You are a project manager for a growing dairy farm business. It offers organic dairy products regionally and is expanding its operations to the West Coast. It's in the process of purchasing and leasing dairy farm businesses to get operations underway. The subproject manager in charge of network operations has reported some hardware problems to you. You're also having problems coordinating and integrating other elements of the project. Which of the following statements is true?

You are a project manager for a growing dairy farm business. It offers organic dairy products regionally and is expanding its operations to the West Coast. It is in the process of purchasing and leasing dairy farm businesses to get operations underway. You are in charge of the network operations part of this project. An important deadline that depends on the successful completion of the testing phase is approaching. You've detected some problems with your hardware in the testing phase and discover that the hardware is not compatible with other network equipment. You are empowered to take corrective action and exchange the hardware for more compatible equipment. Which of the following statements is true?

Your organization is embarking on a long-term project that will require additional human resources on a contract basis to complete the work of the project. Since the project will span several years, you know one vendor probably can't supply all the resources you'll need over the course of the contract. However, you want to work with only one vendor throughout the project to minimize the number of procurement documents you'll have to produce. So, you'll specify in your procurement documents that contractors will have to form partnerships to work on this project. You know all of the following are true regarding this question except for which one?

Which of the following best characterizes Six Sigma as it relates to quality?

You work for a furniture manufacturer. Your project is going to design and produce a new office chair. The chair will have the ability to function as a regular chair and also the ability to move its occupant into an upright, kneeling position. The design team is trying to determine the combination of comfort and ease of transformation to the new position that will give the chair the best characteristics while keeping the costs reasonable. Several different combinations have been tested. This is an example of which of the following techniques?

The quality management plan documents how the project team will implement the quality policy. It should address at least which of the following?

Which of the following describes the cost of quality associated with scrapping, rework, and downtime?

The theory that 85 percent of the cost of quality is a management problem is attributed to ___________________.

Which process has the greatest ability to directly influence the project schedule?

You have been hired as a contract project manager for Grapevine Vineyards. Grapevine wants you to design an Internet wine club for its customers. Customers must register before being allowed to order wine over the Internet so that legal age can be established. You know this project will require new hardware and an update to some existing infrastructure. You will have to hire an expert to help with the infrastructure assessment and upgrades. You also know that the module to verify registration must be written and tested using data from Grapevine's existing database. This new module cannot be tested until the data from the existing system is loaded. You are going to hire a vendor to perform the programming and testing tasks for this module to help speed up the project schedule. The vendor will be reimbursed for all their costs, and you want to use a contract type that will allow you to give the vendor a little something extra if you are satisfied with the work they do. You know all of the following apply in this situation except for which one?