Exam 7: Monitoring and Controlling Projects

Provide a definition for a control chart and describe how control charts are used.

Projects should have a change-control system that defines procedures for changing the cost baseline.

Cause-and-effect diagrams help you find the ____________________ cause of quality problems.

You cannot control the scope of a project unless you have first clearly defined the scope and set a scope verification process in place.

Which of the following actions will most likely improve team productivity?

By adding all of the ____ for all project activities,you can determine how the project as a whole is performing and forecast both when it will be completed and how much it will cost at completion.

Project management software offers color ____________________ as well as numerous reports to show schedule performance information.

Project teams sometimes use ____-unplanned responses to risk events-when they do not have contingency plans in place.

Project risk management stops with the initial risk analysis.

You may only use earned value management at a summary level.

Earned value (EV)is an estimate of the value of physical work that is yet to be completed.

In the context of earned value management,the ____________________ is the percentage of actual work completed divided by the percentage of work planned to have been completed at any given time.

Describe the process of monitoring and controlling project work.

The main procurement management task performed to monitor and control projects is administering the ____.

Evaluation of any change to a project should include an impact analysis.

The cost ____________________,performance reports,change requests,and project funding requirements are inputs to the cost-control process.

Contract ____ includes the contract itself along with requested unapproved contract changes and approved change requests.

A red diamond on the tracking Gantt chart represents a slipped milestone.

The main monitoring and controlling task performed as part of project cost management is ____ control.

____ change orders are oral or written acts or omissions by someone with actual or apparent authority that can be construed to have the same effect as a written change order.