Products that are accepted by project stakeholders are considered to be validated deliverables.

The term sigma means median.

Only in-house auditors can perform quality audits.

Reliability is the ability of a product or service to perform as expected under deviant conditions.

Gantt charts cannot be used to aid project quality management.

Risks can have both negative and positive effects on meeting project objectives.

Risk events refer to specific, certain events that may occur to the detriment or enhancement of the project.

Brainstorming is a systematic, interactive forecasting procedure based on independent and anonymous input regarding future events.

One possible response to managing negative risk it to accept the potential effects from the risk.

Buyers absorb lesser risk with cost-reimbursable contracts than they do with fixed-price contracts.

If an organization has no need to buy any products or services from outside the organization, then it has no need to perform any of the procurement management processes.

A key factor in evaluating bids, particularly for projects involving information technology, is the past performance record of the bidder.

A single contract can include all three categories of contracts.

All contracts should include specific clauses that take into account issues unique to the project.

PMs must continually evaluate team's performance.

____ is best known for distinguishing between motivational factors and hygiene factors when considering motivation in work settings.

Schedules focus on both time and resources.

Resource leveling allows PMs to manage overallocations.

A RAM is a matrix that does not maps the work of the project as described in the OBS.

The email is the most appropriate medium for all types of communications.

Adding more people to a project that is falling behind schedule often causes more setbacks because of the increased complexity of communications.

Do not have a meeting if there is a better way of achieving the objective at hand.

Project managers must assess the needs of the organization, the project, and individuals in determining which communication medium to use, and when.

Status reports can take various formats depending on the stakeholders’ needs.

Issue logs can be used to address issues related to other knowledge areas like project scope management or project quality management.

Sensitive information can be included in the stakeholder register as very few people in the organization have access to it.

Though stakeholders cannot be controlled, their level of engagement can be controlled.

Groups representing consumer, environmental, or other interests can be identified as project stakeholders.

Communications software like e-mail, blogs, Web sites, texts, and tweets can aid in stakeholder communications.

Which of the following is recommended for the creation of a good WBS?

_____ refers to the difference between planned and actual performance.

A(n) _____ is a table that lists requirements, their various attributes, and the status of the requirements to ensure that all are addressed.

A work package represents one component of the product that the project aims to deliver.

The _____ approach for constructing a WBS involves refining the work into greater and greater levels of detail.

The scope baseline in a WBS consists of the requirements documentation and enterprise environmental factors.

The tasks in a WBS must be developed as a sequential list of steps.

The format of the WBS dictionary is essentially the same for all projects.

A unit of work should appear at only one place in the WBS.

A(n) _____ is a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines the total scope of the project.

Given the project management software that is available, it is relatively easy to create a good WBS.

The project scope statement, stakeholder requirements documentation, and organizational process assets are the primary inputs for creating a WBS.