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PMI-SP · Question #21

You are the project manager of the NHT Project. This project has 12,345 office doors to install throughout a campus. Each of the doors costs the project $456 and requires special hardware to…

The correct answer is A. Preventive action. This is an example of a preventive action as you're working with the team before they install the doors to train them on the installation. The checklist is a quality control tool but the question was asking for a project execution activity. Preventive and corrective actions are…

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Question

You are the project manager of the NHT Project. This project has 12,345 office doors to install throughout a campus. Each of the doors costs the project $456 and requires special hardware to electronically lock and open the doors. You've gathered the project team before they begin the installation for a hands-on training. As a group you and the project team install 50 doors following a checklist of instructions so that every door will be installed exactly the same throughout the campus and with minimal waste. This is an example of what project execution technique?

Options

  • APreventive action
  • BDefect repair validation
  • CImplemented corrective action
  • DQuality control

How the community answered

(58 responses)
  • A
    95% (55)
  • B
    3% (2)
  • C
    2% (1)

Explanation

This is an example of a preventive action as you're working with the team before they install the doors to train them on the installation. The checklist is a quality control tool but the question was asking for a project execution activity. Preventive and corrective actions are part of project Answer option D is incorrect. Quality control is a controlling and monitoring process, not an executing process. Answer option B is incorrect. The defect repair validation comes after the project team has corrected an error - something that has not occurred in this instance. Answer option C is incorrect. Corrective action is a response to something that needs to be corrected in the project.

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