goals refers to which of Juran’s Quality Trilogy?

Correct Answer

Quality planning

You Answered

Quality control

Quality improvement

This does not relate to any of Juran’s Quality Trilogy

Question 20

In Six Sigma, the goal of quality perfection is represented by having a process sample average that falls below a control limit that is placed how far above the true process mean?

Correct!

Six standard deviations

Three standard deviations

Four standard deviations

One standard deviation