Question 1

In general data are biased by __________ advertently or inadvertently.

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Question 2

Reports for __________ have a need for detailed information about individual tasks and the factors affecting such tasks.

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Question 3

Ordinal rankings of performance are examples of a __________ type of measure.

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Question 4

The project control process should be viewed as a __________, with revised plans and schedules (if warranted)following corrective actions. The project control process should run continuously until the project is completed.

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Question 5

__________ are used when some aspect of system performance cannot be measured directly.

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Question 6

The best sources of items to be monitored are the project risk management plan, change of scope orders, and __________.

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Question 7

__________ is collecting, recording, and reporting information concerning any and all aspects of project performance that the project manager or others in the organization wish to know.

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Question 8

Measuring characteristics such as "quality of team member cooperation" and "morale of team members" generally takes the form of __________characterizations.

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Measuring characteristics such as team member cooperation and morale often requires subjective assessments and descriptions, which are most commonly conveyed through verbal communication rather than raw numerical data or indicators. Therefore, verbal characterizations are the best choice for these types of measurements.

Question 9

__________ can often give the project manager early warning signals of potential problems in a project and help understand the relationships of individual tasks to one another and to the overall project.

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Question 10

In earned value analysis, the __________ is computed as the earned value minus the actual cost of work performed.

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Question 11

A(n)__________ is a simple tally of the occurrence of an event. This type of measure is easy to collect and is often reported as events per unit of time or reported as events as a percent of a standard number.

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Question 12

The project __________ describes what is being done, when and the planned level of resource usage for each task, work-package or element in the project.

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Question 13

In earned value analysis, EAC refers to the __________.

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Question 14

The earned value rule that divides the actual task time-to-date by the scheduled time for the task to calculate percent complete is called the __________ rule.

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Question 15

EV - PV = __________.

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Question 16

In earned value analysis, BAC refers to the __________.

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Question 17

When collecting raw project data, it is important to make sure that all data are collected from sources that operate on the same __________ and with the same rules for data collection.

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Question 18

A(n)__________ can be used to deal with issues of honesty related to the monitoring system.

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Question 19

Which of the following conventions has the characteristic of the project always seeming to be running late, until the very end when it seems to suddenly catch up?

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The 0-100 percent rule in project management stipulates that no progress is recorded for a task until it is 100% complete. This can make a project appear to be running late because progress is not incrementally reported, leading to a situation where the project seems to suddenly catch up when tasks are fully completed.

Question 20

Management by exception has the disadvantage of being __________.

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Management by exception focuses only on significant deviations from expected performance, which means that managers are only notified after a problem has occurred. This reactive approach can be a disadvantage because it does not prevent problems from happening in the first place.

Quiz 10: Monitoring and Information Systems