PMP Questions ID 4249 you are a project manager for star light strings star light manufactures strings of lights for o

You are a project manager for Star Light Strings. Star Light manufactures strings of lights for outdoor display. Its products range from simple light strings to elaborate lights with animal designs, bug designs, memorabilia, and so on. Your newest project requires a change. You are performing the Control Quality process and are looking at and testing a sampling of the product for conformance to quality standards. The tolerable result for the bulbs used on the string is 995–1,000 hours. All of the light bulbs must be LED bulbs. Which of the following are true regarding this process?

Select one

All are correct

The LED bulbs are an attribute. Attributes have two measures, conforming or nonconforming.

Prevention cost should be considered against the cost of rework, labor, material, and potential loss of customers.

Tolerable results are assessed during an inspection and are expressed within a specified range.

You are performing an inspection. Inspections sometime use check sheets to help track and record data.

You are a project manager for Bluebird Technologies. Bluebird writes custom billing applications for several industries. One of your users asks for some changes to the invoice functionality during a status meeting. You explain to her that the change needs to go through the change control system, which is a subset of the configuration management system. You explain that a change control system does which of the following?

Select one

Documents procedures for managing change requests

Tracks the status of change requests

Describes the management impacts of change

Documents the process for approving changes

Defines the level of authority needed to approve emergency change requests

All are correct

You are a project manager for Bluebird Technologies. Bluebird writes custom billing applications for several industries. A schedule change has been requested. From the perspective of the Perform Integrated Change Control process, change is concerned with which of the following?

Select four

Influencing factors that circumvent the change control process

Initiating change requests

Reviewing change

Maintaining the integrity of baselines

Coordinating and managing changes across the project

Your project progressed as planned until yesterday. Suddenly, an unexpected risk event occurred. You quickly devised a response to deal with this negative risk event using which of the following?

You are working on a project that was proceeding well until a manufacturing glitch occurred that requires corrective action. It turns out the glitch was an unintentional enhancement to the product, and the marketing people are absolutely crazy about its potential. The corrective action is canceled, and you continue to produce the product with the newly discovered enhancement. As the project manager, you know that a variance has occurred. Which of the following options is true?

Select one

Attribute inspection determines whether measurements fall within tolerable results.

Scatter diagrams display the relationships between an independent and a dependent variable to show variations in the process over time.

Common causes of variance, also known as special-cause variances, are situations that are unique and not easily controlled at the operational level.

Random variances, known or predictable variances, and variances that are always present in the process are known as common causes of variance.

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