Question: Leaders make decisions about project selection using various models. Models focus attention on evaluation of projects and prioritization.
What is one attribute an organization may focus on when using a model?
Answer Options:
a. Stakeholder influence
b. Fluid assets
c. Administrative salaries
d. Customer satisfaction
Answer: d. Customer satisfaction
Question: An example of pareidolia is:
Answer Options:
a. Seeing the face of Jesus in the burn marks on a tortilla.
b. Seeing what appears to be a UFO move against a dark sky.
c. Hearing or seeing what seems to be a ghost just before falling asleep.
d. Seeing the word “STOP” on a partly obscured road sign.
e. Identifying personality features from the bumps on a person’s head.
Answer: a. Seeing the face of Jesus in the burn marks on a tortilla.
Question: Hallucinations that occur just as people are drifting off to sleep are called:
Answer Options:
a. Soporific hallucinations.
b. Epicyclic delusions.
c. Hypnagogic hallucinations.
d. Hypnotic delusions.
e. Episodic delusions.
Answer: c. Hypnagogic hallucinations.
Question: The failure of palm readers to identify the causal connection between the lines on a person’s hands and his or her life indicates that the theory of palm reading is:
Answer Options:
a. Internally incoherent.
b. Inadequate.
c. Unfruitful.
d. Dysfunctional.
e. Inapplicable.
Answer: a. Internally incoherent.
Question: A general contractor is managing a construction project that will add a new conference room to an existing office building. The project was documented in a fixed price contract that specified a completion date. The contract includes a damages clause imposing a late completion penalty of $1,000 per day if the conference room is not ready for use by June 30. One month into the implementation, the customer makes modifications to the room’s soundproofing materials and notifies the general contractor of the new requirements. The new materials must be special ordered and will cause the critical path to slip.
What are the triple constraints that will be altered by the modifications?
Answer Options:
a. Time, cost, risk
b. Scope, time, cost
c. Scope, time, resources
d. Cost, time, price
Answer: b. Scope, time, cost
Question: Which activity is accomplished as part of the monitoring and controlling process?
Answer Options:
a. Reconciling the vendor accounts
b. Training and coaching team members
c. Finalizing the project scope
d. Verifying that the deliverables meet the required scope
Answer: d. Verifying that the deliverables meet the required scope
Question: One consequence of Ockham’s razor is that:
Answer Options:
a. The more complex an explanation is, the more complete it is.
b. Naturalistic explanations are better than supernatural ones.
c. Supernatural explanations are better than naturalistic ones.
d. The best explanations are the ones containing numerous theoretical entities.
e. Paranormal phenomena are not able to be explained.
Answer: b. Naturalistic explanations are better than supernatural ones.
Question: Scientific hypotheses must be framed narrowly enough to be:
Answer Options:
a. Indemonstrable.
b. Provable.
c. Determinable.
d. Rationalizable.
e. Disconfirmable.
Answer: e. Disconfirmable.
Question: An example of a Gestalt is:
Answer Options:
a. A temporary episode of color blindness.
b. A retinal after-image caused by viewing a brightly lighted scene.
c. A distorted perception caused by damage to the frontal lobe of the brain.
d. The pattern created in one’s mind by solving a puzzle.
e. An optical illusion produced by overlapping geometrical figures.
Answer: d. The pattern created in one’s mind by solving a puzzle.
Question: Ockham’s razor is a principle that requires hypotheses to be:
Answer Options:
a. Complex.
b. Functional.
c. Simple.
d. Empirical.
e. Rational.
Answer: c. Simple.
Question: Hallucinations that affect the vision of people in a large crowd are called:
Answer Options:
a. Popular delusions.
b. Collective hallucinations.
c. Galvanic hallucinations.
d. Amplified delusions.
e. Spiritual visions.
Answer: b. Collective hallucinations.
Question: Uri Geller’s claims of having psychic power rested on:
Answer Options:
a. Superstitious evidence.
b. Supernatural evidence.
c. Transcendental evidence.
d. Faked evidence.
e. Epiphenomenal evidence.
Answer: d. Faked evidence.