A project manager is worried about the costs on the

85. 764 A project manager is worried about the costs on the project. There is a lot of rework, and
the scrap and inventory costs are rising. If you were a mentor to this project manager, what is
the BEST advice you could offer?
a) Such effects are the nature of the projects and not to worry
b) Improve quality training and throw a milestone party
c) Look at sunk costs
d) Look at marginal costs
86. 681 A project manager and the team from the firm that designs railroad equipment are tasked
to design a machine to load stone onto railroad cars. The design allows for 2 % spillage,
amounting to over 2 tons of spilled rock per day. In which of the following does the project
manager document quality control, quality assurance and quality improvements for this project
?

d) Project Management Plan
87. 717 A new software development project is in progress and the project manager is working with
the quality assurance department. They want to improve everyone’s confidence that the project
will satisfy quality standards. Which of the following MUST they have before they start this
process?
88. 719 A project manager has just taken over the project from another project manager during the
executing process group. The previous project manager created a project budget, determined
communications requirements, and went on to complete work packages. What should the
project manager do NEXT?
89. 760 A project manager is having problems with how two of the parts fit together on the new
computer and the software upload to the system. To plan a strategy for resolving these
problems, it is BEST to determine if the problems are?
a) Non conforming
b) Statistically independent
c) Impacting quality
d) Normally distributed.