Quiz 6: Quality

The project manager has met with the project team to determine when to do the inspections on the project. The project manager would like to do minimal inspections but still have a high-quality product. Which of the following actions would lead to fewer inspections but higher quality?

Which of the following statements about quality management is false?

While working on a product redesign project, the project manager has met with the company’s senior management to inform them that they need to provide adequate resources to ensure the product’s quality. Which of the following statements is true about management’s responsibility regarding quality?

The company has informed all company employees that they must pay careful attention to the work that they are doing to ensure the company delivers a quality product . What quality management theory best illustrates this scenario?

The project team has met with the project manager to develop the quality management plan and the quality metrics. What project documents contain the product quality requirements that the team would use to create quality metrics? 

While developing a smart phone, the project team has decided to look at other smart phones in the market to see how fast they start. The team members know that to be competitive, they will need to meet the startup times of the smart phones currently on the market. What tool would best help the project team in this scenario?

While planning a project’s quality, the project team has identified certain costs that would need to be included in the project budget, such as testing, inspections, and having the right equipment to do the job. What best describes these costs?   

The project team would like to document the sequence of steps that the process should follow to ensure that the deliverables are being made with the correct quality requirements. What tool can best help the team show the sequence of steps and whether there’s any room for improvement in a given process?

After a brainstorming session, the team members have accumulated a lot of different ideas that they can use to ensure the development of a good quality product. Their next step is to organize this information in a visual chart to make it easier for other stakeholders to understand. What method can best help the team?

The project’s team members have documented what quality standards are to be used on the project and the different roles and responsibilities for quality management on the project. What project component will they store this information?

What in quality management describes a project’s or product’s attribute  and how the quality control process will verify compliance to it?

Manage quality is a process that is done to increase the probability of meeting a project’s quality requirements. From what other process does manage quality get the data needed to improve quality management?

When managing project quality, what process does the project manager follow to ensure that the processes the project adheres to will produce a quality deliverable?

While working for a large, multinational project, the project manager meets with the project sponsor to talk about managing quality on the project. The sponsor would like to know whose job it is manage the quality on the project. What should the project manager’s response be?

The project team is having a very difficult time identifying some of the main things causing the deliverables to have many quality defects. What tool can best help the project team identify the reasons for these defects?

The organization’s senior management is not happy with the quality of the project deliverables so far. They have decided that an audit on the project’s quality management is necessary. Who would best be selected to conduct the quality audit?

While designing a product, senior management informed the project manager that the product should be cost-effective, as the product will be sold in a developing country. What technique could the project managers use to ensure that the product’s design is cost-effective?

19. The deliverables of the project have been completed, and the project team has decided to inspect the product to ensure that it has met the quality requirements. What process will the team use to inspect the deliverable for quality requirements?

The project manager has met the project team, and they have created a control chart to determine whether the quality processes are stable and if it needs to be improved. They have taken a sample of 30 deliverables that are produced in a row and have identified that six of them are consecutively above the middle line between the upper and lower limits. What should the project team do next?