Management is:

Engineering is:

Engineers can become good managers only through __________.

If you are an engineer wanting to become a manager, what will you do?

When engineer enters management, what is the most likely problem he finds difficult to acquire?

What management functions refers to the process of anticipating problems, analyzing them, estimating their likely impact and determining actions that will lead to the desired outcomes and goals?

What refers to the establishing interrelationships between people and things in such a way that human and materials resources are effectively focused toward achieving the goal of the company?

What management function involves selecting candidates and training personnel?

What management function involves orienting personnel in the most effective way and channeling resources?

Actual performance normally is the same as the original plan and therefore it is necessary to check for deviation and to take corrective action. This action refers to what management function?

What refers to management function which is to encourage others to follow the example set for them, with great commitment and conviction?

What refers to a principal function of lower management which is to instill in the workforce a commitment and enthusiasm for pursuing the goals of the organization?

What refers to the collection of the tools and techniques that are used on a predefined set of inputs to produce a predefined set of outputs?

Which is NOT an element of project management process?

What is the most essential attribute of a project manager?

In project management, what provides a simple yet effective means of monitoring and controlling a project at each stage of its development?

What project life cycle model is the most relevant for information technology project?

In project management, “R & D” stands for:

In project management O & M stands for:

A project management must be very good in which of the following skills?

Project integration management involves which of the following processes?

Project quality management involves all of the following processes except:

What is defined as an organized method of providing past, present, and projected information on internal operations and external intelligence for use in decision-making?

Middle management level undertakes what planning activity?

Strategic planning is undertaken in which management level?

What is the advantage of free-rein style of leadership?

If you are appointed as a division manager, your first task is most likely to

What is defined as the process of planning, organizing, and controlling operations to reach objective efficiently and effectively?

For a project manager to achieve his given set of goals through other people, he must have a good __________.

What type of conflict do managers encounter when there is disagreement on issues of territorial power or hidden agenda?

The process of partitioning an organization into subunits to improve efficiency is known as __________.

By departmentalization of an organization, it decentralizes __________?

What type of committee companies or corporations created for a short term purpose only?

What refers to a description of whether the objectives are accomplished?

An engineering is required to finish a certain engineering job in 20 days. He is said to be __________ if he finished the job within the required period of 20 days

If an engineer provides less input (labor and materials) to his project and still come out with the same output, he is said to be more __________.

To determine a qualified applicant, the engineer manager will subject the applicant to a test that is used to measure a person’s current knowledge of a subject?

What type of training is a combination of on-the-job training and experience with classroom instruction in particular subject?

What type of authority refers to a specialist’s right to oversee lower level personnel involved in the project regardless of the personnel’s assignment in the organization?

When a consultant or specialist gives advice to his superior, he is using what type of authority?

When structuring an organization, the engineer manager must be concerned with the determining the scope of words and how it is combined in a job. This refers to __________.

When structuring an organization, the engineer must be concerned with the grouping of related jobs, activities, or processes into major organizational subunits. This refers to:

Which technique will the manager use when evaluating alternative using qualitative evaluation?

Which technique will the manager use when evaluating alternative using quantitative evaluation?

What refers to the strategic statement that identifies why an organization exists, its philosophy of management, and its purpose as distinguished from other similar organizations in terms of products, services and markets?

What refers to a process of influencing and supporting others to work enthusiastically toward achieving objectives?

What describes how to determine the number of service units that will minimize both customer’s waiting time and cost of service?

What refers to the rational way to conceptualize, analyze and solve problems in situations involving limited or partial information about the decision environment?

What is quantitative technique where samples of populations are statistically determined to be used for a number of processes, such as quality control and marketing research?

The engineer manager must be concern with the needs of his human resources. What refers to the need of the employees for food, drinks, and rest?

What refers to the learning that is provided in order to improve performance on the present job?

What technique is best suited for projects that contain many repetitions of some standard activities?

What organizational structure is based on the assumption that each unit should specialize in a specific functional area and perform all of the tasks that require its expertise?

What type of organization structure in which each project is assigned to a single organizational unit and the various functions are performed by personnel within the unit?

What organizational structure provides a sound basis for balancing the use of human resources and skills?

In which type of organization where the structure can lead to a “dual boss” phenomenon?

Which one is an advantage of a matrix organization?

Which one is a disadvantage of a matrix organization?

Which one is an advantage projectized organization?

Which one is a disadvantage of a projectized organization?

Which one is an advantage of a functional organization?

Which one is disadvantage of a functional organization?

In what type of organization where a project manager is held responsible for completion of the project and is often assigned a budget?

In selecting an organizational structure, which of the following is not a criterion?

What is NOT a factor to be taken into consideration when selecting an organizational structure for managing projects?

If a project have multidimensional goals, the project manager often use his __________ to reach a compromise solution.

Who is responsible for ensuring that the project is completed successfully as measured by time, cost, performance and stakeholder satisfaction?

Who is responsible for running a department so that all his customers are served efficiently and effectively?

What is the major activity of the project support office?

What is the major activity of the project office?

What is an important tool for the design and implementation of the project’s work content?

What chart summarizes the relationships between project stakeholders and their responsibilities in each project element?

What network model enables engineer managers to schedule, monitor, and control large and complex projects by using only one time factor per activity?

What network model enables engineer managers to schedule, monitor, and control large and complex projects by employing three time estimate for each activity?

For a project manager to have an effective means of identifying and communicating the planned activities and their interrelationships, he must use a network technique. One of the network techniques is commonly known as CPM. What does CPM stands for?

For a project manager to have an efficient means of identifying and communicating the planned activities and their interrelationships, he must use a network technique. One of the network techniques is commonly known as PERT. What does Pert stands for?

What is the benefit of using PERT/CPM network as integral component of project management?

The CPM was developed by Rand and Walker in what year?

In what year was PERT developed?

In Morris life cycle model, a project is divided into how many stages to be performed in sequence?

What is the first stage in the life cycle of a project using Morris model?

Risk management is:

What technique a manager must use if he decides to absorb the risk in the project?

Buying insurance is a form of:

What refers to any technique used either to minimize the probability of an accident or to mitigate its consequences?

What refers to the techniques that encompass risk assignment and the inclusive evaluation of risk, costs and benefits of alternative projects or policies?

What is measured by the amount of resources that a manager can allocate without the need to get an approval from his or her manager?

What is defined as a course of action aimed at ensuring that the organization will achieve its objectives?

When there is a degradation of service provided by the company to clients, it is a sign that the engineer manager in-charge:

What principal element of uncertainty refers to a measure of the relevance of available information to the problem at hand?

One of the mnemonic management tool used is the SMEAC. What does the acronym SMEAC stands for?

In the management tools, SMEAC, where A stands for administration, which is the appropriate question will the manager ask?

In project management, what is usually the first step underlying in the process of performing a project?

In the process of performing a project, after the need for a product or service is identified, what is usually the next step?

What is usually the last step in the process of performing a project?

To consider the consequence of uncertainly on project management, laws on project management are developed. One of which is “A careless planned project will take __________ times longer to complete than expected”.

In the typical functional organization hierarchy, the chief engineer is under the __________.

What is a diagram of the organization’s official positions and formal lines of authority called?

What is defined as the process of identifying and choosing alternative courses of action in a manner appropriate to the demands of the situations?

What refers to the activity of incorporating the technical know how with the ability to organize and coordinate workforce, materials, equipment and all other resources including money?