Senior Design Project MCQ

1. What is a fishbone diagram used for?

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Correct Answer: To identify and categorize the possible causes of an effect.

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2. What is a finish-to-finish relationship?

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Correct Answer: A successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.

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3. In a finish-to-finish relationship, what must happen before a successor activity can finish?

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Correct Answer: A predecessor activity has finished.

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4. What does a finish-to-start relationship mean?

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Correct Answer: A successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.

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5. In a finish-to-start relationship, what must happen before the successor activity can start?

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Correct Answer: The predecessor activity has finished.

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6. What does a feasibility study assess?

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Correct Answer: The likelihood of a project being completed effectively, considering resources and requirements.

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7. What is the main purpose of using fast tracking in project management?

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Correct Answer: To shorten the duration of the critical path

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8. Which of the following is NOT a focus of XPM?

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Correct Answer: Rigid scheduling

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9. What does XPM stand for?

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Correct Answer: Extreme project management

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10. What is Agile software development?

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Correct Answer: A Software development methodology that emphasizes responsiveness to customer demands

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11. What is the main feature of extreme programming?

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Correct Answer: High-volume communication with customers

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12. What is an external dependency?

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Correct Answer: An outside relationship that affects the completion of a project activity.

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13. What is an example of an external dependency?

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Correct Answer: A project activity that requires the use of a machine that is not owned by the company.

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14. What is expert judgment?

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Correct Answer: The practice of using expert opinion to guide decision making.

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15. Who is responsible for the success of the project?

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Correct Answer: Executive sponsor

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16. What is the role of an executive sponsor?

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Correct Answer: To provide high-level direction to project managers and be accountable to the board for project success.

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17. Which phase comes after the Execution phase?

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Correct Answer: None, the Execution phase is the last phase in the project management life cycle.

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18. Which of the following is true about the execution phase?

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Correct Answer: Execution is the longest and most expensive phase in the project management life cycle.

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19. What does the adjective "event-driven" describe?

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Correct Answer: An action that is prompted by the occurrence of an event

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20. What is event chain methodology used for?

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Correct Answer: Identify risk events' impact on a schedule

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21. What is the full name of the schedule network analysis method?

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Correct Answer: Event chain methodology

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22. What is an event chain diagram?

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Correct Answer: A visual representation of a schedule network based on event chain methodology.

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23. What is estimation?

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Correct Answer: The use of estimating techniques to reach approximations of unknown values

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24. What is a metaphor for the increased accuracy in estimation made possible as a project progresses?

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Correct Answer: Estimating funnel

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25. What does ETC stand for?

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Correct Answer: Estimate to complete

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26. What does EAC stand for?

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Correct Answer: Estimate at completion

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27. What is the definition of enterprise environmental factors?

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Correct Answer: Internal and external factors that can impact projects.

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28. What does EEF stand for?

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Correct Answer: Enterprise Environmental Factors

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29. What does upgrade mean in the context of EMU project classifications?

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Correct Answer: Upgrade projects create a new version of the software, called a release.

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30. What is the purpose of an upgrade project?

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Correct Answer: To create a new version of the software

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31. Who is an end user?

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Correct Answer: The person or persons who will eventually use the product of a project.

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32. What is effort management?

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Correct Answer: The most efficient allocation of time and resources to project activities.

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33. What does an effort estimate usually include?

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Correct Answer: Approximation of the amount of staff-hours needed to complete an activity.

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34. What is the unit of measure for effort?

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Correct Answer: Person-hours

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35. What is effort?

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Correct Answer: The amount of labor needed to complete a task.

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36. What does earned value management measure?

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Correct Answer: Project performance and progress with regard to scope, time, and costs

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37. What is earned value management?

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Correct Answer: A method of measuring project performance and progress with regard to scope, time, and costs.

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38. What is the earned value?

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Correct Answer: A concept used to gauge project schedule and cost performance

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39. What is the earned value concept used for?

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Correct Answer: To gauge project schedule and cost performance

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40. What method of measuring schedule performance does earned schedule improve upon?

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Correct Answer: Traditional earned value management

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41. What is the main advantage of using earned schedule over earned value management?

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Correct Answer: It more accurately indicates schedule performance by the end of a project.

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42. What is the earliest time by which a scheduled project activity can logically start?

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Correct Answer: Early start date

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43. What is an early finish date?

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Correct Answer: The earliest time by which a scheduled project activity can logically finish.

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44. Which of the following is not an agile product development methodology?

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Correct Answer: Dynamic systems development method

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45. What is the dynamic systems development method?

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Correct Answer: One of the agile product development methodologies

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46. What is the other name for duration compression?

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Correct Answer: Crashing

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47. What is the main purpose of duration compression techniques?

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Correct Answer: To shorten a project's duration without reducing its scope

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48. What is the definition of duration?

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Correct Answer: The amount of time taken to complete an activity or task from start to finish

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49. What is the purpose of a dummy activity?

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Correct Answer: To show logical relationships between activities

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50. Dummy activities are used to show what?

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Correct Answer: Logical relationships between activities

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51. What is the main purpose of using drawdowns?

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Correct Answer: To exercise control on the release of project funds

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52. What is the do nothing option?

