PMP Questions ID 1400 the quality policy is the intended direction of a performing organization with regard to quality

The Quality Policy is the intended direction of a performing organization with regard to quality. However, as a project manager in a performing organization, you find the organization lacks a formal quality policy. What should you do in such a case?

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The project management team does not need to develop a quality policy since the performing organization does not have one.

A quality policy is nice to have but is not required for every project.

The project management team will need to develop a quality policy for the project.

The project management team needs to obtain the quality policy from the customer.

The objective of a transformation project is to move an organization from one state to another state. Before the project begins, the organization is commonly referred to as being in the:

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The cost of correcting mistakes through an inspection is much less than the cost of preventing them.

The cost of preventing mistakes is generally much less than the cost of correcting them as revealed by inspection.

It does not matter where a defect is captured as long as the finished work product does not have a defect.

The cost of correcting mistakes through an inspection is more or less the same as the cost of preventing them since the same effort goes into both activities.

As a project manager, you are concerned with both prevention and inspection of errors in a work product. The difference between prevention and inspection is:

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Inspection is work the Quality Control (QC) team does; the Quality Assurance (QA) team does Prevention.

Inspection refers to keeping errors out of the process; prevention refers to keeping errors out of the customer’s hands.

Inspection and prevention refer to the same activity depending on what stage of the project the activity is done.

Prevention refers to keeping errors out of the process; inspection refers to keeping errors out of the customer’s hands.

A project manager creates a component-specific tool to verify that a set of required steps has been performed. This tool is called a:

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