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Correct Answer: An element of a project business case that states the consequences, if any, of not undertaking the project.

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53. What is the preferred way to sequence activities when there is no logical limitation on how they must be ordered?

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Correct Answer: Discretionary dependency

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54. What is discrete effort?

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Correct Answer: Project work directly associated with components of a work breakdown structure.

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55. What is the other name for Discrete effort?

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Correct Answer: Project work

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56. What is the definition of dependency?

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Correct Answer: A logical relationship between project activities in a network diagram that determines when a dependent activity may begin.

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57. What determines when a dependent activity may begin?

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Correct Answer: A logical relationship between project activities in a network diagram.

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58. What is the Delphi technique?

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Correct Answer: An estimation method based on expert consensus.

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59. What is a deliverable?

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Correct Answer: A final product or product component that must be provided to a client or stakeholder according to contractual stipulations.

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60. What does "deflection" mean?

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Correct Answer: The transferring of risk to another party, generally via a contract.

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61. What is the range of a definitive estimate?

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Correct Answer: Ten-percent

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62. Which of the following is not a component of the Define phase in the portfolio life cycle?

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Correct Answer: Implementation

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63. What is defect repair?

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Correct Answer: An action taken to remedy a product that is nonfunctional or does not match expectations or requirements.

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64. What is decomposition?

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Correct Answer: The hierarchical breaking down of project deliverables into smaller components that are easier to plan and manage.

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65. What is the process of breaking down project deliverables into smaller components called?

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Correct Answer: Decomposition

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66. What is the main purpose of decision tree analysis?

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Correct Answer: To examine the implications of multiple decision-making or situational outcomes.

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67. What is a data date?

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Correct Answer: A point at which a project's status is measured and documented.

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68. What is CISD?

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Correct Answer: Critical incident stress debriefing

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69. What is critical incident stress debriefing?

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Correct Answer: A psycho-educational exercise for small groups who have experienced a traumatic event.

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70. What does CCPM stand for?

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Correct Answer: Critical chain project management

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71. Why is crashing used as a schedule compression technique?

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Correct Answer: To speed up project work by increasing the rate at which critical path activities are completed

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72. What is the cost associated with ensuring project quality?

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Correct Answer: Cost of quality

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73. What is the purpose of a cost management plan?

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Correct Answer: To detail how project costs will be planned, funded, and controlled

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74. What is cost engineering?

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Correct Answer: The application of scientific and engineering principles to several aspects of cost management.

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75. What is the cost baseline?

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Correct Answer: The sum of work package estimates, contingency reserve, and other associated costs by which project performance is assessed.

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76. What is the difference between a corrective action and a preventive action?

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Correct Answer: Corrective actions are reactive, while preventive actions are proactive.

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77. Control charts are used to show whether a process meets results expectations. True or False?

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Correct Answer: True

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78. What does a Control Chart do?

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Correct Answer: Compares process results with historical averages and process control limits.

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79. What is contract closeout?

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Correct Answer: The process of determining whether the terms of a contract were completed successfully and of settling any remaining terms.

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80. What is the process of contract closeout?

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Correct Answer: Determining whether the terms of the contract were completed successfully and settling any remaining terms.

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81. What is the main purpose of contract administration?

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Correct Answer: To manage the relationship between contracting parties

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82. What is contract administration?

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Correct Answer: The process by which a team manages a relationship with a contracting party.

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83. What is a contingency plan?

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Correct Answer: An alternative or additional course of action planned in anticipation of the occurrence of specific risks.

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84. What is a nonrenewable resource?

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Correct Answer: A resource that cannot be used once consumed

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85. What is the process by which a team builds infrastructure called?

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Correct Answer: Construction

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86. Who manages construction projects?

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Correct Answer: Project managers

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87. What is constructability?

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Correct Answer: A concept used in complex hard projects to assess and examine the entire construction process before beginning construction.

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88. What does the term "constraint" mean?

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Correct Answer: A limitation on a project

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89. What is the definition of consensus?

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Correct Answer: A decision agreed upon by all members of a group.

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90. What does Configuration management ensure?

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Correct Answer: Necessarily specifications and stipulations are met

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91. What does configuration involve?

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Correct Answer: Shaping a product's functions and characteristics to make it suitable for customer use.

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92. What is concurrent engineering?

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Correct Answer: A product development approach where design and development are carried out at the same time.

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93. What does conceptual project planning involve?

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Correct Answer: Developing the documentation from which a project’s organization and control system will originate.

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94. Which of the following is not a part of the concept phase?

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Correct Answer: Examine general feasibility of the project

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95. Which of the following is NOT a stage of the project management life cycle?

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Correct Answer: Implementation

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96. What does 'competence' mean?

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Correct Answer: The ability and knowledge required to perform the tasks associated with a specific role.

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97. What is the main purpose of a community of practice?

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Correct Answer: To share and develop knowledge in an area of interest

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98. Who shares and develops knowledge in a community of practice?

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Correct Answer: Groups of people who share an area of interest

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99. What is a communications log used for?

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Correct Answer: To track all project-related communications.

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100. What is the purpose of a communications log?

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Correct Answer: To track all project-related communications

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